Stories

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This is the song you need to learn for the ** end-of-the year party ** on June the 15th. I LOVE IT. I agree with Jorge that it is probably one of the best songs by John Lennon or the Beatles.
 * Isabel talked to us about her trip to Egypt and her husband´s awesome motorbike **

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Sorry Valle I misplaced the photo, I am trying to find it... I spoke about my fovourite photo and the best photo that I had ever taken. I could take this photo when I was working and studying at a Cuban hospital. It was amazing and one of the best experiences that I have lived!!!!! If I could go back, it would be fantastic and I wouldn´t doubt it!!!!
 * Merche and Miguel Angel´s trip to Rome **
 * Valle´s nurses exchange programme with a cuban university **

You have to put some connectors, phrase-adverbs, verbs in past and future, and others concepts that you have studied in class. And finally, try to say things that you understand correctly and forget about concepts that you don´t know very well. I hope that you pass the test with these easy advices. Good luck to you all and don´t forget to lit a candle to the Virgin of Lourdes.
 * Marian visits her sister-in- law on the Isle of Man **
 * __ Jorge Segovia. 2A. __**
 * What should I do to pass an English test ?**What can I say? What can I do? These are some questions that everybody asks themselves when they need to pass an English exam. What are the most important things which you must remember? I´m going to tell you what are they.First, you have to write clearly, without spots, straight lines and correct margins in the sheet. If your teacher doesn´t understand yours words, she will leave you a review and immediately, you will be “dead”.The second important thing is to show your ideas in an appropriate order. You mustn´t mix different concepts in the shame paragraph. You have to be meticulous and to explain your ideas with appropriate supports like examples.

This trip was four years ago (more or less). There are six airports in the Dominican Republic, but its two main airports are in Santo Domingo City and in Punta Cana, which together with Bavaro beach are the best beaches, and where the best resorts of the country are located. In the Dominican Republic you can always have a good time. I stayed in my best friend´s house in San Pedro de Macoris. His father lives and works in this villa in which there is little tourism, because it is a villa with mainly dominicans, no tourism. The main street is the Malecon, next to the sea, there, there is a restaurant where we usually had lunch and dinner. Also, we slept in an appartament next to this restaurant.the typical Dominican food is: fried banana, chicken, pork, apple and potato salad and rice of different kinds. I visited Juan Dolio beach, Boca Chica beach and other beaches. Moreover, I visited Santo Domingo city for two days together with my friend. I drank a lot of Brugal rum, because this rum is more famous than other rums. People also drank very, very cold, almost icy President beer, which is the most popular beer in the Dominican Republic. In this country, there was a curfew and at 12:00 o´clock at night nobody could go to the street, except tourists, who could go to the casino or club without problems. One night, we nearly won three thousand pesos. One day, I went to buy some cigars, because this year my sister is going to get married, I bought a pack of handmade cigars.
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 * ** ON-LINE story **A poor man had so many children that he had already asked every one in the world to be godfather, and when still another child was born, no one else was left whom he could invite. He knew not what to do , and, in his perplexity, he lay down and fell asleep. Then he dreamt that he was to go outside the gate, and ask the first person who met him to be godfather. When he awoke, he determined to obey his dream, and went outside the gate, and asked the first person who came up to him to be godfather. The stranger.... ||
 * Jesus talked about his trip to the Dominican Republic **

I was living in Prague for 3 months because I was granted a scholarship by the Andalusian Institute for Women. I was working at the CCEA (Centre for Central European Architecture).During my stay abroad, I travelled a lot, I visited different countries, I knew another culture and a I met a lot of fantastic people. It has been one of the best experiences of my life.
 * Jorge talked to us about his trips to N York and Guatemala **
 * Irene´s participation in an foreign exchange programme **

I went to London in 2009, I went with 2 friends, we went to visit my best friend who was there studying at the University of Brighton. We visited a lot of beautiful places in London, it was fantastic!! We were there for five days. It was a wonderful trip, we had a good time!
 * Patricias´ Gang **went to London

I went to Mexico three years ago with my boyfriend; I loved it because Mexico beaches are the best I`ve ever been to, and also there are a lot of beautiful places to visit.We spent there seven nights, but it was a bit short! Although it was a great trip, and I have a good time, the worst thing about the travel was that I spent a lot of hours in the plane, that was really boring!!
 * Marian´s Presentation ** on Mexico

[|Christmas Carols](Jesus Armani) = = My story is going to be about animals. One night my sister and I were in my house watching the television.We had the window facing the garage open, when suddenly the curtain started to move. We were very frightened because we thought that somebody had got into the garage, then we saw a grasshoper jumping on the curtain. We got more scared and we tried that the grasshoper went out again to the garage with a broom, but instead the grasshoper remained in the living-room. We catched an insecticide and we sprinkled the grasshoper with it while it jumped and jumped around the living-room. We went out to the living-room and we closed the door so the grasshoper couldn't go out to the rest of the house. We opened the door and we showed our heads to see if the grasshoper had died. But it wasn't dead so we had to get into again the living-room and sprinkle the grasshoper with the insecticide,until the grasshoper died.Then we had to go to bed because the living-room smelt a lot of insecticide. We almost used the whole bottle to kill the grasshoper.Another day I was in my house with my boyfriend when we saw an enormous lizard on the wall. We tried to kill it but it hid behind the cupboard. It showed his head and it looked at us. We were one hour trying that the lizard went away from the cupboard and finally it did and my boyfriend catched it with a broom. I was so nervous that I started to hit it with another broom until I killed it. It isn't necessary to say that I hate all type of insects and the more I hate them, the more they appear everywhere.A few days later I was in my computer when I heard a noise and my dog came in running followed by something very big which ended in my feet.I got frightened and I got away from my house running without checking what had entered my house.I called my boyfriend and I told him. He arrived with a friend to my house and they came in. Do you know what was the big animal? It was a partridge which was more frightened than I was.
 * ANIMALS by Esther Mora**

** A TERRIBLE NIGHT ****by Eva Sánchez**
It was a very, very hot night, and I was very tired, because I was working a lot that day. When I got home, the first that I did, was to open all the windows, it was terrible! It was very hot. Then I had a shower and I went to bed early. Although I was very tired, I couldn´t sleep. On the one hand, I couldn´t read because the windows were opened and I couldn´t swich on the light because the mosquitoes would be able to come into my bedroom. At last I got to sleep one hour later. Suddenly I woke up because I heard a noise in the blue room, (the one opposite my bedroom) so I got up and I went there very slowly. The blue room´s door was closed and when I went to open the door I hear a noise inside. I said: “ Oh my God! There is something or..., someone there “. Then I ran quicky to my bed, I was alone and I was very frightened. I closed the door, the window and I swiched on the light. I looked at my clock, it was only two o´clock A.M. I thought if was later, I would phone someone. I heard the noise again. Sometimes the noise was very loud and sometimes it was quite loud. I didn´t know what to think…, what was this noise? Or…, who made that noise…? I waited for five terrible hours, and at seven o´clock I ran out and I went to my parents´ house, and I said: “ Dad, go to my house, please, I don´t know what happened…, I think…, there is a ghost or something in the blue room…, I´m very frightened. There were a lot of noises in this room and I couldn´t sleep last night.” Finally my father went to my house and he went into the blue room and he said to me: “Actually, there is something in your house, in the blue room. It can fly but it doesn´t have a sheeton, it has feathers and it isn´t a ghost, it is a dove…, a big dove. It probably came into the room when you opened the windows.” I said: oh my God!

**UNEXPECTED GUEST OR HEAVY JOKE? by Jose Luis Bonilla ** Some years ago, when I was a child, I was celebrating a birthday party at a friend’s home in my village, Diezma which is next to Guadix.I would like to tell you a story that happened that day.I remember that day fifteen friends met to celebrate Irene’s birthday. We were all very happy because it was a very long time we hadn´t been together. We were having a very good time, people danced, ate and talked about their lives. At night, while boys were preparing the surprise cake with sixteen candles in the garden, one our friends, Jeanette went upstairs to take her gift and suddenly she looked at the windows, and she saw a man in black. He had a knife in his hands. She got scared and began to shout and cry, so she came out to the garden and she tried to tell us what she had seen in the bedroom, but it was very difficult for us to understand her explanation because she is deaf. Luckily, in the party there was a friend who knew how to speak sign language. Then quickly, the bravest friends, not me, went to check the bedroom to check if it was really that scary. They couldn’t see anybody, but we preferred to leave the house and go back to our homes. Next day, we all met again and we went to ask our parents, because we didn’t know who could have wanted to spoilt that wonderful night. Now, after ten years, I can only recall that night as a heavy joke, because no long time ago, I knew the person who did it, it was one of my best friends. He admitted doing it because he had not been invited to the party and he felt really angry. After knowing all that I could only laugh, although, that summer, that night, I could have killed him if I had known it was him.

//** A terrible accident by a traffic policeman **// **(Rafael Carrillo)** One afternoon, few years ago, I was working in the road with a colleague. It was raining and there was not much traffic. Our head office called us because there had been a traffic accident, in the first place it didn't look serious, so we shouldn't go very fast. But when we had almost arrived there we saw a lot of stopped cars on the road. There were some people around two cars and a tow truck in the middle of the road, so other cars couldn't continue. Although the scene was distressing I got out from my car not very worried, so the head office had said to us... but I was mistaken.The first thing that I listened to was a crying baby. I ran to the black car and asked for the baby. A man near me answered "the child is dead". I couldn't believe him but he showed me the dead child. At that moment the ambulance came, and took his parents to the hospital. Later, when all the people had gone and we were waiting for the hearse, I thought "the child was about three or four years old but if I listened to a baby then ,Where is the baby?" I looked into the car boot and saw baby clothes, nappies and a pram, then I told my colleagues, so we looked in the car, under the car, next to the car and near the car, but we didn't find him. At this point all people were very nervous and worried, I was more, because I had listened to him and I couldn't do anything to save him.Finally, the colleague who was at the head office called us to say that he had called the hospital to speak with the baby's parents, and they had said the baby was safe and sound with his grandparents. After that, I relaxed, although I could never forget this terrible accident.//**But, Do you know who was the crying baby who I listened to?**//

//** WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAM **// by Maria Trinidad Gimenez One upon a time, a man wanted to lose weight because his belly was getting fatter and fatter each day. He was bored of weight loss programs. One day, he was searching the internet and he found an ad. In the middle of the photo he could see a voluptuosus, athletic joung woman, she was wearing a bikini, a pair of running shoes and a sign around her neck. The sign read “If you can catch me, you can have me”. At the top of the photo there was a phone number. In the background of the photo there was a poppies field, and the sun was shining brighty. He fell madly in love with her. Without a second thought, he decided to call the company to order the 7 day-7 pounds. “Are you sure?” asked the representative on the phone. “This is our most rigorous program”. “Absolutele, How much does it cost?” He replied" 20 pounds".Next day there was a knock at the door, and when he openeds it he found a big muscular man standing there wearing nothing but pink running shoes and a sign around his neck that read “If I catch you, you are mine!!” He lost 14 pounds that week.

** PITUSA ** by Maria
Once upon a time, there was a man with a pregnant dog. One day, it gave birth to three little pretty black dogs, but the man didn’t have enough money to feed all of them, so he decided to give them to his friends.One of the friends was my grandfather who gave the little pretty dog to my grandmother. She liked it a lot, because it was a very nice little and black dog, and she named it Pitusa. One day, while my grandmother was washing the floor, Pitusa started to bite the mop, because she was playing with it. Although my grandmother scolded her, she continued playing with the mop; but she hit the bucket so the water inside spread all over the floor.Pitusa was very frightened because it was very noisy, and she escaped from my grandmother’s house. My grandmother didn’t notice that Pitusa had run out until she finished cleaning the water on the floor. My grandparents were looking for her all day, but they couldn’t find her. They were worried and sad, but what could they do?Three days later, they listened to a dog barking downstairs, Pitusa had returned!!

** Sweden ** //by Jesus Armani//
My history is of my trip to Sweden, but this journey took place two years ago. I went alone. I travelled to see my cousin, who is living with his wife in a house around Stockholm city. I visited a lot of famous places in the city, and also, I ate in some good restaurants in the centre of the city. Also, one day, my cousin and I went to for a ride on a ship in the afternoon. The boat was a restaurant.I stayed in the parent´s house of my wife´s cousin. In Sweden people speak Swedish and English, and they like very much to understand Spanish. For this trip, which was wonderful, I whished I could speak good English, because speaking good English is very important to travel and for my job.Finally, If I had spoken a better English I would have had a better trip to Sweden.

The Canary Islands //by Mª Jesús Viceira//
Last summer I was very sad and I decided to travel to the Canary Island. Have you ever travelled to forget everything? First, I needed to see the sea and secondly I needed to be with different people. Then, I met a couple who introduced me to a child and his father. I played with the child for five hours. Next day different families and me travelled to other islands by ship. The day was excellent and the sun was shining. We stayed in Antonio’s Apartmet Complex and we travelled in his big car. He was very funny during the journey and he didn’t stop telling jokes. We had dinner in a Chinese Restaurant and Antonio didn’t allowed me to pay for the wine that I had drunk at dinner. He loved photography and he didn’t mind taking photos of friends, sons and me. I love photography too and this thing connected us. I took care of children; I’m teacher and I am used to being with them all the time. He appreciated this. I had travelled to the Canary Island because I wanted to visit different islands and they wanted to visit Santa Cruz the next week. Antonio speaks different languages and he practiced English with me. I could see that he was a good and responsible man. When he visited a place he always got a present for you. Can you imagine a person who has always got an excellent present for you and for your family? He always showed attention and interest with respects to my family. He surprised me a lot. The most important thing for him was people’s happiness and he always gave advice to everyone. Anybody could talk with him about any topic such as: cars, ships, motorbikes, places, food, etc…Finally he explained to me that I was a especial and good woman who was worth having as a friend. He came into my life and let´s see what the future brings...

** HONEYMOON ** by Miguel Lopez Lorente
In Autumn 2010, my wife and I went to New York for our honeymoon. It was wonderful! One evening, we went to the MoMa. There were many picture collections, curious things… The museum was very interesting. At night, we came back to the hotel by subway. In the tube (underground) there were a lot of people. They were in a hurry. When we were near the hotel, we decided to get out from the subway. But there was a problem. My wife got out when the doors of the train opened but when I wanted to get out, the doors closed. At that moment, the train started to move and... I lost my wife. We had the cells but we didn’t phone each other.I got out from subway at the next stop and went to the hotel. My wife was there in the hall waiting for me.Ufff what a relief! Suddenly, we burst out laughing!!

**The tomato that didn’t want to be a tomato** by Miguel Ángel González Molero
Once upon a time, a tomato that lived in Mr. Smith´s vegetable garden. His name was Nik. This tomato didn’t want to be a tomato, because his friend, Mik had told him that all tomatoes went to a warm, horrible and big place that he had never seem. Moreover, he said that it was supposed to be the worst place where a tomato could go, because it was too warm. - I got to set off when Mr. Smith went to the hall. – said Mik. - Oh… I was very afraid. – said Nik. - Don’t worry! You aren’t red yet. Your colour is green. - Are you sure? – said Nik, more still now. - Yes, but, be careful! From that day on, Nik hid behind the leaves when Mr. Smith went to look for the red tomatoes. Everyday Nik looked at his colour. He was sad when he saw that Mr. Smith caught tomatoes from his partners´branches, but he didn’t tell anything because he was hiding. Some days later, he saw that his colour was red. Because of this, he tried to leave the vegetable garden and accidentally, Mik ended up on the branch where Nik was. Nik saw him and called him. - Mik, Mik… Can you help me? – said Nik. - Why? – answered Mik. - Because I don’t want to go to that warm, horrible and big place where all tomatoes go to. – said Nik very nervous. - Ok, but… it’s a bit complicated. - Ok, take me! Mik took him and he threw and threw. Nik fell on the ground. They ran behind the tree, because Mr. Smith was there. - If Mr. Smith see us, we will lie on the ground – said Nik. - And what if Mr. Smith doesn´t see us? – asked Mik a bit afraid. - If Mr. Smith dosen´t see us, we will run to scape. And this way, they got to scape and went to look for adventures together.