ESSAY - UNIT 2 - NIGHTMARE JOURNEY



Deadline: December 9th or 10th (depending on your timetable)


Write about a nightmare journey you have had or invent one (between 150 - 180 words)





Paragraph 1: When? Where? Who? Why?

Paragraph 2: What happened?

Paragraph 3: What happened in the end?

Some tips:

You are writing a narrative so remember to use time connectors.
Here you have some of them:

First (of all), at first, suddenly, as soon as, until, then, next, before, after, after that, afterwards, when, while, during, soon, immediately, finally, eventually.

If you are not sure about how to use them, use a dictionary to read some examples.

And.. after the nightmare... A JOKE

When travelling good funny situations may happen too, so here you have a joke of a journey by train. ENJOY YOURSELF!!

A man and a woman who have never met before find themselves in the same sleeping carriage of a train.

After the initial embarrassment, they both manage to get to sleep; the woman on the top bunk, the man on the lower.

In the middle of the night, the woman leans over and says, "I'm sorry to bother you, but I'm awfully cold and I was wondering if you could possibly pass me another blanket."

The man leans out and, with a glint in his eye, says, "I've got a better idea. Let's pretend we are married."

"Why not," giggles the woman.

"Good," he replies. "Get your own damn blanket."

Smiley Faces - Gnarls Barkley

Hi everybody,

About "The Script"I think they have a nice sound and they have a lot "soul" in the songs.....very emotional Irish trio.


I would like to post the following song because I like it! If someone has a opinion about it.....please, I would be please to hear you.......

Hope you like it too..........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZJ8hMA3eU4


Bye bye for now!

Sex Boom

I like some sports. One is Ice Skating, and it's so dificult to see it, because you don't can see it on the TV. But this year I have the fortune and I can waching on TV, in eurosport channel. Last weekend was celebrated The Russian's Cup. It was more excitant and funny. There were lots spectators. One of those was Euvgeni Plushenko. He is one of the best ice skater of the world. He was retired three years ago, but he did amazing pirouettes and leaps. I think him have not been overcome yet.
Well, here you're a entertain video with a exibition program. I hope you like it.

The Script

Hi, I like lots kind of music, but now I have descovered a group called The Script . Fist, I listened "The man Who Can't Be Moved", their first single in Spain.
Now I'm listening all their album and I'm not going to tired to listen it. Their music has something that it makes me feel fine, the singer's voice is so...I don't know describes it now. Well, I'm trying to traslate their songs and understanding when they speak; this last question is complicated for me at the moment, because my listening and speaking is not enough that I'd like.
I hope you like this video. It`s their first single in UK and Ireland. The song is "We Cry".
You can write comment whith your opinion.

working hard in the computers room

Today we are working in the computers room. We (Pablo and Lucía) have done all our homework very fast and our fantastic teacher Andrea [ :-) ] has asked us to post something on her blog. The main problem is the fact that we don't know what to talk about.
We are going to describe the situation that we´re living at this moment. We are about 30 and we are all very hard-working. We think that all of us will pass this year ( Pablo says he doesnt think so)...
Now Pablo is talking about which is the means of transport we have chosen in the last activity.
And I'm going to finish this strange text saying that we invite you to clean it when you wish.

First Holidays Abroad.....Tunisia!

Hi,
For the first time in life I took the opportunity of enjoying a holidays abroad.......with some friends. The final destination was Tunisia......I don´t like the hot weather, so the idea of travelling to Tunisia and putting up with high temperatures was not really attractive for me but eventually it worthed it.

So, my friends and I flew into Monastir airport from Santiago and after getting cash......we were on our way through customs and ready to experience the country... We got to the hotel and checked in. The staff at the hotel were always lovely and helpful. We stayed in a typical hotel and tourist resort with huge hotels located in the coast. Everything was shiny, clean and comfortable.

The next morning we walked around Hammamet (resort town) and booked our tours for the week. We walked 10kms along the beach to the old town to see the medina. The lovely Mediterranean Sea and wonderful sand beaches are definitely one of the best points for Tunisia. We played beach volleyball, flew the parachute and rode the banana (both driven by motor boats) and generally had a very good time.

The next day we did a tour of Tunis, Carthage, and Sidi Bou Said which is a gorgeous little town painted white with blue doors and windows. Carthage is a place full of roman ruins which I was keen to see and eventually was a really nice surprise. For the next days, we had planned a 3 day tour to different places.....

The first day we visited a roman amphitheatre smaller than the coliseum but very well preserved and quite impressive. We also went to Matmata where some episodes of Star wars were filmed and where people live underground because it is too hot.

Around that place, we ate in an underground restaurant a traditional food (if you ever go to Tunisia... You have to eat a Brik...it is nice). Sadly, probably the food was not as nice as its looks because practically all of us got stomach problems....

On that afternoon, we reached the Sahara starts where we had camel rides in the desert. On that day, we spent the night sleeping in the dessert in a terrible and horrible hotel.....

On the next day, we crossed a salt lake which is 200km by 100km and then into an oasis (we were around 40-43Cº temperature) and finally, we went by car through the Atlas mountains which was dusty and even hotter temperature but an amazing view........

On last tour day, we made some tourist activities which were not really interested and then we back to Hamammet. There, we spent the last days trying to get a bargaining and found ourselves in bad deals.....and also spending a bit of time in the pool just relaxing.

In general, I absolutely loved my time in Tunisia, despite of some bad points (It is a bit an underdeveloped country when you leave the resorts) but Tunisia is a wonderful place for visiting and having fun where you will find unforgettable memories. I would recommend it, however, I just hope not to be back there.......at least on summer time!!!

My last summer... I worked

My last summer I worked so I hadn´t holydays, only in my free days when I came back to my home in Ourense or to somewhere with my friends to enjoy the summer.

But my job wasn´t a typical job in a office, my office was a light aircraft. I worked for the Ministery fighting against the wildfires in the northwest of Spain. We (my pilot, co-pilot and I) lived in Santiago and if there was an important-big wildfire Ministery or Xunta called me to say the coordinates of the wildfire.

With this job I usually traveled around Galicia and León, and I saw some marvellous views like the photo, that is a reservoir in the mountains between Galicia and León. But the best was to have the opportunity of pilot a light aircraft, It was incredible and amazing. Some of my friends are very jealous. I didn´t work a lot of, I saw marvellous scenery and I piloted a light aircraft(Can I ask for anything more?)

In my last travel on holidays with my friends we went to Chicago, but I´ll speak you about this travel other day.

Madrid

What have I done this summer? Really… this year nothing, I hope the next year this change. Jej, but I am jealous for the person who tells her travel to Iceland two posts before. When somebody ask me: Where would you like to travel? I answer always this country. Well, maybe someday.. , anywhere I hope mariaD has enjoyed her holidays.

This summer, at least, my nephew came to Madrid to visit me, Well my sister and my brother in law also came, and one day, we went to the zoo.
Well, In the picture my nephew and I, and our new big friend.

AMSTERDAM

Hello, my name's Rosa. This year stay in Andreas' group.
My last holidays I stayed in Amsterdam. It's a beautiful city full of canals.

I walked across the city (it has a lot of things to visit).
We had luck with the weather, it was sunny. Normally people go by bicycle and they have preference, they are so dangerous, be carefull with them.
I spoke english with the people, it`s easy undestanding whith them because they speak so clear ( not like London). They (more or less) undestanded me.
I took lots of photographs.Well in other moment I'll show you.
Now I'm going to my english class.

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE THIS SUMMER?

This is Landamanalaugar, one of the most beautiful places in the world (in my opinion).

Is here where I've been this summer, in Iceland, the land of the ice and the fire.

During my hollydays there the sun never set; it was allways sun. Everywhere you can see Ice, Volcanos, the most purest nature....

In this photo you can see the colors' mountains, they are made of differents minerals and you can see red mountains, blue mountains, ilt's like artificial, but No! it's the nature who has painted them!

I'll be back soon.