Capsule tasks.......

When you are learning a language, you can liven things up a bit by setting yourself short-term projects... I call them " Capsule Tasks."

Here's a few examples...

[a] Translate a paragraph of Spanish into English, then put the original away and translate back into Spanish again... then compare.

[b] Learn the set of words you need to describle somebody's face or their clothes, or a building or a car... then as you stroll into town use what you have learned on everyone or everything you see.

[c] Buy a cheap children's book ( Noddy stories are good) and transalte it into Spanish

[d] Learn the words of one of your favourite Spanish songs.

[e] Pick up a handfull of Scrabble tiles and try to make as many Spanish words as you can... and find out what they mean.

[f] Read a small section of an English-language book, and decide which tense all the verbs should be in.... even better, actually translate the verbs.

[g] Read a page of Spanish nito a tape-recorder, then play it back. does it sound OK ? Try reading the same passage month later... are you improving your accent?

Well, that's enough for starters... these little projects are very motivational... they're short, and different to the usual ploughing-through-the-book tasks.

The music today is a song I've featured before, but this is a lovely "unplugged" version... it's Mäbu and " Tanta Química"... I love it!



Here's the words...

A Solas :
A solas hablo contigo y te cuento que la luna es roja
Te cuento que a veces me espanta
Ahora acabo convertida en pluma
como una más entre tu almohada pero muy cerca de tu cara
No puedo no tocarte si tú no me dejas
besarte si tú no me lo pides
Instinto animal hay de sobra
Y tengo clavada aquí una condena de años
y de preferencias que dicta que a mí no me tocas
Tanta química, tanta física
tantas ganas de morderte
tanto y tanto para los demás
con ganas d volver a verte…x2
La marca que deja un beso no es tan mala
te puede dar todo por nada
y te quiere dar, te puede dar
Que puedo yo darte si no tengo historia
algunos años de poca memoria
Soy para ti lo que me digas, me da igual
Tanta química, tanta física
tantas ganas de morderte
tanto y tanto para los demás
con ganas d volver a verte…x2
Tanta química
Tanta física
Por qué es con otro y no contigo
Por qué es con otra y no conmigo


(Gracias a Pimientorojo por esta letra)