FreeRice is an online game that donates the cash equivalent of 10 grains of rice to the UN World Food Programme for every answer you get right.

It now has dozens of categories—from English vocabulary, famous quotations and grammar, to world history. Just choose your favourite subject, set your difficulty level, and generate money to support the World Food Programme at the same time.

If you try it out, tell me if you also find it quite addictive! 🔥

“If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.”
Steve Jobs”

Do you know the feeling? Are you excited to put in the effort? If not, why not?

Food for thought?

As a general rule, we never use an apostrophe (that’s this little sign here ‘) when forming the plural of a noun.

Let’s take the word ‘idea’. All you need to do is to add an ‘s’ on to the word—to form ‘ideas’. Believe me, you don’t need an apostrophe! 

However, there are a few exceptions. Why not take a look at this article here?

I hope that helps!

We think we can focus on more than one thing at a time. However, research shows that multitasking is basically impossible to do because our brain isn’t wired to do it.

So what happens to our brains when we try to multitask?

Watch this short and sweet YouTube video by BBC Ideas to find out.

(Remember, you can always add subtitles to YouTube videos if you need that extra support.)

As Susan Cain says:“What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.”

How often do you find yourself task switching? Just a little food for thought!

Searching Google is easy, isn’t it? We just type a word or a phrase into the search box on the Google web site or into a toolbar, and press enter.

But I’ve just learnt that there is so much more to Google. 

Chris Hladczuk gives us 8 Googling tips that a lot of people might not know. Well, I didn’t know all of them.

He explains how we can use quotation marks, hyphens, tildes, vertical bars, two periods (I say ‘full stops’!) and so much more to make our Google search more specific.

I thought this might be helpful for you, too! 👍