Olivia y los monos

$9.00

Spanish Easy Reader LEVEL ONE
This fun novella is based on the true story of a troop of wild monkeys living in Misahualli and their unique interactions with humans.
The book comes with a wealth of resources, including a comprehensive teacher’s guide!
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Olivia y los monos is an easy low-level Spanish novella for true beginners. It is almost entirely in the present tense with a smattering of past tense and no subjunctive. With about 285 unique words (not including obvious cognates) and plenty of repetition, it tells a 2,700-word story. A full glossary for each of the seven chapters is included.
Ecuadorian Verónica Moscoso, the author of this novella, visited Misahuallí to make a documentary. There she met the famous monkeys. This book is based on events that she witnessed and filmed and on stories that the town’s people told her.
Book Summary

Olivia is a very curious 16-year-old girl who likes to travel and who loves animals. She travels with her parents to Misahuallí, a town in the Amazon region of Ecuador. She is fascinated with the group of monkeys that live in the town. The monkeys approach and interact with tourists and the town’s people. She spends a week in Misahuallí with her parents. In Olivia y los monos one after another amusing situation occurs with the monkeys. Olivia narrates the story.

RESOURCES

A complete TEACHER”S GUIDE is now available.
Watch the FREE video that complements this book.
Usually bought together with MEET THE MONKEYS 26-minute Documentary on DVD, the Audio Book on CD or the Downloadable Audio Book MP3
The 7-Minute Video is just a short version of the 26-Minute Documentary.

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  • Paperback:  47 pages
  • ISBN-13 :  978-1603722308
  • Dimensions :  5 x 0.12 x 7 inches

About the Documentary 

Watching the 26-Minute Documentary makes reading Olivia y los monos more fun! Olivia y los monos is based on the true story of the Misahuallí monkeys. The documentary takes the students to Misahuallí, a little town in the Ecuadorian Amazon, where a troupe of wild capuchin monkeys share the village with the people.

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Weight 0.2 lbs
Dimensions 7 × 5 × 0.2 in

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