Discussion

25 January 2012
We don't have class for BEL260 today. Miss Zu just want to make a conversation or more like a disscussion for our test tomorrow. To make a discussion more effective, miss Zu divided us into small group. So, miss Zu will discuss group by group at a  different time. We are discuss about the reading part and especially for the writing part which is linear to non-linear writing. Miss Zu asked for our problem for this type of writing. As miss Zu want us to do some exercise for this essay at the previous class, so we are discuss a little bit about the exercise that we have done. Miss Zu shows us an example of good essay which is Aira's essay. After looking at her essay, I can see a lot of different between my essay and Aira's essay. Okay,I think I should learn from her. So, I decided to change it back before I pass up to miss Zu. I hope it will help me a lot in test 1...

Adjective and Conjuction

19 January 2012
Again..I have 2 class for BEL260. For afternoon class, as promised to miss Zu from the previous class we will have another quiz for mid term test. The quiz is about 1 and a half hours and then we discuss for the answer for the reading comprehension part.

Night Class
Presentation for adjective and conjunction from Ezuwan's group...

ADJECTIVE

Adjective is a word that describes a noun or pronouns

black sea ( 'black'-adjective qualifies 'sea' )

happy girl ( 'happy'-adjective qualifies 'girl' )

successful man ( 'successful'-adjective qualifies 'man' )

We defined an adjective as a word used with a noun to add something for its meaning.

The clever girl also looks bautiful

clever girl- clever -it is an attribute to the noun 'girl'

1. Adjectives can be use either before the noun or after the verb.

                  e.g.   He ia an honest man.

                           The man is honest.

2. Different kinds of adjectives

• Adjectives of quantity
• Adjectives of number
• Definite numeral adjectives
• Distributive numeral adjectives
• Demonstrative adjectives
• Interrogative adjectives

More information :

http://www.referatele.com/referate/engleza/online12/The-Adjective---Types-of-adjectives-Position-of-adjectives-Comparison-of-adjectives-Adjective-patter.php

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

http://flightline.highline.edu/writingcenter/handouts/adj-types.pdf

A conjunction is a word used to join words or groups of words together.

and is used to join or add words together in the sentence They ate and drank. 

or is used to show choice or possibilities as in the sentence He will be here on Monday or Tuesday. 

but is used to show opposite or conflicting ideas as in the sentence She is small but strong. 

so is used to show result as in the sentence I was tired so I went to sleep.

Correlative conjunctions are pairs of conjunctions that work together.  In the sentence Both Jan and Meg are good swimmers, both . . .and are correlative conjunctions.  The most common correlative conjunctions are:

    both . . .and
    either . . . or
    neither . . . nor
    not only . . . but also

At the end of this presentation, they held one games for us to join. We are divide into 2 group and the representative for the group have to play for a bowling games and the winner will answer a question based on what we had learned.

More information :

http://grammar.about.com/od/c/g/conjuncterm.htm

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

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/conjunction

Mid Term Test Paper

18 January 2012
Helloooo.....
As mid term test is getting closer, Miss Zu teach us how to answer mid term test for Bel260. This mid term test consist of two question which is reading comprehension for part A and writing for part B. I think it is quite easier than BEL120. This is bacause for a writing question we only have to write an essay based on visual aids.

 Some tips: 

1.Follow Non Linear writing’s Formula:

 TITLE

1) OV + CI

2-3) KFs

  4) P(i) + P(ii)

2. Find the highest and lowest

     

3. If possible try to compare them

4. Other possible key features/points in the data provided 

         Class end early today because miss Zu has a meeting...yeay!!! but with one condition that we will have a quiz based on mid term test for the next class.

Forum

17 January 2012
Speaking???? We have did it for many times. We can re-learn this mode of being with practice especially for speaking test. Miss Zu wants us to do a forum much more likes a talk show program such as Breakfast show, Malaysia Hari ini, Selamat Pagi Malaysian and others. I think I did't like this activity so much as it is too formal. We can only talk more to fact about the task. However, it help me a lot on how to solve the problem by giving reason and suggestion.

My group members for this talk show are Nina, Rahey, Syazwan and Amalina. We have divided into five group and five members for each group. After that, we are given one task and we have to solve it by giving reason, effect and also a suggestion to solve this problem. This is our task :
The cost of things has sky-rocketed over the last five years. Managing our finances is becoming more and more difficult. Discuss the reason for the prices increase and suggest some solutions to this problem.


Reason :

• Inflation
• Lack of resources
• Competition

Effect :

• High living cost
• Corruption
• poverty

Suggestion :

• Ceilling price to protect consumer
• Campaign on financial management

According to this activity, I think the best group is group 4 which is Elya's group as they have interesting contain on their point. The best panel for this activity is Megat. While, the best host is Farhani. This is because   she is very funny and act spontaneously. I think if she has her own show, everyone will enjoy her show.

Fact and Opinion

12 January 2012
I'd like to share with you what I have learned for today. Normally we only have one class for thursday but for today we have two class for BEL260. One class in the afternoon for replacement class and class in the evening. For afternoon class, as we have learned about linear to non-linear essay, miss Zu decide to make a pop quiz for this topic. We take about one hour for this quiz.

Night Class
What is the difference between fact and opinion??? The difference between fact and opinion is that a fact is something that is empirically true and can be supported by evidence, while an opinion is a belief that may or may not be backed up with some type of evidence. An opinion is normally a subjective statement that can be the result of an emotion or an individual interpretation of a fact. For example, biological differences between males and females are a fact while a preference for one gender over the other is opinion. It is hard to find whether the sentences is fact or opinion especially when it goes to reading comprehension. There are some tips on how to differentiate between this two things...

Facts :

• Things known for certain to have happened
• Things known for certain to be true
• Things known for certain to exist

Opinion :

• Things believed to have happened
• Things believed to be true
• Things believed to exist

EXAMPLE :

     1.     More and more women are deciding to give birth to their children at home. A hospital, 
          after all, is not the best place for a baby to be born. FACT

2.     B. J. Vukovich, author of Claws, the best-written novel of the disaster genre, will speak at tonight’s “How I Became An Author” meeting. OPINION

3.     The national coal strike, now into its seventh week, has caused untold hardships on the miners, their families, and the rest of the winter-weary nation. FACT

4.     Janet Guthrie, world famous auto racer, was the least nervous driver at the Indy 500. OPINION

5. Once the cavity reaches the dentin (the hard, dense, bone-like material that composes the principal mass of the tooth), it must be cleaned and filled. Some researchers, however, are beginning to question whether periodic cleaning and checking of the enamel (the calcareous substance that forms a thin layer capping the teeth) plays a significant role in preventing tooth decay. FACT

At the end of the class, we join the activity on distinguishing between fact and opinion. We are divided into group of 5 and each group have to pick one of the product that miss Zu have put it in one box. We have to make 10 sentences of fact and opinion and other group will guess whether it is fact or opinion. For my group we got a product of oreo with vanilla flavour. yummy!!! For this activity, Rahey's group is considered as a winner as they got higher mark differ from other group.

More Information :
http://ethemes.missouri.edu/themes/1650

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-difference-between-fact-and-opinion.htm

http://languagearts.pppst.com/fact-opinion.html

http://www.worsleyschool.net/socialarts/factopinion/factopinion.html

Acting Again!!!!

11 January 2012

So you think you can act? This is the activity we have to do for today. For the first time when miss Zu asked to act in musical acting, I feel this is so hard for us to do so. But, as we have divided into a group of 5 and discuss with my group members, I feel very excited to do this task and I think this activity is very fun as we can act and in the same time can sing a song especially a song that we love. However, I am not satisified with my group performance as we are not prepared for this activity at all. I think 30 minutes is not enough for us to discuss and make some rehearsal. I would like to apologise to miss Zu as we are not perform well in this activity. I hope I can do better in the next activity.
Based on this activity, I think the best group of this activity is group 5 which is Megat's group. The best actor is Izaudin and the best actress is Farhani as both of them perform very well in this activity.

Preposition and Pronouns

10 January 2012

PREPOSITION

Definition: A word that shows the relationships between a noun or pronoun and others words in sentences.

•       Prepositions can be used with verbs and the combination is called phrasal verbs.

•       Phrasal verbs carry totally different meanings and its depends on the prepositions used.

•       Examples: look after, look into

    →She has to look after her younger sister since her parents have gone out.

   →The headmaster promised to look into discipline case.

•       Preposition may be used at the end of wh-questions

      ◊Who are they angry with?

Prepositions of time

at two o'clock 

on Wednesday 

in an hour, in January; in 1992 

for a day

Prepositions of place 

at my house 

in New York, in my hand 

on the table 

near the library 

across the street 

under the bed 

  between the books

Preposition of movement

Sarah walked across the street

I've never been to Africa.

The cat jumped onto the roof.

You shouldn't walk through the forest.

We ran towards the castle.

You shouldn't go into the castle.

More information :

http://eslus.com/LESSONS/GRAMMAR/POS/pos7.htm

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

http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/prepositionmovement.htm

PRONOUNS

Definition : we use personal pronouns when we want to refer to people, animals, plants or things.

•  when you are referring to many people, animals or things, use they.
• If you want to refer to the person or people you are talking to, use you.   

Singular

Person	Subject	Object	Possessive	Intensive Reflexive
1st	I	me	mine	myself
2nd	you	you	yours	yourself
3rd	he/she/it	him/her/it	his/hers	himself/herself/itself

Plural

Person	Subject	Object	Possessive	Intensive  Reflexive
1st	we	us	ours	ourselves
2nd	you	you	yours	yourselves
3rd	they	them	theirs	themselves

Examples :

1. I called the lecturer because the preparation for the presentation was worrying me. My partner and I were confused. We were not clear about what was expected of us.
2. He told the police what had happened to him. They are investigating the case ang my friend is leaving it to them.
3. She fried the fish and ate it.
4. She was teasing the horse. It chased her and kicked her in the head.

• Sometimes we add suffixes -self (singular) or -selves (plural) to words like my, your, him, her, it, our, and them.

1. We do this when we want to refer to the subject of the sentence.

         He cut himself while shaving.

         They blamed themselves for the accident.

         You only have yourself to blame.

     2. To mean 'by itself' or 'without help'

         The computer turned on all the lights in the room by itself.

         She did the work herself.

         He went from room to room himself.

 
     3. Possessive pronouns

          This book is his. (for a boy or man)

          This house is hers. (for a lady)

          I use this pen every day. It is mine. (it belongs to me)

          We live in this house. It is ours. (it belongs to us)

          They have a red car. It is theirs. (it belongs to them)

 More Information :

http://eslus.com/LESSONS/GRAMMAR/POS/pos6.htm

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

http://www.momswhothink.com/reading/list-of-pronouns.html