Ensayo

|CINDERELLA (CENICIENTA) |
|NP |ENGLISH |SPANISH |
| |Long ago, in a faraway kingdom, there lived a girl named Cinderella.|Hacemucho tiempo, en un reino muy lejano vivía una chica llamada |
| |Cinderella was kind, smart, and beautiful. |Cenicienta. Cenicienta era noble, inteligente y hermosa. |
| |When Cinderella was very young, she had a happy life. Then, one day,|. Cuando Cenicienta era pequeña tenía una vida muy alegre. Entonces un |
| |hermother died. Soon after, Cinderella’s father married a woman who|día su madre murió. Tiempo después el papa de cenicienta se caso con una|
| |had two daughters of her own. Cinderella’s stepmother and stepsister|mujer que tenía dos hijas. La madrastra y hermanastras de cenicienta no |
| |were not king. The Stepmother gave her daughters, Lottie and Dottie,|eran muy amables. Sumadrastra les dio a sus hijas, lottie y Dottie, |
| |fancy dresses and wonderful toys. |vestidos muy elegantes y grandiosos juguetes. |
| |She gave Cinderella nothing. Then, sadly, Cinderella’s father died |A cenicienta no le dio nada. Después tristemente el papa de cenicienta |
| |too, and Cinderella wasleft in the large house with her stepmother,|también murió y la dejaron en la enorme casa con su madrastra, Lottie y |
| |Lottie, and Dottie. Cinderella’s life was awful. The Stepmother made|Dottie. La vida de Cenicienta era terrible. La Madrastra hizo a |
| |Cinderella a servant in her own home. Cinderella had to rise early |cenicienta la sirvienta de su propia casa.Cenicienta debía levantarse |
| |every morning and spend each day cooking meals, scrubbing floors, |muy temprano y pasar todos los días cocinando, limpiando pisos, lavando |
| |washing dishes, and taking orders from Lottie and Dottie. The |trastes y obteniendo ordenes de Lottie y Dottie. Incluso la madrastra |
| |stepmother even made Cinderella sleep inthe kitchen corner, next to|hizo que cenicienta durmiera en un rincón de la cocina, a un lado de la |
| |the fireplace, which was full of dust and cinders. That is why she |chimenea que estaba llena de polvo y cenizas. Por eso le llamaban |
| |was called Cinderella. |Cenicienta.|
| |Cinderella’s clothes were tattered and her face was smudged with |La ropa de Cenicienta estaba rota y su cara estaba manchada de ceniza, |
| |cinders, but she had a cheerful heart. Lottie and Dottie teased her |pero ella tenía un corazón alegre. Lottie y Dottie la molestaba n todo el|
| |all the time. “Your clothes look like dirty diapers!” Lottiewould |tiempo. “tu ropa se ve como pañales sucios” gritaba Lottie. “¡tu cara |
| |shriek.“Your face looks like a bucket of mud!” Dottie would say. |parece una cubeta de lodo!”Le diría Dottie. Después hacían estallar los |
| |Then, they would pop chocolates into their mouths and watch as |chocolates en su boca y veían como cenicienta limpiaba los pisos. Lottie |
||Cinderella scrubbed the floor. Lottie and Dottie were as ugly on the|y Dottie eran horribles tanto interior como exteriormente. Un día un |
| |inside as they were on the outside. One day, a page from the castle |mensajero del castillo llego a su casa con una invitación. |
| |arrived at the house with an invitation. |...