Telling a story

Writing 16

Hi David,

How are things? You´ll never guess what happened to me and Matias a few weeks ago! We went for a walk around the town and we were chatting when suddenly, we saw a man running with a big bag, and an old woman was running after him. First we didn´t know what was happening, but eventually we understood that it was a mugging. Obviously, we tried to stop him because he was running too fast.

Luckily, Matias had his mobile, so he called the police. We waited for a long time with the old woman, and she looked really bad. She told us that she came from the bank and there was a lot of money in this bag. Eventually, the police arrived and asked some questions to the old woman. Finally, the police left us, and then said that they were going to search or the criminal. We were in shock, it was the first time that we had seen a crime.

What´s your news?

Francisco

FATAL COMBINATION: Teleworking and no sport

First Quality Comment

Nowadays there are a lot of people that are teleworking, because we aren´t able to go to our work area, for example we can´t go to the Secondary School and for this reason our teachers must teach us by video conference, or for example people that work in an office are working at home. And of course this way of work have advantages and disadvantages.

The main advantage is that you are in your home, and you are more calmer and you are less stressed,but the main disadvantage is that you can´t go out to do anything, you only can go out to do some sport, or to go to the doctor, or to buy some things. But you can´t meet your friends in the streets, and you can enjoy talking with your friends. Another disadvantage is that you must stay a lot of hours in front of the screen, and for this reason you can feel bad and it can hurt your eyes.

Even if there are a lot of people teleworking, there are also some works that the workers can´t work through Internet, for example waiters, cooks, shop assistants... And now these people aren´t earning money, because they aren´t working. And a lot of families that earn money from these works  are now hungry.

In my opinion, the government has to make an effort and allow them return to their works if they can´t do teleworking.

An opinion essay

Writing 8

Videogames can make you violent. Do you agree?

Whereas our grandparents and even our parents didn´t play videogames when they were young,  today,  videogames are one of the most important things in our free time.

And as result od its fame, the people talk more about this way to spend the free time, even though the news rarely speak about this issue. However, a few weeks ago  I read a piece of news about it, and it said that if you play some types of videogames you become violent, and I don´t agree at all with this opinion.

I don´t think that if you play videogames you will have a more violent attitude, but I also think taht there are videogames that will make you violent if you play long hours. But all the videogames that contain violence aren´t designed for children. They are aimed to older public.  And if you children play a violence videogame it´s your problem, because the company establishes an  age restriction. 

Describing a celebration

Writing 13

My grandmother lives in a residence for the elderly, and here they celebrate the birthdays in a special way. 

Here they celebrate a special party called `Cumplemes´, and if you have some questions I´m going to explain what this celebration is about. They join all the birthdays that are in a month, there are a lot, and they celebrate all the birthdays of the month on only one day.

All the people say that this party is fantastic, but I only went one time and the party was so fantastic!

The day of the party was sunny. First there was music and you can dance on dance floor, here were lots of couples of elderly men and women dancing. You could also sing and even play different instruments.
Later on, everybody went to a large table and there they had lunch, the food was so delicious, especially the cake, which was made by one grandson of one old man, and he was such a good cook.
After all these things I was too tired to continue the day.

Organising an activity

Writing 12

Matias: I´m organising a birthday picnic on the beach next weekendand I haven´t done anything yet

Fran: Well, I´ll help you if you like. What needs doing?

Matias: I haven´t organised the game yet

Fran: No problem, I have a lot of boards games in my house, I can search for some of them 

Matias: Good, I don´t have any board games and I was very worried about the things that we could do when we finished the picnic

Fran: What about food and drinks?

Matias: I will carry some bottles of Coca-Cola. But I don´t know what food to bring 

Fran: Can I help you decide what to get?

Matias: Yes, please

Fran: What about pizzas and some types of biscuits?

Matias: That´s a good idea. Could you ask  a Take-away restaurant to make a pizza?

Fran: OK

Matias: Well, would you come to the supermarket and help me buy the biscuits?

Fran: Of course, here we go!

Describing a local dish

Writing 09

I live in Molvizar, south Spain, and we have some delicious local food, for example our dish called `Migas´.

A traditional dish of Migas consists of little balls of flour with garlics, meat, usually longaniza, or with some types of fish. Then they are friedin a frying pan with a little oil all the things.

`Migas´are usually served hot with melon, pomegranate or on their own, and eat with a spoon.

Nowadays, you can eat `Migas´on special days and they are usually cokked by the local authorities and they are given away to all the people.
You can eat `Migas´here in the south o Spain, and in my village they have been cokked for many years and almost everybody can cook them, but there are a lots of ways to cook them!