Newsletter: My region, my story! 📖

My region, my story! 

We’re taking you on a virtual journey through the Spanish-speaking world with activities that help you build real-life language skills.

First, explore the fascinating city of Melilla through our bilingual reading and listening exercise, perfect for boosting both comprehension and cultural knowledge.

Then, put your grammar into action with a gap-fill activity about Colombian cities, where you’ll practice hay and está in context.

Finally, expand your vocabulary with everyday words for places and things in your town.

¡Acompáñanos! 

Read along with us

 Bilingual text with audio

Melilla coast

This bilingual reading and listening exercise takes you to one of the many interesting cities of Spain: Melilla. Learn about what Melilla offers and how enchanting it can be.

A2  Melilla: una ciudad con encanto

Don’t stop there! Keep going with more reading activities.

 

Spanish Vocab Boost

Town places

places in town

These two vocabulary lists will help you describe what you can see in your own town or city, the most common places like the pharmacy, the church, the post office…

A1  Town places (common)

A1  Town places (bonus)

En mi pueblo hay una farmacia y algunas tiendas, pero no hay cine.
(In my town there is a pharmacy and some shops, but there’s no cinema.)

Top it off with our word game at the bottom of the vocab lists and make the most of it!

Mind the Gap “___”

Ciudades de Colombia: Hay & Está

typical Colombian town

Try this gap-fill activity to learn a bit about the different cities in Colombia in Latin America, at the same time as you learn to differenciate between hay and está.

A1 Ciudades de Colombia

Don’t stop there! Keep going with more  fill-in-the-blanks activities.

Hurray for Weekend Workout Friday!

Special treat for Premium subscribers

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Friday is Weekend Workout day – a special treat just for our Premium subscribers , with fresh dictations and writing challenges to boost your listening and writing skills.

This week’s theme is My region.

Here’s a writing challenge for our free users: My name is Lola (level A1)

Not Premium yet? Now’s a great time to upgrade! You’ll get these Weekend Workouts every week, plus unlimited kwizzes and multiple notebooks to help you stay organised and make progress faster.

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¡Nos vemos la próxima semana! 👋

Author info

Inma Sánchez

After working in the travel industry for ten years in Seville, Inma moved to the UK to give a little twist to her life. Since then she's been teaching Spanish as a foreign language to adults for over 15 years in different settings, private lessons, secondary schools and online. Inma is a coffee lover and also loves exploring new places with her family in beautiful Warwickshire, where she lives.