domingo, 17 de febrero de 2013

A formal letter

16 Regent Street
Chicago
CA3 5TY
19 January 2012

Café Royal
5th Street
Barcelona BD2 1RM
19 January 2012

 
Dear Sir or Madam,

I am writing to complain about a meal my family and I had in the Café Royal restaurant last Saturday night.

 

 
We have eaten in this restaurant on many occasions and the background music has always been very low and pleasant. However, on this particular evening the music was terribly loud, almost deafening. When the waiter took our order, I asked him politely if he could turn the music down, which he did.

 

 
However, while we were eating, the music was turned up again and we could hardly hear ourselves speak. This time I asked to see the manager. He spoke to us in an extremely rude and unfriendly way. He told us that we were the only customers who asked if the music could be turned down. We were so angry we decided to leave without ending our meal.

 
I will not come back to your restaurant again unless I receive an explanation and an apology for the unacceptable treatment we received.

 
Yours faithfully,

Albert Calvente

How you imagine your life will be 2050

I believe that in 2050 I will have a stable life, married with a beautiful woman and I will have three or four kids and a dog. I would like to work in a big city, in a foreign country such as Norway, Finland or Sweden and I also would like to have the typical house in the mountain but in a modern style, with its fireplace and I’d like to celebrate Christmas there with the whole family, I’d decorate the house ful of the typical ornaments and the Christmas tree.

I’m sure I will have a second house on a Greek island, I’ll go there in summer and I will have a luxury yacht to be able to travel around the world, whenever I want and wherever I want.
In 2050 unfortunately I will start getting older and ugly and I will start feeling pain in my back. I  hope I will to retire soon, and be a pensioner and I’m sure I’ll love traveling with the “inserso”.

"Girls and boys should be taught separately"

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One of the advantages is that the student's result improve. Another argument is that in this way the kids have no sexual attraction to girls and vice versa, in this way children focus in their studies. Although the possibility exists that there are people who feel same-sex attraction, but it would be a minority.

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On balance, there are a lot of opinions, good ones and bad ones and we have to understand and respect all of them.

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