My Guatemalan School & My U.S. School - Level 4 English CBLR

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United States

school

Don't like/dislike Guatemala prefer born family mom dad grandmother move state

California Oakland San Francisco excited arrive big city impress town small Golden Gate Bridge bridge write cable car famous Chinatown neighborhood Chinese new English Spanish teacher speak confuse

American kids bus colors yellow soccer play basketball market eat mango supermarket friends carpet tamales woman like special class learn read smart

My name is Andrés and I go to school in the United States.

But...I don't like my school in the United States.

I prefe my Guatemalan school.

I was born in Guatemala.

My family is Guatemalan.

I moved to the state of California when I was 8 years old.

We moved to Oakland. It is close to San Francisco.

Oakland

SanFrancisco

LosÁngeles

When we arrived in California, I was so excited.

Oakland is a big city! I was very impressed.

In Guatemala, my town was very small. It wasn't a big city like Oakland.

I was very impressed by the city of San Francisco too.

We went to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. It is an enormous bridge and it was very impressive.

We took a cable car in San Francisco. The cable cars in San Francisco are very famous.

We went to Chinatown, or the Chinese neighborhood in San Francisco. It impressed me a lot too.

But

I did NOT like my new school in Oakland.

The teachers spoke in English. I did not speak English, I spoke Spanish. English

I did not like that the teachers were speaking English. English

I was very confused in the American school in Oakland.

In my school in Guatemala, I had not been confused.

Spanish

In my school in Guatemala, the teachers spoke Spanish.

English

In my school in Oakland, the kids were speaking English. I didn't speak English, I spoke Spanish.

I was very confused in American school in Oakland.

I didn't like it when the kids spoke in English. English

In my school in Guatemala, all the kids spoke Spanish.

In my school in Guatemala, I spoke Spanish.

In

my school in Guatemala, the work was in Spanish. SpanishSpanish

In my school in California, the work was in English.

I was very confused because the work was all in English.

I didn't speak English. I spoke Spanish.

I didn't like that the work was in English.

In my Guatemalan school, the buses were painted lots of colors.

In my American school, the buses were all ONE color -- yellow.

I didn't like that the buses in California were all one color.

In my G school, played

In the school in Oakland, the kids played basketball.

I didn't like that the kids in California played basketball.

In my Guatemalan school, we went to the market after school.

In my school in Oakland, there wasn't a market, only a supermarket.

In the supermarket in Oakland, they didn't have mangoes.

I didn't like that the supermarkets in California didn't have mangoes.

In my Guatemalan school, I had a lot of good friends.

In my school in California, I didn't have many friends.

I didn't like that I didn't have very many friends.

In my Guatemalan school, we used to make carpets of many colors.

In my Guatemalan school, we made the carpets with our teachers.

In my Guatemalan school, we made tamales with the women of our town.

In the school in California, I was in a special class to learn English better.

In my English class, I made a lot of new friends.

In my English class, the teacher spoke in English... Spanish English ¡andSpanish!

English! English!

In my English class, I learned to speak

In English class, I learned to read in English! English

In English class, I learned to write in English.

I prefer my Guatemalan school...

... but now, I like my school in California too.

Now, I have friends in my school in California.