WRITING

One day, a terrible thing happened. A tsunami destroyed our entire town. It was awful! It happened while I was at school, the 21st of February 2005. I was having a Maths class with my classroom mates when suddenly we felt an enormous tremble on the floor and everything started shaking.


I looked out of the window and I could see a really big wave, about one or two km away that was making a big shadow on top of my town. I suddenly screamed in horror. All my classmates and I were absolutely terrified. In the 30 minutes the whole school was evacuated. Everyone ran far away to the top of the hill to be safe. A few hours later, all the trembling and frightening things stopped.

All my classmates were anxious. After that we couldn’t stop talking about it and some people cried thinking about what might have happened to their town. I felt really, really sad because when we returned to our homes, they were all gone and destroyed in to pieces. I couldn’t imagine how it all that had happened. Then all the police, doctors, ambulances… came to check on how we all were and if anybody was hurt. A few years later we had new special homes so that if it happened again, our town wouldn’t be in such bad conditions. Lots and lots of people helped our town to get back to normal. Since then, nothing has happened, YET!!!

ELECTRONIC GADGETS

My favourite electronic gadget is the laptop. It's similar to the computer but it's smaller and doesn't need separate complements. It's all on the laptop. It's very convenient, because you can take it everywhere you want without cables because it has a rechargeable battery for when it runs out. It's more modern than the computer because the mouse moves when you touch it with your finger, even so you can use a normal mouse by connecting it to the USB port and as well it's much faster than the computer.
There are lots of types of laptops for instance there are some laptops that you only use to watch films. Normally, all laptops have the same structure: they're like books that when you open one it has two sections; one is the screen and the other one is the keyboard. The keyboard has got the same buttons as any computer, but unlike the computer which has one part for letters and another part for numbers, the keyboard on the laptop has got it all together.
I normally use it to do my homework and projects for school. My secondary school has got a web that I usually check nearly every day, to see if there is homework to do. I also use Internet to send e-mails to my family, look for information, watch videos, listen to music..., and also to play games and download programmes, although I rarely do this.
I think the laptop is very useful not just for the Internet or for doing homework, but it is also useful for other things, like seeing what's on at the cinema or what my favourite singer is doing or what time a certain TV programme starts!