Day 109: Hunting Mosquitoes After the Rain
A week after typhoon rains flooded their street in Caloocan and three children there came down with dengue, Alice (A), a barangay health worker, leads two young volunteers, Jervin (B) and Lyka (C), from house to house looking for standing water.
How to study this lesson 3 steps
- Read the situation under the title. It says who is talking and how they know each other, which decides how politely they speak.
- Read the dialogue line by line with its translation, until every line makes sense.
- Spend at least 30 minutes listening to native Tagalog. It doesn't matter if you don't understand it yet.
Dialogue
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A
Silipin ninyo lahat ng puwedeng pag-ipunan ng tubig. Sunod-sunod na ang nagkaka-dengue rito.
Check anything that can hold water. People here keep coming down with dengue, one after another.
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B
Ate Alice, dito po! Puno po ng kiti-kiti 'yung mga lumang gulong.
Ate Alice, over here! The old tires are full of mosquito larvae.
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C
Pati po 'yung mga paso at 'yung drum. Bakit hindi na lang po tayo magpa-fogging?
The flower pots and the drum too. Why don't we just have the area fogged?
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A
Sa usok, 'yung lumilipad lang ang namamatay. Buhay pa rin ang mga kiti-kiti sa tubig.
The smoke only kills the ones that fly. The larvae in the water stay alive.
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B
Tama si Ate, Lyka. Sa kabilang kalye, linggo-linggo silang nagpapa-fogging, pero may lamok pa rin.
Ate's right, Lyka. The next street over gets fogged every week, and they still have mosquitoes.
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C
Ako na po sa drum, Ate.
I'll take care of the drum, Ate.
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A
Salamat. Saka na ang fogging kapag tuyo na ang lahat.
Thanks. Fogging can wait until everything's dry.
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