Composition "My Best Friend" 2nd ESO

 Compositions from 2nd ESO students

My Best Friend

by Marco Casanova 2^nd ESO A

I have a lot of friends but I am going to speak about Yago.

Yago is eleven. He goes to Salesianos school. I meet him in my village. He likes videogames, playing football and riding a bike. He doesn’t like exams, playing basketball and pets.

His favourite subjects in the school are maths and music. We sometimes play ping-pong at the weekend but we usually play badminton. He likes music and films and we often go to the cinema.

His birthday is on 6^th March. He’s got a little brother. His name is Miguel.

Yago is tall and thin. He’s got long and brown hair and brown eyes too.

My Best Friend

by Aroa Rodríguez 2^nd ESO B

My best friend’s name is María. She’s thirteen and her birthday is on 23^rd March.

She’s got one brother. His name’s Diego. She’s got two pets: one dog and a cat too.

She’s tall and thin. She’s got dark hair and brown eyes.

María and I go to the same school. It’s called Santo Ángel. We’re in the same class. Her favourite subject is maths but she also likes music.

She loves reading and listening to music. When we meet in town, we often go to the park or to the shopping center.

She doesn’t play any sport, but she likes playing basketball.

Composition "This is...." 4th ESO

A sample of compositions from 4th ESO

This is Rachel

By Antía Feijoo 4^th ESO A

Rachel is very trendy and she looks quite cool. She always buys new clothes despite their high price.

She doesn’t like smart clothes so much; she prefers wearing sport clothes, although she usually wears make-up and some jewellery like earrings and bracelets.

Rachel loves sports; she does athletics two times a week during two hours. On the one hand, she thinks that it’s very hard; on the other hand, she wants to do it, because she believes that it’s good for her health.

She also likes going out with her friends and going to the cinema with them. However, she doesn’t go to the cinema very often.

The third thing that she loves is her blackberry. She always chats to her friends with it when I’m with her. In contrast, I’ve never done it. I think it is very annoying!

She doesn’t like people who speak very much, although she speaks a lot, but I don’t mind.

Another thing that she hates is to get up early to go to school, but she likes staying there; and the last thing that she hates is to do long trips by car, although she goes to Bilbao with her family very often.

My sister

by Fátima Villarino 4^th ESO B

I’ll talk about my sister Rosa because she’s the most important person to me. She lives in Santander since 1999.

My sister is thirty-four years old and she is very intelligent, respectful, with sense of humour, kind and a good person and sister.

People say she looks like our mother because she has brown hair and straight, green eyes, light skin with some freckles. She hasn’t got tattoos or piercings.

Her style is very natural, she wears modern and smart clothes yet with a bracelet, a necklace, earrings and some make-up.

She loves to come here because she misses us; she likes to go to our village and above all, to meet friends. Because of her work, she can’t do many things but she would like to do sports. In summer, when the weather is nice, she goes to the beach to sunbathe.

The obvious difference between us is the age but it doesn’t prevent us from getting along. I seem more serious and with a lot of character. However, she has more character. I’m more determined and stronger than she is.

We don’t look alike physically. She is smaller and has fewer freckles than me. On the other hand, I am red head and have got blue eyes.

Although I like Ourense, I prefer to travel. I don’t like to go to my village but I like to practice sport and go to the beach.

This is my sister, a person different from me.

Composition "My Best Friend" 3rd ESO

Here I'm posting just a small sample of your wonderful compositions about your best friends. 

My Best Friend

by Alba Álvarez  3^rd ESO A

Marta Vázquez and I are almost best friends and we’re neighbours too. We live in Ourense, in the same building. We go to the same school and in the same grade, but I’m in class 3A and she’s in 3B. I often go to her place to sleep and other times she comes to my place.

Marta is fourteen years old. She’s tall and thin, she’s got short, dark curly hair and blue eyes. The good thing about her is that she’s very funny, honest and warm-hearted, although she can also be very stubborn and a bit curious, but she’s too innocent.

She’s happiest when she’s chatting and joking with our friends. She likes reading, going out and surfing the Internet. We always go out together on Saturdays and we sometimes go to San Lázaro Park.

My Best Friend

by Sira Prieto 3^rd ESO B

Marta Taín and I are friends. She lives near the “Parque Barbaña” and I live near the other park, but we live in Ourense and we go to the same school, “Santo Ángel”.

She is fourteen and I am thirteen because her birthday is before my birthday.

She is a bit big but she isn’t tall. She has got long, dark and wavy hair. She is brown-eyed and she has got moles in her chubby cheeks.

The good thing about her is that she is like me, because she understands me. She is also happy, friendly, a bit sensitive, very curious and she sometimes boasts, but she doesn’t do it on purpose.

She likes to go to the cinema with our friends or to go to other places. She doesn’t like chocolate, fruit or fish.

She has got one brother as I have got one too. We play with them because we always enjoy very much.

She plays tennis and she goes to a dance academy, but she goes to other academies to study other subjects too.

Halloween

ESO Students

1. Click on the link below to get started. You will be redirected to the LearnEnglish page from the British Council.
2. Read and do the preparation task to start delving into the topic.
3. Play the recording about Halloween but do not read the text yet.
4. Play the recording one more time (or the number of times you think necessary) this time with the text in front of you. Remember to check confusing or new words in the dictionary. You can visit http://www.wordreference.com/es/ or http://dictionary.reference.com/
5. Do the task.

Hallowe'en

Look what I've found searching the internet.

I find it really funny and it tells us a lot about the author's point of view of the "discovery" of America. What do you think his opinion is? What's yours?

Columbus Day

On the second Monday of October, Americans celebrate Columbus Day; they remember Christopher Columbus's voyage to America in 1492.

Christopher Columbus was born in 1451 in Genoa, a city on the north-west coast of Italy. At this time Genoa was a very important commercial port. The young Christopher often went to the port and watched the ships leave: they seem to go under the horizon. May people at this time thought the world was flat, but others - Columbus included- believed that the world was round. Columbus wanted to test this idea. 

He went to live to Portugal. When he was only twenty-three he had the idea of going to India, China and Japan by sailing west. If the world was round, this was possible, he thought. But he needed money, ships and men. He asked a lot of people for help, including the kings of Portugal, England and France but he got no support. Then he explained his idea to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain. They were interested and, after some years, decided to help him. 

They gave him three ships: the Santa María, the Niña and the Pinta. It was difficult to find sailors for the voyage because it was long and dangerous. Finally, Columbus found about ninety men. He was ready to test his theory. 

On 3^rd August 1492, Columbus and the sailors left Palos, on the coast of Spain. Queen Isabella and other important people went to see him leave. 

Columbus navigated with a magnetic compass. His ships travelled about 150 miles a day. The voyage was long and difficult, but the three ships arrived at the island of San Salvador in the Bahamas on 12^th October 1492. Columbus claimed these new lands for Spain. 

His voyage changed the future of navigation and the world. People in Europe called the new lands the “New World”. When Columbus returned to Spain he told the King and Queen about the new lands and showed them gold, valuable objects and even some natives. They were very happy with Columbus’s discovery. 

Columbus’s Day is still celebrated all over the world. In the USA this day is celebrated with long and colourful parades, marching bands and big floats dedicated to Columbus. However, there are also protests by groups of native Americans on this day, because they remember that the arrival of Columbus meant the beginning of the domination of their people. 



D.B.CLEMEN, Gina. "British and American Festivities", Black Cat Publishing 2004

Welcome back!!

Back to work after two long and exciting months.

Now it's time to get up early, meet classmates we haven't seen for a long time and start working on the new academic year. It can be hard at the beginning but it's also nice to be back at school. 

I'd like to welcome all the new students; we'll do everything in our hands to make you feel comfortable and at home and I hope you will eventually feel part of this big family which is Santo Ángel School. 

Some of you are later than others when it comes to start working but I tell you one thing: the sooner you start, the better! 

We'll have time to study, learn and enjoy a lot but only one thing is true, we must try to do your best this year.

Are you ready?