Today, The Beans have talked about the Imperative and how to convert Infinitives to Nouns. They have also studied which is the correct order of the adjectives in English.
The Grandma continues with her huge cold and although she's trying to keep her voice alive, sometimes it has been difficult to explain some new things. These kind of things are very usual where you are 92 but she has explained an interesting story about the game of the goose.
Jordi Bean chose to travel to the USA and all the family will go with him. This is the reason because they have been working with the vocabulary of travels.
Moreover, the family has been writing their letters to Santa Claus. Xmas is coming to town and they are ready to welcome him with all the honours.
The Grandma has a new family. Today, she has met The Beans a funny group of people who have lots of things in common although they don't know it.
It has been an intensive day because MJ has arrived with tones of burocratic documents to sign and after, The Grandma has tried to introduce herself to the new members of her family but she wasn't in her best moment today because an enormous cold is affecting her seriously.
First day of a meeting is a good chance to discover how the new members are, what kind of things you can wait for them and what's more or less their level of English. It has been a good experience and The Grandma trusts on them to start a beautiful and unforgettable travel around the world where the first stop is the USA.
Today, they have been talking about the importance of our ancestors and our historic past to understand our present and our societies and how many things you can explain with your name, your surnames or the toponimic names.
They have also talked about the order of the adds in a sentence and about which kind of information you need to create a profile. Every member of the family has known her/his new role in it, her/his job and her/his nationality.
Finally, they have been playing a little with some passwords and some games about Who is s/he?
Tomorrow, the family is going to study the order of the adjectives and the imperatives because they must start to prepare two important goals: the new travel to the USA and Santa Claus's letter. Xmas is coming...
The Grandma has returned. After some months of living alone after saying goodbye to The Bonds and since September, 20 when she suffered an incredible attack and left to publish on her blog.
She is on fire again and she's ready to start a new journey with a new family.
She's going to leave Andorra la Vella today, her hometown where she has been skiing and visiting her old neighbours and friends.
Tomorrow, December 18, The Grandma is going to join with a new family: The Beans. She doesn't know a lot of things about them, in the same way that they don't know anything about her but MJ and M have been preparing the possibility of starting a new journey together, a journey plenty of adventures, good feelings and unforgettable moments.
She's very happy to start a new life with a new family because she has great memories about her past ones: The Collins, The Addams, The Holmes, The Poppins and The Bonds. She hopes her new family accepts her as a new member and they can travel around the world, discover new cultures and learning a lot of English.
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The Grandma is still very busy trying to help in the recent Catalan events. This is the reason because she isn't updating her blog at time.
In December 2017, The Grandma is going to return with new families and new adventures and we will continue enjoying with Claire Fontaine, Tina Picotes and Joseph de Ca'th Lon stories.
The Grandma is working in a new Instagram account and she has left her Twitter account for personal ideas. New Twitter with 280 characters isn't as good tool as was before to our business.
See you soon!
Against the wind I'm still runnin' against the wind I'm older now but still runnin' against the wind Well I'm older now and still runnin' Against the wind
Jeremy John Irons, born 19 September 1948, is an English actor born in Cowes on the Isle of Wight.
After receiving classical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Irons began his acting career on stage in 1969 and has since appeared in many West End theatre productions, including The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, Godspell, Richard II, and Embers.
In 1984, he made his Broadway debut in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing and received a Tony Award for Best Actor.
Irons' first major film role came in the 1981 romantic drama The French Lieutenant's Woman, for which he received a BAFTA nomination for Best Actor. After starring in dramas such as Moonlighting (1982), Betrayal (1983), and The Mission (1986), he gained critical acclaim for portraying twin gynaecologists in David Cronenberg's psychological thriller Dead Ringers (1988).
In 1990, Irons played accused murderer Claus von Bülow in Reversal of Fortune, and took home multiple awards, including an Academy Award for Best Actor.
Jeremy Irons and his Academy Award
Other notable films have included Steven Soderbergh's mystery thriller Kafka (1991), the period drama The House of the Spirits (1993), the romantic drama M. Butterfly (1993), the voice of Scar in Disney's The Lion King (1994), Simon Gruber in the action film Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), the drama Lolita (1997), Musketeer Aramis in The Man in the Iron Mask (1998), the action adventure Dungeons & Dragons (2000), the drama The Merchant of Venice (2004), the drama Being Julia (2004), the epic historical drama Kingdom of Heaven (2005), the fantasy-adventure Eragon (2006), the Western Appaloosa (2008), and the indie drama Margin Call (2011).
In 2016, he appeared in Assassin's Creed and, starting that year, he plays Alfred Pennyworth in the DC Extended Universe, beginning with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and later reprising the role in Justice League (2017) and The Batman (TBA).
Irons has also made several notable appearances on TV. He earned his first Golden Globe Award nomination for his break-out role in the ITV series Brideshead Revisited (1981). In 2005, Irons starred opposite Helen Mirren in the historical miniseries Elizabeth I, for which he received a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Jeremy Irons in The Mission, 1986
From 2011 to 2013 he starred as Pope Alexander VI in the Showtime historical series The Borgias. He is one of the few actors who won the Triple Crown of Acting, winning an Academy Award, an Emmy Award and a Tony Award. In October 2011, he was nominated Goodwill Ambassador of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Irons is a patron of the Chiltern Shakespeare Company which produces Shakespearean plays annually in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Irons was bestowed an Honorary-Life Membership by the University College Dublin Law Society in September 2008, in honour of his contribution to television, film, audio, music, and theatre. Also in 2008, Irons was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Southampton Solent University. On 20 July 2016, Irons was announced as the first Chancellor of Bath Spa University.
I wanted to become an actor because I wanted to become a gypsy.
James Marshall "Jimi"Hendrix (November 27, 1942-September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music.
Born in Seattle, Washington, Hendrix began playing guitar at the age of 15. In 1961, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and trained as a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division; he was granted an honorable discharge the following year.
Soon afterward, he moved to Clarksville, Tennessee, and began playing gigs on the Chitlin' Circuit, earning a place in the Isley Brothers' backing band and later with Little Richard, with whom he continued to work through mid-1965. He then played with Curtis Knight and the Squires before moving to England in late 1966 after being discovered by Linda Keith, who in turn interested bassist Chas Chandler of the Animals in becoming his first manager.
Jimi Hendrix
Within months, Hendrix had earned three UK top ten hits with the Jimi Hendrix Experience: Hey Joe, Purple Haze, and The Wind Cries Mary.
He achieved fame in the U.S. after his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, and in 1968 his third and final studio album, Electric Ladyland, reached number one in the U.S.; it was Hendrix's most commercially successful release and his first and only number one album.
The world's highest-paid performer, he headlined the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 before his accidental death from barbiturate-related asphyxia on September 18, 1970, at the age of 27.
Sir William Gerald Golding (19 September 1911–19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his novel Lord of the Flies, he won a Nobel Prize in Literature, and was also awarded the Booker Prize for fiction in 1980 for his novel Rites of Passage, the first book in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth.
William Golding was born in his grandmother's house, 47 Mount Wise, Newquay, Cornwall. The house was known as Karenza, the Cornish language word for love, and he spent many childhood holidays there. He grew up in Marlborough, Wiltshire, where his father was a science master at Marlborough Grammar School.
In 1930 Golding went to Brasenose College, Oxford, where he read Natural Sciences for two years before transferring to English Literature.
Golding took his B.A. degree with Second Class Honours in the summer of 1934, and later that year a book of his Poems was published by Macmillan & Co, with the help of his Oxford friend, the anthroposophist Adam Bittleston. He was a schoolmaster teaching Philosophy and English in 1939, then just English from 1945 to 1961 at Bishop Wordsworth's School, Salisbury, Wiltshire.
William Golding
Lord of the Flies focuses on a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempt to govern themselves.
Published in September 17 1954, Lord of the Flies was Golding's first novel. Although it was not a great success at the time, selling fewer than three thousand copies in the United States during 1955 before going out of print, it soon went on to become a best-seller.
The book takes place in the midst of an unspecified nuclear war. Some of the marooned characters are ordinary students, while others arrive as a musical choir under an established leader. With the exception of the choirboys, Sam, and Eric, they appear never to have encountered each other before. The book portrays their descent into savagery; left to themselves on a paradisiacal island, far from modern civilization, the well-educated children regress to a primitive state.
Golding wrote his book as a counterpoint to R.M. Ballantyne's youth novel The Coral Island (1858), and included specific references to it, such as the rescuing naval officer's description of the children's pursuit of Ralph as a jolly good show, like the Coral Island.
Lord of the Flies Cover
Golding's three central characters -Ralph, Piggy and Jack- have been interpreted as caricatures of Ballantyne's Coral Island protagonists.
At an allegorical level, the central theme is the conflicting human impulses toward civilization and social organization, living by rules, peacefully and in harmony, and toward the will to power.
Themes include the tension between groupthink and individuality, between rational and emotional reactions, and between morality and immorality.
How these play out, and how different people feel the influences of these form a major subtext of Lord of the Flies.
The name Lord of the Flies is a literal translation of Beelzebub.
