esta hermosa historia escrita por joan sibinsky  para la  revista Reader´s Digest,  puede ayudarte  a  aumentar o a reforzar tu vocabulario y a entrenar tu comprensión lectora.  también encontrarás ejercicios.  que puedes intentar resolver  cuando tengas ganas y tiempo. las soluciones están al final de la página.

this beautiful story written by joan sibinsky for the Reader´s Digest Magazine, can help you enlarge or improve your vocabulary and it can help you train your reading comprehension skill. you will also find exercises which you can try to solve when you want or when you have time to. the answers are at the end of the page.

JOAN SIBINSKI

via Reminisce Magazine

I was 13 in 1955 and, back then, a big fan of teen magazines. They always included a section with the names and addresses of readers who wanted to become pen pals. I decided to write to a boy in Minnesota and was excited to receive a letter from him. Over the next couple of years we stayed in touch; he called me “L’il Sis.”

After a while he told me about a girl named Jane whom he’d started dating. Soon Jane and I became pen pals. We wrote each other for about two years, and she invited me to visit her family after I graduated from high school. During my visit, I met Jane’s brother, Lenny. It didn’t take long for me to realize I was falling for him.

Jane married my pen pal in 1962, and they paired Lenny and me at the wedding. After a long-distance relationship of more than four years that included back-and-forth letter writing, we were married.

Lenny and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary on Jan. 30, 2015, on the beach of Waikiki, Hawaii. We now have four beautiful children, a wonderful grandson and a fabulous life. When I mention our teen magazine beginnings, I like to say my husband married his Annette and I married my Elvis!

Turn these sentences into the negative form:

1.   I was 13 in 1955  ……………………………………….........................…………………...
   
2.  He told me about a girl named Jane…………………………………………………….....
3.  I decided to write to a boy in Minnesota …………………………………………………..
   
4. We have four beautiful children……………………………………………………………..   
   
5. I like to say…………………………………………………………….................................... 

Write the corresponding question to get these answers

1.  ……………………………………………………… ? I was thirteen
2.    ………………………………………………………? He called me Lilsys
   
3.  ………………………………………………….? We wrote each other for about 2 years
   
4.  ……………………………………………………..? In 1962
   
5.  ……………………………………………………..? On the beach of Waikiki, Hawaii

Find words in the text which means

1. someone who admires and supports a person, sport, sports team, etc.
   
   
2.  someone who you exchange letters with as a hobby, but usually have not met
   
3. to understand a situation, sometimes suddenly
   
   
4.  moving first in one direction and then in the opposite one
   
   
5.  A date on which you celebrate or remember something that happened on that date years ago.

Answers

Turn the sentences into negative

1.    I was not 13 in 1988
2. He didn´t tell me about a gir
3. I didn´t decide to write to a boy
4. We don´t have four beautiful childre
5. I don´t like to say

Questions

1. How old were you?
2. How did he call you?
3. How long di you write to each other?
4. When did Jane marry her penpal?
5. When did Lenny and Lilsis celebrate their 50^th anniversary?

Words in the text

1.  Fan
2. Pen pal
3. Realize
4. Back and forth
5. Anniversary