OXFORD

      Today at 9 o’clock we went to school like every day. We learnt the passive and active voice and we heard two songs about the conditional and passive voice.

      After the lessons we went to the railway station. We had to wait the train for half an hour. After that we arrived in Oxford. We visited the city centre and we entered University College. We also visited the oldest library of Oxford. Then we had free time to go shopping and we bought a lot of things.
      Back in Leamington we went home and we enjoyed with our families.

Javi and Marina.

DISCOVERING ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

      Today before starting the English lessons at 9 o’clock, we were planning what to do for the Party and Farewell next Friday evening. In class we revised the sonnets we wrote last week. We also did some exercises in pairs on conversations as between a doctor and his patients. We practised the prepositions and learnt a bit more about their use as we have some confusions when to use one or another.

      After class we went to the park to have our lunch. In the afternoon we explored Leamington with an across the board game. It was not easy to follow the instructions some times because we didn’t understand the instructions sometimes for we got confused between east and west. Some of us found it difficult for we had to walk.

      When time was over we went to the Bowls lawn and had a game. It seems to be easy get de bowls near the jack but it is not because the bowls are not balls and they roll turning one or other side. People passing by stared at us thinking we were practising for the next week National Championship of English Bowls in Leamington.

Guillermo.

TRIP TO ALTON TOWERS

      Today we went to Alton Towers. We were in Newbold Terrace at 8:15 except Fr J who arrived late when everyone was in the coach. We arrived in Alton Towers at 10:30 and we went to the rides in groups of 5-6. We went firstly to Oblivion and then to Thirteen and to The Smiler, the new ride from this year. It is amazing, but we were queuing for an hour, what was short time if we compare that when we arrived they show the queue was for 180 minutes. From The Smiler we went to Rita and because we had some time left we went back to Oblivion.

      At 5:30 we met everybody and took the coach back to Leamington. On arriving at 8:00 pm I went to Aunty’s house for dinner and stayed for a film. When I was back home I went straight to sleep.

Belén.

THE SUN IS SHINING

      As every day we have our English lessons from 9:00 to 12:20. We have some discussions for our vocabulary, some writing and some listening. We enjoy the lessons and we learn a bit more day bay day.

      After having lunch we started playing football in the park. Parks are full of people because we are having a very nice weather and they like to take sunbath as is quite unusual to have 25 or more degrees. They say that we are the ones bringing good weather to England.

      We went then to the swimming pool. It is an indoor facility and there were not many people when we arrived. So we could enjoy every thing much more, the Jacuzzi, the Slim, and we played a lot.

Antonio.

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON AND WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

      Today after lunch we went to Stratford-upon-Avon by train. We visited William Shakespeare’s Birthplace. His father had a large house for he worked the leather manufacturing gloves basically. In the house we saw his father’s workshop but also the different rooms in the house, the bedrooms with several beds and one single wardrobe and the fireplace for heating the rooms in the cool of winter. We went into the gardens very big and pretty nice with lots of flowers. There were some actors that were playing short speeches from Shakespeare’s works. Today they were playing parts of Hamlet.

      Then we went to The Swam Theatre built in 1879 but keeps the atmosphere of the old theatres as The Globe in London were Shakespeare started playing as actor and representing his owns plays. There we were able to wear some clothes from different characters in his plays. We looked very nice ready to go to the stage and perform… But we were not ready because we had no texts by Shakespeare at hand.

      In town we had some time for us to walk and see other places and shops. It was a very special nice day.

Joan.

WEDNESDAY AND CINEMA

      Today we started the lessons at nine o’clock like every day. We usually do some games to do the learning more enjoyable. At break time we used to eat a snack (from the packet lunch) and get some fresh air. This morning we finished the lessons at twenty-past twelve. Then we had our lunch, but some people bought something to eat in a fast-food restaurant.

      After lunch we went to the Apollo’s Cinema to watch a film. We watched Despicable Me 2. I think it is a very funny film. We have been laughing all the movie. We had a nice day.

Javier.

ENGLAND AND THE CANALS

      Today was the second day with our new teacher Miss Louise. We started the lessons with some vocabulary games and then we read out loud a text about the English canals, about their history while we were looking for some new words in the text. Therefore Miss Louise finished the lessons showing us part of the brand new film called The Host which was very interesting and easy to understand.

After the lessons had finished we had some time, nearly one hour which we spent having lunch and laying on the grass of a beautiful park beside the place where we study at.

At two o’clock we went to the meeting point. Then we all went together to the railway station where we took the train to Hatton. There we saw the Canal and the Locks. The first one was surprising. The second was amazing and the third, awesome. The forth was interesting but not as much as the fifth lock.

When we got to the sixth one I was very glad there were still twelve locks more waiting for me. Eighteen locks altogether. So much locks along that took us more than an hour. We were lucky to find several families in their boats going up or down these locks. Some of us wanted to help them as they have to open and close the pipes for the water and the doors to enter the lock. It takes its time.

      At the end of the path we had to stop and had some water in a pub that was there because we were breathless. At last we made the same way back home. We returned to Leamington by train and from there we made each one our own way home.

Pablo.