Write a short description of an important event or person in your life when you were growing up. Use some of the phrasal verbs from this unit, as appropriate. Read the following example:
When I was ten years old, we moved to a new town. On my first day at the new school I met Jackie. She was the first person who talked to me. From that day on we got along well. We both liked watching movies. We looked forward to meeting after school to hang out in Jackie’s house and on weekends to see new movies. We would spend hours making up stories and talking about how one day we’d make our own movies from these stories.
We both joined the theater club at school. One time, we had parts in a play where our characters had a long conversation. On opening night, I completely froze. I forgot my lines and thought I was going to faint. Jackie realized what was happening and quickly figured out what to do. She kept talking and made up new lines to keep the conversation going. All I had to do was stand there and say either “Yes” or “No.” After that day, I knew that I would always be able to count on her.
May 9, 2008 at 6:39 pm
hi:)
everyone….where are you??
well…When I was 8 years old
I liked to rise to the trees and to play marbles.
My family always I me motivate things do gymnastics, dance, theatre and to swim.
I like to swin.
Every Sunday my parenths go my sisters and my to swimming we liked to much..
We enter to classes of swimming and to competitions.
My first competecia win a medal of chocolat and my sisters of chewing gum.
i love it…They were the big years of my life
May 12, 2008 at 4:40 pm
hello friendly:
I want to tell them, that when I tapeworm seven years, lived a short time in the state on lion with my aunt, even though that tapeworm an funny relation with my cousins, the knowledge that no longer would see my old friendly was very painful for my. The first day of school, was frightful, I did not know anybody and lasts one week to speak with some companion. to the following week we had to make a task in equipment and Carlos; a boy to whom nobody spoke to him because he was the fat person of the hall chose to me like his companion, all companions were surprised, but like I also was fat jaja. that day I knew that we would be good friendly and thus was, until today, we learned many things and I always had its support, its friendship and its breakfasts jaja always will be a special person for my
May 13, 2008 at 2:50 am
Childhood memories
When I was a kid we would go to our cottage in Santa Rosa Guanajuato every summer. About a mile into the woods behind the cottage was a cave. The cave was essentially just a deep crack into the bedrock.
I always played near of camp where my parents were encamping for me the cave was of fear, during winter snow and ice would accumulate in the crack.
Into the cave took us out of the bug infested that was the forest . In less than sixty feet we went from dripping sweat.
In the night we were singing and cooking Marshmallow in the Bonfire. The last day of vacations I get away with fall in deep hole within the cave ,because my dad helped me with the rope. I thought that was going to die.
In the afternoon we played a throw snowballs.
I look up to a my dad because him encourages to going out forward in my goals.
My dad try bring up me with respect ,honesty and love. I always count on my parents for all .
I always try think over about of the important that are my parents in my life ,I always remember my experience, for to value it.
I try say always the true , because the truth will make you free, sometimes I hear say a the people lies or make up the truths.
In the Santa Rosa Forest there was snow and ice would always still be there late into January. Each summer we made the annual pilgrimage to the ice cave. Summers in Santa Rosa are hot and humid. The forest is dense, dark, steamy hot, and full of mosquitoes. Although only a mile, the trek to the cave was difficult mostly because of those damn mosquitoes!
The experience was unbelief and amazing.
ATTE: IVAN
May 14, 2008 at 2:45 pm
When I was young (and yet now), I wanted to be like my parents, I look up to, because they always to known administering the few resources that they have, also they known bring up very good and I look up to the sacrifice that they made to give education me because my family is of few resources and my parents are not professionals, but did not was for them none problem.
In the future I look forward to do the same with my childrens.
May 14, 2008 at 4:38 pm
When I was a child and I was eight years old I look up to at my friend Luis because he and I played soccer every weekend we were students of the same school and a day we played soccer in the classroom my friend and I painted on the table a field of soccer and we played all the class of the day and my friend and I amused much but we thinking over that the teacher annoyance with us and we erase the table when finish the class and get away whit a punishment
Now I remember that description a event important in my life.
May 14, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Good Afternoon:
When I was seven years old, my family always were with me in the foot ball games, I played soccer and my mom and dad always laughting me for that put a goal, the truth is that I miss so much my childhood, because were great moments, I didn´t know problems, I was very happy, my friends were always when I needed them, etc.
And now, I even playing soccer and my family support me, and I can said that I´m a happy person.
good bye.
May 15, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Hi, Friends.
When I was ten years old I liked to swim a lot, every day off from school my friends and I go to swim. I used to make up many things when I was a child. For example every Saturday I like played soccer , it was great fun but my parents are much anger because sometimes lacking in school.
Every Sunday I played in a soccer tournament for children my father and my brothers always looked all parties, When I was eleven years to win my first championship
Another of the experience most fun the pass with my cousins because we liked playing at home of my grandparents and they are angry because they care much their things
May 15, 2008 at 6:42 pm
when he was a child I liked to go hunting with my grandfather really was very fun and exciting, my grandfather is an incredible person, has taught me a lot of camping and the life, now is great, when you have your age I would like to be like, gives me good advice and sometimes no, I hope to have it for a long time, really is incredible.
my father even more incredible is that my grandfather,He is a accountant and has taught me many good things, I want to be as big as.
I hope that my children I consider a person incredible!!!!
May 16, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Hi!!
One event important in my life was when I was eleven or twelve years old because I had to move to other part of the city, and because I was in the elementary scool and I will entry to secundary. Even I look forward to entry to secundary I was sad also for this situation. It was difficult for me because I had to leave to my friends and meet new people.
The place where a moved was very different and I had to change my way live, I didn´t out side and I couldn´t meet new friends. My behavior change a lot of and I had to think over about mu life, because I only could count on or cosider like friends to my brothers. I didn´t know other people. I think I am very shy for this experience.
May 17, 2008 at 9:43 pm
In my childhood, when I was in the kinder garden I liked to up to the trees, but my school’s teacher didn’t like this situation and all the time I was punished.
The trees in the kinder garden where I studied have fruits and are for this reason that I enjoyed upping; I liked eating the fruits every day.
When I was starting the primary school, I was 6 years old and I used to running in the break and one day my arm was broken. So, I decided didn’t play in the break, and I was a very good child jeje
When I was teenager I looked up to my Economics’ teacher in the Salamanca’s Official Preparatory school because she is very intelligent person and I liked her class. She is an important reason for that I’m studying Industrial Relations.
May 17, 2008 at 10:35 pm
hi!! well, when I was a child I had many beautiful moments. One of the best moments of my childhood was when I and my team football won a football tournament, when I was 9 years old, and when the awards ceremony was even better, I was very happy because my best friends from childhood were there, all played in the same team, and in these days we even continue talking, when we meet we still remember that moment and as we celebrate. And now I don’t play more football and two of them are professional players.
that’s all good bye
May 18, 2008 at 8:13 am
Hi!
When I was twelve years old and was in the secondary official “Presidente Benito Juarez” I met Ariad. She was the first person with who worked in team. I didn’t think that from that day she would be a special person in my life. In that time we liked to listen to the Backstreet Boys. The weekends I hung out in her house, we watched movies and listened to The Backstreet Boys. Her mother made up games and we were playing for hours. I looked forward to the weekend for to go to Ariad’s house, I enjoyed much to be with her family.
Five years later, she had a cerebral thrombosis. After that she couldn’t to move her right hand and right foot, and she forgot many things. She was in rehabilitation for years. She achieved to walk again. She always counted on me. I look up to Ariad because she overcame that obstacle in her life. Lamentably she died a year ago, but I learned much with her. I hope to be strong like her and overcome all the obstacles in my life and figure out my problems in the future with optimism like her.
May 18, 2008 at 9:09 pm
when I was chid I admired my grandmother she is a good person it is the best grandmother in the world for me
because she always worried by family she is the support of the family when there are problems in the house she always there. the other person special for me is my mother she always there when I need, help me is he best mother in the world.:)
May 18, 2008 at 9:18 pm
hello.
well i play volleyball but I hated it.
when I was 9 years old mi mother thougth that yours children have to play something and mi mother loved volley ball so she took me to practice it. I really hated volleyball y wanted play basketball but she believed these sport is very dangerous.
I was craying because i didn’t go but mi mother didn’t matter.
finally after some practics i liked volley ball and now i graterful to mimother.
May 19, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Hello!!
when i was little aproximately 10 years old i knew new people in my life, i went to a travel with my family to the Distrito Federal, then i met with some people that say that they are my relatives, well i didn’t matter a lot, but one day we decided to go a tour by the city, then after my parents decided to go with a friend called Mr. Ruiz, he was a 75 years old but really was an amazing man, because he was patient, lovely and amable. I admired him because was a person that everybody spoke fine about him. Also was admirable because he followed working and his house was so beautiful because he cared it. Well this person in an example for many olders.
Now i can remember that person like a great man!! but is sad to know that currently he is in the heaven!!
May 19, 2008 at 4:54 pm
When I was in the high school “Benito Juarez”, I met to twenty four good friends. They were in different classrooms, but everyone to hang out in the recess, we so much fun.
Some times we get away with in the high school because we was very naughty, well, we steel naughty.
My three best friends and I pick on to the boys because they hit us whit a ball. I think we liked jajaja.
In these days we still hang out together. Eight years of friendship and they don’t bored to me, well some times but I love so much this guys.
May 19, 2008 at 5:21 pm
When I was a child.
I admired Mother Teresa of Calcutta because she was a woman charity for his total commitment to serving the poor. Mother Teresa heavily defended loyalty to the family and morality. She was against abortion. She wrote poems about life and the importance of smile.
When I was in elementary school wanted to be a nun (ja ja ja) but that when I change between the secondary and knowledge to my first boyfriend
May 19, 2008 at 5:25 pm
HI everybody¡¡¡¡¡
When I was child, I was look up to my grandfather, because He was a wonderfull person, I remember a little about He, becuase He died when I 3 years old.
Now I look up to my parents, because I think are a great couple.
My mother is a stronger women, she work and she is a housewive.
My father is a intelligent and creative person. He can resolve almost everythink.
I hope one day to be a little like them.
It’s all for now.
See you.
May 19, 2008 at 5:43 pm
HI!¡!¡
When I was 15 yeras old, I started the high school education,I was nerviuosly and fraid, becuse a didn’t know go and I don’t meet friends.
I lisented make up about the other students cut the hair a new students. LIKE ME!!.
When I go out that my first day of class I look forward to arrive to my house very soon.
I didn’t know return in bus to my house, this day I had bad luck, becuase in the bus stop many classmates stop me and cut my beautiful hair. jajajajaja
And this experience was embarrased.
SEE you.
May 19, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Hi¡¡:
I am going to talk about my best friend, his name is Orlando, grew up together, we were together since we entered the kinder garden, Primary and Secundary together, we had many things in common. We had the same age, I was actually higher than for a week. Although there was always some rivalry between us in the academic, we were very good friends.
Affter of class, we used to go to play their home, sometimes did homework and work together.
The time step and all that is finish, when both go to, we play a different group and then we went separating.
Now, he is graduate, is a doctor.
May 19, 2008 at 7:30 pm
one of my childhood is when i went with my parents, in vacations, to spa, my favorite spa is where was slides. the slides have name. i remember that this gifts was a wish a dream for me, was fantastic.to see the swimming pool and to swim was a of the best pieces of my life. how i do not have brothers and sisters, and do not too gift with people of my age, i to get used to play alone, but was funny.
other of my childhood was in the beach. one wave roll around me! i closed too much to the water and this pull me! in a first time i sacerred me, but after is a funny remember. too when i learned to play bicycle. i falled many time, in much plays, one of this time i falled in a alley, my head had blood, was a moment very painful.
May 19, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Hi!
Growing up
When I was 7 years old, I like to played with my sisters and with my friends. I like make up very histories with them about of ghosts, it was very exiting,I always played the soccer and with my skates. I looked forward to my cousin because she was 12 years old and have a lot of toys.I always wanted your toys.
In my growing up I was very happy and I enjoyed very much of my friends.I always count on with my friends and my sisters, in this moment I think over and remember my growing up and I feel many emotion.
BYE…
May 20, 2008 at 3:34 am
Hello classmates!!!!
I remember when I was a child spend many hours with my cousins, sometimes in the house of them and sometimes in my hose we got along well. Most of the time we played football soccer in the back yard of one the houses I liked to played of goal keeper but I go beyond and play in the midfield making up some new moves with the ball sometimes for good and sometimes for bad.
Figured out what to do on the attack is not a easy thing but you have to hang on and think fast to keep the ball on your feets. To know you can count on your teammates and develop trust is a very important matter on teamwork.
May 20, 2008 at 3:59 am
When I was 12 years old I was very shy. Then the moment arrived of going to the high school, in my first day he/she didn’t speak anybody for that I felt like in another world. Until one of my class partners spoke with me without asking my name, because it was very common to use the nickname ” guey “, until the classes concluded that day and we wonder our names. Her name is Luís.
In the second day of classes we already spoke to each other as if we knew each other for a lot of time.
With the step of the time we became good friends.
We finish the secondary and we are another time, now in the preparatory one, although at the beginning we were not in the same group but later we were. We had a good time in the parties, also playing pool and soccer. When concluding the preparatory one we separate because he decided to study Chemistry and me Systems, but we still follow ourselves seeing although we have different things that to make and up to now it is one of my best friends.
May 20, 2008 at 5:01 am
Hello!!
When I was a child, I remember that my parents changed me two times from school, so I met many people, but the problem is when I needed move to other school, in this time I look up to my father.
I remember that one day I was playing whit my cousin in my house, we had candles(lucecitas) and I take one and avent to the ground in front in this moment don’t think that the ground was incendiary but happen and we sow this fire and ran to hide, and I get away whit this problem.
when I was a child I am a bully jaja, I pick on to my friends and cousins.
so I think that is all for the moment, my memory is very volatile like the memory cache jaja.
see you later enjoy the holidays
May 20, 2008 at 5:36 pm
HI everybody!!!!!
I’ll start saying one of my childhood experiences. Really there is a experience that marked my childhood and that fills to me of emotion to remember.
Everything began when in primary the my teacher it organized a trip to see air balloons in the sport one of here, in Guanajuato. It had to arrive at 5:30 a.m. at the school to reunite to me with my companions and of there, to go us to the sport one In order to see globes.
One night before very was moved by the trip, I could not sleep, in the bed moved to me of a side for the other. And without giving account me I remained slept (already it was very behind schedule).
Finally the day arrived in which it was going to see globes! But my surprise was that to me it is slept and I awoke half an hour lat.
Then I felt very sad because no longer I reached to arrive and later my father I take the sport one and I could see globes but close that my companions because there was a restricted area for visitors and my Pope knew the one in charge of the zone and they let to me pass to where they were the globes. That really was an unforgettable experience for me.
And I thank for much to my papa
Thanks that’s everything
May 20, 2008 at 5:59 pm
When I was child many people love me, well in this moment in my life too, but in this years was incredible of people that met.
So when I was10 years old, I was Paulina Rubio jajaja yes is incredible but yes, how???, well in the teacher’s festival in my elementary school I was one representation about one artist in this moment The golden girl had been singing “This men is mine” is very funny because I have been remembering this moment in my life and in the actuality I don’t like Paulina Rubio anymore, this situation show me that I ´m change every day in all respect to my life.
Thank you per the opportunity of writing in English every week in this semester.
May 20, 2008 at 6:10 pm
In my childhood….
When I was six years old, I was entering at the elementary school and in my first week of class one day in the playtime I was playing with my toys in the courtyard of the school when suddenly I was full of ants, in all my body I had ants, and the teachers took me to the infirmary.
In the elementary school I met Carlos, Carlos was my best friend and he and I always were in the bicycles for all school.
When I was child I was in the team soccer this was very funny and I had admiration for the Emilio Butragueño he was playing in the Celaya team.
I was fan of the Celaya Team and my father every weekend took me to the game in Celaya Guanajuato.
that´s all…
Good bye….
May 20, 2008 at 6:59 pm
hi how are you?
i hope are you ok.
well my parent are very important to me because they are overcome many problems in theirs lifes. when my father awas a child he don’t have trhe possibilities to study and he decided studied in mexico he had pass many dificults but he can have success.
this is the reason for i admire my father ….