Formal letter Dear Sir or Madame, I am writing to you on behalf of all the students of this school. We have been asked for some suggestions in order to cut down on the amount of plastic bottles thrown away by the students. The idea that we have is, at the beginning of the course, give an aluminium bottle to each pupil for a small amount of money. This money will be give back if the student returns the bottle in good conditions and if he does not want to keep it. It would be useful for everybody because this bottle is resistance to hits and it can be filled with hot or cold drinks, preserving the temperature during hours. The most important characteristic is that it would be made with recyclable materials that after some uses, the bottles can be sent to a green point where could be recycled or cleaned and returned to the school for other students.

Informal Email Hey What’s up? I have just read your email, sorry for not answering it before but I was really busy studying for university exams. I’m glad to know you want to learn Spanish on your own so I’ll give you some useful tips to improve your language skills quickly that I used when I started learning English. When I started learning your language, the first thing that I remember to do was looking for the lyrics of the songs that I like because I used to listen a lot of music from American artists. After understand the basic words of the language, I tried to find a language partner in Barcelona for practising, telling him that I was a beginner and I needed a lot of help (and patience). This made me improve a lot!

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Formal e-mail Dear Mr. Spencer I am really glad to know that you liked my presentation that I did. There is any problem of repeating the presentation in Madrid but I can not doing it on Friday 24th because I have a meeting with my boss and it will be impossible for me going there. Could we meet the week after? Then surely I will be able to go there and spend all the day with you. You are really kind of covering me all the expenses, would it even include the hotel? In any case, thank you a lot for your hospitality. I look forward to hearing from you My best regards

Informal e-mail answer Hi Gerry, Too much time without know about you!! Congratulations for having a girlfriend, it seemed that you would never find one! Well, first of all, you have to think that is not bad having a girlfriend that works with you but, when you are in the office, you have to be polite with her. It means that you have to be professional; your loving life you have to build it after work finish. On the other hand, you shouldn’t be worried about your boss, if you demonstrate that your work is the most important, he can’t say you anything about it. I hope my advices help you a little. Sergi

Autobiography I was born on April 25th in Blanes, a small coast village in the north of Catalunya. I am an only child so we are only three people in my family. My father used to work as a mechanic and my mother as a civil servant in our village town hall, for this reason, lots of times I have been with my grandparents spending hours with them. When I had three years, I started school where I met one of my best friends and, when we were teenagers, we used to take our bicycles every afternoon and roam around for the most strangely places that we discovered until the sun disappeared. However, after several years he moved to another school and we lost contact. When I turned 16, the same year that I finished the school, I travelled to Nederland for one month where I lived with a nice family who shown me the entire city and their traditions. After that, I moved to Barcelona where I rented a room with my friends before start the university. Unexpectedly I found a job in the same city so I could pay the rent during the first year in the city. During that year, I met Monica, my girlfriend who is really cute and always have a nice word to say me when I feel sad. Now we are planning to rent our own flat and start to live together. She wants a baby in a nearly future but I don’t so, we are thinking of adopt a puppy instead of having a baby. Maybe now it is not the time of having offspring but maybe, in some years I will change my mind about this.

My last exam On Monday, I did an exam about Elasticity and Materials Resistance at University.I had been studying for 2 weeks and I thought I was prepared for do a good one. I understood all the units and the main objectives. I wasn't fairly nervous and I was trying to convince me that the exam won't be difficult. These morning, after my class, I met with 2 classmates to study together until the dinner time. Afterward, we went to eat a sandwich until the exam began. When we finished, we came to the University again to our class. At 2.45 the exam began. It was strange...The first question wasn't easy... but the second neither.... When I gave the exam to the teacher, I knew that I had failed the exam, I was absolutely furious but I thought I could have a bit test points. This was until tomorrow, when we correct the exam in class. Then I saw that all my questions were wrong. I felt very disappointed and now I don't want to know my mark. The teacher said that the marks will be publicated on Monday, but I prefer don't know it. The engineering it's difficult, but sometimes seems like study is not that you need to pass the exams. All you need is to be inspirited at this moment or just pray to someone who can help you.

Coming home Today, like every friday, I come home with my family. In few hours I'll go to Sants station and I'll take the train. It's boring because I have an hour and half until I arrive at home and I won't have the dinner yet so, I'm thinking of eat something in some fast food restaurant or something like that. I'll go in the train with one of my flatemates that is from my city but, I don't think that we talk about anything because I see him every day and we don't have nothing new to explain us. Maybe, I'll be with my MP4 and he with his mobile, showing me photos about his draws and pictures, because he's studying Arts at university and he likes to show me all that he does. Normally, he ask me for my opinion and I say which things doesn't like me about colors or tecnic. Long time ago, I said him if he could dessing me my tattoo but at the end he didn't do. Nowadays, I want to tattoo me, but I am a bit short of money. Moreover, I have to be really sure that what I want because it will be for the rest of my life and the tattoo have to have a speacial meaning for me.

This is my new post on this webside Hi everybody, I'm going to say what I'm lookinf for in this page. My name is Sergi and I'm here for improve my writing and speaking. Actually I'm studing english in a academy but the most difficult part is when I have to speak. I think that I understand farly in english but when it's time to speak, I get collapsed and I don't know which words use. Maybe all I have to do is practise more... I am studing at university a degree of mechanical engineering and I'm in the 4th year. This is the reason that I live in Barcelona with 3 flatmates near my university because I'm not from BCN. I like rock, heavy metal, grunge and drum and bass music and I enjoy going to concerts. I like go to bars and drink beer, better with live music on it. And that's all of my first post, I hope I can improve with your help. Thanks!