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lunes, 31 de octubre de 2011

A HOWLING HALLOWEEN

It was a dark, rainy night at eight o'clock on the thirty-first of October. Andy and his friend Paul were walking home together as usual...




But this night was different. It was Halloween. As they were walking along, a blac cat jumped out in front of them and ran off into the night. They looked up into the sky and saw a light shining. It glowed red, then blue then green and gold. 


“What was it?” they wondered.

The air felt still and cold. It had stopped raining and everything was creepy. It felt like something was going to happen. Andy and Paul went past a very old house. It was a huge old house which was deserted. The house lay in a big, shadowy garden, surrounded by trees. As they were going past the house they heard a strange noise. It was a long, low howling noise.

"Maybe it's a dog," said Paul, trying not to be scared.
"It must be in trouble. Let's go and see," said Andy. 

They passed through the old rusty gates and crept along the path towards the door of the house. It was so dark that they could hardly see. The wind whistled through the trees. Again they heard the low howling sound, coming from the house.
Oooooh! Oooooh!

"I don't think it's a dog," said Andy.
"You're just a scaredy cat!" said Paul.
"Come on, let's go inside."

They went up the stairs and pushed open the front door. It creaked loudly and fell open with a bang. The air felt cool and clammy and creepy. Paul walked into the hallway. An enormous spider hit him in the face and he screamed.
"Aaagh!"
"It's only a espider," said Andy.

They went into a large room on the ground floor. On the wall over the fireplace hung a huge mirror. They looked into the mirror and saw lights dancing inside it. Then suddenly a huge ghostly head came out of the mirror and tried to grab them!

'Aaagh!' they both screamed and turned and ran to the front door - but it was shut! What was happening to them? Then they heard the howling noise again. It was coming from upstairs.

They had no choice. They tiptoed silently up the stairs. They listened again. The noise was coming from a room at the end of the corridor. They moved slowly towards the door. They felt really afraid. What would they see? What horrible thing would they find behind the door?

They went into the room. They couldn't believe their eyes. They saw the most amazing collection of witches and monsters and ghosts - and they were all having a party!

The witches were disco dancing, the wizards were drinking their special brew and jumping around, the monsters were eating exploding lollipops and other exciting sweets. There were bats wing cocktails, worm-flavoured crisps and pumpkin surprise pizzas. In fact there was everything for a Halloween party. They found out that the howling noise was a ghost called Grimly, who was providing the singing entertainment for the evening.

Paul and Andy drank several bats wing cocktails and then Paul danced with the ugliest witch at the party - she had a green head and no teeth. Andy danced with a spectacular purple headed monster who taught him a new dance called the 'Monster Boogie'.

Everyone had a wonderful time and danced until dawn. When the sun came up they all went off to their ghostly homes agreeing that it was the best Halowen party ever. 

"See you next year," they shouted to Paul and Andy, "and Happy Halloween!"

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domingo, 25 de septiembre de 2011

APRENDEMOS INGLÉS CON CUENTOS

THE VILLAIN OF THE STORY


Tired of always being the villain of the story, Mr. Wolf got up one morning ready to give up his job. He put on his best suit, had a good shave and went off to the employment office for children stories’ characters. At the office there was a great fuss going on.

     
      Puss-in-Boots had tried to jump the queue and pass in front of Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother and  the witch in Snow white was so furious that she had turned him into a mouse:  
    -Such disrespect for your elders! -She shouted angrily.
The office staff took more than half an hour to convince the witch to turn Puss in Boots back to normal, so that is why there was so much delay that morning. When they finally shouted out his name, the wolf, dragging his feet, sat down at the office worker's desk.
 -  How can I help you, Mr. Wolf? Have you had any delays with your salary this month?
 -  No, no problem at all with that.  The trouble is with the job itself. I am tired of being the villain of the stories; of the children being afraid of me; of all the other story characters laughing at me when I end up burnt, with my stomach full of stones or shot by the hunter. Either you turn me into hero or I quit my job!
 -  But we can't do that! For heroes, we've already got loads of Princes!
 -  But that is also very boring. Haven't you heard the princesses' complaints? They are fed up with having to be the dainty ones always in need of being saved. Times are changing, sir. You should all know this once and for all!
But however much Mr. Wolf tried to convince the officer he got nowhere, so he left the office angrily ready to never, ever work again.
And this was how the stories ended without a villain. The Three Little Piglets stared with nostalgia at their new brick house with a chimney. Little Red Riding Hood was disappointed with her grandmother because she didn't have either big eyes, or a big nose or mouth. The Seven Little Goats waited bored out of their minds for their mother to come back home. Peter did not scare anyone when he shouted "Here comes the Wolf!"... Because they all knew that Mr. Wolf had gone forever.

But the worse thing was that, without Mr. Wolf, the stories stopped being funny and the children were getting so bored that they stopped reading.
At the employment office of children's stories, all the characters were so worried that they decided to have a meeting to try to find a solution.
-    If children stop reading, we will soon all disappear!
-   We need to convince Mr. Wolf to return to his job as the villain of the stories.
-    We have to promise him that we will not laugh at him again. We need him!
So they all went together to visit him. When Mr. Wolf saw that all the characters wanted him to return, he was very touched
-   Ok -said Mr. Wolf-, I see that I have no choice but to accept my role as the villain of the stories. But to return to children's literature I need a favour from all of you: I want all the children to know that in my free time I do not go around eating grandmothers, or little goats, or piglets.
-   But, how can we do this? - they all asked at once.
-  I know about a blog  on children’s literature that I'm sure they would be interested in this story!- exclaimed the rabbit without ears enthusiastically.
 And this is how the story of why Mr. Wolf didn't want to be the villan of the story came to us...




Traducción de Sandra Soler Peyton
Fuente: Cuento a la vista