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Today, The Jones have had an intensive day in Hogwarts.
The family is advancing in their English classes learning more grammar every day, writing better compositions and questioning more and more things, the real way to understand things.
The family is advancing in their English classes learning more grammar every day, writing better compositions and questioning more and more things, the real way to understand things.
First, the family has done some exercises of Social English to practise expressions, dialogues and structures.
Second, The Jones have revised some grammar with the Adverbs of Manner.
More information: Adverbs of Manner I & II
Next, The Grandma has explained a short story about the word Hazard and its Arabian origin connected with the flower of the orange tree. This story has introduced a long one: A theory about the origins of The Game of the Goose which involved two cultures -the Cathars and the Gypsies- and a common final: the exile.
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| King Jaume I, Merche A.H. Jones and Paqui Jones |
Moreover, the exile has been the linchpin to connect the hidden meaning of The Goose Game with the hidden meaning of Salvador Espriu's Poetry.
In fact, the three stories have something more in common: the spring. Flowered trees in spring; routes of exile in spring -never in winter because of the extreme weather conditions-; and them metaphoric meaning of 'spring' in Espriu's poetry as the end of dark ages and arrival of better ones.
More information: Article 'The'
Finally, the family has learnt some clues to work with the article The and has been talking about an incredible mystery: the missing of Susana Jones in Hogwarts. Nobody knows where she is.
Tomorrow, the family is going to find Susana Jones and learn how to create good compositions following the essential rules: cohesion, coherence and adequation. Additionally, they are going to talk about equality comparisions.
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| Look for the difference... |
Inhabited since the Neolithic period, Carcassonne is located in the Aude plain between historic trade routes, linking the Atlantic to the Mediterranean sea and the Massif Central to the Pyrénées.
Its strategic importance was quickly recognized by the Romans, who occupied its hilltop until the demise of the Western Roman Empire. In the fifth century, it was taken over by the Visigoths, who founded the city. Its strategic location led successive rulers to expand its fortifications until the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659.
More information: Aude Tourisme
The city is famous for the Cité de Carcassonne, a medieval fortress restored by the theorist and architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc in 1853 and added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 1997.
Carcassonne became strategically identified when Romans fortified the hilltop around 100 BC and eventually made the colonia of Julia Carsaco, later Carcasum. The main part of the lower courses of the northern ramparts dates from Gallo-Roman times. In 462 the Romans officially ceded Septimania to the Visigothic king Theodoric II who had held Carcassonne since 453. He built more fortifications at Carcassonne, which was a frontier post on the northern marches; traces of them still stand.
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| Old memories of Elena Jones in Carcassonne |
Saracens from Barcelona took Carcassonne in 725, but King Pépin le Bref drove them away in 759-60; though he took most of the south of France, he was unable to penetrate the impregnable fortress of Carcassonne.
A medieval fiefdom, the county of Carcassonne, controlled the city and its environs. It was often united with the County of Razès. The origins of Carcassonne as a county probably lie in local representatives of the Visigoths, but the first count known by name is Bello of the time of Charlemagne. Bello founded a dynasty, the Bellonids, which would rule many honores in Septimania and Catalonia for three centuries.
More information: Camí dels Bons Homes (Catalan Version)
Carcassonne became famous for its role in the Albigensian Crusades, when the city was a stronghold of Occitan Cathars. In August 1209 the crusading army of the Papal Legate, Abbot Arnaud Amalric, forced its citizens to surrender. Viscount Raymond-Roger de Trencavel was imprisoned whilst negotiating his city's surrender and died in mysterious circumstances three months later in his own dungeon.
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| The Grandma in the Cemetery of Sinera |
The people of Carcassonne were allowed to leave -in effect, expelled from their city with nothing more than the shirt on their backs. Simon De Montfort was appointed the new viscount.
In 1240, Trencavel's son tried to reconquer his old domain, but in vain. The city submitted to the rule of the kingdom of France in 1247. Carcassonne became a border fortress between France and the Catalan-Aragonese Crown under the Treaty of Corbeil (1258). King Louis IX founded the new part of the town across the river. He and his successor Philip III built the outer ramparts.
More information: Visat
The city is also famous for being the set of Robin Hood, The Prince of the Thieves, a film performanced by Kevin Costner, Mary-Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Alan Rickman and Sean Connery.
When you stop where my name calls you,
you want to sleep dreaming calm seas,
the clarity of Sinera.
Salvador Espriu
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