Hola Iwona
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Saludos cordiales
Inma
Spanish Grammar Podcast
In our “Palabras al vuelo” podcast series, you’ll listen to KwizIQ teachers Inma and Silvia’s light-hearted chats in Spanish about fun topics that are focused on useful and interesting vocabulary. To help you practise your listening skills, these podcasts will often be accompanied by some useful vocabulary and interesting links to explore the topic further! We encourage you to try our related exercises to have the full learning experience.
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🎧 Today’s podcast: Recycling 🎧
In today’s podcast, Silvia and Inma talk about how recycling terms in Spain. Each of them shares how waste is sorted and collected in a different city, comparing local recycling systems and explaining which items go into each bin. As you listen to their friendly conversation, you’ll learn useful vocabulary related to recycling and the environment while discovering practical tips for recycling correctly in Spain. Check out our lessons and test yourself with the activities at the end of this page.
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📚 Vocabulary
Here are some of the most interesting words, verbs and phrases used in our podcast:
- el reciclaje = recycling
- reciclar = to recycle
- el contenedor = the recycling bin
- el envase = packaging
- el vidrio = glass
- el residuo = waste
- implantar = to introduce
- residuos orgánicos = organic waste
- bonificar = to reward
- incentivar = to encourage
- las pilas = batteries
- depositar = to dispose of
- el punto limpio = recycling centre
- los enseres voluminosos = bulky waste
- los electrodomésticos = household appliances
- recoger = to collect
- la contaminación visual = visual pollution
- modernizar = to modernise
- el sistema digital = the digital system
- la recogida de basura = waste collection
For a more extensive list of recycling vocabulary, take a look at our vocabulary list:
✏️ Practise More!
Try these awesome KwizIQ activities to practise more about the environment:
Fill-in-the-blanks:
La energía renovable en Costa Rica (B2)
Reader:
Día Internacional de las Montañas (A2/B1)
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Author info
Silvia is a multilingual educator with expertise in English, French, and Spanish, and a passion for helping students excel in language learning. After gaining extensive international teaching experience in the UK and other countries, Silvia returned to her hometown of Vitoria in 2019. Since then, she has been sharing her knowledge and love for languages with learners of all levels. With over a decade of experience, Silvia’s creative and dynamic teaching methods make language acquisition both fun and accessible.
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.
Comments: 6
What a great resource! I really like how you combine useful vocabulary with cultural context, especially the differences in recycling habits and terminology. The examples make the topic much more engaging and practical.
Hola Carmen
Thank you very much for your comment and we're glad you enjoyed our podcast, the theme and the vocabulary. If you have any specific suggestion that may be useful to you, please let us know and we will try to incorporate it in our future podcasts.
Un saludo cordial
Inma
A mí este sistema me parece muy práctico y diseñado para ser muy fácil para la gente. Las incentivas adicionales para las personas que quieren utilizar el contenedor marrón para los residuos orgánicos me parecen muy estratégicas. El compromiso de los ayuntamientos y del gobierno de todo el país de España con mejorar la calidad de vida de su gente respecto al medioambiente es impresionante. En Estados Unidos, el sistema de reciclaje depende de la ciudad en que vives. En mi ciudad, no hay un sistema para recoger ni la basura ni el reciclaje; solo hay un punto de limpios donde puedes llevar tu basura si pagas ochenta dólares para ser un miembro y cinco para cada bolsa de basura. La mayor parte de la gente en mi ciudad contrata a una de las compañías privadas de recoger que operan en nuestra área, pero aun así depende de la compañía, no se ofrecen siempre los servicios de reciclaje. Creo que el reciclaje debería ser de la más alta prioridad en nuestro país, como en España y otros países en el resto del mundo.
Hola Lisa
Muchas gracias por compartir tu experiencia personal sobre el reciclaje. ¡Vaya! No sabía que en Estados Unidos los gobiernos locales no se encargaban de esto. Es verdad que debería ser una prioridad. Yo también creo que somos afortunados por tener un sistema bien gestionado y gratis en España.
Un saludo cordial.
Inma
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