Quizzzzz (Thu, 19/1/12)

Twentieth class

Had another replacement class at 12 noon. We were a bit rushing to class because we were out late from our previous class and we had another 'little quiz' for BEL. What a hectic life us students have. Sigh~

The 'little quiz' turns out to be solid hard (for me, anyway). The format for the quiz was just like a mid term test. After the quiz, we all helped Miss to mark the reading comprehension part. Hate reading comprehension! Most of my marks were gone in that section. Urghhh.

My biggest mistake, I think was about the reference words. I THOUGHT the answer will ONLY be in same sentence. But, turns out you can take it from any part of the text. How frustrating!

It's OK now. I've calmed down =D 

There's no point in crying over spilt milk.

Night class, or should I say 'Starving class'? Haha.

Another presentation on grammar was presented. 

The guys.

New lecturer trying hard to explain.

 They presented about adjectives and conjunctions.

Adjectives in general are words that describe nouns by adding flavour and depth to it.

The tall girl hurt her head.

The word 'tall' adds character to the noun (girl).

More information are available here :

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

Conjunctions are linking words that join more than one sentences, words or clauses. For example, 

Both of my brothers are tall and big.

 By using the conjunction 'and', two information can be joined into one sentence.
This link might be helpful :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction_(grammar)

See'ya, bye!

Mid Term test?!?! (Wed, 18/1/12)

Nineteenth class

The class was very quiet that day, even Miss Zu noticed the 'unfamiliar' atmosphere when she came in. It was because we had a test that night. Everyone was nervous. So, Miss Zu decided to dismiss us early so we can have extra time studying. Actually, she already had something to do that's why she let us out early, hehe.

For this class, we just looked through an example of past mid term papers. We discussed briefly what will be in the test, how to answer, what's the format and other details. There's 2 section, reading comprehension (hate it!) and writing.

The reading comprehension consists of contextual clues, reference words and some other questions.

Writing section is about non-linear essay. We've already learn these in detail before so we were just going over it again.

After Miss left, some of us stayed in the room to study for our CTU test. As you can see, there's no picture this time. Sorry. 

Anyways, bye!

Forum (Tue, 17/1/12)

Eighteenth class

Why do I have a feeling that every week there must be at least 1 acting activity. Well, surprise surprise, today's the day. Thank God there's no singing or whatever embarrassing thing. We just had to talk. It was a forum, you see.

It's a bit like Oprah. My group's topic of discussion was about "How can Malaysian reduce electricity consumption and what are the best way to conserve it"

I was the host and the rest were the panels. Some of our key points were:

• to increase the rate for electricity, so people will not waste the resources.
• office buildings should turn off their electricity supply during lunch hours.
• government campaigns like, Earth Hour. 
• use alternative energy, such as solar.
• use energy-saving products. 

Pictures of the other groups:

Rahey's group

Pony's (girl in green) group.

Wan's group.

I thought Pony did an excellent job at being a host. She was very lively and entertaining, which what a good host should be.

I guess that's all for now, bye!

Quiz and Sales Person?? (Thu, 12/1/12)

Seventeenth class

The first class was a replacement class. For which class? I honestly don't know anymore =D

It was an afternoon class and we had a pop quiz! Non-linear quiz. It was quite nerve-racking, actually. You know how I get all flustered when it comes to limited times and deadlines. That's why I detest, I repeat, DETEST anything that needs to be submitted on the same day.

Night class, which is our normal class.

We learn how to distinguish facts from opinions, which was quite fun by the way. 

For example

JLo is a famous singer (opinion)

JLo is a singer (fact) 

The first sentence is considered as an opinion because 'famous' is an adjective. Some people might find her famous while some might not. While the second sentence is just general, there's no denying that JLo is a singer.

After all that learning, we put it all to the test. Each group were given a random item and then we all have to be a sales person! We have to sell the item by only using 10 sentences consisting of facts and opinions. The other groups have to listen carefully and at the end guess how many facts and opinions were there.

Deodorant group, I think.

Definitely the Oreo group!

The Oreo group opened their Oreo and I got to eat one cookie. Yum!

Our group sold this...

All in all, I think we all should continue with our studies because our future as a sales person seems very bleak! :p

Bye!

So You Think You Can Act, The Musical (Wed, 11/1/12)

Sixteenth class

ANOTHER acting activities, sigh~

never mind, you know what they, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger (but it just made me dreaded BEL classes now!)

Each group had to pick a newspaper cutting, randomly, where the article's story will be the base for the group's musical. My group got an article about "Another home-alone". It was about 2 kids left alone at home by their mother while she went to work. To be honest, I think our group's musical sucks, like seriously, but not because of the members, just that....it was bad, OK. Haha, no offence guys (: 

This is the given setting for our musical

I thought it was amazing how the other groups can came up with such good performances within the time limit - because we were struggling. Haha.

Here are some pictures, there are videos but somehow it doesn't work, heh!:

Aira's group - Dinie's on the floor here.

Shazwan's group

Wani's group-a.k.a commander and the bodyguard 

Miss asked all of us to pick the best actor, actress and group. So here's my choice:
Best Actor - Izuwan
Best Actress - Pony
Best Group - Izuwan's group (forgot their group number)

Pronouns and Prepositions (Tue, 10/1/12)

Fifteenth class

So, Aira and the gang did a presentation on pronouns and prepositions that day. Their group members were Hanis, Leyha, Nina and of course Aira.

According to them (according to you~) pronoun is a word that takes the place and to refer something BUT do not name it.

There are many kinds of pronouns, like:

• Subjective Pronouns

He spends ages looking out the window.

• Possessive Pronouns

The red basket is mine.

• Demonstrative Pronouns

That is a good idea.

• Interrogative Pronouns

What on earth is that?

• Indefinite Pronouns

Something smells good. 

• Relative Pronouns

Hector is a photographer who does great work.

• Reflexive Pronouns

I learned a lot about myself at summer camp.

• Intensive Pronouns

The queen herself visited our class.


The examples were from these two sites, of which I find really helpful:
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0885483.html
http://www.writingcentre.uottawa.ca/hypergrammar/pronouns.html


The next slide was about prepositions.


A preposition links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. The word or phrase that the preposition introduces is called the object of the preposition.


For example, Aqil ran from his sister and hid under the table.   =D 

You can read more about it on the internet. Just search for 'prepositions'.


After the presentation, there was a game of word-search. 

Here's Din searching hard for his word :)

That was all for that day, bye!

Essay Presentation (Thu, 5/1/12)

Fourteenth class

So, remember about the entry on linear and non-linear essay? We had to present our essay that night (yes, it's a night class!) This is the question that we were given.

Write a report based on this table:

The length of this report should be 150 – 200 words.

Make sure to follow the formula.

TITLE
1) OV + CI
2-3) KFs
4) P(i) + P(ii)

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

What do think? Can you convert this into a linear essay?
I was going to show you our group's essay, but tadaaaaa......it's not in my thumb-drive!! I'll show you ours after I find it, promise. 


Until next time, bye!


*Updated


Found it!!

Hours spent on activities by different age group in Someland

The table represents the hours spent on activities by different age group from teens to 70s and above in Someland. The hours spent on doing two out of all the activities shows a decreasing rate while the rest shows a fluctuating rate. (OV + CI)

The time spent on watching television slumped significantly at 30s, where it then rose at 40s+. Due to work commitments, no spare time is allocated for entertainments. (KF 1)

However, the time used on socialising with four or more people dropped by 93% with a constant rate along the age groups, as their responsibilities increases, lesser hours are spent on leisure. (KF 2)

Individual exercise shows the most inconsistent rate, from dropping by 50 at 20s to rising by 100 at 40s to falling by 150 at 50s, it then shot back up by 100 at 70s. Health issues based on old age might be the cause of the sudden boomed in hours. (KF 3)

The table indicates the reducing number of people doing group exercise from teens to 60s and above. The higher the age group the lesser the activities are carried out due to health restrictions. Government can alter this statistics by advertise the benefits of exercise through mass media. (Pi + Pii)

(200 words, minus title and brackets) 

Key:

Orange : predictions/assumptions, (Pi)

Purple : proposal, (Pii)

So, what do you think??

TP (Wed, 4/1/12)

Thirteenth class

Toilet papering in class? That would be AWESOME!

The TP I had in mind was.....Topic Sentence, which is equally AWESOME =)

Topic sentence suggests or states the the main idea or topic of a passage. It can be at any part of a paragraph but usually it is at the beginning.

Topic sentences should always contain both (1) a topic and (2) a controlling idea.

For example, 

People can avoid burglaries by taking certain precautions. 
(The precautions for…) 

The rest of examples are available at this link 

http://eslbee.com/topic_sentences.htm

We then played a game to test our skills at distinguishing topic sentences. I like to call it 'Watch n Guess', because Miss Zu showed us some videos of some famous advertisements, which we then have to create a topic sentence that is suited to each ad. We played for several rounds and my group only got one round correct =P

Below are the links for the videos. Why don't you too try and watch it and see if you can come up with a suitable topic sentence.

Petronas Ad 2003 - Alkisah janda beranak tujuh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns5zDpOJa-c

Petronas Ad  2006 - Ayah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppbDj7QsYVE

P!nk - Family Portrait

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSjIz8oQuko&list=UUXJDX1KK6t121Z9FLhu5o2A&index=46&feature=plcp

Seat belt commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI9_BTm41MI

Until next time, bye!

MUET?? (Tue, 3/1/12)

Twelfth class

This?? No, we didn't take MUET that day. We only learn about linear and non-linear essay, which was part of the writing section in MUET. Basically non-linear is information in the form of graph, chart or table. While linear is when we take the information from the graph and convert it into sentences. Linear essay is more structured, where it has a title, introduction, body and conclusion.