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This vocabulary list can be combined with lesson plan modules that use historic train price lists and traveler information, "Spanish reading passage: Informe para el viajero de ferrocarril" and "Spanish reading passage: Precios de pasaje por ferrocarril" . It can also be combined with excerpts of your own choosing from De México a Chicago y Nueva York: guía para el viajero en la que se describen las principales ciudades y ferrocarriles.
This is intended for AP Spanish language and college-level Spanish language students.
aduana | customs |
añadir/añadirse | to add |
billete | ticket (see also: boleto, pasaje) |
boleto | ticket (see also billete, pasaje) |
cama doble | double bed (in a Pullman train) |
cambio | change, exchange rate |
cantidad | quantity |
cataratas | waterfalls; Cataratas de Niágara- Niagra Falls |
cobrar | charge |
coche-dormitorio | sleeping car (in a Pullman train) |
convertir | change |
cruz/crucecita | cross, little cross † |
cualquier, cualquiera | any, whichever |
directo | direct, nonstop |
eligir | choose |
empalme | junction |
enterarse | to find out |
entero | complete, roundtrip |
ferrocarril | railroad, train |
frontera | border |
gabinete | parlor (in a Pullman train) |
la cual | which, the one which |
libra | pound |
llegada | arrival |
mayor | older than, greater than |
moneda | foreign currency (literally means “coin”) |
partida | departure |
partir | to depart |
pasaje | ticket (see also: billete, boleto) |
precio | price |
precios corrientes | current prices |
previo aviso | prior notice |
primera/segunda clase | first/second class |
punto | point |
ramal | branch (of the railroad) |
recorrer | to cross, traverse |
ruta | route |
sección | section (in a Pullman train car) |
según | according to |
soler | to usually do something, tend to do something |
sujetos a cambio | subject to change, can change |
suma | sum |
tren | train |
veloz | fast |
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