The school project

THE SCHOOL

Introduction

Hi! We are four students of Casa Nostra school and now we’re going to talk about our school. This is the school that our parents chose for us 15 years ago. They wanted to prepare their child for the day of tomorrow, so they enrolled us here with the purpose to help us to define ourselves as a person and be prepared for our future.

51 years ago our school was created by Magdalena Aulina with the objective to create a space where everyone would be welcomed. And that’s why our school is called Casa Nostra. Casa Nostra is the second house of everyone. It was also created for the people who worked in a factory called “Les Saques” because they needed a nursery school to leave their sons and daughters.

The school

What do you have for lunch at school?

A catering brings us the food every day so we can eat in the school canteen. Each month they prepare an equilibrated diet for us.

What sports do you play?

Since we were children, we have been able to play a lot of different sports like wall climbing, go swimming, go riding, archery... At primary school we could also play basketball or go horse riding as after school activities.

Does the school have a logo? What is it like?

Yes, we have. Last year we celebrated the 50th anniversary they designed a new one which is an improvement of the old one. The logo is everywhere: in our uniforms, in our papers, in the school walls...

What are your favourite things about school?

What we like about this school is that they teach us a high level in each subject which means that they are strict and that they prepare us in a good way for our future studies, like in university.

We also like that they take part of projects that let us use our knowledge from different fields, develop our creativity, work with new technologies and cooperate with different people because they are a good tool to show us what are we going to find in our near future.

The best thing about it is that since we were one-year children, they teach us some of the most important values like to be well behaved, to solve problems for ourselves, the importance of communicating and to respect and help the others.

Each teacher of our school is a professional on its work so they are well prepared. They love their job and they transmit it to us. We all agree that they are friendly and that they help us solve every problem we have.

Writing

Writing:

I am writing to complain about your new video game, which I purchased online last weekend as a
birthday present for my son.

As advertisements for the game had been broadcast between programmes for children, I thought that the
product would appeal on them. The advertisements also made the game look gun and fair, which is why
I decided to buy it. However, my parents and I think the game is actually boring and unfair. When I was
playing the game between other people I broked my tv control because this game makes me very
nervous.

Until now, I had always been really impressed with your company and associated your products with
quality and entertainment. It is very sad that you are promoting such material. Under the circumstances,
I would be grateful if you could give me the full refund. Please find the receipt attached.

I look forward to hearing from you in the near future.

Yours faithfully,

Martí Corominas.

Writing a Formal Letter

Professional players should not be paid so much many.

Fist of al, is a very difficult sport and the most famous game in all over the world. Nearly every country in

the world has a national team supported by a lot of fans. Professional footballers are paid too much

money. If you want to play football you have to go to the gym twice a week and you have to train every

day at less 2 hours. You can’t eat all that you want and stay outside until 3 a.m.

Next, it's understandable that a famous sport like football involves a lot of money, for example:

When one club wants to buy a player it can cost more than 200.000.000 euros. I agree that one person

who earns 45.000.000 dollars in a season is too much. But I would like to be that person!

Finally, I love football, I think it is the best sport and I do not agree that the cost of the players or the

salaries is too high.

Martí Corominas Viñolas.

Freedom of speech

I think everyone is free to say his opinion about what he wants. That’s why I agree with

democracy and I hate ” Hitler, Mussolini or Franco” fascism. In a fascist state you have to

say and do what other people want, but in a democracy everyone is allowed to do everything.

The poorest person will have the same opportunities, the same rights in front the rules, the

same possibilities to be free in a perfect society. That’s not like this in Spain’s democracy.

Everybody knows that a lot of brains think more than only one, we will solve society problems

more easily if everyone say’s his opinion.

I don’t think the media have to be more censorship but I think that they have to be more honest

and more impartial in a lot of things. In most cases it’s not their fault, but the government fault,

they are not fair. For example, in the Catalan case, the government is allowed to do everything

and to invent a lot of new rules. And just because it has the power at the moment.

Martí Corominas Viñolas

The end of cash

Is this the end of cash?

I think it’s a good idea to modernize the money. Its a little bit heavy take and left the money every time
you want something. I think is better if you have got a card in your phone. This idea will be very useful
because the production, distribution and security of cash costs a lot of money, make the money will be
cheaper and steal money will be very difficult for the thiefs. The most important problem is that we will
spend a lot of money because it’s very difficult for our brain say stop if you are spending virtual money.
I don’t think that everyone have to be allowed to have a money card because if you are a child you don’t
know in what are you spending your money. This idea will be great for the old people who haven’t got a
lot of memory and don’t know where is his money. For example the mobile money card is perfect for
people like me, who always lose they money in his house or in the street. You can have all your money
controlled because you can see where you have spend it. I love this new idea!!!

Martí Corominas Viñolas

The martian

THE MARTIAN:

A group of Astronauts went to Mars to search new things, and to know more about the planet.
During the Mars research they were surprised by a storm. A rock hit one person and the other
people thought he was dead. Then they  took the rocket and returned to the earth. The guy in
Mars, who is still alive had to survive alone and wait to the other astronauts. To manage this
challenge, he built a vegetable garden but one day he had a problem and broke the half of the
base. The good news were that he can communicate with NASA. The days for Mark were
limited, there weren’t enough food and the astronauts hadn’t enough time to go to Earth to take

food if they want Mark alive. Lucky a boy knew how to save him, but this mission will be very
difficult for the other astronauts because if something goes wrong they will die. The mission
consisted of go around the earth and return to Mars. It was very difficult but not impossible for
the team. When the rescue team were near Mars, Mark catapulted himself to the space. There
the captain of the rescue team took him in to the rocked. They returned to the Earth alive.

My trip to Italy

MY TRIP TO ITALY.

Our trip started on Monday. We met at school at 3.00 am and we went by bus to Barcelona, there we took a
flight with Bergamo’s destination. After that, we traveled by bus again, but this time we went to Brescia, after
visit the city and to have some milk with chocolate we return to the road to arrive to Sirmione. In this city we
ate an incredible pizza and then we visited the lake. When we arrived in Verona we left the bags in the hotel
and after that we visited Romeo and Juliet's house.

The second day was my favourite day. We take a train to go to Venice, it was a very long travel. There we
visited the Rialto's bridge, Saint Mark's square and basilica, and a glass workshop too, I bought something
in this glass shop. Then we went to an incredible restaurant, there we ate pasta and meat. It was a little bit
expensive but that pasta was the best pasta I ever eat. In the afternoon we took a “Vaporeto” and we traveled
around the city, this could be my favourite part of Italy. We returned to Verona at 7 o’clock. We played
“parxís” during all the train travel.

The following day we made the bags and we went to Florència by train. We stayed in an incredible hotel,
next to the Duomo. The first hour the teachers gave to us some advices about how to search the hotel…

The fourth day we visited a lot of things like: la galeria dels Uffizi, Santa Maria del Fiore, el baptisiteri, el
palazzo Vecchio, la loggia dels Lanzi, el ponte Vecchio, el David... These day was very eavy and intensive.
I was very tired and I felt asleep before having dinner .

The fifth day, the last one, we were prepared to say goodbye to Florència and arrive to a city named Lucca.
After Lucca we went to Pisa and there we visited the cathedral, el baptisterio, the tower… I didn’t want to go
to the top of the tower because it was very expensive. Then we took some photos with the monuments. After
this we went to the airport and we had to wait a lot of time because the teachers wanted to be on time. Finally
we arrived home at Saturday morning.