143. A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE FIRST TIME I WATCHED A FILM AT THE CINEMA , by N.S.M (E.S.O 3)

SONG:   Abel Korzeniowski - Juliet's  Dream

The first time that I attended the cinema, I was seven years old and I went to watch 'Avatar' with my parents, Fernando and Ana.

Since I had never been in the cinema, for me, it was amazing. While we bought the tickets, I saw a long queue. I asked my parents why there were a lot of people there. My parents answered me that that was the place where people bought the food and the drinks.

When we finished purchasing the tickets, we bought two colas, popcorn, candies and a hotdog with ketchup and with fried onion.

When we walked back into the cinema, I was very nervous and excited. The lights of the cinema went off. I was scared at the moment when the advertisements appeared since the volume was too high and I put my hands on my ears. But, since the film started, I put on my hands on the armrest and I was nervous with the things that happened in the film.

When the film finished, I wanted to watch another film, however  my parents told me that I would watch it another day.

I loved it.

142. MY FAVOURITE FREE TIME ACTIVITY , by G.P.C (E.S.O 3)

SONG: Cyndy Lauper - Time After Time

I love drawing. I don’t usually have time to draw, but when I can find some free time – I don’t care if it is an hour or just ten minutes –,  I draw.  

Sometimes, when I’m bored or I don’t know what to do, I just take my pencil and I start doing lines in a paper, just doodles, and little by little a shape is formed and I discover something to draw, the beginning of a drawing to create, a new idea.

When I have this start, it’s easy for me to continue drawing and create a new and original drawing.

However, sometimes it’s not so easy. Sometimes, I start to doodle and nothing happens; I can’t see nor imagine any clear figure to transform my doodle into a drawing. Sometimes, when I really want to draw, I have no ideas to create.

Yes, it’s true. Although it seems an illogical situation, when I want to draw I haven’t got any ideas in my mind, and when I don’t want to or I’m just bored I have millions of them: I have more ideas when I need them the less. That’s very frustrating!

Other times I just look on the Internet or in some books for drawings that I like and I copy them as I don’t want to become frustrated or even to drive me crazy because I don’t have any ideas to draw.

Finally, there are some times when I know exactly what I want to draw and I have the sketch inside my mind, so I just need to “ let it go” without being a lot of time thinking about what I’m going to do.

About my artistic style I can only say that I prefer drawing by pencil, shading instead of colouring, as I think that if I colour my drawings they will be worse than if they were in black and white.

But this doesn’t mean that I never colour my drawings; I do it, and when I paint them I prefer using coloured pencils since I don’t know how to use water colours, oil painting, charcoal and many other materials which I would like to use to colour my drawings well, as I’ve never attended art classes – apart from the ones which we have at the high school.

I would like to attend art classes to learn the different techniques and to know more about the artistic styles to be able to do better and more professional drawings, not the pencil sketches that I make !

141. A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF MY DINNER AND WHAT I DO UNTIL I GO TO BED , by M.G (E.S.O 3)

SONG:  Shawn Mendes - Treat You Better

I help my mother to cook the dinner as I like very much cooking with her. We take everything we need to cook and then start to make the food. We talk about interesting events of the day.

When the dinner is finished my mother calls my father and my brother and the two come to the kitchen. My father eats in the living room watching the TV, and my brother goes to his bedroom. My mother goes with my father and I go to my bedroom.

When I finish, I take my phone and I watch videos on YouTube, and chat with my friends. Sometimes, when my father goes to bed, he comes to my bedroom to say me good night and he doesn't like when I leave the dirty dishes on the carpet, so he tells me that I must take the dishes and I go to the kitchen to put the dishes in the dishwasher. Then, I go back to my bedroom.

140. A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE FIRST TIME I WENT TO THE CINEMA , by A.C.G (E.S.O 4)

SONG:   Michael Bublé - Home

Now I watch many films, but the best are the ones I watch at the cinema because I love it.

The first time that I went to the cinema was in 2007, nine years ago, when I was seven years old.

It happened in El Corte Inglés. I went with my parents  and some friends since we wanted to watch the film “Ratatouille”. It’s about a mouse that wanted to be a professional cook, like his idol “Gusteau”.

The experience was incredible , but not only because of the film. It was amazing too for the many people that were watching it and the big screen.

The film finished, and I and my friends went to eat to Burger King. We didn’t stop speaking about the film.

Now, when I’m fifteen, I go to the cinema three times a month with some friends.

The contemporary films are very different from the films that I watched years ago, with more effects, different actors…But I will remember “Ratatouille” as the first film that I watched at the cinema.

139. WHAT FRIGHTENS ME, by A.P.C (E.S.O 3)

SONG: Sia - Alive

   I’m a paranoiac person. Every time I see a horror film or I read something scary in a book, I'm not able to sleep the following night.

   Once I watched with my friend Caterina “By your side”. It's a movie about an insane harasser who is obsessed with teenagers’ teeth. In the film, he kidnaps seven adolescents and tortures them by pulling their teeth out. I didn't enjoy watching that film. In fact, I was terrified and I couldn't sleep for three days. I even had nightmares during that month.

   Horror films are not the only thing which scares me: illness, death, syringes, spiders and mosquitoes frighten me too. However, my greatest and darkest fear is my terror of the black beings under my desk.

   My bed is right next to my table. As the desk is under a window, I have got nightmares in which madmen, monsters, thieves or kidnappers come into my bedroom through the window and hide under my table. I have to stretch out my arm to turn my desk lamp on, and in my imagination the dark beings are there, so I can't move my arm. I can't move my body. I must keep motionless.

   When I have got this kind of nightmares, I become paralyzed. I stay tense in my bed sweating in the dark till I fall asleep. I try to think that they are product of my imagination; however, I cannot control my panic and I succumb to it.

   I hate to admit that my mind is so fragile, so weak. This makes me feel I'm just a puppet which moves by the caprice of the irrational parts of my brain.

138. THE PREPARATIONS I MAKE BEFORE GOING TO THE BEACH , by G.P.C (E.S.O 3)

SONG: Boston - More Than A Feeling

Preparing everything to go to the beach might seem like an easy and quick task, but in reality it is not.

For my family, it is always the same chaotic routine. We start collecting our swimsuits and towels to put them in our bags, but we can’t find them. We look for them all around the house: in our bedrooms, in the bathrooms, in the basement… Even in the kitchen!

When we finally find them, we put them into the bags.

Then, we realise that we haven’t taken the suntan cream and we go to take it, but it is never in its place. We start to search again all around the house to find it. Finally we put it in the bags.

And the same happens with the caps, the flip-flops, the sun glasses, the rackets and the ball, the kite, the parasol…

We spend almost an hour walking upstairs and downstairs to find and prepare everything! More time than when we were younger…And then it hardly fits in the boot!

Personally, I prefer going to the beach with less objects, just a bag for each one with a swimsuit, a towel and suntan lotion. But I don’t care about carrying all the other things since if we don’t take them, on the beach I will be bored if I don’t have rackets or a kite to play with, or the sun will burn my skin if I don’t have a parasol to protect my body from its light…

Finally, after we have found everything and put it in the car, we drive to the beach, ready to spend a fantastic day there.

And we know that we aren’t going to need anything!

137. THE CARTOON I LIKED MOST WHEN I WAS A CHILD , by L.S.L (E.S.O 4)

SONG:  Keane - Somewhere We Only Know

When I was a child I only watched TV a little bit because, on the one hand, I like it, but on the other hand I preferred to do other activities like playing with my brother or friends in the garden or reading, for example.

If I had to choose, one of my favourite cartoons from my childhood, I would select “Las Tres Mellizas” or “The Triplets” in English.

The director of the serie was Roser capdevilla. It was an entertainment program that was televised on Clan.

Nowadays, I don´t see it so I don´t know if it is televised or not. My favourite character was Helena because she was like me: she loved eating and doing sport. She usually wore green clothes, and then it was my favourite colour. Now, I prefer pink.


         *Clan: Spanish television channel for kids.

136. WHY I FORGOT MY COMPOSITION AT HOME , Z.G.V (E.S.O 3)

SONG :  Black - Wonderful Life

   Today I am going to explain why I forgot my composition at home.

   We had to hand the correction of the composition on Friday so the day before, in the afternoon, I was doing my homework as usual. I studied, I did my English homework and I placed my composition in my notebook not to forget it. However, that notebook wasn't the English notebook, it was the notebook of religion!

   The next day when I arrived at the high school, I checked I had all my homework, however, I didn't have the correction. I looked for it everywhere but it didn't appear. I called my mother with my mobile phone but she was at the gym so she couldn't bring me the composition. I tried to copy but it didn't work. So finally I couldn't hand the compositon on time.

   So, next time, I will check that all my homework is inside my backpack before going to school.