Monday Motivational - 12/11/12

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

- Winston Churchill

Brain Teaser - 09/11/12 - The Answer

A traveller comes to a fork in the road which leads to two villages. In one village the people always tell lies, and in the other village the people always tell the truth. The traveller needs to conduct business in the village where everyone tells the truth. A man from one of the villages is standing in the middle of the fork, but there is no indication of which village he is from. The traveller approaches the man and asks him one question. From the villager's answer, he knows which road to follow. What did the traveller ask, and how does that get him to the correct village?

The traveller asked "which road goes to your village"?
The truthful villager would alsways point to the truthful village whilst the liar would also point to the truthful village.

Brain Teaser - 09/11/12

A traveller comes to a fork in the road which leads to two villages. In one village the people always tell lies, and in the other village the people always tell the truth. The traveller needs to conduct business in the village where everyone tells the truth. A man from one of the villages is standing in the middle of the fork, but there is no indication of which village he is from. The traveller approaches the man and asks him one question. From the villager's answer, he knows which road to follow. What did the traveller ask, and how does that get him to the correct village?

Answer on Monday...

Literacy Lesson - 08/11/12

'augh' and 'ough' words

Sometimes 'gh' say /f/ e.g. Do not laugh at the pig in the trough.
Or, He's rough and tough enough to eat and cough at the same time.

Often 'gh' are ghost letters which say nothing at all.
His daughter caught the naughty boy who fought in school. She brought him to his teacher who taught him to be nice; or so she thought.

Motivational Quotes - 07/11/12

“Success comes from good judgement. Good judgement often comes from experience. Experience often comes from bad judgement!”

- Anonymous

Literacy Lesson - 06/11/12

The Apostrophe Exceptions: its and it's

Normally, the apostrophe shows possession as in, the boy's dog ran away.

As well as showing where a letter has been left out in the shortened forms of don't or haven't.

Remember:
It's does not show possession, but instead is the short form of it is or it has.

It's is a possessive pronoun showing possession without the apostrophe.
Example: Its rear tyre has a flat.

Monday Motivational - 05/11/12

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”

- W. W. Ziege