A letter to the editor is a letter sent to a publication about issues of concern from its readers. Usually, letters are intended for publication. In many publications, letters to the editor may be sent either through conventional mail or electronic mail.
Letters to the editor are most frequently associated with newspapers and newsmagazines. However, they are sometimes published in other periodicals (such as entertainment and technical magazines), and radio and television stations. In the latter instance, letters are sometimes read on the air (usually, on a news broadcast or on talk radio). (Adapted from wikipedia)
Your task:
1) Read the informaton given on this link to understand why and how people write letters to the editor.
http://ctb.ku.edu/en/tablecontents/sub_section_main_1239.aspx
2) Then choose one of the questions of the survey "Ups and downs"
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1eiz1rQnNRprOD64i8XD0Q7zHIP-luHPwT_kpIz6G0I0/viewform
3) Write a letter to the editor answering this question (three paragraphs, about 120 words)
4) Send the letter to the blog. Don't forget to include the title (the title is the question you have chosen).
-What do you want to do after high school?
ResponderEliminarAbout this theme we think the best opcion is go to college or make a higher grade because you will have more ways or opcions.
If you follow studing after high school you have the opcion to do a lot of things when you have finished. For example you can find a work, you can get married or you can form a family.
If you choose for example, get married, later is more difficult come back to study.
In conclusion we are going to study until get a work and later we are going to have time for take a gap year or time for the family but when you have promise one future for you and your family.
By: Ana González and Irene Osorno
19. What do you think of our generation? In one word...
ResponderEliminarOur opinion about our generation in general is that we are materialistic persons. We are all the day with machines in our hands, and always we want more than we have . We don't take into account the life with the people how our parents did for example.
The girls always have in their heads the clothes , the mobile phone , the shoes , go out with their friends (but stay with their mobiles phone), etc. The most of the times they think that have more things is better than have friends and this is wrong.
The boys are similar to the girls but aren't extremally than them. They also think in the mobile phones, the machines (PS, PSP , etc), but not think that the clothes for example have a lot of importance.
In general all are very materialistic persons and think that always is better the money than the persons.
By: Mª Inmaculada Díaz and Ángela Fraile
21.-What are the things you don't like about family life?
ResponderEliminarDear Sir,
In our opinion the things that the children don't like about family life are almost always the same.
We think that the worst topic is the arguments about things that are important in our life like school, boyfriends or girlfriends, sex, drugs,smoking, alcohol,etc.
Another topic is the family trips. Sometimes is a good a idea to go out with your friends but in some families all the weekends do a trip so it's too boring because is always the same.
Also the housework is too hated because certain that there are things that you don't like to do but your mother says you that you have to do it and this sometimes is a argument between both.
So we think that the family life is good for almost all the teenagerd but for others teenagers they think is bad
Yours faithfully
By: maria del mar ortego and rosa gomez
What do you think of our generation? In one word
ResponderEliminarOur opinion about that this gerenartion in one word is silly, because the teenagers don´t advantage of the opportunities that life gives them for example: a guy prefers to be consumed prior to a career.
So that is why we think that it is necessary to take advantage of the opportunities that the life gives because nobody knows what is going to happen in a future
by:alvaro and juan
What are your biggest fears for the future?
ResponderEliminarDear Sir,
In this moment, teenagers dont usually think about this, is more, we think that the things most worries us are arrive late to the school, the mobile phones dont broke or pass the exams.
People thinks in the future like the posibility of pass in good university, have a good job, have a good marriage or the dream's house.
But in my opinion, I think the future is more than this, the future is how we are going to live our lives, it's the way we decide spend our lives.
The biggest fears in the future are to be alone, to be poor or people who you want died. We think the biggests fears are invisible to our eyes.
Yours faithfully
By: Rocio Marin and Sara Galan
Which activities do you enjoy doing with your friends to feel good?
ResponderEliminarDear Sir,
Teenagers like us usually enjoy doing a lot of things with the friends. We pass the most of the time together, in the school or wherever. When we are together always want doing something to feel good. We usually go out to a pub, to the cinema, to the beach, to shopping... Also is a little different if you are a boy or a girl, when the girls are together go to shopping, they gossip about a lot things, they paint their nails and they make different hairstyles themselves while the boys when are together, they usually go to sports center, they play to PlayStation.. But often the teenagers, girls and boys, enjoy together and it depends of the likes, hobbies we make our own friends.
So we think that we usually enjoy doing things we like, the most of it with a lot of friends, while more friends, better.
Yours faithfully,
Isabel Bulnes and Inma López.
What do you do when things don't go well at home?
ResponderEliminarDear Sir:
In our opinion mostly of teenagers when something do not go well lock myself in his bedroom, listen to music and tell what is up to his friends by phone. We are too young to take care about really important things of life, we usually do that for silly things. There are too many teenangers that when something do not go well smoke, just for a simple act of rebellion.
Your faithfully
Amara Sánchez and Belén Aguilar
What are your biggest fears for the future?
ResponderEliminarDear Sr.Director:
I think people usually take more care to be poor in the future than to have a job, because if you don't have a job but you are rich, there is not problem about that, but if you are working and you continue to be poor, it have not got sense it does not matter if you have been in a good college(of course,this never happend, you have to study for have a good job). People usually care for be poor and too for getting old because in general people have fear of the death, and if you are poor you die.
Your faithfully
Julia Ríos Pallarés, hyueff@hotmail.com, 567884556
What do you want to do after school?
ResponderEliminarThis question is one of the most important in the life of a person. Our lifes depend of this question.
You can look up to the school counselor to reply this question.
There are some options to choose after school , you can do bachiller, you can do formative course or you can work. Other option is the one wich you go to the Bahamas and you lie in a bed(don't do nothing).
In conclusion we think the best option is study till finish the university.
David Palomo
Manolo Vicedo
What are your fears and worries about your school life?
ResponderEliminarDear Sir,
We are students of 4th ESO. This year we have to graduate so we have to study a lot. We are worried because if we have negative marks we do not pass the compulsory studies. At the end of each term we are very tired because we can have between five and ten exams in a week. If we pass all the subjects, next year we will go to the high school and we have to choose the subjects of the degree we want study, and this is a big worried.
For other students, we think bullying is another problem. There are children who are not accept by other pupils. Also there are children who have not a good relation with teachers. These pupils have a difficult school life.
Your faithfully.
By: María Díaz Rivera and Sofía Chico Mateos.
WHAT IS A FRIEND FOR YOU? A FRIEND IS...
ResponderEliminarDear Sir,
In our opinion have a friend is one of best things at world.
A friend, a best friend are that people who hangs out with you ant tell you all things, are that people who can tell you all and you can advise him.
Is someone who spends time with you, someone who meet you better that other people, better than your own mother.
Actually, is difficult have a best friend, but only friends have everybody, that is easy.
By: Sonia Rus and Isabel Peña
*This is the correct letter, write as a formal letter.
ResponderEliminar19. What do you think of our generation? In one word...
Dear Sir or Madam,
Our opinion about our generation in general is that we are materialistic persons. We are the whole day with machines in our hands, and we always want more than we have. We do not take into account the life with other persons how our parents did, for example.
The girls always have in their heads the clothes, the mobile phone,the shoes, go out with their friends (but stay with their mobiles phone), etc. The most of the times they think that have more things is better than have friends and this is wrong.
The boys are similar to the girls but they are not such extremally as them. They also think in the mobile phones, in the machines (as PS, PSP , etc), but they do not think that the clothes for example have a lot of importance.
In general all of us are very materialistic persons because we think that always is better the money and the leadership than the persons, even this is not true.
Yours faithfully
By: Inmaculada Díaz and Ángela Fraile