El huerto de mi abuelo (My grandfather's garden)
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My grandfather has a small garden outside the village. It is not a garden with flowers: it is a garden with food.
There are tomatoes, potatoes, onions and two lemon trees. My grandfather talks to the plants. He says the tomatoes are lazy this year.
On Saturdays I help him. My job is the water. His job is everything else.
In summer we eat his tomatoes with salt and olive oil. They are not perfect, but for me they are the best tomatoes in the world.
Palabras que quizá no conozcas
- a vegetable gardenun huerto
- onionscebollas
- lemon treelimonero
- lazyperezoso, vago
Preguntas
Se contestan con el texto delante. No es memoria: es entender.
What is there in the grandfather's garden?
Vegetables and fruit trees — El texto lo dice por oposición: NO es un jardín de flores, es de comida. Y después las nombra: tomates, patatas, cebollas y dos limoneros.
In the garden there are two ___ trees.
lemon — Two lemon trees: dos limoneros.
The grandfather never talks to his plants.
False — Falso: my grandfather talks to the plants. Les habla, y encima les dice cosas.
What does the grandfather mean when he says 'the tomatoes are lazy this year'?
That the tomatoes are growing very slowly — Un tomate no puede ser vago de verdad: el abuelo habla a las plantas como a personas. Lazy es lo que va despacio.
What is the writer's job on Saturdays?
The water — My job is the water. His job is everything else: el resto es del abuelo.
The tomatoes are not perfect. Why are they the best in the world for the writer?
Because they come from the grandfather's garden, and the writer works in it too — La frase se contradice a propósito: no son perfectos, pero son los mejores. Lo que los hace mejores no es el tomate, es quién lo planta y con quién se come.