25th January 2011

Chip had a MC because she was injured during the net ball game on Friday. Pity of her..... Hopefully she will better soon. So, i had to go to class by myself. It's okay.  =)

Grammar presentation was started today. 1st group's topic is Pronouns, presented by Aini, Zura and Jiha. 

A pronouns can replace a noun or another pronoun.

* Personal pronouns - 

     a) Subjective Personal Pronouns 

         (I, you, he, she, it, we, they) 

     b) Objective Personal Pronouns 

         (me, you, her, him, it, us, them)

     c) Possessive Personal Pronouns 

         (mine, yours, his, hers, its, theirs, ours)

* Demonstrative Pronouns -

     > identifies a noun or pronouns 

     > (this, these, that, those)

* Interrogative Pronouns - 

     > replace nouns and ask question 

     > (who, whom, which, what, whoever, whomever, 

        whichever, whatever)

* Relative Pronouns -

     > Used to join two sentences, take place of nouns or 

        pronouns in sentence and refer to nouns or 

        pronouns which come before any relative pronouns.

     > (who, whose, which, that, whoever, whom)

* Indefinite Pronouns -

     > Refers to general categories of peoples or things.

     > (all, another, any, anybody, anyone, anything, 

         each, everybody, everyone, everything, few, many,

         nobody, one, several, some, somebody, someone)

* Reflexive Pronouns -

     > Are used when a person or thing acts on itself.

     > Reflexive pronouns(myself, yourself, herself, 

        himself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves)

* Intensive Pronouns -

     > Used to emphasise its antecedent.

     > Identical in form to reflexive pronouns.

  

 

2nd group's topic is Determiners, presented by Ila, Mira and Edlina. As, i had been able to give a correct answer, i had been given two London Choco Roll as a token from the 2nd group. Thanks to Ila and the other members of her group.

A determiners qualifies a noun. It makes the reference of the noun more precise.

There are 2 main groups of determiners :

1) group A determiners

      ~ used to identify things 

         > article - a, an, the

         > demonstrative - this, that, these, those

         > possessive - my, our, your, their, her, his, 
                              its, one's, whose

      ~ two group A determiners cannot be put together. 

         *example : the my car

           (red-article, green-possessive)

2) group B determiners

      ~ indicate something about quantity

      ~ some, any, each, every, either, neither, 
         much, many, one, two, etc.

      ~ group B can put together

         * example : have you got any more rice ?

During the night class, we had learned on reading activities. We had learned how to skimming and scanning information from text. We used 'Stride A Head' book as reference.


What is skimming ??
Skimming refers to the process of quickly identifying the main ideas within a passage to get an overall impression of its content.


What is scanning ??
Scanning is a reading skill used to find specific information quickly.