Hello!!! I know, I know... It's been a while. Well, well...

My intermediate students might want to check out this website which offers some simple exercises that will allow you to practise those relative sentences you may or may not have problems with. Did you notice how cleverly I slipped THREE relative sentences in the previous sentence? Isn't that genius? Speaking of genius... My C1 students are still dumbfounded after that C2 + display on Monday. Granted, that excerpt from "The West Wing" may have been too demanding but hey you should be ready to face up to those kinds of challenges. Anyhow, I thought you might get a kick out of a this thought-provoking article that also delves into the murky waters of intelligence. It's a little long and clearly C2 but it's worth reading, if only for its vocabulary. By the way you probably know that The New Yorker is a magazine that centers on the cultural life of New York city. It's the kind of smart magazine that any would-be Woody Allen ought to read once in a while. For those of you less prone to bookish intellectualism here is a fun (short) article about real blunders made by businesspeople who should know better. That's all for now.