14th TOPIC: JOB
1. (to be called for) An interview for a job
2. Cover letter / job application letter
3. Job offers
4. Chief / Boss
5. Workmate
6. Customer
7. Self- employed worker
8. Part-time work
9. Business travel
10. Unemployed
11. Civil Servant
12. Plumber
13. Firefighter (fireman and firewoman)
14. Police officer (policeman and policewoman)
15. Teacher
Sunday, 6 March 2011
GAP YEAR TRAVEL
13th TOPIC: GAP YEAR TRAVEL
1.- a Passport
2.- a boarding card
3.- hand luggage
4.- pack your bags
5.- check-in-desk
6.- a flight number
7.- a gate
8.- destinations
9.- adventures
10.- volunteer and work abroad
11.- packing checklist
12.- backpacking essential items
13.- travel guides
14.- to travel light ~overpacking
15.- backpacking
16.- first/ economy class
17.- to travel on your own
18.- airport
19.- languages / countries
20.- enjoying
21.- bus / train station
22.- traveller
1.- a Passport
2.- a boarding card
3.- hand luggage
4.- pack your bags
5.- check-in-desk
6.- a flight number
7.- a gate
8.- destinations
9.- adventures
10.- volunteer and work abroad
11.- packing checklist
12.- backpacking essential items
13.- travel guides
14.- to travel light ~overpacking
15.- backpacking
16.- first/ economy class
17.- to travel on your own
18.- airport
19.- languages / countries
20.- enjoying
21.- bus / train station
22.- traveller
LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
12th TOPIC: LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
1. countries
2. travelling
3. be open-minded
4. freedom
5. autonomy
6. culture
7. listening
8. speaking
9. reading
10. writing
11. learning about your mother tongue
12. grammar
13. meet new people
14. vocabulary
15. course of languages
16. travel abroad
17. Broaden (ampliar) ‘Learning a foreign language broadens your mind’
1. countries
2. travelling
3. be open-minded
4. freedom
5. autonomy
6. culture
7. listening
8. speaking
9. reading
10. writing
11. learning about your mother tongue
12. grammar
13. meet new people
14. vocabulary
15. course of languages
16. travel abroad
17. Broaden (ampliar) ‘Learning a foreign language broadens your mind’
POSITIVE THINKING ESSAY
Hi, everybody!
Now I’m telling you about POSITIVE THINKING.
First I’m explaining you there are two kind of people: optimistic and pessimistic people.
A pessimist is a person who nurtures a consistently negative attitude, expecting the worst of people and of situations. A pessimist relates to the “half empty glass,” ignoring the fact that the glass is also half full. He or she typically believes that the world in which we live is the worst possible of all worlds and it is growing bleaker all the time.
An optimist is a person disposed to take a favorable view of things.
Besides, researches made along tens of years revealed that optimistic people have a better health, and live longer. Optimistic people are also more resistant to stress and less prone to depression.
So, I think it is interesting to know:
How to be a more positive person
Positive thinking is when you put out a deliberate effort to act and think in an optimistic way. When you think positive you see the best in things and expect a successful conclusion. Positive thinking brings about positive actions. You will complete things faster, do a superior job, have more success, and be a happier and healthier person by being positive.
Here are six things that you can do to improve your positive thinking and help you feel better about yourself.
1 - Motivate Yourself
Everyday. Being productive will help you build self-confidence and make you feel better about yourself.
2 - Think Positive
Positive thinking brings about positive actions. Do not go into things thinking you are going to fail. Go into everything thinking you will succeed and do a good job.
3 - Do Your Best
Always approach everything with energy and enthusiasm and do the best job that you can. When you do your best, you will feel better about yourself.
4 - Leave the Past Behind
Remember past successes and leave past failures behind. When you focus on your successes, you boast your self-confidence. When you focus on past failures you belittle yourself and make yourself feel inadequate.
5 - Project Self Confidence and Energy
By projecting confidence and energy you help others to do the same. By sharing your optimistic attitude, you increase your own.
6 - Make Positive Thinking a Habit
By taking the time every day to focus on all the positive things in your life, you develop the habit of thinking more positive and being an overall more optimistic person. Start each day and each new endeavour by reminding yourself how truly great you are. Only by having faith in yourself will you reach your true potential.
As a result, I think it is better to be an optimistic person.
Are you an optimistic or a pessimistic person?
By Ana
Now I’m telling you about POSITIVE THINKING.
First I’m explaining you there are two kind of people: optimistic and pessimistic people.
A pessimist is a person who nurtures a consistently negative attitude, expecting the worst of people and of situations. A pessimist relates to the “half empty glass,” ignoring the fact that the glass is also half full. He or she typically believes that the world in which we live is the worst possible of all worlds and it is growing bleaker all the time.
An optimist is a person disposed to take a favorable view of things.
Besides, researches made along tens of years revealed that optimistic people have a better health, and live longer. Optimistic people are also more resistant to stress and less prone to depression.
So, I think it is interesting to know:
How to be a more positive person
Positive thinking is when you put out a deliberate effort to act and think in an optimistic way. When you think positive you see the best in things and expect a successful conclusion. Positive thinking brings about positive actions. You will complete things faster, do a superior job, have more success, and be a happier and healthier person by being positive.
Here are six things that you can do to improve your positive thinking and help you feel better about yourself.
1 - Motivate Yourself
Everyday. Being productive will help you build self-confidence and make you feel better about yourself.
2 - Think Positive
Positive thinking brings about positive actions. Do not go into things thinking you are going to fail. Go into everything thinking you will succeed and do a good job.
3 - Do Your Best
Always approach everything with energy and enthusiasm and do the best job that you can. When you do your best, you will feel better about yourself.
4 - Leave the Past Behind
Remember past successes and leave past failures behind. When you focus on your successes, you boast your self-confidence. When you focus on past failures you belittle yourself and make yourself feel inadequate.
5 - Project Self Confidence and Energy
By projecting confidence and energy you help others to do the same. By sharing your optimistic attitude, you increase your own.
6 - Make Positive Thinking a Habit
By taking the time every day to focus on all the positive things in your life, you develop the habit of thinking more positive and being an overall more optimistic person. Start each day and each new endeavour by reminding yourself how truly great you are. Only by having faith in yourself will you reach your true potential.
As a result, I think it is better to be an optimistic person.
Are you an optimistic or a pessimistic person?
By Ana
POSITIVE THINKING
11th TOPIC: POSITIVE THINKING
Optimist (sust.) – optimistic (adj.)
Interesting
Courage
Encouraging people
Great!
Congratulations!
Don't worry! Be happy!
Cheer up!
Good luck!
You can get it!
Cool
Self-esteem
satisfaction
To do all the things lovingly
To share your life with the people that you love (friendship/family/love)
You can do it
Listen to music you like (romantic music, classical music...)
Go out with friends
Play any sport or do exercise
Don't watch or read bad news and watch comedies.
Optimist (sust.) – optimistic (adj.)
Interesting
Courage
Encouraging people
Great!
Congratulations!
Don't worry! Be happy!
Cheer up!
Good luck!
You can get it!
Cool
Self-esteem
satisfaction
To do all the things lovingly
To share your life with the people that you love (friendship/family/love)
You can do it
Listen to music you like (romantic music, classical music...)
Go out with friends
Play any sport or do exercise
Don't watch or read bad news and watch comedies.
Sunday, 27 February 2011
COMMUNICATION TODAY ESSAY
In the last decades the ways people use to communicate between them are changing quickly. In only one century we have changed from letters and telegraph to mobile phones and social networks. It’s true that the communication nowadays is faster than before. We know whatever thing that happens in wherever place immediately. Nowadays we have more technology than never before to improve our communication, but it’s true too that this doesn’t mean necessarily that now we communicate better than before. I’m going to explain some examples.
Today it’s difficult to find somebody that doesn’t use mobile phone. This little gadget allows us to speak with everybody when we want and from wherever place. It isn’t only used to speak, but also, to send photos, messages or e-mails, to look for on the Internet or even to watch TV programmes. It helps us in difficult situations but to tell the truth we have paid a price for that. We have lost a piece of our freedom. Now we have the obligation to be located for our boss, family ... all the time. There is a big alarm if you don’t answer or return the call immediately.
In the same way the Internet has invaded our lives to make communication easier and cheaper. We can chat and swap information with people around the world. It’s a fact that we live in the global village. However it isn’t less true that we spend a lot of time chatting in the networks with people we will never meet and we don’t talk with people that are in the same place while we wait for the doctor, for the bus or we are in a queue. We are too much busy with our mobiles phones.
Other consequence about the near relation between communication and technology is that we are forced to be learning constantly about the new technologies. And that takes a lot of our free time. Besides, to young people (and not so young too), it is necessary to belong to a network like Facebook or Twitter. These days if you don’t are in some of them, you don’t exist. And moreover now it is in fashion to have a blog that you must update frequently. All that things are fantastic and really interesting but the problem is that they take our time off.
In my opinion, people are so interested in communicating using the new technologies that we are losing our social abilities for the communication face to face. I think we should include the new technologies in our lives but don’t let them replace the satisfaction to connect with the emotions and other feelings that you can see when you talk face to face.
What do you think about?
By Alicia
Today it’s difficult to find somebody that doesn’t use mobile phone. This little gadget allows us to speak with everybody when we want and from wherever place. It isn’t only used to speak, but also, to send photos, messages or e-mails, to look for on the Internet or even to watch TV programmes. It helps us in difficult situations but to tell the truth we have paid a price for that. We have lost a piece of our freedom. Now we have the obligation to be located for our boss, family ... all the time. There is a big alarm if you don’t answer or return the call immediately.
In the same way the Internet has invaded our lives to make communication easier and cheaper. We can chat and swap information with people around the world. It’s a fact that we live in the global village. However it isn’t less true that we spend a lot of time chatting in the networks with people we will never meet and we don’t talk with people that are in the same place while we wait for the doctor, for the bus or we are in a queue. We are too much busy with our mobiles phones.
Other consequence about the near relation between communication and technology is that we are forced to be learning constantly about the new technologies. And that takes a lot of our free time. Besides, to young people (and not so young too), it is necessary to belong to a network like Facebook or Twitter. These days if you don’t are in some of them, you don’t exist. And moreover now it is in fashion to have a blog that you must update frequently. All that things are fantastic and really interesting but the problem is that they take our time off.
In my opinion, people are so interested in communicating using the new technologies that we are losing our social abilities for the communication face to face. I think we should include the new technologies in our lives but don’t let them replace the satisfaction to connect with the emotions and other feelings that you can see when you talk face to face.
What do you think about?
By Alicia
EATING HABITS ESSAY
Nowadays we live fast. We always go running to everywhere. We are really busy, we work, we have children, we do housework, we study and we have an intense social life.
We don´t have enough time for us and finally we have bad eating habits because it is faster to cook a hamburger than to cook a good stew. It is faster to eat a sandwich than to eat a big salad.
A lot of times we need to eat out and fast food is cheaper or we often go out with friends and we eat too much and we drink alcohol.
Also, in these days, there are all kinds of food in the supermarkets, food with a lot of fat like pizzas, chocolates, ice-creams, cakes, buns or chips. Fifty years ago in Spain it was difficult to find this type of food, but now it´s easy and not very expensive. Young people like this type of food very much. But they are consuming a lot of calories in a few grams. And they can become overweight.
On the other hand, at present we have more information about what´s better to eat or what´s worse to eat. There are advertising campaigns about eating five (fruits and vegetables), fish, low calories food, etc. And the last campaigns in the schools about eating clementine oranges.
In conclusion, eating habits are really important for our health. We decide to have bad or healthy eating habits.
By Mª Dolores
We don´t have enough time for us and finally we have bad eating habits because it is faster to cook a hamburger than to cook a good stew. It is faster to eat a sandwich than to eat a big salad.
A lot of times we need to eat out and fast food is cheaper or we often go out with friends and we eat too much and we drink alcohol.
Also, in these days, there are all kinds of food in the supermarkets, food with a lot of fat like pizzas, chocolates, ice-creams, cakes, buns or chips. Fifty years ago in Spain it was difficult to find this type of food, but now it´s easy and not very expensive. Young people like this type of food very much. But they are consuming a lot of calories in a few grams. And they can become overweight.
On the other hand, at present we have more information about what´s better to eat or what´s worse to eat. There are advertising campaigns about eating five (fruits and vegetables), fish, low calories food, etc. And the last campaigns in the schools about eating clementine oranges.
In conclusion, eating habits are really important for our health. We decide to have bad or healthy eating habits.
By Mª Dolores
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