¿Quién será? Episode 1 – Sports celebrity
Welcome to the first episode of our new series, ¿Quién será? (Guess who!). There are so many sports stars in the Hispanic world that it was tough to pick just one! In this episode, Silvia and I will give you six clues (you’ll hear a whistle before each one 🕭), with a bit of friendly chat in between.
If you know your Spanish and Latin American sports, you might guess who it is after just a few clues, but stick around until the end to be sure and get the full experience.
By the way, can you hear how different our two Spanish accents are? If you noticed that, you’re already an ace at Spanish! We want our podcasts to sound as natural as possible, so we speak just like we would back home. Can you tell who’s from the south and who’s from the north?
We’d love to know what you think about this mini-podcast – drop us a comment and send us your ideas for future podcasts!
🎧 ¿Quién será? Episode 1 – Sports celebrity 🎧
📕 Some useful vocabulary
Here are some of the key words from the episode to help you get confident in this topic:
- marcar goles = to score goals
- tiquitaca = tiki-taka (a specific style of play in football)
- jugar de defensa = play as defense
- la Eurocopa = Euro Cup
- el Mundial = World Cup
- compartir vestuario con… = to be teammates with… (idiomatic expression)
- goles a balón parado = set-piece goals
- ser un crack = to be incredibly good (skills)
- ni fu ni fa= it does nothing for me (idiomatic expression)
For a full list of words, all related to football, check out the link: Football Vocabulary
🧩 Our 6 main clues
Here’s a line-up of the 6 main clues given in the podcast for a bit of help:
- Pista #1: Es uno de los defensas más premiados y exitosos de la historia del fútbol
- Pista #2: Ha jugado en dos de los clubes más famosos del mundo: el Real Madrid y el París Saint Germain
- Pista #3: Se conoce por tener un estilo de juego agresivo y por marcar muchos goles a balón parado
- Pista #4: Fue el capitán de la Selección española que ganó el Mundial en 2010 y dos Eurocopas, en 2008 y 2012
- Pista #5: Tiene muchos tatuajes y es conocido por su personalidad fuerte
- Pista #6: En la actualidad juega para el Monterrey de México
🧠 Interesting grammar from the text in our clues
We highlighted some interesting grammar points in our text from the six clues and created a shared notebook with all the lessons so you have them all in one place: Grammar notebook ¿Quién será? Ep 1
✏️ Practice More!
Try these awesome Kwiziq activities to practice more on the topic sports.
Fill-in-the-Gaps:
● Deportes un tanto inusuales (C1 Passive including modal verbs)
Reading and Listening activities:
● Rafa Nadal (A1)
Dictation: (Premium subscribers only):
● El empoderamiento a través del deporte (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.