Taking the rubbish out

"Sacando la basura"
Spanish A1 writing exercise

See how people organise their rubbish in Spain.

Pay attention to the hints!

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

I’ll give you some sentences to translate into Spanish

  • I’ll show you where you make mistakes
  • I’ll keep track of what you need to practise
  • Change my choices if you want
Start the exercise
How the test works

Here's a preview of the text for the writing challenge, when you're ready click the start button above:

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.

Thinking...