Thursday, 25 February 2016

BUILDING CITIES: PAST IS FUTURE

James Bond
Tonight, The Holmes are in the theatre watching The Phantom of The Opera. They’re excited and they’re enjoying the show.

This morning, the family has received the visit of a mysterious man called Bond, James Bond, who has offered his service to them. The family has been grateful with him but they needn’t anyone because M. Carmen is a great professional and it’s enough.

They continue working with their English classes and they’ve revised The Passive and some connectors. They’ve worked with long and difficult texts to practise in better conditions thinking in their future PET exam.

More information: PET Listening

More information: PET Reading

More information: PET Writing

More information: PET Speaking 

Finally, they’ve studied Third Conditional and they’ve talked about Ildefons Cerdà, a very important engineer who created “L’Eixample” in Barcelona a very beautiful design plenty of octagonal groups of houses which remind the ancient Roman cities with Cardum and Decumanum.

More information: Third Conditional Exercises 

More information: Because/Because of Exercises


Great effects do not always arise from great causes. Small causes especially when they provide mutual support and assistance, often manage to produce effects of the greatest significance, as much within the physical as in the moral order. The challenge, in such cases, lies in finding and identifying there small causes and knowing how to give them the importance they deserve. This cannot be impoverished but is always the product of time, observation, and study.

Ildefons Cerdà, The Five Bases of the General Theory of Urbanization

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