The toughest part of being a superhero

Have you ever wondered how life would be if you were a superhero or superheroine? I’m afraid it wouldn’t be easy…

A tower to understand

The boy was playing with his fantastic Christmas present day and night without stopping: the wii. His favourite game showed  an incredible world with what he supposed was perfect life: no rules, no adults telling what to do and only children having fun on their own. As he spent too many hours playing, he didn`t know what the time was and he even lost his meal or forgot to go to bed early when he was alone.  

His eyes started to get red and he felt sleepy and soon his only thoughts were about this perfect world. One afternoon when he was playing with the wii he saw a mirrow on the screen. He had never seen this before so he got to it and, surprisingly, he saw himself in it.It`s an extraordinary effect in this game! he thought. But it wasn`t.  Suddenly, the mirrow sllowed him and he was in the middle of this perfect world.

He enjoyed a lot for some hours thinking it was the best thing he could have. As night arrived, he thought it was time to go home but he didn`t know how to do it. The gps was a good tool to use it but it was another Christmas present and it was at home. He run until he reached the magic mirrow again and tried to pass through it, but it was impossible. He tried hard but he could only pass his arm and reach with his hand the table were the wii was. Fortunately, the gps was on the table too so he took it.

He didn`t have enough time to see how it worked. He tried to use it but it always showed the point: the tower. He followed the signals of the gps until he arrived there.  He climbed to the top and there he noticed his house was in front of the tower, just soem miles away. He started to walk and when he arrived at the house and enter his room nobody noticed he hadn`t been there.

Since that day, he understood real life is much better than anything and the magic mirrow never appeared again.

09carmenlozano

New Old Love’s Stories

William had finished his studies at university successfully and he had achieved a job just a year after. He had graduated in cinematographic studies and he had first started producing and shooting ads and cooking programs for housewife. But his great dream was to bring one day to the big screen the story of his meeting with a girl who said to be a princess from a little country in Asia.
He had known her for almost two weeks in a journey of summer, when William and his father, an important anthropologist, had a rest from the long tour through the woodland. He was a teenager and she was his first and unforgettable love. They were sending letters for years, but the mysterious princess stopped writing one day.
William was a young and attractive man who worked giving instructions to beautiful models and actress throw a microphone and he heard sometimes flirtatious comments by the headphones between ad and recipe. However, he didn’t forget his memories next to the Asian princess.
He became a famous film director ten years later. He thought then it was the opportunity to explain the story that she had told to him throughout her letters about the horrible life in the royal palace. William wanted to tell it to all over the world in order to save her from the prison where she lived and meet with her again. To start, he found the actress whose face had to be more similar to the princess’ face. Secondly, he engaged a good production’s team. All together began to shoot soon. The important film director worked hardly the performance of the princess with the actress in the studio. Their daily contact, besides friends, made them fell in love.
The film opened successfully, but William didn’t have one letter to the old address from the princess. It had probably been all figment of his imagination. William thought then he had few memories. In fat, he was only left with an actress’s face and from that moment on he decided to make new films with other people’s stories. The means of his old dream was the same dream from then. So William completely handed over to the cinema.

09inmarodriguez

New recommendation

There are lots of teachers from the school that are running blogs these days. In our blogroll on the right there is a link for Ana Arrondo’s who also teaches second year of the Advanced level. I think it is very interesting and useful for anyone studying at the school.
Do please have a go and add it to your favourites, it’s great.
Thank you Ana for sharing with us.

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Books, Books, Books

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library”

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

No wonder Jane Austen was right. There are books of all kinds that suit even the most exquisite readers. Now you are ready to write your review. You can read any book of your choice. I only want you to read in English and to enjoy what you read.

Send your reviews to Bloggin’ Time by the 23rd of April, an easy date to remember.

If you want to try again with the interactive exercises, click on the picture.

The strange wish of a princess

Once upon a time there was a young princess who wanted to be independent. She was different from other princesses of those days, she wanted to study and get a job and she didn’t want to obey her father who wanted her to marry a rich prince instead of studying or working. She was a feminist princess so she thought she had to live by her own without depending on a man, but her father was very strict.

One day she went for a walk in the forest and suddenly she found a strange well in the middle of the path. She discovered soon it was a wishing well and she asked it for her dream of having freedom and living alone.

Nothing happened at that moment so the princess left minutes later and she went back home. But, when se was in bed at night, something strange happened: the carpet started to fly. It was a magic carpet! She thought she was lucky, she could use the carpet to fly away from home. But then she realised she couldn’t live without a job.

Some days later, she saw an interesting job advertisement on the newspaper. She could earn a lot of money in spite of not having a degree but there was a problem: she had to move to London. She had the magic carpet to travel but she couldn’t speak English well and she couldn’t tell her father she wanted to attend English classes. Then she had an idea: she could use the game machine The Three Wise Men had given her at Christmas, the Nintendo DS, to learn English with the English training game.

That was the solution. She learnt English, she travelled by carpet to London and she got the job and now she is a happy independent girl.

09nataliagarcia

A HAPPY ENDING STORY

I’ll never forget that thrilling adventure which changed the boring life I used to have.

It was a rainy evening. I was working at home with my computer in order to finish a horrible essay for my boss. Suddenly, the light went out and the computer stopped working. As soon as the light returned, the computer switched on by its own. I tried to recover my essay, but the computer didn’t recognize my orders. I seemed as if it had its own life!

A website appeared on the screen. I wanted to close it, but I couldn’t. Finally, I read it. It was a wizard’s website which promised a wonderful treasure to the first ten e-mails sent to him. I thought he was a cheater, a fool, or both. But I was so upset because of my lost essay that I decided to write it. I still don’t know whether I did it to kill time or just for fun.

Next morning, a phone call woke me up. I was told that I had won one of the wizard’s treasures, but I had to take a flight to Bagdag that morning. Someone was waiting for me and all my expenses would be paid.

I knew I shouldn’t do it. I knew it could be dangerous! But I also knew my boss would fire me because I hadn’t finished my essay. So, I went to Ranon airport and a magic carpet was there waiting for me!

The rest of the story is too long to be told now. I only can assure you, from my wonderful palace near the sea, that the treasure and the wizard were real and I won’t need to write boring essays anymore.

09conchiolea