Comment 14- Trying to make ends meet

Comment 14

     

     ¨To make ends meet¨ in Spanish means ¨llegar a fin de mes¨.
Many families struggle to make ends meet these days. 

Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on 14th February. It originated as a Western Christian feast day honoring one or two early saints named Valentinus. It is a festival of romantic love and many people give cards, letters, flowers or presents to their spouse or partner. They may also arrange a romantic meal in a restaurant or night in a hotel. Common symbols of Valentine's Day are hearts, red roses and Cupid.

My Valentine´s Day was really sad, because I spent it alone seeing lots of people making nice presents to each other. I haven´t found my Valentine yet.

Comment 13- Mating, sexual harassment, flirtation... and love. Beware of misunderstandings!!!

Comment 13

           Nowadays, we see lots of sexual harrasment cases on the news. Women are being screamed at, pursued, groped, licked, touched, appraised, scared and frustrated by street harassers. There are lots of harrasments in the workplace, too.

People who are flirting should be very carreful with their words and acts to the other person. The difference between sexual harassment and flirting is really fairly clear. If you want to meet someone, you have to flirt but you must do it in the right environment and being always friendly and respectful. Sending a flirty text message, a hand resting on the knee, or telling a person that you feel attracted are some examples of flirting always when it comes from the right person at the right time. Sexual harrasment is when a man goes too far - whether through what he says or what he does - when a woman clearly doesn't want it.

In my opinion, the reason of sexual harrasment is because young people have access to porn, or because of the music videos they watch where the vocabulary and the dance are very sexual, also because they send a lot of sexual images with their mobile phones,etc. Children at school should be more informed about the difference between flirting and sexual harrasment!

Writing 10- Describing a local dish

Writing 10

     I live in Granada, south Spain, and we have lots of delicious food. One of our most famous dish is the Spanish omelette! It´s very easy to make and everybody likes it because of its taste.

A traditional Spanish omelette consists of a round thick omelette filled with chopped potatoes and onion. It´s a dish which you can eat for both lunch and dinner. To cook it, you´ll need four eggs, some oil, salt, two big potatoes and one onion. Take my advice: if you cut the onion under running water, the gas won´t get into your eyes.

Firts of all, you need to mix the eggs in a bowl and put some salt. Next, you chop the onion and the potatoes. After that, you add the potatoes and the onion to the frying pan and you fry them for a few minutes with moderate fire. Next, you pour the eggs all over the pan, covering the potatoes and the onion and you let it cook. You have to turn the omelette upside down to cook it on both sides. If you aren´t careful, you could burn yourself! If you don´t like cooking, you can buy it in any supermarket in your town. It´s very popular in restaurants as a starter, too. It´s usually served alone but you can eat it with ham, too. 

So, if you want to try an authentic omelette, come to Spain!

Writing 09- An opinion essay

Writing 09

Learning English is very important. Do you agree?

Nowadays, lots of students study English at school as a second language. Learning English is important because it will help them a lot in the future.

Firstly, speaking English helps us to find a job easily, to find information on the Internet or to travel, because English is spoken all around the world. In addition, you can also use English to learn about other cultures when you travel to other countries and if you don´t speak their language, you can always try to speak in English. Although it´s difficult to learn and pronounce, if you study a lot, you will learn it. Moreover, you have to be cautious, because while you are learning other languages, you can forget your mother tongue. It´s good to speak lots of languages, but you have to practise them, if not, you will forget them.

In conclusion, I think learning English is very important because it will be very useful for us in the future.

Writing 08- Dialogue (giving advice)

 Writing 08

Joe: Carla, we have to decide what to do on Tom´s surprise birthday party.

Carla: You´re right! Firstly, we should think about the date of the party.

Joe: I was thinking of doing it at the weekend.

Carla: Yeah, it sounds good. We should think of the place, too.

Joe: That´s true. I was thinking of ¨Western parties¨, which is in the centre of the town. What do you think?

Carla: I don´t think it would be a good idea, it´s very expensive. I was thinking of ¨Polly´s fun¨. It´s cheaper and it looks better.

Joe: Oh, I see. And, what about the food? Shall we order pizza or kebab? I know a place which serves delicious kebabs and isn´t very expensive. What do you think?

Carla: That´s true, but maybe Tom doesn´t like kebab, we should order both pizza and kebab, don´t you think so?

Joe: Yes, I think it´s better. And who should we invite?

Carla: If I were him, I would invite all my classmates! We could make a big party and have a lot of fun together.

Joe: So, what shall we do, then?

Carla: I think the best way is to ask some friends too, to see what their opinion is.

Joe: Ok, then, I´ll tell you tomorrow more details of the party. Bye for now!

Carla: Bye!

Comment 12- Dickens & Christmas

Dickens & Christmas

          Charles Dickens was born on 7th of February 1812. He was the second child of 8. His family moved to London in 1822 and at the age of 12, Charles had to start to work on a Blacking Factory labelling bottles 11 hours a day. His father was sent to prison and he visited him every Sunday. In 1827 he began to work as a solicitor´s clerk. Later, in 1831, he began a journalistic career; writing became his passion. In 1835 he meets Catherine, they fell in love and got married. In 1842, they travelled to America. When he was 44, he bought a very big house and got divorced because he had an affair with an actress called Helen . In 1865, he had a train crash while he was returning from Paris. He continued writing and later in 1870, his health began to fail and he died at home on 9th June at the age of 58. He´s buried in Westminster Abbey.

About the Christmas Carol novel, I really enjoyed reading it because the story was very interesting and entertaining. The story is about a mean old man, called Scrooge, who only cared about making money. He didn´t like Christmas and his life changed when he recieved the visit of three ghosts, on Christmas Eve. The ghosts showed him his past, his present and his future . He didn´t like his future so he decided to become a better person helping poor people and spending Christmas with his nephew.

1st Term compulsory reader- A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol- by Charles Dickens

       

          The story is about a mean old man, called Ezebener Scrooge, who only cared about making money and didn´t like Christmas at all. On Christmas Eve, he is visited by the ghost of his dead business partner, Jacob Marley, and he gets very scared. Jacob´s ghost told Scrooge that he was there to warn him that three spirits will come to visit him. And so it happened! The ghosts from the Past, from the Present and from the Yet to Come appeared that night  to show Scrooge his past, his present and how his future is going to be if he doesn´t change. Finally, Scrooge gets sad and very scared at the same time and he decides to change. When Christmas Day finally arrives, he becomes a better person, wishing ¨A merry Christmas to everybody¨and helping poor people.

Comment 11- What was the best of 2018?

                                                                    
                                                        
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What was the best of 2018 for me? Well, one of the best moments I lived in 2018 was my school trip to Dublin, which was an amazing experience for me because I visited lots of places, I improved my English and I had a good time with the family where I lived during one week. Another great moment of 2018 is when I received my B1 English certificate. I was really happy! As a reward for that, my mum bought me the last Playstation console and a gaming chair. That was a dream come true! 

In addition to that, I finished school with very good grades and we all went on a summer trip to Italy, where I had a good time with my relatives. Visiting Milano was exciting! 

To sum up, I can say that my 2018 was a very good year!

Christmas in the U.S.A.

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Comment 10- Loneliness, isolation, teenagers, sex!!!

Comment 10

       Nowadays, the internet is a common thing. We use Internet for lots of things, such as, searching for information, online shopping, playing games, for chatting, downlading music or watching videos. The problem is that most of the teenagers use Internet for a long time during the day and they isolate themelves from the world. They don´t socialize so much with people, they have fewer conversations with their parents and they don´t make so many friends. This is a serious problem because they get lonely and in the end they might have mental health problems, like depression, which is often accompanied by other symptoms, such as feelings of sadness and guilt, a loss of interest in activities, an inability to concentrate, changes in appetite or sleep, or thoughts of death or suicide.

Loneliness is seen as a big problem for the mental health of the population, people aged between 16 and 24 experience loneliness more often and more intensely than any other age group. Researches on adults and adolescents have shown a connection between loneliness and depression.

I think that parents should have more control over their children about the time they spend on the Internet and the things they see. There are lots of teenagers who watch online porn, which can have negative effects later on their sexual behaviors. Moreover, spending so much time on the Internet has negative effects on our mental health, too.