The Wrong Train
Kofi jumps on a train to his sister's birthday party, but half an hour later he can see the sea from the window.
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On Saturday morning, Kofi late. It was his sister Ama's birthday, and her party was at one o'clock. Ama lived in a small town in the , two hours from the city by train.
Kofi ran to the station with a chocolate cake in a box. A train was waiting with its doors open. He didn't stop to where it was going. "That's my train," he thought, and he .
He sat down by the window with the cake on his . But after half an hour, he looked outside and saw the sea. Ama's town was in the mountains, not by the sea! He was on the wrong train.
Kofi at the first stop. It was a small, quiet station by a beach. There was no train back until three o'clock, so he couldn't go to the party. He felt . He called his sister.
"I'm so sorry," he said. "I took the wrong train, and now I'm at the sea!" Ama was quiet . Then she laughed.
"It's cold and rainy here," she said. "Is it sunny there?" "Yes, and it's much warmer," said Kofi. "Then stay there!" said Ama. "We're going to come to you."
In the afternoon, two cars stopped in front of the little station. Ama and her friends got out with food, and a guitar. They had the party on the beach. The cake wasn't perfect anymore, but everybody loved it.
"This is my best birthday ," said Ama. "Next year, please take the wrong train again!"
Vocabulario clave
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- got upphrasal verb
se levantó de la cama
- mountainsnoun
montañas
- checkverb
comprobar
- jumped onphrasal verb
subió rápidamente
- kneesnoun
rodillas
- got offphrasal verb
bajó de un tren, autobús o avión
- terribleadjective
muy malo
- for a momentphrase
durante un instante
- blanketsnoun
mantas
- everadverb
alguna vez; «mi mejor cumpleaños» significa mejor que todos los anteriores
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