Ending Of BEL260 class...

Many things I had learned from this class this semester as compared to last semester. This all from Miss Zuraidah binti Sumery that I always called 'Miss Zue'. She wants all her student to be good in english. She teached us very well. I more open and close on grammar this semester. In this class, Miss Zue love to made her teaching lesson fully with activities such as acting, singing, wrote & recite poem, forum and very useful to us is presentation on grammar part. Maybe, next semester all of this kinds activities will not be appear anymore. I think next sem when we have others lecture maybe the teaching lesson will be change too. 

Taadaa!!! my classmate with my lovely lecture....:)

have fun along this semester with them.

OMG!!.what will happen next....I love BEL 260 class, can I stay in this class?? BUT I don't want to repeat this paper!! hopefully NOT! I cross my finger...tightly.... :)

see!! my weird lecture, but she is the best among the best!!

Miss Zue love to change her teaching lesson because she want to attract her students' attention and she don't  want her students to be sleepy in her class... I APPRECIATE Miss Zue's kindness because understanding all of  us.

I LOVE entered BEL260 class because of the lecture that always energetic although she was tired. I never skipped this class...heeeee:) Ms Zue always made a joke and in class, sometimes she likes teasing her students, but it was funny.....when she teached, she loves to repeat the same words, it is really good, it made me more remembered and concious, for example definition and vocabulary such as WEIRD=BIZARRE. Her teaching lesson also EXCELLENT+SUPERB...keep it continues, keep it on the activities, it was fun while learning..:) It is hard to find lecture same to Miss Zue, I will miss Miss Zue....huhuhuu... Thanks to Miss Zu for all your hardwork and sorry for everything.. I will miss moment with you..GUDLUCK TO MISS ZUE. pray for our examination..

Purpose & Author's Tone

Author's Purpose

Authors have several purpose in mind when writing something. They wrote an essay sometimes to :

• Inform
• Entertain
• Persuade

All of this things can make us know their real purpose on their writing. Maybe they want to inform something to the reader,to give entertainment or to persuade the reader. There are a lot of kind of writing with their own purpose..

If the passage contains 

• facts or true information = to inform or teach
• fiction = to entertain
• tries to get you to do something = to persuade or convince 

Here have some information: 

http://www.woodland.k12.mo.us/faculty/rgarner/Reading/Authors%20puropse.htm

Author's Tone

For author's tone, there have 2 basics tone with are :

1. Positive 
2. Negative

We can see the tone after we understand the text either it is positive tone or negative tone. We can tell if the writer is showing  a positive attitude or a negative attitude through his word choice.

• sarcastic
• optimistic
• pessimistic
• indifferent
• cynical
• bitter
• encouraging
• mocking
• praising

In this class, we had made some exercise about this topic. At the end, we can differentiate it.

Click here : http://www.laflemm.com/RfT/Practice/RfTPracticeTone.html

Presentation Passive Voice & Pop Quiz

Last part of grammar we learned today...It was 'passive voice' that were presented by Nabila, Nina, Megat and I. My group and I were prepared the slide then we presented it to the whole class. Miss Zue helped us to explained to my classmates about this topic.
Passive Voice :  the subject of the sentences receives the action.
In passive voice, the object becomes the subject. For example :
Active voice : Din ate fried noodle. ( Din = subject, fried noodle = object )
Passive voice : Fried noodle was eaten by Din. ( Din = object , fried noodle=subject )
We can see the changes of the object and the subject from this sentences.
You can learn many things about passive voice through this :
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive


After the presentation, we had a POP QUIZ, but this time in a groups' work. I always nervous when there have whatever quiz, test or examination.. I feel like butterfly in my stomach, so I cross my finger, that time. Nervous!!Nervous!!Nervous!!.....Ohhh..hard to be calm..
This pop quiz was about argumentative essay, that we already learned before this. Writing again....Common Sue!! improve your writing skills!!! All of us were divided into group.This is the good news for us BUT( big but here) each person needs to write one paragraph and each person was given 15minutes per paragraph...huhuhuhu... the time will always limits..Megat, Eyla, Amalina and I were in one group. This essay was about parental negligence. 
Megat wrote the introduction, Malin wrote the 1st main idea, I the 2nd main idea and  the 3rd main idea was wrote by Elya. Then, for the conclusion, we discuss a little bit.. We settle down this essay on time!! great job for that day........

	Subject	Verb	Object

Argumentative Essay

Miss Zue said, to wrote argumentative essay we need to have a STANDS, so can came out with a few of main idea,so it can support our stands about that isssue.....In  arguementative essay it contains a introduction paragraph, body paragraphs, refutation paragraph and concluding paragraph.

She teached us how to wrote proper argumentative essay... Start from inroduction until the conclusion. Then she gave us one title about “why women nowadays are bolder and more aggressive than men”, so we need to write about that issue.....on Friday we need to pass up that essay...

I'd just discovered this web and I find it really helpful. I hope you think so too.
http://www.writeawriting.com/essay/argumentative-essay-outline-template/ 

Drawing Conclusion

“Drawing conclusions is a form of critical thinking. It is relates what you see, hear and read to what you already know”. Every essay need a conclusion to ending the essay. It will show a complete essay. We need to draw a conclusion using all the facts that we can find in the passage to help us to figure out what we do not know.

Here are some expressions that point to a conclusion :

Ø  We can deduce that

Ø  Therefore

Ø  As a result

Ø  Prove that

Ø  Points to the fact that

Ø  It is believed that


Get some Information here :
http://www.sanchezclass.com/drawing-conclusion.htm

Making Inferences

Today class we learned about making inferences. Miss Zue played some video, before the movie ends, we need to infer about that movie, at the same time we need to list down the end about the movie or what will ahppen next after we making inferences...Lastly we need to compare the movie ending with our result...

TITLT/EVENT	WHAT WE THINK WILL    HAPPEN	CLUES FROM THE VIDEO CLIPS	WHAT REALLY HAPPEN
Grenade	The man will be broken heart.	The woman is unfaithful.	He will kill himself
A walk to remember.	He will get angry to those who humiliate his girlfriend and defend her.	The man hugged the woman to calm his girlfriend.	The guy will punch the bad guy to protect the girl’s dignity.

Presentation Simple Past Tense & Past Continous Tense

Last presentation about grammar part. It is made by Jihan’s group ang Ifah’s group. This grammar part we need to learn very carefull. It is hard to explain if we are not understand deeply about this part.

When to used simple past tense :

1.      To talk about actions that happen at a specific time in the past.
You state when it happened using a time adverb.
2.      It can be used to described events that happened over a period of the time in the past but not now.
3.      It is also used to talk about habitual or repeated actions that took place in the past.

Spelling rules for simple past tense of regular verbs :

If the verbs ends in a consonant, +ed

E.g: return- returned

        help- helped

        cook- cooked

If the verbs ends in e, +d

E.g: live- lived

       create- created

If the verb ends in a consonant –vowel-consonant combination ( CVC ), double the last consonant  and +ed

E.g: hop- hopped

        rub- rubbed

Exception : word ending in _w, x, or _y (bow-bowed, play-played, mix-mixed)
If the verb ends in a consonant +y, change the _y to _i and _ed

E.g: worry- worried

        copy- copied

If the verb ends in a vowel +y, add _ed

E.g: play- played

        annoy- annoyed

Exception : pay- paid, lay-laid, say- said

Very important notes. From Nolek's group.
What is past continuous tense? 
The past continuous tense is used to show an action that lasted for some time in the past. The actions can be interrupted by something or can be happening at the same time.


After everything is done, both group combine the game which is play a musical chair. Each  group has 6 people. They use “move like jagger” song. Final game, they open a question and any group can answer it. The reward for open question will get cool blog.BUT my group did not get the cool blog..

Presentation Simple Present Tense & Present Continous Tense

Today was my group presentation with Elya and Amalina. We were present about 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 

 Megat’s group were present about Present Continous Tense. We present on the same day because this title had related each other.

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

How to Write Inroduction for Paragraph

How to write introduction for an essay??? Every essay will have introduction paragraph. In this paragraph, it will gave some explanation abot the title. The Hook are designed to grab attention immediately and give some indication aboout the essay’s topic.Therefore, there have a few types of Hooks that we can use to start the paragraph.

·         Personal examples

·         Quotations

·         Facts or Statistics

·         Rhetorical Questions

·         Current events

·         Contrast to the Thesis Statement

·         Defination

Then we can put ‘The Transition’. It can moves the reader from the hook to the driving force of the essay.

Lastly , the intro can be ends with the thesis. It makes the contract with the reader about what will be discussed without a transparent announcement.

Elya, Amalina and I did the contrast the thesis statement hook. We choose topic about gays.

Listening Test

Listening Test!!OMG....I know about this news on this morning!!I was shocked for a minute...Why i do not know about this matter...I did not prepared anything for this exam..

Hopefully I can do the best...........Chaiyokk!!!

Speaking Test 2nd day

Speaking test for grouped 5,6 and 7..My round was past yesterday...Hooraiiiyyy.......:) Enough For speaking test yesterday....

Speaking Test

Speaking test today....can I do it?? Butterfly in my stomach,ohhh God....How should I face this day?? Tounge twister suddenly in my mind....

I was nervous and shaking while waiting another group to settle down their speaking test. Elya, Ezwan and I was on the same group. My group’s topic was about ‘How graduates can improve their job interviews’. in this discussion, I cannot speak well, but in my heart there were a lot of idea...the ideas cannot come out from my mouth...I do not know why!!

But, we still finished the discussion....I will improve my skill on speaking..

Listening Trial & Presentation Adverb & Subject Agreement

Today have a little bit exercise on listening practise on the class... We heard the video and do some exercise. This can make us to be more common with the style of listening test.



ADVERBS
First of all, let me tell you what is adverbs?


Adverbs are words that modify:
a VERB
an ADJECTIVES
ANOTHER ADVERBS



More information about this? You can click this link:
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/adverbs.htm


Subject Agreement

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

Speaking Exercise

Speaking practise for today. Miss Zue gave explanation about the rules. She teached one by one steps to made the speaking test in good conditions. In the speaking test, there have two section, which is part A and part B.

Then she showed one example of the speaking test will go on. She pick 4 students for example. While them spoke, we loooked at them and try to understand how it being flow... in Part a, we only need to come out with our own point and elaboration. But in the part B, we need to make a discussion with group members. Give our point of view and opinion.

Lastly, each person need to make short conclusion about the discussion, which points is the best...