📖LearnModule 6 · Lesson 28 of 30Independent User · CEFR B1, first halfUnit 6 · Your opinion, defended
Reading the article
Module 6 of the free Spanish course (CEFR B1, first half), lesson 28 of 30: B1 reading is a real article: a title, paragraphs, an author with an opinion. On this page: 8 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
el artículo
the article
ehl ar-TEE-koo-loh
el título
the title
ehl TEE-too-loh
el párrafo
the paragraph
ehl PAH-rrah-foh
el autor
the author
ehl ow-TOHR
el tema
the topic
ehl TEH-mah
entender el sentido
to understand the meaning
ehn-tehn-DEHR ehl sehn-TEE-doh
el sentido
the meaning
ehl sehn-TEE-doh
el periódico
the newspaper
ehl peh-RYOH-dee-koh
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
B1 reading is a real article: a title, paragraphs, an author with an opinion. Read the way you did at A2 — questions first — but now also ask: what does the author THINK?
Y también · And also
El título tells you the topic; the first paragraph tells you the angle; the last one tells you the conclusion. Every B1 reading task hides its answers at those three addresses. El periódico is the paper; el artículo is one piece in it.
Ojo · Watch out
el autor is the author of any text; el periodista writes for the press. And el tema is the topic — the school subject is la materia. Do not let tema become theme in every sentence.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with el artículo.
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 28 in Module 6 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.