The closure

Our last class..........

We were not going to be every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday again. We were not goint to pay RM1 if we were late anymore. We were not goint to act, sing and recite a poem anymore.

Everything that comes may end. And so we are.

Miss Zue, just so you know, I love your class even sometimes my face looked like I don't like it. It just my emotion are easily disturbed by the environment. I'm sorry if it hurts you. Thanks for being an awesome English lecturer.

I don't like and never like language before. Maybe because I am a Maths person?? Errrr. But you changed it a little. I manage to learn to love to learn language and I did it. I started to pay attention during grammar class and tried to apply it on my writing. Thank you! 

Do you know why my persepsion on languange change? I used to think language is no fun and bias but now it is changed. I could now enjoy my language class :) Why? Because of Miss Zue's attractive ways of teaching.

keep it up miss! I know writing this blog is not such a fun at first and I don't think it got benefits writing it but now after I blogged, I realised that when we learnt, we tend to forget it after that but when we rewrite it after the class, we will remember 80% more.

Eventhough I wrote it during the end of the semester :/ (im being so honest. sorry miss)

but still I got the benefits. I tend to recall what I've learnt throughout this semester and yeahh finally I realised. It is one good way to teach Miss. Keep it up :) hehehee.

Suggestion? Hmmm I don't know. I think you should just remain the same style of teaching. It is cool :D

We enjoyed eating a lot of snacks that Miss Zue bought using the money that had been contributed by the late comers. Hahaha. Well food. JAC110A loves food so much! But I envy those who eat a lot and never gets fat! Grrr!

Pray for us for our final exam Miss Zue. <3 Lots of love from us. Thank you :) All the best for your life

Purpose and Tone :D

Miss Zue asked our class to print out past three semester final exam question. We need it in order to make us more familiar to the format of the paper and how the question will be like. Two of the questions ask about the purpose and tone so on this class we learnt about it :)

There are four purpose of the author in general :-

1) to entertain - the author tells something or someone in an interesting way like short story, novel or gossip article maybe???

2) to persuade - the author tries to change our opinion on any topic or issue by appealing our emotion. It usually comes in advertisement.

3) to instruct-the author will expalin or teach the readers on how to do something.  Usually teh author will provide knowledge to the reader through this purpose.

4) to describe - the author often describe to support other purposes in writing. they use it to create a character, set a mood or envision a scene.

Tone whereby is the uses of the word of the author or his/her styles of writing to demonstrate their idea towards the issue.

There are so many tones like sarcastic, cynical, optimistic, objective, pessimistic, bitter, mocking, compasionate and much more.

Okay this is all for this class. Pstt... Want to know what happen to our last class? Read my coming post :'( and.... we will be getting our quiz on the argumentative essay mark.

Pop my Berry oh my Pop Quiz with the passive voice

Hey hey hey. Last lecture's week :( So this post gonna be the third last post :(

During this class, Megat, Nina, Sue and Bella were given task to present something for us to learn on that day. We learnt about passive voice before we were doing our pop quiz. Got any idea on passive voice? No? Okay read futher, I'll tell you briefly about it and then you may google more information about it. I've inserted some links too :) and yeah, the pictures does help too :D

Read the text in the picture and now move to the next picture.....

still blur? Okay. Its because the top picture is not appropriate to explain how the active voice turns too passive voice. But the sentence is true okay.

Let me create a new example for you to understand okay? I give you a very simple and casual example to make you understand more easily. If you want to read more example, you may read it in the link that I will give later

Active Voice:

Baddrol(subject) loves(verb) Aireen(object)

Passive Voce:

Aireen(object) is loved(verb to be + past participle) by Baddrol(subject)

Okay now see the different??

For more details and knowledge, click this link http://votebits.com/uses-of-active-voice-passive-voice/ :)

After the presentation, we were having a pop quiz on argumentative essay but we did it in group. My groupmates? Who else? Hefa, Salina and Pony lah :) The first writer is Salina followed by Pony, me and Hefa. the closure are made by us all.

It was.... hmmm good. But I think because of the environment, which was when we were doing the essay some of us who were involved during writing the particular paragraph, they were chit chatting to each other. And we are the kepoh people also want to join the chit chat so the essay is not so good :( our bad.

When we were done with the essay, the class ended. Like any other days, PASAR MALAM timeeee! Hahahaahaha.

It is the same routine from the beginning of the semester until now :) Hihi okay thats all for now. Byeeeee

Argue..............mentative..... Essay????

" Argue? Fight? What do you learn in UiTM Segamat? Do you learn to fight? Haa? "

Hey! Don't freak out. Read my tittle again. It is argumentative essay. I learn on how to write an argumantative essay not to argue or fight. Haha. Okay let's straight to the point. Argumentative essay, in my own words, it means like you write an essay to fight or argue with people than against your stand on one particular issue.

For example:

You are agree with a statement says 'we should go shopping alone' while another party is against it. Here is the function of arguemantative essay. You are allowed to give out your points to support you stand.

You got me?

Okay but due to the format for examination, our argumentative essay will be written like this.

5 paragraph of 350-400 words.

1st paragraph will be the Introduction.
2nd, 3rd and 4th will be the body paragraph where you can spill all your points :)
5th paragraph will be the conclusion.

Haaaa here I want to tell you abou the conclusion part. It will be a little bit different from any other essay's conclusion. In argumentative essay, the conclusion part needs to be included the refutation. It is needed to make your point more magnificient. When you refute the other opinion, people might think back and they might agree with you :)

Oh by the way, the mark is not based on how you could influence the examiner. You will be marked based on your language, content(how you presented your points) and your organization.

The most important part of this essay is...........

it going to be the question for partB in the final exam :3

Pray for me that I can't write using proper grammar and I am able to squeze my brain so that all the best ideas will come out :) hehehehe

Conclusion

"Give your conclusion for Paragraph 3" "What can you conclude from the second paragraph" ......

That are what might be asked during the final exam for the reading section. So on this day, we learnt on how to make a conclusion.

A conclusion should

• stress the importance of the thesis statement,
• give the essay a sense of completeness, and
• leave a final impression on the reader.

So based on these suggestions on how to write a conclusion, the technic on how to make a conclusion is more vivid is not it?

Besides that, conclusion also usually answer the question 'WHAT?' Conclusion must be something that give an impact to the reader. 

After about 1 hour and 5 minutes of lecture on how to make a conclusion, we moved to the activity! JAC1102A loves video!! Miss Zue knew it so she always give activity that relate to video. We watched some videos just like during the making inference activity but this time, we watched it until the end :D

There goes the application on what we had learnt..... We had to make a conclusion on the video :D

On of the videos is Bad Day by Daniel Powter. It is my favourite song everrrrr :)

Thanks Miss for a great class :)

simple past and past continous tense

Yeahhh. Group presentation again and again I'm going to let the expert to explain it to you. I'm just not confident to use my own words to explain. Don't worry, I've read the link before I gave it to you so, trust me :)


Simple Past Tense

the link :
http://iwanttobeagrammargoddess.blogspot.com/2011/04/simple-past-tense.html this link includes some notes about past continuous tense too :)
http://interactingwiththepastense.blogspot.com/2011/04/use-of-simple-past.html this link does not help much on the spelling but it does tell you about the uses of simple past tense :)

Past Continuous Tense

the link:
http://www.englishtenses.com/tenses/past_continuous
http://englishdailyworkout.blogspot.com/2011/03/past-continuous-tense-review.html

I think, the pictures do give you a looooottttt of information. For me, when it comes to this past tense, present tense, continuous tense, the problem is, when we have to use it. So now, the links are given. Just click :)

Predict, assume and conclude???

Inference means making a logical conclusion based on evidence which is assumed to be true. We learnt on making inference. Yeayy! We can interpret gossip more easily this time! Oupsss! I am just joking. Heheee :D

Okay okay lets go back to the serious part. Hoho. Making inference is important to make us more easy to understand the text. When we understand the text, to answer the question is not a problem.

For the practise part, we were going to watch some videos and Miss Zue will suddenly pause the video. Based on the clues given before Miss Zue paused the video, we need to infer what will happen next :)

We didn't win :'( so sad. Huhu. Nevermind, we will try again next time. Hehe :)

Till next post. Byeee :)


psssstt: Bruno Mars is soooooooo handsome. Don't you think so?? XD

Simple Present Tense & Simple Continous Tense

Grammar part again. Elya's and Megat's group are going to present on this time.
I don't really know how to explain it to you guys, so I will just leave it to the expert :)

Simple Present Tense

link for Simple present tense.
i)http://iwanttobeagrammargoddess.blogspot.com/2011/04/simple-present-tense.html this girl really made an effort to improve her grammar and our's too. You should try to visit her link too :) You won't upset
ii)www.eslgold.com/grammar/simple_present.html


Simple Continuous Tense

link for Simple Continous Tense
i)http://renodal3.blogspot.com/2011/11/present-simple-or-continuous.html
ii)www.eclecticenglish.com/grammar/PresentContinuous1A.html


Sorry guys. I'm afraid that I might give a wrong information and you might get confused :/ Sorryy

Lets judge an essay by it's introduction??

We were done with Speaking Test, Listening Test and Mid-term Test. Alhamdulillah. Now, we are going to focus on the final exam question paper which consists of reading and writing part. Writing part would be an essay of 350-400 words :S

Basicly, as we know, an essay will have the introduction, body(elaboration of the point) and conclusion. During high school, we were only focused on the body part but now, we will learn how to write an intro like an expert xD

An introduction should start with a hook to grab the reader's attention. Miss Zue tought us 7 types of hook which are:

1)Facts & statistics
2)Personal experience
3)Definition
4)Rhetorical question
5)Contrast to thesis statement
6)Current event
7)Quotation

After the hook, we need to write transition to move the reader to the more serious part which is the point. The last part of the introduction is the thesis statement to make contract with the reader. It does not have to be too specific. Relax. We still have a lot of paragraph to jot down our ideas :D Hihi.

Okay, I want to do the homework that Miss Zue gave us. Byebyeeee!! <3

Listening Test

Finally the day has come :) Errr should I smile? :| It was held on Friday after the MGT class. From 12pm till 1pm. Some of Miss Zue's friends students join the test.

Actually, we were among the latest who sat for the test. We should sit it on 2nd of February but because Nina, Bella, Din, Nolek,  Taufik and I were going for a camp, we did it on this day.

Alhamdulillah, I think I was doing well for the test. I hope the mark will be okay too :)

Speaking Test.

We were the second group to be tested for speaking part. We only need to come for our test only and during the other time the other group are tested, we could get some rest :)

Our topic is how to reduce the number of girl teenagers that involve in unhealthy diet. The point given to me is the consultancy of the parents on what their child purchasing on food. Yea again, I don't like my point. Huhu I really should be candidate C because I like Hefa's point which is the influence of teacher.

I was doing suck! T_____T sorry Miss!

Please pray for me :') Thank you!

We learnt a lottttt for today

Listening exercise again ...

We were doing the listening exercise again. This time I got better mark :) I've learnt from the mistakes I made during the last exercise. Hehee. I got 13/15. Quite good is not it? :P

After the exercise, it is time for another grammar presentation that discuss about Subject-Verb-Agreement and Adverbs by the Komander's group.It was great because......... we were awarded with food when we answered correctly for the game. Yippiiii! All the classmates wer so happy because... Yeah we are hungry monsterrrrrr! We love foooddd <3

Subject-Verb-Agreement tells you about how Subjects and Verbs must agree one another in number(singular or plural). In a simple word, singular subject must be with singular verb while plural subject must be with plural verb.

Singular?? Singular stands for 1 person while plural stands for more than 1 person like we, them, their. But there is a special case for You. We consider it as plural verb :) Don't get confuse!

For more information on subject-verb-agreement, click on this link :D
www.grammarbook.com/grammar/subjectVerbAgree.asp




Adverbs are words that modify verb, adjective and another adverb.

We have 5 kinds of adverbs which are adverbs of manner(answer the question how), adverbs of place(answer the question where), adverbs of time(answer the question when or how often), adverbs of degree(answer how much) and adverbs of frequency(answer the question how frequent or how often).

Conjunctive adverbs - connects the idea expressed in different sentence. The examples are however, futhermore, also, moreover, still and therefore.

For more information on adverbs, click on this link :D
www.englishclub.com/grammar/adverbs.htm

Okay that is all for this entry. I'll update more later okay. Oh yeahh. We are going to have speaking test next week

Speak baby speak

We were done with the listening practises and we moved on to the speaking practises :D Yeay still, the format is the same with BEL120 format.

The test need to be in group consist of four members. My groupmates are Pony, Hefa and Salina. We will be given two tasks which are:-
Task A- we need to elaborate our own point given.
Task B- we need to discuss which are the best point based on all the points of other group members too.

After Miss Zue described how the test will be done, four lucky students are selected to do the practises. I was selected T_______T another lucky students are Elya, Ezuwan and Megat. The topic that we got is benefits of online shopping.

I love Megat's point and I don't like mine T__T I knew I was suck for Task A but I felt I was doing a good job for Task B. Errr ???

I hope I will do better in the real Speaking Test which is...... next week.

Listen baby listen

Another on-going-assessment beside the test is listening test and speaking test. Both of it carry 15% of marks respectively. The format of the test most likely to be similar to BEL120 but yeah, up one level on it :D

So today, to prepare us with the test, Miss Zue gave us some practises. When we are doing any listening activities, we really need to lend our ears and pay 100% attention to it because if we missed one word, we might get the wrong info.

As my self practises, I listened to random English song and I wrote down the lyrics. After that, I checked whether the what I wrote is similar with what I actually heard.

psssss: another secret to prepare myself to this test is,,,, don't forget to remove your ear's wax xD

Thursdayyyyyyyyy

We had two classes for this day which are class at the noon and night class. For the noon class, we did our quiz and after we were done with the quiz, we were asked to mark the comprehension part so that Miss Zue will only has to mark the essay and we will get the result earlier.

For me, the test was tough. It was taken from a MUET test. No wonder. I got only 5/10 for the quiz. I think, I need to improve on the essay part. Errr comprehension too. Err okay both! Huhu :(

Our lecture are proceed with another grammar presentation. The first boy's group. They are going to present about adjectives and conjunction. 

Adjectives is word that decribes noun or adding value to it.

For example:
Azhari is a tall boy.

The noun is Azhari and the adjective that describes Azhari is tall.

You got me?

Yeah?? You cool! *claps*

For more information, you may click this link www.writingcentre.uottawa.ca/hypergrammar/adjectve.html or this one www.grammaruntied.com/blog/?p=1413


Conjuction whereby means link to connect words, phrases and clauses.

For example:
I ate Nasi Lemak and fried bihun.

and in the word connect nasi lemak and fried bihun. It shows that I ate both :O example okay example.

For more information on conjuction, you may click this link www.writingcentre.uottawa.ca/hypergrammar/conjunct.html :)

Consultation and ...... TEST????

Why are we doing the same thing again and again?  Non Linear Essay again? Yes. We did it again. This kind of essay need skill on how to correlate the points and make assumptions so it needs a loooootttt of practise.

On this day, we had like a personal consultation on non linear essay. We came in group of 4 and met Miss Zue. We had the changes to ask whatever we wanted to ask that we might feel shy to ask during class.

It might seem like a small thing but it does give quite a big impact on me as my mark for section B is improved compare to the mark for the quiz :DD

After the consultation, I just knew that we need to correlate the point not just traslating the graph/pie chart/table or whatever it is given. The marks are given on the organisation, language and content.

Oranisation - how we write the essay and we organize it
Language - how we apply our grammar skills :D
Content - haaa, the most mark come from here. The examiner will see how you correlate the points and make assumption :)

The next day is the test :S

For me, non linear essay was a little bit, just a bit easier compared to the quiz. Alhamdulillah. May be I felt it was easier because Miss Zue had consulted me. Like I said, it does give a big impact on me.

By the way, the test going to carry 20% mark for the final result. What a big portion is not it? So I must do the best of the best for this test :)

Wish me all the best guys D:

Are you ready for the mid-sem test????

CTU at night! Argghhhhhhh! Bel quiz on the next day? What? This is what happened to us during that week. We were so busy with tests and quizzes. It suprised Miss Zue as when she entered the class, it was so quite. Bizzarre is not it? JAC1102A was not noisy? Yeahhh. The test and quiz are the answer.

Enough for that. During this class, we dismissed earlier as Miss Zue got some work to be done and ....... she would like to give us chance to revise for the night test! Thank you Miss you! You are being so niceeeeee.

On this class, we were exposed to our mid-term exam paper format. It consists of two section, Part A which is comprehension and Part B which is writing the non-linear text. I've told you about the non-linear text right? :) So this time we are doing it again to enhance our skill :)

So, wish all the best for tomorrow quiz! :D

The JAC1102A's Show

Hi, its me again. Like what you have read in my previous post, you might see that we had a lot of activities which are adapted from the popular tv show.This time, we are doing the talk show! :D My group topic was about the issue of price of goods and services that keep increasing from day to day.

My groupmates are Nina, Galang, Iffah and Amallina. I was the host and the other member became the panels. From here, I realised that being host is not an easy task as we really have to know the topic that we discussed so well and I just, can't because I don't have much idea to talk :X

The best group, I think is Pony's group. Reason why I choose them is because the way the host attracted us to keep an eye on their group talk impressed me. Well, about the point, I think all the group are doing just the same so the evaluation will be based on the host :D

Fact and Opinion

Fact is something which tells what actually happend and it can be proven whether it is right or wrong. While opinion is what someone thinks of feels and it cant be proven.

Decribing adjective is an opinion. For example, Rahey is a tall girl. Tall that descrice Rahey is not a fact because for Hefa and Pony, Rahey is tall but for Elya and Ezuwan, Rahey is short :( Thus it is an opinion because we can't prove whether Rahey is tall or short.

Usually sentence that involve time is a fact. For example, 1st of February is the date of the match.

The ball is square in shape. Eventhough the statement is wrong it is still a fact because we can prove that the statement is wrong as we all know the ball is round in shape.

For more information we can click on this link. languagearts.pppst.com/fact-opinion.html

After the lesson, we played some game about the fact and opinion. One representor of the group have to take one magic thing in Miss Zue basket. 

We need to be a 'promoter' and promote the thing that we get from the basket. In the promote, we need to include fact and opinion. The other group have to guess how many fact and opinion are in the promotion. Our group won :DDDD

Pronouns and prepositions are the topic that Hanis's group will presented.

Pronouns is the name to the nouns. It usually used to refer to the noun.
For example:-
Baddrol is a man. He is 24 years old.

Due to the example. Baddrol is the noun. In the second sentence, we use He to refer to Baddrol. It is used to avoid redundant.

For more information about pronouns, click here pronounspronouns

Prepositions is word that relate the noun and pronoun in one sentence or to connect one sentence to another. We have 3 types of preposition which are 

Preposition of Time - to show when
Preposition of Place - to show where

Preposition of Movement - to show what

I get more information about preposition at this link www.writingcentre.uottawa.ca/hypergrammar/preposit.html :)

some exampl of preposition

So you think you can act????? The MUsical~

" What? A new TV Series is on 8TV? What? JAC1102A students will play the character? Can they act? Will the sing? "

" Hey! Don't underestimated us! We can do it! "

I bet if we practise more and more, Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron should just retired. Haha okay Im just kidding.

Outdoor class again! I LOVEEEEE! We were given an article and we need to act and sing song related to the storyline.

Our songs are Because of you and Price Tag.

Ezuwan: The husband
Pony: The wife in the 1900s
Saline: The wife in the 2000s
Hefa: the daughter
Me: The narrator and the Boss

Our storyline is like this.

We show the different of women in 1900s and 2000s. Most women in 1900s rely on their husband to support their life as they are not working but the women in 2000s are indiependent as they have their own sources of money.....

In my very opinion, as I dont act in this activity, I think the best actor and actress come from my own group. Haha. But still, Dinie and Bella are the best actress from the other group. :)

Non Linear Text to Linear Text

We learnt about how to change non linear text to linear text. Non linear text is graphically presented and linear text is ordinary text. Like this. This is part of our final exam question so we must focus a lotttt moreeeeeee!

We have to interpret the non linear text given. The non linear text might be a graph, table or pie chart. (as shown below)

The essay should be not more that 200 words because it just need to write fact not babbling like any other fiction essay. The time allocate for this part is 40 minutes. It is quite a lot of time but when we do the essay we won't realise that the time flies so fast.

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/sport	450	350	200	150	50	0	0
Watching movies in cinemas	100	75	50	25	25	50	75

We are given the formula to write this essay which is......

Tittle

OV+CI

KFs

P(i) P(ii)

The tittle is a must for this essay. Our mark will be deducted if we do not write the tittle. It carry 1 mark if not mistaken and it needs to be underlined.

The OV is overview which tells what the essay is interpreted from what data and the CI is the controlling idea which tells what the essay is all about. It should be in the first paragraph like an introduction.

KFs are the key features. They are located in the middle of the essay. We need to write about the most outstanding trend in the data and make a little assumption. Exxagerating is not allowed!

P(i) and P(ii) are the Prediction and Proposal of the data. We must predict what will happen to the data in future and make some proposal t0o tackle the problem.

From the table given above, we need to translate it to linear text and need to be presented to the whole class.

As usual, my groupmates are Hefa, Pony and Salina.

This is our outcome.

Hours Spent On Activities By Different Age Groups In Someland

The table shows  hours spent on activities by different age groups in Someland within one years. The range of age is between teens and 70’s above.

Watching TV or Videos is the most spent by all range of age especially for teen,1200 and 70s +, 

1100 because all the program suits all age.

On the other hand, doing group exercise and sport is the least hours spent activities. It shows an obvious difference of  hours which is change 100% among the age 60s to 70s +. This is due to the less energy they have.

Fluctuating occurs on the socialising with 4 or less people. It increases 150 hours from 20s to 30s age range whiles it down from 300 to 250 hours from 30s to 40s. It remains constant until 50s.

The table indicates the least hours spent on doing group activity or sport on age range 60s to 70s+. This is because during that age they socialised less. This is proved by the given data about the socialise activities.  In order to encourage old folks to socialised, the government should organized event that involve them.

(196 words)

OV

CI

KFs 1

KFs 2
KFs 3

ASSUMPTION

PROPOSAL

I know there is a lot of mistake but we are learning. The best essay goes to Iffah's group.

Hours spent on activities by different age groups in Someland

The table shows the hours spent on activities like watching television or video, socialising with four or less people, socialising with four or more people, doing individual exercise, doing group exercise or sport and watching movies in cinemas by different age groups from teens to 70s+ in Someland.

The activity of socialising with four or more people is decreasing from 350 for teens until 25 for 70s+.

For teens, watching television or video has the highest hours spent because they like to watch entertainment programmes. However, from age 20s to 30s the hours spent has decreased because they are too busy with their works, but climbing back from age 40s to 70s.

On the other hand, doing group exercise or sport decline from teens to 70s+. This is cause by the ageing process that occurs to human being that leads to the declination in joining outdoor activities.

Based on the table, we can conclude that when we become older, we will do less outdoor activities because our body become weak as we do not have enough energy to do more activity. Government should organize a campaign such as “10,000 steps a day” to encourage community to join other outdoor activities.