RESTAURANT REVIEW Restaurant Review. Last day I went to a new vegan restaurant which has been opened near to Gran Vía, in Madrid. Since I stopped eating meat I do not have a lot of options in traditional restaurants and I wanted to eat something different, so I went with some friends. The restaurant is called Shishang, and it's actually a vegan Chinese restaurant. In the first place, the atmosphere was cool, it's a beautiful restaurant and the staff were so nice with us. They have a lot of different vegan food and imitations of real Chinese meals, like vegan sweet and sour pork, prawns, chicken ... and they also taste and look similar to the "real" ones! It's amazing. I ordered vegan veal with bamboo and Chinese mushrooms and it was delicious. Usually, vegan or vegetarian food are much more expensive than the regular food, but in this case the prices were like in other non-vegan Chinese restaurants. These kind of restaurants are a great option for vegan and vegetarian people and also for the omnivore people who want to try something new and explore different nutritional options that people couldn't imagine years ago. _______ THANK YOU!

ESSAY: Adventure Tourism - Do you think adventure tourism in inexplored parts of the world should be encouraged?- Adventure tourism is gaining importance in the last years as a new form of travel, people likes to live different and exciting things in their free time instead of the traditional ways based on relaxing. This new forms of amusement are usually done in natural places, what can affect the animals and plants that live there. Human beings have controlled most of superfice of Earth, and this has affected the environtment in a very dangerous ways: pollution, deforestation, floods, forest fires… Some parts of the world luckily have survived the horror human can do in natural places, but they are in danger for the bussiness opportunitys they have, and one of them is tourism. Besides the fact that tourism in inexplored parts can be dangerous for the people that “enjoy” this kind of tourism, this places and their wildlife can be destroyed easily by the human action: cutting down trees, killing animals, river engineering… Adventure tourism has a lot more of terrible aspects than positive ones, so I think it should be forbidden or just allowed for activities that doesn’t need changes in the natural wildlife. _______________ THANK YOU!

WHAT I’D SAVE IN A FIRE (Informal Article). Imagine your house is on fire, literally, and you only have the opportunity to save just one thing. This is a typical joke question that can give you a lot of information about people, depending on what they really care and letting them think about their priorities. In my case, I have a lot of things that I would save immediately, but I think I would choose my camera. My camera is a Canon EOS 100D I bought 5 years ago, which is not the best of all the reflex cameras, but it’s really important for me because I’m studying photography and I need it in my job and other personal projects I’ve been doing this years, and also other video projects I’m starting to do now. Emotionally it’s also important because it was my first professional camera, and it has some pictures inside that are special for me. Some people can feel love for some objects, but I think this is because they are really important for them in a lot of aspects. And the reflex cameras and the lenses they use are so expensive that I couldn’t buy a new one in a million years, which is also a good point for save them in a fire. ______________________ THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Is it better to have older or younger parents? -- ESSAY All families are different and every of them have good and bad things, it depends of a lot of other personal characteristics that are not related to the age of the parents, and it also depends of the perspective or opinion you have about your personal situation, it’s a really subjective point. Trying to be objective, in a family with younger parents maybe all the members of the family can share more hobbies, because their age gap is small and it’s easier to talk about topics that older people can’t understand. On the other hand, having older parents can be positive because they can teach their children a lot of different things about their past, like old groups of music, history, movies… In other practical terms, older parents can have more experience in parenting if they have been parents before, but if they haven’t, there is not so much diference between an older and a younger couple. In the economic point, older people usually have a more stable and a better economic situation that younger people, but it also depends of the family. In conclusion, age gap maybe it’s not so important because it depends of a lot of different situations. The most important about having a child is being emocional and economicaly prepared and give them the importance that they have, trying to do the best for form a good person in the future. ___________________________________________ Thank you so much!!!!

INFORMAL EMAIL. Hi! I have writen and informal email for an exercise of my English-book. The purpose is to explain what we do in my city in the evenings to a student called Max. If you could correct me it would be great, thank you so much. "Hi Max, nice to meet you! It’s great that you are coming to Madrid! I’m sure you are going to have a good time here, it’s a great city with a lot of things to do. First of all, what are you studying? I’m studying Advertising and Public Relations in the University Complutense, so maybe we can go together in the subway in the mornings! Classes finish at 13.00 pm, so then, maybe we can go out for some drinks or something, Madrid has a lot of cheap and great pubs which are perfect for young people and students, just in case you like beer so much as I do. I think is a good plan for meet each other. In the evenings, people use to go to drink something in the terraces of the bars too and talk about different things, and then sometimes we go to some nightclub in the center. There is also some squares where you can find a lot of people drinking in the street, which is a perfect way to know different people and make friends, like "2 de Mayo Square" in Malasaña, although it’s not legal. Other place I like to go is Chueca, which is recognized as being the “gay zone”, people also drink in the street and have a good time with friends or other people, and the bars in that zone are great. Maybe you think is a lot of drinking, but well, we are young and you’re in Spain, so have fun! Hope to see you! Alba".