BBC English

[Tdol]

The BBC seem keen for people to learn grammer, both English and foreign:

• How does the language of the poem work to convey the poet's meaning?
  Ask yourself about the grammer of the poem: first person or third person, present tense or past? Is the poem made up of proper sentences, or not?
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebit...langrev1.shtml
  
  The category of this answer is KS4; French; Vocabulary & Grammer
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/sosteac...wer40977.shtml
  
  The category of this answer is KS4; German; Vocabulary and grammer.
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/sosteac...wer36040.shtml

Sadly they have corrected the Grammer test they had up as a result of the success of Eats, shoots and leaves.

[RonBee]

Have they decided to change the spelling of the word?

:wink:

[RonBee]

Sadly they have corrected the Grammer test they had up as a result of the success of Eats, shoots and leaves.

Please clue me in on Eats, shoots and leaves.

:)

[Tdol]

It's a 'zero tolerance'book about punctuation that is selling like hot cakes at the moment. I doubt that any memeber of my family will get through Christmas without getting a copy. It's actually quite entertaining.

Meanwhile- the BBC's educashun programme continues at full pelt:
GCSE Geography

Question:-
what does a river in it's lower course looks like?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/sosteac...wer35884.shtml
AS and A level Biology

Question:-
Explain the sections of the heart and how the electrical impulses control the contractions of it's cycles.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/sosteac...wer35884.shtml

[RonBee]

Question:-
what does a river in it's lower course looks like?

I suppose that would depend on the river. Never mind that though. There are a couple of problems with that sentence. They are rather glaring ones too.

Question:-
Explain the sections of the heart and how the electrical impulses control the contractions of it's cycles.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/sosteac...wer35884.shtml

Whoops! That should be its cycles.

(The heart has four chambers: two ventricles and two atriums.)

:)

[Tdol]

Apparently they even had a lesson on "apostrophe's", but that one has disappeared.