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.

Nouns (Wed, 22/12/11)

Eleventh class


It was a night class. The energy was low. Everyone was starving.
OKAY! (wake up! *slaps face) it's presentation time. The first lucky group was Rahey's group. The group members were Pony, Hefa, Salina and of course Rahey.

They got Nouns and Articles as their topic. Here's what we all learned that day.

NOUN - a word used to name a person, animal and thing. Eg. singer, goat and bus.

There are a lot of branches to nouns : 

• Gender nouns
• Plural nouns
• Possessive nouns
• Proper nouns
• Common nouns
• Abstract nouns
• Countable nouns
• Uncountable nouns
• Collective nouns

You can read the full explanation, how to use them in sentences and examples from this link, http://www.writingcentre.uottawa.ca/hypergrammar/nouns.html

After all that learning, we all played a game prepared by the group. You know how grammar can be so...a lil fun was needed. 

The game was Snakes n Ladders, with some grammars in it, of course. We were divided into 2 groups and each round each group send a different representative, so it'll be fair. The game works like this. You throw the dice (which was handmade and huge!) and you pick 1 random question, grammar question to be exact. If you get it right, you get to move you piece but if you get it wrong, you don't  get to move. You can however, consult with you group but then you would only get to move less one spot than you dice mark. For example, your dice shows a five and you don't know the answer to the question so you consult with your group. When you get it right, you can only move 4 spots. Get it?? Good =D

So, anyway Group 2 (my group) WON!!! 

Bye ;p

Young Shakespear?? (Tue, 21/12/11)

Tenth Class

Class that day was a bit fun and interesting. Miss Zu want us to put on our creative caps on and create a poem. The poem must have the line "I think I can..."

I personally groaned out loud when I heard the word 'poem', I hate hate hate stuffs that needs creativity. In the end, I just put my head down and get on with it.

Here it is

The rain is pouring,

The rain is wet,

The rain is cold, but

I think I can  weather it.

The holiday is near,

The people are gay.

The highways are packed, and 

So are my assignments! but

I think I can handle it!

The sun is shying,

The lights are dimming,

The bell are jingling, and 

I think I can hear Ho Ho Ho.

So, what do you think? You are not gonna vomit, are you? 

Now, why did you go and hurt my feelings! *sobs

KIDDING!!

Gag all you want =p

Some of the poems my classmates wrote was really good and deep. Unlike mine. Haha.

Young Shakespears in the  making!!

After that, Miss Zu created a time capsule. It was just made of a piece of paper and random stapling. We're not gonna bury it like a real time capsule, so there's no need for a metal box or anything. Here's how it works. We placed a note each saying what we would like to take to the future into the paper bag and Miss Zu will open the bag only at the end of the semester. Each one of us will then read a note and try to guess whose it is. It is exciting. Now, I can't wait for this semester to end!

Night.

Again?? (Mon, 20/12/11)

Ladies and gents, it is my honour to say that once again
CLASS is CANCELLED!!


*wooh! oh yeah, oh yeah.....chicken dance!
No, I'm kidding. I actually slept through the afternoon and FORGOT about the 'pasar malam'! (night market).


What a bummer.

Yawn~ (Wed, 15/12/11)

NO CLASS!! =D




BUT


remember that movie 127 Hours? 
We had to hand in the movie review =(
Thank God I've done mine! 
=)

LCC (Tue, 14/12/11)

Ninth class 

On this day we didn't have a class in a classroom like usual. There was a Language & Culture Carnival (LCC) from the 12th of Dec till the 14th of Dec. We happened to have a class on the last day of the carnival so, Miss Zu asked us to do 'something' about the carnival held.

There were a lot of things going on for the LCC. There were language booths set up at the Speaker's Corner and there were also some food stalls in front of the SL Block.

The 'thing' Miss Zu asked us to do was to make a food review of one of the stalls in SL and gather information from the  language booths. 

The stall I chose was Madam Cecilia's stall. I believe the stall's name was Fabulous Food 1 Malaysia. True to its name, the stall did indeed sell foods that represents the races in Malaysia. For example, nasi lemak, roti canai,thosai, pudding, cakes and tarts and a variety of hot drinks. The prices were fairly cheap, in my opinion. Nasi lemak for RM1.20 is quite cheap, I think.

I did not buy the nasi lemak, instead I bought roti canai. The roti canai were originally priced at RM1.20 but by the time I bought it the price had already dropped to RM1.00 to my much happiness!

This is how it looked like in it's 'packaged'.
Very pretty, I must say! Haha

This is its contents. Doesn't that just look very appetising?? The roti canai comes with some vegetable curry, of course. The taste was okay for a cold roti canai =D 

The ingredients for the roti canai, in case you want to try your hands on making it, were wheat flour, water, salt and ghee. For the vegetable curry: vegetable oil, onions, spices, water, coconut milk, salt and of course vegetables.

We then went to the Speaker's Corner to conduct some interviews with the booths people but sadly 2 out of the 3 booths, the Mandarin and the Arabic booths, had already closed. It was understandable since it was already late afternoon and it was also the last day of the LCC.

                                                 Proofs ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The only booth that were still running was the English Language Society (ELS) booth.Thank God!

Ok, firstly I just wanted to say that we were all gutted when there was only 1 booth left standing. Actually, deep down I think we all were kinda felt like 'YAY' since less booth equals to less interviews. Haha.

So, these were some of the guys that were running the booth. I did the interview with the girl in the black T-Shirt. Her name is Aiman (I think) she's a part 4. The info that I gathered after I talked to her was that their purpose for setting up the booth was to make the students more aware of the English language. They also informed me that they want university students to relive their childhood memories of Disney princesses, like Beauty and The Beast. She said they also had a face cut-out board of the Disney characters but that I cannot confirm since by the time we went there it was already late afternoon and they had closed the photography session. So, I didn't get to see that myself.

This was how their booth looked like. Pretty nice, huh? They won the Best Booth award, ok. I don't know if you can see the hamper they won but I'm telling, I am jealous =P

There you can see 2 pictures of Disney princesses stuck on both sides of the ELS poster. The wall was put to good use. It was packed with interesting information and stuffs.

Hand painting was also one of the activities that they carried out. I did not get my hands painted nor did my friends. But I have seen the art work on one of my friend's hand and it was quite nice, I must say! Cheap too. RM2.00 I think. The painter is brilliant. I've seen her at work.

The LCC poster that I 'stole' ;p

I hope you would feel like you were there by reading this entry!

Later.