Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Speculation of Britain's royal titles - Kristy

The United Kingdom Queen Elizabeth II grandson, Prince William is going to marry a commoner girl Kate Middleton in 29 April 2011. Before that, there has been much speculation about which titles would the Queen give Kate. This has become a hot topic in cities and towns of Britain.

Due to Prince William wants to remain his borned title as a Prince and not downgrade to a Duke, he therefore wants his fiancee Kate to be titled as Princess Catherine. However, this will cause dilemma to the Britain's monarch because the princess title is traditionally received through birth and not marriange. The problem is that Kate is not connected to the royal family in any way or in other words, she is just a commoner.

If Prince William is not given a new title, then Kate can only become Princess William and not Princess Catherine according to the Royal historian. Same like the prince's late mother, Princess of Wales is the correct official title for Princess Diana.

Despite of the fact, there is still exceptions which the Dutchess of Gloucester was named Princess Alice later to reward her for years of loyal service. Nevertheless, some pressure should be put on Prince William to not to change the system. But in the end, the final decision is up to the Queen.

Royal Wedding - Sifa

When Prince William made announcement about engagement with his girlfriend Kate, many speculation has been coming out about the titles which the Queen should give them after marriage. The Prince prefer to remain as Prince William rather than a duke. This is because, he claimed that he actually born as prince and he wants Kate become Princess Catherine. However, his fiancee is comoner. Traditionally, someone got the titles Princess through their birth not marriage.

If Prince William, still not given a new title, the bride become Princess William not Princess Catherine. The Royal historian said, Kate is an ordinary people and she not be known as Princess Catherine. This is all up to Queen what title she wants to give them with one or two exceptions.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Reply to Mr. Graham Baddick - Mimi

Dear Mr. Graham,

Firstly, I would like to thank you for the invitation to the conference. I have great pleasure in accepting your kind invitation to this meaningful conference. Please find attached of my student number, and kindly be informed that I have been studying English for 5 years.

It would be greatly appreciated if you could send me the contact details and direction (telephone/map) of Mandarine Oriental Hotel.

I look forward to meeting you and the teachers in March.

Thank you.

Your Sincerely,

Syamimi Binti Mohd Zan
Student of British Coucil Malaysia

Saturday, April 16, 2011

dear emma ** atrin **

dear Graham Braddick

I have great pleasure in replying to your kind invitation to the British Council English Teachers' conference to be held at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel from 25-26 march .

Please find attached my contact details as requested .

I would appreciate that you let me , I could speak about the problems people from my country have .

If you want to know how long I have been studying here , I have been studying here since last October at 2010 .

I look forward to meeting in March .


Yours faithfully


atrin
Student British Council Malaysia

Friday, April 15, 2011

A letter to Mr, Graham - Kam Seng

Dear, Mr Graham

I have great pleasure in accepting your kind invitation to the British Council English Teachers' Conference to be held in Mandarin Oriental Hotel from 25th to 26th March.

Please find attached my student number as requested. I would like to inform you i been studying English in British Council for one week.

It would be greatly appreciated if you could send me the contact details (address,map and telephone) for the Mandarin Oriental Hotel.

I look forward to meeting you and your reply.



Yours sincerely




Loong Kam Seng
Student of British Council Malaysia

Thursday, April 14, 2011

things i like to do on the weekend *yasin*

There are several things I like to do on the weekend.First of all I enjoy playing football with my flat mates.In addition, I like to go out with my friends and have some fun with them.I like also,chatting with my family and my friends who are far away from me.The most important thing that I like to do on the weekend is sleeping until i get enough,I like weekend so much.

Things I like to do on the weekend - Mimi

There are some activities I love to do during weekend. First of all, I like to go to the gym for some work out around 2 hours on the evening of Saturday. Sometimes, I will go to shop with my friends and have a movie together. Besides that, my father will bring the whole family to have dinner in a restaurant on Sunday night. Therefore, I love weekend so much!

Tips for Staying Healthy - Sifa

There are several ways to keep our bodies healthy. First of all, we must avoid stress in workplace as well as at home. Spend your free time on vacation to release the tension. In addition, do a lot of exercises. Workout is good for us to prevent impairments in our health. Do chores, for instance is also one type of exercises. What is more, in order to stay healthy don't forget to eat wholesome food, such as, vegetables, fruits, etc.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

For good health, exercise is necesssary*akiko

How can we keep our good health? Doing exercise is surely the best way. The first, by doing it, our apperence must become better because of loosing weight, delay the aging, getting confidence and so on... The second, it can certainly help us to prevent our disease in the future. Lastly, that will help not only our body, but also our mental. For instance, after doing it, our feeling must be fine, also we can possibly control our emotions. In conclusion, exercise is necessary to lead our good life.

Thanks.

Great place to visit **Yasin**

South Africa is amazing place to visit.It has got one of the most exciting attractions in whole Africa.Safari journeys is one of the famous interesting places there. There is one of the biggest forests in Africa maybe in the world as well .You can visit the national zoo in the capital Pretoria , where you can see a lot of animals you have ever seen ,such as, lions ,tigers ,and wolves. I recommended people who haven't been safari before to visit there,its really unbelievable place.

It is important for parents to teach their children how to behave .

Children behavior is very important for parents, because their behavior express parents manners, that's why, treatment of the parents are significant.First of all, Children behavior take after parents manner, because children imitate their parents.

Secondly,parents should teach their children how to treat with other people well, but it should be kindly not angrily,because if parents treat to children friendly, children follow them.

In conclusion, I believe,children manners are the same as their parents.

Parisa :)

Exercise is necessary for good health-SARA

one of the most important thing that is necessary for good health is exercise .First of all it helps prevent disease.Also it reduces the risk of heart disease, cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes and other diseases. In addition it can improve your appearance and delay the aging process. finally, when you do exercise in a long time you guarantee your body therefore it is necessary for good health .

Is a great place to visit - Kam Seng

Pulau Penang is a great place to visit. Firstly, there is a beautiful beach in Batu Ferringhi. Besides, you can see very special Bar beside the beach. However, you can find some famous restaurants and hotels such as The Ship Restaurant and Hard Rock Hotel, it is a lively street at night. Lastly, the thing you must do in Pulau Penang is to visit the butterfly farm and it is a fantastic place for family with children. In my opinion, Pulau Penang is the place you must go while having holidays.

Exercise is nicesrary for good health

The good way to protect your health do exercise. They are many advantages to do exercise. One advantage is lossing weight to be more healthy. Another advantage is you feel activ and high energy. The greatest advantage is good for frame of mind because after you do exercise you going to forget all bad things or at least you do not feel worried. Obviously,if you do exercise you feel more better.

Amal

It is important for parents to teach their children morals

All children on their instincts. The parents can do alot for them. In fact, They can teach them how to respect other people also how to do self esteem if they deal with other in a good way.For example they do not leave the senior standing in the bus while they are sitting on the chair. Apart from this for parents to teach thier children how to talk with others ,particularly with parents and each other. As far as i know, This behavior can do good if their parents talk to them politely because they learn better from them. Personally i belive that important for parents to start now to teach their children about morals.

Amal

Is agreat place to visit

Mecca is a great plae to visit. When you are decided to go there you feel humility(or spirituality) very strongly as muslim. After you see kaaba energy come to you in directly because of the fact that Mecca in central of the world. Furthermore, you are faithing god. After you do umrah you feel peace and satisfied. In fact, All muslims say Mecca is a great place to visit in the world.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Eating in restaurant is expensive - Mimi

Nowadays, a meal for a family set can be cost more than RM100 in a dine in restaurant, which show that eating in restaurant is expensive. The reasons of price increasing for a meal in restaurant are caused by the shortage of raw material in our country. This is due to the limited of natural resouces and unlimited of human's demand. In addition, there are a lots of competitors among food & beverage industry, therefore, they increase their price product to gain more profits. Last but not least, currently our country's economy is at the recouvery stage and this lead to rise of consumer's income, with this reason owner of restaurants will gain their food's price to earn more. In my opinion, people should not frequently dine in a restaurant because it can help to save their own money especially students who does'nt have income.

Great place to visit - Sifa

Sydney is a great place to visit. There are a lot of tourist attraction. Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge are the landmark of the city. Tourists normally take photograph here and for someone who is love adventure, they can climb the bridge. Australia has also wildlife animals such as kangaroos and koalas. You can't see these animals anywhere else in this world except Australia. Finally, you can find a lot of amazing beaches here for example, Manly Beach, Bondi Beach etc. Therefore, i strongly recommended people spend their spare time in Sydney.

Why it's difficult to learn a new language*akiko

Leaning new language is one of the most difficult things for us.First of all, we can't catch up to listen to it because we don't get used to it. Second of all, it's hard to speak it fluently since we don't get many opportunities to speak it. Lastly, it takes a lot of time to memorize new vocabulary because of limited time to use it. For these reasons, it's a quite difficult thing to learn a new language, especially for adults.
Thanks.

hi emma

hello

there are many reasons that I want start to study new language . first one we must to know that what will we do , although we know that this is very profit for us . secondly this is international language and this can to very good start to see all around of the world . I think these reasons are very important for each person in your life .we need to knowing a international language .

your sincerely

atrin

Why is it difficult to learn a new language

There are many reasons why it is so difficult to learn a new language. Firstly,we need to know and memorise a lot of new vocabularies. Then,we need to learn proper intonation and pronunciation of these words. In addition,some words can have different usage and meaning in different situation. More importantly,there are so many complicated and confusing grammar to study about. We even need to know the names or words used in grammar and different forms of tenses. We need to know when and which situation to use it in different tenses and keep reminding ourselves about it when we want to use them. Also,some words that always come together to form a phrase can have a totally different meaning from its original word.

Sometimes a new language can be very similiar to another language that we already know or very good at it. So it is confusing because they both can have a similiar word but the spelling is slightly different. Even the way we pronounce a same word or character can have different sound. Next,we need to pratise writing the characters or words of a new language a lot. We also need a lot of speaking practices which is sometimes very difficult in the environment that we are in because nobody or very few people can pratise speaking or talking the new language to us. Furthermore,in different languages that have a sentence with a same meaning , the arrangement of phrases can be different.

For all these reasons above,learning a new language is something very difficult for me that I wouldn't want to do.
Kristy.

It is difficult to learn a new lnaguage

Even though there are many many difficulties to learn a new language,many people would like to do it .To begin with letters ,the alphabet among languages is different ,even The countries that the base of its alphabet are Latin, there are some ndifferences.Secondly, each language has a special structure and grammar.In addition, there are many contrasts Phonetics of languages. for instance, in Arabic letter doesn't have /P/ ,so,it is difficult for them to say those word that have /P/ in English. Furthermore, there are many skills that we know about them on its languages ,but when we would like to know a new language, we should practice on it a lot.In conclusion, although there are many challenges to learn a new language, it is useful.
Parisa:)

difficulties of learning new language-sara

Although it is ability of someone knows many languages, learning new language is difficult. Personally , there are some causes difficult aspects of learning a new language, for example: the vocabulary ,the phonology and grammatical structure. First of all the vocabulary of the language is really difficult to master at an advanced level. Secondly, I believe that it is not easy to comprehend the grammatical structure of a new language. Finally, we can conclude that learning a language is not an easy and it needs practice.

My country

The Kingdom of Saudia Arabia is alarge country in Asia. It borders Iraqe to the north and has the read sea on the west and many Arabin contrys on is Easten and Southen bordens. The more attractive places for people is macca and madina. The muslims go there for hajj and umrah as long they are holy places for muslims. The economy of country depends on Oil and some of agriculture such as dates.Also,the read sea the most beautiful sea because it has unique marine lifes such as Coral reefs. In sudia Arabia you feel safe and peace.In general welcome in my country.

Amal

How difficult is it To learn another language

Learning another language for most people is extremely difficult if you want to be very good. Some people needs years,some people needs afew month to learn anew language,it depends on you .The most difficult learning is speaking and writing because some people does not have The same Alphabet and some of them can not pronouns the littres. also to learn another languags you must live in the same city that speaks the language. in general, is not easy to learn anew language.

Amal
Hi guys..
I am Yasin and this is my essay for today.




It is very difficult to learn any new language. If a person wants to learn then he or she will have to pass from very difficult ways. I think there are many difficulties of learning a new language. A person who wants to learn a new language should not shy and be confident. A person who has these two qualities can learn otherwise not. Most of the time a new language learner, speaks in a wrong way and people may laugh at him. If a new language learner can find out good friends who have command on that then it can be easy to learn. Good friend will never laugh at a new language learner. Hence, learning of a new language becomes very easy.

A new language learner should have a good teacher. If teacher is available then it is going to be easy. Teacher always gives the right direction. For instance, if an English learner has a teacher, then teacher tells him or her grammar rules and other aspects to speak and write in a correct way. Teacher also gets the confidence. For a new language learner it is most important thing.

If a person, who wants to learn English,but does not have the atmosphere of English speaking then a person cannot speak. A person who doesn’t have the atmosphere from their childhood cannot speak the new language. For example English is banned in many countries. Therefore, the citizens who live there cannot speak English. When they come to United States of America they all find atmosphere and speak good English.

The most important difficulty to learn a new language is to find out good books and classes. With the help of books and classes people can do practice of writing and spoken English. For example, if I want to find success in TOEFL than first of all I have to find out good English books and classes.

At the end I would like to say if a person who doesn’t have all these difficulties then can be a master in a new learning language.


...THE END...

It is difficult to learn a new language - Kam Seng

It is difficult to learn a new language. First of all, English is not my first language and I had limited time to speak English in my daily activity. Secondly, vocabulary will be the problem for me, because it is so unfamiliar. Last but not least, I have no idea about how to use grammar correctly while i'm doing an essay or report. Finally, I must do more practice to learn a new language.

Difficulties in learning new language - Sifa

It is difficult to learn a new language. English grammar for example, it has a lot of rules that we have to remember. The vocabulary is also one of the problem. Almost everyday we found out the new words that unfamiliar. We are also have to memorized and must know how to use it correctly. What is more, the pronunciation is also part of the difficulties. It is important because if we can not pronoun it properly, the actual meaning of words or sentences becomes wrong. Therefore, studying new language is actually not an easy things for us to do.

Monday, April 11, 2011

It is difficult to learn a new language - Mimi

It is difficult to learn a new language, such as English. I found it difficult because firstly, there are thosands of vocabulary I need to learn in order to speak this language smoothly. Secondly, to make a good sentences in English I need to use the correct grammar which sometimes are very confusing. Lastly, to speak well in english, we need to use a lot of confidence which is I lack of. In conclusion, we must have passion and be hardworking to learn a new language.

Hello and morning, guys:)

Good morning everyone.
It's Akiko here....

I'm from Tokyo, where is the center of Japan.
(You know, now Japan has got a loud of probrems since the massive earthquake's hit us last month.So still we have the problems of the redioation and the shortage's food. And it's been continueing small eartwquakes everyday...I got worried a lot.)

The reason why I decided to choose this course is I have to write the dessertation for graduation...Actually, it's not coming soon, but I know that it'll take a lot of time to be able to write it. So I have to prepare to do so earlier.

Plus, I like reading books, but honestly I prefer Japanese novels to English since I have to get a lot of time to read English...I'll tire of it evntually.
I wish I could enjoy reading English books after this course...

Anyway, see you soon...
About me Yasin.

Hello everybody. I am Dahir Yasin. You can call me just Yasin.
I am from Somalia. I have been in Malaysia for almost six months.
I like playing football very much and I am fan of Barcelona I like swimming and traveling as well.

I registered this course to improve my writing and reading skills ,because I want to start university on July 2011.
I hope my teacher Emma will help me to improve my skills and i will keep moving forward as much as I can .


Thanks all of you guys..
see you tomorrow.
bye Yasin

hi emma

hello

I am a new student in your class , My writing is very poor and I do not have any magin in writing , I wish after this term , I feel to improve in my writing and reading . I have many problem in spelling words and always i wrote wrong . what can I do ?

I want to take an IELTS and apply to another country for study and meybe abroad , I hope to able a true decision because this will decide very important in my life .

your sincerely

atrin

Who am I? Why do I study English ?

This is my first writing that I've been writing in this course.In the later seconds,I'm going to introduce myself to you.
My full name is Parisa Jiroudi.I'm in my early twenties.I'm from a pretty big family.We are five persons in my family.I come from Iran,and I'm from Tehran originally. I have 2 sisters that both of them are older than me.One of them is older and another one is 9 years, older. they both are educated,and I also took my bachelor's degree in Software Engineering.
There are many reasons that I'm studying English.The most important reason which I study English is because it is introduced as an international language that everyone had better knows ,even if a little for communicating to people in foreign countries.The second important thing that I study English is because I'm going to get my master's degree in Malaysia,that's why I need to get an IELTS certificate,and before IELTS exam,I should improve my English on 4 skills,and I've chosen this course,because writing and reading are my weakness points among 4 skills of IELTS exam,so I need to focus on these matter more.
In a word, I hope that I can improve my weakness points during this course.

Juliana

Good night,
My name is Juliana Paredes.I'm from Rio de Janeiro, which is the most famous city in Brazil. I have seventeen years old and I have been in Malaysia since last February. and I'll continue to stay here for a middle term. I'm interesting in football, go out with my friends and I'm addicted in facebook, internet surfing and I love McDonald's as well.

Actually,I came to malaysia to get a international undergraduate level. I finished High School last year, but to apply to a local International university I need to do de IELTS exam, but first the most important thing for me is improve my English.

Well,I've choosen Academic Reading and Writing class because I need to get a high level
in the IELTS exam,also the writing is a good practice.

About me-sara

Hi everyone ,I have been in Malaysia for 3 months. One of the most important reasons I came to BC is that I wanted to continue my major ,therefore I should score 6 or 6.5 IELTS for MA.I have some interests such as swimming ,painting and listening to music when I am alone .I graduated BA in textile designing in my country, nowadays I apply for one of the university in Malaysia ,If I receive the admission I start studying by research not by course so I better improve my writing and reading skills for researching.

About me - Kam Seng

Good evening everyone,my name is Kam Seng. I'm 23 years old this year and i living in Bandar Sungai Long. My interests are basketball and badminton, but now I'm more interest in golf because it is new for me. In future, those sports activity might helpful to my career.

I was graduated from University of West of England in BA(HON)Business Studies last year. And I'm going to continue my master in this coming September. Therefore, I choose Academic Writing and Reading class in B.C to prepare before I go back to Bristol for further study.

While I was studying in UWE, I always had problems to reading articles and writing my assignments. I can't imagine how if I going to take master with my current English level, how tough for me to write a thesis. So I hope I could improve my English and writing skill in this class. In the same time, I wish to meet more friends and hope you guys enjoy the class.

Sunday, April 10, 2011

About me

Hello classmates and Emma,my name is Kristy. I'm a friendly person. My interests are foods,pets,beauty,surfing the internet mainly facebook and my e-mail. I'm now learning flower arrangement and I've learnt to do a few beautiful arrangements. In future, my friends can order flowers from me too and I would love to do that for my friends.

The reason that I enter this academic reading and writing course is because I want to learn proper and effective ways of reading texts,doing research and assignments and writing essays. This is essential for me to prepare for my university studies.

Last year when I enrolled in bachelor degree course which I did not complete,I have serious difficulties in doing research for project,referencing,writing essays and reading texts from various books. I don't know where and how to find proper resources and information relating to my project and essays. I don't know what is a journal and how to do referencing. Everytime when I want to do assignments,I need to read so many long texts from many textbooks and reference books which I often don't have enough time and the process is super tiring and boring! I also don't know how to select books from the library to suit to my studies.

I'm totally not used to self-independence study used in university. I hope that from this course I can learn effective study skills for use in university environment,read articles fast,know how to do research and referencing,building good essays and reports,interpret and analyse information.

Sorry for the long post! I would like to make friends with all my classmates too! Thank you.

About me - Mimi

Hi everyones! My name is Syamimi Binti Mohd Zan, I'm 21 years old and I live in Kuala Lumpur. I was graduated from Diploma in Hospitality Management and will continue my further study in UK this coming September. My interest are listening to musics and surfing website.

I choose Academic Reading & Writing is because I wish to improve my writing and reading skills in english. I faced a lot of difficulties when ever I read an essays. One of the difficulties I've faced is not understand the meaning of some words.

Last but not least, I wish that I can learn more about building sentences and understanding more vocabulary in this course. Besides that, I also hope to meet more new friends.

Hello

My name is Khasifah....Nice to meet you all...Have a nice day!

My first class in B.C

Hi, my name is Kamseng.

Today is my first class in B.C.

Nice to meet you guys.

Best regards,

KamSeng

hi

hello we are sara and mohannad.

welcome to british council.

we want to improve our writing and reading in this class.

it s my pleasur that you read our writing.

Hi =)

Our names are Juliana and Mimi. This is our first day in the class and we are exciting to be in this class.
We are happy to meet everybody

Juliana & Mimi

Hi :)

My name is Akiko.

Today is first day of B.C. for me.
Nice knowing you guys...

Bye Akiko

Helloo

Our name is Amal and Yasin
welcome to the blog.

hi

My name is Parisa and My partner's name is Sifa.
This is our first comment on this blog. :)

Hey

Hi Emma and friends,

My name is Kristy.

Thank you!

hi

Hello

This is Atrin and Ahmad

This is first class to study writing and reading.
We are hoppy and very exciting beacuse we joine to class and we saw a new teacher .
We come to this class to study university .
Your sinserly

Atrin and Ahmad

Hello

My name is Emma. Welcome to the Blog!

Look forward to your postings.

Emma