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ONE HUNDRED TWENTY DAYS IN 120 WORDS Readings for EFL Students PAPA SECA Grammar Point: Dependent Clauses Most people grow potatoes here and sell them in coastal cities. Others prefer to make more money by selling papa seca. In order to make papa seca, people boil sacks of potatoes, peel them, cut them into wedges, and dry them under the sun. Once the potatoes are dried, they’re grinded into small pieces to get papa seca─ which is sold at a higher price than potatoes. Since this is the dry season now, people are making papa seca these months; so, there are always streets with sidewalks covered with potatoes being dried these days. But if you see papa seca first on the sidewalks and later on certain meals for lunch, you may be reluctant to eat some dishes served in front of you! Happily, that’s not my case. READ MORE HERE. Cargando… Solicita información aquí.

ONE HUNDRED TWENTY DAYS IN 120 WORDS Readings for EFL Students “A COMBINADO, PLEASE” Grammar Point: Prepositions of Time There is a woman who sells puddings on a street corner in Otuzco. She gets there at 5:00 in the afternoon and stays until 8:00 at night, both on weekdays and weekends. Sometimes─especially when it is cold, I buy a hot  combinado. Combinado is─basically─rice pudding and purple corn pudding served together in the same tupperware. This dessert tastes delicious. Rice pudding is sweeter. Purple corn pudding is a little bit tart. They are a good mix! Combinado even looks good because you can appreciate the sharp contrast between the white and the purple. And since the woman puts powdered cinnamon on every serving of hot combinado, even passersby can feel the smell of the cinnamon! It’s not an ordinary corner for such a tasty dessert. READ MORE HERE. Cargando… Solicita información aquí.

ONE HUNDRED TWENTY DAYS IN 120 WORDS Readings for EFL Students A ROOSTER IN THE STREET Grammar Point: Quantifiers Small towns like Otuzco have a little crime. As a result, people here feel safe─to a certain extent. For example, when they go to a nearby store, some people leave the doors of their houses unlocked─sometimes opened. During harvest time, there isn’t any rain; so, a good number of people leave their produce in big sacks in front of their houses. They don’t worry so much about robbers because there aren’t many here. That’s why it is common to see a lot of chickens in the street, walking and eating what they can find on the roads. Even chickens feel safe here! Maybe, it is because there is always a brave rooster in the street to protect them from dogs and pigs! READ MORE HERE. Cargando… Solicita información aquí.

ONE HUNDRED TWENTY DAYS IN 120 WORDS Readings for EFL Students “THE FOOD IS ON THE TABLE” Grammar Point: Reported Speech Ten days ago, a woman called me and gave me a message. She said that her son, whom I had met in my town months before, wanted to help me with accommodation in Trujillo for an important event I had to attend. Since the man couldn’t speak well because of a stroke, he asked his mother to give me the message. On my third evening with them, they were not at home. As soon as I entered their apartment after the event, I saw a piece of paper on the table. It had a message for me. They wrote that I could have coffee… that the food was on the table. It was not only about the food on the table but also their love and hospitality. READ MORE HERE. Cargando… Solicita información aquí.