FOR AND AGAINST ESSAY:

Lowering the age teenagers get a driving licence:

The aim of this report is to consider the advantages and disadvantages of lowering, maintaining or increasing the age of getting a driving licence. There are some countries like Spain, where you can get a license when you are eighteen; or countries like the USA, where you can get a licence when you are just sixteen.

There are many reasons to lower the age at which you can get a licence. Nowadays, teenagers want to go outside at night earlier and come back home later. It would be a good reason to get a licence. Furthermore, teenagers have friends out from their born city, and parents spend all day driving their sons and daughtersfrom one place to another. Last but not least, it’s safer to drive a car than a motorbike.

However, not all the things are advantages. Firstly, teenagers are really unconscious and they do not respect traffic signals. Moreover, they want to drive really at high speeds on the road. Likewise, they suffer a lot of accidents and the car insurances for them are more expensive.

To sum up, there is equality between the advantages and disadvantages of decreasing the age to get a driving licence. As far as I am concerned, I think the government should maintain the law about getting a driving licence when people are eighteen.

DESCRIPITION OF A PLACE:

BAR LA PLAÇA:

My favourite bar in Berga is definitely Bar La Plaça. There are a lot of bars in Berga, about 120, but La Plaça is special. It is an old building in the old village, near the cinema. This bar is a great place to watch a football match with your friends.

The interior of the bar is really beautiful. The walls are covered with photographs of Patum and of the staff of the bar. There are also some pictures of famous musicians of many different styles: Bob Marley (reggae), Rolling Stones (rock), The Beatles (pop)...

The outside is also worth mentioning. It is a square called “Plaça del Forn”. If you want, you can drink something outside at the tables there are there. You can also smoke there.

The bar is famous all over Berga for the jazz concerts they organize. There are more than twenty-five types of beer on the menu, but it isn't all. You can also play cards or darts there.

However, you should know that you can't have dinner there. You just can eat a snack.

WRITING: A FILM REVIEW

THE CRAZIES:

I’m not a great fan of horror Films so I didn’t expect to enjoy The crazies. However, I was really pleasantly surprised by this horror film, made by the film company Paramount Pictures.

The film is set in a little village in the western area of the USA. The plot centres on a plague. Everyone who drinks water from the river gets ill and becomes a zombie. So the whole population of the village, except the sheriff, his wife and a couple of friends, become zombies. The two healthy couples will try to leave the village but it will be really difficult because everybody tries to kill them.

Timothy Olyphant plays the sheriff of the village. He is a brave man worried about the future of his pregnant wife. The film is good, despite the absence of music and sometimes special effects.

In short, “The crazies” is a good film but I can just recommend it to people who like horror films and people who want to have a good time with their friends.

ACROSTIC POEM

Basketball, football, handball

A team to defeat

Let's win the match

Let's enjoy sport

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE

THE EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION 4/2/11:

Finally, the Egyptian revolution has succeeded. After about twenty days when most of the population has been complaining about, the govern of the “president” since 1981, Mohamed Hosni Mubarak has resigned his power.

The revolution had taken place for eighteen days: all started on the 25th of January, a special day for Egyptians, when there were many demonstrations around the country showing the disagreement of the population versus Mubarak.

After the demonstrations some people started to go to Tahrir square, a huge square of Cairo, the capital of the country. They stayed the whole day claiming that the president left the government. The first day they were not many people but in the end they were thousands of people claiming freedom.

After all, the president left the government. It was on the 11th of February. Obviously, thousands of people went around the streets to celebrate the victory, but it is just the first step in order to transform Egypt in a democratic country.

Nowadays UNO is thinking of accusing Mubarak for making crimes against humanity.

According to politicians maybe now there will begin revolutions throughout Africa, claiming democracy, because many countries of this continent have had the same president for many years.