Listening exercise

First exposure to listening practise. We use textbook, the materials was hard, i could not understand the meaning of some words...How can I answer this kinds of questions??daaa....Blurr u know.....

I try my best to understand the recording, sometimes it was not to clear, so i could not catch up what they said.....

I will give more attention to heard the records.

Mid Term Test

Today, we had a mid term examination. As usuall I will feel nervous although I already studied before this. The class was cold that day, my finger cannot wrote very fast, while my leg was shaking....I was spend a lot of time on the essay section, but i still have enough time to settle down the reading part. Contextual clues was made head became dizzy....Many similar word I think, but it still not close and not suitable for that words...I very weak to find the synonyms word. I need to improve ny vocabulary and  the level of reading.

Consultation on Linear Essay

This is the first time we had a consultation time with Miss Zue, before this we only learned in the class with whole students. The consultation is the best way that can help students to ask questions.

Since we are going to have mid term test tomorrow, Miss Zue gave a chance to us to ask questions that we are not understand or whatever questions that we are not to sure how to answer it.

Then she give explanation about how she gives the marks and how to improve the writing. She will give the mark depends on the patterns we write.

Quiz and Presentation Adjectives & Conjunction

Noon class : We had another replacement class today. We are going to take one quiz. We just tried our best to answer all questions, either it is hard or easy....The format of the quiz was exactly same like the mid term test. After the quiz, we helped Miss Zue to mark the reading comprehension part. At the same time, we learned about reference words and contextual clues.

Night class : Another grammar presentation was presented. They presented about adjective and conjunction. 
As usual, every week we have one group presentation. Today's group is Izuan's group. They are presenting about CONJUNCTIONS and ADJECTIVES.
Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing in the sentence.

There are a few types of adjectives: 

Possessive adjectives

Demonstrative adjectives

Interrogative adjectives

Indefinite adjectives

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


Conjunction is conjunction is a word that connects other words or groups of words.

Use 'FANBOYS' to remember conjuction..

Want to know more about conjunctions? Just click this link. :)

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

http://eslus.com/LESSONS/GRAMMAR/POS/pos8.htm

Forum

Woo...Oooooo.........Forum????What topic?????

We need to talked today about some issues. Do you want to know? Lets guess....emmmmm...nothing!!

I was group with Nolek, Jihan, Pony and Aira. My group get a topic about:
Youth today are generally not very patriotic to the country. There are excellent panel which is can give the reasons for the solution and suggest ways to increase youth's awareness of patriotism and instill the love for one's country as well as how they can show their patriotism to their country.
Pony became the host for this forum. n the opening, Pony use a trademark 'Where is pony?' like in the AC? :)

Many thing we discuss and we came out with certain opinion about that issues.

Pop Quiz & Facts and Opinion

First of all, we learned about Facts and Opinion...We learned how to differentiate between facts and opinion.

• A fact is something that is true about a subject and can be tested or proven.

          Look for clues such as: " 56% of...., or "The patient experienced..."

• An opinion is what someone thinks about that subject.

          Look for clues such as: "I believe...", "It's obvious...", or "They should..."


Get some information and exercises from here :
http://mrsdell.org/gr2/factopinion.html
http://cuip.uchicago.edu/www4teach/97/jlyman/default/quiz/factopquiz.html


Before the class end, we were given one task of promoting one product to the whole class. Each grouped need to give some facts and some opinion about their product. My grouped was required to promote biscuit which is 'BISCUITS OREO'. We gave some opinion and some facts about the brand.

Oreo

my group

You Think You Can Act The Musical

We need to act again!!! Who wanna to be an oprah????  I'm not willing....hehehe

We had a theatre musical today. Each group had to pick a newspaper cutting, where the article's story will be the base for the group's musical. My group got an article about "Another home-alone". It was about 2 kids left alone at home by their mother while she went to work. We need to made the theatre full with songs and acting.....We tried our best, but we did not do well that day....huhuhuhu. We were struggling use the time to fulfill Miss Zue's requirements. Others groups came out with amazing performances.

BUT, I enjoy watching my member's group presented their jobs. Here have some video and picture :)

Din's group

Dinie's group

Syazwan's group

All of them are amazing with their performance.

In my opinion:

Best group : Group 3

Best Actor : Ezuan

Best Actress: Pony

Presentation Pronouns & Prepositions

Today we had a grammar class. Aira and her members was teached whole class about pronouns and preposition..Aira's members were Hanis, Leyha and Aini Nina. They said that, pronoun is a word that takes the place and to replace BUT do not name it... There have a few types of pronoun such as:

• Personal Pronouns

I, me, you, he, him, she...

• Demonstrative Pronouns

this, that, these, those

• Possessive Pronouns 

mine, yours, his...

• Interrogative Pronouns

who, what, which...

• Reflexive Pronouns 

myself, yourself, himself...

• Reciprocal Pronouns

each other, one another

• Indefinite Pronouns

another, much, nobody, few, such...

• Relative Pronouns

who, whom, which...


Here have some reference about pronouns
http://www.momswhothink.com/reading/list-of-pronouns.html

Presentation of the Linear Writing

There were 5 group that had present that night. There are a few kind of idea that each group present about their essay. 

After the presentation, there have some comment from Miss Zue. She emphasized something such as :

• The writing must have a title.
• Each key features need to add some assumptions but do not to much or extreme.
• The prediction must be in a logic state and hopefully the proposal can be accordance with the times and logics. Both of it must included in the essay.
• The word cannot more than 200 words.

Example of my group essay 

Hours spent on activities by different age groups in Someland
Activity                        Age	Teens	20s	30s	40s	50s	60s	70s +
Watching TV/videos	1,200	700	400	500	600	700	1,100
Socialising with        4 or less people	150	150	300	250	250	200	200
Socialising with        4 or more people	350	350	50	50	25	25	25
Doing individual exercise	150	100	200	200	50	75	150
Doing group exercise/spot	450	350	200	150	50	0	0
Watching movies in cinemas	100	75	50	25	25	50	75

Hours spent on activities by different age group in Someland

The table represents the hours spent on activities by different age group from teens to 70s and above in Someland. The hours spent on doing two out of all the activities shows a decreasing rate while the rest shows a fluctuating rate. (OV + CI)

The time spent on watching television slumped significantly at 30s, where it then rose at 40s+. Due to work commitments, no spare time is allocated for entertainments. (KF 1)

However, the time used on socialising with four or more people dropped by 93% with a constant rate along the age groups, as their responsibilities increases, lesser hours are spent on leisure. (KF 2)

Individual exercise shows the most inconsistent rate, from dropping by 50 at 20s to rising by 100 at 40s to falling by 150 at 50s, it then shot back up by 100 at 70s. Health issues based on old age might be the cause of the sudden boomed in hours. (KF 3)

The table indicates the reducing number of people doing group exercise from teens to 60s and above. The higher the age group the lesser the activities are carried out due to health restrictions. Government can alter this statistics by advertise the benefits of exercise through mass media. (Pi + Pii)

Main Idea (Reading)

The main idea of a passage is the thought that is present from the beginning to the end.

In finding the main idea, ask yourself these:

• What idea is common to most of the text?
• What is the idea that relates the parts to the whole?
• What opinion do all the parts support?

Paragraphs usually have 2 types of sentences:

• ------a topic sentence, which contains the main idea, and
• ------one or more detail sentences which support, prove, provide more information, explain, or give examples.

Implied main Idea means Some paragraphs have no topic sentence. This does not mean that there is no main idea in the paragraph. When a paragraph has no topic sentence, the supporting details suggest the main idea.

The main idea is implied, or unstated, which means that you have to figure it out by yourself. 

Miss Zue played some video and we need to find a suitable main idea for each of the movie.

After playing, we learned that we cannot made the main idea in a specific or general main idea. It must be balance.

The answer of the main idea

Non linear & Linear Writing

Miss Zue teach us about non-linear and linear writing. Non linear means the text is not in a paragraph like an essay, for example text in a table, graph and etc. It is in free form. While linear means sentences that are being write in a paragraph. 
We learned how to change non-linear to linear writing. 


Non-linear writing formula :

1. Title
2. Over View + Controlling Idea (OV + CI)
3. Key Features (KFs)
4. Prediction (P1) + Proposal(P2)

Steps that can be a guidance :

Ø  Spend 5 minutes reading the graphs/charts etc.

Ø  Make sure you understand axes.

Ø  Make sure you follow lines on graph.

Ø  Focus on the key information.

Ø  If two graphs – compare.

Ø  Think about the time period – tenses.

Ø  Vary your vocabulary.

Ø  Organize information clearly.

Ø  Write neatly.