Describing myself (3)

My name’s Victor Manuel, but everyone calls me Victor. I’m 43 years old. I’m Spanish and I live in a small village near Granada (Moraleda de Zafayona).

I’m going to tell you about myself. I’m a civil guard and I work in Granada. I’m married and my wife’s name’s Almudena. I have two beautiful daughters. Their names are Nadia and Irina. Nadia, who’s 14, is the older, and Irina’s only 9 years old. I also have a small brown dog. Her name’s Cory.

Regarding my physical appearance. I have short brown hair but I’m beginning to have some grey hair. I also have brown eyes. I’m medium height and thin.

I think I’m a positive, friendly and serious person. My friends say I’m very kind but I don’t think so. My boss tells me I’m very hard-working.

I like going to the gym, cycling, running, swimming, walking and I do all of them. I don’t like football. When I can, I like cooking for my family. I don’t usually watch television but I watch a comedy film with my family once a week and, finally, I like pop and rock music but I don’t have any favourite singer or group.

Víctor Guerrero - 2º B

Describing myself (2)

Hello. My name’s Victoria Gracia, but you can call me Vicky. Actually, I think everybody calls me Vicky. I’m 24 years old. I’m from Spain. I live with my mother and my brother in Loja.

At present, I’m working as an assistant pharmacist in Loja. It isn’t my dream job, but I like it and I need to save some money. Also, I’m taking care of a boy some hours every week. In relation to my studies, I’m studying English at the English school of my town.

I have long straight red hair and brown eyes. I think I don’t have big eyes, but they aren’t small. I’m a bit overweight and fairly tall too.

As regards my personality, I’m clever and hard-working. I think I’m serious and shy but I’m kind too. I’m not really generous, but I help people when they need it. I think I’m a good person.

When I have some free time, I like watching films or series online or on TV. I love comedies and crime films. I sometimes watch English film or series. It’s good for my English progress. At weekends, I go out with my friends. We love going to the cinema and having a drink.

Vicky Velasco - 2º B

Describing myself (1)

My name's María Julia but everyone calls me Julia. I'm 51 years old. I'm Spanish and I live in Loja, a town in Granada, but I was born in a town in Córdoba. I've never lived in another country.

I'm going to tell you about myself. I do clerical work and I work in a court. I like my job, but sometimes it's not easy. I live with my husband and my children, a boy and two girls. They’re teenagers. I haven't a pet because my dog died a week ago.

I have long straight brown hair and dark eyes and my nose is very ugly. I'm a bit overweight, so I always want to go on a diet but I never do.

Nowadays I think I'm a friendly and extrovert person, but when I was a young girl I was shy. I'm very talkative with my friends, but I'm serious in my job.

From Monday to Friday I work in my job only during the morning and I go to English classes on Monday and Wednesday in the afternoon, so I don't have much free time and when I have it, I like to do sports, watch TV and go out with my family anywhere.

Julia Cobos - 2º B

A2 - Writing: A Biography

My brother Francisco’s biography

Francisco is the oldest of all my brothers and sisters. He was born in Loja in 1975. He lived in Ventorros de Balerma with all my family until he was a young man. He studied accounting at university. When he was a teenager he studied in winter, and in summer he worked in a restaurant. He hasn’t worked as an accountant yet because he loves his work as a waiter.

In 1995, when he was twenty years old, he went to work in Barcelona. He began to work as a waiter in a restaurant. He’s a hard-working person and he’s worked in a hotel as a maître d’ since he was twenty-five years old.

He’s been married to a fantastic woman for nineteen years and they have a child. They come back to Loja every Christmas and we visit them some years. He works hard and now he’s studying Russian because he likes languages. Although he lives far from his family, I think he has a good life.

Rogelia González Delgado – 2º C

A2 - Writing: A Biography

My hero’s biography

He was born in 1946 on top of the mountain in the south of Spain. He lived in a small house with his parents, four brothers and five sisters. They weren’t rich — actually, they were really poor because the Civil War had finished a few years before. They didn’t have a TV, a car or electricity. Sometimes they couldn’t eat because they didn’t have enough food. However they were happy because they lived together.

He married the most beautiful bride when he was 21. They didn’t have a honeymoon trip because the day after they went to work abroad. They lived in Germany for five years, then they returned to Spain although not to the south. They went to Barcelona. He was a truck driver and she was a dress-maker. They’ve been a hard-working couple. They had a baby in 1984.

Nowadays they live in Huetor Tajar, and they’re retired but they still work on their fields. They plant tomatoes, asparagus, potatoes, etc.

Thanks dad for teaching me. I hope that one day I’ll be as polite, hard-working and kind as you.

Pedro Castro Pedregosa – 2º C

A2 - Writing: Description of a place

The town where I live

I live in El Chaparral, a small village near Albolote, a town in the province of Granada very near Granada city. El Chaparral is about 12 km to the north of Granada, next to the motorway to Madrid, just on the highway exit to a well-known reservoir called, in Spanish, Pantano de Cubillas. El Chaparral is very small, as it only has, approximately, 1,500 inhabitants, while Albolote has about 20,000, including the population of El Chaparral.

El Chaparral has nothing special, but maybe its history does, and it's a really recent history. In 1956 there was a very hard earthquake 5.1 — Richter degrees—, and Albolote was practically destroyed. After that, the government ordered to build a new small village near it, for the people who had lost everything.

Three hundred houses were built for three hundred families. They were big houses with an orchard and a kind of shed for animals.  Each family had a big plot of land for dry cultivation, and a smaller one for wet cultivation. In addition, each four neighbours shared a curious kind of building for drying the tobacco plant called, in Spanish, "secadero de tabaco". This kind of construction was very typical then, but all of them have fallen into disuse.

The streets of El Chaparral are all in the shape of a net, and its houses are no more than two storeys high. Nowadays there are only two or three new blocks of flats with one more floor.

Actually, in the village where I live, there are no old buildings or historic monuments to see, so the most interesting thing you can see or to go to is the Cubillas reservoir. There you can practice some water sports like boating, surfing, jet skiing and fishing , or you can spend a nice day in the countryside and enjoy its sports areas, have a barbecue, or simply walk around the reservoir and enjoy the nature.

The weather in the area is the typical continental Mediterranean weather: cold in the winter and really hot in the summer. The autumn and the spring are very short and sometimes too similar to the winter or the summer. The rain is concentrated especially in the winter, less in the autumn and the spring, and none in the summer.

El Chaparral isn't specially famous, except for the Cubillas reservoir, and recently for some of its restaurants, where it’s more and more necessary to reserve in advance if you want to go for lunch or dinner during the weekend.

The best thing about El Chaparral in my view is that it's a really quiet small village, very near Granada city.  There, life is very nice and, at the same time, you can enjoy almost all the advantages of a bigger city like Granada.

Julián García Díaz. 2º Básico C

A2 - Writing: Description of a place

The town where I live

Loja, which is one of the most important towns in the west of Granada, is the place where I live. It’s a medium sized town in the area known as the Poniente Granadino and it has a population of about 22,000 people.

Loja isn’t very rich industrially. Its economy is based on the service and agricultural sectors and it also has a small marble industry. It’s a clean and interesting town full of a rich monumental heritage, too. Loja has been declared a World Heritage site. There are three main Renaissant churches: Major Church of La Encarnación, St. Catherine’s church and St. Gabriel’s church. In the historic centre is the alcazaba district , the only walled neighbourhood from the old Medina Lawsa, but there are some districts around the town with modern residential areas full of blocks of flats, restaurants and places where you can buy things.

The weather is typical of the continental Mediterranean climate. Winters are cold and rainy and summers are dry and hot. The annual average temperature — about 16 degrees — is ideal for sightseeing.

Loja is famous for its Holy Week celebrations, declared an Event of National Tourist Interest, where you can see elements as the “corrías de ìncensarios”. It’s also famous for its food and has many local specialities, like the nationally well-known “rosco de Loja” (which comes from an Arab recipe), trout and sturgeon from Riofrío, extra virgin olive oil, asparagus, lamb with own designation of origin, honey, hams and other cured pork products. They’re delicious! One of its best tourism attractions is free gliding activities.

What I like best about Loja is that we are so close to nature. There are a lot of routes routes where you can be in touch with nature. One of them is the Water Route, which has numerous springs, rivers and streams, as well as over one hundred fountains. 

María Ascensión Moral Fernández. 2º Básico, Semipresencial

A2 - Writing Emails

From: María Ascensión

To:  Angelica

Subject: Hi from Spain

Hi Angelica

My name’s María Ascensión but you can call me María. I’m from Jaén but I live in Loja with my husband and our child. I’m a 36-year-old mine engineer but I’m currently unemployed, so I’m studying English for my job training.

I’m going to tell you more about myself. I have dark blonde hair and dark blue eyes. I’m tall and slim. I look like my mother. People tell us we are like sisters.

I think I’m friendly and sociable, a bit nervous, with a sense of humour, dynamic and adventurous. I get on well with most people.

In my free time I like going for a walk with my family, practising exercise, meeting friends for a coffee or going shopping. I love travelling and being in touch with nature, reading and listening to music, too.

Please write soon and tell me about you.

Best wishes

María 

María Ascensión Moral Fernández  2º SEMI

From: mamen@eoi.es
To: manuelteacher@loja.com
Subject: My description

Hi Manuel,

My name is María del Carmen, but everyone calls me Mamen. I´m in 2^nd B, in your English class. I´m from Huétor-Tájar, Granada, and I live with my husband and my kids. One year ago, I lived in Málaga. When I was eighteen years old, I went to study in this town, and I met my husband, Sergio. We lived and worked there but, when we had kids, we decided to move to Huétor-Tájar. In this town, I have a lot of family to help us and it’s a very quiet place. At the moment, I’m working for my family at home but I´m studying to get a job. This is a difficult challenge for me because I don´t have much time to do that. If I can’t get it, I’ll work on my own as a social worker. This is another challenge, but I think I can achieve it.

Now, I´m going to describe my physical appearance. I´m tall and quite slim. I have straight brown hair and brown eyes. I’m quite strong because I´m training very hard for the physical exam.

I think I´m a fighting person. I see the good things in a problem and my family and me fight to solve it. We love the little things and we live them as a big opportunity. Every day’s a new challenge and we try to overcome it.

Nowadays, I practise swimming and go to the gym. I love sport and I´m happy when I do some. In a few months, I’ll live in another house, and in my free time, I clean and furnish it.

Thank you for your attention. See you soon.

Regards,                              

Mamen 


Mamen García Rodríguez 2º B