Activities for Ruido
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. We’ve also provided some exercises for you to practice the vocabulary and grammatical concepts from this song.
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Activities
Vocabulary Excercises
Learn and practice the vocabulary list for this song with the following exercises:
Vocabulary Flashcards – Learn the vocabulary from this song with our sets of French to English and English to French 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’s limited lyrics didn’t provide much grammatically to practice, however there are a handful of verbs in two past tenses, the pretétito (preterite) and the pretérito perfecto (present perfect) as well as a handful of irregular verbs, both stem-changing and with an irregular ‘yo’ conjugation.
Irregular Verb Flashcards – Practice the occurrences of the stem-changing verbs and the verbs with an irregular ‘yo’ form in this song with our sets of Spanish to English and English to Spanish flashcards, then test yourself with our interactive flashcards.
Past Tense Flashcards – Practice the occurrences of the preterite and the present perfect in this song with our sets of Spanish to English and English to Spanish flashcards, then test yourself with our interactive flashcards.
Verb Games – Practice the past tense and the irregular verbs in this song using our memory and matching games.
Irregular Verb Exercises – Practice the stem-changing verbs and those with an irregular ‘yo’ conjugation present in this song using our drag and drop, fill in, and highlighting exercises.
Past Tense Exercises – Practice the preterite and the present perfect tense verbs present in this song using our drag and drop, fill in, and highlighting exercises.
Vocabulary List
| Term | Meaning | P of S | Context |
|---|---|---|---|
| apagarse | fade, wane, diminish | verb | se apagó |
| aparecer | appear, show up | verb | apareciste |
| caer en picado/a | drop sharply, plummet, plunge, dive, take a nosedive | caigo en picado | |
| cerrarse | close, be closed | verb | se cierran |
| dormir | to sleep; to spend the night | verb | duermo |
| hemisferio | hemisphere | masc noun | hemisferio |
| pensar | to think | verb | pienso |
| ráfaga | gust, burst | fem noun | ráfaga |
| relativo | relative; related; debatable | adj | relativo |
| ruido | noise; commotion, uproar, fuss | masc noun | ruido |
| salir a flote | stay afloat, keep one’s head above water, rise to the surface, pop up | saliendo a flote | |
| solo | alone; single, lone | adj | sola |
| sostener | hold, maintain, support | verb | sostuve |
| sobrevivir | survive, outlast | verb | sobrevivir |
| vacío | empty, vacant; superficial | adj | vacías |
