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.

Simple Past Tense VS Past Continuous Tense

Thursday,16/2/2012


Today,we having another two grammar presentations like yesterday. Iffah's group will explain to us about Simple Past Tense and Jihan's group on Past Continuous Tense.


Simple Past Tense: 
Used to describe situations, activities or actions which happened and ended in the past. Most verbs end with either ‘-d’, ‘-ed’ or ‘-ied’ (saved, washed, tried) but irregular verbs either do not change forms (put, spread) or have different forms altogether (spoke, swept). We can used it:-
- When it happened using a time adverb
   e.g Last year I moved to Rembau.
- Described events that happened over a period of the time in the past but not now.
    e.g I lived in America for six years.
- When talk about habitual or repeated actions that took place in the past.
    e.g I always went to the shopping mall when I was teenager.


click it-->http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/simplepast.html

Past Continuous Tense:
Used to describe the situations,activities or actions that happened over a period of time in the past. Example,

• I was watching TV yesterday.
• She was singing under the table
• The cow was eating the grass at the morning.

I suggested you to try this website:http://www.englishtenses.com/tenses/past_continuous

Two In One..(^O^)

Wednesday,15/2/2012


Today,we have two grammar presentations. Elya's group on Simple Present Tense while the second presentation is about Present Continuous Tense by Dinie's group


Simple present tense


Simple present used to :

• show habitual or regular action..e.g Hasnol practices rugby every evening.
• state a general truths, facts and scientific laws..e.g The suns rises in the east.
• to indicate future action..e.g Nolek arrives in Hawaii at 6 p.m.
• show permanent situations..e.g Mawi works as technician
• to give instructions or orders..e.g Never sleeps in my class.

Surf this..http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verb-tenses_present.htm


Present Continuous Tense


What is present continuous tense??
Present continuous tense is mainly used to express the idea that something is happening at the moment of speaking and also describes activities generally in progress (not at the moment). Another use of the tense is to talk about temporary actions or future plans.


Uses of present continuous tense are  

• Present actions..e.g He is eating a dinner. 
• Temporary actions..e.g Mary is working at McDonald's. (She is only working there only during holidays)
• Longer actions in progress..e.g They are working hard to earn money.
• Future (personal) arrangements and plans..e.g I'm meeting Katie in the evening.
• Tendencies and trends..e.g Our country is getting richer.
• Irritation..e.g My boss is constantly critising me!

visit this website:http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~lfried/grammar/present.html

Beware Of HOOKS..!

Tuesday,14/2/2012

HAHA,finally all the tests are done! Lets focus to final examination. Today,Ms Zu taught us how to write introduction for essay in final examination. In final exam,we need to write an essay of 350-400 words. So Ms Zu conducted us to make an incredible introduction for our essay. For introduction, there are 3 sections of introduction,which are the hooks,the transtition and the thesis.

The Hook-use to attract reader to read more. There are 7 hooks:

• Personal example
• Quotations
• Facts/statistic
• Rhetorical questions
• Current issues/events
• Contrast to the thesis statement
• Definition

The Transtitions-use to move reader's attention from hook to the thesis of the essay.

The Thesis-the purpose of the essay.

It quite hard actually to write the introduction. Our introduction of essay must be interestint to grab reader's attention to read more. But I will try my best in Final exam.. Hopefully..;)

Listening Test before Friday's prayer..;)

Friday,10/2/2012

Listening test will be held at BK002. After MGT 153 at Dewan Kuliah. My class were postpone this test that should be held on Saturday last week. This test is less pressure than other test. This test was held for one hour. And for me,the question is more easy than the practise questions. I hope I can score this test to cover my speaking test mark. InsyaALLAH..;)

wish me luck,guys

Oh my..the NIGHTMARE..!!

Wednesday,08/2/2012

NIGHTMARE..!! Today is the real speaking test. I do not have confident with myself because I cannot speak English fluently. But what can I do. So, I teamed up with Taufik,Fadzli and Syazwan. To make this things worse,they already unite to prank me as the candidate A. We are given title How to increase the lifestyle among the youngster. And i got the point that provide internet connection to the youngster. There are 2 sections,A and B. In section A,we were given 2 minutes to elaborate the point and 5 minutes to speech it out. So,this is my point's elaboration:

• provided internet connection so the youngster can be expose to modern technologies.
• youngster will gains many knowledge through internet.
• Our government already launched National Broadband Initiave(NBI) to provide internet connection to the poor people.

In section B,we were given 10 minutes to discuss about our points and need to decide which point are more relevant. Fadzli agree with my point and Taufik agree with Syazwan's point which is provide education to the youngster. So,the conclusion,all of us agreed with Syazwan's point because education is more important nowadays.

F.R.I.E.N.D

Listen it again,again and again..

Thursday.02/2/2012

Ms Zu is conducting a listening test practice again. I hope I can get high marks on it. After checking the answers,I get 13 over 15 marks. Its not bad right. Izuwan also get 13 marks. Hahaha,and after that Nabilah's group want to present about adverbs and subject verb agreement.


Adverb is the words that  describe and modify verbs in terms of such qualities as time, frequency and manner. For example: Finaz shouts loud, loud describes how or the manner in which Finaz shout.  In the sentence,Finaz shouts very loud. Word very describes the adverb loud and gives information about how loud Finaz shout.
Please surf this link..;)
http://english-zone.com/grammar/pos-adv.html

For subject verb agreement, both of them must be singular or plural. For examples, Syafiq likes to eat fries(He likes=singular). Syafiq and Syafiqah like to eat fries(They like=plural).
You can learn more about subject verb agreement at the these websites. I like it because it explain briefly and I bet you will more understand about it.
http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/subjectVerbAgree.asp
http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/grammar/subverag.html

Speak NOW..!

Wednesday,01/2/2012

 After listening yesterday,we are introduce to speaking session. Speaking also included in MUET. So its so important to us. Actually, I can not speak English fluently,so its such a nightmare for me. During speaking test,there are 4 candidates,candidate A,B,C and D. Each candidate has given a point based on the title of the discusion. And Ms Zu wanted to test us.So,she picked all the foreigners in our class,Izuwan,Megat,Farahaireen and Elya. They are the best students who can speak English fluently in our class. From distance,I can see they struggle to elaborate and explaining their point. I am so dead if i were in their place. Suddenly, Ms Zu called my name..ohh, I am a dead,dead. Ms Zu wanted a new group and Dinie,Niena,Syazwan and I. And to make the things worse, I am the candidate A. We have given a topic and need to elaborate it in 2 minutes. Its so hard for me.

Listen.....ing..

Tuesday,31/2/2012

Today, Ms Zu are introducing us to listening test. Listening is a part of MUET. It consist 3 sections. You will get a question paper. Then you need to hear the article about the question. You must give 100% attention to the listening phase,or you will doomed. Then you are given time to answer the questions. Although your answer is correct,but there are error of spelling,your answer is consider as wrong answer. So spelling is also important in listening test. Ms Zu also give us practise based on the last semester's question. There is important advice,do clean your ear waxes before take listening test. Thats all..;)

Time for Mid-Term Test..

Thursday,26/1/2012

The time is come. Today JAC1102A will having BEL260 Mid-Term Test. When I open the test's question,ooh,it's not as easy as i thinking about. Its quite tough,especially on the non-linear essay. Without hesitation,i start to declare a war towards the question. Megat and Dinie are the most earliest that finish answering the question. Think positive,try the best that i can. I hope I can get high marks in this test. Aminn~~

Consultion on Non Linear Essay

Wednesday,25/1/2012

Today,we do not have BEL 260 class,but Ms Zu want to make a consultion about Non-Linear Essay because tomorrow,we have BEL 260's Mid-Term Examination. She wants to guide us how to write this type of essay and score the exam. So,she divided us into groups and fixed time for each group to come to see her.
So my group are on 3.30 pm. Ms Zu explain briefly how to write the essay. Ms Zu also give many examples of the type of Non-Linear Essay. So,we are confident to face mid-term examination tomorrow. Wish me luck,guys..;)