Adventure 15

Hello fellow detective ,let me first welcoming the new member of the club.Their are my class students.Now let get to business shall we.Up here is a video , and i need you all to watch it and think what is the video is all about.

From the video , your job is to keep a diary/journal for the week ahead.Write an entry for each day.Write about what your experience during the day and your thoughts and feelings.You don't have to post it to this blog.all you need to do is show it to me in class.

Well now my fellow detective , I hope you can run this mission successfully and for that i wish you all good luck.

Adventure 14

Hello fellow detective , I bet that everyone is ready for their next task.For your next task you need to submit your finding or should we call it as your investigation report to me in the class .You can read  about your task bellow here ;

Abbreviations

An abbreviation (from Latin brevis, meaning short) is a shortened form of a word or phrase. Usually, but not always, it consists of a letter or group of letters taken from the word or phrase. For example, the word abbreviation can itself be represented by the abbreviation abbr., abbrv. or abbre.

We use abbreviations when we talk with friends and when we write diaries and informal letters.
There are different classes of abbreviations

1.Those that use part of word(these is called clipping) e.g phone -telephone
2.Those that use initials e.g - VIP
3. Those that use first and last letters e.g - MR

Your job is to hunt down as many abbreviations that you can including the act actual words of every single abbreviations you found.Good Luck.

Adventure 13

Hello Fellow Detective , I think it is not to late for me to say Happy New Year to you all.I hope you all are ready to take on the next task.Your first task for this 2011 will be as written bellow.Please read it carefully before you begin your quest.

EPONYMS 
An eponym is the name of a person, a word derived from a person after which a particular place, tribe, era, discovery, or other item is named or thought to be named.

~In simple words,things or items that have been discovered needs a name, so the person who discovered the "item or invention or a place or anything new" has to be given a name, the new discovery will have name of the person who found it, and this are known as eponyms...

- For example the word sandwich  is named after John Montagu, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich (1718–1792), a British politician.

Your job is to find at least one Eponyms example ,used the help of your BFF (Dictionary) if you want to.I wish you all the best.