THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE

Opinion: 

I think that it is a good book, maybe Adrian is a few miserable at the first, the divorce, Nigel and Pandora relationship, ect, but with the course of events his situation improve. 

Adrian is really inmature and his thinking were comun on young teenegers and maybe, if you are a bit crazy, you can feel identified with him.

It's and interesting and funny book.

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Chapter 12:

In St Valentine's Day Adrian recived a Great card of Pandora. His parents had sttoped to smoked and his father had got an interview for a job and he get it! Adrian met a new girl, Barbara Bayer and he think that she is wonderful and Pandora gets very angried! 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

• Making Love: Hacer el amor (expression).

• Refuses (refuse): negar, rechazar (verb) 
• Stick out: sobresalir (verb)
• Upset: disgustado (adjetive) 
• Cheer myself up: animarme (expression)
• Blame: culpar (verb) 

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Chapter 11:

Adrian's mother has returned home. She left Lucas because he treated her like a sex object. In christmas day Bert and his girlfriend came to have dinner, after, he made a new year's list resolutions. Bert and his girlfriend are going to get married. His father still without work.

VOCABULARY

• Tears:  lágrimas (noun)
• Rehearsal: ensayo (noun)
• Pity: lástima, pena (adjective) 

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Chapter 10:

Adrian had got an operation of tonsils and he musn't had eaten or drink before the operation and he was dehydrated. He can’t eat anything solid in a few days. The nurses was feeding up  him. 

Adrian was surprised because Pandora didn't want to married with him in two years' time.

VOCABULARY

• Collect: recoger (verb) 
• Bled to death: murió desangrado (expression) 
• Dehydrated:  deshidratado (adjective)
• Throat:  garganta (noun) 
• Bonfire: hoguera (noun) 

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Chapter 9:

Adrian's father get the settlement and he was very happy. Pandora had gone to Tunisia and Adrian was alone. Bert has returned to his house with his grandma to watch a film. When Pandora returned, his thing was out of control, it was growing constantly. Adrian's father wasn't looking for a job.

VOCABULARY

• Delayed (delay): retraso (verb) 
• Breast: Pecho (noun)
• Shrinking (shrink): encoger (verb) 
• Cashpoint:  cajero automatico (noun)

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Chapter 8:

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. Then, she get that Barry kent didn't hit him and all the money that he has removed to Adrian. Adrian father lost his job and his girlfriend came round with a bag of food and her son. Pandora and Adrian, at last, were going out together!

VOCABULARY

• Tore (tear): desgarrar (verb)

• Put on: se puso (verb) 

• Lately:  últimamente (adverb)

• Tonsillitis: amigdalitis (noun) 

• Brown-skinned: de piel morena (adjective)

• Snoring: ronquidos (noun) 

• Hangover: resaca (noun) 

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Chapter 7:

Adrian went to Sheffield to see his mother. Mr lucas and she had a new house and Adrian helped his mother to paint her kitchen. Bert had lost his false teeth, Sabre, Bert's dog, had hidden it in his kennel. A man turn off the electricity in Adrian's house when his mum came to see him.

VOCABULARY

• Ashamed: avergonzado (adjective)
• I wonder why: me pregunto por qué (expression) 
• Long-term:  A largo plazo (expression)
• Mad:  loco (adjetive)
• Chewing (chew): mascar (verb) 
• Kennel: caseta (noun)
• Banging: aporreamiento (verb)

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Chapter 6:

Nigel said to Adrian that everybody knew that his mother and Mr Lucas were having an affair. On the Mother's Day, his parent gave him 5 punds to buy a present for her. Adrian's father fighted with Mr Lucas on their garden, his mum went with Mr Lucas to Sheffield.

In his bithday he got a tracksuit and a football from his father, 10 pounds from his mother and 5 pounds from Mr Lucas. After that, Adrian and his father started to do home works. Adrian hid the shaving razor of his father because he thought that he became a suicidal, but his fhather say to him that he wanted to meet a friend for job.

Adrian went to Nigel house and they got fun. They drunk some whisky and Adrian tought that he will never drink it again.

VOCABULARY

• Affair: aventura (noun) 

• Arranged (arrage): acordar (verb) 

• Book token: vale para comprar libros (noun) 

• Shillings: chelines (noun) 

• Lend (lent): prestar (verb) 

• Hid (hide): esconder (verb) 

• Shaving razor: cuchilla de afeitar (noun) 

• Telly: tele (noun) 

• Carpet: alfombra (noun) 

• Sink: fregadero, lavabo (noun)

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Chapter 5: 

Adrian went to his grandma house and she gave him his first good meal in weeks. His grandma called the emergency doctor and he came to his grandma's house, and he said that the spots were acne. 

His parent's were getting a divoce and his father went to sleep to the spare room. They began to try to buy Adrian's love. Mr Lucas tried to make love with Adrian' mum, but she said that it's too early. The school holidays started and he went to Bert house, the next day Adrian looked at Big and Bouncy and he measured his thing. Adrian hear that Mr Lucas was selling his house for 90000 pounds and he made a lis of the things that he would like to do if he had 90000 pounds. Adrian bought a plant for his grandma in her birthday. Finally Pandora and Nigel broke up.

VOCABULARY 

• Neither: Ninguno, tampoco (adjetive, noun, adverb) 
• Spare room: cuarto de invitados (noun) 
• Set Off: irse (verb)

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Chapter 4:

His mum is reading another sex book, The Second Sex, and Adrian got his second wet dream,He continue without good feeding. He start to work delivering newspapers and while he was working, he saw Pandora coming out of a house on ELm Tree Avenue, and he started to pursued her. And he folow her a lot of time and he said ´´Her chest was moving up and down. She'll need to wear a bra soon`` This man it's crazy, What kind of disturbing has he got???!!!.His boss gave him XXX magazines and money. His mother said to Him That marriage is like a prision. Barry Kent earn protection money of Adrian. Finally, he saw Mr Lucas Boughting and XXX magazine. 

VOCABULARY

• Delivering (deliver): repartir (verb) 

• Beating: latido (noun) 

• Complained (complain): quejarse (verb) 

• Slave: esclavo (noun) 

• Am fond of you: te tengo cariño (expression).

•  Newsagent: vendedor de periódicos (noun)

• Punctured (puncture): pinchar, perforar (verb) 

• Headmaster: director (noun) 

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Chapter 3:

Adrian hadn´t got anybody to send a Valentine´s Day card. Finally he decided to wrote a card for Pandora. The situation in Adrian's house has been worsen, there were a lot of shouts and his parents don't feel him. Adrian had got his first wet dream. Mrs Lucas return in a van to took her things and Mr Lucas  Adrian's mums conforts Mr Lucas. Adrian's mum had read a book called The Female Touch. In  the Valantine's Day, Adrian only had a card from his mother an he felt sadly. Barry Kent hit him in the goolies. Adrian wished to had known karate.

VOCABULARY

·Thoughtful: considerados (adjective)

· Profit: beneficio (noun)

· Senile: senil (adjective)

· Heating: calefacción (noun)

· Fix: solucionar, arreglar (verb) 

· Stuck: atascado (adjetive) “The drawer is stuck”.

· Shape: forma (noun) 

· Wasting (waste): desperdiciar (verb) 

· Pain:  dolor (noun)

· Whole: entero, todo (adjective, noun)

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Chapter 2

Adrian had got a spot and he went to the doctor, he said that it isn't nothing but he didn't think so. Her mother and Mrs Lucas had a fight becouse Adrian's dog had destroyed Mrs Lucas new path.He thought that Pandora love him because she smiled at him. He started in a group that help other people, and he got an old man called Mr Baxter. In his most horrible day:

-His mother had founded a job, in the same place that  Mr Lucas works.

-Mr Baxter, is a not healthy old men, He drinks and smokes!!

-Pandora is going out with Nigel, his best friend!!!, and he knew that Adrian loved Pandora!!!

Mrs Lucas and Mr Lucas divorced.

VOCABULARY

• Path: camino (noun) 
• Round: ruta (noun)
• Nearby: cercano (adjetive)
• Shut: cerrar (verb)
• Anyway: de todas formas, de todos modos (adverb)
• Sick: harto (adjective) “I’m sick with studying”.
• Bark: ladrar (verb) Barking: ladrido (noun) 
• Mood: humor (noun) 
• Break down: estropearse (verb+adverb)
• Run over: atropellar (verb)
• Weak: débil, frágil (adjective) 
• Smell: olor (noun) 

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Chapter 1:

Adrian start the year with a lot of  new year's resolution. The fouth day of the year his father became ill, and two days before his mother also got sick. They don't eat the food that Adrian had cooked, so he gave it to the dog, and his dog also became ill. The visits of their neighbour, Mr Lucas, started. When the winter holidays finished, there was a new girl in Adrian class, Pandora, and he fell in love with her.

VOCABULARY

• Resolutions: propósitos (noun)
• Squeezing: apretar/exprimir (verb) 
• Spots: granos (noun) 
• Chin: barbilla (noun) 
• Ran away: se escapó (verb)
• Speedometer: velocímetro (noun)
• Saddle: sillín (noun) 
• Both: ambos, los dos. (adverb)
• Kind: clase, especie, tipo (noun) 
• Treacle: (de) melaza (adjetive) 
• Netball: juego similar al baloncesto (noun) 
• Chest: pecho (noun) 
• Kick: patear (verb)