My sister and I (pre-intermediate level)
My sister and I like each other very much although we are very different. She´s three years older than me and she works in a bank. I work for Shell Brazil, and now I´m starting a post-graduate course. My sister is already going to university.
My sister likes her job and I like mine.
She loves going to the cinema, and so do I, but it is difficult to go together.
Now she´s studying very hard because she has exams.
I like dancing, but she doesn´t like it very much, although we sometimes go to discos together.
Book review of 'A matter of chance' (upper-intermediate level)
Matter of chance is a novel about a couple living in England. They are very much in love with each other, and work at the same company. Three years after they got married, both were offered a professional opportunity in Italy, a country that both of them love.
However a terrible thing happens in their lives. She died some time after they arrived there. He was very upset, but he decided to not return to England and he dedicated his life to work. During this sad time he met a woman at the company who he fell in love with, and they started a relationship. There are strange things about her, she works for the same company as him, earns the same salary, but she has a fancy car, he starts to think about how she has got the money to buy it.
One day she invites him to go on a trip with her, but he has to go in his old car. He thinks that there is something strange going on, but he goes with her anyway. When they are in a restaurant she said that she wanted to go to the bathroom. As she took a long time, he decided to see what had happened, and saw her giving a package to a man. Paul thinks that there is something wrong but he doesn´t mention it.
She invites him on another trip to meet her family, and arriving at the house he saw the guy he had seen her with before. She tells him that he is a friend of the family. On the first night he hears something about her using him to do a bad thing, but he couldn´t understand what it was. She decides to go to England with him in his car. While they were driving there, he saw the same car that had been at the house following them, so he tried to lose them, and then he stopped and asked her to tell him what was going on and she started crying. She explained that the guy was a smuggler and they were using him to take goods to England. The car found them and kidnapped them, but they escaped and the police caught the smugglers. After this episode they got married but they divorced one year later and he dedicated his life to work.