ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY

ESSAY????????
The part that I never like in my life...
However I must learn this ' ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY '

The importance thing before writing:

• Brainstorm ideas on the subject.
• identify the main topics.
• decide which side you are on.
• plan the write an outline your essay noting down the information you will include in each paragraph.

for more information:homeworktips.about.com/od/essaywriting/a/argument.htm

Your outline must have

1. Thesis statement 
2. topic sentence 1, 2
3. Refutation
4. Concluding Statement

conclusion

22 FEBRUARY 2012
This conclusion is for writing.

HOW TO DRAW CONCLUSIONS??????

Use all the facts that you can fine in the passage to help you deduce or figure out what you do not know. But sometimes conclusions are pointed out in the paragraph itself.

EXAMPLE:

Put me on your feet.

i know you wear socks and shoes on your feet.

I will keep you warm and dry.

both of these keep you warm, but only shoes keep you dry.

Wear me when it rains

what do you wear, on your feet, when it rain??

rainboots!

follow these steps to draw a conclusion:

1. Read the paragraph and identify the topic sentence and main idea.
2. Look for supporting details as evidence that you can use to reach a conclusion
3. Combine your prior knowledge with the supporting details to draw conclusions.
4. Ask these question:

• what is the writer trying to prove?
• what is the consequences of these events?
• what is going to happen because of these actions?
• what can i conclude from the paragraph?

Expressions that point to a conclusion:

 Prove that, Thus, Therefore, It follows that, As a result, In fact

INFERENCE

Today is time to learn part of reading, there is inference.

1.  the act or process of inferring as     a.  the act of passing from one proposition, statement, or judgment considered as true to   another whose truth is believed to follow from that of the former     b.  the act of passing from statistical sample data to generalizations (as of the value of population parameters) usually with calculated degrees of certainty

    2.    something that is inferred especially in a conclusion or opinion that is formed because of      known facts or evidence

     3

. the premises and conclusion of a process of inferring

FOR EXAMPLE:

1. Its existence is only known by inference.
2. The program uses records of past purchases to make inferences about what customers will buy in the future.
3. What inference can we draw from these facts?
4. In spite of the fact that there are virtually no controlled clinical trials examining the effects of obesity in people, we can make some inferences from animal research. 

for more information:http://www.thefreedictionary.com/inference

PAST TENSE AND PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE

16 FEBRUARY 2012

After for long time i am waiting, finally today my group will do our presentation. we combine with Jihan's group.
our topic is past tense and past continuous tense.

Do you know when to use past tense????
1. To talk about action that happen at a specific time in the past.
    for example: yesterday, last month, last weak

2. To describe events that happened over a period of the time in the past                    but not now.
for example: I lived in Asia for two years.

3.To talk about habitual action that took place in the past.

SPELLING RULES FOR REGULAR VERB

If the verbs ends in a consonant, 

add _ed

E.g: return- returned

        help- helped

        cook- cooked

If the verbs ends in e, add _d

E.g: live- lived

        create- created

        die- died

If the verb ends in a consonant –vowel-consonant combination ( CVC ), double the last consonant  and add _ed

E.g: hop- hopped

        rub- rubbed

Exception :word ending in _w, x, or _y

(bow-bowed, play-played, mix-mixed)

If the verb ends in a consonant +y, change the _y to _i and _ed

E.g: worry- worried

        copy- copied

If the verb ends in a vowel +y, add _ed

E.g: play- played

        annoy- annoyed

Exception : pay- paid, lay-laid, say- said

present tense and present continuous tense

15 FEBRUARY 2012
We have two presentation for today, which is Elya's group and Megat's group. The topic is present tense and present continuous tense. 

The simple present expresses a habit in the present and is used with an adverb of frequency.
for example:
always, usually, often, sometimes,rarely, generally, etc

14 FEBRUARY 2012
today we learnt how to make interesting introduction in writing. The best introduction is including hock, transition and thesis.
we can use 7 hock to make our introduction more interesting, there is:

1. Personal examples

2. Quotations

3. Facts or statistics

4. Rhetorical questions

5. Current events

6. Contrast to the thesis statement

7. Definition

You can think of an essay hook as you would a fishing hook: it's something that grabs a reader and reels him in. The hook for your essay could be any interesting sentence that captures attention and keeps the reader reading.

For more information:

www.windsorhs.com/.../RomeoandJulietIntroHookStrategiesPDF.pdf

2 FEBRUARY 2012

The group will present today is BILA, WANI and SYAFIQAH. The topic is adverbs and subject verb agreement.

KIND OF ADVERBS:

1. Adverbs of manner
2. Adverb of place
3. Adverb of time
4. Adverb of degree
5. Adverb of frequency

for more information:www.writingcentre.uottawa.ca/hypergrammar/adverbs.html

subject and verb must AGREE with one another in number (singular or plural).

Singular subjects need singular verbs; plural subjects need plural verbs

for more information:http://www.towson.edu/ows/moduleSVAGR.htm

At the end of this presentation, we are divided into 2 group. For each who are asked to answer a question will get food whether he/she answer correctly or not for the question. everyone just focus at the food. There is no winner as both of the group get a same marks.


            

1 FEBRUARY 2012

The very hard test is coming. Today is speaking test. I hope can do better from last sem.
I think i am very weak in speaking. But i will try my best to do this.

The instruction to speaking test:

1. each group have 4 members
2. decide who is candidate A, B, C and D 
3. this test divide into two task, there is task A and B, task A is individual point and task B is group discussion. 
4. time given for both task is 10 minutes 

31 JANUARY 2012

Our listening test just around the corner. so, miss zu do a practices using Stried Ahead book. It hard to me because it was difficult to me understand what they were talking about. Listening need high of  concentration. It hard to me to get full marks...hee