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Saturday, November 25, 2006

Iker Casillas by Laura and Jaime

He's absolutely good-looking, he's much more agile than Oliver Kahn or Buffon. He's extremely fast and very nice, but he's a bit slow sometimes.


Nice saves from Iker Casillas
PENELOPE CRUZ by Cristina and David

She's pretty amazing. She's a bit shorter than Julia Roberts. She's slightly thin and very kind. She's very boring.
Elsa Pataky by Maricruz,MªCristina and Miguel

She's really beautiful.

She's nicer than Penelope Cruz.

She's a bit thin.

She's very friendly when she wants.

She's a bit aggressive with the press.

Adriano Leite Ribeiro:

He is ABSOLUTELY THE BEST football player in the world. He is MUCH BETTER than Thierry Henry although Lee says not. He is VERY TALL and STRONG. He is a REALLY GOOD person. He is A BIT AGGRESSIVE.

By Carmen and Carlos.

VICTORIA BECKHAM by Cristina and David

She's really stupid. She's less intelligent than a fly. She's rather thin and quite tall. She's extremely arrogant.
Mr. Bean

He is very clumsy
He is really funny
He is much smaller than Pau Gasol
He is pretty thin
He is really fantastic
George Clooney

He was really attractive and now he is a bit older than other famous actors like Zac Efron and Orlando Bloom. He's an extremely talently actor and director. He has a very good sense of humor. George is a bit proud of himself.

By Andrea and Ana
Zac Efron by Mª Cristina, Maricruz & Miguel

He is a really fantastic actor

He is much cleverer than politicians

He is fairly thin

He is really handsome

He is a bit small
Penelope Cruz:

She is a PRETTY EXCELLENT. She is MUCH SHORTER than other actresses. She has FAIRLY DARK hair. She is VERY HARD-WORKING too. She is A BIT RESERVED.

By Carmen and Carlos
Zidane by Laura and Jaime

He was really awesome at football too, much more tactical than another footballers like Lampard or Gerrard. He was quite fast and very strong, but he was a bit reckless at important moments e.g. the headbutt in the World Cup Final.
BRAD PITT by Cristina and David

He's really interesting. He's much taller than Orlando Bloom. He's really tall. He's pretty friendly and a bit lazy.

Brad Pitt

He's absolutely awful but he is a bit better than Tom Cruise.He is really thin and quite friendly.Brad is a bit lazy.

By Andrea and Ana


David Beckham:

He is absolutely stupid
He is a bit tall
He is a really good player
He is much more intelligent than Mr. Bean
He is very friendly.
Thierry Henry by Miguel,Maricruz and Mª Cristina.

He's a really good player.

He's taller than Zidane.

He's a bit thin.

He's very friendly.

He's a bit agressive.
Nicole Kidman:

She is ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC LOOKING. She is A BIT TALLER than Penelope Cruz. She is VERY TALL. She is REALLY NICE. She is SLIGHTLY IMPATIENT.

By Carmen and Carlos
ORLANDO BLOOM by Cristina and David

He's absolutely fantastic and he's a bit smaller than Pau Gasol. He's a bit thin. He's really nice and extremely scatty too.
David Beckham by Laura and Jaime

He's absolutely fantastic at football, he's much better than other players like Joaquin. He's very tall and really handsome, but he's quite agressive too.

Saturday, November 18, 2006

Naomi Klein thinks that Logos are words in an international language. She also thinks that every people in the world recognises the logos of the most important brand names in the market and hat we should worry about who we're and not about we've got, but we think that she is a bit right, but not totally right.

By: Andrea & Jaime
NAOMI KLEINS-NO LOGO:
We think that we must save money but all in the world can have some pleiseurs.
We agree that there's people in the world that can't have pleiseurs like people from
South Africa and Haiti but in rich countries like japan.
NO LOGO
by Naomi Klein
We think Naomi is completely right in her opinions about the brands and global companies.
About the logos, she's absolutely right too. We think they have become a normal sign, but we don't realise, that it's an advertisement.
We are extremely agree with her that is imposible to escape from adverts!
We also think that it is right that brands explote people from poor countries, like China and Indonesia, and it's a problem; but the brands aren't as bad as she says because if they aren't brands there won't be any products.
By Carlos and David
NO LOGOS BY NAOMI KLEIN

She says that products are produced in terrible conditions in poor contries and the people whi wirks only have 28 cts for hour and we think is very bad conditions for a person and it isn't fair because we have to pay a lot for things.

Ana & Carmen

"NO LOGO" by Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein, the author of the book "No Logo", protest about the big coperations that dominates market all over the world. She says that logos are the closest things we have to an international language and most people recognises them. We both thing that she is absolutely right.
She compares the boss from Disney Coperation, who earns thousends of dollars, with a worker in Haiti, who works from 28cents per hour.we thing that it is terrible
Laura&MªCristina
NO LOGO by Noemi Klein
our opinion
We think that Noemi Klein is right in one part because brands are very popular and people buy them a lot, but if we recognise the logos is because we are consumers.
Is true that there's no escape from advertising because to know about brands or products, we must see it, e.g on TV, streets, magazines, advertisements, etc.
She is completly right when she sais that there's "a darkest side" because there is a big imbalance between the famous people who lend them image and the unknow people who work hard to win only a few cents. We think that famous people earn that quantity only because them image but we, the consumers, don't mind about that, we only want the brand. Anyway she is right but she has brands like us.
By MªCruz y Maria de la Orden
NO LOGO
By: NAOMI KLEIN
CRISTINA & ELENA
We think that Naomi is completetely right in all her opinions, because injusticies aren't right and there isn't diferences into people.

Friday, November 17, 2006

My film idea:

Some Italian students of about 14 years old come to Spain for an interchange, and they stay at British Council with some other Spanish students. Suddendly one of the Spanish students died. Anybody of the students know who is the murder. Other people start dying, a teacher, some Italian student...
Then, two Spanish students and a police officer start discovering things about the murder and finally they catch him.

By Carlos.

Saturday, November 11, 2006

My personal anecdote

I remember a day when every thing were wrong; it was fives days before the end of the school.I was doing my final exams of ''Licenza elementare'' while I was doing it immediately the fire alarm rang and all my class went out of the school because someone called the school and said that there was bomb into it. After 10 minutes the police arrived but they didn't found anything, then we returned to the class for continue the exam .

I don't know how but the school let know that a student of my class for not have the exams called the school and invented the story of the bomb but the school didn't know his or her name. The director decide to punish all my class. We were expulsed for 3 days of the school and we must finished the school two days after the other students. My class finshed the exams with a vey bads marks.

When i arrived home my mum punished me for the bad mark on the exam, 3 weeks without go out with my friends. In the end the school found the
responsabile but we had still done the punishment.

But all of sudden there isn't as bad as we think have a day like that I prefer this kind of days as have normally and boring days because life mustn't be boring must it?

by Andrea
It is the worst day of my last holidays. I went to my sailing's class because I was preparing for be a sailing's monitor. It was a beautiful day, the sun was shining and the sea was good for sailing.

As soon as I arrived there a teacher said me that I was going to sail with a child and his father. All of a sudden I looked them and I saw a little child and a fat man.

We go out to sail. After the teachers were behind us in an other boat. The father and the child told me that was their first day.

When we were sailing the man was feeling sick and suddenly the man nearly fell to the water. Then his son started to cried. Immediately I looked the teachers' boat and they were laughing and talking. Until I didn't call them, they didn't come. At last, I got that the child stopped to cry. Before that I knew that this day was going be very bad.

In the end, the teachers came and after we returned to the harbour. Eventually the child and his father didn't returned to class the following days.

CARMEN
The Worst Day of My Life
Probably that is the worst day of my life. I had to do an important speech at school about the pollution in Spain. I am a little bit shy and the night before I was really nervious, all the teachers and all the students will hear me!! So I went to the bed early because I had to be relaxed for the next day.
When I woke up, I had a shower and while I was having breakfast my mother arrive to the kitchen and asked me if I was nervious, but when I was going to answer I realized that I had a cold and I have lost my voice and I couldn´t speak properly!! What could I do??.
When I arrived to the school I could speak a little bit better, so I relaxed.I was at the playground when my teacher said to me that we had to prepare the speech, so I went with her to the theatre (where the speech will be in).I had to gave the plan for the speech to the teacher when I realized that I have forgot the planning at home!! Oh my god, everything was going wrong!!
My teacher was really angry with me, luckily I knew more or less what I had to say about the pollution. I have been waitinf for an hour and the speech hadn´t started yet and I was becoming really impatient. A few minutes later my teacher explained that the speech had been cancelled because of there was some sound’s problems!!
Mª Cristina
Ideas for the project's plot___by_david_buendia

I thing we can do a film with this plot:

Some Italian friends come to the British Countil for interchange. One of them is a murder. People start dying...what's happening? Anyperson knows...

One Spanish student notice that X (an Italian student) has killed one teacher. Finally between all the students can kill him.

All of these ideas combined with a little of comedy.

My personal anecdote__A day when everything went wrong
by _david_buendia

It was 15th December. The next day was the last day of school because of the Christmas holidays. I was so nervous, and I could't sleep on that night. Finally, but very late, I got sleep.

The next day, 16th I wake up very late because I hadn't slept.

I arrive to school very late too. Suddenly, my teacher got angry with me and said me that he was going to call my mother for tell her the problem. 'Oh, nooo!' - I thought. I wasn't going to have holidays, my mother was going to punish me!

Then, my day in school was very tired and I don't know why, but all of my teachers got angry with me. I didn't pass any of my final exams!!!

And after; when I was in the break, inmediately I broke my leg.... :-(

In the end, I wasn't going to have holidays, I was going to get lost in the hell!!

This was the worst day of my life!
A disastrous school outing

One day, 1 or 2 years ago, my course went to a school outing. We went to Toledo, in the middle of the way, our bus lost a wheel, so we had to go to a shop nearly to buy one and put it. After that we arrived to Toledo, one kid lost himself in the city

After 2 hours of searching, we founded him. Then we went to a countryside and one of my best friends fall into a lake. We had a lot of fun over there, but then I fall off in the mud. After all this things, we had lunch. It was horrible, the worst food I ever taked.

Then we played a football match in a freezed place, every people hurted by falling off by the ice. One kid broked a leg.

Luckyly, we went back home, but we hadn't got gasoil. Then we bought it and went back home.

By: Jaime
MY PROJECT IDEA


I think we can do a project like this:
Some Italians students came to the British Council in a change. One of this was a murder and he or she killed a theacher. The Spanish students who are in Italy saw in the newspaper that a murder had leaved Italy and arrived in Spanin to kill more people. They saw the photo and it was the student who came to Spain. They leaved Italy and came back to Spanin to helped Spanish people. When they arrived in the British Council he had killed a teacher and a studenrtIt was terrible!
To be continued...

Laura Núñez García

MY ANECDOTE:by Maria de la Orden
-Last Saturday everithing I did was wrong .
I went with my friends to a sport's center in Somontes, before we go to it we have planed what we are going to do:we will go to the swimming pool,we will play tennis and after go shopping .

-Before,we went to the swimming pool and I have bought a new one for that event ,it was beautiful but when I was going to show it to my friends I don't found it .ooo!! I forgot it on my house!In that moment I was so angry because I can't get into the pool.But I thought that I can play tennis .My friends had a lot of fun but I don't mind I could play tennis!

-I was so excited because I want to win the tennis match,my friend lent me a raquet because I also forgot it.But I was so ,so excvited that I broke my friend's raquet so my friend and me get angry .


-And that was the worse day of my life

MY ANECDOTE:by Maria de la Orden
-Last Saturday everithing I did was wrong .
I went with my friends to a sport's center in Somontes, before we go to it we have planed what we are going to do:we will go to the swimming pool,we will play tennis and after go shopping .

-Before,we went to the swimming pool and I have bought a new one for that event ,it was beautiful but when I was going to show it to my friends I don't found it .ooo!! I forgot it on my house!In that moment I was so angry because I can't get into the pool.But I thought that I can play tennis .My friends had a lot of fun but I don't mind I could play tennis!

-I was so excited because I want to win the tennis match,my friend lent me a raquet because I also forgot it.But I was so ,so excvited that I broke my friend's raquet so my friend and me get angry .


-And that was the worse day of my life
MY PERSONAL ANECDOTE


A day when something went wrong

One day I got up very late because my alarm clock had broken. Because of that I didn´t caught the bus. Mum wasn´t at home so she couldn´t help me.I run and runand I arrived there after the break finished. My teacher were very angry and as soon as I could leaved my bag she asked me for the homework. But... oh no! I had left my homework at home. Following I forgot my maths book it was terrible!

At the end of the class I went home but suddendly it started raining and I didn´t have an umbrella. When I went home my parents weren´t at home so I couldn´t get into the house. It stooped raining so I thought I could study before my parents came home. So I put some books in a part of the street. Inmediately I noticed that my maths book wasn´t there and I had and exam the following day.

When my parents arrived they forgot their keys at home so we had to stayed in the street for three hours and my mother had bought some frozen food for dinner and it got off. So we hadn´t anything for dinner!

It was a terrible day!

By Laura Núñez García

Thursday, November 09, 2006

What next?

What do you think we need to do to make a good project?

Who is going to do it? And when?

Write your ideas on the blog and respond to other people's posts.

Lee

Monday, November 06, 2006

THE FREE MURDERERS

One May 5 in the interchange office of the Italian ambassade from Spain,planed to make an interchange between Sicilians students and Madridians students.The Italians aren't going to stay in hosts families,they're going to stay in the Brithish Council of Madrid and the Spanish students are going to stay in the Brithish ambassade of Italy.The Italians students (Enzo,Andrea and Michelangelo)don't know that Michelangelo isn't a student.The reality is that Michelangelo is a murderer .He's a mafian that is very small.................................................................etc.







Saturday, November 04, 2006

My ideas:

  • If we want to do a good film, all of we must participate. For it we’ll be the leading actors.
  • We must think about a theme. I think that it could be a group of friends that go to a trip. The group is divided in several parts; there are some stroppy people who don’t stand cool people. For the convivence they must start a relationship.

The next thing:

  • The next thing would be that we organize our characters and our rolls and that we write the teat cast to decide who is who in the film or to choose who we want be in the film.
  • We also can rehearse in class, correct our mistakes, and then we can start filming!!!

By Maricruz

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

I think we don't need very much things, just very much interest and participation. This interest and participation will make that we think IDEAS. The ideas are the base for our project, because without imagination you can't do anything in the artistic live.

It could be a good idea to use the last part of the class (after the break) to think ideas, and the person who starts with the first good idea will be the person who makes the class stand up and get more and more ideas and then... we'll have the film done!

The materials are not important, because they're easy to find, but the ideas must be searched and thinked previously.

This idea has been written by Jaime

Sunday, October 29, 2006

THINGS WE NEED:
-We need a lot of time, a good plot ,special effects ,good fancy dresses and many interest.
-I think the best thing is that all the class make it because if only ten boys of the class make it ,the others will get angry.
-I think the best day is some days after holidays when we have all rehearsed!
BY MARIA DE LA ORDEN

MY FILM IDEA: by maria de la orden
I think we can do a horror film,it can be very good because a lot of people wrote things about horror films so we had many ideas :,I'm going to write about one idea:
-In a school called "British Council" there was 5 friends that thinks the class was haunted but the guys on their class doesn't believe it.But the problem was that they didn't have clues , I'm going to tell us how the boys think the class was haunted.
One day this 5 boys went to the class because they forgot their books , when they were in class one voice said-Out!!of here and they left their books and started to run ... TO BE CONTINUED

Saturday, October 28, 2006

mr bean by miguel and mari cruz

Rowan Atkinson gets into troubles and then he gets out of them.He makes out that not very bright.
He makes up good original jokes.He 's got on becuse he's so witty.He often cracks you.
We use to like him but hardly we're gone of him.
La pasión segun Mel Gibson by Laura and Carmen.



This is a video of an imitation of Raquel Revuelta. The imitator is Paco León. he puts on different voices and he dresses up as different people. He makes up good original sketches and jokes. He really cracks us up. He is very original and very funny
Florentino Fernández - Control Guardia Civil
by Maria de la Orden and David



This is an example of Florentino's comedy.

Florentino Fernández is a famous Spanish comedian.

He makes people laugh and sometimes the people fall about laughing.

He makes up good original sketches and very good jokes. He has worked in "El Informal", "El show de Flo", "Splunge" and now he's doing "El Club de Flo", in La Sexta (channnel six).

Our opinion is that he is one of the best comedians in Spain.
Homo Zapping News - Rebelde



This is an example of Spanish comedy. It´s a sketch about Mexican soap opera imitating by the programme Homo zapping News. Normally they imitate famouse people or programmes on tv.They dressed up as different people and they make original jokes and sketches: This programme is on antena 3.And me and Cristina really like it
Jose (Cruz y Raya) by Enzo and Ana

It's an example of dressing up as different people and original sketches. He really cracks us up.
Jose is one of the components of Cruz y Raya, but we think he's the best. In this sketch he dress up as Michael Jackson, we think it's very difficult and he does very well. He does too much sketches but this is one of the best. He goes in for imitate famous people and puts on a lot different voices. He's one of the best laughters in Spain. He makes us burst of laughing.
mr bean hospital by Fernando and Elena.

Mr Bean gets into trouble and then gets out of it.
José Corbacho (50x15) By Jaime and Mª Cristina



José Corbacho doing a perfect imitation of Carlos Sobera, he normally looks very witty but when he wants to make the people fall about laughing he wears like everything that is funny. He makes up good and original sketches in Homo Zapping so he have got a lot of succes. He cracks you up easylly and in Buenafuente (TV Program that is showed on Antena3 from 00:00 to 2:00 - 3:00 a.m) he gets into trouble and then gets out of them. Also he can imitate the voice and the way of wearing of a famous person We think he is so funny.
Carlos Latre by Lee

This is an example of Spanish comedy...
MY FILM IDEA:
I think we should do a horror film because it wont be too difficult to decorate the classroom. My idea it's:
A group of friends that are in a school trip. We are going to spend a week in a small village and they have to stay in a old house in the middle of the country. The teachers have forbiden them to go out of the house during the night, but one night they were bored and when the teachers were slepping, they took their torchs and some jumpers, because it was cold,some food and drinks, and they escape from the house.
They walk for a while a they arrived to the village. It was completely deserted, everybody was at home, but it doesn´t matter, they went to the main street they had a rest because they were a little bit tired. It was really cold and too late, so they started walking. But they realized that they have forgot the way to came back to the house!!
They walked and walked, but they didn't remember anything. Suddenly one of the boys realized that they were at the CEMENTERY!!! It was colder and very dark, so hey switch on their torchs, it was full of tombs with spider's web and bats, everybody were scared.....What will happend??Will they came back home??It's a mistery....
TO BE CONTINUED....!!
My film idea___by_David_Buendía








I think we can do a horror film.


At British Council I think it's more or less easy make a film; because we have a big space to do it.

We should try to do a good-made film, I explain: with good efects, professional and serious actors, and a good director; for example Lee.

I like horror films but mix with a little of comedy. Sometimes, when you are very scared watching a horror film you thank a little of humour.

I always liked good-made horror films because you enter into it, you're like another character.

For examble: we could do:
Three friends are in the British Council and suddenly the lights turn off. All become strange. The teachers are transforming in skeletons. The students are snakes...

I think we could make it without problems.

my film idea
I would like to do a horrror film. we can do somethng like this:
Some friends got into a house. Two of them heared noises but the other thought they were craicy. that night someone killed two friends. The next night a persom killed two more and then two more.. Finally only the friends who heared the noises were ok. they went to the house and they saw a letter. it saied they were going to died. then, they saw a man who said he had killed the other frirends and he was going to kill them. but one boy phoned the police and hey found the man



Laura Núñez García
My film idea

I think we could make an horror film .
In the British Council are happening a lot of strange things some student have disapper in the library and the computers room, people working at the secretary are having strange behaviour and the last week a teacher found a dead student. What is happening ? At the moment it's a mistery.

by Andrea
MY FILM IDEA

I would like a horror film because is more interesting. I think we can do a film like this: some friends got into a house and two of them heared noises, The others thought they were craizy. But that night someone killed two of them. Next night a person killed two more friends. then an other and an other. Finally only the two friends who heared that noises were ok. They went again to the house and the saw a letter. It saied that night they were going to died. And that night they saw a man who said he had killed the other friends and he tried to killed them. But one of them called the police and they found the man and the film ended
We can do a horror film. We can decorate the class like a cementery, with headstone and some corpse go out of the tombs. My perfect film would be that:

Five friends went to the cementery the Halloween's day after went to the houses frighten people and asked for a lot of sweets. In the cementery one of the them fell and the other friends didn't wait him. They continued and when they went out the cementery one of they said '' Where's Peter?'' . They looked for him but they didn't find him. Two days later he appeared in his house.

by: Carmen García

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

By Miguel Spielberg
An ideal film must have emotion,special effects,a good place,a good zoom,a good dialogue and good actors and actress.If you want to make science-fiction film you must have weapons,explosives,car chases and terrorist.The best science-fiction films for me are the American films.My favourite film is "Kidnap in Alcatraz".Spanish science-fiction films aren't so good but "Alatriste" has lots of special effects and is my second favourite film.

Monday, October 23, 2006

My film idea.

I think we should try to do a comedy film so we'd have more fun while we're making de film. Here I write a little summary of my idea:

3 friends, 1 boy and 2 girls. They had a lot of fun last night but... Where are they right now? They don't know so they're looking for their car to go back home, and lots of weird things are happening... They're in the British Council, and there are a lot of students who will make a lot of crazy things that will make you die laughting!

ßy: Jaime

Sunday, October 22, 2006

OUR FILM BY ANA






I thing we can do an horror film, we can make up and dress up of witches, vampires, zombies,wolfman,frankastain,etc.Later we can make a dialagoge with our ideas.One person can be the boy and the rest can be monster.We decorate the class with zools and false blood .My perfect history would be that:

the boy go to the british council, and when he go in the british council is nobady, he thinks it is latewr and he go into the class.There is a containeer with blood(red plunch),a pumpkin,a coffin,a cake with a hole,and into it is a white spider8of chocolate),whit footprints,and zools andblood too. The door close and he can´t open it,he goes to the segurity door and when he open he see monsters(us) come to him.he start to tremble and...
THIS IS MY IDEA


Saturday, October 21, 2006

ANSWER TO TONY __________ BY_DAVID_BUENDIA


Hi Tony.

First of all, thanks for your letter. It's fantastic you're going to come to Spain and stay with me.

If you're going to come in August, it isn't a problem because in July I am going to Italy with my family.

About the best dates for me, I am going to be here all the month, so... you can come when you want. But I would like, if you tell me the arriving day and the leaving day, for preparing.

Here, at summer, the climate is dry, and the weather hot and sunny.
So, I recommend you to bring t-shirts, shorts, one pair of jeans, one jersey, sandals and trainers.

I put "one" in bold, because in summer,especially in Madrid, thermometer it's up of 40ºC (104ºF).

Why did you ask me: what sort of pr
esents would your parents like?
You don't have to bring any present, it's not necessary!
And neither for me.

So.... see you soon Tony, I wait for your new questions.

David







LETTER TO TONY BY MARIA DE LA ORDEN

Dear Tony:

Hi, how are you?.I read your letter and it was so nice.I'd also love to stay with you.I don't have any problem in August,you can come when you like,but I'd prefer on August the 7th, if you can't come I don't mind.

I don't know how will the weather be like but I imagine that it will be very hot and about the clothes I recomend you to bring summer clothes and also a lot of swim-suits. I'm sure we will have a lot fun and one thing you don't have to bring any present for my parents!!.

If you like skating you can bring some skates and a tennis raquet ,it will be perfect!.

Now, I'm going to ask you some questions ok?, have you got e-mail? because it will be more quicklysend messages by e-mail than by letters.

And I also recomend you to bring money because we can go shopping!!

Very big kisses:

Maria de la Orden.
Dear Tony:
How do you do??I´m really happy because of your visit yo spain!!You can come whenever you want, but please phone me and tell me when will you come.
Here, in Spain it's really hot, so bring with you clothes like shorts, t-shits, sandals...and don´t forget to bring your swimming trunk, because we´ll probably go to the swimming poll.We´ll visit some interesting places in Madrid like "Prado Museum" or "La Plaza Mayor". We´ll do some activities like playing tennis or football.
Thank you for the idea to bring something to my parents, it's a nice detail!!But bing them whatever you want,I'm sure they'll like. Don´t worry for me, because I don´t need anything from Britain, thank you!!
Sorry but I have to leave you because I´ve to study!
Kisses!!
MªCristina




Dear Tony:

It´s fantastic! You are going to come to Spain! You can come here from the first of August to the twenty six. ok? In summer the weather here is fantastic: hot and suny you must bring a lot of swimming costume and sun glasses! you have to bring any presentds for my parents they are very happy too because they want to see you. We are going to see all Madrid and then we are going to thebeach. you have to prove "paella", "cocido", jamón serrano"...
It´s going to be fantastic and next summen I want to go to London so don´t make plans because I will visit you ok?

Well see you next August and bring all I have said

Love

Laura
Hi Tony!!
how are you? I'm impatient for you visit. It would be cool if you could come the first august's week, because I am going to the beach with my family.
The weather in the beach is fantastic. It is sun and hot all days. We will can do a lot of sports in the sea like sailing, surfing and we could rent a speedboat racing. In my house I have got a swimming pool where we can swimming.
I have got a lot of friends there, as soon as we arrive we will meet with them. They are very sociable, cheerful and funny. There will be a lot of parties at night.
This year some famous music groups will there and I have got tickets for all concerts. It will be very funny!!
It isn't neccesary that you bring a present for my parents!!

Don't forget the swimsuit!!

See you soon,

Carme García.
MY FRIEND MARINA



My friend María is a very good person. She´s very sympathetic but she´s a bit shy . When someone has a problem she help them. She´s very sensible but sometimes is a biT. I think she is rather ambitious and when she wants something she`s very competitive. At school se is very hard - working so she has very good marks. She has some very good friends.


I met her 8 years ago in summer. We go to the same school . I started to talk to her and now we are very good friends. We do lots of things together. When we are together we have a fantastic time.
Hey Tony!

I've recieved your letter. I was impatient to recieve it so now i'm preparing everithing for your visit!

I think August is a perfect time to come here, because Madrid is empty of people and there are a lot of things to do over here. I'd prefer that you come before, in June or July, but if you haven't got holiday until August, there's no problem. I think you should know that in Spain (specially in Madrid), the weather is very hot and dry, so it's better that you bring some clothes like T-shirts, shorts, caps... Anyway, if you forgive to bring something you can borrow me everything you want! My parents don't have any special like or dislike, but my father likes courious and artesanal things, you know.

So I think that's everything you want to know, isn't it? Ok if you have any questions you can write me again and I'll answer you so pleased! So Tony I wish you a nice time and just tell you that i'm impatient to see you again!

Best wishes.

Jaime

Friday, October 20, 2006

Dear Tony ,

Hi Tony. How are you?I'm fine. I want to see you as soon as possible because I really miss you.
You can come to madrid when you want, I'll be all agust in madrid; here is very hot so bring summer clothes and swimclothes too beacuse I've a big swimming pool.
Don't worry very much about the present to my family you can buy what you want, they would like all. And if it's possible can you bring to me some clothes from the topshop? I would like to have the socks that we see toghether the las time i was in London. My mum need me so I'll see you in month
Lot of love and big kisses , Andrea.

(*By Ana*)
HI TONY!!!
How are you? Me fine. I have good news : You can come to Madrid for all the month of august,isn´t it perfect.. I want that you could come all the month, but if you can´t don´t problem we will see again!!! You don´t know nothing about Madrid, but we will go to the Cibeles, Las Torres Kio, and other monuments and places. You will like the food, it is delicious!. I like english food, but I like more our food.
My house ísn´t too big but we have a bedroom only for you because you´re very important. We have a swimming pool and lots of things, toilets, tennis, basketball, football...
The weather will be good, but very, very hot. There you have bad weather all the year. Come with t-shirts and shorts.
The people are very symphatetic, sociable and outgoing. Things are cheap, for you. I´ll teach you Spanish. In Spain, we speak english, not very well, but we can talk with you.I have to go out but I´ll write you again.
Goodbye and a lot of kisses.

Bye,bye

Hi Tony,

The best days you can come to my house are the first two weeks of August, because on the last two I will be with my family on holiday. About your question, I hope the weather will be very hot in Madrid, so take your summer clothes with you.
Don't worry about my parents' gift, they don't care very much about it so don't expend too much money. The will like anything you give them.
Actually I don't need anything from London, but I remember something I will tell you in my next letter.

See you soon,
Enzo

Saturday, October 14, 2006

WRITING ABOUT SPAIN


LIKES:
We both like the LFP,we like the Spanish food like paella and Madrid's
cocido.In spain there are lot of museums,of course in Madrid.We can't stand Zapatero.
We love sports like basketball and football,we're both fans of Getafe and Real Madrid.
We really like Spanish music,like El Canto del Loco.

DISLIKES:
We both hate the nationalitist from Cataluña,Vascongadas,Navarra and we can't stand Luis Aragones.We hate the shop lifters.
LIKES AND DISLIKES by MªCruz and Ana
LIKES
We both just love food. MªCruz likes paella but Ana prefers spanish omelette.
We really like music specially pop music and R&B, like El canto del loco or Rihanna, but Ana really keen on Spanish music and MªCruz a bit too.
DISLIKES
MªCruz does not like unpolite people like the bus drivers and Ana just hates politics because she thinks that all of them are lyers.
We both can not stand contamination and pollution we have in Spain.
WOULD LIKE TO LIVE
MªCruz would like to live in England because she is really into the country but the only bad thing is that she can´t stand some people because they are not polite, like bus drivers.
Ana would rather to live in Italy(Rome) or Greece because she would mind about the people and the location because it is in the Mediterranean and she would likes the food too.
Writting about what Andrea and Cristina likes and dislikes of Spain

Cristina just loves the beaches of Spain but Andrea prefers the people because they normally are very friendly. Andrea can't say that she really likes Spain because her father is from Italy so then she likes both the same. About our culture Cristina and Andrea are not keen on their self the bulls fighting. Andrea and Cristina can't stand Flamenco is very boring. They don't like very much Spanish food, they prefer Italian's. Both hate Spanish films .
Cristina 'd live in Denmark in Copenaghen because she thinks that the city is very beautiful and she travell to the city and she enjoy it .Sha doesn't think she'd want to live in copenaghen for ever sshe will return to Spain
Andrea love Astralian and she'd want to live in Sidney because she loves surf and she want to try it she likes the weather and she'd love beaches .

LIKES AND DISLIKES OF SPAIN:BY ENZO , ELENA AND MARIA

We really like the Spanish weather, because is not very cold and not very hot. We also like the food,and Maria loves the art and the Spanish museums .
We are really keen on the Spanish beaches like once on Cádiz
We really love the spanish music for example "El Canto del Loco".

We can't stand the traffic jams because we think it's boring. We hate pollution, because it pollutes the country.
We just hate the Spanish films because we would prefer to watch in the screen the British actors and actress on it.We don't like bull fighting.

Enzo would like to go to live in Italy because he speaks italian , for example Milan.
Elena would like to go to live in Australia because she really love koalas.
Maria would like to go to live to New York, because she likes it .

THE END!
SPANISH PREFERENCES
We both love Spanish weather because it is usually sunny and hot.
We love the food too, for example paella, cocido, spanish omellette, jamón serrano, gazpacho...
María Cristina really likes Spanish films but Laura doesn`t mind because she likes all kind of films.
We have in common that we just love Spanish coasts because they are really lovely.
María Cristina really keen on Spanish music and Laura likes it too. Laura really
into Carlos Baute h but María Cristina preffers " La Oreja De Van Gogh".
We hate spanish school well, we can`t stand school at all!!!!!
María Cristina woldn`t mind bull-fighting and Laura too.
We don`t like Spanish traffic jams. they are horrible!!!
We like to life in Spain but we would like travel around the world
THE END
LAURA AND MARÍA CRISTINA
WRITING ABOUT SPAIN
by Carlos & David


We both were born in the capital of Spain, Madrid. So, we like to live hear, in our country.
For us, Spain is one of the bests places to live around the world.

LIKES
We both really like Spanish food because it is taste and healthy. We also prefer our timetable respect to other European countries because we have dinner and go to bed later.

Carlos loves sports, especially football. His favourite team is Real Madrid.
He wouldn't mind seeing a bullfight.

David really keens on the beaches, especially Mediterranean.
He also is really into the Spanish music bands, like El Canto del Loco and Mecano.

DISLIKES
We both hate the Catalan nacionalistics and we also don't like the big traffic jams in Madrid (and in other important cities).

Carlos doesn't keen on himself watching reallity shows, like ''Gran Hermano''.

David can't stand foreign series.

WOULD LIKE TO LIVE

Carlos would like to live in the United States because he really likes all sports and in the United States there are lots.

David would like to live in Italy because he loves Italian food, and Italians, in general.



Carmen's and Jaime's likes and dislikes
Jaime and Carmen love Spanish football, thanks to the Spanish ''La Liga''. They just love the people of Spain because they're so likeable. They're really into Spanish music and they really like Spanish films and actors or actress. They prefer Spanish food because they think it's healthy and it tastes good, like Padron's peppers or Valencian's paella. They'd rather to know about the Spanish culture and they really keen on the Spanish artesanal products like ''botijo'' (Spanish artesanal product that is used to keep cold the water)
They just hate the Spanish politics because they think it just create a lot of problems and it separes the people. Both can't stand the noise and pollution of the most important cities like Madrid, Barcelona or Sevilla. They don't think they'd want to the San Fermines (Spanish national party that is a race with bulls and people placed in Pamplona, Navarra)
They would like to live in Buenos Aires (Argentina) because they think the people are very funny because of their way of speaking Spanish, also the food is very good in Argentina, like a nice beef steak or something else. The women too are very beautiful and chatty.
THE END

I met Ana 5 years ago, while I was spending my summer holidays with my family in Javea. One day, I was in the swimming pool with my friends when she arrived and she started to play with us. We were together the following days and she became my closest friend.

She is 14 years old. She lives in Valencia but it isn't a problem because we get in touch by messenger every day. In summer we spend our holidays together because we continue going to Javea.

We both like the same kind of music and groups, such us El canto del loco and La oreja de van gogh. We both enjoy doing summer sports, like sailing, and other ones such us tennis. We like animals too, and we love go walking with our dogs.

She is hard-working, kind, sociable and cheerful with all people. She loves meeting new people and when we are together we laugh a lot.

Friday, October 13, 2006


My closest friend
I think my closest friend is Miguel, he is 14 years old and he's got blond hair and blue eyes. It's courious that I met him in the British Council last year. He's very tall and thin, so every girls like to go with him. We have the same hobbies like playing computer games ,doing something fun at street or go out with our friends.
He is very sociable and funny, so he haven't got any problems to meet people, he's too very chatty, impatient and likeable so he is always doing something.
He lives in Madrid and he goes to Buen Consejo School. We have a lot of things in common so when we're bored we talk about our life or something else and we have fun.
The best thing I remember I've done with him is when we gone to Negone™ La Fuga and we opened the doors by punchs and we finished in the electrical chair.
By: Jaime Segura
Carlos

My closest friend

My closest friend is called Jaime. He is 14 years old. He is quite short and thin, he has dark hair and brown eyes.

I think one of the most important reason because we are friends is that we both have the same hobbies, playing football and basketball, playing videogames, going out with friends...

He seems shy but with his friends he is sociable and likeable. He is very competitive and hard-working to. He is always laughing.

I met him ten years ago when we start school. We were in the same class and inmediately we become friends. I have stayed always with him in class since that.

He is my closest friend.