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BETTER SPEAKING

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Better Speaking is all about how you can become a fluent, confident speaker of English. In the programmes we hear from learners of English from around the world and also from someone who specialises in teaching speaking, trainer Richard Hallows. Better Speaking is presented by Callum Robertson.

Episode 1
We hear several learners describe what they find difficult about speaking English, and Callum and Richard discuss the link between confidence and fluency.

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Episode 2
Callum and Richard hear a clip from Korean football manager Pak Han Suk, and discuss ways you can improve your fluency in English.

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Episode 3
Callum and Richard hear a clip from the former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan. They also discuss different ways you can practise and improve your English pronunciation.

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Episode 4
Callum and Richard hear a clip from Greek businessman Stelios Haji-Ioannou and discuss different ways that you can organise what you say.

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Episode 5
Callum and Richard listen to a clip from an interview with the successful Icelandic singer, Björk. They discuss the best ways to learn English vocabulary, and some ways you can sound like a native English speaker.

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Episode 6
Callum and Richard listen to an interview with a former Wimbledon champion, Conchita Martinez. They discuss ways that you can hesitate in English and the very important 'er' sound in pronunciation.

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Episode 7
Besides being one of motor racing's greatest stars, Michael Schumacher is also a very good speaker of English. Callum and Richard discuss the importance of using contractions and also varying intonation while you speak.

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Episode 8
How does Iman Abdulmajid's life as a model conflict with her Muslim upbringing? Callum and Richard listen to a clip of Iman talking about this tension, and discuss ways that learners can increase their range of vocabulary.

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Episode 9
This week, Callum and Richard discuss how we can use phrases like I think and I feel to give our opinion. They also talk about natural ways of agreeing or disagreeing in a conversation.

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Episode 10
The pop band ABBA achieved global success with dozens of hits in the 1970s. But how successful were the band members at speaking English? Callum and Richard listen to an interview and discuss different ways that you can be vague in English.

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Episode 11
Steffi Graf is one of the most successful tennis players ever, but is she a successful speaker of English? Callum and Richard listen to an interview with the star and discuss how she manages to sequence what she says.

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Episode 12
In this final episode of Better Speaking, Callum and Richard look back at the previous programmes and discuss some of the main ways you can improve your English speaking.

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My Preparation of Interview

8:14 PM / Posted by afandi / comments (1)

As I went to two interviews and my fellow friends too, here I conclude the approaches of our preparation in 2 P's

Preparing Documents

1. Read the letter you have received from the first sheet to the last one and reread. You may leave essential parts. Ask favor from your parents too to recheck.

2. Ensure everything is ready few days before the interview. Hence you will be not in haste.

3. Manage you certificates file good. (example)

Practise
1. Talk with your mates in English as it’s the demand.
2. Via internet you can make life conference.
3. Chatting with your friends in English.
4. Search for new native speakers in chatting rooms or e-pal website. (email me if want to know)
5. Reading English materials voraciously. (NSTP, The Star, World News, email me if want to know more)
6. Listen and watch English programmes as radio (BBC live) and movies.
7. Search questions regarded to interviews.(examples)

Extra tips
~ don't neglect religion aside. Remember the tawakal concept ~

MARA Interview

6:44 PM / Posted by afandi / comments (0)

Simply, comparing interview of MARA with JPA, it’s obvious that MARA interview is few times easier as MARA merely has an individual interview rather than JPA which takes time around half of an hour. The process is like this:

1. Enrolment at the ground floor
2. Queuing up for interview
3. Interview
4. Finish

Enrolment
a. Come 10 minutes earlier
b. Can mingle around with other candidates
c. Enroll when u r called
d. Listen to the announcement made

Queuing up for interview
a. Wait until your turn
b. Be tranquil and need not to be worry

Interview
a. Its an individual interview
b. Wear blazer to get extra marks.
c. The question I got:

Tell me about yourself

- Start with basmallah
- Don’t forget saying thank you: Thank you for sparing your time and it’s my honour to be here

Can you tell me about you co-curriculum attainment?

- Starting with ‘ My attainment in co-curriculum is really outstanding. Not only in sport I m active but in uniform unit and club I was too. My best achievement…’

Which university you choose?

- State the university and country
- Do research about it ( ranking, programes)

Mara usually send students to Russia, do you want to go Russia as the have the best techno in this area?

- I said: no
- Reason: To vary techno in Malaysia

Do you know that French also has the technology in this area which is also one of the best? Don’t you want go there?

- Actually, I don’t know anything about French regarded to this matter. But I did not response negatively.
- My answer: I really have good knowledge about French regarded this matter as when we say about this industry, USA, UK, Russia, Japan and Korea are leading other countries.
- But I’ll always stick with my decision to go UK

Can you explain us about this field?

- Do research
- Give them facts and statistic to convince them
- Point the latest issue about it. Emphasise it by saying ‘the latest issue about it is….’
- Don’t leave government policy as well

Why should we choose you rather than other candidate?

- Be proud with who you are
- Tell them the best of you if can related to education and the course that you apply for.
- To make it firm combine you personality with personality test and mention the test and the pioneer of the test.

Do you have anything to ask?

- Don’t decline but use this chance to response with a good question.
- Like for engineer as the about IR, doctor ask them tips to memorise all books

Finish
1. Try to shake hand
2. Say thank you

Educamp In UTP

3:12 AM / Posted by afandi / comments (0)

I was one of the fortunate men who was shortlisted for Petronas scholarship where I was offered for Geophysics course to study abroad. It’s my honour to drop some my experiences to be there.

Yearly, the venue is never changed where UTP, Universiti Teknologi Petronas will be the whereabouts like this year as well. Since my dwelling is far away from Perak, I made my mind to go there a day earlier in an 8 hours journey and once I stopped at the main gate of this university, I was mesmerised by the awesome landscape which seems to be like Putrajaya!
I was placed with the foundation students in UTP but some of students, first 200, who registered early; they were placed to other hostels out of the campus which are really stunning but only for boys.
The activities:
First day:
8.00 am Registration
10.00 am Official Launching Ceremony
Talks: About Petronas
Petronas Scholarship
UTP
12.30 noon Lunch
2.00 pm. Briefing about latest schedule
Briefing about Tests
Assessment one
6.00 pm Dinner
8.00 pm Maths and Science test
Personality test
11.00 pm Supper

Second day:
7.00 am Individual Interview
Grouping interview
12.00 noon Lunch
2.00 pm Tests
6.00 pm Depart home

Before the interview:
Ensure that all documents required are ready.
Read all the letters regarded to the scholarship from top to bottom. Don’t miss any words or sentences. You may leave simple thing which may affect your interview.

Sharing time:
First Assessment
Actually, this assessment is not calculated for interview mark. It’s just to know each other, just like ice breaking. The different was candidates were given a task to discuss. For me, this was the time to brush up my English before the real interview. You just have to response and endeavor to do something you feel nervous to do before. It works to reduce your nervousness. I did just by changing my accent and it worked. I really gained my self-esteem, especially when people were thinking that my English was better than theirs thought it’s not. Truly, majority of the candidates were fluent speaking in English.

Test in the first night:

Although most of us cannot answer this test, it’s not complicated because this mathematics and science test was only about form 5 syllabus. But as we leave it nearly 5 months, all the memory had gone with time and the result was we cannot answer even easy questions.
The personality test was a test to verify for your personality. Basically, there is now right or wrong answer. But the matter here is you have to answer based on your personality and don’t you try to manipulate the outcome as in this test it contains a system to detect lies. Hence, beware!

Interview
The interview is related to the task given. Following to your group, you will be divided into a few panels which are made up of 4 to 5 members. The task given is about current issue. You will be placed at a table with your panel members where no discussion is allowed as you have to do your own preparation for the tasks about 45 minutes.
After that, you will be asked to go to waiting rooms with your members and the individual interview is started. The questions I that they pointed were:
1. Background
2. Co-curriculum achievement
3. Recommendation of the task, either I agree or disagree.
4. Anything to share with them.
Then others of you friends will be called one by one and the will face the same process that you do. When all have been interviewed personally, the grouping interview will be started. Mine was the interviewers asked us to come to a conclusion where everybody agrees with one recommendation. It took nearly 15 minutes.
If you cannot speak fluent try to give response by agreeing any members, backing up anybody’s point.

The test in the second day
IQ test – you can search yourself about this test. It takes months to master for this test.

English tests
This tests are really difficult. For the first one was to check our vocabulary, grammar and comprehension. The comprehension was the problem as once you read it, you just can imagine nothing because the language level is really high.
The second English test is Verbal Evaluation if I’m not mistaken. For a few questions you have to answer based on the text given. The answers are A. true B. Wrong C. cannot answer without further information.

Alhamdulillah, I did well for the interviews except for the tests which were really difficult. Try to prepare yourself and don’t forget to pray to ALLAH to make you way easier

INTERVIEW

2:14 AM / Posted by afandi / comments (1)

Alhamadulillah, SPM result was announces last week. The past has passed but the future is coming nearer. After SPM, of course, all of us want to get sholarship. If for SPM we do preparation, so, for our interview is aslo a must. Here I've get some article in web for our simple preparation.

http://members.tripod.com/~eduline/temuduga.html
TATACARA MENGHADAPI TEMUDUGA:
PERSEDIAAN UNTUK TEMUDUGA:
PADA HARI TEMUDUGA:
TINGKAHLAKU SEMASA TEMUDUGA:
CONTOH SOALAN-SOALAN TEMUDUGA:

http://www.malaysia-students.com/2008/03/jpa-scholarship-interview-experience.html

THURSDAY, 12 MARCH 2009

11:40 PM / Posted by afandi / comments (0)

I’m really sure that all SPM candidates year 2008 knew that 12 March 2009 is the announcement day for our result. I believe we all had done all the best two years, learning in school and then we sat for the papers just about a few weeks. Hence, let’s us pray to Allah to ensure that we can get straight A’s 1 and we lead all the schools in Malaysia for SPM result and STPM and STAM as well. Please do;
1. Pray to Allah in every time that is ‘mustajab’.
2. Read Yaasin for our ‘hajat’.
3. Solat Hajat as well

Here are the ‘mustajab times to pray.
01. Last part of night.
- So let’s stay up.

02. After praying (wajib).
- Just spend at least a minute if we are too busy.

03. Between azan and iqamah.
- Let’ go to mosque earlier.

04. A time every night.

05. While ‘azan’ for Solat.

06. When raining.
- you are lucky if it’s raining season.

07. When drinking ‘air zam-zam’ with good ‘niat’.

08. ‘Sujud’.
- It’s goo for you brain as well actually.

09. When awakened in the middle of night and pray with ‘doa mathtur’.

10. Praying to a friend when he is beside us.
- Thus, don’t forget friends. Moreover, we are far in distance.

11. When facing difficulty.

12. ‘Ikhlas’.
13. When travelling.
- in the way to KISAS, pray a lot.

14. Pray of those who are fasting until breaking fast.
- Let us fasting; Monday and Thursday.

15. Pray of those fasting when breaking fast.

16. Pray of ‘anak soleh’ to parents.
- Insyaallah, we are ‘anak soleh’ .

PPMSI

11:02 PM / Posted by afandi / comments (2)

Lately, our media, from the newspaper to the internet, is getting hotter and hotter with a few topics, especially PPMSI. Worse of all, six years, this topic never sleeps soundly. I believe everybody from all walks of live have their own stand either to support PPMSI or not. Hence, I decided to do a simple research and I obtained these points. Moreover, people say that in interview, we will be tested for our current knowledge. Since this topic is a heavy topic, my friend advises me to write this article in Bahasa. Let’s take a look.
Alasan menyokong PPMSI:
1. Wujudkan satu pemikiran yang ‘world-class’, yang bertaraf dunia, yang bertaraf antarabangsa.

2.Hanya dengan fasih bertutur kata dalam bahasa sendiri dengan ilmu pengetahuan yang cetek
tidak akan menjadi bangsa kita mulia dan mampu bersaing dengan jayanya dengan bangsa-bangsa maju dan dianggap setaraf dengan mereka.
- majoriti ilmu dalam bahasa Inggeris

3. Rasulallah bersabda "Tuntutlah ilmu hingga ke negeri China".
- Adakah dapat orang Arab menuntut ilmu orang Cina tanpa mempelajari bahasa Cina, lisan dan tulisan, terlebih dahulu?

4. Membantu menambahkan lagi modal insan yang mahir dalam bahasa Inggeris mengikut kepakaran mereka.
- Dapat membantu penterjemahan ilmu.
- contoh: orang Arab telah menguasai ilmu Sains, Matematik dan falsafah yang diterokai oleh orang Yunani (Greek) dan menterjemahkan ilmu-ilmu ini ke dalam bahasa Arab sebelum kaji selidik dilakukan untuk memperluaskan ilmu-ilmu ini.

5. Memudahkan pelajar mengakses kepada ilmu.
-Semasa bangsa-bangsa yang beragama Islam berjaya membangunkan tamadun Islam yang gemilang, bangsa-bangsa Eropah berada "di zaman gelap".
-Pada abad ke-15 Masehi, orang Eropah yang berkurun-kurun kagum dengan tamadun orang Islam sedar akan ilmu pengetahuan dalam bidang sains, perubatan, matematik, astronomi yang dimiliki orang yang berbahasa Arab serta sumbangan ilmu-ilmu ini kepada tamadun gemilang Islam.
-Paderi-paderi Kristian Eropah belajar bahasa Arab untuk mendapat akses kepada ilmu-ilmu yang berada dalam kutub-khanah milik Arab dan orang Islam lain.
-Mereka mempelajari semua ilmu ini dalam bahasa Arab dan menterjemahkan kedalam bahasa Latin, dan kemudian kepada bahasa-bahasa Eropah.
-Kemudian mereka membuat kajian dan memperluaskan semua ilmu-ilmu ini.
-Maka terdirilah tamadun Eropah yang terus maju hingga ke zaman sekarang.

6. Bernama: Pengajaran serta pembelajaran Matematik dan Sains dalam Bahasa Inggeris (PPMSI) dilihat tidak menunjukkan perbezaan yang ketara antara pelajar di bandar mahupun luar bandar, kata Timbalan Menteri Pelajaran Datuk Razali Ismail.

"Statistik anak-anak di tahun 5 di bandar dan luar bandar menunjukkan sedikit perbezaan. Bagi mata pelajaran sains untuk di bandar, purata pencapaian kelulusan ialah 53.7 peratus dan luar bandar 47.8 peratus.
"Bagi mata pelajaran Matematik, 56.6 peratus dicatatkan bagi murid di bandar dan 46.8 peratus bagi luar bandar, Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Cina (SKJC) di bandar mencatatkan 64.2 peratus manakala 58.2 peratus bagi luar bandar.
"Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Tamil (SJKT) pula mencatatkan kelulusan 58.1 peratus (bandar) dan 50.9 peratus (luar bandar),"Osman.

7. Melahirkan kumpulan pelajar yang berkebolehan menulis, memahami dan berfikir dalam bahasa Inggeris dalam kedua-dua subjek ini.
- Di peringkat universiti atau pengajian tinggi banyak buku kedua-dua subjek ini diterbitkan dalam bahasa Inggeris.

8. Sediki pindaan sahaja perlu dilakukan.

Alasan tidak menyokong:
1. Minat pelajar terhadap kedua-dua subjek ini makin merosot
- tidak memahami bahasa perantaraan (bahasa Inggeris)

2. PPMSI dikatakan dapat membantu pelajar menguasai bahasa Inggeris dengan lebih berkesan. Hakikatnya tidak.
- jika pelajar bermasalah dalam penguasaan bahasa inggeris maka rombakan terhadap sukatan subjek bahasa bukan matematik dan sains
- penguasaan bahasa adalah berasaskan kepada 3 komponen asas: menulis, memahami dan berkomuniksi .Dalam pelaksanaan PPMSI tidak membuktikan ketiga-tiga komponen ini berjaya digapai.

3. Kesukaran memahami pelajaran.
- Pelajar di luar negara contoh di Timur Tengah terpaksa bersusah payah mempelajari bahasa Arab untuk memahami dan benar-benar meguasai ilmu. Pendedahan PPMSI kepada pelajar tahun satu tidak rasional kerana mereka tidak ada asas Bahasa Inggeris.
- pelajar di Jerman tidak terus diajar dalam bahasa Jerman tetapi di dedahkan dalam bahasa Inggeris terlebih dahulu dan dalam tahun ketiga barulah diajar dalam bahasa Jerman(kebiasaannya).

4. Sesebuah negara tidak akan mundur, semata-mata kerana menggunakan bahasa ibunda mereka
-Orang-orang Jepun, Korea yang maju, khusus di dalam teknologi, contohnya; mereka tidak menggunakan bahasa Inggeris malah menggunakan bahasa ibunda masing-masing
-negara lain yang menggunakan bahasa ibunda ialah Sepanyol, Jerman, dan Perancis.

5. Penggunaan bahasa Inggeris adalah bertepatan sebagai bahasa global?
- Bahasa Melayu di pertuturkan oleh setengah bilion populasi di seluruh dunia. Jika sebagai pengguna utama menyisihkan bahasa sendiri maka begitu juga penduduk dunia.
- Kenapa tidak memartabatkan bahasa Melayu sebagai bahasa ilmu sedangkan ada potensi.
- Ramai para ilmuan dan para sarjana telah menjalankan penyelidikan, khusus dari Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia dalam bahasa Melayu.

6. Bertentangan dengan fasal 152 Perlembagaan Persekutuan
- gunakan bahasa Melayu sebagai bahasa rasmi dalam urusan rasmi.

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