E-MAIL ENQUIRY Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to ask information with regard to the advertisement for your language and Greek cooking course. I have never studied Greek before, but I am a good cook, I have always wanted to visit to Greece and get to learn about their culture, language and food. Could you tell me what language level is required? And will there be different groups depending on the language level? I would be grateful if you could tell me what the price of the course is? And if it includes the journey and the accommodation. Furthermore, I would like to know if the price varies depending on the kind of accommodation that I choose? In addition, I wonder if you could give me more information about the accommodation. If I choose stay with a family should I help to do the household chores? or, on the other hand, if I choose stay in a hotel will I have full board? I would like to know how many weeks the course last? It is not clear in the advertisement. Finally, I would be interested in visiting other places in Greece. Is there a possibility to organize some excursions? I would like to thank you in advance for all this information. I look forward to hearing from you. Yours faithfully.

REPORT BASED ON A GRAFH Nowadays mobile payment is very useful, and it is a fact that they are developing in the recent years. A recent study showed that the global value of payment technologies market has been rose nearly a 40% each year since 2018. The top countries in mobile wallet usage are currently china whit roughly 50% of user, following by Norway with more than 40% and UK, Japan and Australia with approximately 20% of people that use that services. Another relevant information that the study showed is the average in which people do mobile spending, on this way the graphic shows that people do about 70% money transfers through the mobile payment services in contrast with only 1% spending in ticketing, other spending are merchandise purchases with a 23,3% and bill payments that use around 5% of users. The use of mobile payment has overtaken the expectations that has been predicted years before. Predictions say that in 2026 we will be risen the use of wearables; the physical cards and money will have ben dismiss and we will be used biometrical technology.

PROPOSAL TO MAKE DOCUMENTARY PROGRAMMES ABOUT UNUSUAL HOBBIES INTRODUCTION The aim of this proposal is to provide some ideas to make a series of documentary programmes about unusual hobbies and it was commissioned by a National TV channel. BREAK DANCE Firstly, I would like to promote the break dance, it begins as a dance but nowadays is a new Olympic sport, it is little known by people. I really think that break dance is a good option because people who practice it is genuine. People how practice it, named bboys, are like a family because they travel around the world finding competitions and they have friends wherever they go. Bboys need to keep fit and work hardly. they need to have a good sense of rhythm and gymnastic abilities, because break dance is a mixture between both of them. I think It is unusual hobby and people could enjoy seeing it or doing it. YARN BOMBING Secondly, I would like to show another different hobby, it is yarn bombing, is a kind of street art and It consists in decorating elements of the environment, such as trees, benches, bins even buses with crochets yarn. This hobby is practiced by people of all ages but currently it is still a hobby unknown to many. I reckon that if people who enjoy knitting or sewing knew about this discipline, they would certainly practice it. CONCLUSION I hope you will consider my ideas to do the documentary programmes, I really think it could be a great idea that people know more those activities because they are very gratefully and enjoyable.

INFORMAL E-MAIL Hi Raquel, Thanks for your letter, it’s really good to hear from you, How are you? Can’t believe it’s been a year since we last spoke! So much has happened! What have you been up to? I still working in the same school and I have loads of work. Wish one day plenty of time in my hands, despite of that I could have time for you when you'll come. that’s all about me. I can’t believe that you come here, It’s amazing! I’m over the moon, we could do a lot of things…it might be an idea visit the museums and the castle in my city, you can’t leave without visit them. Another possibility would be going to the shopping centre we could go shopping, eat something and go to the cinema. There are many activities that you can do, like ride a horse or hiking through wonderful places, we could choose what we’ll so when you arrive. Even we could only be in a bar taking some beers and enjoy it together. What would you think about these options? You could tell me what you prefer and I would make a Schedule, to organice the time. Does the course include accommodation? If not, you can stay at my house, I have plenty of room It would be really great to catch up properly before that. Shall we try and next week? Do you have any free time? Hope to speak to you soon. A huge hug, LARA

REVIEW: 8 APELLIDOS VASCOS // SPANIS AFFAIR 8 APELLIDOS VASCOS // SPANIS AFFAIR is a Spanish film that reflex perfectly the Spanish culture and highlight the differences between the people from the north and people from the south of Spain. The film is set in Basque country and Sevilla city, it is a romantic comedy and its main actors are Dani Rovira and Clara Lago ones of the best Spanish actors nowadays. It was released in 2014 by the director Emilio Martinez Lazaro. The plot is absorbing, a Sevillian boy,that never had left Andalucia before, travel for love to a village in the Basque country, there he need to look like Basque and he don’t understand their culture and costumes. It’s plenty of amusing situations. The main characters are Amaia and Rafael the lovers, she is a bit moody and he is a little silly but they love each other despite of their differences. There are others important characters like Koldo, Amaia’s father, how reflex perfectly the Basque stereotype and have hilarious moments with Rafael, and Merche how plays an important roll in the movie because is from Caceres but she pretends to be Basque. I was pleasantly surprised by the stunning shots of both Basque country and Andalusia. To summarize, this film characterize ideally the Spanish culture and sends a message of unity and love despite our differences and tell us a romantic history in key of humour, I would definitely recommend watching it, it’s a must-see film. You’ll have a good time and laugh a lot.

Balance opinion essay Nowadays it is know that keep up-to-day with aspects of culture and current affairs is highly important, like news or arts, because we need to know what happened around us, however people thin that there are different ways to do that. On one hand, some people believe that the best way to keep up-to-day could be being well-informed about what’s going on the world through the news, so, we could watch what happen in the world in real time and it could help us to avoid problems in the future, for instance in the lasts months we have been able to watch the coronavirus evolution and that help us to become more careful and try to keep away the virus. On the other hand, other people believe that, the most important may be up-to-day with the latest books and films in order to have interesting thinks to talk about, The social life is crucial nowadays and you need to have friends and talk with them for that you need to have fresh information to talk whit them, for example if your friends have watched the last film and you have not, you could not have nothing to talk with them. On balance, I think both are important nowadays because the information is power and the most important is to be involve in culture and keep the interest to be well informed about the latest news. I would like to finish saying that it is fantastic to have all the information at your fingertips and we need to worth it.

A BALANCE OPINION ESSAY It is known that science is a compulsory area at school from the first course to the last. The benefits to study science are many. Science provide basic knowledge about our own body, the world of plants and animals and physics and chemistry. Some people believe that science area is important because it has interesting lessons and that promote the curiosity to learn. They could learn for instance how many hours sleep a bear in winter or why we can see only one moon face. Furthermore, Science provide the children basic background that we need to use in our daily life like care the environment using the energy in a correct way or how we can move an object without effort. Others, however, believe that science only is important if you will study a science degree, because if you will go to study science degree you need to have some previous knowledge, in other case they believe that it is not important. On the other point of view, there are people that consider science important for all of us because it make us thinking in a different way, making experiments and exploring to find the correct solution, it is the scientific thought that we only learn if we study science area. On balance, I think science is as important as maths or languages, moreover, it is one of the favourites areas for children and they learn to learn through the experiments. On the hole, science area is important, for that reason children must study it in every school year.

SUMMARY NET VALUE • VIDEO 8.5 VOAYAGE COURSEBOOK’S PAGE 84 PART 1 – INTRODUCTION • We use a lot of plastic that turn back in rubbish. • Plastic isn’t biodegradable and it end up in the oceans were there are around 5 trillion of plastic waste that hurt the sea life. • There are currently 5 islands of waste the biggest is twice the size of Texas. PART 2 - BUEREO • We need to reduce the use of plastic but further we could recycle and reuse. • BUREO is a small business from Chile that make skateboards using recycling plastic. • In Chile the fishing industry is very important, but they produce the 10% of pollution in the oceans, they usually through away the nets into the see. • The nets are collected and become in decks of skateboard after a manufacture process. • These skateboards are eco-friendly products and nowadays they are a trending all over the world specially in California.