Portfolio n° 2:

For me a hero is my mother. She is untidy and plain. She doesn’t care about material things; she is not a meticulous and well-groomed person. She is very sporty because she goes to the gym every day, so she is fit.

She is a good natured person because she works for charity. But, she is serious and she tends to get fed up easily if you don´t do what she says and when she says so.  However, she is outgoing and fun-loving. She isn’t full of herself.

She changes people´s lives for the better when she works for charity, she goes to hospitals, churches and canteens to help children with food, clothes and love, for example she delivers lessons to some of these children.

People think that she is a good person, because she is so lovely when you see her with children. 

Lucía Arnauty 

Upper 1

Portfolio #2

Description of a person I consider a “hero”:

I don’t have a specific person who I consider a “hero”. But maybe doctors, firefighters, some psychologists, people who donate (blood, organs) and some artists that make people happy, those are heros for me.

But if I have to write about a hero, I will chose my mom. A tall woman who has got blonde curly hair and some wrinkles in her face. She has got sparkling eyes and a warm smile. She usually wears casual clothes, but sometimes, she wears fashionable outfits.

As regards her personality, she is mature but funny. She is a chatty, very friendly and good-natured person. She gets mad or furious sometimes, but it’s because she is stressed of working around the clock.

She comes across as a strong , modest and friendly person. And she is like that.

She has changed my life because she is always helping me to solve problems especially, when I am going through bad moments, or when I am sad or without interest in anything. She is always helping people and everybody adores her.

Agostina Sastre

Upper 1 A

Portfolio n° 2:

The person that I consider a hero is Javier Zanetti. He was a famous football player. He has got short and straight hair, he hasn´t got not any earrings, nose-studs, freckles, or heavy make-up, but he has got some wrinkles due to age. In addition, his eyes are brown and he has got a big smile.

Speaking of his personality, he is a good natured person and he has got a big love for children. He is a happy person who got everything he proposed with great effort, a model to follow.

He has changed other people’s lives for the better because he created with other people a foundation that gives education and material things to poor children and their families. He helped them with money for their houses, he took children to different schools and gave them some toys or material things that they didn’t have.

From people's point of view, he is a good natured person and obviously a model to follow and we are proud of him.  Obviously the boys think that he was one of the best defender of the world in his time and one of the best Argentinean football players.

Alejo Moschetti 

Upper 1 A

The hero of my life is my brother Ezequiel. When everything goes wrong, he makes it right.  He is a sporty and plain person. His hair is straight and shoulder length. I’m jealous of him because he has got freckles.

Although he is 18, he sometimes looks infantile, but in general terms, he is a mature person. Actually he is studying “public relations”. He is a knowledgeable person. He knows how to relax in a bad moment. Occasionally, he looks like a serious person but he is fun loving. I am proud of him because he is confident.

He didn’t change others lives (I think), only mine: When I was a child, I used to get bored easily. It was difficult for my parents to make me laugh, but when he was next to me, l used to be the happiest girl in the world. Ezequiel is the most important person in my childhood. We grew up together, so, now, we overcome problems side by side. My first year at secondary school was really hard for me. I was afraid of people, homework, exams and also of teachers. But he gave me a hand with everything. He used to teach me things from different subjects. Even this year he helps me with Maths.

People think he is full of himself because he has a successful life and does everything right. He has a lot of friends, he is very good at university and he is happy. He is one of the most important persons in my life, and I am proud of him

Julieta Luciani 

Upper 1 A

Portfolio Nº2

Nelson Mandela was a person who changed people's lives for the better in Africa. He wore sophisticated clothes, in speeches and lectures, and casual clothes, in his daily activities; and he seemed to be well-groomed. He was an elder man who had short, frizzy, black and grey hair. He used to wear chains and rings.

Nelson Mandela was a good-natured person. He was a man who cared about others first, because he fought all his life for the rights of people with black skin. He was also a sensible and righteous person because he looked for equal rights for people with fair skin and people with black skin.

He changed African people´s lives for the better. He was the first black skinned person to be in charge of the South African Executive power. He was also an activist against the apartheid (political regime and social process of discrimination) and he had a long struggle to get the evenness of rights for African people.

He was viewed by people as an ambitious man in terms of the search for justice for his country and continent. He won a Nobel Prize in 1993 for his peaceful struggle for the rights of people and achieving them. To sum up, he was a good-natured man who achieved his goals.

 Matías Pignataro

Upper 1A

Portfolio n° 2: 

My hero is Javier Zanetti. He is tall and well built. He has got brown eyes and brown wavy hair. He is modest, ambitious, and good- natured because he created his foundation which helps a lot of kids in Buenos Aires every day.

The Fundation was created in 2001 by Zanetti and his wife Paula in Remedios de Escalada, the neighborhood where they had lived. Fundation Pupi tries to help poor kids, until the age of 14. It gives them food, and psychology support. It has a lot of deals with clubs in the southern area of Bs. As like Lanus Rugby Club, or Club Atletico Talleres. There, kids can make friends and stay away from drugs and violence.

I think that Zanetti is viewed as a good person because he is part of an NGO´s. He plays an important role in the community because hundreds of families stay calm, because their kids are away from the streets.

Matias Marchetto

Upper 1

Portfolio 2: “Competition: Silent Heroes”

I know a person that has changed other people´s lives for the better. That person was Alexander Fleming.  He was born in 1881 in Scotland. But, he lived in London, England. He was very interested in science. He was impulsive, and sloppy. He had straight hair and he wore glasses.  

Alexander Fleming was a serious and good-natured person. He wore professional clothes because he worked as a doctor in St. Mary´s hospital in London. Alexander was helped by Winston Churchill in the First World War. Then Winston paid Alexander´s studies.  Fleming was a reserved person, however he accepted Winston´s proposal, and he paid Alexander ´s studies.

He discovered penicillin when he was working in his lab. This was the component of all the antibiotics. He was a hero, because doctors could use antibiotics to cure people and have a healthy life. It was a big advance in science. He could help poor people in Africa with antibiotics.

People don't take into account what Alexander Fleming ​​did. He helped everyone with his discovery. Doctors knew what he did, and he was viewed by them as a hero and a very important person in medicine. He died in 1995 in London.

Guillermo Alvarez Sendon

Upper Intermediate 1

Mariana Castelnuovo

2015