After an intense weekend visiting MountSaint Michel in Normandy, today, TheMorgans and The Grandma havereturned to London and they have met Adele, one of the best singers of all time. They have been very excited and happy.
Before this wonderful visit, the family has studied some English grammar with ToBe (Past) and Could/Couldn't, and they have talked about the importance of school and teaching to create critical citizens.
I remember when I was a teenager. After leaving my hometown, Andorra La Vella, my familyand I lived in a little town in the Garraf coast near Barcelona.
It was a fishermen village with large beaches of white sand and a quiet sea.
We were very young and ourstory wasvery short, but I still remember him, I still remember when we were young. Now, he is like a shadow that accompanies meeverywhere. I will never forget him. He will be always on my mind and my memories.
The Grandma
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (born 5 May 1988), known mononymously as Adele, is an English singer-songwriter. She is known for her mezzo-soprano vocals and sentimental songwriting.
Adele
has received numerous accolades including 16 Grammy Awards, 12 Brit
Awards (including three for British Album of the Year), an Academy
Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award.
After graduating in arts from the BRIT School in 2006, Adele signed a record deal with XL Recordings. Her debut album, 19, was released in 2008 and included the UK top-five singles Chasing Pavements and Make You Feel My Love.
19
has sold over 2.5 million copies in the UK and was named in the top 20
best-selling debut albums of all time in the UK. She was honoured with
the Grammy Award for Best New Artist.
Adele released her second studio album, 21, in 2011. It became the world's best-selling album of the 21st century, with sales of over 31 million. 21 holds the record for the top-performing album in US chart history, topping the Billboard 200 for 24 weeks, with the singles Rolling in the Deep, Someone like You, and Set Fire to the Rain
heading charts worldwide, becoming her signature songs. The album
received a record-tying six Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year.
In 2012, Adele released Skyfall, a soundtrack single for the James Bond film Skyfall, which won her the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Adele's third studio album, 25,
was released in 2015, breaking first-week sales records in the UK and
US. In the US, it remains the only album to sell over three million
copies in a week. 25 earned her five Grammy Awards, including the Album of the Year. The lead single, Hello, achieved huge success worldwide. Her fourth studio album, 30, released in 2021, contains the chart-topping and Grammy-winning single Easy on Me. 25 and 30 became the best-selling albums worldwide, including the US and the UK, in 2015 and 2021, respectively.
As of 2023, all of her studio albums, except 19, have topped the yearly best-selling albums chart worldwide in the 21st century.
Adele is one of the world's best-selling music artists,
with sales of over 120 million records worldwide. The best-selling
female artist of the 21st century in the UK, she was named the
best-selling artist of the 2010s decade in the US and worldwide.
Her studio albums 21 and 25
were the top two best-selling albums of the 2010s in the UK and both
are listed among the best-selling albums in UK chart history, while in
the US both are certified Diamond, the most of any artist who debuted in
the 21st century.
I remember when I was a teenager. After leaving my hometown, Andorra La Vella,my familyand I lived in a little town in the Garraf coast near Barcelona.
It was a fishermen village with large beaches of white sand and a quiet sea.
We were very young and ourstory wasvery short, but I still remember him, I still remember when we were young. Now, he is like a shadow that accompanies meeverywhere. I will never forget him. He will be always on my mind and my memories.
The Grandma
Today, The Winsors and The Grandma have met Adele, one of the best singers of all time. They were very excited and happy.
Before this wonderful visit, the family has studied some English grammar with ToBe (Past) and Could/Couldn't, and they have talked about the myth of eternal youth with Bram Stoker's character, Dracula, and Oscar Wilde's The Pictureof Dorian Gray.
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (born 5 May 1988), known mononymously as Adele, is an English singer-songwriter. She is known for her mezzo-soprano vocals and sentimental songwriting.
Adele
has received numerous accolades including 16 Grammy Awards, 12 Brit
Awards (including three for British Album of the Year), an Academy
Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award.
After graduating in arts from the BRIT School in 2006, Adele signed a record deal with XL Recordings. Her debut album, 19, was released in 2008 and included the UK top-five singles Chasing Pavements and Make You Feel My Love.
19
has sold over 2.5 million copies in the UK and was named in the top 20
best-selling debut albums of all time in the UK. She was honoured with
the Grammy Award for Best New Artist.
Adele released her second studio album, 21, in 2011. It became the world's best-selling album of the 21st century, with sales of over 31 million. 21 holds the record for the top-performing album in US chart history, topping the Billboard 200 for 24 weeks, with the singles Rolling in the Deep, Someone like You, and Set Fire to the Rain
heading charts worldwide, becoming her signature songs. The album
received a record-tying six Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year.
In 2012, Adele released Skyfall, a soundtrack single for the James Bond film Skyfall, which won her the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Adele's third studio album, 25,
was released in 2015, breaking first-week sales records in the UK and
US. In the US, it remains the only album to sell over three million
copies in a week. 25 earned her five Grammy Awards, including the Album of the Year. The lead single, Hello, achieved huge success worldwide. Her fourth studio album, 30, released in 2021, contains the chart-topping and Grammy-winning single Easy on Me. 25 and 30 became the best-selling albums worldwide, including the US and the UK, in 2015 and 2021, respectively.
As of 2023, all of her studio albums, except 19, have topped the yearly best-selling albums chart worldwide in the 21st century.
Adele is one of the world's best-selling music artists,
with sales of over 120 million records worldwide. The best-selling
female artist of the 21st century in the UK, she was named the
best-selling artist of the 2010s decade in the US and worldwide.
Her studio albums 21 and 25
were the top two best-selling albums of the 2010s in the UK and both
are listed among the best-selling albums in UK chart history, while in
the US both are certified Diamond, the most of any artist who debuted in
the 21st century.
Today it has been a cold and rainy dayin New York City. The Grangers andTheGrandma have decided to stay attheir hotel playing Clue, one of the mostpopular murder mystery games. Also, theyhavebeenpreparingtheirCambridge Exam and studying To Be Past.
Cluedo, known as Clue in North America, is a murder mystery game for three to six players that was devised in 1943 by Anthony E. Pratt from Birmingham, England. Thegame was first manufactured by Waddingtons in the UK in 1949.
Since then, it has been relaunched and updated several times, and it is
currently owned and published by the American game and toy company Hasbro.
The object of the game is to determine who murdered the game's victim, where the crime took place, and which weapon was used.
Each
player assumes the role of one of the six suspects and attempts to
deduce the correct answer by strategically moving around a game board
representing the rooms of a mansion and collecting clues about the
circumstances of the murder from the other players.
Numerous games, books, a film, television series, and a musical have been released as part of the Cluedo
franchise. Several spinoffs have been released featuring various extra
characters, weapons and rooms, or different game play. The original game
is marketed as the Classic Detective Game, and the various spinoffs are all distinguished by different slogans.
In 2008, Cluedo: Discover the Secrets
was created (with changes to board, gameplay and characters) as a
modern spinoff, but it was criticised in the media and by fans of the
original game. Cluedo: The Classic Mystery Game was then introduced in 2012, returning to Pratt's classic formula but also adding several variations.
In 1944, Anthony E. Pratt, an English musician, applied for a patent of his invention of a murder/mystery-themed game, originally named Murder!.
Shortly thereafter, Pratt and his wife, Elva Pratt (1913–1990), who had
helped in designing the game, presented it to Waddingtons' executive,
Norman Watson, who immediately purchased it and provided its trademark
name of Cluedo, a play on clue and ludo; ludo is Latin for I play, and a common British term for the game Parcheesi.
Although
the patent was granted in 1947, due to postwar shortages in the UK the
game was not officially launched by Waddingtons until 1949. It was
simultaneously licensed to Parker Brothers in the US for publication, where it was renamed Clue along with other minor changes.
There
were several differences between the original game concept and the one
initially published in 1949. In particular, Pratt's original design
calls for ten characters, one of whom was to be designated the victim by
random drawing prior to the start of the game. These ten included the
eliminated Mr. Brown, Mr. Gold, Miss Grey, and Mrs. Silver. The
characters of Nurse White and Colonel Yellow were renamed Mrs. White and
Colonel Mustard for the actual release. Thegame allowed for play of up
to eight remaining characters, providing for ninesuspects in total.
Originally there were eleven rooms, including the eliminated gun room
and cellar. In addition there were nine weapons including the unused
bomb, syringe, shillelagh (walking stick/cudgel), fireplace poker, and
the later used axe and poison. Some of these unused weapons and
characters appeared later in spin-off versions of the game.
Some
gameplay aspects were different as well. Notably, the remaining playing
cards were distributed into the rooms to be retrieved, rather than
dealt directly to the players.
Players
also had to land on another player in order to make suggestions about
that player's character through the use of special counter-tokens, and
once exhausted, a player could no longer make suggestions. There were
other minor differences, all of which were later updated by the game's
initial release and remain essentially unchanged in the standard Classic Detective Game editions of the game.
The methodology used in the early versions of Cluedo is remarkably similar to a traditional, if little known, American card game, The King of Hearts Has Five Sons. However, Pratt himself said his inspiration was a murder mystery parlour game he used to play with friends where youngsters would
congregate in each other's homes for parties at weekends. We'd play a
stupid game called Murder, where guests crept up on each other in
corridors and the victim would shriek and fall on the floor.
The Country house mystery was a popular subgenre of cosy
English detective fiction in the 1920s and 1930s; set in a residence of
the gentry isolated by a snowstorm or similar and the suspects at a
weekend house party.
The game consists of a board which shows the rooms, corridors and secret-passages of an English country house called Tudor Mansion (named Tudor Close, Tudor Hall, Arlington Grange, Boddy Manor or Boddy Mansion in some editions) in Hampshire, England in 1926.
The
game box also includes several coloured playing pieces to represent
characters, miniature murder weapon props, two six-sided dice, three
sets of cards (describing the aforementioned rooms, characters or
weapons), Solution Cards envelope to contain one card from each set of
cards, and a Detective's Notes pad on which are printed lists of rooms,
weapons and characters, so players can keep detailed notes during the
game.
At the beginning of play, three cards -one suspect, one room, and oneweapon-
are chosen at random and put into a special envelope, so that no one
can see them. These cards represent the solution. The remainder of the
cards are distributed among the players.
Players are instructed to assume the token/suspect nearest them. In older versions, play begins with Miss Scarlett and proceeds clockwise. In modern versions, all players roll the die/dice and the highest total starts the game, with play again proceeding clockwise. Players roll the die/dice and move along the board's corridor spaces, or into the rooms accordingly.
The objective of the game is to
deduce the details of the murder, i.e. the cards in the envelope. There
are six characters, six murder weapons and nine rooms, leaving the
players with 324 possibilities. As soon as a player enters a room, they
may make a suggestion as to the details, naming a suspect, the room they
are in, and weapon. For example: I suspect Professor Plum, in the
DiningRoom, with the candlestick.
The player's accusations must
include the room they are currently in and may not be made in the
corridors. The tokens for the suggested suspect and weapon are
immediately moved into that room, if they are not both already present.
Suggesting an opponent's token is a legitimate board strategy; likewise
the weapon icons, though esoteric. A player may even accuse himself or
herself as the murderer and may include cards in their own hand.
Once
a player makes a suggestion, the others are called upon to disprove it.
If the player to their left holds any of the three named cards, that
player must privately show one (and only one) of the cards to them.
Otherwise, the process continues clockwise around the table until either
one player disproves the accusation, or no one can do so. A player's
turn normally ends once their suggestion is completed.
A player who believes they have determined the correct elements may make an accusation on their turn.
The suggestion can include any room, not necessarily the one occupied
by the player (if any), and may be made immediately following a
suggestion. The accusing player privately checks the three cards in the
envelope. If they match the accusation, the player shows them to
everyone and wins; if not, they return them to the envelope and may not
move nor make suggestions/accusations for the remainder of the game; in
effect, losing.
However,
other players can move their token into rooms when making suggestions
and they must continue to privately show cards in order to disprove
suggestions. A player who makes a false accusation while blocking the
door to a room must move into that room so others can enter and leave.
If all players except for one player have made an incorrect accusation,
the remaining player automatically wins.
If
a player's suggestion has brought another player's token into a room,
the second player may make their own suggestion in the room when their
turn comes up, if desired. If not, they may move out of the room, and if
able to reach another room, make a suggestion therein, as usual.
In
the American version, players are not allowed to make suggestions
repeatedly by remaining in one room; if they wish to make a second
suggestion, they must first spend a turn out of the room.
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