TASK 4:Describing A Place

A Market-smelly, noisy, watery, busy, big.
A Village-peace, harmony, sound of cicada.
A Haunted House-scary, dark, decrepit.
A Busy City-jammed, noisy, smokes, accidents, pieces of mirror.
A Beach-windy, breezing, water, sand castle.

TASK 3:A Place Around The Campus

• See- I can see people queueing up, waiting for their turn to order food while people who sat on the chairs provided are eating and surfing the Internet.
• Hear- I can hear people keep complaining about the management of the cafeteria because they take much time to serve customers` food. besides that, the food that they serve is tasteless and the rice is not cooked properly.
• Feel- I feel so hot and I want to go back to my room as soon as possible because there are too many mosquitoes keep sucking my blood.
• Smell- I can smell something delicious like the mixture of lime-leaf and other ingredients in `laksa` that make me so curious and find where is it comes from?
• Taste- I ate `tomyam` and it is so delicious, it is spicy, little bit sour and still hot.

Form Three Sentences With Words We Found from Newspaper

Formation of Sentences with Random Words From Newspapers

This is a group task. each group will have 5 members and my group`s members are Nor Saleha, Jeeivitha Kathirvelu Pillai, Nabila Hamdan, Rizzal J Mel and myself, Erni Nabilah bt Hasni. Each group were asked to find words that mentioned by Miss Yoon in newspaper. At first, I don`t know what the next step after we found the words, but this is an interesting task because everyone wants to be the first person who found the words. After finished, we enter the class again and were asked to make three sentences regarding `Preservation of Sea or River`. In the end, each group will present their task and this is my group`s sentences:

1.When we preserve our sea,we can help to reduce the extinction of marine life. 

2.The government should preserve the sea because fish are the main source of the protein.

3.Preserving our sea will lower the rate and risk of illnesses caused  by polluted sources.

Tutorial 2:Causes of Motor Vehicle Accidents

Thesis Statement:-
Almost everyday we will read on the newspapers about accidents and sometimes, the person that involved in the accident is someone who was not guilty at all. Accidents happened not only involved cars, lorries, but also motorcycles. Usually, the rate of accidents in Malaysia will be increased  when any festival comes. There are many reasons to explain why accidents happen. One from that reasons is drunk driving, the second is restless, and lastly drive at maximum speed.

Topic Sentence:-
1)The first reason is drunk driving.
2)Secondly, restless.

3)Lastly, drive at maximum speed.

Task 2:Message From Inbox

Original message: He asked for an apology for what he had done.

New message: Shahrizal felt guilty for what he had done to his ex-girlfriend. He waited for a message from his ex-girlfriend but there is none. So, he picked up his phone, he wanted to send a message to his ex-girlfriend, but unfortunately he has no credit.

Task 1:Describing People

Eyes-                   round, thick-eyebrow, long-eyelashes, eye-brown, wearing speck, big, small

Nose-                  sharp-nose, dent-nose, flat-nose, small-nose
Lips-                    thick, thin, dinky
Face-                   round, pale, oval, dimple, pimples
Complexion-        fair, dark
Hand-                  left-handed, long-fingernail, harsh, gentle, painted-nail, hennaed
Cheek-                chubby, blush
Body-                  fat, skinny, plum
Cloth/accessories-necklace, high heel, old fashion, trendy, casual

Tutorial 1:Article Review Exercise

INTEGRATING SOCIAL NETWORKING TOOLS INTO ESL WRITING CLASSROOM:

STRENGTH AND WEAKNESSES

This paper discuss about the strength and weaknesses by using Social Networking Tools into ESL Writing Class. The pros are, students will be more confident to publish their works in blog because it is non face-to-face learning. Secondly, writing classroom will be more fun because both teachers and students can post entertainments, so the learning lesson be more relax and cheerful. Thirdly, parents can see and follow up their children`s learning lesson. By the way, there are some cons too. One of them is, the students must have a computer and Internet access to keep them interact with teachers and students. Next, the percent for student `copy-paste` from the original sources when searching any information is high. So, the students will take the easiest way to finish up their work. Lastly, students will not be able to focus on their lesson 100% because they keep playing on line games or log in to Facebook and others. In conclusion, social networking tools can be implement into ESL Writing Class but the teachers have to be alert to prevent their students from posting such inappropriate things.

In my opinion as a student, I`m totally not agree if SNSs are being used in ESL Writing Class. On my experience, even I want to focus on my study, my mind will keep asking me to look for another things such as log in to Facebook and i`ll be busy with updating my status and commenting with my friends. From this, even someone  tries to focus on their lesson, they will definitely be distracted when SNSs are being used. Furthermore, in rural areas especially, not everyone are financially capable enough to buy a computer and provide  Internet access for their children. Sometimes, electricity problems also prevent SNSs from being used because students will faced with difficulties to do their assessment at that time.

For me, social networking is not suitable for study (improve writing skills) but it is a place for socialising with peoples. Too many ways that we can use to improve writing skills such as ask them to brainstorm once got a tittle for an exercise. Then, once teacher marked their paper, they should take look at the paper again and learn from their mistakes. We can ask students to change their paperwork with their peers to look how someone gives out her or his opinion and do `peers-editing` . By this way, students still can improve their writing skills by follow their peers` way to do any task.