PANAMA: FORBIDDEN TO FORGET

The Grandma enjoyed a great dinner with some members of her family last Friday. She was happy of seeing them again. The Holmes are fine and this is the most important thing for her. There were some big absences. Luisa, who is in Las Vegas playing poker; Geni, who is in a secret mission in some secret place; Manoli and Lurdes who are filming the next movie of Star Wars; Mila who had an important performance in Paris and M. Carmen, who is totally missing.

Yesterday, The Grandma had to travel to El Porvenir in Panama to pay attention to her business and now she’s in this country, hometown of Rubén Blades, one of her favourite American singers, who sings incredible songs like 20 de diciembre. She doesn’t know when she’s going to return with her family because of the importance of this kind of business but she'll try to enjoy her trip and not forget. Forbidden to forget.

Although the future is not very clear for The Grandma, she continues in her effort of helping her lovely family. Today, she offers them some listening to practice and prepare the next exam.

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Y prohibieron la conciencia, al prohibirnos el pensar.
Pobre del país que ve la justicia hecha añicos
por la voluntad del rico o por orden militar. 
Cada nación depende del corazón de su gente. 
Y a un país que no se vende, ¡nadie lo podrá comprar!

Rubén Blades

HOLMES... WE ARE THE DREAM!

Good Luck, Holmes!

Last Saturday, The Holmes stayed in Belgium. They participated in the Eurovision Song Contest where they won the first prize with the song “Idiot” played by Geni & Núria Holmes.

Before this, on Friday, they had visited Lîdje and Brugge in the Flemish Belgium where they had been reviewing English, in that case, Second Conditional, Past Simple and Prepositions of Time. Moreover, all the family decided to play Bingo and Poker and talked about ancient languages.

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On Sunday, The Grandma had an introspective day and decided to do nothing except thinking and thinking while the rest of the family was visiting museums and important buildings. Manoli Holmes saw how her dream became real visiting Hercule, the famous detective, while Rosa Holmes was having tea with Audrey, an actress who she admires a lot. The rest of the family were visiting some cafés and eating chocolate without stopping, while Carmen and Asun Holmes were remembering old times in the High School with an incredible teacher: Maria Mercè.

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Today, The Holmes have continued their English classes reviewing Second Conditional, Modal Verbs, Present Simple and Relative Pronouns (Whose). It has been a hard day for the most part of the members of this wonderful family but they’ve done a great work, like always.

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Tomorrow, they’re going to study Perfect Tenses and they are going to walk around London to discover this fantastic city hometown of Peter Pan, Mary Poppins and Harry Potter.

We are the dream.

 Muriel Casals i Couturier

IRIS APFEL & EUROVISION: ART & TRADITION

Yesterday, The Holmes reviewed Past Simple & Past Continuous, Articles, Present Continuous and the connectors While & When.

They also created a song for participating in the next Eurovision Contest Song. After some moments of emotion and nerves, the winners were Geni and Núria with the beautiful song “Idiot”. Both of them represented Belgium.

While the most part of The Holmes were creating their songs, Rosa was in Milano with The Grandma and Iris, an old friend of her, taking information about some new fashion business to invest.

For other hand, Geni must leave the family during some days because she must attend some personal business.

The family continues its Italian tour. After visiting Pisa, Siena and Verona they arrived to Venice where they are prepared to spend some beautiful moments enjoying the Carnival.

When you don't dress like everyone else, 

you don't have to think like everyone else.

 Iris Apfel

MIDDLE AGE: CREATING A LEGEND

Today, The Holmes have reviewed Past Simple, Used to and First Conditional. They have been practising with some exercises and paying especial attention to the irregular forms.

Don Quixote & Sancho Panza

The Grandma has continued talking about William Shakespeare and Antoni Gaudí, two old friends who she admires a lot and all of the family has talked about the importance of literature in the Middle Age and its capacity of creating heroes like Orlando Il Furioso, el Cid, Roland, Tirant, Don Quijote or King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.

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After that, they have described Antoni Gaudí’s works with a memo game.

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Tonight, The Holmes have met the Pope in the Vatican City and they have spent good moments with him, especially Rosa who is a religious woman and Geni who is a… a… a… an excellent partner!

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Tomorrow, they’re going to homage Freddie Mercury preparing some songs for the Eurovision Song Contest where they are going to participate very soon.

No legacy is so rich as honesty

– William Shakespeare