Literacy skills at home

WITH isolation at home, it is a great opportunity for us to relearn communication in speaking, reading and writing in English.

It will make you a better person.

Why? Well we are definitely not in a hurry anymore. We are isolated.

With emoji, communication has gone back to ancient civilisations, thousands of years ago, when humans communicated by symbols and violence.

Does that ring a bell? How many can speak proper English? Many find it difficult to read and difficult to write but are experts in emojis, using shortened words read on devices while moving but, more in keeping with ancient civilisations, we have retained the use of violence.

Violence only occurs owing to ones verbal inability to express oneself.

So what can we learn in this down time, for our gods, our country, our community, our friends, our family and more importantly ourselves?

Tony Basha, Cairns caused by a bloated NRL bureaucracy (similar to our Queensland State Government) and that NRL bureaucrats will face a far less severe pay cut than the players.

Furthermore, the players have been told this also will affect their salaries in forthcoming years, well after the coronavirus pandemic.

Dan Erbacher, Bayview Heights 1922: Joseph Stalin is appointed general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.

1933: First flight over Mt Everest in the Himalayas is made by four Britons in two biplanes.

1987: The late Duchess of Windsor’s jewels are auctioned, fetching nearly $US45 million.

2003: The World Health Organisation reports 2270 illnesses, including 79 deaths, from a spreading epidemic of a new respiratory ailment known as SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome.

2017: Two bombs explode on the St Petersburg metro in Russia, killing 11 people and injuring scores more.

2019: Kimberly-Clark announces it will close its Sydney factory that manufactures Huggies nappies, (above) meaning the loss of up to 220 jobs. Production will move to Asia.