Activities for Los peces en el río
We’ve chosen some vocabulary and grammatical concepts from this song and provided flashcards, games and exercises for you to learn and practice them.
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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 15 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 very little grammatically to practice, however, there are a handful of verbs in the gerund form, so we’ll use those. Two of the four instances are simply the gerund, and two are part of the present progressive tense. Information on both the gerund and the present progressive can be found below.
You can use the following activities to learn and practice these verbs.
Gerund 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.
Gerund Games – Practice the occurrences of the gerund in this song using our memory and matching games.
Gerund 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| cantar | to sing; to confess | verb | cantando |
| cortina | curtain | fem noun | cortina |
| florecer | flower, bloom; flourish, prosper | verb | floreciendo |
| jabón | soap | masc noun | jabón |
| mano | hand | fem noun | manos |
| nacer | to be born; originate in | verb | nacer |
| nacido | born, alive | adj | nacido |
| oro | gold | masc noun | oro |
| pañal | diaper | masc noun | pañales |
| pez | fish | masc noun | peces |
| plata | silver | fem noun | plata |
| río | river, stream | masc noun | río |
| tender | hang up; stretch out; lay down, lay out | verb | tiende |
| virgen | virgin | fem noun | Virgen |
| volver a + inf | to do again | vuelven a |
Gerund
| Verb | Meaning | Gerund |
|---|---|---|
| cantar | to sing; to confess | cantando |
| florecer | to flower, bloom; flourish, prosper | floreciendo |
| peinarse | brush, comb or style one’s own hair | peinando |
| lavar | to wash, launder | lavando |
The Present Progressive
The present progressive tense discusses an action that is in progress at that very moment. It is formed by using a conjugated form of the verb ‘estar’ followed by the gerund.
| Examples: | |
| Ella está cantando | She is singing |
| Estoy trabajando | I am working |
| Estamos comiendo | We are eating |
| Los estudiantes están leyendo | The students are reading |
