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On This Day December 24 os • The Copy Book
Season of Goodwill : ‘Goodwill’ was on everyone’s lips, but the Roman Emperor and the God of Israel had very different ideas about it.
Posted January 4 • The Copy Book
Dear Anne Elliot : Anne Thackeray saw something in Jane Austen’s heroines that she missed in their more modern sisters.
Posted January 2 • The Copy Book
The Three Bears : The beginning of Robert Southey’s classic fairy tale.
Posted January 1 • The Copy Book
A Man Without a Price : A Russian princess admitted defeat with a most gracious compliment.
Posted January 1 • Think and Speak
Homonyms : Show that each of these words might mean different things to different people.
Posted December 31 2024 • The Copy Book
Hair by Hair : Governments must not use ‘the good of society’ as an excuse to run our lives.
Posted December 30 2024 • Comfortable Words
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 • The Copy Book
One Last Look : Edith Nesbit brings down the curtain on ‘The Railway Children’.
Posted December 29 2024 • Think and Speak
Rephrasing : Cast Mr Perks’s words into good plain English.
Posted December 29 2024 • The Copy Book
The Illustrious Mourner : In Russia, when a blind beggar is laid to rest even the Emperor knows for whom the bell tolls.
Posted December 27 2024 • Think and Speak
Direct Speech : Reconstruct what the original speakers actually said.
Posted December 27 2024 • The Copy Book
Keep Room for Me in Your Heart : Guiseppi Garibaldi treasured the memory of a visit to Tyneside.
Posted December 26 2024 • The Copy Book
Fire and Sword : Fyodor Dostoevsky listened with growing bewilderment to the celebrity peace activists gathered in Geneva.
Posted December 26 2024 • Think and Speak
Reported Speech : Report these short conversations, without using the speakers’ exact words.
Posted December 25 2024 • Think and Speak
Rein : Make as many words as you can using the letters of one nine-letter word. Can you beat our score?