TASK 2: ORGANIZATION & COHESION

TEENS 1: A POSTCARD

• 101T

By Jonathan Martínez
Dear Pablo
Here I am in Brazil. I'm having a great time. It is cloudy. I'm playing football. My mum is swimming. My brother is playing tennis. We're staying at a hotel. It is fantastic!
Hope you're ok.
See you soon,
Jonathan.

• 102T

By Alma Gleano
Dear Judith,
Here I'm in Chile. I'm having a horrible time here, the weather is dreadful - really freezing and really cloudy. I'm staying in a small hotel. It's very boring and old. The hotel has got a TV. My parents aren't here right now. They're in Argentina. So I'm alone, and I'm bored.
Hope you're ok. See you soon.
Love,
Claire.

• 103T

By Luisina Marchetti
Dear Lola,
Here I'm having a horrible time :( The weather is awful, really cloudy, rainy and very cold. We're staying in a very small hotel. The hotel is old, dirty and disgusting. The hotel hsn't got a TV, a radio or a computer. The city is small, boring and horrible.
I hate this place!
Hope you're ok.
Love,
Luisina.
TEENS 2: LIFE IN THE FUTURE

• 202T

By Jessica Acosta
In the future I won't go to the university because I wanna be a fashion designer. I'll get married and probably I'll have four childrens maybe two boys and two girls. I hope to have enough money for a good life. Maybe one day I'll be very rich because I wanna be an excellent and very importnat and famous designer. I'll have a house on a farm because I really like the animals specially the horses.
TEENS 3: STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES
302T
By Yamila Castro

I think I am good at sports. I've been playing sports since I was a child. I played hockey, tennis, handball, I rode horses and I love it. Now I'm playing tennis, I play well but I think I am better riding horses. I think I'm good at sports because I love its and I work hard on it.

I'm really bad drawing. I've been bad at drawing since I was a kid. Also I am not a very good cooker because I am not interesting on learning to cook.

In the future I would like to be a deportist because is the only job I like in this moment, but I know I can’t be a deportist because I should have had to started when I was very little.

• 303T

By Demián Larrieu-Let
I think I'm good ant Maths and English so, maybe I have verbal and logical-mathematical intelligence. I'm very good at games like chess or strategic games.
I'm bad at things like making friends because I stay too much time at home. I think I have not a very good interpersonal intelligence.
I'm not sure what to do when I finish school but I think I'll try to get a job related to commerce or numbers because I like maths and money.

• 305T

By Brenda Anderson
I think I have body intelligence, because I love dancing and in my free time I dance too much, perhaps in my future I'll be a dancer.
I love meeting new people, so I have interpersonal intelligence and I love talking, I like singing, and I think I have musical intelligence, but I can't sing very well.
I'm very bad at Maths so I haven't got logical mathematical intelligence. When someone is reading a book, I can't pay attention, it's too difficult for me, so I haven't got verbal intelligence. I haven't got visual intelligence, because I don't remember what I read or what I see.
When I finish school, I'd like to be a dancer. Because I think I'm very good at dancing and I love it!

• 306T

By Paula Barroni
I think I've got good body intelligence because I'm quite good at volley-ball, for example, and I love listening to music. My best subjects are Art and English. I enjoy drawing with pencils and I love studying English because it's very easy for me.
I'm not very good at Maths - it's difficult for me to memorise formulae and to understand all that.
When I finish, I'd like to be an English teacher. I like English but sometimes I'm not very good in the tests that I do.

TEENS 4: AN ARGUMENTATIVE COMPOSITION

• 401T Using the Internet at School: Should Students Have Free Access?

By Ailén Cuccaro
A lot of schools think that is better have computers instead of books for students. They think that with Internet all is easier. They work very hard to buy computers. Sometimes it works and sometimes doesn’t.

There are a lot of advantages of having computers. For example on Internet you can find all faster. People save money because they don’t buy books. The students don’t have to carry weight on them, and the teachers don’t have to worry if the students came with the books that they need.

However, there are disadvantages. First of all, you don’t know if the information is right or if it’s false. Then, students can break the computers or someone can rob them. In addition, the students could play instead of work.

In conclusionis that we should have computers instead of books but you have to be very carefull because any of the previous things could happen.

• 402T Pros and Cons of Mobile Phones for Teenagers: Use or Abuse?

By Daniela Gaito
More and more teenagers have amobile phone now. In the las two years this “problem” increased very fast. Now all the teenagers and also boys and girls that have ten years use their mobile phones.

As a result, more teenagers are in touch to their friends and family. So, when you have a problemin the street or something like this, they only have to use the mobile phone and phone someone. This is better for the parents, because they know where is their soons.

However, the teenagers are in dangerous with a mobile phone because now there are more and more thefts in everywhere and nobody is quiet so it. They are too little to pass this horrible actions.

To conclude, I think that this is not too important, there are too many problems more important. But, in my opinion, the teenagers have to be in touch with their parents but the boys and girls too little not. And in the topic of thefts, well, I agree, now there are too much and this afect in all the person.

• 403T Cars in cities- do we really need them?

By Florencia Nanneti
In the last few years a lot of cars have been bought by people all around the world, and new models are out for sale every day, with the most advanced techonology to make them more comfortable and sophisticated. Even in small cities there have been an increase on sales.

Because of this, the streets are now full of cars most of the day. Moreover, people are using cars more and more each day. They think it's more comfortable than travelling by bus and less tiryng than going on foot.

In addition, cars not always help us. Firstly, the smoke of the cars pollutes the air, and in the cities where trere are a lot of people, like Mexico, it's hard to breathe. Secondly, everybody is using cars so often to go everywhere and they are so used to doing it that they forget that is bad for their health to be in a car all day and of course it's very stressful to drive around the streets.

And finally, there are more and more traffic accidents and streets are not safe anymore.

To conclude, I think we don't need cars all the time, just for long journeys or when we need to transport something big. For the rest we can go by bus, on foot or by bike.

• 404T Pros And Cons of Mobile Phones for Teenagers: Use or Abuse?

By Santiago Ciliberto
We all know that mobile phones are one of the most important inventions of the history, and that it's changing the way we communicate. But is it good that most teenagers have one? Let's see the pros and cons of mobile phones for teenagers.

Mobile phones have a lot of advantages: teenagers and parents are in touch all the time, and that's avery good point to have a mobile phone. Another thing is that, with the modern mobiles, young people can have fun at any moment, because of the applications it has: it's useful for playing music, taking photos, playing video games, and so on.

However, they also have many disadvantages. First of all, they are very expensive and teenagers spend a lot of money with the text messages and phone calls. Secondly, it's a security risk for teenagers, who go with their mobile on the street. And finally, the fact that teenagers get distracted very easy with it.

To conclude, I think that it's important to have one mobile phone for communication, in spite of all the disadvantages I have mentioned before.