This year's schedule
A short in Spanish text at level A2. The translation sits next to it: reading with a dictionary is still too early at this level, and without support it will not happen at all. This year's class schedule is worse than last year's: we start at eight and finish at three. On Mondays we have math…
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- Este año el horario de clases es peor que el del curso pasado: empezamos a las ocho y salimos a las tres. Los lunes tenemos matemáticas y física seguidas, y a esa hora nadie entiende nada. Lo bueno es que la lengua extranjera cayó el viernes por la mañana, cuando todavía queda algo de cabeza. El libro de texto de química pesa dos kilos, así que lo dejo en el aula y llevo solo el cuaderno. De todas las asignaturas la más complicada es historia, no porque sea difícil, sino porque hay que aprender fechas de memoria.This year's class schedule is worse than last year's: we start at eight and finish at three. On Mondays we have math and physics back to back, and at that hour nobody understands anything. The good thing is that the foreign language fell on Friday morning, when the head still works a little. The chemistry textbook weighs two kilos, so I leave it in the classroom and carry only the notebook. Of all the subjects the hardest is history, not because it is difficult, but because you have to learn the dates by heart.
Comprehension questions
The questions are asked in Russian on purpose: we test your understanding of the text, not your ability to read the question.
- What time do classes end?
- What does the narrator dislike about Mondays?
- Why does the chemistry textbook stay in the classroom?
- What makes history hard, in the narrator's opinion?
Frequently asked
What level do you need to read this text in Spanish?
A2. That means: you know the letters and have a stock of everyday words — about two or three hundred.
How to read a text in an unfamiliar language usefully?
First all the way through without peeking at the translation — just to catch the familiar words. Then with the translation. Then all the way through again: the second pass brings noticeably more, and that feeling matters more than any rule.