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Hi everybody! I`m Carlos and it´s a pleasure to be with yours this year.

Family

I was born in Madrid 44 years ago. When I was 3 years old, I moved to Alcalá de Henares with my family until I was 14; then we moved again to Torres de la Alameda, a near village to Alcalá, according to my father work. In 2009, I moved alone to Villalbilla, to a residential area called “El Viso”. Nowadays, I still live in with my fiancée Lidia, who is a EOI student too!

Job/Studies

I work as an insurance broker by myself. Now, it´s very common to say that I am an entrepreneur but, in fact, I work more that I would like, ahah

I have studied something that has no relation with insurance, I studied “Humanidades” at Alcalá de Henares University. “Humanidades” is a mix of History, Philosophy, Arts…

Interests/Passions/Hobbies

I´m keen on sports. I played football as goalkeeper long time ago and now I try to keep on fit going to the gym. I love watching sports on tv: football, boxing, tennis…

Also, I love reading and listening to music, especially rock and heavy metal. I like to read about history, philosophy and classical writers.

I also am a fan of James Bond movies…

Plans/Objectives/Ambitions

As I heard on a tv series, “I have no desires, I have goals”, haha. I expect to grow up my own business and work a bit less.

I hope to be happy with all my people and, of course, to improve my English level to watch movies directly on English, speak naturally with people and travel abroad totally safe

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Hi| I´m Rodrigo and this is my personal profile:

I was born in Alcala de Henares 17 years ago,almost 18, and I´ve been in this city all my live since then.

FAMILY

I have a brother that has the same age as I, but we aren´t twins we are very diferent in almost every way. Also I have a younger sister. my mother is from a city in Burgos, but she was born in Bilbao and my father was born in Madrid where he lived until he became independent and moved to Alcala.

STUDIES/JOB

The last year i graduate in second of bachillerato and pass the exam to get to unversity, but at the moment I am doing a profesional formation related with cumputers, when iI finish it I would like to go to college. And for the moment I haven´t worked yet.

INTERESTS/HOBBIES

I really like sports, I like watching extreme sports and motorsports, but I don´t really like the sports tha are with any kind of balls like basketball. I practice atheletic, I train five times a week, I also like mountainbiking, but I don´t really have time to practise it.

Another hoobie i like a lot is attending to concerts or festivals, because you forget about everything else for a couple of hours, specially if it is in the middle of the week.

PLANS/OBJECTIVES/AMBITIONS

I got to english willing to get a tittle but also because i like learnig english, I use it every day, when I see videos, films or listening music, also i would like to improve my speaking habilities, because I´m not used to talk in English.

FINAL MESSAGE

I hope this course will be very good and let get some new experiences

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Hi! I'm Pedro and I am writing to give you some information about me. I was born in Madrid 39 years ago, but I've always lived in Alcala de Henare except when I lived in Tetuan neighborhood in Madrid for two years.

FAMILY
I have two siblings, one brother older than me and one sister younger than me. My brother has three children and my sister has two. I have nothing, but three nephews and two nieces that's enough. My parents were born in Jaen, they came to Alcala when they were 18. Currently, they live in a country side in Jaen.

JOB AND STUDIES
First, I graduated in Geography and then in History in UAM. How it was difficult to find a job, I wanted to be a teacher. But, I ended up tired of studying, so I started working as a security guard. Nowdays, I want to resume my previous studiws and pass a public exam to achieve my goal.

INTEREST, PASSIONS AND HOBBIES
I love doing different sport. I used to play indoor football, but now I can't because of my schedule. So, I have become a fan of running. However, my favourite activity is going hiking and trekking in the mountains, thereby I have discovered wonderful landscapes. Also, I really enjoy going to festivals, and reading an interesting book.

PLANS
I'd love to travel around the world. Reciently, I have bought a camper. I'd like to get to Northern Cape in Norway.

FINAL MESSAGE
I need to study English to get The Certificated and doing a postgraduate. But I'd like to impove my English, above all, in speaking and listening to communicate abroad.

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Family:

I was born in Madrid in the 2006. I live with my parents and I live here in alcala and I have an older sister named Elvira.

Studies:

Right now Iam studing the second year of bachillerato in science at the Cardenal Cisneros secundary school. After doing the university entrance exam I don't really know what to do but I know that I am going to go to university

Interest:

I have been doing sports all my life, like judo, swimming, padel and going to the gym, but right now I am starting to go to boxing classed. I like spending my time in reading books of fantasy and playing video games too.

Plans:

Well, i didn't have a specific goal or objective  to do, besides going to college, but I will be doing my very best until I find what to do.

Final message:

I expect to learn a lot of new things and meeting new people in this academy and to have a great time.

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Hi! I´m Rebeca Persa and this is some information about me.

FAMILY

I was born in Alcala de Henares, but I´m Rumanian. I´m 16 years old. I live with my parents and my two older sisters. Most of my family lives in Rumania, but I have family in Canada and UK too.

I also own a dog, she´s a Yorkshire terrier and she´s called Luna.

STUDIES

Right now I´m in the first year of a Bachillerato in Science. In the future I want to study Medicine or Biochemistry because I want to be a surgeon or a pharmacist.

INTERESTS

I love reading and hanging out with friends because at those moments I feel calm and relaxed. I like painting too, although I´m not very good at it.

PLANS

I want to travel around the world with my friends. I want to move to Canada too, but I´m not sure about that yet.

FINAL MESSAGE

I hope to improve a lot.

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Hi! My full name is Mª Jesus but I don't like it I prefer Maria. I'll give you some information about me.

FAMILY

I was born in Madrid and I'm 47 years old. I have a wonderful husband, his name is Raul, and an incredible daughter. Her name is Angela and she is 15 years old.

Angela is studying in Canada this year and my husband and I are like sweethearts but we miss her very much.

JOB / STUDIES

I studied to be a beautician but due to back problems I had to give it up after many years working in this profession and now I am an administrative assistan. Currenctly I work for an Amercian transport company called FEDEX.

INTEREST/PASSIONS/HOBBIES

My great passions is to be with my family and my friends. Beside, we like to travel abroad when we can and the money allows it :)

Other hobbies I have are crafting, especially patchwork and reading, but I can only do it in the summer. So, I Also enjoy hiking in nature and dancing too.

PLANS/OBJETIVES/AMBITIONS

My next goal is to be able to write my work e-mail without using the translator so much and to be able to communicate with the Canadian family where my daughter lives. I also want to be able to improve my English also for travel and learn to dance salsa and bachata this year.

FINAL MESSAGE

I hope to improve my English this year while having fun, since it is a great effort to study after working so many hours and to be able to find the time to do it.

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Hello everyone!! I´m Raúl and you can find out here more information about myself.

FAMILY

I was born in Murcia 24 years ago, where my family still lives.
I have a younger brother who is 12 years old.

JOB AND STUDIES

I´ve studied Law and Business Management in the University of Alcalá de Henares.
Currently, I´m working as a lawyer in a car manufacturing company.
As a random fact, I lived for a year in Latvia one of the ex-sovietic countries while I was studying there as a erasmus student.

INTEREST/PASSIONS/HOBBIES

I´ve played basketball all my entire life and I keep doing it in local leagues around Madrid. But since some years ago I´m getting addicted to padel, maybe I´m becoming old...

PLANS, OBJECTIVES, AMBITIONS

I like to keep improving myself in all the aspects, so my next objective is to be able to speak english fluently, and start learning other language, maybe french...

FINAL MESSAGE

I hope we all have a good time together while learning english this year...

All the best from my side! Bye!

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Hi!!! I´m Laia and I this is some information about me.

FAMILY

I was born in Alcalá de Henares, 18 years ago. I live with my sister, my mother and my father. I have a 16-year-old sister, her name is Aitana.
I also have family in Germany, four cousins and two uncles are very far away and I miss them!!!

JOB AND STUDIES

I am studying English, German and bilingual children's teacher training in Alcala de Henares. Additionally, this year I have been working as a summer monitor at a camp in Segovia.

This year I would also like to work on the same thing.

INTERESTS AND HOBBIES

I love children and working with them fills me with joy. I also really like reading poetry, books about love and philosophy. Another of my hobbies is shopping and traveling around Europe, although I hope that at some point I can go outside of Europe too. .

PLAN AND OBJETIVES

I hope to learn as many languages as I can, but above all I hope to be able to achieve a good level of English and German so I can go on Erasmus there and in the future work as a kindergarten teacher.

FINAL MESSAGE

I hope to improve my English

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Hi! My name is Elena and I'll give you some information about myself.

FAMILY

I was born in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, 32 years ago. I live with my boyfriend and my dog, Yubi. All my family lives in Alcalá, I like to spend time with them.

JOB/STUDIES

I studied Early Childhood Education in Guadalajara and when I finished my degree I studied several things: graphic design, photography... while working on a school farm

I worked as a professional photographer for several years but eventually returned to education.

I worked in a children's home and left everything to take the education opposition.

Today I am a special education teacher at a high school.

INTERESTS/PASSIONS/HOBBIES

I really like nature and hiking. I enjoy the landscape and walks with my dog. I love drawing, especially in watercolor, I would like to dedicate more time to it.

PLANS, OBJECTIVES, AMBITIONS

I like to go to the gym and take care of my health, learn about nutrition and improve personally and physically. For me, mental health is very important, reading about psychology and being able to apply it to my life and my work.

FINAL MESSAGE

This year I want to recover my knowledge of English and improve it to pass the B2 level exam in the future.

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Hello everybody! Here you have a little text about me.

Family

I was born in Brasov, a beautiful city in Transilvania, Rumania. My parents came to Spain when I was five years old, so I have been here for most
of my life already. As for my family, they are dispersed in many countries in Europe, I have uncles here in Alcala de Henares, others in Rome, and others
in a town near Dublin, so I have a very good reason to travel to thease countries. Although not all is good, because relations with a big part of my
family have cooled because of the distance. Although the last winter I had the opportunity to travel to Rome and visit my family there, that I hadn't seen for 10 years!

Job/Studies

About my studies, I haven't highlighted for been a good student, in fact, I repeated several years of ESO, but I went on to complete my baccalaureate. After finish it, with
nineteen years old I started my working life, I had several jobs, like in Madrid-Barajas Airport, in Amazon... This kind of jobs make me thought and realize that is not what I
wanted. So I started to be autodidact, learning about software development. Then I tried to get into a Superior Grade of Software Development but due to the large number of people who
enrolled and the limited places I could not enter. Frustrated I decided to continue being autodidact, and that's what I did, learning in the meantime while working. One day I received a
scholarship in a private Master/Bootcamp where I can make my dream come true!, to become a Software Developer. Now I am in a French company as a Software Developer and Application Manager
working for a important company which is Cepsa!

Interests/Passions/Hobbies

Since I was child I like videogames, but lately I don't have to much time to enjoy of them, because I dedicated the most part of my free time to others hobbies like go to the gym or keep learning
of software development, because in this world you can't stop to studying and updating your knowledge. Another passion is travel, each time when I have free days I try to travel and see the world.
Lastly, I am starting in the world of reading, and I like it but it is something that is hard for me, because I have tried many times to get into this habit and I have abandoned it. But I think that
is important because I consider that I can learn a lot from the books.

Plans/Objectives/Ambitions

One of my goals made me sign up for English classes, and my goal is to learn enough english to be able to speak fluently with people from other countries. Because I would like to be freelancer, and work
for foreign companies without being hired as an employee, and make my own projects. Because it is a risky and ambitious plan, my main goal is to be able to buy a house with my girlfriend
and stabilize in a place where we are both happy.

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Hello everybody.
I give you some information about me.

FAMILY
I borned in Madrid. We are two brother and two Sister. I am the oldest fo them. Alll of us are living in Alcala de Henares.

STUDIES/JOBS
I have studied labour law at the complutense Universyty. And i have a Master of Bussines Administration at a private school.
Currently, i work at the water cycle industry. many years ago i hace been working at logictics companies for 12 years.

INTEREST/PASSIONS/HOBBIES
I am interested to improve my english in order to use in my work.
one on my hobby is sailing on boat. I use to sail one every 3 moth at alicante or Palma de Mallorca. Other hooby is to practice hiking.

PLANS/OBJETIVES7AMBITTIONS
One of my objetives is to move out to Alicante close to the beach. And other plan could be to change for job that i could use the english lenguage. I wondering to teach young people how to sail a big yacht.

FINAL MESSAGE
I am very happy to start this september with this english class at the EOI. it will help me a lot to improve my english. i am sure on that.

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Hi everyone! I’m Marta and I’m going to talk a little about myself.

FAMILY

I was born in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid. I’m eighteen years old. I've recently come of age. I’ve two siblings, one brother and one sister. My parents and us use to travel every year to a different country. The reason why we travel a lot is because we have a mobile home. I usually visit my grandparents because they live close to me. Thanks to them I’ve got two villages, not so close, where I go at least one week every summer.

JOB/STUDIES

The previous year I finished my high school studies, after that I passed the Evau exam. This is my first year at the university and I’m studying law at the moment. I think I’m going to like it, but I don’t know yet.

INTERESTS/PASSIONS/HOBBIES

Since I was little I used to like doing sports. I was on different basketball teams for twelve years. In addition, five years ago, I started at a scouts group. Three times every year we camp in different places. In summer we do a fifteen-day camp where we sleep in tents. I have so many friends there and I liked it so much. That’s one of the reasons why I became a monitor this year. That's why I can’t continue with basketball this course, because I have to spend more time on that.

PLANS/OBJECTIVES/AMBITIONS

I want to improve my English. I know it’s necessary and very useful for my future. I also want to finish my studies with good grades. Some days, I don't have any activity at the afternoon, so I want to start going to the gym to do some exercice and stay active.

FINAL MESSAGE

This year I hope to improve my English with the classes.

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Hello, I´m Sandra. Nice to meet you!

FAMILY

I´ve live in Alcalá de Henares since I was five but I was born in Madrid. I have one brother and one sister both younger than me. In Madrid I lived with my mother´s grandparents. They were very special for me, especially my grandmother whom I loved very much…we had a very nice relationship. Unfortunately they passed away several years ago and I miss them a lot.  I love my three boys:  my two sons and my lovely husband.

JOB/STUDIES

First I studied a vocational training in administration but I realized that what I liked the most was Maths so when I finished I decided to change and I began to study COU of science (now It would be similar to second of bachillerato). But that year for my surprise I discovered the Biology… I fall in love with the molecular and cellular biology and I changed again and I decided to study a Bachelor Degree in Biology followed by a PhD in Immunology. Nowadays I work as a postdoctoral researcher in a biomedical research institute in the rheumatology unit. I feel lucky since I work in what I like although I´d be desirable that public organizations invest more money in research.

INTERESTS/PASSIONS/HOBBIES

Though I love staying at home I like to do several things. For example I love dancing and I attend salsation classes three times per week. Likewise I love swimming and I try to go to swimming-pool at least once per week. I always enjoy a good and funny conversation with a friend. I am very sociable but sometimes I also need to be alone doing things that I like such as studying because of my work.

PLANS, OBJECTIVES, AMBITIONS

My main aim for this year is to improve my English…I´d like to be able to give talks in English fluently.. I currently have some limitations because I have to think what I want to say and I´m going in slow motion talking, so this is my objective.  Finally I´d like to share with you that for my birthday some friends of mine gave me a tarot deck because I have always liked and been attracted to exoteric themes…something curious for a scientist like me!.  Maybe by combining the two activities I will be able to guess the future in English!!

Have a nice course!

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Hello everbody, I´m going to tell you abaut myselft.

I was born in Alcalá de Henares Madrid. I've been living here all my life, almost eighteen years. Now I´m studing for my Bachillerato and English!

FAMILY
I live with my mum and my dad. I have one brother, who is younger than me. Every weeks I visit my grandparents. I usually meet my cousin. Part of my family is from a village in Caceres, that's why I posted that photo.

STUDIES
This year I am in the second year of a Bachillerato in social sciences. At the moment I don´t know what I´m going to study in the future, but I think it will be at the University of Alcalá.

INTEREST/PASSIONS/HOBBIE
I usually go to the gym with my friend, when I have time. Every weekends I meet my friends or with my family. I really like meeting people and go out with my friends.

I love going to my village, especially it is the local festival. And like everyone else, I reed, watch Tv and Netflix..., Listen to music.....

PLANS/OBJECTIVES/AMBITIONS

I hope I´m approve English and Bachillerato.

I don´t sure what I´m going to do with my life. Now, my principal objective is to pass the EVAU.

FINAL MESSAGE
I hope this year goes well for all of us, and we all achieve our goals.

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Family

I was born in Sevilla, 46 years ago, but I have spent a lot of time in Marbella (Málaga), in fact, my siblings and my mother live there, although I live in Meco (Madrid) with my husband and my two children.

Job/Studies

I studied a degree in Tourism at the Uned (a distance University).

I also took a Higher Course in Digital Marketing at the Alcalá University.

Currently, I work in Norhgate, a vehicle rental company.

I´m lucky to do that I like...Selling vehicles through online auctions.

Interests/Passions/Hobbies

I´m interested in everything related to the digital world. My passion is cars (the Porsche 911 Carrera is my favorite). Among my hobbies, I´ll tell you that what I like most is traveling, followed cooking, painting and listening to music.

Plans/Objetives/Ambitions

I´d like to grow professionally and improve my quality with my family. I would love to live in Marbella, which is my favorite place.

Final Message

English has always been present in my life, although honestly, I have not dedicated as much time to it as I would have liked....

I´d love to improve my level of English, to use it in my future trips abroad and to grow professionally. I think this year I'm going to learn a lot and I'm super excited!!.

See you!

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Alcalá de Henares, my city, fantastic place!

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Hello everybody, would you like to know a bit about me?

FAMILY
I was born in Madrid, at that time there wasn’t hospital in Alcalá de Henares. All my life I have lived in Alcalá de Henares. My mother was born and lived in Alcalá de Henares and my father was born in Camarma (near Alcalá) and he has lived in Alcalá since he was three years old.

I am the oldest of three siblings. I have a brother and a sister.

I am married and I have a son. My son is 23 years old.

JOB/STUDIES
I studied telecommunications engineering but I work as an IT expert in a small company in Madrid. Since the pandemic we work from home.

INTEREST/PASSIONS/HOBBIES
My main hobby is DIY. I love creating new things or fixing broken devices.

Another hobby of mine is home automation and electronic devices. I have been studying and experimenting in this field for three years, installing all kinds of devices in my house. I have a smart home.

Other more normal hobbies are listening to music, watching movies, travelling, eating with family or friends.

PLANS, OBJECTIVES, AMBITIONS (you can include your objectives for the English course here!)
Pass the course of course. But the most important thing is to improve my English to communicate when I travel abroad and to be able to read electronics documentation in English for my hobby.

win the lottery and be able to stop working and dedicate myself to my hobbies.

Enjoy life in the company of my family and to worry as little as possible about passing things.

FINAL MESSAGE
To be able to accomplish all of the above.

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Hello, I'm speaking about me....

FAMILY

I was born in Málaga, but I left 30 years ago and lived in different places because I wanted to get to know other places, people and culture. I lived in Madrid, Almeria, and Paris for 10 years.

I've been living in Alcala since 2000, and my family is here. I have 3 children, one of them has been living in Paris for 3 years, and the others are in Alcalá, only for the moment.

I love sun, beach, eating fish and dancing sevillanas, so I hope to retire in a village close to the sea in a future.

JOB/STUDIES

I studied Psychology in Málaga, and I specialised  in business, so I studied Human Research, and Health and Safety.

I've worked to Leroy Merlin 26 years ago.

PASSION HOBBIES

Well for the moment I don`t have a lot of time for hobbies, but I try to do gym, to dance sevillanas every week, and I like play cards (Mus). I love reading, but normally I can’t, so I enjoy about that in summer, and Christmas. I like cooking, but only when I am in holidays, so, I love organizing eating with my family in that time.

Of course I love travelling and knowing different places, and I do that when I can and I go where I can.

AMBITIONS /PLANS

Finish to pay my mortgage as soon as possible.

FINAL MESSAGE:

The most important thing for me is enjoy each moment, I mean, I don’t worry about things that I can’t do/have, I think only about things I can do, or I’ve got.  Each day is a beautiful present if you profit of it.

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PERSONAL MESSAGE

Hi there!

As you know, I’m Nicola and I’m going to be your teacher this year.

I don’t think many of you know me, so here’s some basic information…

FAMILY

I was born in Bristol, in the south-west of England, but grew up in the north of England, in a village in Yorkshire, between Leeds and York. I’ve lived in Spain for 25 years now and this year I got Spanish citizenship!

I have a very old family, as neither I nor my siblings have children. In fact, out of 8 cousins on my mother’s side of the family, only one cousin has children – weird I know! And boring too, especially at Christmas! Luckily I have a goddaughter and she and her brother have become my substitute niece and nephew!

I’m the youngest of four sisters. My sisters all live in the UK, but we usually see each other once or twice a year and keep in touch frequently.

JOB/STUDIES

I’ve been teaching English as a Foreign Language to adults on and off for around 30 years now and I’ve taught in France, Germany, Turkey and the UK, as well as in Spain. For many years I taught at the Official Language School in Torrejón de Ardoz. This is my second year working in Alcalá and I love the school!

I’ve also worked in other fields, as well as teaching: as the manager of a second-hand bookshop and in administrative jobs as a secretary, receptionist and mortgage processor..

INTERESTS/PASSIONS/HOBBIES

I guess one of the many reasons why I like teaching English is because I’ve always loved travelling, learning languages and getting to know other cultures – ever since I first started learning French at the age of 12!

As a result, I’ve become hooked on Duolingo, which I used to do on my mobile on the bus to Torrejón. I’m trying to learn Portuguese at the moment. I’m not sure how much I’m learning, but it’s fun and it keeps my brain working – I hope!

As well as learning languages, I also love music and have recently taken it up again after many years not doing anything. I sing in the choir of the University of Alcalá and this year I also joined Nuba, a group of women singers.

PLANS, OBJECTIVES, AMBITIONS (you can include your objectives for the English course here!)

I’m not very good at getting up in the morning, so I want to get better and get up earlier to go to yoga classes and swimming.

I’d also like to learn to play the guitar – a lifelong ambition. Maybe this will be the year that I wipe the dust off my guitar case and start to have lessons!

FINAL MESSAGE

I look forward to reading your personal profiles, including information about why you’re doing this English course. Please post your profile on the class padlet and it would be great if you could add a photo. Like me you could add hyperlinks too if you like! Thanks!