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EL BOLETIN DE INGLES AMERICANO PREFERIDO POR LOS HISPANOPARLANTES

OM News # 63  - Delivered to 27511 subscribers

ISSN 1668-4877 - September 1, 2003

Everything OK? At last CD # 1 is here for your practice!! 
In this issue two interesting short articles about Latin in other lands, and both transcription and answers to the listening comprehension activity in our previous news. Again thanks for recommending us and rating our efforts by
CLICKING HERE. See you on September 15.
¿Todo bien? Por fin llegó el CD # 1 para tu práctica !! 
En esta entrega dos interesantes artículos breves sobre latinos en otras tierras y la transcripción y respuestas del ejercicio de comprensión oral del boletín anterior.
Otra vez GRACIAS por recomendarnos y por calificar nuestros esfuerzos haciendo CLIC AQUI. Nos vemos el 15 de setiembre.

IN THIS ISSUE:

IMMIGRANTS TO
THE WORLD
Two latin people living
abroad speak about their personal experiences
(good for ESL reading comprehension)

ANSWERS NEWS # 62

reading comprehension

LUIS LUGO, Puerto Rico. I’ve been working as a concierge at a prestigious apartment building on Fifth Avenue in New York City for more than two years now. I’d like to go back to school and get a degree, but that’s a long term goal. Right now my job and my two kids take up most of my time. I’m just waiting for my kids to get older. My daughter is three and my son is two. The former mayor of New York City, Ed Koch, lives in the building where I work. When I first saw him, I was a little star-struck. Here is a person who was mayor of the biggest city in the country and is now on the radio and TV everyday with his own programmes. So I approached him a little nervously and asked him for his autograph for my two children, but he didn’t give me anything. I thought something was wrong. The next day he brought back two large autographed photographs of himself and handed them both to me. Now they hang proudly in my room. My kids can have them when they are older and can appreciate them. I learned that the rich and powerful are often approachable and friendly. That was a pleasant surprise.

GLOSSARY: to go back: to return (regresar); degree: academic award (título universitario); long term goal: an objective difficult to get in a short time (meta a largo plazo); take up: absorb (absorber); mayor: city manager (alcalde, intendente); star-stuck: unable to speak because you have met an important or famous person (embelesado); brought: past tense of bring (trajo consigo); handed them both to me: gave me both pictures (me las entregó); proudly: with pride (con orgullo); approachable: accesible (sencillos, accesibles). 

JAVIER PHILIPPS, Peru. I live in London. I work as a cashier during the day and study English at night. I used to have my own business back home in Lima. I need English because I want to start an import/export business. My wife Charlotte and I want children. We want to travel around the world together, learning about other cultures. I was playing football one day here in London. The weather was really awful. The sky clouded over and it went dark. It was cold, windy and wet. Then suddenly, towards the end of the game, the sky cleared and the sun started to shine. It was very strange how quickly it changed. That's when I saw the woman of my dreams for the first time. Right then I didn't realise it. I asked her out and then, after just a few weeks, I knew Charlotte was the woman I was looking for and wanted to share my life with. It's really true that every cloud has a silver lining!

GLOSSARY: cashier: bank clerk (cajero); I used to: I had the habit (acostumbraba a); awful: nasty, horrible (espantoso); clouded over: became clouded (se nubló); I asked her out: I made a date with her (la invité a salir); looking for: searching (buscando); to share: to use in common (compartir); every cloud has a silver lining: every adversity carries greater benefit (no hay mal que por bien no venga).

answers

ANSWERS TO LISTENING ACTIVITY "U.S. OFFICER INTERVIEWS YU HONG" - NEWS # 62
(Click on the title to check previous newsletter / Clic en el título para ver el boletín anterior)

DIALOGUE TRANSCRIPTION

OFFICER:
YU HONG:
OFFICER:
YU HONG:
OFFICER:
YU HONG:
OFFICER:
YU HONG:
OFFICER:
YU HONG:

Where are you from originally, Yu Hong?
I'm from China, from near Shanghai.
And when did you move here?
I came here after I graduated from college. That was in 1992.
And what do you do now?
I'm a transportation engineer.
I see. So you're immigrant to the United States.
Yes, that's right.
What are some of the difficulties of the immigrants in the U.S.?
Oh, that's not an easy question to answer. There are so many things, really. I guess one of the biggest difficulties is that I don't have any relatives here. I mean, I have a lot of friends, but that's not the same thing. In China, on holidays or the weekend, we visit relatives. It isn't the same here.

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

1.  Where is Yu Hong from?  She's from China / She comes from China
2.  When did she graduate? 
She graduated in 1992.
3.  What does she do now?  
She's a transportation engineer.
4.  Is she an immigrant to the United States? 
Yes, she is.
5.  Which is one of her biggest difficulties in the United States? 
She has many friends but
     she doesn't have any relatives in the United States.

next update: september 15, 2003

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