Week 9

To make the learning style become more interesting, Miss Syida had conducted role play activity during two hour class on Friday. It’s really fun because all students are given a chance to choose the way of presenting their topic, such as by role play, poem or choral speaking. During the session, it begins with male group which consist of Muaz and his other members. They had been given a topic in the reading title ‘Drugs or Guns’ and they use role play as a medium to deliver their topic. It quite interesting when they make the scene likely at mamak stalls and at the same time they use their creativity to include about the drugs or guns topic in their role play.

As for our group, the title that delivers by our group is about ‘Out of puff’ where we used poem as a medium to present on the topic. Therefore, we used our own understanding and not too rely with the reading, as we wanted to make it more interesting and fun. For example, we used the sentence ‘like a full variety bucket of KFC’, to show variety of danger that we gain by just one puff of cigarette. Everyone knew that KFC had variety of food in their bucket meal such as marsh potato, coleslaw, bun and chicken and people are really attracted with the food. Same goes with cigarette, as it contain variety of dangerous ingredient like tar and nicotine. On the other hand, cigarette bring negative effect because it contain a lot of dangerous.

Week 8

During this week learning, Miss Syida had asked us to make 10 elements on the next reading. We also had been divided to certain group to make the task more easily done. Therefore, when doing the job in a group, the task is managing well. It can be said that the article is quite confusing to understand. In addition, we had been exposed to the new chapter of our study which is ‘Invasion of the Baby Snatcher’, which is the article from the Time Magazine date August 2006 and written by Walter Kirn. At first, when I first look through the title, what’s came in my mind is about the abduction of children and also toddlers. However, my expectation quite differs from the true meaning of the article itself. I totally misunderstood about the message that tries to deliver by the writer. It is actually about the role of mass media to overcome the problem of children abduction. On the other hand, the media seem interested on the issue of child abduction and always find news on the issue. It can be seen through the statement by the writer which is “What, no kidnapped kids today? Well, find some!
By this statement, it showed the eagerness of the people in media field to have kidnapped cases, as they believe it will increase the rating of their company. There is other thing that needs to consider by those in media rather than to make stories of kidnapping where no solution is provided. They should focus on more important issue like children that is abused by their parents and also or abandoned by their own parents. This should be the main focus of the media, rather than used hot stuff stories, as the way to increase their rating. Overall, the writer condemned the media people because the media seems facing the problem of having the issue of double standard in reporting news.

WEEK 7
This week Miss Syida had explained us with one of the article from Reader’s Digest which consist in the reading book. Therefore, the title of this week subject is Australia’s Methadone Mess. It had been written by Mc Mahon, Siobhan in page 19-25 on May 1998. It reflected on the using of methadone among the heroin addicts since 1985. The use of graph in the article as visual aids is really being helpful because it can make me understand the whole article more deeply. If it just depend on the article itself, the article is quite hard to understand. In addition, the article also put statistic figure to make the reader convinced with the point that deliver by them. This article could be categorized as critical subject, as we need to understand the article further and also the high lexis of some word also make it difficult to achieve the goal of understanding the article. It also purposes to educate the reader on the effect of addicted to ‘heroine’.
Journal 8