From this videos, I can know that the accent of this videos is California Accent or Washington Accent. How I can know about the accent? I can identify from the voice that I heard from this videos. I think, it is easy to understand because I can listen the voice clearly.

How about my accent? I know I have some problem about my accent. Why? I found my accent is broken accent. I call my accent as Kelantanese Accent. Haha. I think it is not too difficult for me to speak better than that. When I practice everyday to speak clearly. That is from me. Thank You ^_^

READING TASK-INDISCIPLINE IN SCHOOL

The following article is taken from this site: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/10/4/nation/4840998&sec=nation

KUALA LUMPUR: The Education Ministry wants to put more counsellors in secondary schools to curb discipline problems among students, said its deputy minister Datuk Dr Wee Ka Siong.

He said the ministry hoped to reduce the current student-counsellor ratio of 1:500 to 1:300.

“We need an increase of about 40% counsellors from the current 7,000 counsellors posted at schools,” he said after launching the Mid-Autumn Street Party in front of Sungei Wang Plaza last night.

Dr Wee, who is also the MCA Youth chief, said it was only a mere 2% of secondary students with disciplinary problems and most were repeat offenders.

“Education is not only about teaching and knowledge. It is also to mould a student’s well-being. Some first time offenders have benefitted from counselling and no longer play truant or cause problems at school,” he said.

He added that enforcement such as suspension, warnings and expulsion should only be used as a last resort.

“We are not a prison, but an institution. We need to educate the students,” he said, adding the ministry was working with Persatuan Kaunseling Malaysia to train more counsellors.

Question

1. Based on the newspaper article, why do we need more counsellors at the secondary school.
2. What is the meaning of curb
3. Do you thinks discipline problem are serious in secondary school? Why?
4. What is the purpose of education?
5. If you were a counsellor, what would you do if your peoples were late from school 7 times per week?

Answers

1. Based on that, i think we need more counsellors at the secondary school is because to curb discipline problem among the students
2. The meaning of curb is reduce.
3. In my opinion I think it’s not seriously because from the article, we can know Dr Wee said that only a mere 2% of secondary students have disciplinary problems
4. Based on the article, education is not only about teaching and knowledge. It also to mould a student's well-being.
5. If I was a counsellor, firstly I meet and ask the students why they were late to school. If they can give a logic answers, I can forgive them.

WRITING TASK-INDISCIPLINE

Upon completion of your course, you are posted to an interior school which poses some challenges to you. Among the problems that you face are:

·       low English proficiency among the children                    

·       most of the school children are absent on Mondays

·       some parents do not bother about their children's achievements in school

As an English teacher, what would you do to improve the prevailing situation? Your write-up should not be less than 300 words. Give a suitable title to your post.

                              My responsibility as a teachers

Everybody who will be teachers may have their own problems. Either the problems difficult or easy to solve, it’s depend on the individual how to solve the problems that they faced. Certainly, every problems have it own solution. Fortunately, many experiences instruct us to be a good teachers.

What are the problems that I have to solve in my school is, how I can improve my students to be good in English because I’m their teachers. In my opinion, I think all of the teachers in my school need to do a meeting. The content of the meeting is how we can improve the students to be a good in English. My suggestion is, firstly we must to do an extra class every school holidays. Secondly, we must to choose one day of the weeks to make a English days. So, all of the students or teachers must be to speek in English very well.

The others problem that I have to solve are how tell to my students not to skip a class especially on Mondays  because most of the students are absent on Mondays. So, my solution is we must to decided of this problems. When they do not come in school, we try to give a motivation to them. When the others do not ignore about this problems, we must to give a punishment as a way to teach them.

As a new teachers, I also have to realize some parents about their children’s achievement in school. We must have one organization behind the teachers and the parents that we called Persatuan Ibu Bapa dan Guru (PIBG). So, when we have the meeting we can show the result of their children’s who is success and who is failed.

As a conclusion, we must to appreciate of our career that we had choosen because it have meaning of the responsibility of ours. 

Hello everyone.

Hope all of you can hear me. My name is Ahmad Ikmal Fajri bin Mohd Saufi. You can call me Aaron Aziz. I am one of the three local guides that will accompany you on a conducted walk around the city this morning. The other guides are Hafeez and Anim.

Firstly, on behalf of Malaysia Tours I would like to welcome you all to Miri. For your information, Miri is the city situated at the northern end of Malaysian state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo and adjacent to the sultanate of Brunei Darussalam.  It is also the second largest city in Sarawak and has a population of 300,000 people with a mixture of Chinese, Dayak, Malay, Melanau, Indian, Kayan, Kenyah, Kelabit, Bidayuh and other indigenous groups. So today, we gonna be showing you around the city. The tour will be lasts about two to three hours. So, if you have any questions feel free to ask anytime.

            Today, we are going to Luak Esplanade. It is a great place for family outings and leisure enjoyment. With plenty of car parking space and a great beach front spanning kilometers, people gather there to enjoy the ocean scenery, face the ocean breeze, have picnics in the afternoons  and in the evenings people participate in car audio and various lively activities during the weekend. Our journey to the esplanade from this Empirial Hotel is about 20 minutes. So, along the journey, please keeps your eyes open for some of the interesting places in Miri City.

            In a few minutes, we’ll be passing the Pustaka Miri. It is a two-storey building earmarked as one of the anchor nodes for the Miri City Fan. Located along the central axis to Dewan Suarah Miri (Miri Civic Centre), this horseshoe-shaped sandstone building with lighth green curtain walling is designed as a tranquil oasis acting as the symbolic apex of information technology in the civic heart of Miri Resort City.

The ground floor houses Multimedia Galeri with a special corner dedicated for Children's Infotheque. The first floor houses an auditorium, special collection area, and Information Resource Centre which overlooks the Miri City Fan's amphitheatre and Garden of Vision.The basement floor houses the surau and a multipurpose room, which has a direct linkage to the amphitheatre.

In the distance of 200 metres ahead, we’ll be passing Taman Awam Miri. Taman Awam Miri is among the beautiful and pleasant  parks in Miri. There are flora gardens, souvenir center, canteen, observatory platform, children's playground, exhibitions room, stone carving and sculptures, waterfalls, suspension bridge, fountains, pavillions, jogging track and other sporting facilities. There is also a Children's Water playground.

            Up ahead, we will see the big’s sea horse in the middle of roundabout. The sea horse is the trade mark for Miri City. Now, we are at Luak Esplanade. Please have a wonderful moment with your family. We’ll back to the hotel in 3 hours from now.Thank you.

Oprah Winfrey

1)Which particular scene do you find very interesting?

I think the interesting particular that I have found in the part of the episode is when she went to meet with one person. What I like from the part is, a handicapped mother need to work hard to raise her children get a love from her very much. That is not to easy for the handicapped women to handle her children and make their children get a happy live same like the others.


2)Find one qoute that you like best in the video clip. Why?


"You are responsible for yourself, for your life" and "please be responsible for the energy you bring into a space".