Taking the rubbish out

"Sacando la basura"
Spanish A1 writing exercise

See how people organise their rubbish in Spain.

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Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "rubbish" and "cardboard".

Written by qualified Spanish expert Silvia Piriz BA
Last updated: 2023-03-27

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How the test works
You’ll practise: Singular, Plural, Gender of nouns in Spanish: masculine

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Taking the rubbish out in Spain is lots of fun. We have to leave the house to put the rubbish in the containers that are on the street. These containers have four colours: blue is for paper and cardboard, yellow is for plastic and cans, green is for glass and grey is for the rest of the waste. Then the garbage truck passes by every night and empties the containers.

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