El Canal de Panamá

Spanish online reading and listening practice - level A1

Join Cristina as she discovers the fascinating feat of engineering that is the Panama Canal.

This reading and listening exercise can help you practise El Presente, adverbs in ending in -mente, El Futuro Próximo and the gender/number of nouns and adjectives.

Text by Silvia Píriz and audio by Inma Sánchez.

Exercise: El Canal de Panamá

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