During two
days, The Collins Family has been
reviewing some grammar about KET, PET and FCE levels. The family has moving to Downton Abbey and they have been decorating its new home and they’ve
replied some letters of the service’s ex members. They're working like Little Hercules.
They have
been working during two months for arriving to the exam tests in the best
conditions. They know that they must work very hard, as they’ve done it until
now and The Grandma is finishing her
last manuals for helping them.
Before
staying in Downton Abbey, they have gone to French Guiana to get on a shuttle. This
has been the last Grandma’s present: sailing into the space.
And if you feel the weight of the world
Put your mind at ease
Little Hercules
'Cause there's so much on your shoulders
But you know it's a breeze
Yesterday, it was a difficult day for The
Collins Family. Something strange happened in Downton Abbey, in the library with a candelabrum
while the family was enjoying the party.
The Police's report is still
opened and they think that there’s a relation between the strange case and the
popular family. Although all of them could demonstrate their innocence with
solid alibis, this hasn’t convinced the Police who continue the investigation. For other hand, all members of the family
continued their English lessons. Once they finished the official summary, they’re
dedicating these days to review all knowledge in a higher level.
Montse Paris talked us about synaesthesia and later, the best news arrived from M. Carmen who has passed
her B1 exam in the EOI. All the family is plenty of joyful because of this.
Today, the family has continued its
consolidation classes reviewing Past Perfect, Comparative, Superlative and
Social English and talking about Antoni Gaudí’s works.
Tomorrow, the family is moving to DowntonAbbey to
choose its furniture and in the evening they’re going to get a plane to travel
to French Guiana where they will board in a shuttle space direction. It seems
that Eva is very sad after Alf leaving and they want to meet him again. Finally, we’ve talked about Mozilla Firefox and
its components: AdBlock and Video Download Helper.
I am the painter of The Collins Family and so I will
explain Synaesthesia from the perspective of painting.
Usually, the meaning of Synaesthesia is a mixture of
feelings. When someone perceives feeling through colours.
How someone with Synaesthesia may perceive words and colours? Have words got colour?
Normally, new-borns experience
the sensations coming from different senses mixed together, as happens to adults
who experience the phenomenon of synesthetic perception. Synaesthesia may
involve any of the senses. One of the most common in Synesthetic associations
is the coloured letters of numbers, but there are Synesthetic people, who hear
sounds in response to odors, and odors are perceived in response to touch or a Beethoven’s
violin concert is known by him as chocolate.
Synesthetic people ask some questions:
What colour is the number 2? What colour is the sound
of a dog? What colour is this musical note?
Nowadays, there are many people see each letter of a
particular colour even if they are written in black, or perceive each number,
or days of the week or months of the year, arranged in front of them at a particular
point in space.
The colours have different meanings, for example:
Black: mystery and formally.
Grey: stability and authority.
Purple: spirituality and magic.
Yellow: energy and intellect.
White: light and clean.
Pink: beauty and love.
Red: Danger and passion.
Blue: peace and tranquillity.
Green: growth and freshness.
In the century XVIII, there was a painter called
Vasilly Kadinsky. He was the best painter of abstract art. He was
impressionistic and he saw colours listening songs. Then, he painted symphonies
while he was listening to Wagner and he represented it in his work.
And finally, all family will do an exercise that we
will help us to understand the meaning of Synaesthesia:
Who is Kiki? Who is Booba?
This exercise helps us to understand the moving of our
lips to pronounce the two names.
Kiki is the left figure and Booba is the right figure.
Last Friday, we finished our pre-intermediate book and
we started with our intermediate one. We reviewed Present Perfect vs. Past Simple and Present Simple vs. Present
Continuous and we read about restaurants. We ordered some reports and we talked
about adjectives that define us. Finally, we created stories with The Smurfs
Cards.
The Collins Family went to a party in the afternoon.
They invited lots of people to participate in it and Downton Abbey filled with
people arrived from all places, including non-terrestrial ones. It was a great
party, plenty of music, happiness, food and drink. The Family has rested during
all the weekend but they know, they must continue tomorrow because the show never ends, the show must go on.
For two
days, we’ve reviewed the present perfect with its important words: already,
just, yet, since and for. We’ve talked about determined and undetermined time
and we’ve worked more aspects about social English.
Moreover, we’ve continued
creating compositions and we’ve talked about Jack the Ripper, Vlad the Impaler
and Enriqueta Martí.
Tomorrow, The
Collins Family is going to enjoy a fantastic party in Downton Abbey for
celebrating its arrival. Today, the guests' list has continued increasing and
we can be sure that it will be an unforgettable party.
I find inspiration in the movies I've loved, especially all films ever made about Dracula.
I believe our countrymen will show themselves capable of standing up to
it, like the brave men of Barcelona, and will be able to stand up to it,
and carry on in spite of it, at least as well as any other people in the world.
He nothing common did or mean, upon that memorable scene.
Winston Churchill - June 18th 1940
The Collins Family was exhausted after an intensive weekend enjoying the
Venetian Carnival, sailing in gondola, singing Venetian songs and drinking and
eating local products with the great company of Eva and Corto. It was
fantastic. We took lots of photos which, one day, perhaps we can publish.
Yesterday, three
of our members, Laura, Miriam and M. Carmen worked very hard for passing some tests while the rest of
the family was writing about sharks, preparing an informal invitation and reviewing English grammar: connectors,
countable & uncountable, question tags…
Today, we’ve
reviewed the Perfect Tenses (Present & Past); we’ve written a formal letter
addressing to Nestlé Company and we’ve talked about the relation between
Winston Churchill, Barcelona’s citizens and London Tube. In fact, it could seem
a sad story but it’s a great demonstration of courage, strength, survival,
resistance and resilience of our ancestors and how the common work can help to
save lives.
Finally, we’ve
prepared a journey for visiting the most important places in London City by
underground and we’ve talked about bitly.com an interesting tool for Twitter
and we’ve seen other material.
Last Friday,
we decided to go to Venice to spend
the weekend and joy the Venetian Carnival.
Before this, we talked about social movements and its affection in cities like
Barcelona and we created tales inspired in Antoine
de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince.
Eva explained us the future accommodation of our pets in Downton Abbey and all The Collins Family was exciting with
the proposal.
During this
weekend, The Collins Family is
enjoying Venetian culture and tomorrow this evening they’re flying to London
where they will stay some days in a hotel meanwhile the workers refurbish
Downton Abbey and finish the last works.
Who would have thought from the top of the Coliseum, that the Roman Empire was not eternal.
The family
could reach one of the most important dreams for Karen: sing in the Eurovision
Song Contest. This year, Vienna
was the city which organizes it and The
Collins Family moved from Salzburg to the capital of Austria.
The Song
Contest was amazing and after a hard fight between the local artist, Conchita,
and Karen, who represented Ukraine, our heroine won playing a
beautiful song called “Hou, hou”, a
song which talked about peace and love, obviously.
The Collins
Family continued its English preparation and during this intensive week, they
revised grammar: Must/Mustn’t, Can/Can’t, Could/Couldn’t, Should/Shouldn’t, the Conditional Tense or the Second
Conditional and advanced in its reading about Robinson Crusoe’s novel.
It has been
a week plenty of emotions and good news. We started the week knowing that Eva
had found Corto, her grandfather. It seems that he had been living in Barcelona
during all this time, in an old building in Passeig Sant Joan, in the centre of
the city.
Eva has decided
to spend some time with him and although she hasn’t left the family, she will join them in punctual moments.
Moreover,
the week has had other good news for Eva. After training very hard, she
participated in the GymnasticsWorld Championshipswhere she won a gold medal, the first for a Maltese athlete.
Congratulations
Eva! You deserve it!
The rest of the family has continued its English lessons. This week, they're reviewing the Second Conditional.
Salzburg isa citysurrounded by theAlps landscape,thefourthmost populous in Austria. Near the Germanborder, is
the native townofMozart and Patrimony of Humanity (World
Heritage Site). There theyshot
the film “The Sound of Music”, and other more.
What
to see?
FORT HOHENSALZBURG: The best preserved fortressin Europe.
-Fortress Hohensalzburg is a real eye-catcher peaking out
high above the baroque towers of the city. The castle in Salzburg is an
unmistakable landmark providing the city’s world famous silhouette. Even from
afar the visitor is able to appreciate the might of this edifice. Up close the
history contained in these powerful walls is almost tangible.
SALZBURG
CATHEDRAL: Moreemblematicreligiousbuilding in the city, one of the
mostimportant
baroquemonuments inthe Alps.
-Salzburg Cathedral is probably the city's most
significant piece of church architecture and its ecclesiastical center. With
its magnificent façade and mighty dome it represents the most impressive early
Baroque edifice north of the Alps.
PALACEHELLBRUNN: The summer residence of thePrinceArchbishopMarkusSittikusis is the oldest stage
in Europe.
-Here you can experience the former pleasures of the
Prince Archbishops of Salzburg: mysterious gorges, water-operated tabletop
games and surprising water fountains in every corner of the Hellbrunn Palace.
The water features have inspired visitors for about 400 years. The name says it
all: the water features in Hellbrunn are an extraordinary pleasure which you
should not miss.
MUSEUMOFSALZBURG:Offers a fullversion of the citythroughoutits history.
-Housed in the Neuen Residenz.The Salzburg Museum is the museum of artistic
and cultural history for the city and region of Salzburg, Austria. It
originated as the Provincialmuseum and was also previously known as the Museum
Carolino-Augusteum.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
BIRTHPLACEOFMOZART: placeof pilgrimage formusic lovers. Themuseum preserves rooms in original
state.
-Now a museum, Mozart's birthplace introduces visitors to
the early life of the composer, his first musical instruments, his friends and
his passionate interest in opera. The third floor exhibits Mozart's childhood
violin as well as portraits, documents and early editions of his music, and the
second floor is devoted to Mozart's interest in opera and includes the clavichord
on which he composed The Magic Flute. The structure is owned by the Mozart
Foundation.
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has beenconsidered the mostprominent
composerofthe historyof Western music and his influence wasprofound, both inthe Germanic
world asin the Latin.
Its extensiveproduction includesalmostall kind (lied,
Germandances, concertsinstruments,
symphonies and operas). And any ofthem we can findmasterpieces, weremindthe passionateopinions ofGoethe referringto the composer
“How elsecouldnot manifestthe divinity,
but forthe evidenceof the miraclesthat occurin some men, which simplyamazeandbaffle?”
Yesterday, we continued the Robinson’s
story and we talked about Navajo Nation,
its language, and its importance in the Second World War. We reviewed Must (modal verb) and we recycled being
as eco-friendly as we could.
We gave our best wishes to MariCarmen, who had an important exam
and we stayed the last hours in Paris.
Today, TheCollins Family is
packing their suitcases again. They’re going to Salzburg to spend some days and
visit some places guided by M. Ángeles.
Navajo
Indians live in the Four Corners area of northern Arizona, north-western New
Mexico, and south-eastern Utah. As members of the largest Indian nation in both
population and land area (160,000 people by Bureau of Indian Affairs estimates,
and 25,000 square miles of reservation land, roughly the size of West
Virginia), many Navajos still speak only their native language, and most
others, although they may be bilingual and bicultural, still cherish their
songs, dances, and rituals. Woven into the fabric of everyday life, Navajo
songs not only reinforce ancient beliefs but also serve as entertainment.
Today, we’ve reviewed the First
Conditional and May (modal verb). We’ve written a composition about our
experience in Euro Disney. We’ve talked about the Song of the Sybil (El Cant de la Sibil·la), an important liturgical
drama sung every 24 December in some Mediterranean cities and recognized as Masterpiece
of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.
The sun will lose its lightness showing itself dark and veiled, the moon will give no light and the whole world will be sorrow.
After the breakfast, we’ve
talked about Voodoo and its influence in places like Haiti and we’ve practised
a little of it. We've predicted the weather with Vanesa and we’ve reflected about The European Union and its
future.
We don't know anything about our future, but if we had to ask for a wish, we would like to be forever young.
May your hands always be busy May your feet always be swift May you have a strong foundation
When the winds of changes shift May your heart always be joyful
And may your song always be sung May you stay forever young
Forever young, forever young May you stay forever young.
Yesterday,
we reviewed the First Conditional and continued the Robinson’s story. We
talked about El salt de la bella dona (The jumping of the beautiful woman) an interesting and mysterious legend from Majorca
Island.
We recited Tom Jones’Delilah and we discussed about the meaning of its lyrics.
Antoni
Gaudí and his jobs in Ciutat de Palma's Cathedral, Santa Coloma de
Cervelló and non-recognized ones in Sant Boi de Llobregat were other
interesting themes.
The
family visited Euro Disney. We hadn't got new news and then we suppose all the members are
fine and nothing happened in the park. We’re sure all the whole family enjoyed every moment with their favourite characters.
We received some MJ
presents: two fantastic books which were given by Mercè. Thanks a lot,
girls!
Finally, we spoke about the
importance of the 2.0 Tools in job’s searching nowadays.
During two
days, The Collins Family has been
reviewing some grammar about KET, PET and FCE levels. The family has moving to Downton Abbey and they have been decorating its new home and they’ve
replied some letters of the service’s ex members. They're working like Little Hercules.
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