pencil dude PIZZAZ!...MAGAZINE MARVELS -- EXAMPLES

A Resource for Scribblers and Teachers of English as a Second Language
by Leslie Opp-Beckman
URL: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/magmarvelEG.html

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Don Ki Hoote
by Manabu Hirata

His name is Don Ki Hoote. He was a famous adventurer 30 years ago. Everyone had known him well as a great mountaineer, but now he was simply an old man.

He lived in a big city. He owned many companies. He was very rich.

One day he heard the terrible news that someone was killed By a monster in the mountain. He felt his soul revive. Actually, this mountain was so difficult for a man his age, but he decided to climb and catch the monster.

Everyone wondered about him and hoped he would give it up. But he carried on. He climbed the mountain.

One day, he discovered a strange cave. He wanted to search it. As soon as he entered it, he felt younger. He was pleased with the cave. He built a house in the cave and He lived there for three years.

One day he was caught.

At first he couldn't understand, but he knew everything at last. To his surprise ... He himself had changed into the monster.



Four Amusing Men
by Sayuri

There are four amusing men in Oregon (America). They all love a woman who works in a company there. She is very beautiful, smart and kind to other people but she likes snakes so much! She always goes to the thicket or the mountains to get some snakes for her job.

One day, she realized that she had already gotten all the snakes in Oregon. She felt depressed and had been crying ever since she figured this out. The four amusing men wanted to help her, and they each thought it would be a nice chance to win her heart.

They all decided to go to Africa to find and bring back a lot of snakes for her. However, it was not easy to find a lot of snakes because the snakes in Africa were very smart and there was a woman who kept watch on the jungle and guarded them. Still, their greatest desire was to find a lot of snakes for the woman back home.

They spent about six months in the jungle. Finally, they found an island where thousands of snakes lived. They were able to get all of them for her. They truly believed this would win her love. They were so satisfied!

As soon as they had rounded up all the snakes, they went straight back to Oregon to see her. They expected that she would feel glad or would even cry with happiness.

To their dismay, they couldn't find her at work or at home. She had quit her job in that company since she was so depressed and she wasn't interested in snakes anymore.

Nobody could win her heart.

Leslie Opp-Beckman, Technology Coordinator and ESL Instructor
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