Diminutive Exercises for El Burrito de Belén
These exercises are all about practicing the diminutive nouns found in this song. A refresher of the gerund and the present progressive can be found on our Activities page.
In the lyrics exercises, the diminutive nouns have been removed from the song lyrics so that you can listen to the song and fill them in. We have also provided the translation to guide you in filling in the blanks if you would rather not listen to the song. On this page, the video floats so you can pause it more easily if needed. If you aren’t super confident of the spellings yet, go ahead and use the drag and drop exercise. But if you think you’ve got the spelling down use the fill in the blank exercise.
The highlighting exercise is just about recognizing the diminutive. Can you pick out all the instances in this song?
Since the lyrics for this song are so limited and most of the lyrics in this song are repeated a second time we have removed the second repetition. In most cases you have two repetitions to fill in the one line.
