A colleague from the SENSE network sent this little gem out from Free Rice today. Test (and improve) your vocabulary skills and donate grains of rice to the needy in the developing world (not so sure about the mechanics or ethics of the later). Its a fun test aimed at all levels of English proficiency.
I clocked in between levels 40 and 44. Let me know how you get on.
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Thank you for posting that, it's lovely! I am only 40-41 sadly.
Good fun that kept me up way past my bedtime.
2450 grains of rice, and vacillating between 44 and 45.
If you had Latin shoved down your throat as a young person, it comes in handy in this quiz.
My Latin also helped me see the roots of many of the words that I didn't actually know. And when I was a kid I always asked "what's the point of learning a dead language?"
I supposed that it smelled better than some of the live languages (like maths).
Math - mm most of that was invented by Greeks. Last month when busy doing DiY I wanted to find a way to calculate the hypothenuse (the long side of a triangle). I remembered the formula (a2+b2=c2) but could not for the life of me remember how to work out square roots. Then it dawned on me that's what log tables were for. (Anyone under 40 raised in the calculator age
is asking "what's a log table"?).
Between 30-35 (once 36). Hm, not bad for a non-native speaker.
A. You should be proud of that. It would beat the score of many native English speakers.
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