El Día de Muertos en casa de Guadalupe

"El Día de Muertos en casa de Guadalupe" has been shared to the blog from the Spanish reading exercises section of the learning library where you can find a large selection of interactive texts to help you with your reading skills. This article also has audio for you to practice your Spanish listening skills; you can find many more listening activities in the Spanish listening practice section.


Spanish online reading and listening practice – level A1

Let’s travel to Mexico to celebrate el Día de Muertos with Guadalupe and her family. The celebrations take place over two days, 1 and 2 November, and while it is celebrated elsewhere, it is most commonly observed in Mexico and by the Mexican diaspora.

This reading and listening exercise can help you practise forming regular masculine and feminine nouns, forming the singular masculine and feminine of regular adjectives, the present progressive/continuous and the near future.

Take a look at our list of useful Día de Muertos – Day of the Dead vocabulary related to this festivity. Also, B1 students may want to consult the El Día de Muertos bilingual video article we published about this same celebration.

Text and audio by Silvia Píriz.

Exercise: El Día de Muertos en casa de Guadalupe

Listen to the audio, then read the transcript. Click any phrase for the translation and links to related grammar lessons which you can add to your Kwiziq notebook to practise later.

Click any word in the text to see its translation and related grammar lessons.

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Shui Ng González

Shui is Kwiziq's Content and Language Manager and Head of Spanish. She is an experienced technical writer, translator and project manager. Shui grew up bilingual English-Spanish in the UK, completing her studies in London, Madrid and Paris where she now lives. She speaks English, Spanish, French and Italian. Her love of languages and technical knowledge make her a perfect fit for Kwiziq.