CHRISTMAS FOOD.

For many people, sometimes, the most important part of Christmas is the food.
In Catalonia, there is a different food for every pointed day. On Christmas day, on 25th of December, the people start the meal eating canopés or little tapas dishes before the escudella. The three-part dish, is carn d'olla, that includes botifarra sausage and a grant meatball, wich were used to make the soup. Next, is roasted poultry such as capon, turkey or chicken. The dessert consists in torró, and tube-shaped biscuits, and of course, it's all accompanied by several glasses of cava.
The next day, on Sant Esteve, people usually eat canelons.
On New Year's Eve, the people eat 12 grapes accompany of the 12 strokes of midnight for good luck in the next year.
The last day is el dia de Reis, and the special food of this day, is kings' cake. Hidden within the cake is a king and a butter bean. Who extracts the butter bean, must pay the kings' cake the next year, and who extracts the king, will have good luck throughout whole year.

This new is extracted from the magazine Resident Costa Brava, December 2007, nº28.

NEW VOCABULARY LEARNED:
troughout: per tot.
tube-shaped biscuits: neules.
giant meatball: pilota.
butter bean: fava.

FORMAL LETTER.

54, Avinguda Onze de Setembre

Sant Pere Pescador
17470

I.E.S Castelló d'Empúries
Rentador Street
Castelló d'Empúries
17486

9th, December 2008

Dear Ms. Pintó,
I want to write a letter to you to show the negative and positive points about our school.
About the negative points, I think that the walls could be more colorful and more decorated, because everything is grey. This colour makes us pessimist when we come into the school. Maybe, if the playground was not full of sand, and was full of grass the school will be nicer.
About the positive points, I thinkt that it is a good idea the "tamagochis", because the parents of the classmates can control better his sons and daughters. About the batxillerat classes, do not have class in the afternoon is a good point, because we have more time to do our homework and study more hard.
Well, apart from negative points, I think that this school is not really bad, so it has points that will be able to change to positive and it will be better.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours sincerly,

Laura Carrera.