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