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Dostoevsky had to break it to Moscow’s students that ordinary Russians found their brand of politics patronising.
Posted January 19
Jigsaws: Join this group of ideas together to make a single sentence, in as many ways as you can. See if you can include any of the words in square brackets.
People campaigned to free the serfs. They expected the serfs to become good Europeans. They didn’t. [Abolish. Belief. Fulfil.]
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Suggest words in which the letter ‘o’ is pronounced as it is in ‘comely’.
See of you can think of at least TEN words in which the letter ‘o’ is pronounced as it is in ‘comely’.
IBrother. IICoven(ant). IIIDone. IVDozen. VLove. VIMoney. VIINone. VIIISome. IXStomach. XWorry.
Based on School Certificate English Practice (1933) by NL Clay.
Posted January 18
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Make as many words as you can using the letters of one nine-letter word. Can you beat our score?
Posted January 17
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Professor Smith reluctantly confides his ‘guilty secret’ to his students.
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Pimpernel Smith (1941) stars Leslie Howard as an eccentric professor who takes a team of archaeology students to Germany, just before the outbreak of war in 1939. As they travel across the country by train, the students fall to reading a newspaper. They laugh at the sensational tales of a mysterious rescuer dubbed ‘The Shadow’, smuggling great men of Science and the Arts out of concentration camps. But it turns out it isn’t a joke at all...
Posted January 16
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Unjumble these sentences from the novels of George Eliot.
Rearrange these words to create a sentence. The originals come from Scenes of Clerical Life (1857) by George Eliot.
1 Dear have had evening you nice a.
2 Pilgrim an generally mr kind with splutter of spoke intermittent.
3 Thicker was snow thicker in and the flakes falling.
1 Have you had a nice evening, dear?
2 Mr Pilgrim generally spoke with an intermittent kind of splutter.
3 The snow was falling in thicker and thicker flakes.
Posted January 15
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On his visits to Durham Gaol, prison reformer John Howard found conditions that were all too familiar.
Posted January 15
Jigsaws: Join this group of ideas together to make a single sentence, in as many ways as you can. See if you can include any of the words in square brackets.
John Howard visited Durham gaol. The cells were cramped. He recorded their dimensions. [Length. Small. Write.]
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