what a piggish world it is//*

Monday, October 02, 2006 * (134) elementary, my dear watson!

This is the last of my lame (but inspirational?) posts for students preparing for the English Language paper. Maybe my next one will be for the Chinese Language paper!?

For Paper 2, every student knows that he/she has to:
* identify the main ideas and details in texts
* use contextual clues to understand the information present in a text
* synthesise, summarise and organise information
* give reasons to support an opinion or a response

How a student will fare depends on his/her level of the above skills. These skills that the student should master are not unlike those which every self-respecting detective should be equipped with. So if you read enough mystery novels, you should do very well for Paper 2. Hahaha... BMM's naive logic??

Well, I love mysteries and my favourite author (authoress actually) is Agatha Christie. Sadly, she was not the one who created perhaps the most famous fictional detective and indeed one of the best known and universally recognisable literary characters...

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson went camping. In the middle of the night, they both woke up and were staring up at the night sky.

Holmes: Watson, look up into the sky and tell me what you see.

Watson: I see thousands and thousands of stars.

Holmes: And what does that tell you?

Watson: Astronomically, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Theologically, it tells me that God is great and that we are small and insignificant. Meteorologically, it tells me that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. What does it tell you?

Holmes: Somebody stole our tent.

the pig oinked at 2:18 AM

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