Elementary Spanish/Birthday party

Goals

By the end of this lesson, you should know key vocabulary words for birthday parties.

Lesson

Let's begin with some vocabulary building excercises.

Exercise 1: Picture matching

This is an interactive lesson where your goal is to select the picture that matches the phrase at the top of the screen. If you click on the wrong picture it will gray out and you can click again to choose another picture. If you want to start the lesson over just reload the page.

Exercise 2: Audio lesson

Audio lesson activity

This is an audio lesson. You can either listen online and read the transcript as you go, or you can download the lesson and listen to it on your phone or music player.

Exercise 3: Example dialogue

Synopsis

In the following scene, a mom lets her daughter know what she will do on her birthday.

Dialogue

mamá: ¡Hoy es tu cumpleaños! Feliz cumpleaños.

hija: Gracias, mamá. ¿Vamos a tener una fiesta?

mamá: Si. También vamos a tener un pastel con velas.

hija: ¿Tengo que soplar la lumbre?

mamá: Tienes que soplar la lumbre de las velas, cortar el pastel y quebrar la piñata.

hija: Y comer muchos dulces, también, ¿verdad?

mamá: Si. Es tu cumpleaños.

Vocabulary words

cake - pastel
candles - velas
piñata - piñata
fire - lumbre
birthday - cumpleaños
candy - dulces
party - fiesta
break - quebrar
cut - cortar
blow - soplar