Spanish Grammar Podcast
In our “Punto y coma” podcast series, you’ll listen to Kwiziq teachers Inma and Silvia‘s light-hearted chats in Spanish about fun topics that are focused on very interesting grammar.
Listen out for their very different accents: Inma is from southern Andalusia, while Silvia is from the Basque Country in northern Spain.
To help you practise your listening skills, these podcasts will often be accompanied by some useful vocab, grammar lessons and interesting links to go further! We encourage you to try our related exercises to have the whole experience.
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🎧 Today’s podcast: Imperative & Recipes 🎧
Today’s podcast is about paying attention to the imperative (affirmative, tú form) in Spanish while we chat and exchange the recipes of two typical and yummy dishes from the Mediterranean diet: gazpacho and paella de marisco! Check our lessons and test yourself on the notebook that we put together and share with you at the end of this page.
📚 Grammar: Imperative (affirmative, tú form)
Here are all the sentences using this grammar structure from the episode. To really understand the imperative, listen to the podcast and pay attention to the context in which they appear:
- ¡Cuéntanos! ¿Cómo se hace un gazpacho? = Tell us, how do you make gazpacho?
- Pon dos kilos de tomates… = Put two kilos of tomatoes…
- Ponlos en la batidora y tritura todos los ingredientes.= Put them in the blender, then blend all the ingredients.
- Mete el gazpacho en la nevera y déjalo enfriar un ratito. = Put the gazpacho in the fridge and let it chill for a bit.
- Primero, pon un poco de aceite de oliva en una paellera. = First, put a bit of olive oil in a paella pan.
- Luego, añade ajo y tomate… = Then add garlic and tomato…
- Prepara un sofrito. = Prepare a sofrito (a simple tomato and garlic base)
- Echa el arroz y el caldo de pescado… = Add the rice and the fish broth…
- Cocina la paella hasta que… = Cook the paella until…
- Al final, deja reposar la paella cinco minutos. = At the end, let the paella rest for five minutes.
Test yourself on this notebook below with lessons about the forms of the imperative of tú (affirmative commands) and pronouns attached to affirmative commands.
Remember you can test against all lessons in the notebook by clicking on Test your knowledge, or just choose the lessons you’re more interested in and add them individually to your notebooks (this is a Premium feature).
📕✏️ Practise More!
Try these awesome Kwiziq activities to practise more with the imperative:
Fill-in-the-blanks:
La hora del planeta, ¡fuera luces! (A2)
Reading:
Granizado de sandía (B1)
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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.