📖LearnModule 5 · Lesson 12 of 30Basic User · CEFR A2 mastery + the B1 bridgeUnit 3 · The two pasts, mastered
The story frame
Module 5 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A2 mastery + the B1 bridge), lesson 12 of 30: Every A2 story runs on one frame: scene (imperfecto), event (pretérito). On this page: 7 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
llovía
it was raining
yoh-BEE-ah
de repente
suddenly
deh rreh-PEHN-teh
mi tío llegó
my uncle arrived
mee TEE-oh yeh-GOH
la sorpresa
the surprise
lah sohr-PREH-sah
una gran sorpresa
a great surprise
OO-nah grahn sohr-PREH-sah
primero
first
pree-MEH-roh
luego
then
LWEH-goh
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
La regla · The rule
Every A2 story runs on one frame: scene (imperfecto), event (pretérito), reaction (era + adjective). Era sábado. Llovía. Estábamos en casa. De repente, mi tío llegó con un perro. ¡Fue una gran sorpresa!
Y también · And also
Write your own using the frame — a true small moment from last week. Primero and luego put the events in order.
Ojo · Watch out
llovía is the scene; mi tío llegó is the event. Do not write llovió for the background rain — that would turn the weather into an event.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 7 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with llovía.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write two sentences of your own that get the watch-out line right, then the two practice pages of workbook lesson 12 in Module 5 are the written half of this page.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The Spanish Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.