A letter of enquiry

Dear sirs,
I am a school student who would like to book a room at your hotel in order to have an end-of-term party. Therefore, I would like to receive some information about it.
In the first place, I saw your advertisement and I understood that there was a large room available to hire which was also suitable for parties. But I would like to know if it will be big enough for fifty people. Besides this, I would like to know how much it will cost and if there would be any reduction for students.
In the second place, I read that you could provide some food. In our case, we would only ask you for some snacks, like crisps or nuts. But I would like to know if you could also provide us with a few soft drinks.
In regard to the date of booking, it will be on Saturday, June 30th and the party will start at about 8 p.m. I would like to know how late we could finish as well.
Finally, as we could not do without music and dancing, I would like to know the kind of music which will be available for us. Moreover, we would like to have a disco but we do not know if it would be included in the price. Anyway, you must not worry about it because I promise you not to make any noise at all.
I look forward to hearing from you. If you prefer ringing me up, I let you know my phone number: 374107689. Thank you very much for your attention. Yours faithfully,

Victoria Marco
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Merry Christmas

Dear student, I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and hope all your dreams come true in 2009!!! Your teacher,
Patri

Novel for next term

The book you are expected to read for next term (January-February) is Frozen Pizza and other slices of life.Cambridge University Press. Advanced. The idea is that you summarize the different chapters for commenting them in class afterwards. Thus providing you with material to practise the oral skill, and at the same time it will enable me to assess you.
Patri

A journey to Salzburg.Avanzado 1

When I was 21 years old, I did not know that a journey I was going to make to Salzburg would change my life. It took place in 2000, from August 12 to 26, and I was a bit frightened because of the fact that it was the first time I was going to travel alone. Furthermore, as taking a plane from Alicante to Salzburg was really expensive, I decided to take a plane to Munich and then a bus to Salzburg... And, although I was on the point of missing my bus, I finally got on it and it was the beginning of my adventure.
In the first place, I remember arriving at a students’ residence where I had booked a double-room. Therefore, I knew quite a few students of music who were going to stay there during those days. It was such a great experience to meet people from other countries and cultures as well as to realize that all of us had very similar interests.
In the second place, I remember going in the mornings and afternoons to the Mozarteum in order to have my piano and chamber music lessons. In spite of the fact that I could get by in English, my teacher was from Argentina so we talked in Spanish and it was so easy for me to understand his instructions. Apart from that, every student could attend every lesson, so all of us would do it.
All things considered, I highly recommend this experience to everyone who is studying music because it will be such a significant event which you will never forget and it will turn out to be a turning point in your life. Moreover, you can always keep in touch with the people you met there, so that you can continue remembering those facts whenever you want.

A thank you note

Just a quick note to say thank you to Vero for taking the trouble to create this blog for us. As I told her once, for me this ,the world of computers,is something from another world,extraordinary,amazing,unbelievable,wonderful.. I hope not to let you down and to be able to live up to your expectations.To begin with, just a couple of writings from your classmates,who have taken the trouble to write them out for us. And in the near future, I hope to be able to send some more contributions.
Patri

Congratulations

onHi Verónica! you are our blog leader
I don´t know if you pass the English exam but your informatic squills are fantastic

Welcome everybody...

Por ser este la primera entrada, voy a hacerla en español para explicaros un poco cómo participar en el blog. Habréis recibido una invitación a través de vuestro correo, sólo hay que pinchar en el link que te pone ahí y os llevará a la página de blogger.
Para participar tenéis que tener una cuenta de correo de google (xxxx@gmail.com) así que si no la tenéis, hay que crear una. Desde esa página en la que estáis tenéis que pinchar en "Cree ahora su cuenta" y seguir los pasos, que son los de siempre: nombres, apellidos, nombre para la cuenta, contraseña...
Una vez que la tengáis sólo tenéis que entrar con vuestro nuevo usario de gmail y vuestra contraseña, y ya seréis escritores de este blog. Espero que Patri consiga el aula de informática un día de la semana que viene y poder explicaros un poco cómo se escriben las "entradas" y todo eso, pero es muy fácil.
La dirección de nuestro blog es: http://sleepygroup.com, para que os la podáis poner en favoritos.
En la parte de la derecha del blog podéis ver la lista de los "Sleepy students", es decir, la gente que puede escribir entradas en este blog. De momento sólo estoy yo, y por partida doble, pero en cuanto os creéis las cuentas de gmail y aceptéis mi invitación, apareceréis vosotros ahí también.
Además, he creado un apartado que se llama "Useful pages" y he puesto unos enlaces que creo que serán últiles:

1. La página web de la Escuela de Idiomas de Alicante.
2. Uno de los mejores diccionarios de inglés on-line que conozco, el Wordreference.
3. La mansión del inlgés, una página de recursos de la que ya nos ha hablado Patri.
4. Un blog que descubrí cuando buscaba los libros de lectura que está lleno de cosas útliles: diccionarios, enciclopedias, manuales, libros de lectura... todo gratuito y para descargar.

Lo dicho, a ver si la semana que viene podemos ir a la clase de informática y os explico un poco cómo va esto. Buen fin de semana.
Verónica