Adapted short stories in Spanish for reading, retelling and translating
Tatiana Oliva Morales
Illustrator Tatiana Oliva Morales
Cover designer Tatiana Oliva Morales
© Tatiana Oliva Morales, 2019
© Tatiana Oliva Morales, illustrations, 2019
© Tatiana Oliva Morales, cover design, 2019
ISBN 978-5-0050-3710-7
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This tutorial is intended for schoolchildren and students, as well as for a wide range of people studying Spanish, it consists of 5 stories and 5 exercises for translation from English into Spanish. All translation exercises have keys. At the end of the book, all 5 stories are given in the non-adapted form. The vocabulary asset of the material proposed for study contents 783 Spanish words.
Spanish stories and translation exercises are adapted according to the method © Linguistic Reanimator – each Spanish word or idiom is accompanied by a English equivalent, for example: historia (story).
By complexity, the text can be useful even to the beginners at levels A0 – A1, it will be interesting at the level of knowledge A2 – C2. Spanish translation exercises are at the level of B2 knowledge.
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Special designations
historia (story) – Spanish word, translation;
! – in this place there should be a preposition;
… – in this place you need the article;
books (libro..) – 2 points after the noun mean that it must be put in the plural;
2.very much (mucho) 1.surprised (sorprenderse) – the numbers before some words indicate in what order these words should be when translated into Spanish.
Destino Final Es Orfanato
Exercise 1
Read the story in Spanish. Translate it into English. Learn new words and phrases. Retell the story in Spanish.
Destino Final (final destination) es (is) orfanato (orphanage)
La primera historia (the first story). Sasha
Sasha llegó (got) al (to the) internado (boarding school) cuando (when)
tenía (he was) tres (three) años (years old). Su (his) padre (father) le trajo (brought him) allí (there). Los cuidadores (the caregivers) pesaron a Sasha (weighed Sasha) y (and) jadearon (gasped): el peso (the weight) del (of the) niño de 3 años (of the 3-years boy) era (was) solamente (only) ocho (eight) kilogramos (kilograms).
Y (and) un poco (a little) más tarde (later) se hizo (became) evidente (clear) que (that), por encima de todo lo anterior (to top all of the above), no oye (he hears) casi (almost) nada (nothing). No (no), no está completamente sordo (he is not completely deaf), y (and) existe (there is) la esperanza (a hope) de que (that) el audífono (the hearing aid) le ayude (will help him), pero (but) por el momento (at the moment) Sasha (Sasha) no oye (can hear) prácticamente (practically) nada (nothing) y (and), como resultado (as a result), no puede (he cannot) aprender a hablar (learn to speak), por lo que (so) se queda atrás de (he lags behind) sus (his) pares más afortunados (luckier peers) en el desarrollo (in development).
Pero (but), a pesar de eso (despite this), es (he is) inusualmente (unusually) amable (kind), cariñoso (affectionate), tranquilo (calm), sonriente (smiling) y (and) extremadamente (extremely) inteligente (smart) al mismo tiempo (at the same time).
La historia (the back-story) de (of) Sasha (Sasha) fue (was) la siguiente (as follows). Cuando (when) apareció (he appeared) en (in) el proyecto (the project), sus (his) padres (parents) tenían (were) dieciocho (eighteen) años (years old). Unos años después (Several years later), su (his) madre (mother) murió (died) y (and) su (his) padre (father) se volvió a casar (remarried).
La madrastra recién hecha (a freshly made stepmother) le golpeó (beat him). Y (and) la historia (the history) no dice nada (the history is silent) cómo (how) se alimentó Sasha (Sasha was fed) y (and) con qué (with what) frecuencia