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ISSN 1668-4877 - September 1, 2003 |
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In this issue two interesting short articles about Latin in other lands,
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En esta entrega dos interesantes artículos breves sobre latinos en
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comprensión oral del boletín anterior. Otra
vez GRACIAS por recomendarnos y por
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IMMIGRANTS
TO
THE WORLD
Two latin people living
abroad speak about their personal experiences
(good for ESL reading comprehension)
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ANSWERS
NEWS # 62
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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! |
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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). |
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YU HONG:
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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. |
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.
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