I held a current affairs quiz for the Sec 3s today. I hope they found the topics interesting and relevant to their current lifestyles.
Topics broached on:
1. Sanlu tainted milk scandal
2. Youth Olympic Games 2010
3. Marina Barrage
4. Formula1 Race
More pictures to follow soon!!!
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
A word a day.
I'm sorry that I've been tardy in my posts. A list of words for your reference.
abate \uh-BAYT\, verb:
1. to make or become less in force or intensity; decrease or diminish2. to be at an end; become null and void3. to deduct from something; reduce
Chicago law requires the landlord to abate lead paint hazards and provides fines up to $500 for each violation.-- Ed Sacks, Lead and asbestos worry mom, Chicago Sun-Times, July 14, 2004
Still, behind the scenes, he was desperately trying to cajole support from colleagues warily assessing whether the perfect storm that had engulfed him would abate--or sweep him into oblivion.-- Howard Fineman, Ghosts Of The Past, Newsweek, December 22, 1998
addle \AD-'l\, verb:
1. to make or become muddled or confused2. to make or become rotten or putrid
As TV audiences saw, it was enough to addle Fellow Oscar Winner Jon Voight's brain for the rest of the night.-- Frank Rich, Pros at Play, Time, May 6, 1975
United Nations troops waited to take up their posts as guards to ensure that no liquor, women or bribe money was smuggled in to addle the judgment of the Deputies.-- Empty Campus, Time, July 13, 1957
You'd think you'd have to be seriously dumb to be fooled in this way but there's undeniably something about residential property, whether an investment or simply a family home, that can addle the brains of otherwise quite sensible people.-- Liz Dolan, Money surgery: keep property out of pensions, Daily Telegraph, May 17, 2001
epicure \EP-ih-kyur\, noun:
1. a person who enjoys eating and drinking and who is very particular in choosing fine foods and beverages; gourmet 2. a person who is fond of luxury and pleasure
The journalists, bloggers, chefs and others who make up the Fat Pack combine an epicure's appreciation for skillful cooking with a glutton's bottomless-pit approach.-- Kim Severson, The Fat Pack Wonders if the Party's Over, New York Times, March 18, 2004
While taking courses at City College in the late 1930's, he became active in its Young Communist League, where he stood out as the only black person, as a talented organizer and as an epicure who introduced his comrades to good wines, cheeses and pates.-- Alan Brinkley, One Was a Multitude, New York Times, March 1, 1993
As a confirmed epicure, I have eaten just about every meat acceptable in the Western world.-- Robert V. Camuto, My Verona, Washington Post, May 3, 2004
abate \uh-BAYT\, verb:
1. to make or become less in force or intensity; decrease or diminish2. to be at an end; become null and void3. to deduct from something; reduce
Chicago law requires the landlord to abate lead paint hazards and provides fines up to $500 for each violation.-- Ed Sacks, Lead and asbestos worry mom, Chicago Sun-Times, July 14, 2004
Still, behind the scenes, he was desperately trying to cajole support from colleagues warily assessing whether the perfect storm that had engulfed him would abate--or sweep him into oblivion.-- Howard Fineman, Ghosts Of The Past, Newsweek, December 22, 1998
addle \AD-'l\, verb:
1. to make or become muddled or confused2. to make or become rotten or putrid
As TV audiences saw, it was enough to addle Fellow Oscar Winner Jon Voight's brain for the rest of the night.-- Frank Rich, Pros at Play, Time, May 6, 1975
United Nations troops waited to take up their posts as guards to ensure that no liquor, women or bribe money was smuggled in to addle the judgment of the Deputies.-- Empty Campus, Time, July 13, 1957
You'd think you'd have to be seriously dumb to be fooled in this way but there's undeniably something about residential property, whether an investment or simply a family home, that can addle the brains of otherwise quite sensible people.-- Liz Dolan, Money surgery: keep property out of pensions, Daily Telegraph, May 17, 2001
epicure \EP-ih-kyur\, noun:
1. a person who enjoys eating and drinking and who is very particular in choosing fine foods and beverages; gourmet 2. a person who is fond of luxury and pleasure
The journalists, bloggers, chefs and others who make up the Fat Pack combine an epicure's appreciation for skillful cooking with a glutton's bottomless-pit approach.-- Kim Severson, The Fat Pack Wonders if the Party's Over, New York Times, March 18, 2004
While taking courses at City College in the late 1930's, he became active in its Young Communist League, where he stood out as the only black person, as a talented organizer and as an epicure who introduced his comrades to good wines, cheeses and pates.-- Alan Brinkley, One Was a Multitude, New York Times, March 1, 1993
As a confirmed epicure, I have eaten just about every meat acceptable in the Western world.-- Robert V. Camuto, My Verona, Washington Post, May 3, 2004
Friday, October 31, 2008
Happy Halloween, students!!!
A word a day.
gloaming \GLOH-ming\, noun:
Twilight; dusk.
The children squealed and waved and smiled, their teeth flashing white in the gloaming.-- Evan Thomas, Robert Kennedy: His Life
It was the gloaming, when a man cannot make out if the nebulous figure he glimpses in the shadows is angel or demon, when the face of evening is stained by red clouds and wounded by lights.-- Homero Aridjis, 1492: The Life and Times of Juan Cabezon of Castile (translated by Betty Ferber)
Arrived at the village station on a wintry evening, when the gloaming is punctuated by the cheery household lamps, shining here and there like golden stars, through the leafless trees.-- Margaret Sangster
Twilight; dusk.
The children squealed and waved and smiled, their teeth flashing white in the gloaming.-- Evan Thomas, Robert Kennedy: His Life
It was the gloaming, when a man cannot make out if the nebulous figure he glimpses in the shadows is angel or demon, when the face of evening is stained by red clouds and wounded by lights.-- Homero Aridjis, 1492: The Life and Times of Juan Cabezon of Castile (translated by Betty Ferber)
Arrived at the village station on a wintry evening, when the gloaming is punctuated by the cheery household lamps, shining here and there like golden stars, through the leafless trees.-- Margaret Sangster
Thursday, October 30, 2008
A word a day.
hubris \HYOO-bruhs\, noun:
Overbearing pride or presumption.
During his long tenure in the financial world, Friedman has watched dozens of his competitors' businesses killed by hubris born of success rather than by unsound business decisions or adverse market conditions.-- Lisa Endlich, Goldman Sachs: The Culture of Success
This is the actor's hubris, to imagine the world possessed of a single, avid eye fixed solely and always on him.-- John Banville, Eclipse
With dizzying hubris, Shelley elevated the vocation of the poet above that of priest and statesman.-- Peter Gay, Pleasure Wars
Overbearing pride or presumption.
During his long tenure in the financial world, Friedman has watched dozens of his competitors' businesses killed by hubris born of success rather than by unsound business decisions or adverse market conditions.-- Lisa Endlich, Goldman Sachs: The Culture of Success
This is the actor's hubris, to imagine the world possessed of a single, avid eye fixed solely and always on him.-- John Banville, Eclipse
With dizzying hubris, Shelley elevated the vocation of the poet above that of priest and statesman.-- Peter Gay, Pleasure Wars
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
A word a day.
bivouac \BIV-wak, BIV-uh-wak\, noun:
1. An encampment for the night, usually under little or no shelter.2. To encamp for the night, usually under little or no shelter.
Rob had made his emergency bivouac just below the South Summit.-- David Breashears, "Death on the mountain", The Observer, March 30, 2003
They were stopped by savage winds and forced to bivouac 153 m below the day's goal.-- Erik Weihenmayer, "Men of the Mountain", Time Pacific, February 4, 2002
1. An encampment for the night, usually under little or no shelter.2. To encamp for the night, usually under little or no shelter.
Rob had made his emergency bivouac just below the South Summit.-- David Breashears, "Death on the mountain", The Observer, March 30, 2003
They were stopped by savage winds and forced to bivouac 153 m below the day's goal.-- Erik Weihenmayer, "Men of the Mountain", Time Pacific, February 4, 2002
A Word a Day.
execrable \EK-sih-kruh-buhl\, adjective:
1. Deserving to be execrated; detestable; abominable.
2. Extremely bad; of very poor quality; very inferior.
His human-rights record was abysmal. His relations with Washington were adversarial. He rivaled Zimbabwe's execrable Robert Mugabe for the title "Africa's Saddam."
-- James S. Robbins, "The Liberian Opportunity", National Review, July 8, 2003
For while agents and editors often misunderstand their market and sometimes reject good or even great works, they do prevent a vast quantity of truly execrable writing from being published.
-- Laura Miller, "Slush, slush, sweet Stephen", Salon, July 25, 2000
Any theatergoer who has ever felt the urge to murder an actor for an execrable performance should get a kick out of two backstage mysteries that do the deed with a nice theatrical flourish.
-- Marilyn Stasio, review of The Gold Gamble, by Herbert Resnicow and Death Mask, by Jane Dentinger, New York Times, October 30, 1988
The decision to level the ancient cathedral is described candidly by one latter-day authoritative guidebook as having demonstrated "execrable taste."
-- Dick Grogan, "Pillars speak out to save cathedral", Irish Times, June 11, 1997
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