Activities for El Burrito de Belén
We’ve chosen some vocabulary and grammatical concepts from this song and provided flashcards, games and exercises for you to learn and practice them.
Did you miss the analysis for this song? Find it here!
Activities
Vocabulary Excercises
While we usually choose 20 words and phrases out of each song, due to this song’s limited lyrics we have only chosen 10 terms to form our vocabulary list, which can be found below. You can use the following activities to learn and practice this vocabulary.
Vocabulary Flashcards – Learn the vocabulary from this song with our sets of Spanish to English and English to Spanish flashcards, then test yourself with our interactive flashcards.
Vocabulary Games – Practice the vocabulary for this song using our memory and matching games and our word search puzzle.
Vocabulary Exercises – Fill in the missing vocabulary with drag and drop and fill in the blanks exercises.
Grammar Exercises
This song provided next to nothing grammatically to practice, however, there are a couple of nouns in the diminutive form, so we’ll use those. Information on both the diminutive can be found below.
You can use the following activities to learn and practice these nouns.
Diminutive Flashcards – Practice the occurrences of the gerund in this song with our sets of French to English and English to French flashcards, then test yourself with our interactive flashcards.
Diminutive Games – Practice the occurrences of the gerund in this song using our memory and matching games.
Diminutive Exercises – Practice the occurrences of the gerund in this song using our drag and drop, fill in, and highlighting exercises.
Resources
Vocabulary List
| Term | Meaning | P of S | Context |
|---|---|---|---|
| apurarse | to hurry (up) | verb | Apúrate |
| burro | donkey | masc noun, diminutive | burrito |
| camino de | towards, on the way to, on one’s way to | camino de | |
| cantar | to sing; to confess | verb | cantando |
| iluminar | light up; put lights on | verb | ilumina |
| llegar | to reach, arrive | verb | llegar |
| lucero | bright star | masc noun, diminutive | lucerito |
| sendero | path, track, trail | masc noun | sendero |
| trotar | to trot; run | verb | trotando |
| ver | to see, watch; understand | verb | ven/ver |
Diminutive
There are several examples of the diminutive form in Spanish in this song. This form is achieved by adding ‘-ito’ to the end of masculine nouns, or ‘-ita’ to the end of feminine nouns. While it can mean less than or smaller than the normal noun (for example ‘burrito’ could be interpreted as ‘little donkey’), often it is simply a stylistic change, with no change in meaning. When used with names, it is a form of endearment. The diminutive nouns in this song are:
| Diminutive | Noun | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| burrito | burro | donkey |
| lucerito | lucero | brigh star |
| cuatrico | cuatro | instrument name |
