¡Sí puedo! Can-Do Statements
Describe things using the correct placement, gender and number of adjectives.
Describe the color of things.
Cultivo una rosa blanca
por (by) José Martí
Cultivo una rosa blanca
en junio como enero
para el amigo sincero
que me da su mano franca.
Y para el cruel que me arranca
el corazón con que vivo,
cardo ni ortiga cultivo;
cultivo la rosa blanca.
Preguntas
A text-only version of questions:
- The first word is a verb: “cultivar”. Who is it conjugated for?
- Which word in the first sentence is an adjective?
- If the flower were “el narciso” (daffodil), how would you modify the adjective?
- In the third line, “para” means for. For whom is the poet growing a white rose?
- In the fourth line, “que” means “who.” “Da” is from the verb “dar,” to give. Who is “da” conjugated for? Who is doing the giving?
- What did the friend give the poet?
- “El cruel” is a cruel person. What did this cruel person tear out (arrancar)?
- “Cardo ni ortiga” means “neither thistle nor nettle.” So the poet is not growing thistle nor nettle “para el cruel” (for the cruel one). What is the poet growing?
