Week 10 : Cause and Effect

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            In class, teacher have a meeting so she gave Cause and Effect's handout and assigned to read, understood and make all exercise. She will back at 9.00 am.

Cause/Effect is used to show how the or concept result due to other facts, events or concept. Words that signal this type of text structure are because, as a result of, thus, and hence.

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Cause & Effect markers.

Nouns

♦ cause                   ♦ influence

♦ connection         ♦ origin

♦ consequence      ♦ outcome

♦ effect                    ♦ reason

♦ factor                   ♦ relationship

♦ impact                 ♦ result

Verb/Verb phrases

☻ to effect              ☻ to create

☻ to affect              ☻ to force

☻ to attribute to    ☻ to give rise to

☻ to blame              ☻ to play a part in

☻ to bring about    ☻  to produce

Difficult and easy point from this lesson

♥ How to remember cause & effect markers because it too much for do.

♥ How to find cause and effect in each of texts and wrote it by my idea. It's very difficult.

Week 9 : Comparison and Contrast (continued)

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          Last week, I had studied about Comparison and Contrast but it haven't completed. Today, I studied it continued.
          We started to learn on page 37. The teacher explain about text 2 and do exercise on page 38.
         After that, the teacher assigned to read and understood the text about " Men and Women: Do They Speak the Same Language? ". And, then she helped to find discourse markers. And, then teacher summarized this text.

             Differences between the women and men's language.

           Men          V.S.         Women 

-Use language to show                    -Use language to establish
independence,                                    connection intimacy
status and power

-Talk to show skill and                     -Talk about other people
knowledge.                                           and talk less what they  
                                                                know


-Voice disagreement openly             -Avoid opening                                                                                    disagreement

           she assigned to answered questions from text. Today I had many new knowledge like a different language between men and women and key markers for help more understand texts.

         After that, We have a midterm exam.

Week 8 : Procedure (continued) and Comparison & Contrast

             Last week, I had studied about Procedure but it haven't completed. Today, I studied it continued.

       The purpose of  Procedure is to tell the reader how to do or make something. The information is presented in a logical sequence of events which is broken up into small sequence steps. Usually writes in the present tense.


      Text organisation
• Goal (often indicated in the main heading and /or diagram)
• Materials (listed in order of use)
• Method (steps oriented towards achieving the goal)
 After that, The teacher ordered to make exercise page 34.
    I did exercises in lesson. This lesson is short and easy to understand. You can see many things from this lesson on your daily  like a Game instructions, How to use microwave television etc.

             The teacher gave Comparison & Contrast's handout and, then she explained about it and she told about the comparison or similarities markers as a 
-both                                -same
-similar                            -to resemble
-similarity                        -in common
-identical                          -similarly
-in the same way              -likewise
-common                          -like

-equivalent                       -parallel
Contrast or differences marker as a
-to differ                           -to distinguish 
-to contrast                       -to oppose
-difference                        -while
-whereas                           -in contrast
-yet                                   -unlike
-conversely                       -rather than   
-however                           -on the other hand
-although                           -nevertheless, instead (of)
-difference                         -notwithstanding

-as opposed to

And then she assigned to read texts. First text, it's Differences and Similarities Subway systems of New York and Paris. I had to found markers for understood it and wrote difference and similarities it on whiteboard. And then, she assigned to do it's exercise. 

Week 7 : Procedure

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              On Monday 20th, I had studied about the Procedure in the morning. The teacher told us to talked about food with my friend and then teacher opened VIDEO "How to make omelet".
She ordered to write the word that hearing.
1. Good luck
2. cook
3. omelet
4. pick a salt
5. pan
6. 20 second
7. one more time
8. cheese
9. 40 second

      She explained about How to make a Banana shake with the ingredients then she showed recipes Banana cake then she told us to match sentences with collect pictures of the omelet method.
     After that, we were do exercise on page 31 and page 32.

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Week 6 : Descriptive (continued)

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                 Last week, I had studied about Descriptive but it haven't completed. Today, I studied it continued. First, teacher assigned to check and, then she answered homework and found words there're describe the Komodo Dragon together. she assigned to read 3 texts. First text was about the Budapest, it's about the attention tourism of Budapest etc.

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             It's very interesting and made inspiration to me. Budapest, which two parts of the city. There're two include Buda and Pest. Buda is the oldest part of the city, there're : Gothic houses, Buda Castle, Citadel, The National Library, The Museum and the National Gallery.

               Next text, Prague, it was amazing one. This text described Prague: The Charles Bridge and Prague castle etc. And the illuminated landmarks were the most memorable sights in Europe.

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              Finally, the teacher assigned to make group of 5-6 and write a paragraph to describe a person you know. Then read the paragraph in front of class.

My group

◘ Difficult and Easy point from this lesson
   ○ The difficult point is the name of place from lesson because I hadn't ever known it before.
   ○ Easy points are vocabulary excluding the name of place and each of texts are easy to understand.

Week 5 : Descriptive

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           At class, the teacher started to introduce new lesson. It's descriptive: it's a text which says what a person, a thing or place is like.

◘ Purpose: to describe and reveal a particular person, place or thing. This kind of text helps us visualize and understand a topic.

◘ Generic Structure Descriptive text has structure as below:
◘ Identification is to identifying the phenomenon to be described.
◘ Description is to describe the phenomenon in parts, qualities, or/and characteristics. 

Language feature

  ◘ Using attributive and identifying process.
  ◘ Using adjective and classifiers in nominal group.
  ◘ Using simple present tense.

Question ask as we read: (it helps me so much when I read).

      ♦ What is being described?
      ♦ How does the author organize the description?
      ♦ How do all of the details fit together?

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            When she had already explained detail and structure of the description, she opened the presentation about the animals for to be an example of description like a green butterflies, ants, and Komodo dragon.

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           After that, she assigned to do exercise and made mind mapping about the special heading as a size, senses, habitat and diet.

Week 4 : Narrative (continued)

             Week4 on Monday 25, January 2016. Today I learned about "Narrative; Secrets by Tim Winton-part two." to continue last week. When the class began, the teacher told us to read the story of Secrets' part two and did the exercise.

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             The story about Kylie took the lid of the well. She goes down to the well with her album every day. One day, she normally does her routine, but Phillip's going to work at the back of the yard and found her, then he hit and rebuke her. Its makes she said and cry. She is doing cruel things. Then, she needs to bring the box's chick, but a thin hen hindered her , and therefore, she kicked and beat it with a piece of wood and, while it stunned. After that, she dropped the chicks into the well. After that, she's left herself alone in her room and cut heads' photos of her album.

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♦ Difficult point and easy point from this lesson.

 ☺ The structure of the story and vocabulary and How to summarize the story to my idea. 

 ☺ Easy point is each of the exercises in this lesson.