Preparativos y tradiciones de mi Nochevieja colombiana

"Preparativos y tradiciones de mi Nochevieja colombiana" 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 C1

people drinking champagne

In Bogotá, Andrea is ready to host this year’s New Year’s Eve with her family. For this, she’s making a big effort to impress, preparing a delicious meal, including a delicious ajiaco soup and keeping some traditions alive, like wearing something yellow or going round the block with an empty suitcase at midnight!

This reading and listening exercise can help you practise the dativo de interés, the se aspectual, and the indicative and subjunctive after some conjunctions.

Text by Inma Sánchez and audio by a Latin American voice professional.

Exercise: Preparativos y tradiciones de mi Nochevieja colombiana

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.

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.