LAST MOMENT :(

Today is the last day for class BELL 260...i feel very sad but the same time i feel happy because this is last week  for all class. .thanks to miss zu because teach me many thing about bel......Iam gonna miss u mis zu......U always  make interesting learning in class and i really enjoy it......Iwill do my best in final exam..... hope you never forget our class and you always in good health and blessed by Allah.

THANK YOU MISS ZU..........:)

ESSAY

Today we have argumentative essay test. We do the test in a group which is consisting 5 members. 

( Me, Salihah. Farahanida,  Amalina and Afiqah)

So the essay will have 5 paragraph...each person write one paragraph in 15 minutes.

The question is about parental negligence is the main causes of social problem. do you agree or disagree.

Our group totally agree with this topic. Based on our opinion parental negligence is the main causes of social problem because parents busy with their homework, lack of parental knowledge and parents not give the best religion knowledge to their children.

Today's we finish our class early. :)

NIGHT CLASS


For the night class we make revision  about past year examination paper. Miss zu give us explanation about the pattern question. When discuss about question in final exam i feel scared because just two week from now i  will have my final exam....hurmm i will do my best for final exam!!! chaiyok.....fighting......

PRENSANTATION

Today's we do presentation about body paragraph......all the group do the presentation very well...yeaahhhh
EXCELLENT......GREAT JOB...that the words miss zu said to us.....i am very happy because this is the best presentation from our class and miss zu look very happy.

This is example from our group:

RHETORICAL QUESTION

               Racism is one of the world’s major issues today. Do you aware of how much racism still exists in our school, work forces, and anywhere social lives? Racism very much exists and it is about time that people need to start thinking about the solutions to this matter. Can we achieve One Malaysia’s mission with this kind of mind set? Think about it. Many people believe that it depends on if a person was brought into the world as a racist or not but that is not the case at all. In fact, an individual cannot be born a racist but only learn to become one as they grow from child to adulthood. Institutions, government, and anti racism group in Malaysian’s past history are the possible solutions to racism.

One of the solutions of the racism is Education Institution should emphasize the civic subject starting from primary school. The objective of learning civic subject of school is to inculcate a mutual respect towards each other regardless of race, religion and culture.They can know about others culture in term of foods, festivals, religions and their traditional clothes.Thus, they have to apply what they have learnt in civic subject in daily life in order to prevent racism.

The other solution of racism is government should take apart to integrate the community in Malaysia. Government has set a date on September 16 as One Malaysia Day to unite all communities.They should provide activities and campaigns that involving all ethnics group. The examples of activities that held by government in One Malaysia Day are ‘gotong -royong’, ‘Senam Seni Malaysia’, Festivals and many more.Therefore, they have to join the activities to support One Malaysia Day to decrease the percentage of racism in Malaysia.

 Anti-racism group is the other solution for racism .They established to take care of the problem of racism and promote culture development by individual who are concern with the matter involved. They also seek to build the communities centered on equality of social status, equality and mutual understanding without comparative towards all the ethnic. Hence, existence of anti-racism group in Malaysia would avoid the disciimination among the races.

 In conclusion, institution, government and anti-racism group are the solutions to prevent racism. Without these solutions, Malaysian will face a severe crisis of racism and riots against other races. So, all the Malaysians need to inculcate the spirit of One Malaysia to lives in harmony in one unity.

ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY.....

   BEFORE WRITING

• Brainstorm ideas on the subject.
• Identify the main topics.
• Use these topics as headings for organizing your notes.
• Decide which side you are on i.e. Which arguments are most convincing? 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.

EXAMPLE OUTLINE

Thesis Statement:

I absolutely agree  that the building of nuclear reactors should not be continued  in any country due to its cost, risk and less safety

Topic Sentence 1:

The first problem with nuclear reactors is its cost.

Topic Sentence 2:

Another problem is the serious consequences of accidents.

Topic Sentence 3:

Less safety precautions of its constructions is also one of the major problems of nuclear reactors building in any develop country.

Concluding Statement:

Refutation:

Some people might claim that there is no real alternative to nuclear power.

Conclusion:  

In short, although nuclear power is an attractive option, it has too many disadvantages.

INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPH

• Introduce the topic with a general statement
• State why it is important
• State there is a difference of opinion about this topic
• Thesis statement must state what YOUR claim is and can include the  “parts” of the argument you are going to state.

BODY PARAGRAPH

• Arguments for:  The reasons “parts” of your thesis statement will be in your body paragraphs. 
• Give clear arguments for your claim with support (examples, statistics, explanations, etc.)
• Use transition words as you move from paragraph to paragraph (Firstly, secondly, furthermore, in addition, moreover, finally).
• You can also use any of the transitions from the other essay types as long as they are appropriate for your argument. (You may want to compare/contrast things, give reasons/results, descriptions, definitions etc.)

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
• Useful words and phrases

When you can think of the opposing opinion but you have not seen it written anywhere:

                        could be claimed  

  It may be asserted.......that.....Howeever,                              

                       might be  argued

When you have seen the opposing opinion written in another text:

                                           claimed  

It  has been asserted  that...   However,

                                           argued

CONCLUDING PARAGRAPH

Your conclusion should:

• Restate the main claim
• Present one or two general sentences which accurately summarise your arguments which support the main premise
• Provide a general warning of the consequences of not following the premise that you put forward and/or a general statement of how the community will benefit from following that premise.

after miss zu give explanation about argumentative essay miss zu give us a task that must be submit.

Certain television programmed are considered to be unsuitable for children. Do you agree or disagree? Give your opinion.

NIGHT CLASS

For the night class we learnt about INTERPRETING WRITER'S POINTS OF VIEW, ATTITUDES OR INTENTIONS.

The writer's attitude towards an issue is shown through the tone he or she uses in his or her writing. 

Tone refer to the writer's use of word and writing styles to demonstrate his or stand towards the issue in a text.
You can determine the tone used in a text by : 

• Looking at word choice : words have positive, negative or even neutral association
• Analyzing the phrasing used to describe an event : Is the author sarcastic? Does the writer lay out facts with no opinion.
• Considering how you feel when you read the text : What emotions have been evoked in you?Do you feel angry, sad or happy?

Example of tone words:

malicious

angry

incredulous

indignant

optimistic

ironic

compassionate

excited

formal

mocking

You can understand writer's intention by asking your self what the writer's reasons for writing is/ are. Writers normally write for one of these four reasons, to inform, to persuade, to instruct. to entertain.

Answering the question below will help you in analyzing the writer's intention:

• What is the tone of  the writer?
• what are the writer's point of view/ belief on the issues?
• Who is the writer? (Background , occupation) 
• Who is the intended audience?
• What is his statement of purpose / thesis statement?
• What do the titles, headings, boldface, italics suggest?
• What are being highlighted in the introductory and concluding paragraphs?

PRENSANTATION

Today my group will present about article........ My group members is nida. salihah and me.....Actually i feel nervous to present because i scared if miss zu will scold us......

ARTICLE

Have two types of article:

• Indefinite article
• Definite article

INDEFINITE ARTICLE

• indifinite article refer to a , an
• It is refer to something not specially known to the  person you are communicating with.
• Use before nouns that introduce something or someone you havenot mentioned before

Example:

- I saw an elepphant this morning

-  I ate a banana for lunch.

DEFINITE ARTICLE

• You use the when you know that the listener knows or can work out what particular person / thing you are talking about.

Example:

- The apple you ate was rotten.

   Did you lock the car??

 ( You should also use the when you have alreadymentioned teh thing you are talking about)

Example:

- She got two children. a girl and a boy. The girl's eight and the boy's fourteen.

• We use the to talk about geographical point on the globe

Example:

- the North Pole. the equator

• We use the to talk about rivers,oceans and seas

Example:

- the Nile , the Pacific.

• We also use the before certain nouns when we know there is only one of a particular thing.

Example:

- the rain. the sun, the wind, the world

NO ARTICLE

• We usually use no article to talk about things in ganeral

Example:

- Inflation is rising

- People are worried about rising crime. (Note! people are ganerally so no article)

• You do not use article when talking about sports

Example:

- My son plays football

- Tennis is expensive

• You do not use article before uncountable nouns when talking about them ganerally.

Example:

- Inforamation is important to any organisation

- Cofee is bad for you

• You do not use article before the names of countries except they indicate multiple areas or contain the word (state. kongdom, republic, union).

Example:

- No article- Italy, Mexico. England

- Use article- the UK, the USA           

SUBJECT VERB AND AGREEMENT

INTRRODUCTION

•        Some English sentences require that the subject ‘agree’ with the verbs and vice versa.

•       This simply means that a singular subject must have a singular verb.

•      However, this is only applicable in sentences using certain tenses which consider the singularity or plurality of the subject of the sentences.

•      It includes simple past (be verb), present continuous, past continuous and present perfect.

Sentence                                                               s IDENTFYING SUBJECT VER AND AGREEMENT	subject	Verb
His mother leads a healthy lifestyle.	His mother – singular	Leads – singular
The triplets speak quietly almost all the time.	The triples – plural	Speak – plural
We are here.	We – plural	Are – plural
She was with me all the time.	She – singular	Was – singular
The children were waiting.	The children – plural	Were – plural
Amina has talked to the Dean	Amina – singular	Has – singular

 VERB (GO, DO, HAVE)

The verb ‘go, do, have’ are plural verbs.

Hence they are preceded by plural subjects.

Singular subject are followed by ‘goes, does, has ‘

VERB	EXAMPLE
Go – plural	During the Pesta Kaamatan, or the Harvest Festival, most Sabahans go back to their home state to celebrate it.
Goes – singular	Monica Siliu, of Kadazandusun descent, always goes back to Kota Kinabalu to be with her family for the celebration.
Do – plural	Kadazandusuns do this since it is their belief that rice, in whatever form, embodies Bambaazan that must be protected from harm.
Go – plural	During the Pesta Kaamatan, or the Harvest Festival, most Sabahans go back to their home state to celebrate it.
Goes – singular	Monica Siliu, of Kadazandusun descent, always goes back to Kota Kinabalu to be with her family for the celebration.
Do – plural	Kadazandusuns do this since it is their belief that rice, in whatever form, embodies Bambaazan that must be protected from harm.
Does – singular	Her family usually does every ritual related to the festival, which is to honour the spirit, Bambaazan or Bambarayon.
Have – plural	These people also believe that inanimate items have life and that they are all living things.
Has – singular	The selected pageant festival queen has  the honour of symbolising Huminodun, the daughter of the Creator, Kinoingan.

 SINGULAR SUBJECT – SINGULAR VERB RULE
  
  The following take on singular verbs :

Co   Conditions	Examples
Indefinite pronouns – everybody, everyone, each, every,       somebody, someone, either one, anyone.	Everybody follows a unique lifestyle.         Each culture is distinct.
The use of ‘neither of’ and ‘either of’.	Neither of the girls believes in Halloween.        Either of the students has travelled extensively.
Nouns that end in ‘s’ but are singular in nature – physics,economics, athletics, mathematics, and so on.	Physics was a subject I dreaded in school.        Mumps is contagious.        News travels very fast.

Sum and products of mathematical processes.	Four and four is eight.        Four times four divided by two is eight.
Nouns that refer to language – French, Italian, German.	German is one of the foreign languages offered at the Academy of Language Studies.        French has been her favourite language.
Nouns preceded by ‘a pair of’.	A pair of green pants goes well with that shirt.
Collective nouns.	A group of activists is fighting for a greener earth.         A pack of wolves has been seen in the nearby woods.
Nouns preceded by ‘one of the’.	One of the paintings belongs to me.        One of the children has gone jogging.

PLURAL SUBJECT- PLURAL VERB RULE

The following take on plural verbs:

Conditions	Examples
Nouns joined by ‘and’	Arts and culture are two different fields.
Nouns preceded by ‘a number of’	A number of students consider visiting the museum a treat.
Nouns such as scissors, tweezers, trousers, glasses/ spectacles, pants, shorts, shears.	These tweezers are too small.       The glasses were missing.       Your creased pants need ironing
Nouns that refer to nationality – the English, the French.	The French enjoy eating escargot.       The Japanese are known for their tea ceremony.
The use of ‘both’ ‘both..and’ ‘several’ ‘many’ ‘few’          ‘others’.	Both Nasyreen and Airina are Soraya’s daughters.       Many people like swimming for recreation while others enjoy brisk walks.

OTHER SUBJECT –VERB AGREEMANT RULES

The following can either take on plural or singular verbs:

Co    Conditions	Examples
Nouns which refer to a group (e.g. Family, government, jury, committee, team) can take on either singular or plural verbs.	The family is visiting the museum of modern arts.       The committee have agreed to use a culturally -suitable theme for the festival.
Nouns preceded by ‘none of the’.	None of the fish is edible. They have all gone bad.        None of the girls know about the Lourvre, so it is time we went to Paris.
Nouns used with ‘together with’ , ‘along with’ , ‘including’ ,’accompanied by’ , ‘in addition to’ , ‘as well as’ etc (the verb agrees  with th earlier noun ).	Nashrudin together with his brother Ariff, has been to London.        The boys, including their mother, enjoy cooking and travelling.
Subjects that come after verbs.	Here is the book that you need.         There was a time when a lot of people were into aerobics.        Here come the bride and groom.        There are many diverse cultures in Malaysia.
Nouns and verbs separated by a relative clause            ( the verb agress with the noun referred to.)	My mother, whom I love dearly, is a great seamstress.        The towers, which are occupied by city dwellers, seem in need of extra security guards.
The use of ‘neither..or..’, ‘Neither…nor’           (The verb                   agrees with the noun closer to it).	Either the boys or Jenna has taken the key.        Neither  the guard nor the students know the new ruling for outings.
Nouns preceded by fractions and percentages      ( the    verb agrees with the noun, not the fraction )	Forty per cent of the cake was eaten by him.        Half of the sand costs RM40.       Forty per cent of the students think the rule was impartial.        Three fifth of the children were absent.
Units of money, distance and time take on singular   verbs if they precede the verbs and take on plural verbs if they come after the verbs.	RM1000  is a lot of money to lose.        Five kilometres is a long way to jog.        There are 1000 metres in a kilometre.        There are 100 000 sen in RM1000