Saturday, 24 October 2009

Journal 2

I Allocated this week for the application of the above and presented in language learning plan and especially I will exercises to develop grammar speaking and pronunciation. In grammar my problem is irregular verb forms but in speaking and pronunciation I have some problems to distinguish between the letters (P) and the letter (b) when I pronounce the word and stress in the word. This journal will present problems and things that help me to solve these problems.

My biggest problem was in grammar because I did not know a lot of irregular verb forms. And that was problem because in each exam I must have wrong forms for irregular verb. Because of this I attempted in last week to memorized 3 irregular verbs etch day. To memorize these irregular verbs I used Oxford Practice Grammar book. Also, I put these irregular verbs that I memorized in sentences in my notebook. I will use this book again because it helped me to save irregular verbs in easy way. In addition, it is classified irregular verbs in easy way to make it easier for students to remember it.

First in speaking and pronunciation I will take about how to distinguish between the letters (P) and the letter (b) when I pronounce the word. These letters cause me embarrassment because I did not know how I pronounce them in properly way, and I did not no difference between them because they seemed no difference between them. To solve these problems I used many things. One of these things is English Production book. It helped me a lot because it has pictures that learned how we pronounce the letter. Moreover, it has a lot of example and exercises. That book learned me if I pronounce the letter (p) air will come out of the mouth but if I pronounce the letter (b) air will not come out of the mouth. I did not use websites that I posed in my LLP because I have some problem in internet.

The last problem was stress in the word. It is important to know where the place for stress in the words is. I used dictionary Oxford Word power to help me to know where the place of stress is. I have selected five words that I do not know where the place of stress is is and I use a dictionary to find out where the stress and this taught me how I pronounce the word in the right way.

In conclusion, last week I learned many things I learned some irregular verbs, how I distinguish between the letters (P) and the letter (b) when I pronounce the word and stress in the word. Also, those books help me a lot and I am sour that will use them again.

Saturday, 17 October 2009

Journal (1).

In this journal I want to talk about the plan to achieve the goals set by the grammar especially in other / another and present continuous. I feel that the problem I was having when I have a rave rules have been solved. I will show what problems that I have in those two grammar and how I solved it.

First of all, other /another are one of grammar that I feel confused when I have it in exam or anything else. In the first time I thought that other means a lot of things and anther means very different things. But I shocked when I opened this websites. It shows the correct meanings for these words. Moreover, before I opened this site I have always question “When I can use other? And When I can use anther?”First, this site shows me what is the different between other and anther. Other is an adjective meaning 'different'. Another expresses quantity, something extra or additional. The second step was that I must test myself to know if I understand or not. And this websites has some exercise that proved that I understand that grammar.

The second grammar was Present continuous. It is very difficult to me to understand in which time I must use present continuous. In the first time I was only use it when I have some things talk about something that happen now. When I opened this websites http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentcontinuous.html, and, Oxford Practice Grammar book. They proved that what I thought was correct but in some way. It is correct that we use present continuous to take about something happen now but also, we use it to indicate that something will or will not happen in the near future. Also, we use Present Continuous with words such as "always" or "constantly" expresses the idea that something irritating or shocking often happens. In this websites” www.eclecticenglish.com’’ I did some exercise that show that I have some progress in this grammar.

In conclusions, in last week I correct what I thought about other/another and present continuous. Also, I answered the question that I had. And I hope that I will not make any mistake in these grammars again. Also, I will use those websites again because I learned a lot of things.