A report

To: Mr. Brown
From: Athanasia Tournaki
Subject: Making the library more attractive to young people.

Introduction:

In this report, I will make some recommendations to make the library more attractive to young people.

The library:

The library now is a really old building with old-fashioned decoration. However, it is very convenient because it is beside a school, so it attracts some people. The real problem is that it does not attract teenagers.

What teenagers would like:

Teenagers do not really like studying, so a library is not their favourite place. They like connecting to the Internet and chatting with their friends online. They also like watching films and listening to good music.

Recommendations:

I strongly believe the library would attract more young people if some things were different. First of all, we should stock the library with more interesting books teenagers would like. A new section especially for teenagers could also be made. In addition to that, I suggest that we add a section from which young people can borrow classic films and documentaries, as well as music. Creating special reading rooms with a different colour scheme and decoration from the rest of the library would also improve its popularity with young people.

Report about a library

TO: Tom Green
FROM: Rafaela Varveraki
SUBJECT : Making the library more popular

INTRODUCTION
In this I will make some recommendations  about how to make the library more popular with young people in our area .

THE LIBRARY
At the moment ,the library only accepts visitors ,who can come from 9:00 to 21:00 .It is in the center of our town ,so many people come here .

WHAT TEENAGERS ENJOY
Teenagersdo not enjoy coming to the library ,but our library has modern equipment .For examble modern computers ,a room with projectors e.t.c. On computes teenagers can chat and surf the Internet too. And of course reading sci-fi ,fantasy ,comics, adventure books .

RECOMMENDATIONS
I believe the library will become a very popular meeting place for local teenagers iif major changes are made in addition to chairs , desks and bookshelves .We could offer both books access and computers .Also , some board game could be bought I suggest game such as chess and backgammon ,which train your mind . Finally , a large flatscreen TV showing doccumentaries and presentations would also prove to be a popular feature

A review about a concert

Jonas Brothers Live

The Jonas Brothers gave a gorgeous concert in my town last week. It was part of their tour in order to promote their new album. It was on Saturday night at Pagrition Stadium, with a capacity crowd.

They gave a brilliant performance. The audience were cheering and applauding bringing the house down. The crowd went wild when they played their hit "SOS". Suddenly, Kevin, the oldest of the three brothers, threw his guitar and everyone was shoched. Generally, the atmosphere was very energetic. The lights didn't stop tyrning on and off and the sounds that the mixer table made were really cool. I loved their final encore. It was my favourite song, "When You Look Me in the Eyes".

However there were two little problems. The T-shirts that some people were selling were too expensive and I couldn't buy one. Also, some fans wanted to get near the stage but the security guards pushed them back and there was a small fight which fortunatelly didn't last long.

Apart from that, the evening was marvelous. I'd definitely recommend Jonas Brothers (JB) to everyone who likes pop music. If they visit you, don't miss their concert. You won't regret it!

You rocked in the Christmas show! :-)

The song for our Christmas show!

Bravo, girls!!!! You have won!

Reading competition results 2011

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Informal transactional e-mail

Dear Pam,

How are you? Thanks for your last e-mail. I'm glad you're well and I hope everything's fine there.Will you organise a housewarming party,too?

My housewarming party was fantastic. before the party I was a bit stressed but later on, when all the guests turned up, I really enjoyed it and started to unwind. However, after the party, it took me the whole day to tidy up. The house looked like a bomb had hit it. There were bottles everywhere and pieces of pizzas on the ceiling. It was auful! I had to clean up all the meww before mum returned home. A for the photographs, I would love the one where Tim is acting like a monkey. It's really funny! I'll put it into my photo-album.

Two days ago I found your diary in my brother's room on one of the shelves in his bookcase. I'll bring it with me when I visit you. Is it OK or would you like to have it right now?

Well, I can't wait to see your new place. While I'm there,it would be a good idea to go shopping in the great mall to see the great variety of shops and buy cheap clothes as the sales are on. Moreover, we can go sightseeing. I really want to see the Natural History Museum.

That'a all for now. Write back soon and let me know if there's something wrong about the photos.

Best wishes,

Christina

A Christmas Carol: Audio version

http://markaki-podcasts.tumblr.com/post/12965845663/this-is-the-story-our-e-class-students-have-to

Girls, you can also listen to the story while reading it! Just click on the link!

Happy reading and listening! :-)

Informal letter

Dear Lorena,

I'm Christina and I'm thirteen years old. I'm from Heraklion, Crete in Greece and I'm in the second grade of Junior High School.

I live with my parents and my grandmother on the 2nd floor of a block of flats in the suburbs. Our flat is on a main street in a very noisy neighbourhood. My school is only a 15 minute walk away so I go with my friends and we chat all the time until we get there.

In my spare time I listen to music espacially pop music.Now-a-days my favourite songs are "Grenade" and "The Lazy Song" by Bruno Mars. If you hear any of them write your opinion about them. Also, Iheard you are interested in swimming. Me too! The swimming pool I go to is on the outskirts of Heraklion. I go there twice a week but only fo practice. I'm not ina team. What about you?

I want an e-pal because I will have a new friend and it will be a good way to improve my skills in the English language. I would like to be an English teacher so it would definitely help me.
I'm looking forward to hearing from you!

Best wishes,

Christina

Halloween!

The Story of Halloween

2,000 years ago, the Celts lived in Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France. Every year they celebrated New Year's Eve on October 31st with a festival called "Samhain". The Celts dressed in animal heads and skins for this festival, and their priests, the Druids, built huge bonfires. October 31st marked the end of the summer and the beginning of winter and the Celts believed that on that day, the ghosts of the dead returned to Earth. The Celts thoudh that the Ghosts helped the Druids to predict the future.

In about 43 AD, after the Romans conquered the Celts, two Roman festivals, Feralia and Pomona Day were combined with the Celtic Samhain festival. Later in the 7th century, when Christianity reached the land of the Celts, the Pope made November 1st All Saint's Day. This celebration is also called All Hallows or Hallowmas. The night before it became known as All Hallow's Eve, which later changed to Halloween.

In the United States, in England and many other places around the world, people have lots of fun on Halloween. They make Jack-o-lanterns (pumpkin heads). How? They make a scary face on a pumpkin, put a candle inside and put it in the window. Children dress up as wiches and ghosts and go trick-ortreating. Some of them knock on their neigkbours' door and run away. Others stay and get a treat. Children also go to parties and play lots of games, like "apple bobbing" or treasure hunt. Moreover, the people decorate their houses with black cats, ghosts and skeletons.

So, Halloween is a thrilling mixture of fun and fear!