Melvin y El Tocino y Chocolate
Directions: Translate this story - read it back to your parents in English. Our written stories will always be in the present tense, and the classroom stories always in the past tense. Use the words on the board to help and on the helper words I've provided - but only if you need to! After you read the story, answer the questions below.
Optional Extra-hard Super Review: Students - after you can translate from Spanish to English - try reading the English answer story and translate it into Spanish. This is only if you REALLY want to get it!
Parents: Scroll down to view the full translated story and answers to the questions. If you'd like, you can copy and paste the answers onto Word, then print them out so you can read them while your child is translating. Feel free to print out the Spanish story as well, so you don't have to use the computer every time you review.
Helper words:
Hay - there is / there are
se llama - s/he calls him/herself
está - s/he is
quiere - s/he wants
tiene - s/he has
Hay un chico. El chico se llama Melvin. El chico está en Disneyland, California. El chico no está en Folsom, California. El chico quiere tener tocino. Quiere tener tocino y chocolate. ¿Qué tipo de tocino? ¡Es obvio! Melvin quiere tener tocino verde, y chcolate morado. ¿Melvin tiene el tocino y chocolate? ¡No! ¡No tiene el tocino y chocolate!
¡Oh no oh no! El chico tiene un elefante, pero no tiene tocino y chocolate. El chico quiere tener tocino y chocolate, pero no tiene tocino y chocolate. ¡Es horrible! Melvin está triste. El elefante se llama Dumbo. Dumbo es un elefante azul.
El chico está en Disneyland, California. Hay un chico y un elefante en Disneyland, pero no hay tocino y chocolate. ¡El chico quiere tener tocino verde y chocolate morado, pero no hay tocino verde y chocolate morado en Disneyland. ¡Oh no oh no! ¡Es horrible! Melvin está triste.
1. ¿Cómo se llama el chico? ¿Se llama Dominico?
2. ¿Qué quiere tener? ¿Quiere tener un elefante?
3. ¿El chico tiene tocino?
4. ¿Qué tipo de tocino quiere el chico?
5. ¿Dónde está el chico? ¿Está en Hawaii? ¿Estaba en New York?
6. ¿Hay chocolate en Disneyland? ¿Hay elefantes en Disneyland?
7. ¿Qué color de chocolate quiere tener Melvin?
Answer Sheet.....................................................................
Melvin and the Bacon and Chocolate
There is a boy. The boy calls himself Melvin (or the boy's name is Melvin). The boy is in Disneyland, California. The boy is not in Folsom, California. The boy wants to have bacon. He wants to have bacon and chocolate. What type of bacon? It's obvious! Melvin wants to have green bacon, and purple chocolate. Melvin has the bacon and chocolate? No! He doesn't have the bacon and chocolate!
Oh no oh no! The boy has an elephant, but he doesn't have bacon and chocolate. The boy wants to have bacon and chocolate, but he doesn't have bacon and chocolate. It's horrible! Melvin is sad. The elephant calls herself (or himself) Dumbo. Dumbo is a blue elephant.
The boy is in Disneyland, California. There is a boy and an elephant in Disneyland, but there is no bacon and chocolate. The boy wants to have green bacon and purple chocolate, but there is no bacon and chocolate in Disneyland. Oh no oh no! It's horrible! Melvin is sad.
1. Melvin. No.
2. Tocino y chocolate. No.
3. No
4. Verde
5. Disneyland. No. No.
6. No. Sí.
7. Purple.
FULL LIST OF WORDS ON THE BIG BOARD FROM OUR STORY ON 9/3/13:
Clase 1 - El tres de septiembre, 2013
class 1 - the three of September, 2013
"Tocino y Chocolate"
¡Bienvenidos a la clase de español!
Welcome to the class of Spanish!
Había un chico
there was a boy
¿Cómo se llama el chico?
How himself he called the boy?
¿Qué quería tener?
What s/he wanted to have?
¿Dónde estaba el chico?
Where was s/he the boy?
Es posible
it's possible
Es obvio
it's obvious
tocino y chocolate
bacon and chocolate
gato
cat
elefante
elephant
color
color
azul
blue
rojo
red
verde
green
café
brown
morado
purple
tipo
type
triste
sad
ridículo
ridiculous
horrible
horrible
tengo
I have
tienes
you have
tenía
s/he had
Directions: Translate this story - read it back to your parents in English. Our written stories will always be in the present tense, and the classroom stories always in the past tense. Use the words on the board to help and on the helper words I've provided - but only if you need to! After you read the story, answer the questions below.
Optional Extra-hard Super Review: Students - after you can translate from Spanish to English - try reading the English answer story and translate it into Spanish. This is only if you REALLY want to get it!
Parents: Scroll down to view the full translated story and answers to the questions. If you'd like, you can copy and paste the answers onto Word, then print them out so you can read them while your child is translating. Feel free to print out the Spanish story as well, so you don't have to use the computer every time you review.
Helper words:
Hay - there is / there are
se llama - s/he calls him/herself
está - s/he is
quiere - s/he wants
tiene - s/he has
Hay un chico. El chico se llama Melvin. El chico está en Disneyland, California. El chico no está en Folsom, California. El chico quiere tener tocino. Quiere tener tocino y chocolate. ¿Qué tipo de tocino? ¡Es obvio! Melvin quiere tener tocino verde, y chcolate morado. ¿Melvin tiene el tocino y chocolate? ¡No! ¡No tiene el tocino y chocolate!
¡Oh no oh no! El chico tiene un elefante, pero no tiene tocino y chocolate. El chico quiere tener tocino y chocolate, pero no tiene tocino y chocolate. ¡Es horrible! Melvin está triste. El elefante se llama Dumbo. Dumbo es un elefante azul.
El chico está en Disneyland, California. Hay un chico y un elefante en Disneyland, pero no hay tocino y chocolate. ¡El chico quiere tener tocino verde y chocolate morado, pero no hay tocino verde y chocolate morado en Disneyland. ¡Oh no oh no! ¡Es horrible! Melvin está triste.
1. ¿Cómo se llama el chico? ¿Se llama Dominico?
2. ¿Qué quiere tener? ¿Quiere tener un elefante?
3. ¿El chico tiene tocino?
4. ¿Qué tipo de tocino quiere el chico?
5. ¿Dónde está el chico? ¿Está en Hawaii? ¿Estaba en New York?
6. ¿Hay chocolate en Disneyland? ¿Hay elefantes en Disneyland?
7. ¿Qué color de chocolate quiere tener Melvin?
Answer Sheet.....................................................................
Melvin and the Bacon and Chocolate
There is a boy. The boy calls himself Melvin (or the boy's name is Melvin). The boy is in Disneyland, California. The boy is not in Folsom, California. The boy wants to have bacon. He wants to have bacon and chocolate. What type of bacon? It's obvious! Melvin wants to have green bacon, and purple chocolate. Melvin has the bacon and chocolate? No! He doesn't have the bacon and chocolate!
Oh no oh no! The boy has an elephant, but he doesn't have bacon and chocolate. The boy wants to have bacon and chocolate, but he doesn't have bacon and chocolate. It's horrible! Melvin is sad. The elephant calls herself (or himself) Dumbo. Dumbo is a blue elephant.
The boy is in Disneyland, California. There is a boy and an elephant in Disneyland, but there is no bacon and chocolate. The boy wants to have green bacon and purple chocolate, but there is no bacon and chocolate in Disneyland. Oh no oh no! It's horrible! Melvin is sad.
1. Melvin. No.
2. Tocino y chocolate. No.
3. No
4. Verde
5. Disneyland. No. No.
6. No. Sí.
7. Purple.
FULL LIST OF WORDS ON THE BIG BOARD FROM OUR STORY ON 9/3/13:
Clase 1 - El tres de septiembre, 2013
class 1 - the three of September, 2013
"Tocino y Chocolate"
¡Bienvenidos a la clase de español!
Welcome to the class of Spanish!
Había un chico
there was a boy
¿Cómo se llama el chico?
How himself he called the boy?
¿Qué quería tener?
What s/he wanted to have?
¿Dónde estaba el chico?
Where was s/he the boy?
Es posible
it's possible
Es obvio
it's obvious
tocino y chocolate
bacon and chocolate
gato
cat
elefante
elephant
color
color
azul
blue
rojo
red
verde
green
café
brown
morado
purple
tipo
type
triste
sad
ridículo
ridiculous
horrible
horrible
tengo
I have
tienes
you have
tenía
s/he had