Again, still another techno-tool to help you with your studies. This blog is "work-in-progress" , which means that things are added and removed on a regular basis. Here you'll find extra-reading, extra-listening, extra-grammar stuff, extra writing tips... extra-everything, so it's up to you what you do with it. Needless to say, your feedback, ideas, and comments are very welcome.

*This blog is 'apture-powered', which means that if you highlight a word, a 'learn more' sign will theoretically appear. Click on it and it will show a list of internet links related to that word. Just try.

Friday, September 11, 2009

Notes and Queries

Since the first unit in your book is about questions (direct, indirect, tag questions... you remember all that, don't you?) have a look at The Guardian "Notes and Queries" (originally called "Nooks and Crannies") in which readers can post the weirdest questions and they'll always have someone from the opposite end of the world answering them. According to The Guardian, this is the place "where readers waste their time answering questions that only fools and geniuses would dream of. Questions so bizarre, so perverse, so seemingly trivial - and yet so relentlessly persistent - that they refuse to go away. "
Over the years, this section has become so successful that the questions posted by readers have been put into different categories.

So if you ever had a question and you were too afraid to ask , The Guardian Notes and Queries is the place to go (click on the image and you'll be taken there)-or post your question here (like "How can you live without a monolingual dictionary?") and maybe someone will come up with an answer!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Mariona and ex-friends !!!

Nice to see you are working again in a new blog.
I know it will be as useful as last one and I'll be watching you.

Let's see if the sect works a lot :) (sure, they will)

Best wishes and congratulations again.

The 5th Guru

Ona said...

Wow! Thanks a lot for your message -glad to know that you'll be watchig us, and hope that this blog can be useful for you too! But... the 5th guru ? Who might that be? ;-)

Anonymous said...

What a level, the 5th guru, what a beautiful sentences!! Will I, one day, be able to write like that????
I liked the question who ask: can something come from nothing?
my soon spents the all day doing questions like that!!!!

the anonymous anna miquel
member from The Sect

Ona said...
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Ona said...

Hi again, Annanonymous,
If your son spends the whole day making such questions, I'd say he is "a chip off the old block" or, to put it simply, "like mother, like son". Don't you agree ?

PS: the deleted comment was mine, I just clicked on the wrong key!