Yesterday, we reviewed Future Simple and we talked about predictions playing Tarot and trying to guess
our own future. We also asked for the cards about Gemma’s future. We finished our second reading’s book and we’re
ready to start the third one next Monday: Robinson
Crusoe.
Our Robinson, Gemma, is still surviving in an unknown
island. Today, the rescue’s team has located her and they’ve sent some drones
for exploring the zone. The rescue is imminent. All the family members are excited! They're in Athens waiting good news about Gemma.
Last Thursday, we reviewed Future
Continuous, some connectors and Zero Conditional. We created a new
composition about Occitan Poetry and Gipsy’s tarot and we worked with the W- questions.
MJ visited us and talked about the
next Cambridge Exams (KET and PET) and their date: 16 May. We talked about
online education and some methods of knowledge.
The
Collins Family has continued Gemma’s
searching. She’s missing since the boat, where all the family was sailing, sunk
in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. It seems that Gemma is fine because the family has received some tweets located
in an unknown spot.
Today, we’ve reviewed Future
Continuous, Enough, Countable and Uncountable and we’ve continued our reading
about a robbery in a castle. We’ve created a difficult composition divided in
two parts with two tempos and two parallel stories and we’ve talked about Occitan and Catalan Poetry in the XII
and XIII Centuries and its affection in political and historical facts.
In this
line, we’ve remembered the importance of Gipsy
culture in the Middle Age and its influence over Kingdoms because of Tarot and we’ve looked back on the Cathar’s culture and the importance of
the woman as herbalist and quack doctor opposite to the ideas of the catholic
clergy.
The
Collins Family has suffered a terrible shock when the Love Boat has sunk. Everybody has tried to swim and help other
members of the family and, in an intense emergency plan executed perfectly, all
the family has reached a life boat and sat in the sixteen free seats. David has
had to join to the family’s boat using a thick rope.
While the emergency rescue
teams were helping The Collins Family
inside the helicopter, there was a strong movement, perhaps because of the rough
wind, and Gemma fell down into the
water… again.
We haven’t got a lot of news
about her. We only know that she’s alive in an island and we’re trying to find
her following her GPS signal. Tomorrow, we will wait a happy ending.
Cross your fingers family and
pray… if you’re believers!
Today, we’ve reviewed some
grammar doing an exam. All the members of the family have passed the exam
successfully. We’ve read a little more and we’ve talked about things and its
meanings.
After the breakfast, The Collins Family has helped Karen to
create some beautiful songs for participating in the next Eurovision Song Contest in Austria, M. Ángeles hometown. We’ve performed a little contest with France,
Ukraine, Portugal, Austria, Belgium and Italy as singers. It has been a great
moment plenty of strong, passion and incredible performances. France, represented by Gemma and Montse Paris has won with a full punctuation: 25 of 25 possible.
The Grandma has joined this
morning to the family. They’re together again and enjoying of TheMediterranean Sea near Santorini (Greece).
Today, we’ve reviewed Past Continuous
and Past Simple and we’ve started a new reading book about the adventures of
two friends, Jake and Ros. We’ve talked about communication skills in group
interviews and we’ve studied the order of words in the sentences, especially
with the additions: Manner-Place-Time.
The family is sailing in the
Love Boat where has happened a strange case: a robbery. An old passenger said
that her jewels had disappeared and some members of our family are between the
main suspects: Mari Carmen, Montse Pottery, Eva Cyprus, Adriana, Gemma and
Dámaris. The Grandma is flying by helicopter to the Love Boat for avoiding any
kind of arrest.
Meanwhile, some members of the
family are working very hard: Eva Cyprus is designing new spaces in Downton
Abbey for the family pets and Belén is preparing a great tour inside The Louvre
Museum.
Tomorrow, The Collins Family
will give enough explanations about of all them to seem innocent and continue
the trip. The Family has a lot of work: preparing eight different songs for
participating in Eurovision Song Contest, a Karen’s dream.
Roll of the dice!
Love Boat soon will be making another run The Love Boat promises something for everyone Set a course for adventure Your mind on a new romance
The
Grandma has had some introspective days. While she was spending some days in
the hotel, her family was in Rhodes traveling around the island.She has been
thinking about the possibility of getting married because she felts alone,
although she has adopted a large family. After talking to every member of the
family, finally, she decided to continue without a new husband.
Next
week, The Grandma is going to meet her family in Santorini, where she will be
waiting the Love Boat’s arrival with all her family on board.
Now,
The Grandma is happy. She’s preparing her suitcases for traveling around Europe
during some months. From Santorini, the family is going to travel to Paris for
celebrating Belén’s birthday, and from Paris, they’re going to fly to London
near where The Grandma has bought a new house for all of them: Downton Abbey.
Next
week, the timetable of The Collins Family is plenty of activities: they’re
going to create lullabies and songs; buy some furniture for the new English
house; write a tale and plan how to rebuild Downton Abbey for giving enough
space and facilities to their pets.
From
Wednesday to Friday, The Collins Family has continued its English classes, which
are now more important than never because of its moving to Downton Abbey. They
reviewed the Past Continuous and sentences with when and while. They played
with the Story Cubes and described a neighbourhood. They also walked around
Rhodes guided by Adriana and they talked about the origin of some lullabies in
different cultures: the Hobo in the USA, the satiric ones in England and the
pain songs for a child’s death in Catalonia and in the Gipsy culture.
Eva
Maltese has continued searching some information about Corto but nobody knows
anything about him. Nowadays, she’s following a new clue: a man called Salvador
explained last news about him. In fact, Salvador was the last person who saw
Corto in the Greek Island. We don’t know but, perhaps, in the next hours there
will be an interesting cliff-hanger.In these moments, The Collins Family must be leaving Kos.
Rhodes Island is the
largest Greek one in the Dodecanese.
The legend says that there was a statue of extraordinary dimensions called The Colossus of Rhodes.
It was one of the Seven
Wonders of Ancient World and it was destroyed by an earthquake. Rhodes belonged
to Alexander the Great. You
can find a great diversity of cultures: the Egyptians; the Romans, who
managed to conquer the island and built numerous theatres, statues and temples;
the Byzantine Empire and the Venetians dominated it in different
ages. It has an Arabian influence
until the Germans and Italians arrived and occupied the island. Finally, it was
delivered to Greece.
Rhodes is an
incredible and beautiful place plenty of nice people, where you can smell the
Mediterranean essence visiting its Coliseum,
its Medieval Wall or walking across
the Old City considered a World Heritage Site.
I hope you like it!
Today, we've reviewed the
possessive and the object pronouns. We've listened Adriana talking about her
island and we’ve walked around it. It has been a wonderful trip with the
family. This evening we must get a boat to sail along the Cretan Sea but David
is still ill and we’ve decided to postpose our cruise until he will be fine.
Meanwhile, we will dedicate our free time to look for a new house for living
all together. It will be exciting!
Yesterday, we reviewed the Past
Simple with the regular and irregular verbs, Superlative & Comparative, the article “The” and we reported some
news of the day before. We prepared a marketing planning for our candidate to
be a TV Star and we learnt how to lie playing Piou Piou.
Tomorrow, we’re talking about
some work expressions thanks to Laura
who has offered us some information about this theme.
The family is still in Rhodes. Adriana suffered a terrible headache and we decided to stay one
more day in this precious island. Tomorrow, we’ll sail in The Love Boat, if the weather is good and Adriana is fine.
Yesterday, we reviewed the
superlative, the imperative (affirmative and negative) and the state verbs. We
wrote a postcard from Rhodes, where the family is spending some holiday and we
talked about difficult questions in interviews. We also practised some social
English. Vanesa was our player in the Password and she did it very well.
Today, we’re studying the past
simple tense (regular and irregular) and we’re visiting Rhodes with Adriana guiding
us.
And…last news! Belén has passed
her English exam! Congratulations! All the family is very proud of you.
Connor MacLeodwas born in 1518 in Glenfinnan, in the Scottish Highlander near the
shores of Loch Shiel, a few years after King Henry VII of England gave
his daughter in marriage to James IV of Scotland, leading to the Union of the
Crowns in 1503.
MacLeodfaced an evil Immortal referred to as The Kurgan during a battle against the
Clan Fraser and was dealt what should have been a fatal blow, but he didn’t die
and the townspeople (including his family) believed his recovery was the work
of devil, and threatened to burn him at the stake. He escaped and tried to
begin a new life but he discovered, quickly, he wasn’t a normal man: he was Immortal.
In 1541, he met another Immortal named Juan Sánchez Villa-Lobos Ramírez, who
became his mentor and taught him the ways of Immortals. Connor led many
different lives: Adrian Montagu, Jacques Lefebert, Alfred Nicholson and Rupert
Wallingford, and he, constantly, kept his immortality a secret. During his
lifetime, he fought in many wars and encountered many Immortals.
In 1985, MacLeod
was living in New York in the guise of Russell Nash, when he had to fight against
his ancient enemy, The Kurgan.
Finally, he won the battle and confirmed the legend: There can be only one.
Here we are, born to be kings We're the princes of the universe Here we belong, fighting to survive.
Karen, our singer, was born in Kiev, Ukraine, the country of Leo Tolstoy, Milla Jovovich and Mila Kunis, which was occupied by Russians and desolated by the Chernobyl nuclear
accident in 1986.
This situation was very important for Karen because she
realized, quickly, how important was freedom for expression and though and how
difficult was living under a dictatorship. Perhaps, because of this, she
decided to dedicate her whole life to compose songs. It was her manner of
expressing her feelings, doubts and hopes.
Nowadays, Karen is living in Sant Boi, where she
arrived some years ago looking for sun, beaches and peace. She continues her
music career and she competes against Ani Lorak (Ани Лорак) for being the most
popular Ukrainian voice meanwhile she thinks, constantly, in her country,
devastated again by internal wars.
Everyone thinks of changing the
world, but no one thinks of changing himself
Yesterday, we reviewed plural of nouns and how
to write a formal letter and we created new passwords for playing during the
course. We played Guess the word and
we bought lots of presents to Belén.
We also continued The Secret of Oldstone’s
reading and we talked about what to do next week. We have a great plan: visiting
the Greek Islands by cruise.
TheGrandma had to return to Barcelone to
attend some business (she has invested in a new cooking enterprise in Seattle,
US) but the rest of the family continues in Adriana’s home in Rhodes.
On Monday,
Adriana is going to guide her family by this fantastic island, mixed of cultures:
Latin, Greek and Turkish.
Vanesa, our astronaut, was born in Serenissima Repubblica di San Marino,
the oldest European state and a microstate as Andorra, Monaco or Vatican City. Although San Marino is an unknown country for the most part of European
citizens, it is a great economical centre and a loyal Switzerland’s partner.
Its population doesn’t pass over 33,000 habitants, has a highly stable economy,
with one of the lowest unemployment rates in Europe, no national debt and a
budget surplus.
Vanesa loves her country
but she believes that it’s very small. This idea followed her during her childhood
and one day she decided to become an astronaut. She got it and now she’s one of
the members of the NASA’s regular staff. She loves watching the Earth from the
sky and feeling herself as a small part of the Universe.
Yesterday, we reviewed countable and uncountable; there is and there are
and the undefined some and any. We wrote our own shopping list for
celebrating an enormous banquet and we started to prepare a Password game
for the next week.
The family is still resting in Rhodes. We are here two or
three more days and then we’ll start our cruise around the Greek Islands. EvaMaltese
is searching some clues about Corto with a little help from the family. We
haven’t found anything but we don’t lose our faith. We trust on us. We are a
great family and we can do whatever we propose. Also, we have regularized our surname:
We are The Collins!
With my shopping cart I move
through the heart
Of a sea of fools so blissfully unaware
That they're in the presence of something wonderful and rare
As I lift my groceries in to my
car
I turn back for a moment and catch a smile
That blows this whole fucking place apart
Today, we've reviewed the comparatives
and written about our last day in Nicosia. We've played Simon, domino and password. Finally, we've described things. Eva has returned and all the family is plenty of joy, again. We've
arrived to Rhodes for spending some days in Adriana's house but we've had some little problems because Adriana
has returned to her University classes so quickly that she has forgotten to
give us her key and we have been waiting patiently in the street accompanied by
some Scottish herbs for fighting against cold.
Tomorrow, we're buying some
food and drinks to celebrate Eva's return and Belén's birthday. It will be a
great Greek banquet with music and dance.
Come on and rescue
me
Come on baby and rescue me
Come on baby and rescue me
The Eva's rescue operation was a success. Eva is fine and she has
joined to the family again. It was a difficult operation with some scared
moments but we’ve survived. Finally, all the family participated in the rescue
except Gemma and Montse Paris, who were afraid to fly
and stayed in Sant Boi.
After the rescue, we took some
hours for resting and sleeping and we continued with our English classes. We
reviewed the ordinal numbers, the prepositions of place and the parts of the
city; described people and drove around the city by David and Mari Carmen's
car. We continued our reading about Pete and Nicky.
The next objective of the
Grandma’s Family: be together in Rhodes Island (Greece), in Adriana's home and
try to get some information about Corto's whereabouts.
Με τι καρδιά, με τι πνοή,
τι πόθους και τι πάθος
πήραμε τη ζωή μας. Λάθος!
κι αλλάξαμε ζωή.
With what heart, what spirit,
what desires and passion
we took on our life. Wrong!
and we changed it.
Yesterday, we reviewed Present
Continuous and we talked about Imperatives (Affirmative and Negative form) and
State Verbs.
It has been a hard day because
we have had to prepare a rescue plan for helping Eva who is trapped in Cyprus
without passport, visa and money. It’s a great logistic operation with a lot of
transports and all the family working very hard for doing their works
correctly.
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