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Composition Make up sentences using these phrases, making sure you put plenty of action in.
Posted Yesterday • Think and Speak
The Abuse of Literacy Reading and writing should have taught the people more than name-calling and how to manipulate opinion.
Posted January 13 • The Copy Book
Among Old Friends ‘Alpha of the Plough’ hoped Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did not treat his old friends as he treated his favourite books.
Posted January 12 • The Copy Book
A Reckless Indifference to Life In eighteenth-century England, the death penalty was the solution to almost any crime.
Posted January 11 • The Copy Book
Music Video Sir Charles Villiers Stanford: Symphony No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 28 (Irish): II. Allegro molto vivace
Posted January 10
Dear Anne Elliot Anne Thackeray saw something in Jane Austen’s heroines that she missed in their more modern sisters.
Posted January 4 • The Copy Book
The Three Bears The beginning of Robert Southey’s classic fairy tale.
Posted January 2 • The Copy Book
A Man Without a Price A Russian princess admitted defeat with a most gracious compliment.
Posted January 1 • The Copy Book
Homonyms Show that each of these words might mean different things to different people.
Posted January 1 • Think and Speak
Hair by Hair Governments must not use ‘the good of society’ as an excuse to run our lives.
Posted December 31 2024 • The Copy Book
Hearken to the Solemn Voice A hymn looking to the coming of Christ in judgement, sung at the Wesleys’ New Year’s Eve watch-nights.
Posted December 30 2024 • Comfortable Words