Goodbye BEL260~ :'(

I think I have learning so many new things during BEL260 class.

As compared in the first semester, my English are improved! I also become more confident to speak in front others. 

I think the way that Miss Zu used to taught me for BEL260 are very useful to me. 

The activity that Miss Zu did such as acting, group presentation and forum make me more confident. As I said before, my English are more improve as compared than the last semester. This is because the way that Miss Zu use to teach this subject that attract me to take full attention to this subject. :)

I will always remember the moment that you said that your nephew who is 2 years old is same like me when I said 'no...no...no..' HEHE~ 

Thanks to Miss Zu for all your hardwork and sorry for everything.. I will miss you.. 

Week 13... Last week! :'(

TUESDAY-28/2/2012

What we learnt today? We learnt about PASSIVE VOICE. This grammar part were not being taught by Miss Zu, but...... SUE, NIENA, BELLA and MEGAT!! Again, they need to teach us about grammar as they were so lucky to be chosen by Miss Zu!!! :D

What is passive voice??

• Passive voice is used when the emphasis is more on the object of a sentence rather than the doer. 
• The relationship between the active and the passive voice can be demonstrated as follow

   Jasmine unplugged the microwave.                        (ACTIVE VOICE)

   The microwave was unplugged by Jasmine.           (PASSIVE VOICE)

More information about this? You may click this link :)

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/passive.htm

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive

After they finished the presentation, we have a POP QUIZ! Again, we have a pop quiz. But, for today's quiz, we were in group. In a group, we have 4-5 people. So, as usual, RAHEY, SALINA, HEFA and I are in one group. What we need to do?

We must do an ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAYS. 

Salina- Introduction

Me- Body Paragraph 1

Rahey-Body Paragraph 2

Hefa-Body Paragraph 3

All- Conclusion

WEDNESDAY-29/2/2012

Today we learnt about authors purpose and the tone words.. 

Important reasons for author's to write:

• entertain-The author tells a story that describes something or someone in an interesting way.

• persuade- The author tries to change our opinion on a topic by appealing to our emotions.

• instruct- The author will explain or teach something in the story that the reader doesn’t know.  The author provides knowledge to the reader.

• describe-Authors often describe to support other purposes in writing. They use it to create a character, set a mood or envision a scene. 

What is tone?

Tone-writer’s use of words and writing styles to demonstrate his or her stand towards the issue

There are so many types of tone. As example:

•Indignant

•Evasive 

•Incredulous

•Optimistic

•Pessimistic

•Mocking

•Malicious

•Compassionate 

•Cynical

•Bitter

optimistic- this is what my classmates describe me! :)

THURSDAY-1/3/2012
Goodbye February! Hello March!! :)
Ahhhh! I forgot something today! Today is my mother's birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! I LOVE YOU MOM!!!

        Today, Miss Zu gave us back the test of argumentative essay that we had done on Tuesday. We just get 13 out of 20.. :( I think that we can improve it!

After that, Miss Zu gave us food!!! I like it so much!!! :)

She bought the food by the money that we collect from the late comers.. Thank you to all the late comers! :)

After that, my friend and I playing with RAHEY's camera.. HAHA~

We were took so many pictures...  

 As this the last class, Miss Zu gave us an advice.. 

And we also took some picture together with Miss Zu..

Week 12.. :)

TUESDAY-21/2/2012

My younger brother’s birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY! HAHA~ out of topic. :P

Today we learnt on how to make inferences.

First of all, what is inference?

An inference is a logical conclusion based on what has been stated in the text.

HOW TO MAKE INFERENCES?

• Information which is provided must be analysed.
• Use your experience, knowledge, common sense and power of reasoning to draw logical conclusions.

WEDNESDAY-22/2/2012

Tomorrow, we learnt inferences. For today, we learnt on how to make conclusions.

DEFINITION

• Drawing conclusions is a form of critical thinking. It is relating what you see, hear and read to what you already know.

HOW TO MAKE CONCLUSIONS?

• Read  the paragraph and identify the topic sentence and main idea.
• Look for supporting details as evidence that you can use to reach a conclusion (E.g of evidences are: facts, statistics, reasons, definitions and descriptions.
• Combine your prior knowledge with the supporting details to draw conclusions.
• Ask these questions:

1. What is the writer trying to prove?
2. What is the consequences of these events?
3. What is going to happen  because of these actions?
4. What can I conclude from the paragraph?

EXPRESSIONS TO MAKE CONCLUSIONS

• Prove that
• Thus
• It is believe that
• In fact/ Because of this
• It follows that
• It concludes that
• As a result
• Therefore
• We can deduce that
• Points to the fact that

THURSDAY-23/2/2012

On this day, we are focusing on the PART B which is essay questions. Miss Zu said that the questions for this part usually ARGUMENTATTIVE ESSAYS. So, today we were learnt about argumentative essays.

Things to remember before writing ..

• Brainstorm ideas on the subject
• Identify the main topics
• Use the topics as heading for organising your notes
• Decides which side you are on. Make sure you choose the side that you can fully support
• Plan and write an outline for your essay. Noting down the information you will include in each paragraph.

As we were learned before on how to make conclusion and introduction, so we need to applied it in this essay to produce a wonderful essay! 

This link may help you on doing this essay:
http://www.buowl.boun.edu.tr/students/types%20of%20essays/ARGUMENTATIVE%20ESSAY.htm

Week 11.. :D

TUESDAY-14/2/2012

Yeah! Finally, the entire tests are done! Now, let’s focus on final exam.

In final exam, we have two parts: 

• PART A – Section 1, Section 2,  Section3
• PART B

Part B is the essay question. So, for today, Miss Zu taught us on how to make a wonderful introduction!

• THE HOOK

1. Personal examples
2. Quotations
3. Facts/statistics
4. Rhetorical questions
5. Current events
6. Contrast to the thesis statement
7. Definition

• THE TRANSITION- moves the reader from the hook to the driving force of the essay…
• THE THESIS- makes the contract with the reader about what will be discussed without a transparent announcement.

WEDNESDAY-15/2/2012

Today is Elya’s group and Megat’s group turn to present.

Elya’s group- simple present tense

Megat’s group- present continuous tense

SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE

• The simple present tense is used to describe situations, activities or actions which happen in the present time.
• Can be facts or universal truths.
• Can also be situations, activities or actions which are repeated, unchanging and habitual in nature

Please click this link for more information:
http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verb-tenses_present.htm
http://www.studyenglishtoday.net/present-simple-tense.html


PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE

• The present continuous tense is used for situations, activities or actions happening over a period of time in the present.
• These happenings are true at the moment of speaking.

This link can help you :)

http://www.slideshare.net/rosarioa.slide/the-present-continuous-tense

http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/tenseprescont.htm

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentcontinuous.html

http://esl.about.com/od/grammarstructures/a/prescont.htm

At the end of presentations, they did an activity. Elya’s group gave us food to those who answer their question.

THURSDAY-16/2/2012

Today, we learned about SIMPLE PAST TENSE and PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE which are presenting from Iffah’s group and Jihan’s group respectively.

SIMPLE PAST TENSE

• The simple past tense is used to describe situations, activities or actions which happened and ended in the past.
• Most verbs end with either ‘-d’, ‘-ed’ or ‘-ied’ (saved, washed, tried)
• But irregular ones either do not change forms (put, spread) or have different forms altogether (spoke, swept)

This link may help you:
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/simplepast.html
http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/tensesimpast.htm
http://www.english4today.com/usr/video/ytv/?p=79

PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE

• The past continuous tense shows situations, activities or actions that happened over a period of time in the past.

Want to know more about this? click this link:

http://www.englishtenses.com/tenses/past_continuous

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/pastcontinuous.html

As usual, after presentation, they must do an activity. For today’s activity, we played musical chair. The reward for the winner is COOLBLOG for each of the group members.

Luckily, my group won! Yeah! We can get COOLBLOG for free. J

week 10...

WEDNESDAY-8/2/2012

Oh no!!! Today I have a speaking test! From the three test which are listening, mid-term test and speaking, the test that I don’t like is speaking. It is because, my English is bad. I don’t have a confident on doing this test. I hope that today I can do this test better than the last semester.

My group is the second group did the test. The first group is Amallina’s group. RAHEY, SALINA, HEfA and I are in one group. We got a question about:

How to reduce the number of girl that involve in unhealthy diet?

• 1^st candidate: RAHEY- Parents
• 2^nd candidate: ME- Government
• 3^rd candidate: SALINA- Teachers
• 4^th candidate: HEFA- Counsellors

At the end, Salina and I agree with Rahey’s point while Rahey agree with Salina’s point and Hefa agree with my point.

FRIDAY-10/2/2012

Again! We have a test today. This week is just for test. But, today is the test that I like the most among the three tests which is listening test.

In order to do well in listening test, I am cleaning my ear. So, I can hear all the information clearly. J Besides that, I also sat near the speaker.

I hope with all my strategies, I can get good mark.

Hope get the green.. :)

Week 9. :)

TUESDAY- 31/1/2012

On this day, we were practice on how to do the listening test. The format still same like we are in the first semester. But the different is the questions are more challenging.

For today practice, I didn't listen it well. So, I can't answer all the question. When Miss Zu told the answer, I just copy the answer. Arghhh~ I felt so worried to do the real listening test.. :(

WEDNESDAY- 1/2/2012

Today, Miss Zu just exposed us on how to do the speaking test. Arghhh! This week we just learn about test! Test! Test! Test! So frustrated! The thing that I don't like is test! :( 

Last semester. I got the worst mark among my group members. I hope that this semester I can improve my speaking skills. :)

THURSDAY-2/2/2012

We did listening test practice again. I hope I can do well today. :)

I'm so lucky today! It is because, today, I sat near with the speaker. So, I can hear it well. Although, I sat near with the speaker, I still can't get full marks. What's wrong with my ears? :(

After we did a listening practice, Nabilah's group presenting about ADVERBS and SUBJECT VERB AGRREEMENT

Hmmm~ first of all, let me tell you what is adverbs?

Adverbs are words that modify:

• a VERB
• an ADJECTIVES
• ANOTHER ADVERBS

Example of adverbs :

  

                                                          

More information about this? You can click this link:

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/adverbs.htm

http://www.writingcentre.uottawa.ca/hypergrammar/adverbs.html

Next, let me tell you a little bit about subject verb agreement( SVA).

In SVA, the subjects an verbs must agree with one another in number  (singular/plural)

Thus, if the subject is singular, its verb must also be singular ; if a subject is plural, its verb must also be plural.

                                                 

                                             

You can click this link to know more about this: 

http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/grammar/subverag.html

http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/SubjectVerb.html

Lastly, we did an activity. The person who has been chosen to answer the question can get food as their reward. On this day, we have a fiest of food. HAHA~