Wednesday, 15 April 2009

Photography quiz

I have a friend who works as web manager of an organization. He knows almost everything about internet. I’m in the opposite side as far as internet is concerned. A few days ago talking with him I mentioned that in our class we have opened blogs as tools to facilitate our English course. He then told me that blogs may be used for a much broader scope.

If you like photography you can use one of the many free available sites online to store your photos and you may even manage them. Having done that it is possible and easy to produce your own photo galleries in your blog. By doing this way you’re able to insert in your blog photos of large size which can be shared or exchange with other people.

I will make a ‘mini’ photo gallery right in this blog just as an excuse to keep on writing English.

Now here is ‘my’ quiz. I’m going to insert a few photos from different countries or places. I won’t write down the names of those places. So if you like, guess from which contries/places/towns are the photographs of the mini gallery.

Just a clarifying note before I carry on my post. What I'm doing in this very post (same as what I attempted to do in all others) is just an excuse for doing my aim and only aim which is writing in English. I'm not trying to keep any real sense or any degree of consistency. In few words I'm just playing a game. The game is all about practising English!

The photographs are coming right away. Some show an easy clue to be identified. And two may be identified only by one of our class mates. If this person happens to see them I think he or she might be glad but nostalgic.

If this post were a game two good things would have been part of it. One is that no answers are expected. That's good, isn't it? The other is the last picture. That is a great unforgettable course! As you can see it's a tray much bigger than an ordinary dish, with 'arroç amb llamàntol' = 'arroz con bogavante' = 'rice with lobster' (actually a crustacean of the lobster family). As an exception of this game answers might be given for that picture. An special prize will be awarded to those that might be able to identify town and restaurant's name.
I will be more than happy to let anyone interested know some information on that place.







































































3 comments:

  1. hi Miquel! I think you had a fantastic idea! (I wrote for the third time so I summarise up everything...)
    Here I give you my answers:
    1. Golden Gate's Bridge in San Francisco (USA)
    2. Mediterranean Coast (maybe Italy)
    3. Vietnam
    4. Colosseo, Rome (Italy)
    5. Versailles, close to Paris (France)
    6. La Habana, Cuba
    7. Switzerland
    8. Buenos Aires
    9. Mexico
    10. Thailand
    11. England or Normandie
    12. India (maybe Jaipur or Agra)
    13. Aya Sofya in Istanbul (Turkey)
    14. no idea, but it looks tasteful!

    I hope you give us some hints about this delicious rice dish.

    See you tomorrow! Lydia

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  2. Hello,

    great idea Miquel! I cannot guess all the pictures but this only means one thing to me. It means that I must travel more, what a pity!
    So, when do we get the real answers??
    See you soon
    felicity

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  3. Hello Miquel
    very very beautiful these pictures.
    Have you visited all these things???? What a chance....
    I can recognize some of these pictures but not all. My visual memory is not as big as yours.
    I like lighthouses a lot,maybe because my grandfather was sailor, I have visited several of them , but I can't know what ligthouse show us????
    Please can write me the name oh these ligthouse and where it is placed, please????
    Thank you very much
    MOntserrat

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