BRITAIN

BOB DYLAN

Bob Dylan, whose real name is Robert Allen Zimmerman, was born in United States on 24th May 1941. He is a musician, singer and songwriter, who was really influential in the twentieth and twenty-first century. His songs have a variety of social, political, philosophical and literary themes. He is 75 years old now and lives in Malibu.

Some of his most famous songs are “Like a Rolling Stone”, “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” and “Lay Lady Lay”. During his career, which started in 1959, he has won a lot of awards. Some of his awards are Prince of Asturias Awards, Golden Globe Awards, Grammy Awards and Grammy Hall of Fame.

But the most famous award is the Nobel Prize for Literature this year, which has caused different opinions: the first is that he doesn’t deserve the award because there are a lot of better writers and poets before him, and they only give him the award for publicity; and the second is that he deserves the award for the amazing lyrics of his songs, but sadly for the people who think that he deserves it the director of the Nobel Foundation has stated that he had already arranged some appointments.

From my point of view, only poets and writers should win this award, not songwriters although they have written amazing lyrics.

DUBLIN

Last year in my school there were three travels to choise. One was to Monaco, another to Galicia and Madrid, and the other one to Dublin. Finally I chose to go to Dublin, because in my opinion it was the best of the threee travels. If I had gone to France, I would have had to travel by bus an entire day and it is so uncomfortable. And I didn't choose to go to Galicia and Madrid because I preferred to leave Spain.

The travel to Dublin was amazing! I had a lot of fun! During the week we went to different places, where we could see fantastic things. We had to go to classes some days, too. Also we went to St. Paatrick's parade, where there were a lot of people who were from Dublin and different countries. The majority were dressed in green clothes. After that week we had to come back to Spain.

We arrived at the airport and when we were checking in the luggage a woman told us that our flight had been cancelled. I remember that everybody was like "What ?" "What are we going to do?" and a few persons were crying.

We had to spend an other two days in Dublin in a hotel. But for me it was the best part of the trip. After that we come back to Spain.

MY BEST FRIEND

Today I am going to write about Elena, who is one of my best friends. She has been in the same class as me at school since we were 12 years old. She was the first person that I met there.

Now, she is 16 years old,she is thin and she is the tallest girl in my class. She is taller than some boys. She has got short black hair, but I am sure that in a few months she will have red or purple hair, because she loves dying her hair. She has got big brown eyes and a beautiful smile. She always wears dark clothes, because it is her favourite colour.

She is very smart, cheerful and funny. She is the most friendly girl that I khow! Everybody thinks that she is very generous! She is a little talkative, too. She loves listening to music, and her favourite singer is Adam Levine. A lot of famous songs have been written by him. She loves readind books, too, for example she is reading one called "No culpes al karma de lo que te pasa por gilipollas". It has been written by Laura Norton.

Elena and I are good friends, because we are not very different. Elena is a very good friend. Everyone should have a friend like her!

LÍNEA DEL TIEMPO DE LA FILOSOFÍA ANTIGUA

POKÉMON GO

First, I think that summer is the time that you have to do your hobbies, for example : you can hang out with your friends, read books, do exercise, travel, meet new people , go to the beach… So I think that you can’t waste your time with a game.

In summer, there was a new game called Pokémon Go and it was very popular. Everyone was obsessed with it, I always saw people playing with that game next to a “PokeParada” or next to a “GimnasioPokemon”. I think that it is a great game, because when you are bored you can go out and play and your are doing exercise, too. For example there was a youtuber that lost 3 kg in a week. That's one of the advantages, other advantages are: you can play with your friends, family..., make tourism in and out of the city.... One of the coolest things in the game is that according to the site you are you can find different pokemons.

On the contrary, there are also disadvantages, because some people do dangerous things to capture a Pokémon, drive while they are playing, people walk in the street distracted ...

Nowadays, the game is nos as amazing as before. Almost everyone no longer plays with it and finds it boring, although there are still people obsessed with it.

INFORMAL LETTER

Hello Elena!

How are you? I hope you are well.

This summer I have done a lot of things. Everyday I was with my friends in the beach or in the swimming pool. We used to go shopping once a week, but we hardly ever bought anything.

 I went to the Warner Bros Theme Park in Madrid with my dad and some friends. I had so much fun there. All the rides were amazing! My favourite rides were "Stunt Fall" and "La Fuga", which are roller coasters.

I have had time to do my hobbies like reading books. I love reading books in my free time, because I just think if you read a lot of books you are more interesting and you always have a topic of conversation.

Another hobby I have is listening to music, but that is something that I always do, This summer I wanted to go to Rihanna's concert in Barcelona, but ut was very expensive. I discovered a group of music called "Twenty one pilots" and they have amazing songs. My favourite songs are: Ride, Stressed out and Cancer.

Kisses

Irene

PS: What did you do last summer? What are yout hobbies?