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 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 several verbs that have stem changes in the present tense. These verbs are venir, empezar, decir, pedir and poder. Full conjugations of these verbs can be found below.

You can use the following activities to learn and practice these nouns.

Stem-Changing Verb 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.

Stem-Changing Verb Games – Practice the occurrences of the gerund in this song using our memory and matching games.

Stem-Changing Verb 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
a la vez	at the same time, all at once		a la vez
a ver	let’s see		a ver
amante	lover, mistress	masc noun	Amantes,
ánimo	spirits, mood, energy; intention, intent	masc noun	ánimo
champán	champagne	masc noun	champán
cuenta atrás	countdown	fem noun	cuenta atrás
despistado	distracted, lost in thought, absent-minded, scatterbrained, forgetful	adj	despistao
echar de menos	miss, notice sth is missing, not be able to find sth		echaremos de menos
empezar	to start, begin	verb	empieza
espabilarse	wake yourself up, get a move on, get with it	verb	nos espabilamos
petardo	firecracker	masc noun	petardos
por una vez	for once		por una vez
reírse	to laugh	verb	nos reímos
reloj	watch, clock, hourglass, sundial	masc noun	reloj
uva	grape	fem noun	uvas

Conjugations

There are several examples of verbs with stem changes in the present tense in this song. There are several types of stem change: ‘e’ to ‘ie’, ‘e’ to ‘i’, and ‘o’ to ‘ue’. Note that the stem change applies to all conjugations except the first person plural (nosotros) and the second person plural (vosotros) forms (with the exception of ‘venir’ which is also a ‘-go’ verb). Following are the full conjugations of these verbs:

‘E’ to ‘IE’

venir = to come

	Singular	Plural
First person	yo vengo	nosotros venimos
Second person	tú vienes	vosotros venís
Third person	él/ella/Ud viene	ellos/ellas/Uds vienen

empezar = to start, begin

	Singular	Plural
First person	yo empiezo	nosotros empezamos
Second person	tú empieza	vosotros empezáis
Third person	él/ella/Ud empieza	ellos/ellas/Uds empiezan

‘E’ to ‘I’

decir = to say, tell

	Singular	Plural
First person	yo digo	nosotros decimos
Second person	tú dices	vosotros decís
Third person	él/ella/Ud dice	ellos/ellas/Uds dicen

pedir = to ask for, request; demand; order

	Singular	Plural
First person	yo pido	nosotros pedimos
Second person	tú pides	vosotros pedís
Third person	él/ella/Ud pide	ellos/ellas/Uds piden

‘O’ to ‘UE’

poder = to be able to

	Singular	Plural
First person	yo puedo	nosotros podemos
Second person	tú puedes	vosotros podéis
Third person	él/ella/Ud puede	ellos/ellas/Uds pueden