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