Tugasan 1 ( Anisah Mohd Haizald)

NOUNS

A noun is a name of anything. For examples: pencil, Marcus, tiger, sparrow, London, etc. these are all nouns, 

To find the Noun in a sentence, we ask the question, What? or Who? before or after the Verb in the sentence. 

For example: Maya saw a dog. (Who saw a dog? Maya = noun)

                                                  ( Maya saw a what? a dog = noun)

There are four kinds of Nouns:

Common Nouns 

Proper nouns

Abstract nouns 

Collective nouns 

COMMON NOUN

A common noun is a name given in common to every person or thing of the same class or kind. 

EXAMPLE: man, village, river, bank, women, and etc. 

PROPER NOUN

A proper noun is the special name of a particular person, place, etc. 

EXAMPLE: Maya, Batu Kurau, Sabah, Malaysia * A proper noun begins with a Capital Letter.

ABSTRACT NOUN 

An abstract noun is the name of something that we can only think or feel but cannot see. 

EXAMPLE: I could not read well when I was a child. ( common noun)

                     I could not read well during my childhood. (abstract noun) 

COLLECTIVE NOUN

A collective noun is the name of a number of persons or things taken or thought of as one.

EXAMPLE: a galaxy of beautiful woman 

                                                   

What is integrity?

Public or organisational integrity is the set of characteristics that justify trustworthiness and generate trust among stakeholders. Integrity creates the conditions for organisations to intelligently resist corruption and to be more trusted and efficient.

Integrity Action takes integrity to be the alignment of four factors:

• Accountability
• Competence
• Ethics, and
• Corruption control

Accountability is both the ability of key stakeholders to check that we do what we say we do, and responsiveness to legitimate internal and external claims. Public  institutions have to be held to account.

Competence is the ability to do something well. If an organisation doesn’t deliver good infrastructure, healthcare or education  for example, it would not, ultimately, be acting with integrity. 

We define Ethics as behaving with honor and public purpose. Engaging with values and issues such as the environment, access to justice, public infrastructure is intrinsically bound to the question of organisational integrity.

The final factor that undermines organisational integrity is corruption. The abuse of entrusted power for private gain. Eliminating corruption requires dedicated resource and institutional mechanisms that must be complemented by other institutions.

Integrity Action’s approach to integrity is this formula:

Integrity = Accountability + Competence + Ethics - corruption

- See more at: http://www.integrityaction.org

Inspiring Integrity story

This video inspired me a lot. We all should have a story to relate it with our life. Don't simply live without any inspiration and without any words that you want to keep.

Keep your promise!

Tugasan 1 ( Maya Fuspalia Jusman)

a.Kemahiran belajar yang cemerlang

b. Kemahiran Literasi Maklumat

Where is the monkey?

 easy ways to learn preposition.

*my lecturer shows me this video and i loveit...hhahhaha... *I am not a child

inverted pyramid preposition

Prepositions of Time

IN- The pyramid’s TOP (wider), which is BIGGER and more GENERAL:

• Description: Bigger periods of time: Centuries, Decades, Years, Months
• Examples: in the 20th century, in the 1980’s, in March, in the third week of April, in the future
• Exceptions: in the morning, in the evening, in the afternoon

ON- The pyramid’s MIDDLE part, which is SMALLER and MORE SPECIFIC:

• Description: Days, or periods of time shorter than three days
• Examples: on my birthday, on Saturday, on the weekend (United States), on June 8th
• Exceptions: on my lunch break, on time

AT- The pyramid’s BOTTOM (pointed), the SMALLEST, and the MOST SPECIFIC:

• Description: Specific times or small time periods.
• Examples: at 9:00 PM, at lunch, at dinner, at the start of the party, at sunrise, at the start of the movie, at the moment
• Exceptions: at night, at the weekend (England) 

Prepositions of Location

IN - The TOP (wider), which is BIGGER and more GENERAL:

• Description: In larger areas (countries, states, cities, neighborhoods)
• Examples: in the United States, in Miami, in my neighborhood
• Exceptions: in downtown (“I work in downtown”)

ON - The MIDDLE, which is SMALLER and MORE SPECIFIC:

• Description: a longer area, street, beach, river
• Examples: on Broadway Street, on the beach, on my street 

AT – The pyramid’s BOTTOM (pointed), the SMALLEST, and the MOST SPECIFIC:

• Description: the address or specific location, specific points.
• Examples: at 345 broadway street, at the store, at my house

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Integrity

Integrity

A successful businessman was growing old and knew it was time to choose a successor to take over the business. Instead of choosing one of his directors or his children, he decided to do something different. He called all the young executives in his company together.

He said, “It is time for me to step down and choose the next CEO. I have decided to choose one of you.” The young executives were shocked, but the boss continued, “I am going to give each one of you a seed today – one very special seed. I want you to plant the seed, water it, and come back here one year from today with what you have grown from the seed I have given you. I will then judge the plants that you bring, and the one I choose will be the next CEO.”

One man, named Jim, was there that day and he, like the others, received a seed. He went home and excitedly, told his wife the story. She helped him get a pot, soil and compost and he planted the seed. Everyday, he would water it and watch to see if it had grown. After about three weeks, some of the other executives began to talk about their seeds and the plants that were beginning to grow.

Jim kept checking his seed, but nothing ever grew. Three weeks, four weeks, five weeks went by, still nothing. By now, others were talking about their plants, but Jim didn’t have a plant and he felt like a failure.

Six months went by — still nothing in Jim’s pot. He just knew he had killed his seed. Everyone else had trees and tall plants, but he had nothing. Jim didn’t say anything to his colleagues, however, he just kept watering and fertilizing the soil. He so wanted the seed to grow.

A year went by and the CEO asked the young executives to bring their plants to work for inspection.

When Jim told his wife that he wasn’t going to take an empty pot, she asked him to be honest about what happened. Jim felt sick to his stomach, it was going to be the most embarrassing moment of his life, but he knew his wife was right. He took his empty pot to the board room.

When Jim arrived, he was amazed at the variety of plants grown by the other executives. They were beautiful – in all shapes and sizes. Jim put his empty pot on the floor and many of his colleagues laughed, a few felt sorry for him!

When the CEO arrived, he surveyed the room and greeted his young executives. Jim just tried to hide in the back. “My, what great plants, trees and flowers you have grown,” said the CEO. “Today one of you will be appointed the next CEO!”

All of a sudden, the CEO spotted Jim at the back of the room with his empty pot. He asked Jim to come to the front of the room. Jim was terrified.  He thought, “The CEO knows I’m a failure! Maybe he will have me fired!”

When Jim got to the front, the CEO asked him what had happened to his seed. Jim told him the story.  The CEO asked everyone to sit down except Jim. He looked at Jim, and then announced to the young executives, “Behold your next Chief Executive Officer — Jim!”

Jim couldn’t believe it. Jim couldn’t even grow his seed. “How could he be the new CEO?” the others said.

Then the CEO said, “One year ago today, I gave everyone in this room a seed. I told you to take the seed, plant it, water it, and bring it back to me today. But I gave you all boiled seeds; they were dead – it was not possible for them to grow.

“All of you, except Jim, have brought me trees and plants and flowers. When you found that the seed would not grow, you substituted another seed for the one I gave you. Jim was the only one with the courage and honesty to bring me a pot with my seed in it. Therefore, he is the one who will be the new Chief Executive Officer!”

• If you plant honesty, you will reap trust
• If you plant goodness, you will reap friends
• If you plant humility, you will reap greatness
• If you plant perseverance, you will reap contentment
• If you plant consideration, you will reap perspective
• If you plant hard work, you will reap success
• If you plant forgiveness, you will reap reconciliation

So, be careful what you plant now; it will determine what you will reap later.

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keep calm and learn English

I know that it is so hard for the beginners to learn English language. So this is a few tips for you to master the language faster.

1: Find some English radio stations and podcast in iTunes

There are tons of podcast about all topics imaginable these days: entertainment, politics, news. A good way to find one is to look for a podcast from a TV channel you usually watch in your cable TV. Look for one that interests you and listen to it in your car while driving. You’ll train your ear that way!

2: Check out the Top Videos on YouTube and watch for at least a few minutes

Most of them are hilarious! It will be so worth it. Try looking at the comments to pick up some words and sentences you aren't familiar with, but be careful there is all kinds of bizarre stuff in YouTube comments.

3: Talk and sing to yourself in English

When you are alone at home, or of course in the shower, start talking! Sing a song in English the way it sounds to you, talk about the weather or any other topic. Do this frequently and your pronunciation will drastically improve – guaranteed!

4: Do you have an English-speaking idol? Go to YouTube and watch all of his/her interviews in English

You can spend hours doing that listening to interviews and it sure won’t feel like studying. But it is! It helps you a great deal.

5: Sit near people who are speaking English on the bus or in the park. Listen!!

Okay now don’t be a creepy eavesdropper! But, see what words you can pick up and listen to the flow of the conversation. How much did you understand? What general topic were they talking about? Did you hear an interesting word you might want to look up after?

6: Pay attention to billboards, signs, advertisements, magazine stands and establishment names

Look and think about what these ads mean. How many words do you recognize? Did you see that same word elsewhere? Make up sentences about what you’re seeing.

7: Love music? Try figuring out the words/lyrics of your favorite songs

Watch video clips with lyrics on YouTube and sing along. Read the translation and build up your vocabulary. Listen to “clean” versions of songs and try to figure out what dirty words were taken out. It’s fun!

8: Watch TV clips, episodes or soap operas in English

It doesn't matter if you don’t understand what they’re saying, watch anyway! Try to understand why something is funny or sad . If the joke is related to the word itself, then maybe that is why the joke does not make sense in your native language. What would be the best translation into your language then?

9: Engage in a conversation on Facebook with friends who post in English

When you have English speakers in your timeline, you see their posts daily and get inside information about news and viral videos in English. Your friends can be your teachers! Their timeline basically sort out the best material for you to study.

10: Produce, produce, produce. No matter how shy you are or how much you don’t “get” English, force yourself to speak

Help out a tourist who looks lost. They won’t mind you struggling with the language while you’re doing them a favor! After class, talk to your teacher about how things are going and what you need help with in English. When traveling, ask around for directions in English, even if you don’t need them! Try purchasing things online and by phone, or using customer support in English.
It does not matter if you talk slowly, you are learning, that’s only natural!

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everyone can learn english :)