Yesterday, The Morgans and The Grandma were evoking the past, remembering good times and great friends, and looking back is always thinking about yesterday.
Today, they all have continued studying English grammar with PastSimple(Regular Verbs), Used to and So/Such.
It has been an intense session for a family that continues working on the birthdaycelebration party of Cristina Morgan and Vanessa Morgan next week in Kingston, Jamaica.
Happy birthday, sisters!
Yesterday is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon-McCartney. It was first released on the album Help! in August 1965,
except in the United States, where it was issued as a single in
September. The song reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100
chart. It subsequently appeared on the UK EP Yesterday in March 1966 and
made its US album debut on Yesterday and Today, in June 1966.
Yesterday is a melancholic ballad about the break-up of a relationship.The singer nostalgically laments for yesterday when he and his love were together before she left because of something he said.
McCartney is the only member of the Beatles to appear on the track. The final recording was so different from other works by the Beatles
that the band members vetoed the song's release as a single in the
United Kingdom. However, other artists quickly recorded versions of it
for single release. The Beatles'recording was issued in the U.K. as a single in 1976 and peaked at number 8 on the UK Singles Chart.
Yesterday All my troubles seemed so far away Now it looks as though they're here to stay Oh, I believe in yesterday
Suddenly I'm not half the man I used to be There's a shadow hanging over me Oh, yesterday came suddenly
Why she had to go? I don't know She wouldn't say I said something wrong, now I long For yesterday
Yesterday Love was such an easy game to play Now I need a place to hide away Oh, I believe in yesterday
Why she had to go? I don't know She wouldn't say I said something wrong, now I long For yesterday
Yesterday Love was such an easy game to play Now I need a place to hide away Oh, I believe in yesterday
Today, The Grandma and The Winsors have arrived to the Highlands in the north of Scotland where they ar visiting Connor MacLeod, the ScottishHighlander who can not die.
During the trip, the family has been studying some English grammar with Used to and containers. Finally, they have been talking about immortality with the figure of Henry Morgan and about sleeplessness with the story of the American troops in Vietnam war.
Connor MacLeodwas born in 1518 in Glenfinnan, in the Scottish Highlander near the
shores of Loch Shiel, a few years after King Henry VII of England gave
his daughter in marriage to James IV of Scotland, leading to the Union of the
Crowns in 1503.
MacLeodfaced an evil Immortal referred to as The Kurgan during a battle against the
Clan Fraser and was dealt what should have been a fatal blow, but he didn’t die
and the townspeople (including his family) believed his recovery was the work
of devil, and threatened to burn him at the stake. He escaped and tried to
begin a new life but he discovered, quickly, he wasn’t a normal man: he was Immortal.
In 1541, he met another Immortal named Juan Sánchez Villa-Lobos Ramírez, who
became his mentor and taught him the ways of Immortals. Connor led many
different lives: Adrian Montagu, Jacques Lefebert, Alfred Nicholson and Rupert
Wallingford, and he, constantly, kept his immortality a secret. During his
lifetime, he fought in many wars and encountered many Immortals.
In 1985, MacLeod
was living in New York in the guise of Russell Nash, when he had to fight against
his ancient enemy, The Kurgan.
Finally, he won the battle and confirmed the legend: There can be only one.
Highlander is a 1986 British fantasy action-adventure film directed by Russell Mulcahy and based on a story by Gregory Widen. It stars Christopher Lambert, Roxanne Hart, Clancy Brown, and SeanConnery.
The film chronicles the climax of an age-old war between immortal warriors, depicted through interwoven past and present-day storylines.
Connor MacLeod (Lambert) is born in the Scottish Highlands in the 16th century.
After reviving from a fatal wound and being banished from his village,
MacLeod is found by swordsman Ramírez (Connery), who explains they and
others were born immortal, invincible unless beheaded.
Immortals
wage a secret war, fighting each other until the last few remaining
will meet at the Gathering to fight for the Prize. In 1985, the Gathering is finally happening in New York City and MacLeod must make sure the Prize is not won by his oldest enemy, the murderous Kurgan (Brown).
Highlander
enjoyed little success on its initial theatrical release, grossing over
$12 million worldwide against a production budget of $19 million, and
received mixed reviews. Nevertheless, it became a cult film and inspired film sequels and television spin-offs.
It is also known for songs recorded by the rock band Queen, with Princes of the Universe also used for the title sequence in the television series. The tagline, There can be only one, has carried on into pop culture.
Director Russell Mulcahy filmed Highlander using music video techniques including fast cutting and pacy music.
In preparation, actor Christopher Lambert
spent months working four hours each morning with a dialect coach and
four hours in the afternoons sword training with Bob Anderson, who had
been a Darth Vader stunt double in the Star Wars franchise.
The scene where the MacLeod clan sets off to battle is supposed to take place in the village of Glenfinnan, on the shore of Loch Shiel
in the Lochaber area, but was actually filmed at Eilean Donan Castle,
which is in the same general area but is really on the shore of Loch
Duich, a sea loch near Kyle of Lochalsh and the Isle of Skye.
The Highlander original orchestral score was composed by Michael Kamen.
The British rock band Marillion turned down the chance to record the
soundtrack because they were on a world tour, a missed opportunity which
guitarist Steve Rothery later said he regretted. The band's Scottish
lead singer, Fish, had also accepted a part in the film but pulled out
because of the scheduling conflict.
David
Bowie, Sting, and Duran Duran were considered to do the soundtrack for
the film. The eventual soundtrack includes several songs by Queen, such as A Kind of Magic and Princes of the Universe (the latter also being used for the Highlander television series title sequence).
Brian May was inspired to write Who Wants to Live Forever after watching the love scenes between Connor and his wife Heather, and the song ultimately accompanied the film.
Times Square is a major commercial intersection, entertainment center, andneighbourhood in Midtown Manhattan, New York.
It is formed by the junction of Broadway, Seventh Avenue and 42nd Street. Together with adjacent Duffy Square, Times Square is a bowtie-shaped space five blocks long between 42nd and 47th Streets.
Brightly lit by numerous billboards and advertisements, it is sometimes referred to as the Crossroads of the World, the Center of the Universe, the heart of the Great White Way, and the heart of the world. One of the world's busiest pedestrian areas, it is also the hub of the Broadway Theater District and a major center of the world's entertainment industry.
Times Square is one of the world's most visited tourist attractions, drawing an estimated 50 million visitors annually. Approximately 330,000 people pass through Times Square daily, many of them tourists, while over 460,000 pedestrians walk through Times Square on its busiest days.
Formerly known as Longacre Square, Times Square was renamed in 1904 after The New York Times moved its headquarters to the then newly erected Times Building, now One Times Square.
It is the site of the annual New Year's Eve ball drop, which began on December 31, 1907, and continues to attract over a million visitors to TimesSquare every year.
Times Square, specifically the intersection of Broadway and 42nd Street, is also the eastern terminus of the Lincoln Highway, the first road across the United States.
Times Square functions as a town square, but is not geometrically a square; it is closer in shape to a bowtie, with two triangles emanating roughly north and south from 45th Street, where Seventh Avenue intersects Broadway. The area is bounded by West 42nd street, West 47th street, 7th Avenue, and Broadway. Broadway runs diagonally, crossing through the horizontal and vertical street grid of Manhattan laid down by the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, and that intersection creates the bowtie shape of Times Square.
Times Square is the official name of the southern triangle, below 45th Street, but the northern triangle is officially Duffy Square. It was dedicated in 1937 to World War I chaplain Father Francis P. Duffy of the 69th New York Infantry Regiment, and is the site of a memorial to him. There is also a statue of composer and entertainer George M. Cohan, and the TKTS discount ticket booth for Broadway and off-Broadway theaters.
When Manhattan Island was first settled by the Dutch, three small streams united near what is now 10th Avenue and 40th Street. These three streams formed the Great Kill, in Dutch Grote Kil. From there the Great Kill wound through the low-lying Reed Valley, known for fish and waterfowl, and emptied into a deep bay in the Hudson River at the present 42nd Street. The name was retained in a tiny hamlet, Great Kill, that became a center for carriage-making, as the upland to the south and east became known as Longacre.
Before and after the American Revolution, the area belonged to John Morin Scott, a general of the New York militia, in which he served under George Washington. Scott's manor house was at what is currently 43rd Street, surrounded by countryside used for farming and breeding horses. In the first half of the 19th century, it became one of the prized possessions of John Jacob Astor, who made a second fortune selling off lots to hotels and other real estate concerns as the city rapidly spread uptown.
By 1872, the area had become the center of New York's horse carriage industry. The locality had not previously been given a name, and city authorities called it Longacre Square after Long Acre in London, where the horse and carriage trade was centered in that city. William Henry Vanderbilt owned and ran the American Horse Exchange there. In 1910, it became the Winter Garden Theatre.
As more profitable commerce and industrialization of Lower Manhattan pushed homes, theaters, and prostitution northward from the Tenderloin District, Longacre Square became nicknamed the Thieves Lair for its rollicking reputation as a low entertainment district. The first theater on the square, the Olympia, was built by cigar manufacturer and impresario Oscar Hammerstein I. According to Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, By the early 1890s this once sparsely settled stretch of Broadway was ablaze with electric light and thronged by crowds of middle- and upper-class theatre, restaurant and cafe patrons.
Times Square is the site of the annual New Year's Eve ball drop. About one million revelers crowd Times Square for the New Year's Eve celebrations, more than twice the usual number of visitors the area usually receives daily. However, for the millennium celebration on December 31, 1999, published reports stated approximately two million people overflowed Times Square, flowing from Sixth Avenue to Eighth Avenue and back on Broadway and Seventh Avenue to 59th Street, making it the largest gathering in Times Square since August 1945 during celebrations marking the end of World War II.
On December 31, 1907, a ball signifying New Year's Day was first dropped at Times Square, and the Square has held the main New Year's celebration in New York City ever since.
It's New York City, you want to be shown in Times Square. You want your picture there. You want those kind of things. To inspire people, that's really what it's about.
Today, The Stones have been relaxing on their private beach. They have studied Used To and they have played some oral games to improve their speaking.
While The Stones were studying, The Grandma was reading about Lydia Liliʻu Loloku Walania Kamakaʻeha,the last Queen of Hawaii.
Liliʻuokalani aka Lydia Liliʻu Loloku Walania Kamakaʻeha (September 2, 1838-November 11, 1917) was the only queen regnant and the last sovereign monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom, ruling from January 29, 1891, until the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom on January 17, 1893. The composer of Aloha ʻOe and numerous other works, she wrote her autobiography Hawaiʻi's Story by Hawaiʻi's Queen during her imprisonment following the overthrow.
Liliʻuokalani was born on September 2, 1838, in Honolulu, on the island of Oʻahu. While her natural parents were Analea Keohokālole and Caesar Kapaʻakea, she was hānai (informally adopted) at birth by Abner Pākī and Laura Kōnia and raised with their daughter Bernice Pauahi Bishop. Baptized as a Christian and educated at the Royal School, she and her siblings and cousins were proclaimed eligible for the throne by King Kamehameha III.
She was married to American-born John Owen Dominis, who later became the Governor of Oʻahu. The couple had no biological children but adopted several. After the accession of her brother David Kalākaua to the throne in 1874, she and her siblings were given Western style titles of Prince and Princess.
In 1877, after her younger brother Leleiohoku II's death, she was proclaimed as heir apparent to the throne. During the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria, she represented her brother as an official envoy to the United Kingdom.
Liliʻuokalani ascended to the throne on January 29, 1891, nine days after her brother's death. During her reign, she attempted to draft a new constitution which would restore the power of the monarchy and the voting rights of the economically disenfranchised.
Threatened by her attempts to abrogate the Bayonet Constitution, pro-American elements in Hawaiʻi overthrew the monarchy on January 17, 1893. The overthrow was bolstered by the landing of US Marines under John L. Stevens to protect American interests, which rendered the monarchy unable to protect itself.
The coup d'état established the Republic of Hawaiʻi, but the ultimate goal was the annexation of the islands to the United States, which was temporarily blocked by President Grover Cleveland. After an unsuccessful uprising to restore the monarchy, the oligarchical government placed the former queen under house arrest at the ʻIolani Palace.
On January 24, 1895, Liliʻuokalani was forced to abdicate the Hawaiianthrone, officially ending the deposed monarchy. Attempts were made to restore the monarchy and oppose annexation, but with the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, the United States annexed Hawaiʻi. Living out the remainder of her later life as a private citizen, Liliʻuokalani died at her residence, Washington Place, in Honolulu on November 11, 1917.
The cause of Hawaii and independence is larger and dearer than the life of any man connected with it. Love of country is deep-seated in the breast of every Hawaiian, whatever his station.
Today, The Beans have been working some new aspects of the English grammar like Used to and Object Pronouns.
The family is a little tired because of the rythm of the trips. They are doing exceptional efforts but they are hard workers and exceptional students and they are doing a great job.
The family has decided to stay in the hotel and talk about the history of the city that they are going to visit deeply during the next days. San Francisco is a city with a huge history, a great referent in all kind of social movements and the city where the Hippie movement born in the 60's like a peaceful movement against war policies.
The Beans have been talking about the importance of this movement not only for the history of the USA but for the universal history because it was a mirror for other countries and communities.
If you talk about the Hippie movement, you must remember incredible voices and composers like Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Jimmi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, Scott McKenzie, Jefferson Airplane and others. An exceptional generation of great artists who expanded the global message of peace and love around the planet.
Salvador Dalí, a genius of painting
The Grandma has also talked about the influence of the drugs in this movement, particularly, and how drugs have been used by the power to stop social movements and to control them. It has been a very hard moment because this is a theme that affects everybody in some senses and everyone of us has a closer experience to tell, to remember and sometimes, to forget.
Finally, the family has been talking about some important artists and writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, Mercè Rodoreda, Agatha Christie, Federico Garcia Lorca, Antonio Machado and Miguel Hernández.
A hippie is a member of a counterculture, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world. The word hippie came from hipster and used to describe beatniks who moved into New York City's Greenwich Village and San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. The term hippie first found popularity in San Francisco by Herb Caen, a journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle.
Jimmi Hendrix & Janis Joplin
The origins of the terms hip and hep are uncertain. By the 1940s, both had become part of African American jive slang and meant sophisticated; currently fashionable; fully up-to-date. Hippies created their own communities, listened to psychedelic music, embraced the sexual revolution, and many used drugs such as marijuana, LSD, peyote and psilocybin mushrooms to explore altered states of consciousness.
In 1967, the Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, popularized hippie culture, leading to the Summer of Love on the West Coast of the United States, and the 1969 Woodstock Festival on the East Coast.
Hippies in Mexico, known as jipitecas, formed La Onda and gathered at Avándaro, while in New Zealand, nomadic housetruckers practiced alternative lifestyles and promoted sustainable energy at Nambassa.
In the United Kingdom in 1970, many gathered at the gigantic Isle of Wight Festival with a crowd of around 400,000 people. In later years, mobile peace convoys of New Age travelers made summer pilgrimages to free music festivals at Stonehenge and elsewhere.
In Australia, hippies gathered at Nimbin for the 1973 Aquarius Festival and the annual Cannabis Law Reform Rally or MardiGrass.
Piedra Roja Festival, a major hippie event in Chile, was held in 1970. Hippie and psychedelic culture influenced 1960s and early 1970s young culture in Iron Curtain countries in Eastern Europe.
Hippie fashion and values had a major effect on culture, influencing popular music, television, film, literature, and the arts. Since the 1960s, mainstream society has assimilated many aspects of hippie culture. The religious and cultural diversity the hippies espoused has gained widespread acceptance, and Eastern philosophy and spiritual concepts have reached a larger audience.
The hippie movement politicized my generation.
When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history,
The family is still working Telephoning English, which is a little difficult and they have created a new composition about a Majorcan legend named El salt de la bella dona.
The family has received an interesting present from The Grandma: a transport. In a few days, they're going to start to live alone without the support of the whole family and they must start to prepare this moment. If you have a transport, you can move wherever you want and it offers you a great independence.
After reading a new chapter of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the family has talked about an interesting theme which Paula Bond has prepared: the educational system. It has been a very interesting moment to offer different points of view about this important theme and for The Grandma has been a great constatation about how far are still the real daily work of the teachers from the perception that the most part of the society has about them.
Yesterday,The Poppins continued with their
English classes. They started doing some exercises about Social English and reviewing Used
to. Later, they practised with the Relative Pronouns and paid attention to
the importance of questions and short answers.
The Grandma explained some stories about Cuba and
Catalan economy during the XIX century, paying special attention to the figures
of the Indians, Catalan-born people who travelled to Cuba to make business and returned to their hometowns where they
tried to evocate the Caribbean country building the same kind of houses and
planting the same sort of plants and vegetables.
She also told about slavery in
American countries and the abolition of it in The USA thanks to Abraham
Lincoln.
After some
days without reading Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, they
continued working the plot of this interesting book and they created another
plot about sharks, an animal well-known in Australia and one of the most
dangerous enemies of swimmers and surfers like EstherPoppins’ new boyfriend.
Che
Talking
about boyfriends, The Grandma,
following the advice of her family, decided to say goodbye to her last lover, Dave Clipster. A misunderstanding about him
created some tension between the members of the family and The Grandma had to take a decision: choose between The Poppins or Dave. It was easy. Obviously, The
Poppins won.
Next, the
family listened to some stories from its members about difficult and
uncomfortable situations in the past and they analysed how to confront them.
Tomorrow,
the family is going to listen to Lulú
Poppins’ explanations about fashion and trend and they’re going to play
poker.
Come on
Poppins! The die is cast!
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters
of principle, stand like a rock.
After visiting
the Pope, the Holmes have continued reviewing Past Continuous, Used to
and Modal Verbs (May-Might).
Moreover they’ve practised some Social
English.
Next, they’ve
created comparisons between Antoni Gaudí’s
Sagrada Família and Vatican City
and they’ve been talking about voodoo and its effects nowadays.
The family
arrives to Venice tonight where they
want to enjoy the Carnival during
this weekend before going to Belgium
to participate in Eurovision Song
Contest. Because of this, today, they have read some interesting songs from
Tom Jones, Queen, Suzanne Vega and Joan Baez.
Tomorrow,
they’re going to prepare excellent songs to win the festival and continue
travelling, this time, perhaps, to London.
May you grow up to be righteous
May you grow up to be true
May you always know the truth
And see the lights surrounding you
May you always be courageous
Stand upright and be strong
May you stay forever young
Today, The Holmes have reviewed Past Simple, Used to and First
Conditional.They have been practising with some exercises and paying
especial attention to the irregular forms.
Don Quixote & Sancho Panza
The Grandma has continued talking about William Shakespeare and Antoni
Gaudí, two old friends who she admires a lot and all of the family has talked
about the importance of literature in the Middle
Age and its capacity of creating heroes like Orlando Il Furioso, el Cid,
Roland, Tirant, Don Quijote or King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
Tonight, The Holmes have met the Pope in the Vatican City and they have spent good moments with him, especially Rosa who is a religious woman and Geni who is a… a… a… an excellent
partner!
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