My Hope

I'm new here....This is my first writing on this page. If I have make a mistake in my post, I'm so sorry because I poor in english. I did well created this blog helped by my lovely friends. They teach me how to create it. I was over the moon when I have this blog. I create this blog because of my BEL 260 lecture Miss Zuraidah. She wants us to learn english through writing in blog, so I need to fulfill her request. In addition I can improved my english skill...so Enjoy in Writing & Reading........

Wednesday 29 February 2012

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..




Tuesday 28 February 2012

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: 

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.

Monday 27 February 2012

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




Thursday 23 February 2012

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/ 

Wednesday 22 February 2012

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


Tuesday 21 February 2012

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.

Thursday 16 February 2012

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..