Visit to Granada

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I would like to take thi opportunity to welcome you aboard our coach tour of Grenade and its surroundings. First of all, let me introduce myself. My name is Guillermo Romero, and I shall be your guide for these two weeks. I am here to make your trip as pleasant as possible and to give you some information about the buildings we will be seeing.

First of all, we will see one of the most important monuments of Spain: the Alhambra castle, which is a Muslim castle. We will also visit the Science Museum, which has got a very interesting exposition about electricity, dinoseurs and the human body. After that, we will go to Sierra Nevada to do some skiing and watch all the different types of landscape that Grenade has. Finally, we will go to Motril, which is a town that was very important because of the sugar cane, so we will visit the Sugar cane Museum. This city has a subtropical climate, so we will go to the beach. The trip is expected to take two weeks, so we will have enough time to visit all.


May I also ask those of you who feel dizzy on the bus to sit on the first seats of the coach. I hope that you all have an enjoyable trip, and please feel free to ask me any questions. I will do my best to answer them. Thank you for your attention.

Our dreams

In our world, everybody has dreams, ones are easier than others. Many people want to be rich or powerful, but others have got dreams such as having a family or a good job. Of a difficult goal to achieve is riding a wave on a motorbike. 

Robbie Madison had this ambition and he has done quite well. He has been working for five years, but last week he made it. It was a very difficult dream. I recommend you to watch this video, when I watched this video I got really impressed. The most interesting part is when he rode a wave. 

I also have many dreams, but they aren’t as unusual as Robbie Maddison's.  I want to have a job, a family and be happy all my life I would also like to be rich, but for me money isn’t as important as happiness. It is a well-known fact that nowadays money is very very important, because you can’t do nearly anything without it.

All in all, I think everybody should follow their ambitions, because if we don’t have any goals we don’t need to do anything. Sometimes our dreams are nearly impossible, but that is what makes push forward as it is what we want for our future life.

Paris, the capital of France

Two years ago, I went to that wonderful and big city, but I only stayed one day, it was a pity. I went in the summer and there were a lot of tourists so it was a bit difficult to walk.

I visited many places as the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, the Champs-Élysées, the Obelisk, and many other things that now I can’t remember. I really liked the monuments in Paris, but I think that there are also many places as interesting as them, for example the Mont Saint-Michel, the Dune de Pila, Futuroscope… 

My parents went there last week and they visited Roland Garros, the Louvre, le Moulin Rouge, Monmartre cemetery, Montparnasse cemetery… They have stayed in the capital of France for one week so they have had enough time to visit all. However they said that in the Louvre Museum they were 6 hours and they didn’t have enough time!!! It’s crazy!

All in all, I would like to have gone there, but I was in a French course in Rouen so I couldn’t.  I wish I could go there one day again to visit that amazing city better.

Solar planes

I am going to talk about solar-powered planes and about what consequences will have in the future. This type of planes has been recently discovered. These ecologic planes use solar energy to move through the air and in their wings there are solar planes which obtain  the energy from the sun. 

The advantages of solar-powered planes are: The air isn't polluted because they use green energy, the solar energy doesn't disappear as the kerosene. The disadvantages are: that this type of technology isn't developed enough, because these planes can't be flying for more than half an hour and can't transport a lot of weight, either.

All in all, I think that these planes in the future will be very useful, because one day the fosil fuels will disappear. I hope that governments investigate more in this type of technology, because it will be our future.

Glossary:
solar-powered, to land >< to take off, to glide (hang-gliding), smooth (suave) >< rough

My favorite type of music

Rock is a type of music that was born in the USA in 1950. Another name for rock is rock and roll.Some very popular artists were Elvis Prestley, with his song "That's all right Mama", Don McLean with his song “American Pie”, AC/DC with their song “Highway to hell”.

In my opinion rock is a very good type of music and really like it. Some groups I really like are AC/DC, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles...And I really like also “Tonight is what its means to be young”, “Viva la Vida”...recommend to listen to the song “Tonight is what it means to be young ”.

I think this type of music will never die, because people are still creating rock and roll music. And I hope rock will never disappear. 

Fernando Martín Espina

Fernanado Marín Espina was a basketball player who was the first Spanish basketball player that played in the NBA. He wasborn on 25th March in 1962 in Madrid and he died on 3rd December in 1989, in a car accident, at  the age of 27. His brother Antonio Martín Espina was also a basketball player. He played in Estudiantes de Madrid, Real Madrid, Portland Trail Blazers and in Spanish national team, where he won a lot of prizes. 

The most famous prizes he has won were: his figure is recognized in the FIBA Hall of Fame, Spanish First and Second European to play in the NBA, the Real Madrid Basketball dorsal retired number 10 in his honor, belongs to the 50 Greatest Contributors FIBA Basketball.

 In my opinion, he must have been a very good player if he won all these enormous prizes. Unfortunately, he died in a terrible accident.

Political parties

Podemos is a political party created in January in 2014. Its  leader is Pablo Iglesias Turrión. This political party is a left-wing party. People think Podemos is communist, but Podemos doesn’t deny this and that it is a very big problem.

PP and PSOE are a bit worried because they can lose the power. The problem is that they are used to having the power and they don’t do anything. However this is good, because all this situation will put pressure on the Conservative Party and the Socialist Party to do things better. So far they have committed many mistakes. 

Podemos is becoming stronger,  because people voted Podemos for the reason that they want a change in the society. I don’t think the solution for our problem is Podemos, because I think they are too intelligent to do good things and I think if they took the power, they would control us.

All in all, Podemos can take over the power,  but if they don't do things properly, they won't. They won’t return to the power anymore. It is true that we need a change, but I think Podemos isn’t the solution.