El Vocabulario
Los Verbos
Figuras Culturales - Evita Peron
¡Pueeeeerto Rico!
Country Capitals
100

El sitio donde depositas tu dinero.

Banco

100

Si una persona no cultiva sus alimientos, ella necesita hacer esto en el supermercado.

Comprar

100

As a young teenager pursuing her dreams, Evita moved to the capital city of Buenos Aires to pursue this career.

Actress

100

Puerto Rico is not officially its own country, instead it is a territory of this much larger nation.

The United States of America

100

The focal point of a popular song by Latin-American artist Camilla Cabello, this city, which is also her birthplace, is the capital of the island of Cuba.

Havana, Cuba

200

El cambio es el plural, pero el singular es esta palabra.

Moneda

200

Este verbo, en ingles, es la palabra de la persona que hace la palabra en español.

vender

200

Probably the greatest act Evita is known for is her fight to help Argentinian women gain this governmental right in 1947.

Voting Rights

200

This alcoholic beverage, made from pineapple, coconut, and rum, was first invented in Puerto Rico.

Piña Colada

200

Like many cities in South America, this capital of Ecuador was founded on top of the ruins of an ancient Incan settlement.

Quito, Ecuador

300

La forma más común de pago hoy en día.

La tarjeta

300

Los profesores americanos no _____ mucho dinero en un año, pero nadie sabe por qué.

ganan (ganar)

300

In January 1944, this type of natural disaster in San Juan, Argentina killed an estimated 10,000 people.  It also led to Evita meeting her husband.

Earthquake

300

The island of Puerto Rico has almost 300 miles of coastline and nearly the same number of these popular tourist attractions.

(That's an average of one per mile of coast.)

Beaches

300

Part of a small club of countries which have two separate capitals, Chile's official capital is Santiago, but their legislature operates out of this unofficial secondary capital.

Valparaíso, Chile

400

¡Cuidado! Si tu tienes un préstamo, no quieres una ______ alta.

tasa de interés

400

Si tu _____ dinero a tu amigo, el necesita _____le de vuelta.

prestas, pagar

400

Late in life, Evita suffered from this illness; which would keep her from running for vice-president and would eventually take her life in 1952 at the age of 33.

Cancer

400

This U.S. national forest, located in Puerto Rico, is the only rainforest in the U.S. Forest System. The forest itself receives over 120 inches of rain every year.

El Yunque

400

The capital city of Honduras, the city's name comes not from Spanish, but instead from the Nahuatl language, and means “silver mountain".

Tegucigalpa, Honduras

500

Cuando nosotros compramos una casa, necesitamos esto en el primer día.  Cuanto más grande, mejor.

El pago inicial

500

Personas que tienen una casa podría necesitar este verbo en sus vocabularios.

hipotecar

500

Located in the greater Buenos Aires area, Ciudad Evita (Evita City) was named for Evita Perón.  An aerial view of the city also reveals this unique trait about it. 

Built in the shape of her profile

500

The remains of this famous Spanish explorer and former governor of Puerto Rico are in a tomb inside the San Juan Cathedral. 

Juan Ponce de León

500

One of the few Spanish-speaking capitals outside of the American continent, this African metropolis is the capital of the smallest Spanish speaking country in the world; even smaller than Puerto Rico.

Malabo, Equatorial Guinea

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