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THE ADVENTURE OF A WATER DROP CALLED “TRANSFORMER”
Antonio Fragoso
Intermediate-I
Here it´s so cold and
I´m into a storm
After going up over 30.000 feet
It´s a sunny
day! Ufff!
I´m burning!
I´m
evaporating
I´m freezing
I´m going down
as a snow-flake
I´m part of
a
snowman.
I´m alive!
Bye!!!
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2. BUTTERFLY EFFECT
I’m a child. My heart is very
frail but my body is an iron
helmet. I can hear the bullets.
However, they will not hurt me
when I cross the street; No one is
waiting for me on the other side.
-Now!
I am alive for another day.
Yolanda Glez NI1B
2
3. Love is over
It was a very cold morning in January, and there weren’t many people
at the city.
At last, they met at the station.
It was her greatest desire, but standing a metre from him, she realized
they wouldn’t take that train together.
She no longer loved him.
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4. I wake up.
I feel your little face really close to me.
My body is so heavy, but I find the way to open my eyes.
I don´t know where I am, and this place looks so lonely.
But, I can see now.
You are holding someone´s hand.
Mine.
Name: Alba Rodríguez Núñez
Grade: English I1
4
5. That morning I met all of my neighbours.
Only Toby intuited what would happen.
When I finished going down the staircase remains I found
disorientated.
It was hard breathing and I couldn't see very well.
Minutes later the dust cloud had disappeared and I could
see the debris.
Patricia Pérez
English Intermediate I
5
6. MY DOG
Eight months ago, Kira came home.
Kira is a wonderful, intelligent and
tiny female dog. It makes me happy
every day. It always haunts me until
I go out and then. When I arrive it
cheers me up.
Yannick del Castillo Hermans IN1A
6
7. charming princess
lived in a colossal
castle with many
servants but she did
not have friends
because she never
went out. She was
always alone and
bored. One day she
escaped from the
castle. Suddenly she
met a handsome boy.
They fell in love.
Mª Judith Espinel Gutiérrez IN1A
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8. When my son was a child, I told him a tale at bedtime. I
invented a new short story every night.
One day he told me: ‘I know that your incredible yarns have
never happened, but I think that they are true because they
are alive in our heads’.
José Ramón Hernández
López.
English.Int.1A.
8
9. Normally, he did not stay in bed much time, but that morning
he waited to look at her.
She was dancing all over the room with his t-shirt. The
sunlight crossed the room illuminating her skin.
He thought he was watching an angel and she felt she was in
heaven.
Janet Cabrera Ramos NI1A
9
10. She doesn't seem interested in
him. However, he doesn't stop
looking at her. None of them knows
she is English and he is Spanish.
How can they meet each other and
begin a conversation? It isn't an
obstacle, because while you have
been reading, she has already smiled
at him.
Emilio Glez. Mesa
English N1A
10
11. And the World stopped for a
moment. Just you and me in the
Theater of Life. Our eyes met,
we stared at each other and, in
a second, I knew that nothing
would be as before. Life smells
of eternity and eternal my love is
for you. Welcome to life, Son.
Carmen Gloria Martín Marrero. Nivel
Intermedio I-SP
11
12. Stop and think!
What would you like to do
tomorrow?
Where would you like to be
next year?
What is your objective?
Do you have it?
Paint your idea.
Write a date.
Design your plan.
And tomorrow, start working
on it.
Follow your dreams
Ofelia González Pérez (Intermedio I SP)
12
13. SUDDENLY
Suddenly, you began to
move. You were very small.
You had much life and I was
very excited because I was
feeling you. We were looking
forward to seeing and touching
you. You made us love you so
much that we didn´t believe
you’d be soon with us.
Silvia Hernández Rodríguez
(Intermedio I SP)
13
14. An imperceptible movement of our planet earth which
turns every day without rest. We wake up every morning with its
light but its strength fades like the fire of a candle. The sky
changes colour, as a curtain in the theatre, until the night falls
down and it hides again.
Antía Vilas Paz (Intermedio I SP)
14
15. I'm sad, angry, disappointed.
War, famine, rampant consumerism.
The blame: LYING.
I promise not to lie anymore.
A voice woke me up, my five-year-old daughter
told me:
"Dad I‘ve lost a tooth "......... and with a heavy
heart, I said:
"I think a mouse will pay you a visit tonight.”
Paul Víctor Albuoy
Intermedio I SP
15
16. When flowers faded up, she had already parted longtime ago with a
promise.
Summer came and went away but in the autumn he could return to
hear her voice clearer, getting close, whispering in the wind.
On the first storm, he saw her again, smiling as always, through the
snowflakes.
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Yurena Tejera
17. THEY DIE
Did you hear it?
I think it was up stairs.
Oh! Charles and Diana are dead.
Look! The window is open. It probably came through i
They have been asphyxiated.
It was the wind that opened the window and pushed d
fishbowl.
Héctor NI2B
17
18. Once upon a time, a ‘chorizo’ that was
sick to the back teeth of being
compared with politicians. One day,
the ‘chorizo’ decided to run away from
the butcher shop to conquer the world.
Later, it won the lottery and discovered
the power of money. The comparisons
aren’t always hateful!
Joana Bello Suárez
Inglés NI2B
18
19. He used to see her in the Language School, but
he had never spoken with her. The last day of
the course, in the final exam, he decided to
speak with her, but he didn’t see her… His
surprise was when he entered into the exam,
she was his partner.
Marta Mesa González
INTERMEDIO 2B
19
20. It happened one dark night. I got home,
suddenly, I heard a terrible scream, I
opened and went in, behind me the door
closed, my heart beat stronger.
The bedroom door opened and my wife
came in with a knife in her bloody hands.
- "Darling, the chicken was still alive!!!"
Juan Gil I2B
20
21. All men in the world used to talk the
same language. They felt strong and
wanted to build a tower so high that
arrived to Heaven. God punished the
imprudence creating many different
languages. Since then, men don’t
understand each other and of course
can’t arrive to heaven before death.
Juana Mendoza – Intermedio II
21
22. The Rebirth
A day like today eleven years ago I was
reborn to the best of my being. A revival
that brought me to the joy as well as to
the fear. The unconcern gave way to the
concern but also to the conviction that the
best of my life will endure after my death.
Today is my son's birthday.
Mariano Rives – Intermedio II A
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