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.
📚 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.