NEW FAMILY, NEW ADVENTURES

Matryoshka dolls

Today, The Grandma has met The Poppins, her new family. It has been a beautiful an intensive day for this new family. 

After listening to all the explanations of MJ very carefully, the family has started to introduce itself and every member has adopted her new role: nationality and job.

It seemed that it was a normal day until the family has received her first, but not the last, incredible information: M.Carmen Poppins is kidnapped in a prison in Siberia.

Tomorrow, the family will work together to rescue her because they have another objective: travel to Brazil to help Isa Addams-Poppins in her Olympic Games training and to Scotland to visit Núria’s hometown.

Without a lot of time to do nothing, they’ve talked about the order of MPT in a sentence and about how to start to write a composition paying attention to the most important information: Who? When? Where? and What?

So you set out to travel to Rome and end up in Istanbul.

You set off for Japan and you end up on a train across Siberia. 
The journey, not the destination, becomes a source of wonder.

Lorena Mc Kennit

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

NÚRIA: SWISS EFFICIENCY

Núria Addams in Basel, Switzerland

Núria is The Addams Family’s jeweller. She’s quiet, shy and very hard worker as her fellow citizens. She was born in Basel, Switzerland the country home of other famous people as the actors Vincent Pérez and Ursula Andress; the tennis players Roger Federer and Martina Hingis; the mathematician and geometer Leonhard Euler, the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau or Hans Kamper, FC Barcelona, FC Zurich and FC Basel pioneer, player and club president.

Switzerland is well-known as a business country, centre of the most important world banks and owner of the gold reserves. Perhaps, for this reason, nowadays Núria is a jeweller. Her passion about jewellery, clocks and diamonds is enormous in the same way that she adores country life.

Living in Switzerland is synonymous of green grass lands, snow, cows and folkloric horns and languages: French, German, Italian and Romansh are the four official languages in a country plenty of nature and ancient history.

Watch Ne partez pas sans moi by Céline Dion

Ne partez pas sans moi laissez-moi vous suivre
Vous qui volez vers d'autres vies laissez-moi vivre
La plus belle aventure les plus beaux voyages
Qui menent un jour sur des soleils sur des planetes d'amour

Don't leave without me, let me follow you
You who fly to other lives, let me live
The most beautiful adventure, the most beautiful trips
That lead someday to suns, to planets of love

Céline Dion represented Switzerland in Eurovision (1988)

THE ADDAMS FAMILY GOES TO SCHOOL

Hand Addams

Last Friday, The Grandma received her new family: The Addams. Sixteen new members will enlarge the family. They’re from different European countries and they started with a lot of energy. After the bureaucratic explanations of MJ, they knew the real reasons of The Grandma for adopting them and they realized that there are 200 hours for learning a lot of English.

The Addams members are Alberto, Andrea, Daniel, Felipe, Isabel, Jorge, Lourdes (aka Lurdes), Lulú, Marta, Merche, Mónica, Naiara, Núria, Rocío, Rosana, Verónica and The Thing.

We were talking about adjectives and their position and preparing some passwords describing words with only three adjectives. The first objective of The Addams Family is preparing a travel to New York. Jorge gave the clue.

More information: Order of adjectives

Dr. Pinderschloss: The human spirit, it is a very difficult thing to kill.

Grandmama: Even with a chain saw!

The Addams Family (1991)