Swedish A2 Reading Practice: A Weekend in Stockholm
At A2 you start telling people what you did. This text runs through a whole weekend in the past tense, with travel and city vocabulary.
En helg i Stockholm
Förra månaden åkte Klara till Stockholm med sin kusin. De tog tåget klockan sju och kom fram före lunch.
Hotellet låg nära Södermalm. Rummet var litet men ljust. De lämnade väskorna och gick ut direkt.
På lördagen besökte de ett museum och promenerade sedan längs vattnet. Det var kallt, så de stannade på ett kafé och drack varm choklad.
På söndagsmorgonen regnade det. Klara ville åka hem, men kusinen sa: "Man åker inte till Stockholm för att sitta på hotellet." De köpte ett paraply och var ute hela dagen.
På tåget hem somnade Klara. Fötterna gjorde ont, men hon var nöjd.
English translation
Last month Klara went to Stockholm with her cousin. They took the seven o'clock train and arrived before lunch.
The hotel was near Södermalm. The room was small but bright. They left their bags and went straight out.
On Saturday they visited a museum and then walked along the water. It was cold, so they stopped at a cafe and drank hot chocolate.
On Sunday morning it rained. Klara wanted to go home, but her cousin said: "You don't go to Stockholm to sit in the hotel." They bought an umbrella and were outside all day.
On the train home Klara fell asleep. Her feet hurt, but she was happy.
Why this is A2
The whole story is in the Swedish past tense, which A2 learners meet as their first new tense, including common irregular verbs. Sentences are joined with så, men and och, and the vocabulary covers travel situations you can predict.
Grammar you will meet
- Past tense of regular verbs: besökte, promenerade, stannade
- Irregular past: tog, kom, gick, drack, sa
- Word order after an adverbial: Förra månaden åkte Klara...
- The generic pronoun man
- Adjectives after var: var litet, var kallt
Words worth keeping
- åka — to travel, to go (by vehicle)
- komma fram — to arrive
- göra ont — to hurt
- hela dagen — all day
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