Letter of application 4. You have seen this advertisement in your local English language newspaper. Round the world trip- Travel competition Do you like adventure? Would you like a chance to travel? We need on more person to join a small group on a trip around the world. Write to Mrs Hopkings, the organizer of the trip, telling her: - Why you would like to go on the trip - What skills you have which would be useful on the trip - What previous experience you have of travelling (if any). Write your letter of application. Dear Mrs Hopkings I am writing to you about an advertisement that I have seen in the local English language newspaper. I am really interested in it and I would love to join us in your amazing trip. I just saw the advertisement and I couldn’t keep doing things before I sent this message. I am 18 years and I just came from Ireland being au pair. I have travelled around all Ireland and few months ago I travelled to New York, so I can’t stop travelling now. I love so much travelling that I want to be flight attendant to travel around all the world. I always say that I want to travel for knowing which city I will decide to live. About my skills, all I can tell that I am proactive girl. I am able to fix every problem with patience. I can speak Spanish and English, and I am starting to learn Italian by myself. And you need a young spirit, you won’t regret it. Finally, as I said, in this last year I have travelled a lot. I went to New York by my own and I met with my family there because I was coming from Cork. I have travelled since I was really little. I have done two home exchanges in Ireland and France and I have gone on a cruise two time in Portugal- Morocco and Italy-France-Spain. As you can read I have a lot of experience with this few ages. Thank you and I hope heard about you soon.

Essay 1. In your English class you have been talking about relationships. Now, your English teacher has asked you to write an essay. Write an essay using all the notes and give reasons for your point of view. Which is more important- friends or family? Notes Write about: 1. Who you can enjoy yourself with. 2. Who will help you when you have problems. 3. … (your own idea) Write your essay. You must use grammatically correct sentences with accurate spelling and punctuation in a style appropriate for the situation. Nowadays, the meaning of the family has changed a lot in compare with years ago. The meaning of the family changes depends on the culture too. It is often said “the family is the friends we choose”. We normally try to find having fun most of the time. When you are young you spend a lot of time with your family, playing games with them or just chilling, but when you become a teenager, you hang out with your friends. Teenagers sometimes feel ashamed when they go out with their family. Something that happen when your children grow up it’s that they don’t want to go on vacation with their parents. When we are talking about problems we usually ask for advice to their parents. They will always there for you no matter what happen. There is no wiser person than your mum. In my opinion, family is the most important thing that we have. There could be some cases that your family are not really good so in that case we choose our friends as family.

A day in Malaga 3. You see this announcement on an English-language travel website. ARTICLES WANTED A day in the city! We are looking for articles about how a visitor could have a great time in a city in your country in just one day. Write us an article telling us what a visitor can do, what they can see and how they can travel around. The best articles will be posted on our website. Write your article. Planning your day can be hard but not if I do for you. I live in Malaga so let me introduce you what you can do here in a day. It’s hard to visit Malaga in only one day but let me tell you what you should visit before you leave. Let me first point out that you should come to Malaga in May, June, September or October because the weather is still good for going to the beach and visiting monuments too. About the monuments I would recommend you to go to the Alcazaba which is a castle and next to it there is a roman theatre. Next thing you have to see is calle Larios, it’s a big street full of shops and places to eat. If I were you, I would go to Casa Mira to have an ice- cream. They have the best ice-creams ever. Another place you should go it’s Muelle Uno, where you can find luxury shops and restaurants. I recommend you to go over the night to have a drink. Another important thing in Malaga is the food. The typical foods here are “Gazpacho”, it’s like tomato soup and “Plato de los montes”, it’s a meal with meat, chips, fried eggs, sausages and roasted peppers. About desserts you should order “Loca” or “Brazo Gitano”. What are you waiting for? Come to my beautiful Malaga, you would love it.

‘Life is better today than it was 100 years ago.’ Do you agree? 1. In your English class you have been talking about life in the past. Now, your English teacher has asked you to write an essay. Write an essay using all the notes and give reasons for your point of view. ‘Life is better today than it was 100 years ago.’ Do you agree? Notes Write about: 1. Health 2. Entertainment 3. … (your own idea) In today’s world, we can say that we have been through a lot changes in health, entertainment, technologies, etc. We have to get used to all these changes. Some of these changes are not considered good for us. Health has been great strides in for example cancer. Many people used to die because of cancer, but now most of the people can get through it. We can say too that now for example there is no deaths because of tuberculosis. Another thing that has changed a lot is the entertainment. There wasn’t television 100 years ago. We didn’t have computers and mobile phones either. Nowadays, Internet is considered one of the main source of entertainment. In my opinion, changes can be good. The development in the health is a really good thing because the deaths because of illness has been increased. But for example some changes that we have in the entertainment are not all good. In my opinion there are a lot of people focus all the time in internet instead of being outdoors playing typical games as we used to people before we invent the Internet.