Saturday, 5 June 2010

Building Your English Vocabulary

1. Use your knowledge of word grammar to enlarge your working vocabulary
noun verb adjective adverb
beauty beautify beautiful beautifully
attractive attract attractive attractivelly

prefix root suffix
un pre dict tble

2. invent a crazy sentence.
3. target word- start for a crazy story.
4. Group it up.
5.
creativity and imagination.
6. Sound & music.
7. Visual- aid in remembering word.( third of the brain).


Wednesday, 12 May 2010

My Activities...








My activities...

Home...
Now, my daily chores adamantly covered nearly all that mom supposed to do at home.So what about my kids ?Do they give a helping hand on it? Nope... I dare say. My love sometimes prevent them from doing more than they shud.


Class...
As usual my class went on with great expectations. The student really work hard but among them I admit that there're one/two that obviously made a nuisance of themselves. And in certain times they 're really a pain in the neck! 'To teach is to learn and to learn is to gain.-adz' Yup! I hope my says will go round and be back to me some day.

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English workshop at school - Week 4

Day: Wednesday.
Date: 12th May
Venue: SMKBI
Form: 1F & 2C
Method: Innovative Approaches.
Topic : Revision
Sub-topic: Tenses,Preposition & Construct sentences
Time: 7.30 am - 8.55 am.
Learning outcomes:1. Drill, ask & answer, Student centred learning.

e.g:-

1.She eats in the canteen.
She ate in the canteen yesterday.
She is eating in the canteen now.
She has eaten in the canteen already.

S.A.L. - construct the sentences.
- Drill on preposition.
- memorise the table of tenses.

English workshop at school - Week 4

Day: Wednesday.
Date: 12th May
Venue: SMKBI
Form: 1F & 2C
Method: Innovative Approaches.
Topic: Revision & Motivation
Sub-topic: Tenses,Construct sentences
Time: 7.30 am - 8.55 am.
Learning outcomes:1. Creative Thinking. Student centred

e.g:-

1.She eats in the canteen
She is eating in the canteen now
2.The cat jumps over the gate.
3.Amin throw the ball through the window.

Construct sentences with creative additional substance.
1.Today she eats mee in the big canteen.
2.Everyday the fat cat jumps over the high gate.
3.Usually tall Amin throws the small ball through the long window.

# present tense
# adjectives
# prepositions.

Change the sentences into past tense.

1.Yesterday she ate mee in the big canteen.
2.Last morning the fat cat jumped over the high gate.
3.Just now tall Amin threw the small ball through the long window.

S.A.L. - rewrite the sentence and change into other tenses.
- Drill on preposition.

Thursday, 6 May 2010

English workshop at school - Week 3

Day: Wednesday.
Date: 5th May
Venue: SMKBI
Form: 1F & 2C
Method: Innovative Approaches.
Topic: Preposition
Sub-topic: Tenses,Construct sentences
Time: 7.30 am - 8.55 am.
Learning outcomes:1. Warm up.Presentations,Creative Critis Thinking. Student centred

e.g:- in,on,behind,along,among,through,above...etc

1.She eats in the canteen.
2.The cat jumps over the gate.
3.Amin throw the ball through the window.

Conctruct sentences with creative additional substance.
1.Today she eats mee in the big canteen.
2.Everyday the fat cat jumps over the high gate.
3.Usually tall Amin throws the small ball through the long window.

# present tense
# adjectives
# prepositions.

Change the sentences into past tense.

1.Yesterday she ate mee in the big canteen.
2.Last morning the fat cat jumped over the high gate.
3.Just now tall Amin threw the small ball through the long window.

S.A.L. - rewrite the sentence and change into other tenses.
- Drill on preposition.

Friday, 30 April 2010

Something to know and to be alert ...learning vocabulary is always fun if you let yourself explore the meaning and knowing these 4 subtances here:-PREFIXES, SUFFIXES, ROOTS, AND CONFUSING WORDS OF ENGLISH VOCABULARy
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Prefixes are added to the beginning of words to change their meaning. Three common prefixes are dis-, mis-, and un-. The prefix a and an mean not or without. The related study-words are 1. amoral and apathy.
(without sensation) (without a sense of moral responsibility) (not cuttable)
2. ab, abs, a [from, away] abnormal, abduct, absent, avert
(turn away)
3. il, ir, in, im [not]
illegal, irregular, incorrect, immoral
4. in, il, im [into] [beneath]
inject, inside, illuminate, illustrate, impose, implant, imprison,infra, infrared
5. un [not, release]
unfair, unnatural, unbutton

6.under [beneath]
underground, underlying

7. uni [one] unicycle, uniform, unify, universe, unique
(one of a kind)

8. vice [in place of]
vice president, vice admiral, viceroy

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Suffixes are used with base words to form new words. For example, the words derived from “develop” include develops, developed, development, developing, and developer.
1. able, ible [able, can do] capable, agreeable, edible, visible
(can be seen)
2.ize [make]
emphasize, publicize, idolize

3. less [without] baseless, careless, artless, fearless, helpless
(without care)

4. ly [like, manner of]
carelessly, fearlessly, hopelessly, shamelessly

5. ment [act of, state of, result ] contentment, amendment
state of amending

6. [state of]
carelessness, restlessness
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ROOTS
The root of a word is its basic form. For example, the root “port” means carry. Knowing this helps to learn the spelling and meaning of such words as portage, import, export, report, porter, deport, portable, comportment, and portfolio.

1.sequ, secu, sue [follow] sequence, sequel, consequence, subsequent, prosecute, consecutive (following of one thing after another)

2.serv [save, serve] servant, service, subservient, servitude, preserve, conserve, reservation, deserve, conservation, observe

3. sign, signi [sign, mark, seal] signal, signature, design, insignia, significant (a gesture or sign to call attention) (the mark of a person written in his own handwriting) (distinguishing marks)

4. simil, simul [like, resembling]
similar, assimilate, simile, simulate
(resembling in many respects) (to make similar to) (pretend; put on an act to make a certain impression)

5. sist, sta, stit [stand] assist, persist, circumstance, stamina, status, state, static, stable, stationary, substitute (to stand by with help)
(stand firmly; unyielding; continue) (power to withstand; to endure) (standing) (to stand in for another)

6. solus [alone]
solo, soliloquy, solitaire, solitude
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This course clears up confusion about many words in the English language. It teaches students to spell and use different words that have the same pronunciation but different spelling. It also teaches the usage of words that have the same spelling but sounds different.

1. can, may- Can suggests ability while may suggests permission.

2. capital, capitol- The noun capital refers to a city or to money. The adjective capital means “major or important.” Capitol refers to a building.

3. cent, sent, scent- Cent is a coin; sent is the past tense of the verb send; scent is an odor or a smell.

4. chord, cord- Chord may mean “an emotion or feeling,” but it also may mean “the combination of two or more tones sounded at the same time, as with a guitar chord. A cord is a string or rope.

5. chose, choose- Chose (choz) is the past tense of the verb choose (chooz).

English workshop at school - Week 2

Okay, this Wed is my second week for the tutoring class in SMKBI. My students had given their good performance in doing,copying,remarks,questioning,writing and feed backs. They're really building an effort to learn BI. So as usuall before starting, we had a quick lighten-up-mood and then drilling.
Day: Wednesday.
Date: 22nd April
Venue: SMKBI
Form: 1F & 2C
Method: Innovative Approaches.
Topic:Tenses ( Construct Sentences.)
Sub-topic: Present,Past,Participle,Future,Present Continuous Tense.
Time: 7.30 am - 8.55 am.
Learning outcomes:1.Presentations,Discussion,Drill, ask & answer,Creative Critis Thinking

S.A.L. - Read & memorise the words and tenses.
- Construct sentences .

Today Abu eats fried chicken.
Last night Abu ate.
Abu is eating now.
Abu has eaten the food already.
Abu will eat the cake tomorrow.

Sunday, 18 April 2010

English workshop at school.

Last Wednesday was my first attempt(after 5 years of resting) to grammatical analysis and guide the students towards learning English to perfection.
I was given about 20 students and overall they were really cooperative and behaved.The beginning of the class seems too unorganised but then when we were placed comfortably, everything turned out well apparently.I started to asked and do some inquiry about their interest & knowledge in english and these were the answers.
- left out students because ignorable on certain topics.
- didn't know the structures to start writing.
- didn't know how to learn and apply the substances of English.
- boring .
- the subject is too serious & schematic.

So, I simply put on the learning outcomes which I had practised perpetually about 22 years back, all lasted approximately in one and a half hours of fun learning.
Seems that my innovations approaches was accepted and my next mission is to check out their result and progressing.


Day: Wednesday.
Date: 15th April
Venue: SMKBI
Form: 1F & 2C
Method: Innovative Approaches.
Topic:Parts of speech ( Construct Sentences.)
Sub-topic: Noun,Verb,Preposition,Adverb,Adjective.
Time: 7.30 am - 8.55 am.

Learning outcomes:
1.Construct and evaluate sentences using the substance in Part of Speech.

Pak Hamid sits .
He sits on the chair.
The fat Pak Hamid gradually sits on the chair at the park.
The fat Pak Hamid gradually sits on the small chair at the beautiful park in Ipoh.
Today, The fat Pak Hamid and his tall son gradually sit on the small chair at the beautiful park in Ipoh.

2. Control and practise some emotion to apply the learning outcomes.
3. Run over the lesson and give the inference.

S.A.L- Write more words.