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ISSN 1668-4877
August
15, 2004 |
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Whoopee!! We are reaching 4,000,000 visitors, so a new music section
to celebrate is here. An Argentine subscriber sent us his own retelling of
a short story. And more useful links (don't lose the interactive picture
of the glacier).
Thanks again for RATING our
efforts by
CLICKING
HERE. See you on
September 1.
Hurra!! Estamos alcanzando los 4.000.000 de visitantes así que a festejar
con una nueva sección musical. Un suscriptor argentino nos envía su propio
relato de un cuento corto. Y más enlaces útiles (no te pierdas la imagen
interactiva del glaciar).
Gracias por
CALIFICAR nuestro esfuerzo haciendo
CLIC
AQUI. Nos
vemos el 1° de setiembre. |
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OM Beatles
A brand new video section |
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The Flamingos' Socks
A short story by Horacio Quiroga |
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Useful Links
A series of interesting links
inside our megaportal |
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ANSWERS
Activity OM News # 85 |
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OM Shopping
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Come to OM BEATLES and
enjoy the performances of the lads from Liverpool in these four
videoclips. The Beatles can never truly make music together again.
However, their legacy remains with us and today their music is expanding
everyday.
Repeating a song is
highly effective to learn a language, so this brand new section provides
wide possibilities. Just click on the images and have fun !!
Entra a OM BEATLES y disfruta las actuaciones de los muchachos de
Liverpool en estos cuatro videoclips. Los Beatles no volverán a hacer
música juntos. Sin embargo, su legado está con nosotros y su música se
expande a diario. La repetición de canciones es una herramienta altamente
eficaz para aprender un idioma; por ello, esta flamante sección constituye
un excelente recurso. Pulsa en las imágenes y diviértete !! |
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las imágenes
para visitar
OM BEATLES |
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THE
FLAMINGOS' SOCKS.
Uruguayan
writer Horacio Quiroga was born
and raised
in in Salto, Uruguay,
but
he spent most of his years in neighboring Argentina. His short stories are
ranked among the best to emerge from Latin America.
This story has been told by subscriber Gastón González from Buenos Aires,
Argentina.
LAS MEDIAS DE LOS FLAMENCOS. El escritor uruguayo Horacio Quiroga nació y
se crió en Salto, Uruguay, pero la mayor parte de su vida transcurrió en
la vecina Argentina. Sus cuentos cortos se hallan posicionados entre los
mejores de Latinoamérica. Este cuento ha sido relatado por el suscriptor
Gastón González de Buenos Aires, Argentina. |
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One
day the snakes made a very big party and invited
frogs,
flamingos,
alligators and fish. All the animals were very nice for this special
occasion. Alligators wore
necklaces with bananas and smoked Paraguayan cigars, frogs
had fish scales in
all the body and the snakes were the most beautiful ones. They wore red,
green and yellow skirts.
Only the flamingos, which had white legs in that
epoch, were sad because
they had nothing really nice to wear for the party. Fortunately one of
them had an idea.
‘I know what we are going to wear,’ one of the flamingos said. ‘We are
going to wear red, white and black
socks.’
So they all crossed the river and went to buy the socks.
‘We want to buy red, white and black socks,’ one of the flamingos said.
‘I haven’t got socks in those colours,’ the
seller answered.
Fortunately the flamingos found another shop.
‘We’re looking for red, white and black socks,’ one of the flamingos
said again.
‘What did you say?’ the seller said with surprise. ‘Red, white and black
socks? There are not socks in those colours.’
So they decided to go to another shop.
‘Have you got red, white and black socks?’ the same flamingo asked.
‘What colour? Impossible,’ the seller answered. ‘Only stupid birds like
you want socks like these.’
The flamingos went to a lot of shops, but they couldn’t find the socks
they wanted. So a bird, which was drinking in the river, decided to
bother the
hopeless birds.
‘Good evening,’ he told them. ‘I know where you can find red, white and
black socks. My sister-in-law, the
owl, has that
kind
of socks.’
The bird told them where the owl lived and the flamingos went to her
house.
‘Good evening, owl,’ the flamingos said. ‘Have you got red, white and
black socks to give us? Today it’s the snakes’ party and we want to wear
socks in those colours.’
The owl flew away and haunted some snakes. She cut their skin and came
back with the flamingos.
‘These are your socks,’ the owl said and gave the flamingos the snake’s
skins.
Unfortunately, the fool flamingos didn’t realise it and thought they
were real socks.
‘You must be careful in the party,’ the owl said. ‘Don’t stop dancing.
Do you understand? You must dance
the whole night. Never stop.’
So the flamingos put on the false socks and went happily to the party.
When they finally arrived, all the animals
envied the beautiful socks
and the snakes only danced with them. Nobody could discover that the
socks were snakes’ skin because the flamingos danced very fast and never
stopped.
Unfortunately, after hours and hours, they got very tired and one of
them stopped and sat down. So, one of the snakes noticed that the socks
were the skin of same
dead snakes.
‘They are not socks!’ the snake shouted angrily. ‘The flamingos killed
our snake sisters and are wearing their skin as socks!’
The angry snakes started to
bite the flamingos’ legs. As the unfortunate birds were very
tired, it was impossible for them to escape.
When they were almost dead
because of the
venom, the snakes stopped biting them. So the flamingos ran
to the water. They cried because of the
pain and their
legs were red because of the snakes’ venom.
Nowadays,
flamingos’ legs are still red and they are all the time in the water to
stop the ardour. They sometimes leave the water, but the pain
caused by the
venom comes back and the flamingos go to the water again. This is the
story of the flamingos which had white legs and now have red ones.
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snake:
limbless reptile (víbora);
frog:
tailless amphibian (rana); flamingo:
large pink to scarlet bird (flamenco);
alligator:
amphibious reptile related to crocodiles (yacaré,
caimán); necklace:
jewelry cord
or chain worn about the neck as an ornament (collar);
scale:
a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body of many animals (escama); epoch: period, era
(época); socks: cloth coverings for the foot (medias);
seller:
marketer, vendor (vendedor); found: to find/found/found (encontrar);
look for:
search; try to locate or discover (buscar);
bother: annoy, disturb (molestar);
hopeless: without hope, resigned (resignados);
owl:
nocturnal bird of prey (lechuza); kind of: sort of, type of (clase de); the whole night: all the night (toda la noche); envied: to envy/envied/envied (envidiar);
dead (muerto/a) =/= alive (vivo/a); bite/bit/bitten
(morder); venom:
toxin secreted by animals (veneno); because
of: due to (a causa de);
pain:
physical hurt (dolor);
nowadays:
today, in these times (hoy en día); ardour: burning (ardor);
caused
by
(causado por). |
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COMPREHENSION - OM NEWS # 85
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difficulty to
understand the questions, you have another chance here to listen to them while
you are reading.
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