May anyone correct me? Thanks to those who will respond me. Hi XXX, how are you? I’m writing you because I’m quite concerned. My exams are scheduled in 10 days by now but I’ve never wanted to study in the last semester. If I only could learn without studying! I’d like to be like Michela, my brother’s friend: she reads a page only one time and she gets it all. I wonder if the exams will be hard. Last year I found it adequate and I was calm. Hope that some questions will be easy this year too, but as I know my teacher very well since several years, it’s unlikely. My mum often scolds me by saying : « If you only wanted, you would get more ! » I’m afraid I won’t go on holidays to the camping with my friends. Poor me ! I will let you know ! See you soon. Giulia

In the place where I come from (Naples), people have a common motto, that helps persons in bad times, when all seems to go fall apart. In English, it sounds so (more or less ): "When a door will be closed in front of you, nevermind...there will be another bigger door to be opened". The sense is that when you really feel to have lost some good opportunity (for instance, a job offer), you don't have to worry about a lot it because life is unpredictable and you don't know exactly what can occur to you the next days. You need to have faith in your ability and go on. Something good surely will happen if you dont' give up but you continue to insist. I agree with this way of thinking. In my life I have often experienced with it. It has more than one time happened to me that a bigger door has been opened in front of me when I thought that all was over.

I don't like videogames at all. My two sons, instead, have recently discovered videogames world. They are now keen of "Minecraft", a game that makes you build houses or other constructions. You have to put some blocks together to build your house or to dig grounds and stuffs like these. I don't really like they spend so many times playing...so I often say them to stop and to play with something else.

The last movie I watched was "Clifford - The big red dog". I don't know if this is the original English title or if it is only how it has been named for italian spectators. However, this movie tells the story of a red dog that grows a lot when he meets a girl, Emiliy, who gives him such a love that makes him become enormous. The moral is that it doesn't matter how different you are, what is really important is the love anyone can give to others. I watched this movie at the cinema with my two sons and their classmates, about two weeks ago. It was my eldest son's birthady and he decided to celebrate at the cinema. So, we watched the movie first and after that, in a dedicated room the cinema had made available for kid birthday feasts, we had some foods and drinks and finally a marvellous birthday cake. It was an amazing evening for everyone.

It comes to my mind two of the most famous types of italian traditional dance forms : tarantella and pizzica. Tarantella dance takes its name from the "tarantula", a kind of spider which, when it bites someone, spreads its poison and makes people "jumping" (from here it comes the typic hopping dance of tarantella). This dance is from the city of Neaples. Dancers usually have castanets in their hands which they make sound following the music rhythm. It is danced by the accompaniment of old traditional music played by traditional instrumets like tambourine. "Pizzica" instead is a kind of tarantella. It's originated from Apulia and it's very similar to tarantella.

I'm a very stubborn person, who doesn't give up easily and at the first difficulties. Anyway in bad times, when I am on the verge to give up, because I'm tired to go on or when I feel it's too difficult to achieve my target, I always think at the way that I've already walked to reach what I've conquered. It gives me grit and new enthusiasm to go over all difficulties. Looking to other people who is less lucky than me also encourages me to not to give up.

Improving your sleep quality can be possibile only if you haven't a patological problem. If it's so, you need a specialist.. In all other cases, I think that it can be useful to follow simply rules, suc as: - don't eat a lot in the evening; - keep your bedroom temperature lower than in the other rooms; - don't sleep in the afternoon; - try to have a busy day in order to get tired and to arrive to the evening with the right physical weakness

My favourite food is pizza. I love all savoury dishes but pizza is absolutely the best for me. I make pizza every Saturday evening on my own. I usually begin its preparation the day before, on Friday evening. I has got a natural yeast which I refresh every week to keep it active. I make pizza in this way. On Friday evening I detach a piece of yeast and melt it with warm water, flour, two or three spoon of sugar and a hint of salt. After this, the dough is ready to grow. I leave it in a bowl, covered with a plastic wrap. The day after it will be doubled. In the early afternoon, I detach some pieces of the dough and I make some balls. They must double once again. Finally I roll them out and give them the typical round shape. After having put on them the ingredients I prefer (tomato sauce, mozzarella, ham, oliv oil...), I bake the pizzas in the oven at its maximum temperature. And finally I enjoy it.

May someone correct these sentences I wrote? Thanks to whom will help me... 1) I'd like not to go out as I haven't felt well for some days. 2) I haven't heard of Tom's sister for some weeks: I wonder if she is still on holiday. 3) Although it had been raining since a week, we decided to go to the mountains with our friends. 4) A: "How long has your sister been going out?" B: "She has been going out for 2 hours: I think she will come back home at dinner time". 5) We haven't spoke each other for 2 weeks, since we argued at the club