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Letter of Application (FIRST)
Dear Sir / Madam,
I recently saw your advertisement for activity leaders at your summer camps for children, and would like to apply.
I am a 24-year-old Spanish student currently studying English at a college in Madrid. My college report describes me as motivated, enthusiastic, cheerful and confident. I believe these personal qualities would be very useful for the role of activity leader. Although I have no professional experience working with children, I have several young nephew and nieces who I often take care of.** I am also very active and play team sports such as volleyball and baseball.
I would like to work for you because I enjoy being with young people and am keen on sharing my enthusiasm for sports with them. The job would also give me an ideal opportunity to practice my English.
I believe I would be able to make a success of this job and I hope you will consider my application.
I look forward to hearing from you. [Both versions are correct, but this is the standard phrase people use in applications]
Yours faithfully,
Carlos Álvarez** This sentence is correct, but it would be more positive if you phrased it like this:
"I have a great deal of informal childcare experience looking after several young nieces and nephews." (You should avoid the words 'no experience'!!)
Sounds good!
0 votedOctober 25, 20160Statement
Good morning [if you're writing a formal letter, you should start with Dear Sir/Madam, or Dear Mr/Mrs if you know their name]
My name is Susana and I am writing this letter to let you know about my current situation and why this help would be beneficial to me.
Since I came to this country my first goal has been to study to get a good career and get a good future. My first language is Spanish and all my family speaks this language, therefore, my parents and I are still learning English. My father cannot get good jobs because of his low English level and his incomes is low.My mother had a operation in her coccyx when she was younger and because of that she has never could work normally. She just had a operation the last August because she had a cyst, which became complicated because of this operation on her coccyx. I have to look after her because she usually has pain in her spine which prevents her from doing basic things. She got a statement from the doctor about her last operation and she got another statement in Spain from the doctor about her old operation, but it's in Spanish. She needs to have others tests done here and get a statement from the doctor in English. And For this reason my mother basically cannot work and So actually my father is the only one that sustains my family.
This help would be beneficial for me when I have to buy food daily in my school or when I have to use the train to get quickly to my school and sometimes my father's income isn't enough.
Well, that's all. I hope you can understand my situation and thanks (informal!!) thank you for reading my statement.There we go :-)
Do you have any questions? I am a native speaker.
0 votedOctober 25, 20160Spanish music bands: "Asfalto"
I will write several articles about Spanish bands here in the future. I like music a lot so I think it will be easier for me to write about this matter.
The 80s started an amazing age for music here in Spain. It happened when democracy began after the end of the dictatorial system. There was an amazing cultural and musical explosion called "La movida". I was a child but I liked to listen a lot to these original bands. I remember my childhood when I listen to some of these songs.
I would like to start today writing about one of the first bands of this period. Its name is Asfalto and they play symphonic rock. I would say that they were the originators of our 80´s music. You can listen to their song "Días de escuela" if you click on the following link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLTFFc1fd0Y&list=LLbxG0RDJ-TZwSmFon73qBNg&index=187
This song speaks about the educational system during the dictatorial period here in Spain.
I hope you like their music.Thank you, I will go listen to them!
0 votedJune 17, 20161
