A LETTER TO AN OLD FRIEND (I)

Bruce Springsteen

Dear Bruce,

We’re here together again. It has been a long time since you arrived here in 1982 and I saw you by first time. These memories in an old indoor stadium next to the magic mountain which would be Olympic years later are unforgettable. You’ve been always with me. You’ve been my best partner when I was alone in a road, in a new city, in a new adventure. You can’t imagine how I have changed listening to you.

People say that music is universal and I agree but, in your case, you’ve joined the best sound of an incredible band with the most beautiful and strong lyrics. I can’t pay attention to a song if I don’t understand its lyrics and I don’t love a song if these lyrics don’t say anything to me that make me think.

You’re my conscious even in the best moments. You’re this voice that keeps me alive, with my feet on the ground looking around and pressing my teeth strongly when the world becomes more and more difficult to understand it and when staying in it is a question of surviving and fighting every day.

I would like that, tonight; you dedicate some songs to my families. They’re good people who are trying to improve their English knowledge and although you’re not the best for listening (dear, you close your mouth too much when you sing), you’re the best poet and the best ambassador of dignity and hope.

Today, I’ve spent some hours with The Holmes. They had an important appointment and they’ve done a great job, because the most difficult is having courage enough to do things, even when you know that you’re against the wind. It has been an enormous pleasure staying with them again. How many memories!  When I was with them, I remembered The Collins and The Addams two incredible families who shared the same experience.

Nowadays, I continue my travel with The Poppins. They’re another good and hard-worker family with a great sense of humour and they’re incredible artists. Tonight, they’re in Stockholm. They’re going to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest. They have more possibilities but, like with the other families, they must believe in them. They must be strong and persistent and they must trust on their future. We can’t know what is going to happen tomorrow but we can fight the future. We must do it.

Well, in a few hours we’re standing together again. Only one more petition: please, play Bobby Jean and Thunder Road for my families and me.

Kisses…

More information: The Official Bruce Springsteen Webpage

It's a town full of losers, and I'm pulling out of here to win.

Thunder Road, Bruce Springsteen

EUROPOPPINS: LIVING A CELEBRATION

Today, The Poppins have spent a great day preparing the Eurovision Song Contest. After doing some exercises of vocabulary and thinking in the origins of Friday, 13, they have been talking about some famous people like Vlad Tepes, Jack The Ripper and Enriqueta Martí. Next, they have composed some beautiful songs which have been sung by all the members of the family.

It has been very difficult to choose a winner song but after an amazing re-count, Lulú & Jennifer Poppins have won the Poppins’ Contest. By the way, tomorrow, all members of the family are going to stay in Stockholm defending their songs with all the heart.

More information: Sovereign Order of Malta

The Grandma has decided to follow some important artists and has borrowed some lyrics of her family’s songs to create her own one. Here it is:

If you want a better place…

Ooooh! Help me!

We’re enjoying a lot!

If you're a prisoner of your plans…

Ooooh! I'll be on time.

Life is beautiful.

Well, well, are you happy?

We should loveeeeeeeee

Together, the world is better!

The family is flying tonight from Edinburgh to Stockholm while The Grandma is returning to Barcelona because she has a meeting with her other family, The Holmes, who have an important appointment tomorrow morning.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

George Washington

BE VISIBLE: TRUST ON PUBLIC SERVICES

Ofelia

Today, The Poppins have studied some modal verbs like Must and Need and have revised Should. They have done some exercises about Social English and they’ve chosen which model of exam they want to do.

More information: Must & Need

The family, which is still in Scotland, wanted to start to search Nessie but the latest news about Eurovision Song Contest have changed their plans. Isa from Malta, Lulú from Russia, Carmen from Czech Republic and M.José from The Netherlands have arrived to the final, which will be celebrated next Saturday in Stockholm (Sweden).

More information: Eurovision Song Festival 2016

The Grandma has talked about using some kind of tools to search an employment and about their utility and reliability. She has put like an example the case of her old friend Ofèlia Puig, who is a great fan of social networks. She has tried to explain that the most important thing in a job searching is the own person and, maybe, the tools aren’t sometimes as useful and honest as we think but nevertheless we must try it.

Finally, Tonyi Poppins in her name and in Irina's has answered lots of questions about her participation and experience in Eurovision Song Contest.

Tomorrow, they’re preparing Nessie’s searching and they’re starting to work with connectors and prepositions.

Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table.

It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.

Louise Hart

CHELLO CA NUN SE FA NUN SE SAPE

Keep Calm

Today, The Poppins have worked Social English, have revised Future Continuous and they’ve been talking about the differences between Present Continuous, Future Simple and Future Continuous.

More information: Future Continuous

After doing some exercises, M. José Poppins has explained some experiences in Naples and it has been a great linchpin to talk about uncertain future and how to live without fear next to one of the most powerful and dangerous volcanoes of the world: Mount Vesuvius.

More information: Comune di Napoli

Next, Lulú Poppins has explained another story about duplicity and what to do in this case. The world is changing every day and with the new technologies, we suffer new crimes like phishing, duplicity and change of identity. We must pay a lot of attention to our private life and it isn’t easy in a society plenty of social networks and open information.

The family, which is now in Scotland, has thought about these themes and about how your life can be determined by the actions of other people. The Grandma has talked about a very important person in her life, a person who dedicates her life to the Nicaraguan poorest people.

Finally, they’ve been creating a story trying to use connectors. They have a plan for this week: after visiting Scotland, they’re going to go to Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest. They’ve only four days to prepare a successful hit but it’s enough time to reach it.

 Faciteme sta'quiet! / Live and let live