Reading and Writing exercise "La corrección en el lenguaje", by Juan José Millás

These are the eight words that the ¡Y qué me cuentas! group chose after reading "La corrección en el lenguaje" by Juan José Millás.
It is important to mention that “La corrección en el lenguaje” is a story about the gender of the words, a topic that confuses some Spanish learners. Along the story, the author changes feminine words into masculine words and viceversa. By doing so, he sometimes changes the meaning of the word, i.e., libro (book) –libra (pound). Following this idea, we decided to chose 4 words and change their gender. The challenge was to identify words that have a different meaning when their gender changed. Here is the list of the words and the writing exercise. It was a very good exercise!

The list of the words is:
1. Casa
2. Caso
3. Falla
4. Fallo
5. Libra
6. Libro
7. Rodillo
8. Rodilla

Here is the story that the group wrote using the above eight words (words in parenthesis were the first option. As the writing developed, the group changed the words to create a better story).


"Cuando llegué a la casa vi a mi madre de rodillas (trabajando) pintando el piso con un rodillo. Dejé mi libro (del caso que estaba estudiando) que pesaba cinco libras en la mesa. Estaba leyendo de un caso con un fallo muy grave y estaba escuchando la música de Manuel de Falla. Entonces, fui a ayudar a mi madre."

The final story (without the words in parenthesis) is:

"Cuando llegué a la casa vi a mi madre de rodillas pintando el piso con un rodillo. Dejé mi libro que pesaba cinco libras en la mesa. Estaba leyendo de un caso con un fallo muy grave y estaba escuchando la música de Manuel de Falla. Entonces, fui a ayudar a mi madre."

Now is your turn. Use the same words and create a story. Submit it in the comments link.

Have fun!