Recommendation letter --This letter aims to convince the recruiter of a practical interships abroad-- To whom it may concern, I have strong interest in the activities you develop, and I would like to collaborate with you as a trainee as soon as possible. As you will see from my enclosed CV I have two years of experience teaching Spanish in educational establishments. In the course of my job at “xxx” and “xxx” I have been responsible for the creation of teaching plans that I have applied to private and group classes. For example, I have prepared a broad range of activities aimed to improve the conversation skills of a private student, activities to review a particularly difficult grammar aspect, or activities to add fun and variety. In the enclosed documents, you will find two activities I created for different levels: one it is for learning the tricky difference between “desde” and “hace”, the other it is the comparison between the same story in a short text and a short film, to practice the reading comprehension and the speaking skills. I have not only taught in a physical classroom, I have also experience teaching by Skype, where I have developed a set of tools to provide a great teaching experience. For example, I am using Google Docs to add support materials to the class and work with them in real time. Furthermore, I am using also an online dice (xxx) that allows to play all the games that require a physical dice (like the ones in xxx). I will be glad to supply you with any further information you may need.

Writings about music: Progressive Rock. This is quite a curios musical style for today’s tastes. Shortened as prog rock, it was born at the end of the sixties, and it is usually accepted that the first disc was “In the court of the Crimson King” by King Crimson. The musical style, as always happen, did not appear from nothing, the main influence was the entire art rock movement, huge in the music scene of those years. Art rock was born when artists like the Beatles or the Beach Boys started to taking themselves more seriously than ever, the consequence was a more elaborated and complex music, with wide ranging influences. This artsy turn made that the studio song and the live song were, for first time, very different things. Progressive rock was just the logic evolution of this entire situation. The art pop/rock of the sixties created new song structures and made the songs longer, a good example with its six minutes it’s “Like a rolling Stone” by Bob Dylan, but prog rock made the 10 minutes song something very usual. Regarding the structure of the song, prog used collections of short pieces organised in complicated ways, also known as suites. Mixing styles was another novelty in the sixties, many people would remember the classical inspired violin in “Eleanor Rigby” or the piano in “In my life” both by the Beatles; in prog the classical influence was, nevertheless, a lot bigger, and also the Jazz elements were very common. The complexity was raised in general: the songs were very long, many times involving lots of different instruments, the lyrics were serious and important, and in general they tried many times to be epic. However, the initial ambition turned into a problem when some bands thought that being complex is synonym of being good, and because that they produced some self-indulgent and dull music. It is not surprising that punks criticised the music style, they claimed the simplicity of the old pop/rock, just the opposite as in prog.