Letter to a magazine ( Semi-Informal letter- CAE ) Dear Sir, I am writing in response to your latest magazine article regarding how useless, according to your point of view, big national celebrations are. I live in a big coastal city called " Ancona" in the middle of Italy and, after having read what has been written down in one of your articles I could not stop myself from writing this E-mail to explain to you what perks national celebrations bring to a country. I would like to talk about " Summer Games " which is a festival who takes place every year in my city within the second week of August. People come from all of Italy to enjoy it, they have the opportunity to watch aquatic shows and eating autochthonous food too, and I am quite sure that you already understood the extent of monetary induced that people bring with them. Last but not least, even less taken into consideration, another aim of this festival is to let the foreigners know about our regional customs and traditions, moreover to enhance the prestige of. our city I am pretty sure this E-mail will give you something to think about, meanwhile, I look forward to discussing this with you at your earliest convenience. Yours faithfully Simone Ciacci

ESSAY- CAE exam ( Could anyone please correct it? ) Recent research carried out by the Britsh Economic Agency, in support of what I listened from the last radio discussion, shows growth of self-employed persons in the last five years. Of course, being self -employed has several benefits, which the ones I care about most regarding money and time. Concerning the first, is undoubtedly true that having no boss, the amount of money that you earns remains to you, exception made for taxes or other duties such as management fees or payment of an eventual, or more than one co-workers. Secondly, being not forced to sit in an office for eight hours a day, or sometimes more, that allows you to organise your time differently. Furthermore, you do not have to waste time in tedious and ordinary daily routines such as driving with your car back and forth from work or maybe get stuck in the traffic jam. To sum up, I concluded that time is the most important perks of working as a self-employed person, just think about how many of the normal eight working hours as an employee in a company are productive, it follows from that, that a self-employed person can avoid this loss of time. Moreover, it is possible to use it in multiple different ways, for example having some hobbies or spending it with family and friends.

Could you please correct this Review? It would be great! "SOAP CLUB" Based on the novel "Fight Club "by Chuck Pahulanyuk, 25 years after the releases of the homonymous film, the English drama club " For The Love of Theater" decided to pay tribute to it, by staging a show called " Soap Club ", at the Royal Opera House of London. The story tells about Tyler Durden, an average American, who is a narcoleptic schizophrenic subject. He met a man who leads a totally different life from the one he is used to, Tyler remains fascinated from his way of think against the trends and together they decide to create the " Fight Club", a group of people where anyone can fight against each other to release the frustration of their ordinary life. But, things get complicated when Tyler realises that the man he met is a creation of his mind, which have been secretly planning to destroy a building which represents the economic symbol of the city. What most impressed me, was the extraordinary ability of the crew to stay close to the true story-line of the book, moreover, they had terrific attention to detail, from the lights of the show , through a wide varied range of different backgrounds, ending with the surprisingly speed in changing them time to time. Only a small flaw, the sound system was not so good and at certain points of the show, it occurred an annoying reverberation of voices and sounds. A special mention must be spent on the theatre's location, which was really suggestive and for the internal disposition of the playhouse which guarantees a perfect view from each point of it.

Letter to Marta ( IT'D BE GREAT IF SOMEONE CAN CORRECT IT) Dear Marta, Thanks for your letter, it has been quite a while since we last contacted each other. I hope you are well and yes, I do agree with your idea of learning Italian before coming to Italy, as you said in your previous letter. Firstly, I suggest you buy a good Italian grammatic book for beginners, where you will find both useful words and phrases too, used in everyday situations. Please, don't be scared because I will be always at your disposal for any doubts or problems, in addition, here attached you will also find a list of books, which I found to be really complete, being an Italian teacher for foreigner people coming from England. I also strongly recommend you to download an app called "Babble", which is a "must-have" for those who want to learn a new language. This app, which is available both for PC and smartphone, gives you the opportunity to train your Italian knowledge at different levels, pushing you to reach different goals. Our language is certainly not one of the easiest in the world and you will probably find the major difficulties in understanding what people say because sometimes we avoid using subjects in the phrase, especially when they are at the beginning of it, moreover, we are really fast speaker. So, let me say to you to train, as much as you can, your Italian listenings skills to have an idea of what we are talking about and then start to think to a possible answer. Look forward to seeing you this summer in Italy! Kind Regards

Essay ( Could anyone please correct it?) Thanks a lot :) How school can best prepare people for their future working lives is still a hotly debated topic, It is not only about the knowledge of different topics such as history or geography, whose I would not say that are useful, but beside them, students need a different type of information. On one hand, teaching practical skills add more time to the learning process, because once the theoretical lesson takes place, then a practical one must follow it. On the other hand, this experience will give to the students a great time together and, of course, an opportunity to fix in their fresh minds what they just learned. So many times, it happened that a human being at a certain moment of his life did not have clear in his mind what to do, work-wise. The reason must be found in alack of information gave to the students from the school, moreover, this kind of disclosures must be given in the right period, as an example, is unthinkable that someone at the age of 14 is interested in work as a Civil Engineer. The school must organise tour travels both at the universities and at workplaces, to give to the students a full package of what they have to expect from their future. Of the two measures outlined above, teaching practical skills is the most effective, because once one has seen something, of course, this will stuck permanently in his mind and, the most important thing, the student becomes more interactive and starts to ask himself about the connections related to a certain phenomenon, obtaining the so-called "Forma Mentis".

Letter to David Dear David, Thanks for your letter. I have been waiting for long to receive it and I am sure you will be pleased to hear what I am going to write to you. In your letter, you said that you and your class discussed for long about the relationship between teenagers and adults, so, let me give you my personal opinion about this matter. As you already know I live in Italy and this topic is nowadays hotly debated. On one hand, kids between 14 and 17 years old often perceive the grownups as a threat for their freedom, as ana example, to impose a curfew or to forbid playing with videogames for too long. On the other hand, being a parent brings with it the knowledge of the point of weakness and incapacity of self-regulation of a young boy or a young girl. Furthermore, you were not clear in your letter, but here where I am, teenagers and adults have different ideas about technology. For the first, it represents a faster ad easier way to communicate, while for the second, only a source of distraction or a waste of time. Away from those who are right or not, this still represents a huge bone of contention. Although this conflict seems to be far from being solved, the different generations have to spend more time by confronting each other to collime this gap of ideas.

Could you please correct this Review? I would like improve my written english to pass the CAE exam. Ever since I was a ten years old kid I always loved listening to music, especially on television, and my favourite channel was "MTV". Despite the fact that it does not exist anymore as a fee television station, it gave me the opportunity to see, with a gap of one week between each one, the worst and the best video I ever saw, respectively " Obsesion" by " Aventura" and "Youth of the Nation" by "P.O.D.". The song "Obsesion" opened with a slow-motion action of a man who seemed to be very worried about her beloved girl, then the music quietly starts and both music and video come together into something like a continuous and cryptic moan, that lasts for four minutes and thirty-five seconds. In "Youth of the Nation" there was an intro scene with the band singing in a dark warehouse and behind their back, a big wall covered in pictures of kids. As soon as the amazing bass line started to one could immediately perceives that the topic would not have been happy. In fact, both music and video go on arm in arm, the first telling about different stories of different little characters, who lost his life in various and horrifying circumstances, while the second gave small fragments of each one. It matched the lyrics of the song perfectly. To conclude, a song must always be followed by a coherent video, which has to match with the lyrics in order to give to the fans a clear and complete vision of the complex.