I love SKPD 1033 programme soo much..Especially my lovely lecturer Pn.Fuzirah and all my friends..Really miss u all alot and hope everyone will keep in touch always.Pn.Fuzirah I'm really appreciate on your contribution towards our improvement.Thank you so much for all you have done for us.We all as your students will always appreciate it and will make you as our role model to succeed in our life..Thanks alot Madam..You are really great..!!

From online practice, I learned how to write an effective essay.The resources that provided in online practice guide and help me to brainstorming ideas, planning an essay and teach me how to revise and edit the completed essay.Hope all of you make use of it.

SKPD 10333

Although my English language did not improve as much as i wish, but still i learned new things. thanks to Pn. Fuziah. Even though we do not have English class anymore, but we still need to improve our English language so we can easily speak with foreign people when we go on a tour~haha

PRACTICE IDENTIFYING MAIN IDEAS

Under the paragraph are four general statements. Decide which statement best expresses the main idea of the paragraph.Remember that all or most of the material in the paragraph should develop the statement you choose.Write your answer in comment box.

Meanwhile, factory and automobile pollution increased. Rivers turned into stinking sewers from industrial wastes; fish and plant life in lakes died; and city populations choked and gasped in smog. A series of rocket expeditions to the moon began in 1969, but many asked in mounting cynicism how a nation so afflicted with grave problems at home could continue spending astronomical sums on such exploits. Fueled by the panic of growing numbers of drug addicts for money, crime rates soared. Entire sections of great cities displayed empty sidewalks at night, the residents hidden behind locked doors and windows, which often were broken in by burglars. Candidates for political office could ride to victory on the law-and-order issue almost by itself. Twisting and warping every other problem, and producing massive protest and disillusionment, was the seemingly endless war in Vietnam.

a) Pollution and crime were on the increase in the United States.

b) Many began to question the country’s priorities.

c) The Vietnam was responsible for a growing number of problems in the United States.

d) Conditions in the United States grew worse.

After a long gap i was successfully access my online practice..Thank god..I was really enjoy doing the practices.I can felt a lot of improvement in my English language..Really thank you sooo much Pn.Fuzirah to giving us this kind of opportunity to develop our languange instead of ICT skill.Hopefully coming SKPD 1033 students enjoy it to the maximum with our great lecturer Pn.Fuzirah..Miss her and her lecturing (kuliah) soo much.. :(

Online Practice

Online practice is one of the extra activity of that I most enjoyed and love.The special in online practice is, we can access it anytime or in any place .We can access to the Internet, from the comfort of our own home and even during summer and holiday breaks. Besides it, we can choosing our study time.It help us to plan our study time. Studying at nighttime or in the morning is up to the students.It is recommended that students try to develop a study routine if they can. Students can complete assignments when they are ready. As long as they complete the assignments required by the end of the semester, they will be fine. Students will be able to review materials until they feel they are ready to complete assignments or take tests and quizzes. It also increase accountability. Online practice can be even more accountable than traditional professional development because assignments, assessment scores, activities, and participant progress can be monitored online.In addition, online practice bring education theory to life. When online practice experiences take full advantage of the interactivity and multimedia power of the Internet.Wide variety of activity and question formats offers a more valuable learning experience than a typical workshop or textbook-based courses. Instead of one-shot workshops,we can use the flexibility of online practice to follow-up on learning activities with support that leads to implementation of new practices. Online practice also create excitement about learning. The interactivity and multimedia delivery of online professional development makes learning more engaging and fun.

Learning Experience From DST

The DST project give us a lot of learning experience and I would like to thank Pn.Fuzirah to giving us this chance.DST help us to show our ability and creativity via making video with suitable photos and background music.DST project is really a good project which should be continue in future.It teaches us how to work in group.While doing DST we learned to be tolerate, co-operate and to show our love and care by helping each other.Instead of that, it help us to improve our communication skill.We also build our self-confident because we are given chance to talk and present our DST project infront of our classmates.Besides it, DST also help us to establish a good relationship among our classmates and our lovely lecturer, Pn.Fuzirah.This project encourage us to read a lot of books, articles, newspapers, journals and so on.This help us to enhance our reading and writing skills.In addition, we are familiar with new vocabularies which will could help us to upgrade or improve our language.From the DST project itself, we learned to use the moviemaker and photoshop programmes and also learn to make a successful video.In short,we had improve our ICT skill.Its really enjoyable and we have done as much as we could with high commitment.I hope all of you enjoyed our video and presentation.

Thank you.

END OF SEMESTER

Dear students,

Thanks for activating this blog. You have still got one more week to contribute to the blog. For those who have not contributed much, please do so.  Hope you have learnt something from this SKPD course and best of luck for your finals. And a gentle reminder from me..please limit your discussion/contribution to the learning experience, comments for your DST project/presentation and suggestions related to the course. Thank you again :)

Christmas Tradition

Christmas is probably the most festive time of the year, a season of gift-giving and celebration. We all know that Christmas is a religious holiday which marks the birth of Jesus Christ. But did you also know that some of the traditions are adapted from rituals dating back to a time before Christianity? Many pagan peoples regarded the winter solstice as a time of celebration. Anticipating the return of spring, people decorated their homes with evergreen plants, a symbol of eternal life. Mistletoe was especially popular, as it was believed to have magic powers. People hung sprigs of mistletoe in their homes and kissed beneath them as a gesture of friendship. At pagan festivals there was also a lot of singing and dancing going on – “dancing in a circle” is the original meaning of the word “carol”. Still now we keep these traditions up: we sing Christmas carols and dance around in circles, we kiss beneath the mistletoe and we decorate our homes with Christmas trees. By the way, did you know that it was a German who set the trend of decorating Christmas trees in England? It was Prince Albert, Queen Victoria’s husband. When he moved to England, Christmas trees had already been popular in continental Europe, but not in England. In 1841, Prince Albert put up a Christmas tree at Windsor Castle. The event was reported in the press; and as the whole country was very keen on the royal family, people enthusiastically took up the custom of decorating a tree at Christmas.

Let's learn some English Idioms,

• "The fat's in the fire" - The damage is already done.
• "A flash in the pan" - Something that looks like it will be a big success, but does not work out.
• "Hat trick" - Scoring consecutively three times in a game.
• "In a pickle" - In an awkward or embarrassing situation.
• "The nick of time" - Just before time is up.
• "Pull the wool over someone's eyes" - Trick or deceive.
• "Bite off more than you can chew" - Take on more than one can handle.
• "Fill someone's shoes" - Take someone else's place.
• "The buck stops here." - Taking responsibility for something, instead of blaming someone else.
• "Strike someone funny" - To seem funny to someone
• "Her bark is worse than her bite" - Someone's words are worse than their action.
• "Bet on the wrong horse" - Misread the future.
• "Bull in a china shop" - A person with no tact who upsets others or upsets plans.
• "Cat gets one's tongue" - Can't speak because of shyness.
• "Every dog has his day" - Everyone will have his chance or turn; everyone will get what he deserves.
• "Get on one's high horse" - Behave with arrogance.
• "Hit the bull's eye" - Reach the main point.
• "Lead a dog's life" - Work hard and be treated unkindly.
• "Live high on the hog" - Have the best of everything.
• "Monkey business" - Unethical or bad activity, mischief.

How To Improve English Language

English is an international language .Nowdays , if a person wants to communicate with others , he/she must have the knowledge of English for this purpose.There is a famous saying " Practice makes a man perfect" . According to this saying , until and unless we will not practice this language , we cannot master it .

Different methods can be used for the improvement of English..
1) Dictionary is a necessary part of learning English . By consulting a dictionary one can improve their English language.
2) Learner's own interest can push them to learn the language. If they want to improve their language, they must involve themselves in different language activates.
3) Through newspaper , we can improve our language.
4) We can communicate with our friends , relatives and parents in English, This will help us in improving our English and we can improve our English, if we make it as essential part of our lives and we have to speak in English with our relatives , friends.
5) Lastly , by watching English movies we can improve our English.

K-POP

K- POP

Korea has a huge musical culture. Most famous tendency : The K-Pop.

It is an abbreviation of Korean pop or Korean popular music is a musical genre blending electronic, hip hop, pop, rock, and R&Bmusic originating in South Korea.K-pop has grown among a popular subculture among teenagers throughout Asia, resulting in widespread interest in the fashion and style of Korean idol groups and singers.

K-pop appeared in the 90’s. However, it will know a great expansion and globalization at the beginning of the XXI century.

To guarantee the best probability of success of potential talent, agencies fully subsidize and oversee the professional lives and careers of trainees, often spending in excess of $400,000 to train and launch a new artist.

K-pop is steadily gaining influence in foreign markets, most notably in the North America, and Australia. In 2009, the Wonder Girls became the first Korean singers to place on the U.S. with their single: Nobody

In China, Japan, and the entire region of Southeast Asia, K-pop culture has become so popular that authorities and nationalists fear that it is leading to an exocentric preference for Korean styles and ideas.

Dear friends, so long i never contribute to this blog because of login problem.However, i had saved my topic of discussion in my pendrive to share it later.today is the time for me to post it one by one...I hope u all enjoy reading it.tq

The Importance of English language

Selamat sejahtera and salam 1 Malaysia to everyone.I will going to share my opinion on the importance of English language in the present time as global language. It is clear that the English language has become more dominant around the world. In some countries it use as the mother tongue and ,other countries learn it as second language in their schools. This is make English widespread. In addition, many reasons which contributed to rising of English spreading . for example, use it for communication between people around the world, as well as, it is language of modern times. On other hand , English is the language of science and technology.
There is no doubt that, the English is language of communication between the people with different cultures . It is also the language of computers that help to communicate with the people around the world through Internet technology and e-mail. People who know English can deal with the Internet, which is regard information and communications revolution .
Also one of reasons that contributed to the spread of English that, it is the language of the modern era. Where the people are use it in various field of life such as, economy, e-commerce, medicine and aviation. In addition ,it is the language which use in the tourism and travel. This reasons motive the people to learn English .
One of the main reasons why the English is dominant in the present time, use it in the field of education by universities and institutes and, they use it in scientific research . It has become an addendum to the mastery of scientific individual stock. On the other hand, the English is an important requirement in most government jobs and private.
It is quite clear that English has become an necessity today. We need it in different fields of life . The English language has become easier to learn more than ever before with the availability of many sources to help people learn very easily. Such as the Internet, books and educational institutes which spread around the world.We are gifted students who have good and talented lecturer’s to guide us as well.So.guyz make use of this opportunity to upgrade and enhance your English.Tq.

take care~~

to all my beloved friends..our examination is too near..
please make sure you guys in a good health condition k
do well in this semester..dean list in our hand!!( God willing)
go go chaiyok~~
aja aja hwaiting~~
( still in kpop fever mood)hehe

MISS

annyeonghaseyo..

how are you guys? hope you all in a pink of health. Actually i am not feeling to well. got a cough. Thanks to the weather. 

The DST presentation is over, it such a relieve. But i have a kind of sad feeling the ESS class is over. i have start to miss you guys. I hope we can still keep in touch. See you next semester. i hope.

sharing is caring

hello everyone,

its rainy day..i'm just want to share my experience during bius class..we had done our dst project..i really happy because finally we finished our dst project..everybody do their job very well. i feel very lucky to had suria and syakirah as member group.we really enjoy doing this project (i really miss the moment we fight 2 choose the narrator..hahaha) hope we can cooperate again.. medif really challenge my patience..i very grateful for medif discontinued because i had to record the conversation of 5 to 6 times before post it..there is alot of problem when record the convesation..for online activity,it make me little upset about it because until now i can't do a unit of the activity because of i forget my pasword. i tried many times to get my pasword but my email not in the system,then i tried to register again but my access code are not valid..i really worried because online activity can affect my marks. thanks to madam fuzirah for giving suggestion for me to use my friend id to complete my online activities..thanks also to suria for allows me to use her id..

i have to stop now to suria take care of your health and t syakirah dont cry anymore ok,chill up..hehehe

k-pop fever!!!

alhamdulillah..finally we did it..i hope all of you were enjoyed with
our DST video..although the "scene" spelling was wrong..hehe aigoo so ashame la~~
but we satisfied with our video..by doing this dst project, i had so many experinces
although i have to sleep at 4 am every day and get sick!
aigoo..thank you to our lovely lecturer pn fuzirah because always give us supports till
the end of this project..we will miss you~~hehe
kamsahamnida.....~~

The End???

Holla darlings!!! Hows your presentation going on? Share it guys!! As for me in the set 10 with all the people in set 10 I thing we did great and awesome! Congrats to you guys! To Suria, be tough ok babe, get well soon. ;)

Oh my god..I don't know what to say actually, because I just don't believe that this is THE END of our class, and BIUSS aka ESS. It's such a sad thing you know when we were just about to know each other and mingle around with them then suddenly it comes to an end. Yeah, believe it or not it's the last class we entered today (21 December 2011). How are you guys feeling? I mean are you having fun in this class or stress with the task given? Well as for me, I'm having so much fun in this class with all of you guys, and honestly there is no stress at all throughout this semester learning BIUSS. Set 10 students are AWESOME! Moreover, your DST videos are fantastic ok guys! Maybe should upload in the YouTube. Hehehe..

DST is such a fun thing basically we are exploring many new things right guys? So I hope you guys could somehow used it when you are 'out' and apply it in your working days in the future. Because the thing is we wouldn't know if someday in the future we need these skills.

To be very honest I'm enjoying every single BIUSS class. And I hope you guys too! Hope to see you guys soon even though we're not in the same class anymore, (for those with different Pusat & courses) but please greet each other when you bump with each other. Love you guys!!! <3

Before I forgot, I would like to apologize to you guys if throughout the semester I've been mean or annoying or whatever, I'm so sorry...and..yes of course Good Luck in your final exam ok?? * to Alif, don't be late ya for the exam..hehe * I'll stop here, it's too much already I guess..hehehe,,[going to miss every single people in set 10]

See you when I see you. XOXO :)

Depression of Teenagers in UKM

Members of group : Rahayu, Ummi and Khaira
Our topic for the digital story telling is ‘depression of teenagers in UKM’. We chose the topic because depression is rarely discussed among our community eventhough it is actually quite popular. Other than that, we want to share more facts about depression with the whole class. We will explain a little bit on what is depression. Next, we will provide some examples of what is causing depression among students and lastly, we will share some ways on handling depression. Do enjoy

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Steady my friends~

After the 14th weeks of first semester,finally it comes to the end.
Throughout this 14 weeks of English for Science Social classes,i have been learned a lot of things and my english has been improved,although is just improved a little bit,haha.
Anyway,i do have a great experience because i got a class with a bunch of kind,funny and friendly classmates,and of coarse,we do have a nice lecturer,Puan Fuzirah to teach us.Her class will never boring and we wouldn't be so tense up during her class as madam is not a strict lecturer.
Nevertheless,we have been into troubles as the new learning systems,Medif and DST project have introduce to us.First of all,quite a lot of us couldn't complete the medif due to the medif system and connection problem.but luckily medif has cancelled at the end and we just need to focus on the DST project and online practice.
of coarse,again we met problem for the DST project.But with the clear enough instruction from madam,i guess every group has complete the project and waiting for the presentation that falls on this coming wednesday.
Anyway,guys,good luck for the presentation and in final,too =) please do take care of yourself besides than rushing for your assignment and doing preparation of exam.
Again,good luck and see you guys~!=D

ESS and EVERYTHING

Hello everyone,

    This is me, Danial and I'm using Muaz's account because I didn't receive any invitation. Bummer :( . First of all, as you can see my title for this post is ESS and EVERYTHING. ESS stands for English for Social Science and this is one of my favourite subject in UKM. I would like to say THANK YOU to Madam Fuzirah. She is so great and very kind. She shares many knowledge and experiences with us. She guides us to do our ESS assignments and make us comfortable in her class because she is so friendly.

   Other than that, I would like to share with you about my experiences during this class. The class members are awesome and they are friendly too.  We can communicate very well even though we speak in English. I can see that each of them are willing to do that and I can see the improvements among them too. The first task  we have to do is MeDiF and this is one of the complicated but interesting assignments. There are a lot of problem we faced when we are going to do that. Sometimes, we cannot hear the voice and the worst thing is we cannot record our conversations. Luckily, we don't have to do it again. The next one is Digital Story Telling. We have to create one documentary based on current issues and my group decided to do about 1Malaysia thingy but we found some difficulties about that issue and we finally decided to do about Video Blogging which is much more awesome than the 1Malaysia issue. My group members are Muaz, Izyan and Eng Loo. They are the best group members ever. They are friendly and sporting too. Thank you for your cooperations mates :) .

    Now, our final examination is around the corner and this WEDNESDAY, December 21 is our PRESENTATION DAY. All the best to all of you. Break a leg.

XOXO. ~Danial~

DST project

Assalamualaikum and hello to everyone.

Actually i don't know how to start this, but when i think that we have to post something on class blog, i become blank. Don`t know what to write.So, i have made a decision to post about our group DST project. I am not going to tell you about the thing that we do in our DST project actually, but i would like to share the experience of the movie making process.

At first, when the project didnt start yet, i feel that the project must be very difficult. So, we dont know how to start. A little depression for us i think. then, when we start the project, i find it really enjoyable with all the picture and the music, we do the project till it almost finish ( we think that, that time) then we find that we must, not exceptionally, MUST insert the narration, the job becomes harder. we don`t know how to insert the narration on movie maker. its really annoying. we don`t know how the project will end, we will do our best and try harder. i hope everything will be okay.  Just wait for the day of presentation..

Comment ,Comment ,Comment !

Hi ,guys ? I know we have just about 3 more weeks left before the final exam . But it is not the reason u all cannot give contribution on our class blog .Just take about 5 minutes to comment ok ?Please guys,give your contribution on this blog .. TQ

Problems among Malaysian Footballers & bestway of training & prevent injuries

Group Members :Nas ,Zizan,Zuhari & Alif

Reason choosing topic : The reasons why we choose this topic because we notice that most of
people we meet know how to play football but they did not know how to
prevent themselves from injury and how to get the best way of training.
They also are not aware or take serious about their safety or phisically
injured while playing football.As we know, our Malaysian footballers win
the biggest match against Indonesia in Sea Games.So,we think this is the
suitable time to explain how to prevent injuries and get the right ways
of training as a footballers.

Purpose : The aim & purpose why we choose this topic because we want everybody know the
risk and injury that they might get while playing football.Eventhough ,football is the
fovourite sport in our country but we still need to know how to prevent injury.The
problem that malaysian footballers face can be use as an example for us to get the
right way of training for us .Hopefully,we can explain and inform to others about
how to prevent injuries and stay fit with the right ways of training.

Baby Steps

Hi! Salam everyone. Hope that you guys are in the pink of health. :)

Nothing much to say though, but what I have in mind about this course is BIUS is actually a fun class to start your day on Monday which almost everybody including me hates Monday and we have this syndrome called Monday Blues. Haha. By the way, while writing this I was with Muaz, Danial & Eng Loo doing our DST. First time entering this class, to be very honest I thought Madam Fuzirah is a strict kind of person. Sorry Madam, but this is what i felt. But as we go through, I find it Madam is actually is not that strict at all. Plus, all the classmates are awesome!

In BIUS I learnt a lot of new things and experience new types of assignments where Madam introduced to us. Basically the MEDIF, DST and also the Online Activities. MEDIF is totally a new thing to me. But unfortunately it was discontinued as it brings a lot of problem I can say, but I did record myself once and suddenly Madam said there's no more MEDIF. I am quite sad because it's fun thing where you can actually record yourself and voice out your opinion in the video. 

DST is the major assignments where we need to do something like a documentary video. But we, (me, Muaz, Danial, Eng loo) still did not start anything yet because we decided to change our topic last minute as we find it difficult to find items and I can say that the topic that we chose earlier was indeed a boring one. Haha. That's why we decided to change. 

My online activities are currently on the 5th Unit. Hehe. What about you guys? Ok I thing I need to stop now as I'm starting to talk nonsense. Till fingers meet keyboard ;)

Love, 

Qurratu Izyan <3

Of BIUS, DST and English in UKM.

Hello Everyone! :D 

Okay, so at the time of writing this I am in the library (PTSL) finishing the transcript for the Digital Story Telling and I suddenly remembered about this blog and I decided to post something now because I just found out I don't have any class this evening.

BIUS is the acronym for Bahasa Inggeris Untuk Sains Sosial, the class is held at 8 in the morning every Monday and Wednesday which is great for me because I love English and to start the week with something that I love lifts my mood up. The class is great, its fun and not too serious and we all learn something new in each class. However I do have to admit that some assignments like MEDIF and DST is entirely new to me. Although we were not able to continue with MEDIF, it was certainly entertaining watching back the videos that we made, what with all the preparations in making the video (lighting, cleaning up the room, picking out nice clothes, picking a trademark, etc etc) and also laughing at ourselves when we hear what we sound like on camera and go all "do I sound like that?" or "is that MY voice"  *laughs*

But it was discontinued and I have to say, Thank God! Because the website is always problematic. However, we still have the Digital Story Telling and I do hope its okay. I mean I have the videos, the materials needed and I have Windows Movie Maker which makes things a little easier (I have the Portable Photoshop CS4! If anyone of you want it, just tell me) and I think it will be fine. All I need to do is submit the transcript and do the narration and put everything together. I just hope its as easy as it sounds... >.<"

Before I finish, there is one thing I want to rant about here. I mean, I know UKM is all about strengthening and conservation of the Malay Language and what not, but do you have to "pandang slack" (give me the look)  at me every time I use an English word? For the love of God, its English not Gaelic or Finnish or some language that you just cannot possibly understand. -.-

Oh well, until next time. =] 


Muaz Mohamad.


xoxo

Medif again...

Hi boys and girls, please try and record your discussion on Medif again. I have spent two hours to solve the problem and i pray that you will be able to record it this time...let's not give up..hiccups are common for something new like this :-)

Medif, medif, medif

Dear students of Sets 10 and 11, I have tried to 'correct' the problem with Medif and I hope that after this you would not have problems recording your discussion any more.  Please try again and if the same problem persists, bring your laptops on Monday, Oct 24th to class, at least one laptop for each group.

Thank You

Dear everybody, thanks for activating this class blog. You must remember that the discussion on this blog is mainly for your DST project.  As for Medif, you need to go into its own website and check your set number and follow the instructions given.  All recordings should be done there. Thanks again and best of luck!

Dear boys and girls, you can start posting comments related to the course; especially reagrding your story-telling project :-))

Welcome

Dear students of set 10 and set 11 sem 1 2011/2012..welcome to our skpd 1033 blog!