SPECIAL FOR MISS ZU

This semester almost over. And our time is almost over.miss zu i write this post just only for u. Miss zu i know along this sem i have make u mad at me. I know u mad at me because u concern about  my future and im the stubborn one because not listen to your advise. Im so sorry i didnt mean to hurt u or make u mad at me. From bottom of my heart i told u that u are the most superb lecturer i ever had. I have a little bit attitude problem this sem maybe because i have a lot of personal problem im so sorry . If we meet again next sem i promise i will treat u a slice of chocolate indulgence from secret recipe.that my apologize cake . I LOVE U MISS ZU 

Night class!!

Oh how i love the night class. And miss zu have make a game again Tonight we have learned about writer intention, for who it been mention, and what the writer point of view. In this game i was group with class B even im in class A.hehe. We learned how to interpret  the writer point of view . We analysis the writer intention through advertisement and video. And miss zu has shown us this 1 video its really touch my heart . The video teach us that we have to treat our parent nicely when they old. I do miss my mom that time :(

Argumentative Essay

Argumentative essay is the type of essay that we should agree or disagree with the statement. This essay is same with the continuous essay but the different is that in argumentative essay it has refutation before the conclusion.

In argumentative essay the writer has to mention wether disagree or agree with the statement in thesis statement.

In conclusion part it must have refutation. In refutation we have to state the good side of disagree and stand our opinion back.then it should have a advise or way in a conclusion .

Scary

Today our class have presented about continous essay. We been divided into group and the task that been given  is quit tough i didnt really expect that continous essay can be this difficult. My group was presented for the Disadvantage of alcohol topic. But too bad ,our essay didnt right like what miss zu expect. And nadhirah group is the only group that has the right essay. We all so scared of miss zu that day.for the first time a lady who always be energetic and happy is mad and get very very angry of us.

this is the example of nadhirah group essay.this is the perfect continous essay

Ways to reduce poverty among poor people

         “I am tired of being poor, this is humiliating.” A young girl said to herself. She never asked for this poverty fate. She was born in a poor family. She could not own anything that other teens have. I am that young girl. This poverty stopped many people from achieve their dreams. Apart from that, many of  these unfortunate teens do not know that they can seek help to improve their life. This poverty can be improved by government giving help through their children’s education, economy welfare and motivation as a self-improvement.       

          One of the ways for government to reduce poverty among poor people is by giving their children’s education. As we know, education is an essential towards bright future so by giving them the opportunity to learn, they will be able to improve their life. For example, the government provides free text books and school needs to reduce their parent’s burden instead of buying those things. Other than that, the government also provides scholarship to those poor university students. Scholarship makes student’s life easier as a large amount of money need to be invested in education nowadays. Hence, the rate of poverty among poor people can be decreased through education.

          Besides that, government also take care of poor people through their economy welfare by giving them the jobs opportunity and donations. Usually, jobs opportunity is given based on their education level in order to increase their family’s income rate. However, in order to help the poors, the government also contributes donations such as money, food, and clothes. These necessary things help them to reduce their burden to live their life.Thus, economy welfare is one of the major steps to be taken by government to reduce the poverty among poor people.

              Last but not least, poverty can be improved by giving motivation as a self-improvement. The government can conduct a motivation that can change people’s perception towards poverty. This motivation contains activities that improved their poverty life such as involve in agriculture business. Apart from that, the government can help by giving them some additional capital to start their own business. Besides that, teenagers should not think that they are troubling their parents by going to school and asking for educational money. Instead, those teenagers should realize that only education can improve their life better. Therefore, we must use wisely all the contribution that has been made by the government and no matter what, we must set in our mind that this life can be change if we have some effort.

          As a conclusion, poverty can be improved in a lot of ways and they should not give up in order to achieve their own dreams.Our society can live much better than yesterday if they know how to use the benefits that had been given from thegovernment. Government should play an important role to curb this poverty issues among our community. Not just that, we should not underestimate and categorize people based on their ways of life. Instead, we should think ahead in order to change our life’s fate.

*red- topic sentence

*black- supporting sentences (1,2,3)

*blue-conclusion sentence

SIMPLE PAST TENSE

On april 4,2011 in miss zu class we learned about simple past tense .the group who present for this topic is yaya group.today i learned that simple past tense contain 4 subtopic Past tense, Past continuous,  Past perfect and Past perfect continuous

Past tense 

Past tense is been used to describe describe an action or event which occur on the specific time in the past..its actually an action that we do we do in past.

Past continuous

Used to express continous action that occur in the past. for an example

ex: She was drawing yesterday 

Past perfect tense

To form a past article like had 

Past perfect continous

To form past perfect continuous:

Subject + had + been + base + ing

okay that's it for today .tata :)

Tense.

This chapter contains 4 sub topics which are:

1.    Past tense

2.    Past continuous

3.    Past perfect

4.    Past perfect continuous

1.    Past tense

Past tense is used to

a)    Describe an action or an event which occurred at a specific time in the past

b)    Report past events or situations in newspapers, reports and magazines.

c)    Refer to an action which took place regularly in the past.

Example: Pak Abu went to the hospital yesterday.

2.    Past continuous

a)    The Past Continuous tense is used to express continuous actions which took place in the past.

Example : He was traveling in Europe last summer

b)    The Past Continuous tense is frequently used to refer to an ongoing action which was taking place when something else occurred in the past.

Example: We were entertaining friends when the parcel arrived.

To form past continuous:

Subject + was/were + verb-ing

3.    Past perfect tense

To form past participle:

Had + past participle

Example: had learned

4.    Past perfect continuous

To form past perfect continuous:

Subject + had + been + base + ing

Example: I had been working

PASSIVE AND ACTIVE VOICE

 Active voice– indicates that the subject of the verb is acting.

This example shows the subject is doing the verb.

Example

a)    The teacher gave an assignment

            The teacher (subject) is doing the giving (verb)

Passive voice-the subject becomes the passive recipient of the action.

It’s mean that the subject is being acted.

Example:

a)    The president was cheered by the congressmen.

            The president (subject) was being cheered (verb)

So, the conclusion are when in

i)             Active voice

Subject (forward) + verb + object (backward)

ii)            Passive voice

Object (forward) + verb + subject (backward)

           

Grammar again :)

a)    Present Simple Tense

Example: plays, eats (singular form)

                 Play, eat (plural form)

b)    Present continuous tense

·         Singular form: is+verb+”ing”

            Example: Mira is playing badminton.

·         Plural form: are+verb+”ing”

            Example: They are eating mee curry together at mamak’s stall.

c)    Present perfect tense

Has/have + past participle.

d)    Present perfect continuous tenses

Has/have been+ verb +”ing”

the night of the speaking test !

Tonight its a night of our speaking test. student have been divided into a group and each group consist 4 people. Our topic for that night was shopping online. In my group there are 3 girls including me and 1 boy that is labu . its  a credit for us because our topic was shopping online n for all ur known i was a shopping addict . thats why i say it a credit for me because its about shopping. Fuhhhhh!! what a relieve our speaking test is over ... :)

Oh god ! help me

 God please be with me tonight. Tonight i had a comprehension test and this is the first comprehension test for this sem. the venue was at lt 1 at 8.15-9.45 .I was a little bit nervous and i do make a mistake that night . Miss zu im sorry if im being rude, but i didnt meant to be rude..i out from the test early im the first person who out from the test hall.

 Mar 14,2011

Speaking test!! today miss zu do some pra-speaking test for us. I was a little bit nervous about this speaking test because i didn't prepared anything at all. My group sha,zura,mira and yaya. we have to discuss about  “ factor and effect in increasing  the number of shopping mall” i was glad because miss zu satisfied with my conclusion. 

Mar 8,2011

As soon as i step my foot in a class i was a little bit shocked because miss zu told us that we having a pra-test. A comprehension test ! i was like oh my god! what i should do.then i calm myself and answer the test with a headache because the question is a little bit tough i dont know well about comprehension . BUT.. thanks to god .my mark was 7/10 so it give me a little bit confident to answer the next test .hehe. :)

HOW STUDENT SPEND THEIR TIME AFTER CLASSES

The pie chart shows that how students spend their time after classes based on percentage such as indoor activities, socialising, studying, going for movies and outdoor activities .(OVERVIEW)

            Based on the pie chart, we can infer that almost 35% of the students love to spend their time after class by doing indoor activities such as playing computer, cooking and collecting stamps.         This might be due to lower cost of activities and easy access of internet.(CONTROLLING IDEA & KF 1)                           

Besides that, it also can be seen that 25% of the students which is the second highest percentage spend their time after class by socialising such as chatting online, going out with friends and visiting places.(CONTROLLING IDEA & KF 2)                                  

            The pie chart indicates that 20% of students spend their time after classes with studying. They take this time to do their homework, assignments, projects, research and study group. 15% gap might be because the students need to relax then focussing on their studies.(CONTROLLING IDEA & KF 3)

            On the other hand, outdoor activities and going to movie have the same percentage which is 10%. For instance, exercising, gardening, watch comedies and romance movies. It shows that these two types of activities are the least popular activities among students due to the lack of time. (CONTROLLING IDEA & KF 2)

                                   

            The percentage of indoor activities will increase steadily while going for movies as well as outdoor activities will decrease considerably. This situation happens because students are more likely spend their quality time with indoor activities  instead of going out because it is wasting their time. (PREDICTION – PROPOSAL)

Listen carefully

Today we have an pre listening test. Miss zu give us some training for us to be ready at our listening test soon. I think im good  if it involve in listening.coz that day i have clear my ear. so i get to listen it clearly i think that is my lucky day hehe. :)

It's a night class :)

Night class again, today on our night class we have a great and excitement day, i dont know i feel so happy on today class. Miss zu had made a game she always know how to make us get excited to study in her class. Miss zu asked us to give an prediction and inference on what happened based on video music and video clip we have to work in group and again my group doesn't win .but its oke :) winning is not important what more important is we had a blast night! thanks miss zu .u are rock!

How to Develop The Best Introductory Paragraph”.

The paragraph is divided into 3 sections:

a)      The hook - Designed to grab attention immediately and give some indication about the essay’s topic.

b)      The Transition - Moves the reader from the hook to the driving force of the essay….

c)       The Thesis - Makes the contract with the reader about what will be discussed without a blatant announcement.

There are 7 types of hook that we can choose to write the paragraph. There are

1.       Personal examples

2.       Quotations

3.       Facts or statistics

4.       Rhetorical questions

5.       Current events

6.       Contrast to the thesis statement

7.       Definition

Below are the types of hook with the examples:

·         Red represent hook

·         Green represent transition

·         Indigo represent thesis

PERSONAL EXAMPLE

First time I saw him at the bus station. He was alone by himself. He was very messy with his tattered cloths and only with barefooted. I felt pity of him and I want to help him as I could. I went to him and try to talk to him. Suddenly, he cried by my side because nobody wanted to be around him. I tried to calm him as he explained his situation. I felt very sad when I listen to his problems, he has seven children who are still young and his wife is a disabled woman. Coincidently, he was lucky that my father needs a gardener to help him to look after our gardens. Pak Abu is now our gardener at home. As a matter of fact, Pak Abu’s experiences of poverty life make him really suffered and it effected his life completely. Thus, the effects of poor and poverty can be seen physically, psychologically and socially in a person’s daily life.

QUOTATIONS

“I am tired of being poor, this is humiliating.” A young girl said to herself. She never asked for this poverty fate. She was born in a poor family. She could not own anything that other teens have. I am that young girl. This poverty stopped many people from achieve their dreams. Apart from that, many of  these unfortunate teens do not know that they can seek help to improve their life. This poverty can be improved by government giving help through their children’s education, economy welfare and motivation as a self-improvement.

FACTS OR STATISTICS

According to Utusan Malaysia, 45 thousands of foreign workers migrated to Malaysia legally to fill up the opportunity of jobs here. Most of the foreign workers are coming from Indonesia, Myanmar and Thailand. This situation has caused a problem to local workers as 45 thousand people in Malaysia have been unemployed. Thus, unemployment of local workers more or less gives a lot of negative effect especially to Malaysia such as the crime rate will increase, money exchange frequently done by foreign workers and the income level of local workers will decrease.

RHETORICAL QUESTIONS

Did you know that each year college students spent a lot of money on alcohol? This is more than they spend on soft drink, milk, juice, tea, coffee and books combined. Why do college students spend so much money to get drunk at the end of a hard week of studying? It is because there is nothing else to do or is it because drinking relieves problem that the person is trying to avoid. One of the major problems of alcohol is related to the cognitive dissonance. Drinking alcohol has an effect on students’ cognitive dissonance such as a connection between how much students drink, their dissonance level and what causes the student loss their dissonance.

CURRENT EVENTS

In 2007, the Star newspaper reported that an IPTS student in Segamat has dumped a baby in a plastic bag into a big drain. The baby which his umbilical cord is still intact was found by a good Samaritan. Two years later, Malaysia was shocked again by the same news: A fisherman had accidently fished a black plastic bag which he taught it was an ordinary plastic bag that had been littered by the irresponsible persons. He then opened the plastic bag out of curiosity and then was horrified for what he saw. A decayed baby!. This news proved that the statistics of social problems are increasing up until now.Thus, to ace these social problems, one should have a strong moral value, parents should play their roles effectively and one should use media wisely.

CONTRAST TO THE THESIS STATEMENT

Since the back of thousands years ago, alcohol has been famous and promoted in human lives. In chemistry, alcohol has been used for many things such as to produce ethanol and methanol which are commonly used in medication. Ethanol is used to treat methanol poisoning by reducing the rate of which methanol is metabolised. Research in the last few years found that there are a lot of advantages of alcohol such as the source of energy in the diet and can release our stress. However, nowadays alcohol leads to many harmful drawbacks. Thus, the disadvantages of alcohol can cause liver’s damage, poor judgement, and effect of our brain.

DEFINITION

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is defined as a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) known as a deadly virus that was originated in the early 80’s of the twentieth century. What do you think once you see the patient of AIDS? Do you feel scared or disgusted?.  Unfortunately, many of us do not know what   AIDS patients had gone through in their lives with this disease. Some of them get the disease in advertent but some of them get it because of themselves. This disease has become a serious crisis for the whole world today. Due to the above statements,  AIDS  can  give many bad effects to a person’s  life such as it leads to fatal, it  wastes  money  to get treatments and being ignored by  the society .

want to be a better writer ??

Today i have learned how to write a better essay, for create a great essay first we have to know how to develop our point given and we must elaborate it well. Like what Miss zu said "you must have to hook the reader "  so i wondering do i have to be a fisherwoman ? nehhh haha. We have to hook the reader so that they doesnt feel boring when reading our essay we have to put a little bit excitement in a paragraph and to spice it more we put a curios feeling in our essay so that they the reader will feel excited to know what next.

talking based on fact or opinion

 Hello readers, 

Today, i've learned about how to identify which of the statement is fact or opinion. Uuuhhh i am so excited because today is a combination between class A and class B i have a lot of friends at class B that's why i feel a little bit comfort  that night. We have been separated to a few group and miss zu has given a task to promote the product and we must to identify which statement is fact and which is opinion. And the group who get the highest mark will be a winner. too bad my group lost the game. but its oke .maybe we will be lucky next time.

okay now let me show u the example of fact and opinion

A FACT

Fact is objective information that can be checked /proved to be true, the information does not change and not a statement about the future.

want to identify fact?? its easy let me show u

• use  dates and years
• use of statistics / figures / precise numbers or quantities
• use defination
• when stating  a geographical or scientific fact

OPINION
Opinion is a statement that cannot be proved to be true or false and can be a statement of the future.

Clues to identify opinions:

• use adjective when change point of view or emotion. eg: exciting/fun/worst
• the use of comparison words which shows a comparison between two or more things. eg: more/most/better/worst/least
• use of other words that shows frequency, possibility, advisability, and necessity.                       eg: probably/likely/perhaps/may/should/must/always/usually/often/occasionally
• use phrases that show a belief, suggestion, feelling, and an opinion. eg: in my opinion/i feel/appear

POEM NAME IS SO FUN!

Feb 21,2011

Okay today miss zu teach us about poem name. Its quit a good and fun game because from there we can know each other well. Miss zu does not only teach us about poem name but she also teach us the value of friends. I as always will be group with labu. We have to describe our partner personality based on their name, Each word of their name must have a different personality. Mine was quit difficult because Labe has a long name MUHAMMAD ASHRAF. i was like ohh man why his name so long. but its ok its my task so i have to finish it up. Along the activities we have so much fun, we laugh together because it is so funny and some of it touched our little heart. 

This is my partner . LABU !! :)

Labu i hope we still be friend until we lost all of our tooth :)

Oh Grammar Grammar.... :)

 Today we learn about grammar in my class. A group who present about grammar is Hani & Tengku , Qurani & Hidayu . They were so great my knowledge about grammar from 50% can be about 100%. I understand each of the content they present. They are the good presenter. Here i shared a little about grammar that i learned

Grammar 

Grammar is a word that combine with a noun ,that been used to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun.

there are only 3 type of article which are:

• the 
• an 
• a

 Verb 

Verb is a word which show some of action. Verb is divided into two. There are action verb and non-action verb. Action verb is a regular verb, Irregular verb, Transitive verb, Intrasitive verb.

Whereas ,the non-action verb is Modal verb, Linking Verb and Auxiliary verb

that its for today.today we only learn grammar :)

Awkward

I'm late! It's my 2nd class and I already late. Haihhhh. Sorry Miss Zu, I made a mistake again. I'm choose to sit at the back of the class away from others because I'm not really get into others classmate yet. I'm totally feel awkward.

There is a presentation in front of me. They are the first group to present. They like bla bla bla bla. I can't catch every single meaning about the topic of their presentation. I was like so b.o.r.i.n.g and then I started to d.r.a.w.i.n.g .hehe. :)

After the presentation was finished. Miss Zu asked me to get along with them. then I keep asking myself "Do I have to sit with them?" because I don't really know who they are. And I follow what Miss Zu asked me to and dingggggg! Here come the awkward moment again. But its ok, maybe I need some time to get along with them.

Suddenly, Miss Zu came to me and told me that my presentation was next. Like OMG!! I don't prepared anything yet for my presentation, after 'Labu' said that our presentation is next week I felt so fuhhhhhh!! I'm relieve. So I just waited for the next classes.

It's a brand new semester for me. :)

Feb 11,2011

Its the first i attend this class for my 2nd sem, when i get my feet in the class i was like OMG! why there a so many people in my class. is it a zoo or a gathering. And then i saw my lecturer at the front door and her name is miss zu.she is totally an hyperactive person. I like her style!.

i sit next to ain my old classmate, and i sit there with a bored feeling and happy a little bit because there some people who makes joke.and SORRY miss zu i sit like at mamak stall Coz during the sem break i always at mamak with my friend. :)

there at last my class is over! at 10 pm.tata all.