Spanish 1/Destinations

Chapter 8 (Destinations)

Activities (Actividades)

nadar - to swim
escalar las montañas - mountain climbing
comer en el restaurante - eat at a restaurant
jugar en el parque - play in the park
tomar el sol en la playa - sunbath at the beach
visitar un museo - visit a museum
ir de compras - to go shopping
ver una película - to see a movie
lección de piano - piano lesson (lesson of piano)
Me quedo en casa. - I stay at home.

Places

la biblioteca - library
el café - café
el campo - countryside
la casa - house, home
en casa - at home
el centro comercial - mall
el cine - movie theater
el gimnasio - gym
la iglesia - church
la mezquita - mosque
las montañas - mountains
el parque - park
la piscina - swimming pool
la playa - beach
el restaurante - restaurant
la sinagoga - synagogue
el templo - temple, Protestant church
el trabajo - work, job
comisaría/estación de policía - police station
planetario - planetarium
panadería - bakery
piscina - swimming pool
playa - beach

Words describing to go somewhere

a - to
a la, al - to the
¿Adónde? - Where? (to)
a casa - to home

Note: A la is feminine and al (a + el) is masculine.

Going out

¿Con quién? - With whom?
con mis/tus amigos - with my/your friends
solo(a) - alone

Time phrases

¿Cuándo? - When?
después - afterwards, after
los fines de semana - on weekends
los lunes - on Mondays
los martes - on Tuesdays
tiempo libre - free time

Origins

¿De dónde eres? - Where are you from?
de - from, of

Other words

generalmente - generally
¡No me digas! - Don't tell me that!
para - in order to

Ir (to go)

Ir in Spanish, means to go. It is one of a handful of verbs that conjugates irregularly and doesn't have the same rules as the regular conjugations. Below is the conjugation forms of ir:

voy - I go
vas - you go (singular)
va - he/she goes
vamos - we go
vais - you go (plural)
van - they go

Note: Usted (Ud.) & ustedes (Uds.) are still conjugated in the 3rd person form.

Vocabulario adicional

el banco - bank
el club - club
la farmacia - pharmacy
la oficina - office
el supermercado - supermarket

Cultural Insight (Public transportation)

Like most major cities in the world, the large cities in Spanish-speaking countries have their own public transportation system. Mexico City's Metro is one of the busiest and largest in the world. Many choose to ride busses and metros because of the horrific traffic commonly seen in Latin American countries and recently, due to high gas prices.

Country Focus (Honduras)

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Honduras (Spanish: Honduras) is a democratic republic in Central America. It was formerly known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras (now Belize). The country is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras, a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea.

Archaeologists have demonstrated that Honduras had a rich, multi-ethnic prehistory. An important part of that prehistory was the Mayan presence around the city of Copán in western Honduras, near the Guatemalan border. A major Mayan city flourished during the classic period (150-900) in that area. On his fourth and final voyage to the New World in 1502, Christopher Columbus reached the Bay Islands on the coast of Honduras. It soon became part of the growing Spanish Empire.

The wealth of cultural expression in Honduras owes its origins primarily to being a part of Latin America but also to the multi-ethnic nature of the country. This influences all aspects of the culture: customs, practices, ways of dressing, religion, rituals, codes and norms of behavior and belief systems.

Factbox:

-Official Language: Spanish

-Other Languages: English, Native American languages

-Capital: Tegucigalpa

-Government: Democracy

-Area: 112,088 sq km (43,278 sq mi) (102nd)

-Population: 7,810,848 (93rd)

-Religion: Christianity (mainly Catholic, few Protestant and Mormon) 97.3%, Buddhism 0.1%, other (Non-religious, Animism, Islam) 2.6%

-Human Development: 0.732 (112nd, MEDIUM)

-Independence: September 15, 1821

-Currency: Lempira