Success Story

There are two links. You need to click both. 

Click A to listen

Click B to read the same thing you listen to.   

 A. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10013111

 B. http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=10013111

After you listen, please talk to a partner about the story.  

Then write the answer to these
 questions: 

1. What is the year Afredo came to the United States?______ 

2. The country he came from____________
 

3. His first job in the U.S.  ________________

4. The place where he works now________________________
  

5. The three parts of  his present job _________________________________ 

6. What he is looking for in his research__________________________________

7. Distance of his hometown from the U.S. border __________________________

8. His first job in his life (at age five)


 _________________________

9. His grandmother’s two jobs _______________________ 

10. The year Mexico’s economy collapsed _____________________ 

11. Alfredo’s age when he first became a teacher  _________________

12. Three crops he picked on farms in the U.S.__________________________________________ 

13. Price of the camper he bought to live in ____________

14. Condition of the camper ________________ 

15. What his cousin told him___________________________ 

16. Where he studied English _______________ 

17. Where he attended university on a scholarship _____________________ 

18. Where he studied medicine ____________________________ 

19.Who Alfredo Quinones says he owes his success____________________________