Formal Letter

54 Alfred Sillow
London
United Kingdom

15th May, 2009

Mr. Sanns
Box 245
Brighton

Dear Mr. Sanns,

I’m writing in reply to your advertisement published in Travel magazine.
I have total availability during the months you say on the advertisement. I have a degree of
culture and tourism done at the University of Pennsylvania. I have been working as a tour guide and receptionist at the Hotel Bahia Principe. I’ve 20 years and I am very nice and open to the public. I love relationships and get friendly with people. I have no health problem and I've never had any serious. I have been studying English at school official languages in Barcelona. Also speak perfectly the Spanish and Catalan.

I am very interested in your advertisement and I’m very grateful if you could answer me as soon as possible. I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours sincerely

Ariadna Gràcia.

Experience

One Saturday when I was only seven years I went to horse riding like every weekend. That day was special because we left the horses to a restaurant where we ate. The restaurant was “El Càmping d’Esponellà” and to go up there I had to go through forests, meadows and rivers. When we passed by a narrow path where there was a cliff on one side and woods on the other, we decided to put the horses into a gallop, but mine was very nervous and began to retreat until it was hanging with me on top of a cliff. My friends fell quickly to help us, but my horse pulled forward until I am on the floor, but he was still hung . So I started to pull it with the help of my friends until they could end up. The horse was lame and had wounds on all sides, especially in the legs because when he pulled forward to leave me in the ground damage was done, so we called a veterinarian who came in and what followed was cured. That day, had it not been for the courage of the horse I would have fallen from the cliff with him, but it saved me.

Opinion Essay

OPINION ESSAY
Should the same laws which prohibit the sale and consumption of heroin be applied to tobacco?
As far as I'm concerned I think yes. The tobacco isn't considered a drug but it's still hard hit to health. I believe that we should apply the same laws, but the problem is there are a lot of money behind the tobacco and that is the reason it isn't prohibited.
The tobacco harms ous health, maybe not in the same way as other drugs, but in a long term, tobacco can cause very serious problems such as cancer. When we buy a pack of tobacco, we really don't know what are we buying, as it contains many ingredients weren't specified.
As I said before, the problem is all the money behind the tobacco. Many people do not care it it harms the health of others, just want to have money and don't mind the price they must pay to achieve it.
Unfortunately, we live in a corrupt world where selfishness of people going beyond what is ethical or moral, where the only God is the money and beyond there is nothing.

Mary Curie

MARY CURIE
Mary Curie was born as Manya Sklodowska in Warsaw, Poland in 1867. At first, she began working as a governess in the rural town of Szczuki, in Poland.
Then, she enrolled in the University of Paris as Mademoiselle Marie Sklodowska.
Soon, she received her “licence és sciences physiques”, the French equivalent of a master's degree in physics.
One year later she went to the French's Society for the Encouragement of National Industry of study the magnetism of steels and met Pierre Curie.
After that, she married him.
Later, she began her investigation of “Becquerel rays” as the doctorate thesis.
Pierre joined her work. One year later, she announced, with her husband, the discovery of polonium and radium, began her four-year effort to prepare a pure sample of radium.
In 1903, Mary received her doctorate physics from the University of Paris, then, Mary, Pierre Curie and Henri Bacquerel shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of radioactivity.
Soon, Pierre was killed when a horse-drawn wagon ran over him in a busy Paris street and after that, the University of Paris selected Mary Curie to succeed her husband as professor of physics and she became the university's first female professor.
Next, France Academy of Sciences refused to grant Curie membership because she was a woman, but in the same year she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of radium and polonium.
As soon as the world war I ended, Curie oficially opened the Radium Institute of the University of Paris. Then, she visited the United States to raise money for the Radium Institute. Finally, in 1934 she died of leukemia caused by radiation poisoning.

CATALONIA'S VERSION OF ROBIN HOOD

a. Who was Serrallonga? He was a catalan bandoleer. He robbed from the rich and battled royalist forces as Robin Hood.

b. Eho was Robin Hood? He was an england bandoleer. He robbed from the rich and battled royalist forces.

c. What things did they have in common? They were bandoleers and they robbed from the rich and battled royalist forces.

DESCRIPTION: MY BEST FRIEND

I would like to write about my best friend, Lorena. We've got a very special friendship because we knew since we were children and we've always help when we needed. Further, I believe she's a very good friend and I love her way of being.
Lorena is the kind of a person you can trust. She's a very sociable person and always tries to help people in need. She has got a great sense of humor too, and I laught a lot with her! She has got dark eyes. Her hair is long, dark and curly. She always wears trendy clothes and loves flamenco music.
So, in conclusion, Lorena is one of the most important people in my life and I love her very much, I'm lucky to be her friend!

PARTY TIME FOR SANT NARCÍS

1.What is it about? It's about an anual festival in honour of Sant Narcís, the Girona's patron saint.

2.Which events/ activities did you take part in? This year only I went to the fairs because it was all the weekend raining, but I love see the other activities as gegants, correfocs, castellers...