LESSON 9

Syllable stress

In this lesson, our class had learned one of the important part of pronunciation, syllable stress. There were some rules about which syllable that should be stress.Although the rules were rather complicated but it was totally fun to learn about it. For example, initials of the companies or organizations were usually stressed at the end:
                                                  (BBC, TWA, IBM, IMF, WWF, WHO, NHK)
It was fun when we tried to say that word with the correct pronunciation!

Then, we had to do some activities to make us more clear about this lesson. We were asked to be in pair. One of the partner need to read a poem "English Pronunciation", the other one would wrote it down on a piece of paper.From this, we had learned to be more care about how we pronounced a word and how the pronunciation could effect the meaning of the word.

LESSON 8

Pronunciation table.

Have you ever heard of the pronunciation table? If you take a look at the first page of the dictionary, there will be a table of pronunciation. The table shows the symbols which are used to represent the various sounds of the English language. Today we had learned about the pronunciation table. It is very interesting to actually know how the sounds were made!

The Pronunciation Table

The are two types of sounds, consonant sounds and vowel sounds. The consonant sounds can be divided into two that is voiced and unvoiced. Do you know how to recognised the voiced and unvoiced sound? You can easily know the sounds by putting your fingers in your ear and try to make /p/ and /b/ sounds. The vibration tells that the sound is a voiced sound. Try it out for yourself and experiment with other consonant sounds! Can you differentiate the voiced and unvoiced sounds?

If you take a look at the table shown above, some vowel symbols has two dots after it for example /i:/. The two dots represents that it has a longer vowel sound. For instance:

/i:/ - seat (has a longer 'i' sound)

than

/i/ - sit (short 'i' sound)

These vowels can also be combine to make new vowels that is dipthongs and triphthongs.

Dipthongs- wage, coin, fair, clear
Triphthongs- buyer, power

To increase our understanding on the phonetics symbols and the sounds, we are asked to read aloud and find the consonant, vowel, dipthongs and tripthongs sounds in the two poems  that were taken from Sir Marzuki's standard 5 text book. Last but not least, we also learned about syllable and its rule. It is really interesting to learn about pronunciation because by learning this, we can learn to speak English proficiently.


A lot of thank to Sir Marzuki bin Maulud for such an interesting lecture on this topic :)

Written by: Siti Aisyah binti Nasarudin

LESSON 7

                In week 7, other lecturer enters our class to teach us about phonetic and phonology.  The interaction was with Dr. Annisa.  She shows several videos about how to pronounce every single vowel and consonance.  The native speaker asked to follow how her mouth pronounces the alphabets.  The articulation system such as mouth, lips, teeth, throat and so on are very important.

Figure 1: Articulation system

Figure 2: Position of tongue

Figure 3: Consonance alphabets.

It is very important to pronounce with a correct way so that the information presented can be understood by the listener.

by: Tansu Ciller & Nur Afiqah

LESSON 6

An adjective modifies a noun or a pronoun by describing, identifying, or quantifying words. An adjective usually precedes the noun or the pronoun which it modifies.
In the sixth interaction with Mr. Marzuki, we had learnt about adjective. We're given a sheet that contains a lot of adjectives. The sheet is a story about three friends, Mr. big, Mr. Blue and Mr. Green.

These are example of Mr. Green,Mr.Blue and Mr. Big

The three of them have different capacity of their thing included garden, flowers, lawn, car and bungalow. In this lesson, we have to identify the degree of adjective. Example:

1. big-bigger-biggest

2. small-smaller-smallest

3. good-better-best

4. bad-worse-worst

5. little-less-least

6. many/much-more-most

7. expensive-more expensive-most expensive

8. beautiful-more beautiful-most beautiful

9. careful-more careful-most careful

The next task is to produce a story contains many adjective. Many title were chosen by the students such as The Three Bear, My Three Boyfriends and My Three Favorite Cake. We have used a lot of adjectives in that story to make sure its become interesting and our knowledge about adjectives will increased.

LESSON 5

Greetings !

On our fifth interaction for WAJ 3102, we need to listen to a story entitled "Something Funny" by Elizabeth Stienwick. Mr Marzuki asked us to identify and jot down all the verb of part I in the story and categorized it by present tense, past tense and future tense. Next, we listened to the story again and fill in the blanks with the appropriate answers.

Apart from that, we also were asked to predict what is the ending of the story based on our own imagination and present it in front of the class. At the end of the class, we listened to the part II of the story.

A token of appreciation to Mr. Marzuki for a fun and interactive lesson.

Written by Siti Nur Farah binti Zainuddin and Ida Syakinah binti Baderol Iskandar :)(: 

Special Education Teachers: LESSON 4

Today is the fourth class of English Language Proficiency and our lesson today is about Concept of Tenses in English Language .Our lecturer, Mr Marzuki had explain to us the concept clearly and can be understood easily by us .

The verb changes their forms according to time. Tense is the verb form that shows time of action. Tense will show to us when an action takes place. There are three main divisions of time. These divisions are called tenses. There are therefore three main tense that is present, past and also future. Each of the “tenses” can be again divided to show the continuousness or completeness and also the time of the action. For example for present simple sentences “We sleep every night”.

We had learnt a few rules of important tenses that always being use in building of perfect sentences. The Present Simple or indefinite is used to tell about something that we do always and to tell the truth about something. Present Continuous is use to show that something is still happening or going on at the time of speaking. These tense is also used in place of the Future Tense. The Present Perfect Tense is used to show that something has just been completed or finished.

The present Perfect Continuous tense shows the continuous of an action just completed. Past simple tense is used to show something that happened in the past. In addition, Past Continuous Tense is a type of tense that shows us an action which was going on at a certain time in the past. The past Perfect Continuous Tense will shows us that action had been going on at, or before some point in the past. Moreover, the Future simple Tense will also show us that something will be done or will happen in time to come. Lastly, Future Continuous Tense shows that something will be happening at a certain time in the future.

The diagram 1 below shows explicitly the main ideas of these topics;

Pronouns	Noun	Present Simple Tense	Present Continuous Tenses	Present Perfect Tense	Simple Past Tense	Past Continuous Tenses	Past Perfect Tenses	Simple Future Tenses	Future Continuous Tenses
I	climb	climb	am climbing	have climbed	climbed	was climbing	had	will+ verb shall+ verb	shall be climbing at  the mountain at 3 pm
we			are climbing	have climbed		were climbing
you		climb	are climbing	has climbed		were climbing	had+ past participle	will climb	will be climbing
he		climbs	is climbing			was climbing	had
she
it
they		climb	are climbing	have climbed		were climbing

Diagram 1 : Concept of Tenses

A great appreciation to our lecturer HJ Mohd Marzuki Bin Maulid for an effective lesson.

Written by Nurul Atika Binti Nordin.

LESSON 3

The lesson on the third week is about a story that was shared in Readers Digest. The story entitled "Rebirth of The Feral Child". This story is about a girl that is abandoned by her mother.

From the story, we can conclude that the child can be recover if she receive the comfort, stability, attention and a family love. Her foster family can give her all that are needed by a child. Usually child must be protect by the elders. This is because child is someone who is very need attention and love. Without both of it, child will be rebellious person and the worst they become a immoral person. 

But at the end of the story, the feral child cured step by step. She looks very happy with her foster family. From this story that love is everything to human especially to them who is being neglected.

After Sir Marzuki had finished his reading on this story, we are doing brainstorming. Sir Marzuki ask the main point from story that he read for us. 

Then, he told us to read the story until finish. He gave us exercise about identifying parts of speech from the story. We need to find noun, pronoun, verb, adverbs and adjectives by ourselves. 

From this exercise, we recognized a plenty of bombastic words from the story. This story help us to understand the function of parts of speech in grammar.

 written by: 

Fatin Nurain binti Md Azmi

Khadijah Sabirah binti Amirrudin