Assalamu’alaikum for all of you……..
I am Nur Asiah. Abdul Ghani’s daughter. Have you still remembered me??
First of all, I apologize because I am late to write this assignment in this blog. Hope you all and especially Madam Nuretna to forgive me for all my mistakes since I was studied with you, teacher..
In this short sem, we have studied the Foundation English. Our teacher is Madam Nuretna Asurah Ahmad. She is caring, kindly, very punctual, an intelligent person..that’s why she is teaching us…and sometimes, she is amusing too.
Here, I would like to write about my achievements in learning English throughout this semester. The whole of achievement including reading, writing, listening, speaking, vocabulary, making presentations and participating discussions.
The opportunity for using and learning English is very limited. Especially for our faculty, that is Faculty of Islamic Studies. I do converse in English with some of my friends, but only with a few of them. This is because most of the others cannot converse in English.
I am very interested to learning English. And also like for whatever activities that teacher do in our class. For example, A Romantic Meeting, Where In The World Am I?, the song; Flying Without Wings, How To Make A Food Or Drink etc.
Firstly, my achievement in reading is better than before. This is because, sometimes I read the New Straits Times and The Star’s paper. Sometimes, I read any article in English that can improve my reading well. At the same time, ‘Heidi’ is a our reading book where is a part of syllabus in this English that give us around 10% marks. Too much, I think.
Now, we will share about my achievement in writing. I like writing, but I do not do that always, for my own homework. Certain activities in our class need us to writing for a task, summary etc. I always give and share about my opinion and my idea with our group discussions when we have discussed. Actually, my writing depends on how many writing did I do throughout this semester and before this…. J
Thirdly, I want to mention about my listening. My listening in English is better than before too. I can catch up and easy to understand when our teacher talked about something. The important is while the teacher is teaching. It is also helped by the Longman’s exercises did I do in PTSL’s cyber. I am also prefer watching television programme in English like English’s movie, cartoons; Aladdin and others.
Next, we see about my achievement in speaking. I like to speak in English even has a little of broken. This is because, we have to brave and confident to speak in English with our friends who can speak with us. Learn from mistakes. With this broken pronounce for example, we can improve our speaking better than before…sometimes, I tried to speak in English with our teacher…,but. I am shy..he..he..but in messages, I can do that…so nonsense.
Since I was studying for one months ago, I got a lot of new vocabulary. It is amazing right?.. Although, I always late to come to the class… I am not a good student..but I will try to change my bad habit like this for my future classes…God willing!!
Actually, I prefer to ask teacher or my friends about new words or vocabulary than refer to the dictionary when I fought them. However, I know…if I often refer to the dictionary for all new vocabulary, they can help me to more remember what is the meaning of them…am I right?? What do you think??
While I making the presentations, I tried do the best…but sometimes, I also nervous. Actually, it is depends on my preparations before I make the presentations. If my preparation is good and the task has done or completed, I can make and perform it with more confident and brave in front of our friends. We were taught to speak as a public speakers…confident, personality, methods of making presentations etc by the teacher.
Finally, I will write about participating discussions. I enjoyed with it. This is because, we already have one discussion group respectively. And our group is Dolphin’s Group who has a five girls and only one boy. His name is Yusuf. When we requested to make the writing or summary, we do together…share any opinion, idea, and anything that can help our task. That is mean, we work hard and full with cooperation.
Now, I want to break my writing..it is too long, right?? Never mind. Thanks a lot my friends..set 24 always in my mind. I never forget you. Lastly, for teacher, I am so sorry for all my mistakes did I do either I knew or not. Thank you very much. I will miss you after this. May Allah bless you always.