1. Written expression. Write a story in pairs using as many as the following words as possible:
-Actually
-Career
-Despite
-Regardless of
-Had she/he only known
Swap your texts with another pair after 10 minutes and go on writing them until all of you have contributed to all the stories. Use your imagination and be creative!
2. Oral expression. Rank the following concepts according to your personal priorities in life:
-Family
-Friends
-Health
-Money
-Politics
-Romance
-Sex
-Sport
-Studies
-Work
Make a list individually and then compare it to other students' choices to reach a consensus and create a single list. Once you've finished, join another pair to follow the same process and come up with a single list you all agree with. Provide arguments for this pyramidal discussion until all the class produces a common ranking.
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This summer a group of students were planning a trip to Holland. This trip was their last before starting their careers, regardless of their young age. Had they only known their flight was going to be cancelled, they would not have planned so. It was a total disaster!
Despite this issue, they achieved getting to their destination. Actually, it was not that hard in the end and they had a really great time all together. They have several memories about their experience there, such as the last night, where they all ended up.
Two months later they decided to do another trip but this time with the train. From Barcelona to Budapest. When they were at the train, something happened...
One of them went to the restroom and realized that the door was blocked. However, after waiting a few minutes trying to open the door several times and nobody answered, she called the security man. The senior forced the door and found a murdered ancient mother. The first person he accused was the lady who called him.
The lady was nervous that the man thought she was the killer, but she begged so much, so the man put his gun down. Regardless of the situation, the girl started crying and called the police.
When the police came and did the inspection, they released the young girl because they knew that the girl did not murder that person. If they had prosecuted her, it would have ruined her career. Had she only known what was going to happen, she would not have gone to the bathroom.
SUMMER HOLIDAY
Mike who lived in Barcelona, just finished his career and decided to go on a trip with all of his friends. They decided to go to Mallorca for a week, despite the weather wasn't very nice. They were at the beach when eventually a big wind just started.
Actually they were scared so they thought it would be a good idea to go back home. On their way back to the hotel, their car broke down and they got stucked in a mud barrel.
Regardless of that they manteined a positive attitude. When they were waiting for the tow truck, they started a mud fight. They were having so much fun, and they didn't realize that the time had flown by and the tow truck was already there.
Actually, the man who was driving the car was my cousin.
And he came to us, and offer us to drive us to the hotel.
When they arrived, they found all the family in the hall.
All this was planned to organize a surprise birthday party.
It was a sunny day during July when a couple of friends decided to start a new journey and a new life experience. Despite their busy life, they could arrange a date to look their flights to Bali, when they were taking the cab to the airport they were kidnapped by the driver.
Actually, the driver was the ex-boyfriend of one of the girls. He drove them to a basement of a farm in the middle of nowhere. Despite he was known by the girls,both were scared of what he could do. The thing is that the girls were not travelling alone.
One of their friends was waiting them in the airport and when she realised that her friends didin't arrive, she got worried.
Regardless of that, she kept calm and called them, but they didn't answer. Next thing she did was to try to locate them through the phone and they appeared to be in the middle of nowhere. So she thought that they were travelling and having fun.
Actually, they were in danger and the situation was getting worse day by day. After that, the friends received a call asking for money in exchange of the friends that were kidnapped.
The voices behing the phone were so familiar to me, making us suspect that the criminals were from our town. When they cutted of, they started to recollect the cash but while they were doing that they realized who were the kidnappeds!
He called the police but the kidnappers find out about the call so they decided to ending with the life of those girls but they couldn't because the girls catch them.
Two months ago a man was working in a pub in Costa Brava. Despite he had a long career in hotel managment he actually wasn't sad at all with his new job. One night, doing cocktails a young lady ask him for a drink and he was amazed by her beautiful blue eyesand invited her to a long island coctail. By the time he gave her the drink he handed in to her a note that had an adress written on it. Regardless of the hor it was the girl still wanted to meet him, but her frien didn't want to give her the adress, she was scared of the boy. But the, thet
y accidentaly met in the street when the two friends were going back to the hotel. Regardless of that, the girls served them in the cocktail bar., was following them. But he didn't know what was about to come. She realized she was being followed by said guy, so all of a sudden, she turned arround and ointed a gun, that was hidding on her bag, at the guy's head. If the guy had only known that the girl was going to do that, he wouldn't have followed her but it was to late, the girl shot and started running.
Karl was willing to achieve his dream carreer so he wanted to go to university despite it was very hard. Once he was already in, he realized it was very tough.
So he decided to quit and start his own business with his own money. Had he only known that starting a business without experience was so difficult, he wouldn't have left the college.
He knew that a way to get easy money to raise his own business was becoming a drug dealer, so he started to sell cocaine and other kind of drugs to the most dangerous bands of the Bronx.
During his summer holiday he decided to go to Columbia, and meet some drug dealers, he was excited and decided to go to Medellin, the home of the biggest drug dealer, Pablo Escobar. Regardless of its very dangerous, he was sure there nothing bad come for him. Actually there was something already waiting for him.
Finally, Pablo Escobar was ready to kill Karl.
In July l decided to go on vacation backpacking through Europe.
Actually,my first plan was to go to South America,however,l had to change my mind because of the fight budget that l had.Regardless of that l still insisted on backpacking.
Despite it was risky because al those circumstances,plus l don’t make that much money,l think it was the right decision.l first couldn’t afford it because my career went wrong once ,but with hard work.l finally achieved my goal and ended up earning a lot of money.To celebrate it ,l went to a night club and I met a girl,she was from Brazil,and two years later,we decided to get married.
Regardless of knowing that Brazil was dangerous we still moved there because it was her dream.My wife was excited to see her family again so we had dinner together and we all met,and we lived there for the rest of my life
conversation1: doing cocktails–making
accidentaly ——accidentally
, that was hidding——,which was hiding
so all of a sudden——all of a sudden
conversation2: carreer so——carreer, so
He knew that a way—— He knew a way
there nothing——there was nothing
conversation3:go on vacation——go on a vacation
l first——first i
,but with hard work——,but with hard working
WRITING 1:
Paragraph 3: Two months later they decided to do another trip but this time by train.
Paragraph 4: However, after waiting a few minutes trying to open the door several times, nobody answered, so she called the security man.
WRITING 2:
Paragraph 2: On their way back to the hotel, their car broke down and they got stuck in a mud barrel.
Paragraph 3: Regardless of that they maintained a positive attitude.
Paragraph 4: Actually, the man who was driving the car was the cousin of one of them.
WRITING 3:
Paragraph 6: When they cut off, they started to collect the cash, but while they were doing that, they realized who the kidnappers were!
Paragraph 7: He called the police but the kidnappers found out about the call so they decided to end with the life of those girls but they couldn't because the girls caught them.
WRITING 4:
-Despite having a long career in hotel management he actually wasn't sad at all with his new job.
-She realized she was being followed by said guy, so all of a sudden, she turned around and pointed a gun, which was hiding on her bag, at the guy's head.
WRITING 5:
Karl was willing to achieve his dream career so he wanted to go to university, despite being very hard.
WRITING 6:
-Despite being risky because all those circumstances, plus l don’t make that much money, l thought it was the right decision.
-My wife was excited to see her family again so we all met and had dinner together. Finally, we lived there for the rest of our life.
Mistakes:
1. Despite he had a long career in hotel managment he actually wasn't sad at all with his new job.
2. One night, doing cocktails a young lady ask him for a drink.
3. He started to sell cocaine and other kind of drugs to the most dangerous bands of the Bronx.
4. Regardless of its very dangerous, he was sure there nothing bad come for him.
5. Despite it was risky because al those circumstances, plus l don’t make that much money, I think it was the right decision.
6. My wife was excited to see her family again so we had dinner together and we all met.
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