English

This course is for foundation students to learn the basics of essay writing skills, reading skills, communicating skills oral presenting and many others to prepare for their degree programs.
Lecturer: Mrs Lojana

ASSIGNMENT 1
Writing an essay
There are 3 options that i can choose which are:

1. In some countries young people have little leisure time and are under a lot of pressure to work hard in their studies. what do you think are the causes and effects of this condition? (write a Cause and Effect essay.
2. Write a compare and contrast essay about any two traditional houses of your choice.
3. Identify the steps involve in producing an attractive sketch. Then, write an essay to describe this process.

So i chose no: 1
http://www.slideshare.net/PK146/english-essay-assignment-1
as a result my essay is graded 'B' in which i've learned and experience a lot based on what i heard from the lecturers review. i made a lot of mistakes that shouldn't be used in this type of essay (Cause and Effect)

ASSIGNMENT 2
Oral Presentation
For this assignment, we were told to research any famous architect where we have to give an oral presentation about the architect's life, success and influences. The architect that we're goin to present about is Louis Isadore Kahn.

The architect, Louis Kahn

The video must be not less than 20 minutes and every member must be involved in the video for about 4-5 minutes.
Oral Presentation (Group)

6 Members:
Ji Chuen
Wenjian Woo
Tsang Hao Ren
Annisa
Muhd Syafiq Bin Hj Abd Zafirul
Muhd Haziq Bin Haji Abd Zariful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl0RpcZVeM0

I went through many tries of presenting in front of the camera, it's probably because i don't have the composure and i want to make it perfect since i'm using a camera. therefore this is very new to me. it very much improves your cool, your way of talking and how you show up in front of the audience (body language).
Dividing the research on this architect with other group members is a bit of a gamble because the whole oral presentation MUST be synchronised (compatible?) or in a way it must not be different from other paragraphs that we set up on what to say. therefore we picked one of our members to reorganise the research and make it like it was just a person's essay and not in groups

REFLECTIONS
There's no doubt that this is a very useful course that will help you for the future in which i have learned how to write an essay properly, using the right grammar, communicating people with suitable words, reading skills and a lot more.

I'd like to say thanks to Ms Thivilojana for giving me good advise and teaching me new things throughout the whole course, i can't thank you enough. You've played a big part for me on my road to success.