**TASK 10: Academic Reading

Folklore Story – Wulan

        Once upon a time there was a legend said that a beautiful princess from the sky comes down to the field at the middle of the night to play and sing; the reason why she’s come down at the middle of the night is to avoid from being seen by human. Her name is Wulan. One fine day, as usual she sings her favourite song and dance herself without realising two strangers at back was staring with full of interest and has their own wish towards her. They are Mak Puteh and her husband Pak Tam. They admired of Wulan’s beauty and decide to take her shawl so that she would not able to go back to the sky and so they can keep her as their daughter in law.

        This innocent Wulan has just realised that her shawl was gone when suddenly Mak Puteh come and offer her to stay with them. A desperate Wulan had agree and following the couple to their house. There Mak Puteh introducing her son Jamal and at that time Wulan was fell in love towards him. Wulan then asked for Mak Puteh’s family to not open the cover of the pot for every time she cooks the rice. The family was confused and wondered for the unusual wish but had just agreed.

         A weeks later Pak Tam was got bitten by snake at paddy-field and the wounds got worst a few hours later. Pak Tam was lied down at the balcony when he talks to his son, Jamal to married Wulan as his last wish so that he can leave them with happily. Jamal just nodded his head and Pak Tam was already gone.

         Wulan and Jamal was married with a small occasion and a few years later they got two twin daughters. Melati and Cempaka are their names. These twins are really close to their mother and always help their mother doing housework even they are always got fight each other. One evening, on way helping their mother, they found a beautiful shawl of their mother. Wulan was on shock for a while and realised something but she ignored all that as she already has a family and love them very much.

         But then, curious Jamal about his wife made rice cooked that always fill the pot even she just poured a little bit of pack of rice to the pot had made him broke his promise long time ago. Wulan watch herself when Jamal open the pot’s cover after her left it for a minute. She was really sad. She took her shawl and run to field as suddenly Jamal and his daughter saw his wife and mother fly to sky and never come back again.

**TASK 9: Editing and Revising

Househusbands Summary

           Nowadays, househusbands are typically amongst American families. To become a successful househusbands they may has to change their ideas and ways. First of all, they should change the way they thinks about time. They cannot be in hurry all the time as compare when at the work place. At home they must learn to slow down. I t is the most important rule for a househusbands. Then, they had to learn to show how they were feels about things towards the children and wife as they need to know whenever you get in anger, happy, sad and worries. So that they would not get wrong idea and thus avoid any serious problems in family. Finally, it was easiest thing to learn to be good househusbands as long as you want to have a happy family.

Family life in the United States Summary     

         The family life in the United States is changing. This happen when more women are works outside their home. So they (husband and wife) do not have enough time to do the housework and take care for their children. Then, they find the alternatives to solve the problem by sharing housework. They do different jobs around the house or take turns doing each job. For children care they pay for child-care help that would be babysitter or day-care centre. The companies help which let people with children to work part-time and the way of husband to stop working for a while are pretty much change the home and the family. These may lead the member to learn and understand each other.

**TASK 8

The story that I want to retell is Harry Potter and the philosopher stone. It was the first episode of Harry’s adventure and journeys. The story begun shortly before Harry's eleventh birthday, he receives a letter addressed specifically to him. His bad uncle, however, reads and burns it before Harry has a chance to look at the contents. The sender, which is a Hogwarts owl, does not give up, and the Dursleys receive continuously larger numbers of the same letter. Soon, his Uncle Vernon becomes so paranoid and brought his family and Harry to hide in a hut on a small island to escape. That night exactly a few minutes before Harry’s birthday, he was visited by an enormous man name Hagrid. With Hagrid present Harry finally reads his letter, in which he learns he has been invited to study magic at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He takes the train to Hogwarts from Platform Nine and three-quarters, befriending Ron Weasley, and meeting Hermione Granger a Muggle-born witch.

      Upon arrival to the Hogwarts, the Sorting Hat places Harry, Ron and Hermione in Gryffindor House. Different to the Draco Malfoy, an arrogant and bigheaded student, gets placed in Slytherin. At the end of their first week at Hogwarts, Harry and Ron discover that Gringotts, the wizarding bank, was broken. Later, Harry discovers he has a talent for riding broomsticks, and after an incident with Malfoy, he was chosen and recruited to join Gryffindor's Quidditch team as a Seeker of a tiny, golden snitch.

      Harry, Ron, Hermione explore Hogwarts late at night and accidentally stumble across the door to a corridor. They found a three-headed dog, christened Fluffy by Hagrid, guards a trapdoor. On Halloween, Quirrell informs everyone that a troll has entered the castle; Harry and Ron fight the troll to save Hermione, who is trapped in the girls' bathroom, and the three become best friends.

       At Harry's first Quidditch match, Harry's broom becomes possessed, nearly knocking him off. Hermione sees Professor Severus Snape, the sinister Potions master and head of Slytherin House, staring at Harry and mouthing words, making her believe that Snape has caused the broom to misbehave with a dark curse. Hoping to save Harry, Hermione sets Snape's on fire, distracting him and others and allowing Harry to survive.

      At Christmas, Harry receives an Invisibility Cloak, once belonging to his father, which makes its wearer invisible. Harry uses it to explore the Restricted Section in the library to research information on Nicolas Flamel, the only known maker of the Sorcerer's Stone, which produces the Elixir of Life which will make the drinker immortal.

      Harry, Hermione, Ron and Draco are caught out late at night they visited Hagid in his hut, and are forced to serve detention with Hagrid in the Forbidden Forest. Harry sees a hooded figure drink the blood of an injured unicorn, which makes Harry's forehead scar start burning. Firenze, a centaur, tells Harry that it is a monstrous thing to slay a unicorn, let alone drink its blood. He also tells Harry that unicorn blood will keep one alive, and that the hooded figure is in fact Voldemort.

     They set out to reach the stone first, navigating the security system set up by the school's staff, which is a series of complex magical challenges. The three make it through together until finally, Harry must enter the inner chamber alone. There he finds that Professor Quirrell, not Snape, is attempting to steal the Stone. Realizing that Snape was trying to protect him from harm all along, Harry confronts Quirrell and survives a second encounter with Lord Voldemort, who has possessed Quirrell and appears as a ghastly face on the back of Quirrell's head. Quirrell crumbles when he touches Harry's skin, and Harry passes out because of his close proximity to Lord Voldemort. Voldemort then pitilessly abandons Quirrell, who dies in the aftermath of his possession.

      If I was Harry Potter, I certainly made the same decision as he was. It was the right choices to get the opportunities of Hogwarts invites instead of having a worst time with Dursley family. Ron and Hermione absolutely a true friend and I should make friend with them. I am agree with what exactly Harry’s done except for this one time, when they made decision on visiting Hagrid in his hut at midnight. I think they should not do that as broken school’s rule was not the way to get answer of something. I love challenges, but it must be at the right path to be settled down and with the best idea to get rid from any danger. Instead of these, I got a moral value of not to be confidently trust someone that seems kindly so what he really was. May be and perhaps someone that hate us much are truly our defender. So in here the phrase of ‘Don’t judge a book by its cover’ are finely demonstrated.

**TASK 7: Narrative paragraph-1

Question C1

Topic	The food that I like
Topic Sentence	‘Nasi Ayam Centre Point (CP)
Supporting Details	1)      Special ingredients of rice cooked with chicken stock, roasted chicken with special made sauce and a couple slice of cucumber. 2)      Nutrition: Has a complete balance diet with combination of carbohydrate, protein and vitamin. 3)      Taste: H as a harmony flavour, nice palate tasting, aromatic smell and stimulate appetizing.
Conclusion	‘Nasi Ayam CP’ is a complete, delicious and special from the first step going into the restaurant to the moment enjoying the meal.
Linkers/Sequence Connectors used	If, eventhough, since, but, thus

 

The Food that I Like the Most  

          The food that I like most is ‘Nasi Ayam Centre Point (CP)’. It has special ingredients of rice which cooked nicely with chicken stock, roasted chicken with special made sauce and a couple slice of cucumber. If add with some blended chili and the taste is completely delicious. Eventhough it is RM 2.80 cheap, it provide dietary nutrition with the combination of such carbohydrate in the rice, protein of chicken meat and the vitamin in the cucumber. Since the clear soup is the complementary, it successfully acts for easy food digestion in the body. But for me, the most important is the taste. It has harmony flavour, nice palate tasting and the aromatic smell really made me stimulate appetizing. Thus, ‘Nasi Ayam CP’ is a cheap, complete, delicious and special from the first step going into restaurant to the moment enjoying the meal.

Question C4

Topic	How to boost tourism industry in Sabah.
Topic Sentence	The way to boost tourism industry in Sabah.
Supporting Details	1)      Improve hospitality industry: accommodation, service, food and beverages. 2)      Media mass action by spread Sabah popularity through television, radio and etc. 3)      Establish or open new tourism place.
Conclusion	All government and non-government organisation (NGO) have to work together playing their role to boost tourism industry in Sabah.
Linkers/Sequence Connectors used	As such, finally

 

How to Boost Tourism Industry in Sabah

          The way to boost tourism in Sabah is firstly improve the hospitality industry as they are finely related. As such improve the accommodation facilities by establishing much type of hotel and homestay. The improvement of staff service may made guest and tourist feel welcome instead of improving food and beverage varieties. The action of media mass is important to spread Sabah popularity and unique through television, radio, magazine and etc. The government or non- government organisation (NGO) may establish or open tourism site which is new, unexplored yet, beautiful and unique such as an island, sanctuary, zoo and historical place are the best way to boost tourism. Finally, all the department of neither government nor NGO have to work together playing their role to reach this aim.

**TASK 6: Mechanics/Grammar

Common Mistakes in Writing

Mistakes always do in writing.

-          Grammar, hard to translate Malay idea to appropriate English.

Problem face when start writing.

-          Hard to decide best introduction.

English is not such difficult but challenging in term translating idea into other languages that not used to.

Suggestion to overcome the problem.

                                i.            Read many of English book, magazine, journal even the newspaper to learn many new words.

                              ii.            Keep practising on writing essay and translating idea into English with correct grammar.

                            iii.            Start used main map method to arrange idea in best and in chronically manner.

**TASK 5: Writing a paragraph-1

Water Pollution

Topic	Water Pollution
Topic Sentence	Sources of Water Pollution
Supporting Details	1)      Industrial waste.  Eg: Oil spills, acid rain, waste runoff from industrial building& factories. 2)      Agricultural pollution.  Eg: erosion of crop land dispensed sediment into nearby stream, field run-off. 3)      Municipal waste. Eg: household waste that run into water treatment plants.
Conclusion	Industrial, Agricultural and municipal waste are main source of water pollution. So that, we need to take action to conserve water and protecting it from the pollutants.
Linkers/Sequence Connectors used	Then, on the other hand, instead of, nevertheless, so

          

        Water pollution also can be said that the water has been contaminated by foreign matter such as microorganism, chemicals, Industrial or other waste or sewage. The sources of pollution are includes from Industrial, agricultural and municipal waste. For Industrial waste are such oil spills, acid rain and waste from runoff from Industrial buildings and factories. The oil spills can caused long-term damage that spills millions gallons of its crude oil cargo into the ocean. Then, the acid rain which is the product of industries burning coal such as vehicles, cars and even from the factories affected the water. On the other hand, the oils, inorganic minerals and chemical compound pollute the water too. Instead of those, agricultural pollution when erosion of crop land dispenses sediments into nearby stream and a farmer activity that spread animal waste and fertilizer onto field are main caused water pollution. Nevertheless, municipal waste from household that run into water treatment plants made water pollute even worst. So we need to take an action to conserve water and protecting it from the pollutants.

**TASK 4: Introduction of a paragraph

Writing Process     

  There are 4 stages of writing process, which is:

Stage 1: Pre-write

Stage 2: Write the 1^st draft

Stage 3: Edit the 1^st draft

Stage 4: Write a final copy

Stage 1 (Pre-write)

Pre-write means coming up with an idea also known as free writing.

Ø  There are 2 steps here which is free writing (before editing) and free writing (after editing).

Ø  In here we jotting down – the ideas and inspiration

                                         -building on the idea

                                         -planning and structure

Ø  After that, we decide how to order those ideas with logical progression.

Stage 2 (write the 1^st draft)

Ø  Here we don’t think about word count, grammar, spelling, and punctuation.

Ø  We might revising the (after editing) free writing and decide to either remove whole sections, rewrite entire paragraph, or add in information which realized the reader will needs.

Ø  We will add, rearranging, removing, and replacing the idea.

Stage 3 (Edit the 1^st draft)   

Ø  This stage is close-up view of individual sentences and words.

Ø  We might check the paragraph for good form, organization, grammar, punctuation, spelling and etc.

Stage 4 (write a final copy)

Ø  We publishing of final work.