A1 Spanish Story
Lucía's Lift
El ascensor de Lucía
0:51 min video · 3 sentences · 5 key words
Transcript with English
Hide the English to test yourself.
- ¿Tú también vas a la fiesta?Are you also going to the party?
- Sí, es el cumpleaños de Marta.Yes, it is Marta's birthday.
- Estamos aquí, pero queremos ir arriba.We are here, but we want to go up.
About this lesson
Two strangers get stuck in a lift on the way to a friend's thirtieth birthday dinner. They discover they are going to the same party.
How to practise
- Watch once with the English subtitles to understand the story.
- Watch again and repeat every sentence out loud in the Te toca · Your turn pause.
- At the end, read along with the narrator at the same time.
Key words
| Spanish | English | Level |
|---|---|---|
| la fiesta | the party | |
| el cumpleaños | the birthday | |
| aquí | here | |
| arriba | up, upstairs | |
| también | also, too |
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