The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole - Chapter 12: In and Out of Love.

Bert got married. All the old ladies went to watch it. Bert looked really nice, he was wearing a new suit. Queenie wore a hat made of flowers and fruits.
Adrian got bad marks but Pandora got very good marks.
Adrian´s mother gave Adrian´s father an ultimatum: he had to got a job!
In the Valentine´s Day Pandore send a lovely card to Adrian. Adrian gave Pandora a poem.
Adrian again got spots.
Adrian´s parents had stopped smoking because it was so expensive. His father was having a terrible mood...
Adrian´s father got a job! He was in charge of a group of teenagers. They have to clear all the rubbish oh the sides of the rivers. To celebrate he bought cigarettes for he and his wife and Adrian got chocolate. Everybody was happy, even the dog!
Adrian was loved by two women! E.S.B. gave V.L.T. a note in maths. In it, they talked about Adrian...
Pandora and E.S.B. had a fight at school. Adrian was shocked at Pandora, she told he that she was pacific.
Adrian went for a meeting on politics this morning. He met Barbara Bayer. She was pretty and very intelligent. She disagreed with Pandora about number of ideas. Adrian ate one day with Barbara. Barbara couldn´t stand seeing Pandora´s eyes so she didn´t want to see Adrian anymore.
It was Adrian´s birthday! He was 15!  Pandora didnt send Adrian a birthday card, he forgave it... Bert gave Adrian a model aeroplane. Adrian was building the model aeroplane when he smelled the glue for five seconds. Adrian´s father took Adrian to the hospital to have it removed. Adrian was so embarrassed. Adrian phoned Pandora when he got home. She was coming ro see he after her mussic lesson. Adrian gave thank god for love.

Vocabulary:

• Blame - Culpo. I blame he because he do it.
• Unbearable - Inaguantable. He is so boring, he es unbearable!
• Stick out - Sobresalen. He stick out playing basketball.
• Lovemaking - Sexo. He had lovemaking with his wife.
• Migraine - Migraña. I had a migraine last week.

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole - Chapter 11: My Mother Is Home.

Adrian´s mother came home! Everyone in Adrian´s house was happy. Even the dog was happy that Adrian´s moher was home. Adrian´s moher had been smiling all day. The mother cleaned the Adrian´s room and she found his Big and Bouncy magazines and the blue pone bill under his bed. The mother shouted a lot and the father wanted to hit Adrian but the mother didn´t allow. Adrian´s moher told Adrian why she left Lucas and returned with his father.
In the school Adrian representated a drama. Adrian was Joseph. Pandora was Mary. Peter Brown, who is very small, is Jesús. Adrian and Pandorahad a private Mary and Joseph rehearsal in his bedroom...
Adrian bought a deodorant for Pandora for Christmas because he hadn´t got money to buy a perfume. Adrian invited Bert and Queenie for Christmas Day.
The Christmas Day Adrian got up early and found a new bike outside his bedroom door. Everyone was happy until Adrian mentioned that he had invited Bert and Queenie for lunch.
Adrian gave Pandora his present and Pandora gave he a bottle of aftershave. It was a proud moment. Adrian in this moment felt like an adult.
Adrian wrote his New Year´s resolutions.
In Christmas Adrian´s parents drink a lot of vodka...
Adrian got a wedding invitation from Bert and Queenie.

Vocabulary:

• Turkey - Pavo. I cook turkey for lunch
• Rehearsal - Ensayo. I have a rehearsal tomorrow in the evening.
• Egg-timer - Reloj para hervir huevos. I don´t have a egg-timer.

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole - Chapter 10: In Hospital - Between Life and Death.

Adrian and his father had lost their dog but they found it and it was well.
Adrian came from a survival trip with his youth club. He slept in a sleeping bag. He cooked chips on a camp fire. He walked throuhgt rivers. He couldn´t have a bath and he hadn´t got radio or TV!
Adrian had a letter from the hospital, he had a operationto remove his tonsils. He went to bought new pyjama  because his father didn´t want to Adrian went to he hospital with old pyjamas, Adrian dind´t understand his father.
His grandma called Adrian and said he that she met someone who had the same operation and died on the operation table, what grandma...
The operation was well. Adrian passed a few days in the hospital. He had an angry nurses caring he. He thought that he was between and life.
Adrian and Pandora went to a bonfire party, Pandora burnt her ols comics and Adria burnt hisred pone bill. They had a serius talk one night because Pandora didn´t want to marry with Adrian  in two year´s time.
Bert had a girlfriend called Queenie.
Adrian´s father was worrying Adrian because nothing made happy his father.
One day Adrian get a telegram of his mother, in it sai: "ADRIAN STOP COMING HOME STOP". Adrian didn´t understand the telegram.

Vocabulary:

• Fireworks - Fuegos artificiales. The Fireworks of last night were wonderful.
• Bill - Factura. My water bill of this month is so expensive.
• Dehydrated - Deshidratado. Give me some wáter, i am dehydrated!
• Horseshoes - Herraduras. The horse lost one of his horseshoes.
• Tin-opener - Abrelatas. The tin-opener broke when i use it.

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole - Chapter 9: More in Love than Ever.

Adrian´s father got a cheuqe of his old job, it was a nig cheque son he went to celebrate with Doreen and Adrian was babysitting Maxwell, Doreen´s baby.
Pandora went for holidays to Tunisia and didn´t send nothing to Adrian, so Adrian sent Pandora a poem. Pandora received the poem and sent Adrian a postcard saying that in this place there were a lot of poor mans.
Adrian´s grandma and Bert came to Adrian´s house to whatch a film and the new neighbours. Adrian´s grandma was racist and she didn´t like this persons...
Pandora came home and Adrian touched her breasts again. They went to the swimming-pool. Pandora wore a white bikini and Adrian like it. Pandora swam but Adrian didn´t swim because he had an erection... Pandora and Adrian were more in love tha ever.
Adrian started the school again but his uniform was so small, he must buy another. The new uniform cost 200$.
It was the Adrian´smother birthday. Adrian phoned she bus she didn´t pick up the phone
Bert was living with Adrian but he went to live to an old people´s home.
Adrian had a lot of spots in his face and he thought tah if Pandora see he, she doesn´t love more.
Adrian was worried about his father, he was still in bed. He wasn´t looking for a new job...

Vocabulary:

• Jewish - Judía (religión). My neighbours were jewish.
• Shrinking - Encogiéndose. My bed isn´t shrinking, i am growing.
• Bonus - Recompensa, premio. I didn´t have a bonus for my good marks.
• Cashpoint - Cajero automático. This cashpoint is out.

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole - Chapter 8: Grandma Frightens Barry Kent.

Adrian´s grandma visited he and found adrian and his father living with canndles. She said that they had to went to live with she and gave a cheque to his soon to pay electricity. They went to live to the grandma. Adrian said to his father all about Barry Kent and his father went to talk to Barry. Barry denied everything and his father went to the police but there weren´t proofs. Adrian´s grandma went to talk to Barry and Barry didn´t hit Adrian again.
His father lost his job and Doreen came to the house to help Adrian and his father, but Doreen had a baby! Doreen helped giving food to Adrian and his father and cooking.
Pandora and Adrian pass a lot of time together. They were in love.
Mr Baxter get very ill and they went to visited. Mr Baxter went to the hospital for a days. But he cured and went to home.
Adrian had a new neighbours. They were an indian family and Adrian´s father didn´t like because he thought that there were a los of incomers in all sites.
Adrian got his first hangover. Pandora put he on bed and she allowed Adrian to touch her breasts. Adrian did it but he couldn´t feel anything because all Pandora´s clothes.

Vocabulary:

• Brown´skinned - De piel morena. The are the brown´s skinned.
• Snore - Ronquido. My father snores all nights.
• Hangover - Resaca. My friend had hangover in summer.
• Tonsillitis - Amigdalitis. I had tonsilitis last week.
• Bruise - Cardenal. I have a bruise in my leg.
• Proof - Pruebas. He didn´t go to prision because there weren´t proofs.

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole - Chapter 7: No Electricity!

Adrian pass a good time with Nigel and he thought that he have been living in poverty for 14 year .Adrian´s father is going to start a new ralationship with Doreen Slater. Adrian received a postcard of his mother, she wanted to Adrian went to Sheiffiel to see his mother. Adrian´s father didn´t got money in the bank and Adrian´s mother gave the money to go to Sheiffield. His mother cryed a lot when she saw Adrian. Mr Lucas was kissing Adrian´s mother all the time, and Adrian didn´t like it.
Adrian´s father and Doreem Slater pass a lot of time together when Adrian was in Sheiffield.
Adrian´s mother was going to the city to saw Adrian and his father like the notice and clenaed the house. His father called Doreem because he couldn´t go to the cinema together and they discusse.
Adrian talk a little bit with Pandora in geography.
Mr Baxter had lost his false teeth and Adrian couldn´t find it so Adrian bought to Mr Baxter soups and yoghurts.
A man turn off the electrycity of Adrian and his father they owned around 100$ so the iluminated with candle wax.

Vocabulary:

• Banging - Aporreamiento. A man was banging my car.
• Kennel - Caseta. The dog was sleeping in his kennel.
• Ashamed - Avergonzado. I was ashamed about my conduct.
• Sick - Malo. I was very sick seeing that.

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole - Chapter 6: My Mother Leaves with Mr Lucas.

Nigel was heartbroken. Adrian told Nigel that Adrian thoyght that Mr Lucas and Adrian´s mother were having an affair. Every knew except Adrian and his father.
Adrian bought a box of chocolates for his mother because it was de Mother´s Day.
Adrian´s mother and Mr Lucas were going to Sheffield and Adrian´s fater get angry and fought with Mr Lucas in the garden. Mrs O´Leary said that she felt sorry about Adrian.
Adrian´s mother has gone to Sheffield with Mr Lucas and se had to drive because Mr Lucas couldn´t see out of his black eyes.
Adrian told the school secretary taht his mother has left home.
It was Adrian´s birthday, he was 14! He got a tracksuit and a footbal from his father, money from his mother and Mr Lucas, a joke card from Nigel and a book from Bert.
Adrian and his father cleaned the hous and went to the supermarket to buy. The bought a lot of thing and paid with cheque because they didn´t find the credit card of Adrian´s father.
Adrian got a postcard from his mother, she is going to the city to the weekend. His mother call one day, her voice souned funny as if she had a cold. She said that Adrian will understand why she went with Mr Lucas.
Arian and his father had a good conversation one night, one friend of Adrian´s father wanted to meet Adrian.
Adrian went to stay in Nigel´s house because his parents were on holiday. They pass a goot time, eat soap, chips , fish and onions and drink whiscky, but Adrian didn´t like it.

Vocabulary:

• Heartbroken - Con el corazón destrozado. I am heartbroken.
• Shillings - Chelines. In Spain don´t exist the shillings.
• Nude - Desnuda. My friend have a photo of a nude woman.

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole - Chapter 5: Divorce!

One day Adrian got up whith his face covered in big red spots. He called his grandmather and she came he to her house and Adrian satyed in bed there.
Adrian´s parents were getting divorce and his father had to sleep in the spare room. Mr Lucas started to call Adrian´s mother a lot, Adrian thought it was to went to a pub to talk.
Adrian had in school holidays and he went to visit Mr Baxter and he cleaned Mr Baxter´s dishes.
Adrian´s thing measured eleven centimetres.
Mr Lucas was going to sold his house to buy a bigger house with the money but Adrian thought Mr Lucas was stupid because Adrian said if he had this money he would travel around the world.
Adrian found a note which Mr Lucas wrote to Adrian´s mother and he put it under his bed with his magazines.
Adrian buy a plant for his grandmother´s bitrhday but she was sad because the divorce of Adrian´s parents.
Pandora and Nigel had broken up, Adrian thought taht was a fantastic notice in the last months.

Vocabulary:

• Spare room - Cuarto de invitados. My house is little and i don´t have spare room.
• Measured - Medir. I measue 1,80 metres.
• Sign - Signo. There are signs in the ground

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole - Chapter 4: Slave Labour on Elm Tree Avenue.

Adrian´s  mother read sex books and she left it on the table in the lounge where anybody could have seen it.
Adrian woke up with his second wet dream but his mother didn´t notice because he had put his pijama in the washing machine. He started working like a paper round, he had to went to a Street called Elm Tree Avenue. His first day workins was very bad because he took the wrong newspaper and he gave it, people don´t like Reading a different paper. The second day he be late giving the newspaper because he show Pandora coming out of a house in this Street wearing riding clothes. The money, which he is winning, he had to give the half part to Barry Kent. Barry Kent said that this money was "protection money".
One morning Adrian´s mother came into Adrian´s room and said things like: "Life is complicated", "Marriage is like prison" and "I am fond of you Adrian". Adrian thought his mothers was being melodramatic.
One day Adrian wento to the newspaper and saw Mr Lucas looking at rude magazines and choose Big and Bouncy. He thougth that he should tell it to his mother. He prefers to ask his boss in the newspaper to gave he some old of this magazines and he put it under his bed and saw it before going to bed.

Vocabulary:

• Delivering - Repartiendo. In summer i work delivering milk.
• Riding clothes - Ropa de montar. He buy riding clothes because he has a horse.
• Punctured - Pinchó. He punctured the ball with his knife.

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole - Chapter 3: Valentine´s Day.

Adrian hadn´t got nobody to send a Valentine´s Day card to. Finally he wrote the card for Pandora. He was very sad because Pandora had seventeen cards, Nigel seven cards and Barry Kent three! Barry Kent sat near Adrian in geography because Pandora didn´t sit near Adrian. Barry Kente blew bubble gum in Adrian´s ear in the class and said Adrian that he have to give he fivety pence all days and Adrian didn´t do it and Barry hit Adrian every days.
Adrian had his first wet dream! His mother was right about the book, it had changed his life.
Adrian´s father and mother shouted a lot by the night and one day they forgot Adrian´s dinner and he had to went to the chinese shop to bought his dinner and ate in the bus stop, he was very sad doingOne day  it.
Adrian´s father went to work to London the day and he had lost his wallet and he had to pass the night in London, so Mr Lucas pass the night with Adrian´s mother bin a room because the door of the room was stuck...
Mr Lucas came in a van and took a lot of flowers and small trees out of the garden.
Adrian went to visit Mr Baxter and Mr Baxter told Adrian about the First World War.

Vocabulary:

• Thoughtful - Considerado. They are thoughtful with me.
• Rude words - Palabrotas. My friend say a lot of rude words.
• Gravy - Salsa. I don´t like put gravy for the food.
• Goolies - Huevos. Last day my friend got angry with my and hit me in the goolies.

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole - Chapter 2: Pandora! My Lost Love!

Adrian went to the doctor about his spot. The doctor said him: "don´t worry, this is normal in boys of your age". Then, Adrian will read the newspaper and he´ll go to the private doctor.
His mother and Mrs. Lucas had a figth about Adrian´s dog. Adrian´s father want to kill the dog, but his mother doesn´t want. Adrian gave a poor family some old comic books. When he gave the comic books to the child, he said that he having read already.
Adrian´s mother is loking for a job and he got a job in the same place as Mr Lucas. Mr. and Mrs. are getting divorce, his mother came to see Mr Lucas because he is very sad about his divorce.
Adrian went to see Mr Baxter, his old man who Adrian is helping. Mr Baxter isn´t a nice old man, he drinks and smokes a lot. Mr Baxter get ill in bed and Adrian come to visit him.
Pandora is going out with Nigel. He doesn´t speak again to Nigel because Nigel knows that Adrian loves Pandora. Adrian thinks that he lost Pandora.

Vocabulary:

• Mood - Humor. He doesn´t have a good mood.
• Sickbed - Cama (de un enfermo). His sickbed is empty because he died last night.
• Cross - Endadado. He is cross with his father.

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole - Chapter 1: Mr Lucas Stars to Visit.

In the first chapter  Adrian strats to write his secret diary. The first what que puts in the diary was a list of intention that he will do in the year ( help people, hepl the por...). His mother doesn´t cook well and se doesn´t give Adrian vitamins. One day his father get ill, because he doesn´t get any vitamins. He is worried beacuse he has a chin in his face and he doesn´t know what can he do. His dog ran away oh he and he broke the stereo but he say that the dog broke it. His mother get ill too and his neighbourhood Lucas stars to visit his mother. He come all days to see his mother and this is rare for Adrian and his father, so one day his father get angry with his his wife beacuse he pass a lo of time with Lucas and nothing with his family.
Adrian met a new girl in his class, her name is Pandora and Adrian think that she is getting in love with she.

Vocabulary:

• Saddle - Sillín de la bici. I had a bicicle with a big saddle.
• Netball - Juego similar al nbaloncesto. I haven´t never played netball.
• Chest - Pechos. The boys don´t have chests.
• Mongrel - Chucho. This dog is a mongrel.

The Secret Diary os Adrian Mole - Biography of Sue Townsend

Susan Lillian "Sue" Townsend, FRSL (born 2 April 1946) is an English novelist and playwright, best known as the author of the Adrian Mole books. Although her writing primarily combines comedy with social commentary, she has also written purely dramatic Works.

Sue Townsend was born in Leicester and went to Glen Hills Primary School, where the school secretary was Mrs Claricotes, a name she used for the school secretary in the Adrian Mole books. Her father was a postman and she was the eldest of five sisters. After failing her 11-plus exam, Townsend then went to the secondary modern South Wigston High School. She left school at the age of 15 and worked in a variety of jobs including factory worker and shop assistant. She married a sheet-metal worker and had three children under five by the time she was 22. She joined a writers' group at the Phoenix Theatre, Leicester in her thirties. She has four children: Sean, Daniel, Victoria and Elizabeth.
At the time of writing the first Adrian Mole book, Townsend was living on the Saffron Lane Estate, a stone's-throw away from the house in which playwright Joe Orton was brought up. The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole was reputedly based on her children's experiences at Mary Linwood Comprehensive School in Leicester. Several of the teachers who appear in the book (such as Ms Fossington-Gore and Mr Dock) are based on actual staff who worked at the school in the early 1980s. When the book was televised, it was mostly filmed at a different school nearby. Mary Linwood Comprehensive was closed in 1997. the first two published stories appeared in a short-lived arts journal entitled simply magazine, the editing and production of which Townsend was involved, featuring the character then still called Nigel Mole.
The first two books in the series appealed to many readers as a realistic and humorous treatment of the inner life of an adolescent boy. They also captured something of the zeitgeist of Britain during the Thatcher period.
Townsend has suffered from diabetes for many years, as a result of which she was registered blind in 2001, and has woven this theme into her work.
On 25 February 2009, Leicester City Council announced that Townsend would be given the Honorary Freedom of Leicester (where she still lives) alongside singer Engelbert Humperdinck and retired professional footballer Alan Birchenall.
In September 2009, she received a kidney from her son Sean after a 2-year wait for a donor. Surgery was carried out at Leicester General Hospital and Townsend spoke to reporters about the work of the UK National Kidney Federation. Her son who fears Adrian Mole is partly based on him is said to be "very proprietorial about what he still calls his kidney".

Exercise number 7 page 18

Do you agree with  Sunita´s final advice? Can you think of any more useful tips for someone chose hobby has gone too far?

Yes i do.
I would say he that is losing the time because he have a lot of time to play this hobbie but there are most important things as spend time with his family...

Exercise number 6 page 18

How much time do you spend doing your favourite hobbies? Do you think this is below average, about average or above average? Do you know anyone who "went too far" with a hobby? What happened?

My favourite hobbie is play footbal and i play footbal when i have some free time.
I think is below average.
I have a person that loves videogames, and he was playing a pc videogame called world of warcraft (wow) and he played all the time, when he had to study he played this games and at the end of the course he had to repeat course because he didn´t study nothing.

A personal profile - My friend Fernando

Fernando is one of my friends with whom i have been play fottball for 6 years. He lives in parquesol near the Parquesol Plaza an the Mercadona We met in a team of Arroyo de la Encomienda 6 years ago, ins this year we change the team for another that is in simancas. He plays as defense and i play as forward.
In this years we spent a lot of time toguether; and now we are good friends. In training, when he was to defend me we have a lot of joking.
Fernando is a positive person, but he is realist too. He is a good student and he want to study medicine.