AN OPINION ESSAY: The teenage years are the most important years of your life.

Most people think that the teenage years are the most important stage of our life, because is in these years when we decide how we want being. In general, all but any people think that it is true, other persons are in disagreement, they think that the teenage stage are years of emotional instability.

As I see it, these years are the best years of our life, why? Is easy, because when we are young we haven’t got so many responsibilities like when we are adult, but we have more responsibilities that when we are children and we can do ‘everything that we want’. In addition, we don’t need to worry about the bills or job, only we need worry about our studies and feel good with ourselves.

In conclusion, these years are the best and all the teenagers should live without worries, studying to have a good future and be happy, that to worry exists many years later.

OPINION ABOUT THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE.

It is a good book, narrated from the perspective of a 14-year-old boy. Perhaps, the most entertaining is the fact that you can feel identified with the character. 

Adrian is a very immature guy, normal at his age, with all the typical problems of adolescence. But he must overcome the fact that her parents are divorced, although they return to be together.

In spite of the complex of his spots, it achieves that the girl that he likes notices him, and believes that he is in love and will marry with her, another example of short maturity that he has. 

In short, is a book that is entertaining and fun to read.

Here below I leave the movie based on book :D

CHAPTER 12: In and Out of Love.

SUMMARY

It’s San Valentin’s Day, Adrian gives a great card and a poem to Pandora, and she gives the same to him.

Not everything is OK, they need cut expenses away and his parents decide to stop smoking, but now they are in a bad mood all day! His mother speaks with his father, and she says to him that he has to find a job already.

On the other hand, Adrian goes to a meeting on politics and there he meets to Barbara Bayer. To Adrian he likes her, when Pandora finds out she gets very angry.

He’s 15 years old! Bert gives him a model airplane. While he is doing it he thinks that it’s a good idea sniff the glue. Unfortunately, he sticks the glue in his nose, what a disgrace when he has to go to the hospital to take it off!

VOCABULARY

• Refuses (refuse): negar, rechazar (verb) “He asked me to give him another loan, but I refused”.
• Stick out: sobresalen (verb) “They stick out by their marks”.
• Upset: disgustado (adjetive) “It still upsets him when he thinks about the accident”.
• Cheer myself up: animarme (expression) “He always manages to cheer myself up”.
• Blame: culpar (verb) “Don't blame me!”
• Lovemaking: sexo (noun).

CHAPTER 11: My Mother Is Home.

SUMMARY

His mother has returned home, and they are a happy family again. But, his parents discovered the phone bill and Adrian has to pay it out of their savings. 

Christmas is approaching, and Adrian makes another list of New Year’s resolutions. In addition, they have given him a new bike!

Surprisingly, Bert and Queenie are going to get married and they have invited Adrian.

VOCABULARY

• Tears:  lágrimas (noun) “You wipe the tears from your face”.
• Rehearsal: ensayo (noun) “Where is Adrian? He’s in the rehearsal”.
• Egg-timer: temporizador para cocinar huevos (noun) “My grandma wants an egg-timer”.
• Pity: lástima, pena (adjective) “It’s a pity that you don’t go to the trip”.

CHAPTER 10: In Hospital! - Between Life and Death.

SUMMARY

Adrian goes camping and has problems with the food because the bread and eggs have damaged and he has trouble eating.

When it returns of camping, he receives a letter of the doctor; he must operate his tonsils. He can’t eat anything solid in a few days. The nurses are fed up of him!

In addition, in the night of the bonfires he burns the phone bill where there appears how much he spent when he called to Pandora while she was in Tunisia; and his father still hadn’t seen her. They don’t pay of and cut them to the phone.

VOCABULARY

• Collect: recoger (verb) “I forgot to collect my room”.
• Bled to death: murió desangrado (expression) “There has been a car accident, the driver bled to death”.
• Dehydrated:  deshidratado (adjective) “When he finished the race he was very dehydrated”.
• Throat:  garganta (noun) “I have a pain in my throat”.
• Bonfire: hoguera (noun) “Here is forbidden make bonfires”

CHAPTER 9: More in Love than Ever!

SUMMARY

Adrian is worried, because Pandora has gone on holidays to Tunisia, but almost they can’t return because someone steals the wallet from his father.

In addition, Bert has returned to his house, but to a little time starts him finding it hard to walk and has to go to live an old people’s home.

Also, his father doesn’t look for a new job. What are they going to do!?                                                                                                                                

VOCABULARY

• Delayed (delay): retraso (verb) “The flight is delayed”.
• Shrinking (shrink): encoger (verb) “My clothes have shrunk in the washer”.
• Cashpoint:  cajero automatico (noun) “I need to extract money. Where there is a cashpoint?
• Bonus: bonificación (noun) “They have given me a bonus for working by night”.

CHAPTER 8: Grandma Frightens Barry Kent!

SUMMARY                    

The Adrian’s grandma pays the electricity bill, but until they’ll connect again the electricity they go to her house to spend a few days. Also, she gets that Barry returns all the money that he has removed to Adrian.

Finally, Adrian goes out with Pandora! They are in love.

Unfortunately, Bert is very ill. When he recovers, he goes to live to Adrian’s house. But in the next door there is a new Indian family, and he prefers live with there.

VOCABULARY

• Tore (tear): desgarrar (verb) “He tore my scarf accidentally”.
• Put on: se puso (verb) “She put on her new coat”.
• Lately:  últimamente (adverb) “Lately, you don’t eat very much”.
• Tonsillitis: amigdalitis (noun) “I have never had tonsillitis”.
• Brown-skinned: de piel morena (adjective) “In summer he has a brown-skinned”.
• Snoring: ronquidos (noun) “The snoring of my grandfather is heard by the whole house”.
• Hangover: resaca (noun) “The head hurts him very much, is for the hangover”.