Monday, 17 December 2012
Assalamualaikum.
Hello people!
New week, new
story and new life.
Today
our class study about writing.
Miss Zu teaches us about how to write an
introduction in essay.
We create an introduction to get the readers’
attention, set tone of the fully essay and make a contrast with the reader. In
introduction, we must have three elements which is hook, transition and thesis
statement.
The hook is the beginning when we write an introduction.
The hook is the phrase that used to attract people to read the essay.
The transition is the phrase that used to
connect the hook and the thesis statement.
In
thesis statement, we must write the main idea for the topic to make readers
know what is the essay talking about.
There
are seven kind of hook which is
- personal examples -
-
quotations -
-
facts or statistics –
-
rhetorical questions –
- current events -
- contrast to the thesis statement -
- definition
-
The
personal examples must be strong and dramatic incidents to use. While you can
make up the personal experience, be careful that it sounds ridiculuos.
When
you use quotations, the content should be dramatic, emotionally appealing,
surprising and humorous. Quote does not have to be from the famous person, it
just needs to be relevant to thesis statement. If you use the quote from yours,
it can be accept too.
Let’s continue to the facts or statistics. It
must be startling or unusual. It also should be from an original source.
Next,
using the rhetorical questions. The question was not for you and the reader to
answer it but the question is for readers to thinks about it.
For the current events, the event must be
recent, important and it should be made public for example newspaper,
television, radio and so on.
The other hook is using contrast to the thesis
statement. It should be in direct contrast to the thesis statement and it must
to prove an expert wrong about the topic.
Lastly,
by using the definition. We should directly give the definition about our topic
and explain briefly.
After
our lecturer has explain it, she divided us into seven groups, two groups will
be four members and the rest of the group will only have three members. Each
group must write an introduction using the seven type hook.
My
group got a contrast to the thesis statement topic. It is a quite harder to do
this introduction but we had tried the best.
That’s
all. Thank you.
Tuesday, 18 December 2012
Assalamualaikum.
Hello people!
READING
COMPREHENSION.
Yupppp.
Today, we were learning a reading comprehension.
First of all, you must know the technique that
you will choose depend on the purpose of reading.
Do u know what is skimming? Ya! I just got
know what is skimming. When Miss Zu told us about skimming, everyone do not
know and we were blur. Haha.
Skimming
is the process of quickly identify the main ideas. There are a few tips for
better skimming, which is read the document or report quickly, only the main
point; read the first and the last paragraphs using headings, summaries; read
the headings, sub-headings and illustrations; when seeking a specific
information, consider reading the first sentence of each paragraph; and take
note of any italicised or boldfaces word or phrases. Skimming works well for
finding dates as well as names of people and places. It is also useful for
reviewing graphs, tables and charts.
Let’s
we continue to the scanning.
What
is the scanning? Scanning is a reading skill used to find specific information
quickly. There are a few tips for better scanning which is look for the
author’s use of organisers such as numbers, letters, steps or sequence such as
first, second or next; selectively read and skip through sections of the
passage; use headings any other aids that will help you identify which section
might contain the information you are looking for; try to anticipate how the
answer will appear and what clues you are looking for; look for words that are
boldfaced, italicised or in a different font size, style or colour; do not read
everything in detail, look for key words or concentrate on certain parts;
during examination, you will focus your attention on the relevant parts
depending on the questions asked; and you can scan web pages on the Internet to
find specific information.
Contextual reference.
There
are four type of context clue. There are rewording the main word, giving its
synonym, giving its antonym and giving details.
After
Miss Zu introduce to all about contextual reference, she divides us into five groups.
Then, Miss Zu gives us exercise about the reference word. Finally, we discuss
the answer. That’s all. Thank you J
