Hi Everyone--
I wanted to let you know that my book will be available BY TUESDAY on Amazon. I have received the edit and will take care of that today. I'm waiting for the forward and then it's a go.
The title will be "El cochino blanco y otros cuentos". I know that some have questioned the title, but after much thought, I decided to leave it. This is a true story, and I know that my husband would have called it "el cochino". So I'm leaving it in honor of his memory.
You have asked me about who the book is designed for. Originally, I thought that as an SSR book, it should be for Spanish 3. Now, however, I think that I'm revising that a little. If you want to use this as an assisted reading book (maybe to supplement your own stories), it would be appropriate for Spanish 2. For true SSR, you should go with 3.
In this printing, I am trying to keep to the SSR idea and so I'm not giving vocabulary suggestions. However, I do have the vocabulary listed and will be happy to provide it through the email given in the book.
I will post again when the book publishes.
If you like it, please post a favorable review. Our reviews are what brings others to buy the books.
Thanks for supporting this venture! It was your interest that made me start in the first place. I will be publishing others soon, starting with a reader for 1st year.
Story blog for foreign language and ESL, especially for early levels. I write stories and will write stories for you--just tell me what vocab you need me to use. I am open to ideas and questions. I also am happy to include your stories--just email them to meggiev7777@gmail.com and include permission to post them.
Saturday, January 18, 2014
Friday, January 17, 2014
2nd year story--se divierte, nunca deja de hablar, deja a su novia
Mike tenía una novia bella y simpática
que se llamaba Minnie. Los dos se
divertían mucho por jugar los videojuegos y también el tenis, por ir a muchos
conciertos, y por hacer otras cosas juntos.
Desafortunadamente, había un problema.
La chica tenía un perro que se llamaba Fifi. Era un perro de lana chiquita, y la chica
siempre la llevaba con ella. Nunca
dejaba de hablar de su perro. A Mike no
le gustaban los perros—especialmente los perros de lana.
Mike had a pretty and nice girlfriend named Minnie. The two enjoyed themselves by playing videogames and tennis, by going to many concerts, and by doing other things together. Unfortunately, there was a problem. The girl had a dog named Fifi. She was a small poodle, and Minnie always took her with her. She never stopped talking about her dog. Mike didn't like dogs--especially poodle dogs.
Un día,
Mike decidió que ya era suficiente (enough was enough). No quería oir nada más del perro tonto. Cuando Minnie llegó a su casa, le dijo –No quiero
hablar de su perro, Minnie. ¿Podemos
hablar de algo diferente?—
--Sí, claro—le dijo.
¿De qué quieres hablar?
"Yes, of course," she said to him. "What do you want to talk about"
Mike sabía que a Minnie le gustaba la ropa. –Podemos hablar de la ropa.—
--Oh, yo compré un vestido muy bonito ayer. Es azul y
blanco y tiene diamantes también.
--Oh, ¡qué bonita!
¿Cuándo vas a llevarlo?—
--¡Ay, tonto!
No es para mi, es para…oh. No
importa.—
--¿Qué dices, Princesa?—
--Es un vestido para Fifi. Lo siento.
Mike knew that Minnie liked clothes. "We can talk about clothes."
"Oh, I bought a really pretty dress yesterday. It's blue and white and has diamonds, too.
"Oh, how pretty! When will you wear it?"
"Oh, silly! It's not for me, it's for--oh. Never mind."
"What are you saying, Princess?"
"It's a dress for Fifi. I'm sorry."
La pareja trató de hablar, pero cada sujeto terminó con algo de Fifi. Cuando Minnie salió, Mike empezó a
pensar. Qué sería mejor--¿dejar a Minnie
o estar muy aburrido escuchando a cuentos de su perro?
Mike decidió quedarse con Minnie, y después de un rato
los dos se casaron. Ahora, Mike y Minnie
tiene dos hijos, y nunca dejan de hablar de los niños. Todos están contentos, inclusivo la
Fifi. Ella ya puede ser un perro, nada
más, y le gusta mucho.
The couple tried to talk, but every subject ended with something about Fifi. When Minnie left, Mike started to think: What would be better--dropping Minnie or being really bored listening to story about her dog? Mike decided to stay with Minnie, and after a while, they got married. Now Mike and Minnie have two children, and they never stop talking about the kids. Everyone is happy, including Fifi. She can be a dog now, nothing more, and she likes it a lot.
Friday, January 10, 2014
1st year story trata de, come mientras habla, llega
Tommy trabajaba para la compañía
Microsoft y quería hablar con Bill Gates porque tenía una idea maravillosa—podía
hacer una computadora tan pequeña que ¡podía ponerla en su bolsillo!
Tommy trataba
de hablar con Sr. Gates, pero no podía porque Sr. Gates siempre estaba muy
ocupado (busy). Un día, Tommy lo vio entrar en su oficina, pero cuando Tommy
llegó a la oficina--¡ya había salido (he had already left)! Otra vez Tommy trató de hablar con él después
de una conferencia de las computadores, pero Sr. Gates tenía que ir al
aeropuerto para otra conferencia en China y no tuvo tiempo bastante (enough) para
hablar.
Un día, Tommy vio a Sr. Gates y le dijo –Sr Gates, por
favor, ¿Puedo hablar con Ud. durante el almuerzo?—
Sr Gates le dijo que sí, y Tommy puso una barra de proteína
en el bolsillo de su traje. Llegó a la
oficina de Sr Gates, y los dos empezaron a comer. Tommy comía mientras hablaba.
--Sr Gates—tengo una computadora que es tan pequeño que puedo ponerla en mi bolsillo. Tengo una en mi bolsillo ahora.—
--¿Sí? ¿Puedo
verla?—
--Por supuesto (of course).-- Tommy buscó la computadora en el bolsillo de
su traje— ¡el mismo bolsillo en que estaba la barra de proteína antes!
--¡Oh no! ¡La computadora! ¡Es tan pequeña que la
comí!—
--¿Comiste una computadora? ¿Cómo puede ser?—
Tommy se rio.
Metió (he put) la mano en el bolsillo de los pantalones y agarró la
computadora.
--No la comí, pero sí es posible.—
Sr Gates estaba muy impresionado. Pidió (he ordered) 1.000.000 de computadores
inmediatamente. Tommy estaba muy feliz.
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
New Spanish 1 story--SSR Book in proofing stage
My SSR book is coming along, and it is currently being proofed by 2 native speakers. I'm hoping for a late Jan/early Feb startup date.
Había dos hermanas que eran
alumnas de Salpointe. Una se llamaba
Silvia y la otra se llamaba Roberta. A
ellas les gustaba la escuela, aunque no les gustaban los uniformes.
There were two sisters that were Salpointe students. One was named Silvia and the other was named Roberta. They liked the school, although they didn't like the uniforms.
Un día, Roberta se ponía la
ropa cuando recordó que no tenía dinero para el almuerzo (lunch). Ella se puso su camisa negra y sus
pantalones. Entonces corrió a su mamá
para pedirle dinero.
One day, Roberta was putting on her clothes when she remember that she didn't have money for lunch. She put on her black shirt and her pants. Then she ran to her mom to ask her for money.
Cuando regresó, Roberta vio
que su hermana también se había puesto (had put on) una camisa negra. Roberta entró en el dormitorio y se quitó su
camisa. La puso en su clóset y sacó
(took out) una camisa blanca. Cuando
entró en la cocina para comer el desayuno, Mamá le dijo que su hermana ya había
salido con unas amigas a la escuela.
Roberta comió y entonces salió también.
When she returned, Roberta saw that her sister also had put on a black shirt. Roberta entered the bedroom and took off her shirt. She put it in her closet and took out a white shirt. When she entered the kitchen to eat breakfast, Mom told her that her sister had already left with her friends to school. Roberta ate and then left, too.
En la escuela, Roberta
no vio a Silvia en la mañana, pero mientras comía el almuerzo, Silvia
llegó. ¡Ella también se había puesto had put on una camisa
blanca! Silvia le dio una banana a su
hermana. Roberta agarró la banana y le
preguntó --¿Por qué te quitaste tu camisa negra?
At school, Roberta didn't see Silvia in the morning, but while she was eating lunch, Silvia arrived. She had also put on a white shirt! Silvia gave a banana to her sister. Roberta took the banana and asked her, "Why did you take off your black shirt?"
Silvia le explicó
–Cuando vi que te pusiste una camisa negra, no quería tener la misma camisa
como tú, así que le saqué la blanca de mi clóset y me la puse.—
Silvia explained to her, "When I saw that you put on a black shirt, I didn't want to have the same shirt as you, so I took the white one out of my closet and put it on.
Roberta le dijo –¡Y
ahora tenemos la misma camisa de todos modos (anyway)! ¡Qué coincidencia-
Roberta told her, "And now we have the same shirt anyway! What a coincidence!
--Sí—le dijo su
hermana. Roberta, tenemos que hablar
antes que nos pongamos la ropa, ¿verdad?-
Ahora las hermanas siempre
se hablan antes de ponerse la ropa. No
hay más problemas.
Yes, said her sister. "Roberta, we have to talk before we put on our clothes, right?"
Now the sisters always talk to each other before putting on their clothes. There are no more problems.
Sunday, December 15, 2013
SSR book Update
Hi Everyone!
Just a note to let you know that my SSR book is in the process of being published. Right now it's going to be in print, but the next step is Kindle. I will be selling the print version for $7.99. I haven't seen what Kindle says yet (I have to finish the print process first), but I will let you know.
I think that the stories can be read in 2nd year with assistance and independently in the 2nd semester of 2nd year or beginning of 3rd.
I will make a 1st year book as well, but it won't go to print until later in the year. I have to write them before I can print them :)!
Question: would you like to see an English version of this for sale?
Also, if you find that leaving comments on the blog is too hard, please go to my website: megvillanueva.com. I have a comments page on the site that is super easy to use.
Thanks!
Meg
Just a note to let you know that my SSR book is in the process of being published. Right now it's going to be in print, but the next step is Kindle. I will be selling the print version for $7.99. I haven't seen what Kindle says yet (I have to finish the print process first), but I will let you know.
I think that the stories can be read in 2nd year with assistance and independently in the 2nd semester of 2nd year or beginning of 3rd.
I will make a 1st year book as well, but it won't go to print until later in the year. I have to write them before I can print them :)!
Question: would you like to see an English version of this for sale?
Also, if you find that leaving comments on the blog is too hard, please go to my website: megvillanueva.com. I have a comments page on the site that is super easy to use.
Thanks!
Meg
Sunday, December 8, 2013
Hansel and Gretel rewrite--guest post by Anouk Berends
I wanted to share this story that Anouk Berends made. She took my story of Hansel and Gretel http://meggiev777.blogspot.com/2013/10/a-retelling-of-hansel-and-gretel.html and made it her own. That's what my hope has been with this blog--that you use my stories and redesign them so they fit your needs!
Here's Anouk's story:
Here's Anouk's story:
This is the story from Hansel and Gretel: I named them, Carlota y Pedro Había dos hermanos que se llamaban Carlota y Pedro. Sus padres no tenían dinero. Eran muy pobres. Un día, el padre les dijo: “Vamos al bosque.” Los tres fueron al bosque y después de una hora Carlota y Pedro querían comer. Le dijeron: “Papá, tenemos hambre y tenemos frio. Por favor, ¿puedes hacer un fuego? Queremos comer."
There were a brother and sister named CArlota and Pedro. Their parents had no money. They were very ppoor. One day, the father told them, "Let's go to the forest," The three went to the forest and after an hour, Carlota and Pedro wanted to eat. They told him, "Dad, we're hungry and cold. Please, can you make a fire? We want to eat."
El padre les dijo: “Mira, tengo pan, pero no tengo leña. Mientras estoy buscando leñas, podéis comer un poco de pan. Luego, cuando yo vuelva, quiero comer un poco de pan también. Entonces no coméis todo.”
The father told them, "Look, I have bread, but I don't have firewood. While I'm looking for firewood, you can eat a little of the bread. Then, when I come back, I want to eat a little of the bread, too. Then you won't eat it all.
“Está bien papá, no vamos a comer todo.”
"Okay, Dad, we won't eat it all."
Pero dos horas más tarde el padre todavía no había llegado. Los dos hermanos tenían sueño y querían volver a casa y fueron a buscar a su padre.
Pedro dijo: “¿Dónde está papá? No me gusta esta situación.”
“Ni yo tampoco. ¡Mira!”, gritó Carlota, “Allí. Hay una casa”.
“¿Has visto aquella casa alguna vez?”, dijo Pedro. Los dos hermanos habían ido al bosque muchísimas veces y nunca habían visto aquella casa.
But two hours later, the dad still had not arrived. The brother and sister were sleepy and wanted to return home, and they went to look for their father.
Peter said, "Where's Dad? I don't like this situations."
"Me either. Look!" shouted Carlota. "Over there. There is a house."
"Have you seen that house before?" asked Pedro. They siblings had gone to the forest many times and had never seen that house.
Era una casa especial. La casa era de ¡puro chocolate!
“No quiero volver a casa”, dijo Carlota.
“Ni yo tampoco”, dijo Pedro.
Pedro y Carlota estaban comiendo un poco de chocolate cuando, de repente, vieron algo. Una persona estaba hablando por teléfono. Pedro y Carlota tenían curiosidad. ¿Quién estaba hablando por teléfono?
¡Era una bruja! Y la bruja no estaba hablando por teléfono, estaba hablando por el móvil muy pequeño. ¡Un móvil pequeñísimo de chocolate!
It was a special house. The house was pure chocolate!
"I don't want to go home," said Carlota.
"Me either," said Pedro.
Pedro and Carlota were eating a little of the chocolate when suddenly they saw something. A person was talking on the phone. Pedro and Carlota were curious. Who was talking on the phone? It was a witch! And the witch wasn't talking on the phone, she was talking on a very small cell phone--a really tiny cell phone made of chocolate!
Pedro y Carlota nunca habían visto un móvil de chocolate y tampoco habían visto un móvil tan pequeño.
La bruja vio a los dos y los agarró. Pedro y Carlota le dijeron: “Por favor, señora bruja ¡Ayúdanos! Estamos buscando a nuestro padre. No sabemos dónde está. Teníamos hambre y por eso nos comimos todo el chocolate. No queremos entrar en tu casa. Tenemos miedo.”
Pedro and Carlota had never seen a chocolate cell phone, and they had never seen such a small cell phone. The witch saw them and grabbed them. Pedro and Carlota said to her, "Please, Mrs. Witch, help us! We are looking for our father. We don't know where he is. We were hungry and so we ate all the chocolate. We don't want to go in your house. We're afraid.
La bruja dijo: “Abracadabra, los niños van a volver, a su casa para comer!”
Pedro y Carlota volvieron a casa.
Y su padre, ¿dónde estaba? ¿Estaría en casa?
The witch said, "Abracadabra, the children are going to retreat to their house so they can eat!"
Pedro and Carlota returned home.
And their father, where was he? Was he at home?
Friday, December 6, 2013
Spanish 1 story for LICT chapter 4
Mark estaba
emocionado. Iba
a su primer Prom, y tenía una cita (date)—la
chica más hermosa en toda la escuela. Se llamaba Jennifer. Mark quería
un traje muy hermoso porque quería impresionar
a Jennifer. Por eso, Mark fue a la tienda
Ralph Lauren para comprar un traje muy hermoso.
Mark was excited. He was going to his first Prom, and he had a date--the most beautiful girl in the whole school. Her name was Jennifer. mark wanted a very beautiful suit because he wanted to impress Jennifer. Therefore, Mark went to Ralph Lauren to buy a really beautiful suit.
Cuando
Mark entró por la puerta, vio muchos trajes.
Había trajes blancos, trajes negros,
trajes cafés, trajes azules—muchísimos trajes.
Mark no sabía cuál traje comprar, así que le buscó
un dependiente.
When Mark entered through the door, he saw many suits. There were white suits, black suits, brown suits, blue suits--a whole lot of suits. Mark didn't know which suit to buy, so he looked for a clerk.
Había muchos dependientes en la tienda, pero todos
ayudaban a los otros chicos. Pero después de un rato (after a while), Mark
encontró a un dependiente que no ayudaba a nadie.
Mark le pidió ayuda al dependiente, y
el dependiente lo ayudó.
There were many clerks in the store, but they were all helping the other kids. But after a wile, Mark found a clerk that wasn't helping anyone. Mark asked the clerk for help and the clerk helped him.
Mark quería un traje hermoso, y el dependiente le dijo que el traje más hermoso en la sección de
trajes era un traje anaranjado y
morado. Cuando se probó el traje, Mark le dijo – No es hermoso. ¡El traje es muy feo!—
El dependiente le dijo –Me dices que es feo, pero es porque tú eres chico. A las chicas les gusta mucho. Él le llamó
a una dependienta –¡Mariana! ¿Te gusta el
traje?— Mariana le dijo –¡Sí! ¡Es muy hermoso!—
Mark wanted a beautiful suit, and the clerk told him that the most beautiful suit in the suit section was an orange and purple suit. When he tried on the suit, Mark told him, "It isn't beautiful. The suit is really ugly!" The clerk told him, "You tell me that it's ugly, but it's because you're a boy. The girls like it a lot. He called to a (girl) clerk. "Mariana! Do you like the suit?" Mariana told him, "Yes! It's very beautiful!
Mark creyó (thought) que la chica era muy bonita, y él decidió comprar el traje. Él regresó
a su casa, se puso el traje y luego fue a la casa de su amiga Jennifer.
Mark thought that the girl was very pretty, and he decided to buy the suit. He returned to his house, put on the suit, and then went to his friend Jennifer's house.
Cuando
Mark entró por la puerta de Jennifer, la
chica ¡casi vomitó! --Mark, ¡el traje es horrible! No voy al
prom contigo. ¡Vete de aquí! (Get out of
here) Pobre Mark regresó a la casa.
When Mark entered through Jennifer's door, the girl almost threw up! "Mark, the suit is horrible! I'm not going to the prom with you. Get out of here! Poor Mark returned to his house.
En la tienda Ralph Lauren, el dependiente le dijo –¡Muchísimas gracias!— a Mariana. –El chico tonto sí compró
el traje feísimo. ¡Me ayudaste mucho!—El dependiente le dio diez dólares a la chica por su ayuda. ¡Qué malos dependientes!
At Ralph Lauren, the clerk siad, "Thanks very much!" to Mariana. "The stupid boy did buy the really ugly suit. You helped me a lot!" The clerk gave $10 to the girl for her help. What evil clerks!
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