B2.2 - Writing: A story

An autumn day

It had been raining the day before but that morning was a light and warm autumn day, an excellent day to enjoy in the nature, this was what David thought when he opened the window of his flat in the extremely noisy city.

David quickly called three of his friends and met them an hour later in the park near of his building. They drove along a narrow and sinuous road into the mountains. When they finally arrived close by the river, they left the car and they walked through the dense forest towards the highest peak. While they were climbing they could see a small cabin in a clearing in front of a cliff, at that moment David remembered he had spent a fantastic summer there when he was a child. Half an hour later the boys surmounted the summit and they could contemplate the wonderful autumn landscape. Suddenly, the youngsters saw a spectacular storm in the horizon, they needed to find rapidly a place where to protect themselves, so they ran downhill until the hut, but unfortunately it was close, for this reason they looked for refuge in the cliff, luckily they saw a small gap in the rock behind the brushwood, they went into it and discovered a magnificent cave with extraordinary rock formations along several halls, passages and lakes.

This cave was the most beautiful place that they had ever seen in their lives. It had been the most surprising thing that ever happened to them, and probably ever would.

José Antonio Lobato Delgado.  Grupo: 5º CAL bis

B2.2 - Writing: A Story

COULD    YOU    BELIEVE    THIS?

That warm summer night, everything  seemed to be calm. It was two in the morning after having dinner with Jane´s parents  and decided to return home. The sky was starlit and they wanted to drive breathing the fresh and pure mountain air.  John was driving as slow as a tortoise and  listening to romantic music in order to enjoy the trip.

Suddenly, a bright, blinding light appeared in the sky, illuminating the closed night. A gigantic unidentified object descended from the sky as quick as a flash and stopped right in front of them. A green, alien creature no taller than 80 cm came out of it. They had never seen anything like this.

John and Jane were terrified.  Jane grabbed her husband and shrieked:

- "What is this? We are going to die!"

 The strange creature approached them slowly and yelled:

- "Calm down! I just want to study life on this planet. If you quieten down, I'll return you without anyone ever realising that you have disappeared. Time will stand still for everyone, but you must cooperate. If you do not, I will destroy you now. You decide!"

John and Jane who were embracing and crying agreed to the demands of this mysterious being. They had to trust that it would keep its word and that it would not betray them.

They followed it towards the spaceship and... that is the only thing which they remembered until the moment they  found themselves in their car.

"It had been the most surprising thing that had ever happened to them, and probably ever would"

María José Arroyo B2.2

B2.2 Writing - A story

Curiosity kills the cat!

As far I can remember, I've been interested in all kind of insects and I've always been a great animal lover as well. If I had finished all my studies properly, I'd have been good at both, Entomology and Zoology. Nevertheless, I have to recognize that sometimes my curiosity has got me into troubles for not being too careful with nature.

When I was a child, my family used to spend some days at Easter in a cozy cottage that a friend of them had hired out to us for the duration of the holiday. At that time, spring was really breathtaking: fresh and multicolor flowers on the ground, amazing butterflies everywhere and a calm river whose water reflected like a mirror the sky during the day and the stars at night. Standing in the countryside was like a dream for me.

One day, I was killing time looking for and picking up each strange bug I saw.

'Don't touch it!, it may be poisonous!' my father yelled.

'Don't worry. They're harmless anyway,' I muttered. 

Later, I went for a walk around alone. While I was sauntering, I spotted an old pool behind the yard of a nearly collapsed house. It seemed that the owners had abandoned it. I thought there would probably be tadpoles in it. The pool was surrounded by a rusty fence so that no one could enter...

As nobody was there, I started to open the hardy fence, but due to the abundant vegetation I didn't realise something. An asleep snake, which was the same colour as the vegetation, was curled up on the fence. Thus, it was camouflaged! So, just as I was about to open completely the fence, suddenly the snake woke up and bit my hand. I felt such a painful bite that my screams reached my parents.

'Mum! Dad! Help me, please!' I shrieked.

Fortunately, they were able to came as quick as a flash.

'What the hell's happened to you!' They gasped.

They sucked the bite in order to get the poison out and tied a scarf around my arm before taking me to the hospital. Luckily, the snake wasn't poisonous, but I had its bite as a memory of my adventurous spirit for a few weeks.

'Thank God we all arrived home safely and soundly! my parents sighed.

It had been the most surprising thing that had ever happened to them, and probably ever would.

María José Rodríguez  B2.2