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TRACK 33 (Practice 5, Activity 1) Then, I walked back to the subway station exactly
through the same streets we had traveled before. I
Narrador: The Mystery of the Bitten Carrots walked fast and did not stop for a second. However,
when I got to the subway station, there was my cousin.
Voice A: Please tell me something interesting, a story Hector: Hello, Octavio! My first class was cancelled and
that makes me think. I came walking back to look for you. Do you want to play
Voice B: OK, if that is what you want. A few years ago,
a game of basketball with me and my friends?
some very strange things happened to my uncle that we Octavio: Hector was very calm, he was not sweating nor
cannot yet explain. was he breathing hard. I was very confused. Yes, but…
Voice A: What happened to your uncle? how did you get here before me? Did you take a taxi or
Voice B: Well, my uncle is a farmer and one day he a bus? My cousin just laughed.
decided to plant vegetables on fifteen square meters Hector: Ha, ha, ha, no, not at all. Come with me, I’ll show
of his land. He cleaned almost all the soil of weeds and
you how I did it.
planted carrots. However, he knew that there were
rabbits around that could come and eat the carrots. TRACK 35 (Practice 5, Activity 18)
Voice A: What did your uncle do to prevent the rabbits
from eating the carrots? Boy 1: The original version is very simple and boring,
Voice B: He installed a wire fence around the garden. why don’t we put in more details?
The fence was two meters high and reached two meters Girl 1: I agree, it doesn’t seem like a very interesting
below the ground. riddle at the moment.
Voice A: Why did he put the fence at that height and at Boy 2: I think it would be better if we composed a little
that depth? story for this riddle and we added a title.
Voice B: So, the rabbits could not jump the fence nor Girl 2: But we must be careful that the story is not too
dig under it. Rabbits never, never dig more than a meter long and respects the rules we agreed on.
and a half underground. Boy 1: We should put a policeman in as a character. It
Voice A: And what happened next? adds a touch of mystery. We should add some details
Voice B: Well, some time passed, and the carrots were about what the policeman
growing very well, they were almost ripe. But one day, said and did.
he began to find bitten carrots on the ground. My uncle Girl 1: Then we can add something about the person
could never explain how the rabbit had gotten in and out. who saw the pieces of coal and stuff on the ground.
Voice A: Rabbits don’t fly, they don’t do magic and And we can say he lives alone.
they never dig more than a meter and a half under the
ground… There has to be a logical explanation. TRACK 36 (Practice 5, Activity 20)
Voice B: What do you think happened?
Voice A: Mmmm… Let me think… Boy 1: Who could have brought all those things there? It
could have been a group of squirrels.
TRACK 34 (Practice 5, Activity 4) Girl 1: I don’t know. Maybe it’s more logical that it was
the result of human actions.
Narrador: The Teleportation of My Cousin. Boy 2: Maybe a homeless person forgot those
things there.
Octavio: Two years ago, I visited my cousin Hector for Girl 2: Mmm... I think that, a few days before, the
the weekend. It was the first time I had visited Mexico policeman had wanted to make a bonfire there and
City. He was in his second year of high school. We had a now he is lying.
lot of fun on Saturday and Sunday. We visited museums,
department stores and went to watch our favorite team TRACK 37 (Practice 5, Activity 21)
play a football game.
I was going to leave on Monday afternoon. My cousin Boy 1: Could it have been some squirrels?
asked me to go to his school with him before going Girl 1: The idea that squirrels could have done it is very
home. So, on Monday morning we took the subway and funny, but it is not a logical solution. If squirrels had done
got off at the closest station to his school. Outside the it, they should have seen the tracks.
station, my cousin said: Boy 2: Moreover, squirrels do not use scarves, hats
Hector: Let’s go have breakfast, Octavio. There is a or gloves. I rather think that this is the result of human
taquería nearby that makes the best tacos in the area actions.
and it’s on our way to school. Girl 2: In the riddle, the policeman says that nobody put
Octavio: We walked four blocks and arrived at the the things there, that eliminates the homeless person
place. The tacos were really good. Then we walked and the policeman himself. Although we can’t discard
another five blocks, we arrived at the school and, before the possibility that the policeman might
saying goodbye, my cousin asked me if I remembered be lying.
how to get back to the subway station. Of course, I
remembered it.

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