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1) EMAIL:

          From: Andrea Mateos

          Sent: 21st July 2008

          Subject: Getting fit

Hi Jennie, I'm happy to have recived your email and I would try to help you in everything I can.

Well, I can't come and run with you at the park because now, I'm working as a waiter and I have to work hard so I don't have much time and if i go with you I'll be very tired, but recently, there are a group of girl that go jogging every Monday at 8pm, if you're interesed in it, I can give you the number of the orgaizer.

Near where you live, there is the best gym of the are, it's called "Red Point Gym" and it isn't very expensive.

And I will be very pleased to teach you how to swim. We can meet in the municipal swimming pool this Friday at 10:00 and after, if you want, we can have lunch at my favourite restaurant that is next to the swimming pool. 

See you sson,

Andrea. 

2) WHEN I WAS SMALL:

When I was a child, I had a lot of friends but my best friend was Laura. We always did all together; we ate together, we played together, we sat dawn in clas together and even we went to the hairdresser together! I laughed a lot with Laura, she was very funny, but when we started the primary school, she had to go to another school far away from mine and we didn't meet for a long time. But recently, I had known about her and we're going to meet when the school ends.

Shakespeare life

William Sheakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, in central England, on April 23 1564, and he died on his 52nd birthay, on April 23,1616 in Stratfrtod. His father, John Shakespeare was a glovemaker, a shop keeper, a land owner and a bailiff (mayor) of Stratfrod, and his mother, Mary Arden, inherited land which was bequeathed to William. He had seven brothers and sisters and his family was "well-off".

Sheakespeare, probably, attended to school until 15 yeard old. He studied latin, read mythology, Ovuid,... He married Ane Hathaway on Novembre 27, 1582 when he was only 18 years old, she was eight years older than him, and they had three children: Susanna and Hamnet and Judith, they were twins. He went to London to work as an actor and writer. In 1559, The Globe theatre was built in London, and he worked in it. This theatre was situated on the banks of the River Thames, where takes places some of the first perfomances, but in 1613, the theatre was destroyed by a fire. However, in 1997, a new reconstruction was built near the original site so you can go to the Globe Theatre to see one of the Sheakespeare play's. He was a great actor, he was member of a repertory group (Chamberlain's Men) and by 1592, he was recognized as a successful actor in London stage (as well as a leading poet).

The work of Shekespeare consists of 38 plays, 154 sonetos and some other poems. This work still surviving today, perhapes we all like his plays because they all contain fantastic stories. All the plays are full of parties, weddings and funerals.

Stratford-upon-Avon, in central England, in 1564

Stratford-upon-Avon, in central England, in 1564

Stratford-upon-Avon, in central England, in 1564

Stratford-upon-Avon, in central England, in 1564

Stratford-upon-Avon, in central England, in 1564

Stratford-upon-Avon, in central England, in 1564

Love is in the air

Many of my favourites films are love stories. I really enjoy watching this kind of films. Recently, I've seen one called "Letters to Julieta". This film it's about a couple that are expending his holidays in Italy. Victor, the boyfriend, have a restaurant and he love attend to a differents conferences about food, and while he is in all this places, the girl, Sophie, pas the day in a office answer letters to all the people that leave one in the place that Rome and Julieta had met. Sophie recives a letter from Claire, that is 60 years old and she is trying to find Lorenzo, a man that she knew when they were adolescents. Sophie will begin a travel for The Toscana with Claire and her grandson, Christopher for find Lorenzo. Sophie and Claire became good friends, but Christopher, at the beggining is very unfriendly with Sophie. This travel will end with two weddings; one between Claire and Lorenzo that when they get together, fall in love again. The other is between Sophie and Christopher. Sophie find all the love in Christopher that she didn't had with Victor.

There is the trailer of the film!

The best time of the year

When I was a child, I used to think that the best time of the year was Christmas, but now I think that it's the Summer. Summer is perfect because you don't have to go to the school, you aren't stresset for the exames and you don't have any concern. The best is tah it's always warm, you can stay the whole day at the beach with all your friends, you can go out at nights, you can know a lot of people,... definetly, I can't wait for the Summer!

My free time

I love have free time because it's a time that I can devote only on me. In my free time I love listening to music, I can be a whole day listening to music. When I was little I used to play the guitar, but I had to stop because I hadn't time for practice. Other of my hobbies is play football, I love it too. When I'm with all my friends we mostly play football and we spend a very good time. 

The days that I don't have homework or I don't have to study, I like taking a long long, long bath. It's very relaxing.One day I was in the bathtub near two hours! Another thing that I like to do in my free time is reading books, it's a good thing for when you don't know waht to do, you are entretained for a log time (if the book it's good).

New year's resolutions

This new year I have a lot of resolutions and my principal is remove better marks in all the subjects, especially in pshycs that I've taken bad note.
Some of the all resolutions I have are: do more exercice, like go to run, go to the swimming pool or to the gym, I would  like visit places outside Spain like Berlín, London or Greece, and specially, I would like that this year was better than the last (that it will be). I
I hope follow all my new resolutions for the year, but I don't promise nothing!

What's Christmas for me?

When I was little, Christmas was my favourite time of the year. I liked it for all the presents, the lights in the street, the vacacions at the school, all the films about SantaClaus,... Now I like it too, because is the time that all the family meet but it's diferent because I grow up and I don't care so much about all the fantastic stories. Now it is a time for relaxing and having fun with the family, before I was always very excited waiting for the coming of Santa Claus and the Three Magician Kings.
When I was little the thing that I like most to do was the list of the thinks taht I want, and then, waking up and see all the presents. Of course, now, I like the presents too, but doesn't in the same way.

Reflection about the first term

In this first term I lkied to do "My Wolrd's" because I can talk abou the things I like most. And I miss do more songs because we only did one and I think that you can learn a lot with song for all the vocabulary that it have and you can practice your pronunciaton, moreover, the class pass faster.

The murder in rue morgan

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Comic relief.

Comic relief it's a funny scene that serves to lower the tension of the film. It's often use  in horror films. It's great that is use this type of things because if there aren't for this, I couldn't see an horro film. In the film "Sleepy Hollow", there are some moments when you can relax a little bit, for example, when the main character is inspecting the corpse of a women, a spurt of blood splas in his face.

Suspense

The director of the movie "Psycho" is Alfred Hitchok, which is also know as the master of suspense. He was the director of the movie (psycho). The types of characters that he used to use in horro films are blonde womans, mad mans (or womens), ... He had a particular technique to use the camera, he always record from de killer's point of view.

The tell-tale heart.

This sotry was wrote for Edgar Allan Poe in 184.The tell-tale heart is an story about an unnamed narrator who try to convince the reader of his inocence while he's describing a murder that he commited. The victim was an old man with a family "vulture eye" (as the narrator call it). The murder is carefully calculated and the killer hides the body of the victim under the floorboards. At the end, the narrator, feels guilty and he start to have hallucinations and he says that he can hear the sound of the beat of the heart under the floor.

Edgar Allan Poe was who wrote the first macabre story. The fisrt P.H.S was published in 1835 and other types of stories like this are detective story and science fiction.

My favourite horror film.

I don't like very much horror films and for this, I don't see this kind of film very often, but If i have to choose one, I think that it would be "The Woman In Black". It's about a one lawyer that his company destines him to a little village for trayimg to sell a mansion. The people of the village don't want that nobody enter in the house because there are an spirit of a woman angry for the death of his son. While the lawyer is founding a solution for the spirit go away, it start to kill all the kids in the village.
There is the trailer of the film!

The Gothic Novel.

The Ghotic Novel was invented by Horance Walpole in 1764, when he makes The Castle of Otranto (that was the first Gothic Novel). This film have all of the basic element of horror like:
- An atmosphere of mystery and suspense.
- Omens, portents na dvisions.
- Suopernatural or otherwise inexplicable events.
And many more.

Correction of the writing.

I feel vey happy when I don't have nothing to do (lke homework, study for a exam, make an essa, help my other,...) and when I am like this, I always meet my friend to do smething and we always lugh a lot because all of them are very cheerful.

When I listen to a bad new, I feel very sd, and then I listento some music. Sometimes, I listen to sd musc and I became ever saddest, but when I start to listen "cheerful music", i became very happy at the moent because I don't think in the problems.

When I have a week with  lot of exams and homework, I feel very stressed ll the week. To fight stress I like to go to the trains of football because is a time that Idon't have to think about all the things that I ave to do and I can laugh with all the friends that I have in the team.