About BEL260

This semester, I learnt a lot things in BEL260 class. Our lecturer,Miss Zuraidah bte Sumery,energetic,happy-go-lucky but sometime very serious person. She use variety methods of teaching us. She use movies,songs, games,actings,presentations,reports,forums and many more. I also learn how to make a blog and need to update it. Its something new to me. I like your teaching style,Ms Zu. I hope you still use your unique teaching methods to our junior. Also through this class, I learned how to build my confident,improve my speaking ,improve my writing as improve myself too. ''Don't lose focus'',said Ms Zu to us.Thank you Ms Zuraidah for all knowledge that you taught me. Thank you to all my friends too. Without all of you,it will difficult for me. I hope all of us will get A in BEL260 and Dean List this semester. InsyaALLAH,amin..JAC1102A CAN DO IT..! And for Ms Zu,we will try our best in Final Exam. See you again and may success in your carrier and life.^___^ 

SEASONS IN THE SUN
Goodbye to you my trusted friendWe've known each other since we were nine or tenTogether we've climbed hills and treesLearned of love and ABC'sSkinned our hearts and skinned our kneesGoodbye my friend it's hard to dieWhen all the birds are singing in the skyNow that spring is in the airPretty girls are everywhereThink of me and I'll be there

We had joy, we had funwe had seasons in the sunBut the hills that we climbedWere just seasons out of time

Goodbye Papa please pray for meI was the black sheep of the familyYou tried to teach me right from wrongToo much wine and too much songWonder how I got alongGoodbye Papa it's hard to dieWhen all the birds are singing in the skyNow that the spring is in the airLittle children everywhereWhen you see them, I'll be there

We had joy, we had funWe had seasons in the sunBut the wine and the songLike the seasons have all goneWe had joy, we had funWe had seasons in the sunBut the wine and the songLike the seasons have all gone

Goodbye Michele my little oneYou gave me love and helped me find the sunAnd every time that I was downYou would always come aroundAnd get my feet back on the groundGoodbye Michelle it's hard to dieWhen all the birds are singing in the skyNow that the spring is in the airWith the flowers everywhereI wish that we could both be there

ALL THE MEMORIES ^__^

My dearest lecturer,the one and only, Ms Zu..

They cute,right;)

During the Act

Fact OR Opinion?

Forum

My group presentation.

To all the visitors,thank you from me. Adiossssaa..! See you again.

Final Class....ermm...

Thursday,1/3/2012
Today is the last class for BEL260 in this semester. Ms Zu brought many foods for us from the collection of latecomers money. Thank you to Dinie as the main distributor of the latecomer's collection. Wa Caya Sama Lu bro..! hahaha Ms Zu also gave us our argumentative pop quiz last Tuesday. My group get 13/20 as basic writer. I think we can improve our writing in Final Exam (hopefully). Ms Zu gave us important advice and strength to face the Final Exam. Thank you Ms Zu,for all knowledge that you teach me. I appreciate it. 

Thanks for the memories

Little kid eat to much :)

Purposing and Toning

Wednesday,29/02/2012


Today BEL 260 class,we learnt about author's purpose and tone in their writing. We need to focus what actually the author wants to tell in his/her writing. Important reasons for author's to write:

• to entertain-The author tells a story that describes something or someone in an interesting way.
• to persuade- The author tries to change our opinion on a topic by appealing to our emotions.

• to instruct- The author will explain or teach something in the story that the reader doesn’t know.  The author provides knowledge to the reader.
• to describe-Authors often describe to support other purposes in writing. They use it to create a character, set a mood or envision a scene. 

Next,we also must know the tone that  author use in the writing. Tone is the writer’s use of words and writing styles to demonstrate his or her stand towards the issue.

There are so many types of tone. As example:

•Indignant

•Evasive 

•Incredulous

•Optimistic

•Pessimistic

•Mocking

•Malicious

•Compassionate 

•Cynical

•Bitter

Passive Voice and Pop Quiz..!!

Tuesday,28/2/2012
Today class,we were learning about Passive Voice that was delivered by Megat,Sue,Niena and Nabilah.
What is Passive Voice?
Passive voice is used when the emphasis is more on the object of a sentence rather than the doer. 
The differences between active voice and passive voice:

• Syazwan kicked the ball into the lake (active voice)
• The ball was kicked into the lake by Syazwan (passive voice)

Syazwan=Subject  The ball=Object  Kicked=Action


Active voice: subject + action + object
Passive voice: object + auxiliary verb + action + by + subject


click this,my friends:
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/active-voice-versus-passive-voice.aspx
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/539/1/
http://esl.about.com/od/grammarstructures/a/passive_voice.htm 

After we learned passive voice,Ms Zu  want to make a pop quiz of argumentative essay. We were divided into 6 groups,2 groups with 5 and balance with 4 candidates. I teamed up with Izuwan,Syazwan,Fadzli and Taufik. We also need to divided our team members,so Syazwan  must do the introduction,Taufik main point 1,Fadzli point number 2,myself point number 3 and Izuwan need to write the conclusion. The title of the argumentative essay is 'Parents Neglectance is main factor of social problems among youngsters'. So my group are not agree with this statement,because there are lot of factors that throw the youngsters into social problems such as factor from mass media,poor selection of friends and pressure.

Argumentative Essay...weeeeee~~

Thursday,23/2/2012
Assalamualaikum,hi you all. Today,Ms Zu teach us about argumentative essay. Argumentative essay is include in Final Exam. Things to remember before writing ..

• Brainstorm ideas on the subject
• Identify the main topics
• Use the topics as heading for organising your notes
• Decides which side you are on. Make sure you choose the side that you can fully support
• Plan and write an outline for your essay. Noting down the information you will include in each paragraph.

The instructions are,we must write : 
1) introduction paragraph
2) body paragraph
3) refutation paragraph
      -This is also used to support your claim. 
      -Use the counter arguments to show that your idea is the stronger one. 
      -Do not focus only on the opposing ideas.
4) Concluding paragraph

ARGUMENT...GRRR..

The conclusion is.....

Wednesday,22/2/2012

Today,our class were learning about how to make conclusion. Drawing conclusions is a form of critical thinking. It is relating what you see, hear and read to what you already know. 

HOW TO MAKE CONCLUSIONS?

• Read  the paragraph and identify the topic sentence and main idea.
• Look for supporting details as evidence that you can use to reach a conclusion (E.g of evidences are: facts, statistics, reasons, definitions and descriptions.
• Combine your prior knowledge with the supporting details to draw conclusions.
• Ask these questions:

1. -What is the writer trying to prove?
2. -What is the consequences of these events?
3. -What is going to happen  because of these actions?
4. -What can I conclude from the paragraph?

EXPRESSIONS TO MAKE CONCLUSIONS

• Prove that
• Thus
• It is believe that
• In fact/ Because of this
• It follows that
• It concludes that
• As a result
• Therefore
• We can deduce that
• Points to the fact that

Make your INFERENCE and I want your PREDICTION

Tuesday,21/2/2012
Hi guys,today our class are learning how to make an inference and prediction. An inference is a logical conclusion based on what has been stated in the text. You make an inference when you use clues from the story to figure out something that the author does not tell you. 

HOW TO MAKE INFERENCES?

• Information which is provided must be analysed.
• Use your experience, knowledge, common sense and power of reasoning to draw logical conclusions.

A prediction is what you think will happen based upon the text,the author, and the background knowledge.