¡Hola!
We've been reading and truly seeing how many people in our community are in reality everyday heroes, not just those who volunteer to help their neighbours and medical staff, but food store workers, refuse collectors, and so many unnamed and unsung others. But what if we reimagined them as comic book heroes? Fighting viruses, helping others, making sure no one is left behind?
That's exactly what Valencian comic book writer Victor Santos has done, you can see his work on Instagram and Twitter:
Plus also in this excellent article:
Here's a line from the text with its associated grammar points:
El autor de cómics Víctor Santos se ha encargado de dibujar para este medio una serie titulada 'Los superhéroes de la pandemia', en la que rinde su particular homenaje a las miles de personas que están luchando día a día contra el coronavirus y sus efectos.
The cartoonist Víctor Santos has decided to draw a series for this publication entitled "The pandemic superheroes", where he pays tribute to the thousands of people who fight every day against the virus and its effects.
- Position of pronouns with conjugated verbs in Spanish
- Conjugate regular -ar verbs in the present perfect tense in Spanish (El Pretérito Perfecto)
- Using the infinitive after prepositions in Spanish (not present participle)
- Por vs Para in Spanish: Using para (and not por) to say who you work for
- Spanish past participles as adjectives
- Using preposition [except a and de] + el que, la que, los que, las que = with/for/on/in/from which (relative pronouns)
- Position of adjectives in Spanish
- Que/ el cual/ la cual/ los cuales/ quien/ quienes = who, that, which (Spanish relative pronouns)
- Forming the present progressive/continuous in Spanish with estar + present participle (El Presente Progresivo)
- Possessive adjectives in Spanish: my, your, his, her, its, our and their (Adjetivos posesivos)
And as it's Friday, I'd like to share one of our writing challenges. These, along with our dictations, are sent to our Premium users every Friday, but today we are offering this writing challenge about Pafman, a superhero created by Spanish cartoonist Joaquín Cera, for free:
If you have never tried one of our Writing Challenges before, here's some guidance:
- Don't think of it as translation, Writing Challenges are more like guided writing.
- Writing challenges are self-scoring exercises, meaning that for each phrase you’ll be offered corrections and alternatives to help you pinpoint your mistakes. Each line is marked out of 5 and we suggest taking off a point per mistake, but really the marking is up to you! For example, you decide how important punctuation and correct accentuation is, it's perfectly fine to be kind to yourself because you made a typo or pressed submit too soon!
- Pay attention to the hints! For example, if there are many synonyms for a word, or if you should use a specific verb, these are indicated here.
- It's not easy to translate natural-sounding English into natural-sounding Spanish, where the Spanish is significantly different to the English you will be given a literal translation in the hint.
- Once you’re done, you can read and listen to our suggested text in Spanish, and also see a list of grammar topics covered in the exercise, you can add these to your notebook(s).
Saludos,
Shui
