Email to the local authorities Your local authorities have decided to reopen an adult education centre in your district which closed down last year. Write an email to the local authorities including suggestions for improving the service and a course of action for effective management of the adult centre. To whom it may concern, It's been almost two years since the adult center was suddenly closed, and that has caused me a lot of troubles since I was enrolled in it and my studies were uncompleted at that time. Given your request for suggestions, and because I know well the case, I would like to point out several issues to help to improve the new service. Firstly, I highly recommend using the break to adapt the building with a disabled access. By doing so, nobody would have to go again all the way around to enter into the facilities, as it has happened before. Most importantly, to attract the old students like me, severely disappointed after the abrupt stop, I would suggest some benefits for them, such as a significant discount when applying for the activities, if possible. In addition, the green area needs to be taken care of, since for the last two years nature has been taking over and turned it into a wild area where is impossible to walk through. Obviously, after all the inconvenience caused, a positive campaign would be more than necessary. Advertising the activities and offering new services is paramount to attract the residents again. Yours sincerely,

“The importance of celebrities as role models and their influence on kids and teenagers The power of image in a globalized word has caused celebrities to reach a broader audience, and provide us with both, good and bad examples. In one hand, there are some positive effects as celebrities can be considered tangible models for good features such as effort, creativity or talent. While in the past societies could count on heroes to represent human feats, at present we have artists, football players, musicians, etc. to lead the way of success. In certain cases, their huge influence might be determinant for some teenagers to choose their own path. Consider the case of Spanish tv show “Family Doctor” as an example: its growing popularity in the 90s was reflected in the increase of students enrolling medical schools. On another hand, the importance of image may lead to a naive world where people are only worried about their own appearance since in a click it can reach the whole planet. Moreover, brands are aware of celebrities´influence and together may have been contributing to building up a fake world with the only goal of selling items to a wider public. In conclusion, I believe adults should be aware of this trend and bear in mind that by knowing us many popular figures as possible, they might also have the chance to provide their young with good roles to aim for.

Opening paragraphs of a story (corrections and suggestions are appreciated) (Look at this painting and write the opening paragraphs of a story inspired by it. Think about what happened before the scene in the picture and in the moment it captures.) Mary and Lorna knew each other for a long time. They agreed to meet up at Berna Coffeeshop once again, as they have done for years. A couple of hours earlier when Mary phoned Lorna, she sounded grieving as if something unfortunate had happened to her. Her trembled voice impacted her old friend, who decided to show up into the Cafe right away. Mary looked nervous indeed. She explained to Lorna that her husband had been looking for a job for a long time and now he seemed to have found one. Little did she knew when he told her about his new job that it would imply them to move thousand of miles away from where they both grew up. It was October and outside the coffee place, the rain was beating hard the leaves that had fallen into the street. When Mary mentioned her short departure Lorna turned pale. It felt to her as if someone cut her through with a knife. It couldn´t be worse. Her best and most beloved friend was meant to leave the country within a few days and that severely shocked her. She didn´t know how to react to the unexpected news and what to say in return. "Nothing can´t keep us apart" she prompted and holding her friend´s hand, she suddenly started crying. Deeply affected by Lorna´s reaction, Mary handed her a letter before she left the place. She has always hated farewells and that was the most awkward moment that she has to face so far.

The importance of learning a foreign language (correction needed) Today I am going to look at the process of learning languages in a globalized world, and also, I would like to give some insights from my own experience. On the one hand, the phenomena known as globalization has deeply affected the way in which people learn languages nowadays, firstly because internet has helped us to connect easily with people from around the world that don´t necessary share our mother tongue and then, secondly, there is the increasingly need to be able to speak other languages in search for good working opportunities to improve our lives. Consider my personal experience for instance. I moved abroad with a scholarship and there, I had to communicate with people of varied nationalities. Once there, I found it really helpful to speak a little bit of English, at least at the very basics, to face daily challenges such a buying food or opening a bank account. Furthermore, I consider it might have helped me as well with the acquisition of the local tongue since the learning process of a second language was already installed into my mindset; so that, I could say that the task simply consisted of repeating the same process over again. On the other hand, I agree with the statement that English is the lingua franca on Internet, so better to be fluent and have a good grasp of it while surfing the websites, to be able to fully understand what happens in our globalized world. Nevertheless, educational systems in Europe must yet to adapt to the new scenario by increasing the number of hours aimed at language learning and also improving the quality of it. I have even heard that new illiteracy nowadays consists of the lack of knowledge of other languages other than the mother tongue, rather than not being able to read or write. Last but not least, I have recently read a scientific study which reveals that bilingual persons always suffer a much degenerative slower process of Alzheimer´s disease than those who doesn´t have the skill. Accordingly, this could also be another great reason to become fluent in another language, if we would like to care for our well-being and mental health. Summing up, either for labor or health motivations, to learn another language is required as the minimum ability to better adapt to a globalized world.