Welcome/Bienvenidos

Dear students,

This blog has been created for you to start writing brief compositions about whatever you want. The idea is that you should correct each other, but I will also keep an eye on your writings and correct and comment where necessary. I know it is still very soon for you to produce extensive texts, but whenever you feel ready you are welcome to participate.

Este blog ha sido creado para que vosotros empecéis a escribir breves redacciones sobre lo que se os ocurre. La idea es, que debéis corregiros los unos a los otros, pero yo también estaré al tanto para corregir y comentar donde se necesite. Sé que todavía es muy pronto para que vosotros produzcáis textos extensos, pero cuando quiera que os sentís preparados, podéis participar.

Kindest regards,
Ann Thorsson TAR

What do you enjoy doing?

There are a lot of thing that I enjoy doing. I like traveling for know new places. But when I can't travel because I don't have money then I am at home and I like reading some books or some magazines. I like watching a good movie on television, too.

I enjoy meeting whit my friends and then we go to restaurant or to the cinema. Also, I like doing some sports. I enjoy plays basketball and ride bicycle. I like running too.

On the summer, when I don't work because I have holiday, my family and I go to the beach. We have got a small apartment near of Valencia and we always go when we can. My children like a lot.

WHAT DO YOU ENJOY DOING?

Always, in the evening, my husband likes cooking. My family and I have dinner together, in the kitchen. We like watching TV o reading a book before are going to bed.
Often, on weekends we like going to the movies or at museums.
Sometimes, mi family and I are going to the beach on weekend. We love it because we are enjoying too much. On Friday afternoon we take our car by spend good time at the seaside house. My husband and I like walking barefoot on the beach while the children are playing a ball or making castles. On Sunday in the evening we come back at home, in the town; now start a week hard work.

WHAT DO YOU ENJOY DOING?

There are many things I enjoy doing. On vacation, I'm very happy because I have much free time for me. In the morning, I get up late, more or less at a half past eleven. Then, I take a hot shower and I have breakfast in the kitchen. I usually drink a coffee with milk, and for eat, I have a toast with some butter. Sometimes, I also have some orange juice. After that, I enjoy shopping to a department store because I can buy everything I need to home. Also, I like trying on new clothes with my sister, then we go to a coffee shop and we have a beer and some chips while talk to our things. I enjoy going to the beach, because I love hearing the sea.
I enjoy doing somethings such as: reading a book, watching a romantic film on TV or listening to music. Finally, I like doing different things.

WHAT DO YOU ENJOY DOING?

Hello my name is Macu. I'm thirty-five years old. I'm a secretary in a little company called House in my City. Now, I tell you what I enjoy doing in my free time.
In my spare time I like going to the cinema with my housband. We usually are going once or twice a month.
On weekends I enjoy meetting with my family and talking about the week with them.
All days, after dinner I like watching TV. I watch films, news, etc...
At nigth,, before I go to sleep I like reading books. Now I'm reading The Catcher in the Ryde but it's dificult for me because my english is poor and this is the cause that I study English.

DESCRIBE THE MEMBERS OF YOUR FAMILY AN TELL ABOUT THEIR LIKES AND DISLIKES

My name is Macu and now I live in Melilla. I'm thirty-five years old. I was born in a town called Inca, in Mallorca, The Balearic Islands.

I have a small family. I don't have any brothers or sisters. I'm an only child. I'm married but I haven't got any children.

My housband name's Joaquin. He's Spanish. He is strong. He isn't tall but he isn't short. His eyes are green and he has brown and short hair. He is a good and hardworking man.

He lives with my in Melilla but he is from Laroya, Almeria.

Layora lis in the marble area. This is a village situated in Almeria, in the middle of the Sierra de los Filabres.

His parents, my parents-law live here. We come back here to spend our holidays with them.

Description physique and character.

I'm short and slim with green eyes and bond hair, it's vrey short, my mouth is small, my nose is short, my ears are samall.
I'm very dicreet and agreeable, I'm never sad, I like laugh much and help the persons.
I have very good friends and family big, I like to como weekend with they.
We lunch together and w're very happy.
The summer we go to the mountains with the bicicles, we do exercise physique.

My daily routine

Hi friends,
I wake up at seven o'clock and I have breakfast a glass de milk and toast, and I wacht TV.
I take a shower and I drive to work at a quarter after eight, I take the bus.
I work and office until two thirty, I get home and I've a lunch.
I rest until six thirty, I work the computer in home.
I study at ten o'clock English.

Presentation:

Good evening, my name is Loly, I have two daugthers, Mary the old twenty one years and Raquel the old nineteen years, their father is Carlos the old fourty years. We live the home with five room but at summer we go to the camp.
My daugthers are estudents, I go work at morning the bank, and afternoon we are home.

A typical day

On a typical day I get up at eight thirty. I have breakfast with milk or juice and cereals or toast with butter. I leave home at half pas nine and I take the bus to go to work. I start to work at ten o'clock and at two I'm going home to have lunch.
At the afternoon I go to work again until eight and a half. Everyday after work I go t dance flamenco. I dance one or two hours each day. It's fun and I like dance!
I get home at ten or eleven on the evening. I take a shower, I have dinner, I watch TV or read a book and I go to bed at one. I'm very tired!

Who is she?

She's a woman, a young woman. She's spanish and she's an actress. On last years she was work  very much and now she has got a lot of awards.
She has got a sister and she's an actress too. Sometimes they make photographics sittings for a fashion store and they design togheter woman's clothes.
She's married and now she lives with her husband in the United States. They've got a son. Her husband is an actor too and now they're so happies because they have got a good works, they are famous and their personal life is great.
She isn't very tall but she's a beautiful woman. She's thin, she has a long brown hair and a big brown eyes.

Who is she?

The town where I live

I live in Cartagena, a town on the Region of Murcia.

It's a middle town. Usually I take the car or bus for go to work but you can walk everywhere you want, all it's near.

I don't live in the historical centre, where there are a lots of buildings. I live in a duplex apartment. I like live here because I have a little garden where I can read a book, I can take care of the flowers or I can rest on sunny days.

I like live in Cartagena too because the sea is very near. You can go to the beach in fifteen minutes or you can go to the port and see the sea all days. I like the sea!

The weather here is very good. At winter never it's too much cold and the summer it isn't very hot.

Here ther are a lot of things to do. You can go to the beach and you can make surfing, play volleyball,... or you can visit a lots of museums because Cartagena was a roman city and it has got a roman theatre and a lots of archeological places for visit. It's an interesting city!

You can visit my city and then tell me what's your opinion!

A DESCRIPCION OF THE TOWN WHERE I LIVE

I live in Villaviciosa de Odón, a village what is close to Madrid, to fifteen km around. It's a small village where all is near and you can go walking to anywhere.

Villaviciosa has a lot of green sapace and it doesn't have building more of four floor. There are different housing estate and I live in one. It is very calm; I can listen the birds from muy window when I wake up in the morning. But it has a drawback what is the public transport, it is very little.

In the village there is a castle built in sixteenth century and it was the official residence of King Fernando VI in 1.758. It is very good preserved and actually it is use as archive of the Army of Air, but it can be visited once a year in the month of September.

KIND OF FOOD WHAT I NORMALLY EAT

I like almost all kind of food, but I prefer the simple food. By example, in the breakfast only I take milk with cerearls and biscuit or sponge cake. I never breakfast out home. But I often don't have lunch in my house and I usually don't have a lot for to choose. I like the paste and the legumes as first plate, and I prefer the fish as second plate. I like the salad too. For dessert I always take fruit because I don't like the sweet. In the evening in the dinner I sometimes take soup and a fillet of meat or fried eggs that I live very much. Later I take some of fruit or a yogourt. Also I like all kind of cheeses, but I don't like the coffee.

Write about what kind of food you normally eat

I usually have breakfast one cup of coffee with milk and one slice of bread with butter and marmelade. Sometimes, I have cereal or cookies too.
At noon, I usually have a cup of coffee with milk only. When I get home after work, I eat some salad with lettuce, tomatoes, chees, olives, bacon and tuna for lunch.
Sometimes I have some soap with vegetables, too.
I usually have one yogourt for dessert or one piece of fruit.
At eight or night o'clock, in the evening, I make the dinner. The dinner is very light. I usually eat a salad and one piece of fruit, apple, pineapple. In other times, I eat a small vegetal sandwich or a sandwich of chesse with turkey, for example.
Sometimes, we go to Mac'donalds and eat one hamburguer with cheese. And, we make one pizza in the oven on fridays in the evening.

A LETTER


Dear Carmen:
How are you? How’s the new job?
The course is finished after many month of hard work at the School in Liverpool. Once more I’m planning to spend some days at the beach for the summer vacation. This year I’m thinking to visit my friend Carlos in July. He keeps a big old seaside house in Spain. Carlos says: it will be fun! I going to meet his daughter Alice; she is a beautiful girl four years old. I’m happy; I think it will be a great holiday.
I hope see you soon. I miss you.
Love,
Teresa

Boring job

Now, I am working. I work in a publishing house. I work from Monday to Friday. At the weekends, I am free.

I work forty hours each week, My timetable is from seven in the morning to three in the afternoon.

I am a graphic designer. My job is to make covers for the books. Also, I prepare the books for printed.

I am sitting eigth hours in a day. Sometimes, it is boring. At three o'clock, I need moving my body.

A TYPICAL DAY OF MY LIVE

A typical day of my live is a day what it isn't holiday. It is a day of job. Usually I wake up a quarter to seven in the morning and I take a shower; next I have breakfast; I like milk with cereals and biscuit or sponge cake. At eight o'clok I take the bus for work. Later too I take the underground. I star to work at nine o'clock and I finish at two thirty on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Those days I return to home at a quarter to four. Then I eat and next I take to my son to his activities as basketball or English class. But the Tuesday an Thursday I work too by evening until half past six, and those days I eat in the coffee bar of the job.

At the night I have dinner about ten o'clock and later I watch the televisión or I read a book until what I go to the bed.

MY FAMILY

My family is an ordinary family. It isn't a large family. I'm married and I have two children. They are seventeen and thirteen years old. They are good students and both help us in the job of the home. I don't have any daugther. In our family also there are two grandparentes. They are my mother and the wife's father. We love them a lot of.

I have two brother and they have also two children each one. My wife has two brothers and one sister. They have too two children each one, so we have eight nephew and two nieces.

We have also a lot of aunt and uncles, because my parents and my mother-in law had a lot of brothers and sisters.

A description of your house or apartment

I live in Madrid. My house is a building of six floors and I live on the thirth floor.
It has three bedrooms and two bathrooms. There is one refrigerator and a dishwasher in the kitchen.
There is a big living room too. My house has a terrace with one table and four chairs.
Usually, we use the terrace on Summer.
We have one apartment near of the beach in the north of the country. This apartment is very small. It has one bedroom only. There is a very small kitchen and the living room is small too.
Usually we use the apartment once a month and on Holyday's Summer.

MY HOUSE

I live with my parents in a big house. My house has two floors and a little back garden. On the first floor, there are two rooms, a living room, kitchen and a small bathroom. The living room has modern furniture. There’s a big dinning table where we eat; a largue white couch, coffee table and a lot of shelves. We watch TV in the living room. The kitchen is big, too. We have a stove, oven, microwave, dishwasher, refrigerator and a small table on which we prepare meals.

On the second floor, there are four bedrooms and two bathrooms. My parents have a big bedroom. My brothers’ bedroom is in front of the garden, but my bedroom isn’t. I study in my bedroom because I have a desk in front of the window; I can see the street from it. The walls of my bedroom are yellow and the furniture is brown. The children’s bedroom is green and there are drawings on the walls. They play in their bedroom.

There’s a barbecue in the garden. On weekends we eat together there.

The free time activities you like and when yo do them

I have some activities then I practise in my free time. I like trekking for the mountain very much. Usually, I practise on weekends with my husband and my son.

I practise Yoga, too. May classroom of Yoga is on Thursday in the afternoon. This activity give a lot of peace to me.

Sometimes, I walk for the park very quickly.

I love go to the beach an the Sea. Always I go to the beach on Summer's holydays. I know, Lanzarote, Mallorca and Menorca. There are very nice places.

I have a small apartment in Foz (Lugo) and I go once a month.

We like the caravanning too.

I practise others activities using my computer, every day in the evening. I use the social nets and Internet.

A typical day of my life

I wake up at half past six in the morning. I have a shower and after I have breakfast. Usually, I have one coffee with milk and one slice of bread with butter and marmalade.

At half past seven, I take the underground to go to work in Madrid.

I go home at for o'clock in the afternoon. I pick up my child at school. We play in the park with his friends. At eight o'clock, we have the dinner and watch tv.

Usually, I go to bed at midnight.

My Family

My family is a little family. I'm married and my husband's name is James. We have a child. He es a boy. He is nine years old.

My husband has a mother and one brother and one sister. They live in Oxford. His brother and sister are married too and we have five nephews. My husband doesn't have grandparents.

My parents live in Camdbridge. I have one sister. She is married and have two children; one boy and one girl.

I have two grandparents. They are my mother's parents. They live in a little village in the field. They have three daugters. Every one have two children. I have four cousins.

“Toledo on Friday”

“Toledo on Friday”

On Friday, my youngest sister and I went to Toledo for the afternoon. We took the train in Madrid at three fifty and arrive to Toledo at Four thirty. We had a good time playing with our niece Tina. She’s very nice, has big eyes, small cute nose and curly black hair.
She lives with her mom and grandparents, dad doesn’t lives with Tina. Their house is big and beautiful; there are garden and swimming pool. Tina’s pet is a small rabbit; Daisy is a sweet bunny soft fur, she lives in a big cage in the garden, is very cute. Tina loves to pick up Daisy, but Daisy doesn’t like the height, she’s very scared…..

After holidays

The holidays are finish. Now, we have to study hard, because the test is next.

I have lot of energy, because I come from Portugal. I have the last four days here, and it is very beautiful country.

The meal is very cheap in Portugal. In Lisbon there are public transport a lot: there are train, bus, subway, tram...

And they have the Fado, a tipical Portuguese music. It is very passionate.

Now, I have to study English for travel around the world.

“In a better world”

This weekend I saw a film I liked. The protagonists are two children about ten years old: Elias and Christian living in a village in Denmark, they meet in the school and become great friends. Father’s Elias is a doctor. He often travels to Africa to works in humanitarian aid. For me this movie talks about life, death and justice, so different in these two places. This Danish film wins the Oscar for best foreign film this year. I think so is a great movie.

My Family

My family is not very big. I have a sister and I don´t have brothers. My sister´s name is Ana.
My sister is a very pretty woman. She is brown and has the long hair.
She is married to Carlos. My brother-in-law is very funny and a good-looking man.
They are a beautiful daughter. My niece is very cute. She always has a wonderful smile.
I´m a aunt so happy!!
My father´s name is Argelio. He is widowed. My mother died four years ago. We miss her very much. She will be in my heart forever.
My father is a middle-aged man. He is short, dark and always has moustache.
My father has in his house my two dogs “Hermes” and “Luna” that also they are of the family.

LET'S MAKE A FRUIT SALAD

We need fresh fruits, let's take: two pears, two apples, two slices of pineapple, two hundred and fifty grammes of strawberries, one orange, one slice of watermelon. Alright, first we wash and peel the fruits, we put them in a bowl, then we add some lemon juice, more or less six tablespoon of lemon juice, and some sugar, four tablespoon. Tath's all. I love eating it with my friends, but they like with a little chocolate over.

LET'S MAKE A VEGETABLE SALAD

Recipe number one.-

Ingredients:

We need a bag of baby spinaches, some small tomatoes, pine nuts and another seeds, too. We also need some raisins and two slices of goat French cheese.

For the sauce we need some olive oil, salt, black pepper, apple cider vinegar and berries jam.

Open the bag of spinaches and put in a plate. Add half cuted tomatoes and all seeds. Grill the cheese in the oven and serve over the salad. Finally, mix in a cup some oil, salt, pepper, vinegar and a tablespoon of berries jam and add to the vegetable salad.

¡Enjoy!

Recipe number two.-

Ingredients:

We need some lettuce, two tomatoes, an onion, one avocado pear, a hard boiled egg, some tuna and fresh cheese. We also need some olive oil, pepper, salt, Dijon mustard and some lemon juice, too.

Cut the lettuce, the tomatoes and onion and put together in a bowl. Then, add the tuna, sliced egg and avocado pear. Finally add cheese and mix the mustard, salt and pepper and one teaspoon of lemon juice and a tablespoon of oil.

Hello

Hello. My name's Carmen, but people call me Tati. I'm student of English, and History too. I work in The Administration in the morning, because I'm a civil servant, and I try to study in the evening. I love the music, the photography, the sports...and to go to travel...I love travelling!!! I live in Canary Islands, in Tenerife. I have 50 years old, and I married. I have two children.

MY DAY

My name is Yolanda. Every day I wake up at seven thirty, but on weekend I wake up at nine o'clock. I take a shower and I wake up my son. My son is César and he is four years old, so I help with his clothing.

We have breakfast with my husband at home.

It drive to César's school. He is at school from nine o'clock in the morning until five o'clock in the afternoon, then I go to school, too.

I usualy study english at home and I cook lunch.

In the afternoon I enjoy with my child, we have dinner and we watch TV.

César goes to bed at nine o'clock, and my husband and me go to bed at midnight.

Bye for now.

Let's make a salad!

Hello, everybody!

I'm Ana Vázquez, and now I think you can write how to make a salad. We have learnt some information about food and in some modules of Burlington you have done something similar.

So, now, let's make a salad! Tell me how you make your favourite salad.

See you,

Ana Vázquez

ONE DAY IN MY LIFE

I get up early in the morning, at six o’clock. I go to run along the beach which is near my apartment.After one hour, I return home and I take a hot shower in my bathroom. At half past seven I have breakfast and I read the newspaper. My breakfast is American: I drink orange juice and coffee with milk; I have one slice of bread with butter, bacon and eggs and some cheese.

I don’t live in the center, so at eight o’clock I take the subway to go to work. I don’t drive. My job is in a building of the city. I’m an engineer and I have meeting on Mondays and Tuesdays.

At noon I have lunch in the cafeteria. It’s on the first floor. I finish work around three o’clock. Then, at a quarter past three, I go to The Nautical Club. I like swimming. In the afternoon I go to the supermarket and I buy fruit and vegetables for dinner.

On Thursdays I don’t work and I can help my parents in the books store. There are many old books on shelves and I like looking at them. On Fridays evening my boyfriend and I go to the cinema or a disco.

Before I go to bed I like reading, listening to music or watching TV.

On weekends in the morning I study English at the library but in the afternoon, my boyfriend and I go to our friends’ house.

ingredients to make a vegetable salad

We need the following ingredients: two carrots, three cucumbers, three tomatoes, some lettuce, an onion, one hundred grammes of corn, one hundred and fifty grammes of green olives, some beets, oil, salt and pepper. First, we wash and cut the vegetables, then we put the tomatoes, the cucumbers, the lettuce in a salad dish. Let's add the onion, the green olives and the corn. We also add five tablespoons of oil, and salt and pepper, a little of each. It's finished and ready to eat.

My free time activities

I have a lot free time. I don't work. I am retired. In my free time I like reading, painting, listening to music and walking.
Every day I go to walk, one hour in the morning and another hour in the evening.
On Thursday in the morning I go to classes of paint from ten o'clock until twelve thirty. I like to paint. I paint many things. I pass a lot time to paint at home.
I read a lot too. I read the newspaper every day. From Monday until Friday I read the news online, only on Saturday and Sunday I buy the newspaper. I read many books too.
I like going to theater, cinema and concerts. I like hearing classic music. I have many classic music CD.
I don't like to travel. It is very expensive and very tired.

March, 22/03/2011

THINGS I LIKE

I usually get up early. I like to wake up early. I have breakfast at eight, then I do may housework and then I start studying English. I listen to music to relax, I take care of my plants, I like flowers. I also like reading, walking, going to the movies with friends ... I love to watch the moon and this weekend I enjoyed seeing how big it was.

MY FAMILY

My family is big. I have three brothers and one sister. Their names are Jose, Pedro, Juan and Ana. They all have children. My first brother, Jose, has four children, two granddaughters and one grandson. He likes playing the drums and the guitar. His children work in an office, but he doesn’t have a job.

I have many nieces and nephews. My favorite is Eva. She’s 14 years old and she’s a very good student. She’s Pedro’s daughter, my second brother. Her parents work at home with computers. They are programmers.

My other brother, Juan, is middle-aged. He’s 49 years old and his wife works at home too, but she isn’t a programmer, she’s a housewife.

My sister Ana lives in Madrid with her husband and her beautiful children. She’s young and she’s married to Luis. I don’t see her because she doesn’t like flying (she doesn’t like taking airplanes). I talk to her by telephone every weekend.

I don’t have a father, but I have a mother. Her name is Rosa and she lives in my brother Jose’s house. She comes to my house on Saturdays and Sundays. My husband and I have lunch with her and with my aunt Luisa every Saturday because I like cooking very much. My husband and I live alone at home because our son doesn’t live with us. We also have a dog and its puppy is at my son’s house. My son’s name is Carlos and he lives with his family in another city. He’s a student and he works, too. He’s 30 years old and he has a daughter. In the morning he goes to work at the pet store. He likes animals very much. In the afternoon his wife and he work at a school until eight o’clock. They need a babysitter for their daughter. Carlos studies on the weekends. We always see each other every winter and summer.

What do you do in your free time?

Hi, my name is Toni, I haven't free time because I study and work a lot.

I study Art History at university, in UNED and English elemental at the CUID.

In Summer, ohhhh in Summer, I like lot summer¡ is my favorite season, because, I have a lot free time¡

I go to the beach, I relax, play wolleyball and l like swimming too.At weekends I go to the beach with my family .

I like read books fiction. I love summer, the sun at Mallorca is fantastic and the beaches are very beautiful.

Do you want go to Mallorca next Summer?

see you !

What do you do in your free time?

Hola de nuevo.
Os he propuesto un pequeño ejercicio de redacción. El pequeño ejercicio de redacción que os he propuesto que intentaseis hacer, "what do you do in your free time?". Se trata de que habléis de las actividades que hacéis en vuestro tiempo libre, muy en general. Tendríais que empezar por: " My name is.... I work in.... but I do a lot of things in my free time. On Mondays, I...." (Mi nombre es.... Trabajo en .... pero hago muchas cosas en mi tiempo libre. Los lunes....)

Mucho ánimo y no dejéis de practicar.

Un saludo,
Ana Vázquez
Tutora de Apoyo en Red

A typical day in your life.

Hi, everybody

Se trata de que contéis un poco todas las rutinas que hacéis en vuestra vida cotidiana, para practicar con el presente simple y también con el vocabulario de rutinas y actividades, las horas... Por ejemplo: I get up at eight o'clock, then (después) I have breakfast at half past eight.... Mucho ánimo y no dejéis de escribir, porque es fundamental que escribáis todo lo que podáis.
Un saludo,
Ana Vázquez
Tutora de Apoyo en Red

A description of a friend or relative.

Hello

I'm here again to suggest an essay. In this case you have to write a description of a friend or a person in your family or someone famous. Describe their appearance, their personality, and give some information about their life and their likes and dislikes.
Cheer up!!
Regards,
Ana Vázquez

Your family

Hi, I'm Ana Vázquez, your TAR in Inglés Elemental in CUID and I would like you to write a brief essay about your family to practice the vocabulary, the verb "to be". Just a few words to talk about your parents or your children, their age, their job, etc.

Come on, it's very easy.

Regards.

Ana