50 Cent Piece

50 Cent Piece

Summarizing Important Events

Read the story & answer the questions.

Pay attention to the important events!

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Write a summary of the story (you may write in Spanish):

Escribe un resumen de la historia (puedes escribir en español):

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Seleccione la imagen que mejor represente la palabra fail.

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Seleccione la imagen que mejor represente la palabra 50 cent piece.

50 Cent Piece

There is a story told in Troy and Albany about a couple returning home from a trip to New England. They were driving home in a carriage, and were somewhere near Spiegletown when the light failed and they knew they would have to seek shelter for the night.

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The couple had to stop traveling because -

La pareja tuvo que dejar de viajar porque -

• the light on their carriage failed.

• it started raining.

The husband saw a light through the trees and turned their horse into a small lane leading up a hill. A pleasant little house stood at the top, and an old man and his wife met the couple at the door. They were in nightclothes and were obviously about to turn in, but they welcomed the travelers and offered them a room. The old woman bustled about making tea and offering freshly-baked cakes. Then the travelers were shown to their room. The husband wanted to pay the old couple for their lodgings, but the old lady shook her head and the old man refused any payment for such a small service to their fellow New Yorkers.

Un anciano y su esposa les ofrecieron un lugar para quedarse.

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The old woman gave them -

The travelers woke up early and tiptoed out of the house, leaving a shiny fifty-cent coin in the center of the kitchen table where the old couple could not miss it. The husband hitched up the horse and they went a few miles before they broke their fast at a little restaurant in Spiegletown.

The husband mention the nice old couple to the owner of the restaurant and the man turned pale.

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The couple left a 50 cent coin on the table because -

• the old couple made them pay for eating all their food.

  
  

  la pareja de ancianos les hizo pagar por comerse toda su comida.

• they wanted to repay the old couple for letting them stay in their home.

  
  

  querían compensar a la pareja de ancianos por dejarlos quedarse en su casa.

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After leaving the old couple's house, they went to -

Después de salir de la casa de la pareja de ancianos, fueron a -

• a restaurant.

• a hotel.

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Seleccione la imagen que mejor represente la frase the man turned pale.

"Where did you say that house was?" he asked. The husband described the location in detail.

"You must be mistaken," said the restaurant owner. "That house was destroyed three years ago by a fire that killed the Brown family."

"I don't believe it," the husband said flatly. "Mr. and Mrs. Brown were alive and well last night."

"That house was destroyed three years ago by a fire that killed the Brown family."

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The restaurant owner didn't believe that the travelers had stayed with the elderly couple because -

El dueño del restaurante no creía que los viajeros se hubieran quedado con la pareja de ancianos porque -

• everything was flooded three years ago by heavy rains and they died.

• their house burnt down three years ago in a fire and they died.

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The brown family _____ in a fire.

• died

• lived

After debating for a few more minutes, the couple and the restaurant owner drove the carriage back out of town towards the old Brown place. They turned into the lane, which was overgrown with weeds, and climbed the hill to the crest. There they found a burned out shell of a house that had obviously not sheltered anyone for a long time.

"I must have missed the track," said the husband. And then his wife gave a terrified scream and fainted into his arms. As he caught her, the husband looked into the ruin and saw a burnt table with a shiny fifty-cent piece lying in the center.

The husband looked into the ruin and saw a burnt table with a shiny fifty-cent piece lying in the center.

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The wife was terrified because -

• she realized the old coupled they had stayed with were ghosts.

  
  

  se dio cuenta de que la pareja de ancianos con la que se habían quedado eran fantasmas.

• she was scared of the restaurant owner.

  
  

  tenía miedo del dueño del restaurante.

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Somebody:

(Who was this story about?)

• two travelers

  
  

  dos viajeros

• two ghosts

  
  

  dos fantasmas

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Wanted:

(What did they want?)

• to find a place to stay the night

  
  

  encontrar un lugar para quedarse para la noche

• to buy a new house

  
  

  comprar una nueva casa

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But:

(What was the problem?)

• the restaurant owner said that the house they stayed in burned down 3 years before

  
  

  el dueño del restaurante dijo que la casa en la que se quedaron se quemó 3 años antes

• the food at the restaurant was too expensive for them to pay for

  
  

  la comida en el restaurante era demasiado cara para pagarla

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So:

• they went to see the house they stayed in

  
  

  fueron a ver la casa en la que se quedaron

• they stole a 50 piece cent from somebody

  
  

  Ellos le robaron un centavo de 50 a alguien

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Then:

• they burned down the restaurant

  
  

  ellos quemaron el restaurante

• they realized the old couple they stayed with were ghosts

  
  

  se dieron cuenta de que la pareja de ancianos con la que se quedaban eran fantasmas