Speaking Practice @ Forum

Assalamualaikum. Today we doing forum. First group is Izani group and a title is "The Cost of things has sky-rocketed over the last five years. Managing our finances is becoming more and more difficult. Discuss the reasons for the price increases and suggest some solutions to this problem". Second group is Ika Ahmad group and a title is "The Malaysian public is not very concerned about cleanliness and good maintenance of public amenities. Discuss what the problems are and how we can encourage and give awareness to the public on this issue". Third group is my group.. Fourth group is Fikri group and a title is "As Malaysian continues to develop at a fast pace, the consumption of electricity in the country increases as well. How can the Malaysian public reduce their consumption of electricity? Suggest the most effective ways of conserving electricity. Give reasons for your choice". Fifth group is Athirah groups and a title is "Many young girls strive very hard to be thin. Some of them starve themselves to look thin while others induce vomiting, This has resulted in teenage eating disorders which affects their health. As a concerned citizen, suggest the best solutions to this problems.Give your reasons for your choice". Last group is Nadia Salehin group but their group not present today because don't have much time. They group present next week. I think the best host is Fikri because he makes laugh. The best panel is Faiz Adha because I like when her speaks in English. 

References Of Term Paper

Assalamualaikum. Today Miss Zu teaches our class about references. We must be doing it for term paper and final exam. In text book, you turn to page 69 and 70. There are examples of references:

PRINT SOURCES

1. Book- Two or More Authors

Klass, N., & Klass, Z. (2006). World religions: Customs and functions: Tucson: University of Amazon Press. 

2. Book- Chapter in an Edited Book

Bartholomew, G. (2006). The clash of east and west in architecture: Practice and beliefs in building structures. In M. Jackson (Ed.). The engineering dilemma. (pp.145-172). London: Chestnut Press.

Norton, W.(2007). Companionship and cooking: Food for thought. In R. Gregory & J. George (Eds.), Cooking for singles (pp. 143-165). Sunvale, NJ: Talltree.

3. Newspaper Article

Kamal Azzuri. (2006, February 13). Students election takes campus by storm. Alorakar University Gazette, p. 24.

ELECTRONIC SOURCES

1. Web Site- Personal Author

Ghafar, H.K. (n.d). Home page. Retrieved May 6, 2010, from http://mypage.iu.edu/

2. Online Newspaper Article

Bead, R. (2008, March 17). Digital libraries on the rise. APB Daily News. Retrieved December 3, 2008, from http://www.apb.edu/daily.html

3. Online Scholarly Journal

S.L. Yeoh. (2004). Malay diaspora studies in the Philippines. Malays of the World, 26(3). Retrieved March 8, 2005, from http://www.asp.edu/nbe/mal.html

After Miss Zu had done explained about references, we are going to do speaking practice. She divided to 6 groups. I'm group number 4 and my group is Ika Kardi, Bariah, Ijat and Asyraf. Our title is "Youths today are generally not very patriotic to the country. Discuss the reasons for this situation and suggest ways to increase youths' awareness of patriotism and instill the love for one's country as well as how they can show their patriotism to their country. Miss Zu gives 30 minutes to discuss a forum. Then, Miss Zu said we are going to continue the forum at tomorrow class because don't have a time. That's all for today. See you tomorrow :)

Replacement Class @ Problem Solution Essay Games

Today we are two times class of BEL. Tonight is replacement class. At night class, we are doing problem solution essay. Miss Zu teaches our class about problem and solution essay. It has 2 patterns which are:

PATTERN 1

Problem 1, Problem 2, Problem 3

Solution 1, Solution 2, Solution 3

PATTERN 2

Problem 1, Solution 1

Problem 2, Solution 2

Problem 3, Solution 3

After Miss Zu had done explain about this essay, Miss Zu divided our class to 5 groups. I 'm group number 2 and Miss Zu give pattern 1 to make an essay. Each group has different topics and my group topic is "APPEARANCE OVER REALITY". There is our essay.

         In era globalization  the problem about the judgement is most popular now. Judgement is the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event. Our mind setting , our personal background will influences people about something bad and lack confidence is the common problems about judgement. Thus in order to solve these judgement, parents should give proper educate to change the children’s perception on judge the people, increase the confidence level also can avoid people to easily judge by their appearance.

Our personal background very important to educate their children. According to Teale, 1993 the parental involvement in their children’s education, the most influential of these four elements described by Teale are the personal background and economic background of parents. In addition, parents must be teach our children between right and wrong. Therefore, what they learn from their parents of the lives will impact our children for rest of their lives.

One way to solve the problem is parents should educate their children with the proper education. It is because the children’s behavior in their life will be determined by how much their parents put into their life. According to Charles Desforges (2003), Parents should gives full attention and proper education to their children due to get a significant positive effect on children’s achievement and adjustment. It is because mostly the children will follow what their parents do and think. If the parents think bad negative on how they judge a people by looking their appearance  the children will easily to influenced and at the same time the mentally of the children will be negative .Thus, the parents should think the best way on how to educate their children.

Moreover,people tend to judge others on appearance because of their mind setting.People tend to say that you can not judge book by it cover but we are not apply this in our live.Such as when you meet someone for the first time you will judge that person roughly for 10 second.This happen so naturally,without we realize we always judge people by they looks.According to (Swami,2007) beauty and physical appearance are importance.This show that if we meet someone that have good looking faces or beautiful we will assume that person is a nice person or vise verse.

Therefore, we all have the ability to change our mind set. According to “How to change,”(nd), to change our core inner beliefs upon which we base our view of ourselves and of the world”. But changing our mind set is not an easy thing to do. Fortunately, our mind-set regarding certain aspects of our lives are malleable and are based on our choice of meaning we give to things. We must develop a positive mind set by positive thinking together with an attitude. In short,  we cannot judge people by it’s cover or appearances.

            Another problem is why people judge other on appearance are for security reason.People are not going to admit it but this is the reality that we must face it.People judge other because they want to make themselves feel confident and look good to others. Based on (Mess,2007)”most people are very worried about what other people think of them.”People view is more important that be our self.

Hence, we have to increase the level of self confidence. All people have their own advantage and disadvantages, so we did not have to feel embarrassed and blame to other people to pretend yourselves. here were surely times in your life, you felt yourself not confident enough to fight with the problems. . According to “How to increase,”(2007), there were surely times in your life, you felt yourself not confident enough to fight with the problems”. So, people have to boost their confidence to avoid people judge them easily.

In conclusion, there are many reaction of having looking on sight appearance over  entity of life. This bad behavior can affect our self by judgement from other people.It can causes mentality and narrow mindedness thinking that may lead to the first people judgement. It also come from secluded spectacle of family that can be affected to this problem.  Beside, lack of courageous also can affect the judgement from people view. As the result,people cannot have a bad perceptions towards people before they know them and parents should play their positive role in this situation towards their children.Therefore,there are many ways to overcome this problem.

Commenting Our First Draft

Assalamualaikum. Today is week 11. Fuh !!! We bring our laptop to the class because Miss Zu want to check first draft of term paper. Miss Zu said we need to changing our first draft with other group to commenting our first draft essay. I and Zubaidah change our essay to Fikri and Faiz Adha group. We think, her essay very good and best. We don't have any idea to commenting her essay. At the same time, Miss Zu give back our outline term paper. We get 3.75 marks because forgot to put transition signlas. Because of that, we lost 3 marks. Erh !!! There are commenting from Fikri and Faiz Adha group:

     Deputy Education Minister, Datuk Wee Ka Siong said, “Students would be allowed to bring hand phone to school starting 2013”. Mobile phones are believed to be useful in teaching and learning at schools by bringing mobile phones, students can access their lessons almost anywhere and anytime ,(Yes, absolutely true but if we let the students bringing their mobile phone at the school they may access many thing through internet. They will prefer using internet instead of books in the library which is more reliable than internet) said Quinn, 2000 and Mellow, 2005. Mobile phone could be considered as a motivational tool for learning. She has conducted many learning activities with mobile phone and these activities have shown positive outcomes, said Kolb, 2008. The government authorized students to bring hand phone to school, there are strong claims that bring hand phone to school will bring more negative result than positive.  Although the government authorized students to bring hand phone to school, there are strong claims that bringing hand phone to school will bring more negative result than positive ones.

     Bringing hand phones to school can give more benefits to secondary school students. Firstly, when the secondary school students bring hand phones to school, it can make lesson easier .(Please zubaidah and ani, refer to the expression of the opponents claim!!!!!) According to Kolb (2008) , hand phones which are popular among young students, might be measured as a motivational factor for learning. Besides that, through hand phones, young students are able to comprehend their lessons almost anywhere and at any time. However, this statement is inconclusive. Those who disagree, saying that bringing hand phone to school might invite secondary school students to misuse the phone. For example, students use the hand phones to taking and sharing unsuitable graphic materials. In addition, with bringing hand phone to school can help students to cheat in examinations easily. According to National Union of Teaching Profesion (NUTP) President, Hashim Adnan (2012), bringing hand phone to school would create more disciplinary problems among the young students.

     Another point, with hand phones, it can give many useful function and application for the hand phone. (Students will more interested to playing game, downloading application, playing the application and many more rather than to focus on their study)  Sometimes, students need to calculate numbers in their Mathematics lesson or another subject. So, with a hand phone students can use to calculate numbers in their Mathematics lesson or another subject. Another reason, with hand phones, students can play the game that has quizzes in hand phones. It can help them to measure their performance. According to Shiratuddin & Zaibon (2009), mobile game based learning is a good function of hand phones for secondary school students.  What they say might be true. Nevertheless, bringing hand phone to school will give the negative impact to students. Hand phones will become a distraction in the student’s lesson. (We agree with this statement because mobile phone at this age more advance with many applications and lead to expand the function of the mobile phone) For example, new messages or incoming calls will surely disturb the secondary school student’s attention on what the teacher is teaching in front of the class. According Hashim Adnan (2012), bringing hand phone to secondary school would damage the young student’s concentration and can make more disciplinary problems .

     Lastly, the benefit of bringing hand phones to school among secondary school students is students can use the hand phone during emergency cases which may occur anytime. When the students become sick at the school, they have to return home late because of extra class or involve in accident,(The reason is not strong enough.)  they can tell directly to her parents about it through by the hand phone. Besides that, if the students are in a dangerous situation like being alone at the bus stop or endanger by other students, they can call their parents or polices for help. Another reason, when the students do homework and they do not know the meaning of sentences, they can use hand phone to search internet to find the meaning. To a certain extent they are right. Nevertheless, the emergency cases do not happen often especially when the students are in the school areas. Begin with bring hand phone to school, it can increase social problem among secondary school students. Students will use hand phones for online facebook, twitter and so on. Besides that, they use the hand phones to messages their boyfriend or girlfriend and this can make a social problem among secondary students. According to Dr Wee (2012), many pregnant teenagers that are among young school students who are under the age of 18 and also unmarried.

     Due to the evidences that have been proven by the researchers, it is really clear that bringing hand phone to secondary school is distract the secondary school student’s attention and it also can make a disciplinary problems that can create increasing number of social problems among them.

Cause And Effect Games

Assalamualaikum. Today my class at computer lab. I thought Miss Zu want to check our blog but Miss Zu teach us about causes and effect essay. Miss Zu explain to our class about causes and effect essay. In text book, causes and effect essay at page 103 until 116. It essay have 5 pattern. 

BLOCK PATTERN 1

Causes 1
Causes 2
Causes 3

Transition Paragraph, concluding the section on causes

Effects 1
Effects 2
Effects 3

BLOCK PATTERN 2

Causes with topic sentences

Transition paragraph concluding the section on causes

Effects 1
Effects 2
Effects 3

BLOCK PATTERN 3

Effects with topic sentences

Transition paragraph concluding the section on effects

Cause 1
Cause 2
Cause 3

BLOCK PATTERN 4

Causes 1
Causes 2
Causes 3

BLOCK PATTERN 5

Effects 1
Effects 2
Effects 3

After Miss Zu explained about causes and effect essay, she wants to do games. She divided us to 4 group then she want us do essay based on video that she showed. My group have 8 people which are Ana, Tira, Zu, I, Rozita, Nabila, Nadia and Nadia Salehin. Besides that, my group get pattern number one which is cause, effect, cause, effect, cause, effect. Based on video that Miss Zu showed, the appropriate title is "Overuse of Drugs". After we done the essay, we have to submit it to Miss Zu to check it. Before we end the class, Miss Zu remind us to do 1st draft the whole essay, blog updating and quiz 3,6 and 7. 

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NO CLASS FOR BEL 311 TODAY

ABSENT

Assalamualaikum. Today I'm not attend to class because over slept. I'm sorry

Before We Submit

Assalamualaikum. Today our class at computer lab. Our classmate still doing outlining term paper because date of submission before holiday. I and Zubaidah done finished the outlining and Miss Zu asked me and Zubaidah to change our outlining and commenting. I and Zubaidah changed our outlining to Sarah and Syafiqah group. Below are my group outlining:

I.  Introduction

Although the government authorized students to bring hand phone to school , there are strong claims that bringing hand phone to school will bring more negative result than positive ones.

II. Body paragraph

A)    Bringing hand phones to secondary school can make the lesson easier .

1. According to Kolb (2008) , hand phones which are popular among young students , might be measured as a motivational factor for learning . 

a) Through a hand phones , young students are able to comprehend their teaching almost anywhere and at anytime (Quinn, 2000; Mellow, 2005)

               Refutation : However , this statement is inconclusive .

2. Bringing hand phone to school may invite secondary students to misuse the phone .

a)  One of the misuses of hand phone is taking and sharing unsuitable graphic materials .

b) Bringing hand phone to school it  can help students to cheat in examinations easily .

i)  According to National Union of Teaching Profesion (NUTP) President , Hashim Adnan (2012) , bringing hand phone to school it would create more disciplinary problems among the young students .

B)    Many useful function and application for the hand phone .

1)  According to Shiratuddin & Zaibon (2009) , mobile game based learning is a good function of hand phone for secondary school students .

a)  Sometimes , students use the hand phone to calculate numbers in their Mathematics lesson or another subjects and with play the game that has quizzes can measure their performance .

                Refutation : Nevertheless , bringing hand phone to school will give the negative impact to students .

2. Hand phone will become a distraction in the student’s lesson .

a) New messages or incoming calls will surely disturb the secondary school student’s attention on what the teacher is teaching in front of the class .

 i)  According Hashim Adnan (2012) , bringing hand phone to secondary school would damage the young student’s concentration and can make more disciplinary problems .

C)    Students can use the hand phone during emergency cases which may occur anytime .

a) When the students become sick at the school , they have to return home late because of extra class or involve in accident , they can tell directly to her parents about it through the hand phone .

b) If the students are in a dangerous situation like being alone at the bus  stop or endanger by other students , they can call their parents or the polices for help .

c) When the students do homework and they do not know the meaning of sentences , they can use hand phone to search internet to find the meaning .

Refutation: To certain extent they are right. Nevertheless, the emergency cases do not happen often especially when the students are in the school areas. Begin with bring hand phone to school, it can create

2.  Increase social problem among secondary school students .

a)  Students use hand phone for online facebook , twitter and so on .

b) They use the hand phone to messages their boyfriend or girlfriend and this can make a social problem among secondary students .

i)       According to Dr Wee (2012) , many pregnant teenagers that’s among young school students who are under the age of 18 and also unmarried.

III .       Conclusion

Due to the evidences that have been proven by the researchers , it is really clear that bringing hand phone to secondary school is distract the secondary school student’s attention and it also can make a disciplinary problems that can create increasing number of social problems among them . 

Outline Again

Assalamualaikum. Today we still do outline. I and Zubaidah try to finish it because we need to submit before Chinese New Year break. We just make a correction because Miss Zu said we do plagiarism. When I do plagiarism, our marks will deducted. I'm so worried when my marks low. So, I and Zubaidah do the outline carefully. Before class ended, we done complete my outline. 

Outline For Term Paper

Assalamualaikum. How are you today? Today, our class at Dewan Sri Peria. Miss Zu asked to bring our laptop because she wants to check our outlining for term paper. Miss Zu check it one by one groups. I and Zubaidah had finished doing the outlining but I don't know whether it is right or wrong. After Miss Zu checked our outlining, she was detect our mistake. She asked me about paraphrase the sentences. I and Zubaidah not remember to paraphrase all the sentences. Then, I and Zubaidah start paraphrase the sentences. Before we end the class, Miss Zu said that date of submission outline term paper before 8 February 2013.