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: Autumn Clothes 🎧
In today’s podcast, Silvia and Inma talk about how they need some new clothes now that autumn has arrived in the Northern Hemisphere. And to our Spanish students in the Southern Hemisphere, we know you’re heading into spring, so bear with us! Follow their conversation, which includes a role-play where you’ll hear lots of useful vocabulary related to autumn clothes.
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 and phrases used in our podcast:
- cambio de estación = change of season
- la ropa de otoño = autumn clothes [US: fall clothes]
- la estación = season
- el verano = summer
- la primavera = spring
- el otoño = autumn
- el invierno = winter
- hace mucho frío = it’s very cold
- llover = to rain
- encender la calefacción = to turn the heating on [US: to turn the heat on]
- la estufa = heater / stove
- un abrigo nuevo = a new coat
- una bufanda larga = a long scarf
- unos guantes = gloves
- una chaqueta para todos los días = an everyday jacket
- un chubasquero = a raincoat [US: rain jacket]
- unas botas de agua = wellies / Wellington boots [US: rain boots]
- un gorro de lana = a woolly hat [US: a knit hat / beanie]
- un jersey gordo = a thick jumper [US: a thick sweater]
- de hilo = knitted / made of yarn or thread
- de algodón = cotton / made of cotton
For a more extensive list of autumn clothes vocabulary, take a look at our vocabulary list:
More autumn clothes vocabulary
✏️ Practise More!
Try these awesome KwizIQ activities to practise more about autumn:
Fill-in-the-blanks:
Preparo mi armario para el otoño (A2)
Reader:
Inspiración otoñal (B2)
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Author info
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.
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.