Fairytale...

Once upon a time there was a boy called Pol.

One morning he woke up like every day, and suddenly, he feel a pain in his body. He began to cough and something comes out from his mouth and he takes it, it was his life.

Then he decides to bandage his right hand in order not to lose her life. Later he went to visit everyone who knows him and explains them what happened to him.

First, he went to visit his manager and told him he could only work with one hand and the manager take it like a normal thing. Secondly, he went to see his girlfriend and told her what had happened, and she said to him that she’ll sew a prettier bandage for him. Later he went to see his aunt who takes away the bandage from his hand.

Finally he arrived in a place where there was a circus and there he saw a blonde trapeze artist, who waved him, and he returned the waved with the right hand, and that’s how he loose his life.

Fairytale…

Once upon a time a man went to India, a place that he did not know the customs.

One day he saw a girl and fell in love. Then one day he decided to bring her a bunch of flowers, but there was a cow that eats them, and the frightened pushed the cow. A guard saw him and said him that there the cows are sacred and could not be touched.

The next day, the man bought two bouquets, one ugly to give it to eat to the cow and a nice one inside a box for the girl. When he saw the cow he gave him the ugly bunch. And when he saw the guard told him that he had cheated the cow, and then the guard arrested him.

Your say

Dear Sara,

Oh, how I missed being with you during the holidays this year! Everything in London is so different from Spain, that I don’t know if I will ever get udet to living here. I’m so grad that my father’s job at the Spanish Embassy will only last until June. Then we will come home, and you and I can spend the summer on the beach. (Well, I hope you’ll spend your holiday in Spain as usual).

I’ve already make some very nice friends, but don’t worry, no one could ever replace you as my best friend! After work, I sometimes go to my friend Fiona’s house. She enjoys listening to the same music and watching the same clips that like to you and me. 

Life is very different here. Would you believe that we have to wear an uniform to go to school? Well that’s not the surprise thing, the uniform is awful. Moreover, there is nothing to do in the evening. All the shops close at 4:30 p.m. and pubs are only open till 11p.m.

That is all for now. I must start work for the shop. My boss wants us to write new ideas for how would be the new uniform. 

Please write soon and tell me all the news. I miss you!

Love,

Sonia

Formal letter

Gregal road, nº9

St. Pere Pescador

Girona

Catalonia

Spain

12 April 2013

Mr. Mariano Rajoy

President of Spain

Complejo de la Moncloa

Avda. Puerta de Hierro, s/n.

28071, Madrid

Dear Mr. President Rajoy,

I am writing to complain about two things that I consider so important and which are happening these days in our country: the education and the health service.

First of all, our schools, teachers and students are suffering all the consequences of this terrible crisis. Students do not have the opportunity to study because of the high taxes they have to pay. Furthermore, schools, high schools and universities do not have much money to get better equipment. Moreover, most of the students, when they finish their studies, have lots of difficulties to find a job.

Secondly, something which also worries me is the Medical Service in our country. Doctors cannot do their work because sometimes they are not well paid for it. Another thing is that hospitals do not have enough money to pay all the medicines and surgeries which they do every day. All this these things mean that we cannot be sick because we do not know if we will be cured.

Finally I have to say that like all the citizens in my country, I think that you, Mr. Rajoy, should take these aspects into account and give them the importance they have.

I am looking forward to hearing from you soon, before we lose our hopes and our future dreams.

Your sincerely

Sònia Ibáñez Soussi

Final reflection

Answer these questions:

•Observing your SPACE, can you see an improvement onyour level of English since September 2009? Where, forexample?

-Yes, I can see an improvement on my english level, mainly in all the vocabulary I have learned doing the news.

•Which activity best shows your level of English?

-In the news I’ve done, and in the oral presentations.

•Which activities were really USEFUL for you to improveyour English? Why?

-All of them, but mostly the news because you have to read a lot, take notes of the words you don’t know the meaning, because you have to summerized, etc.

•Which activities did you not find useful to learn English?Why not?

-I think that all the activities are useful, but sometimes you don’t know what can you talk about in the “your says”, so that make a bit boring to do them.

•Which activities did you enjoy doing and would like to doagain next year?

-I hope I won’t be here next year, but the ones I would like to do again are the news, although I don’t found a very interesting ones.