English 2 - Assignment 4 (Research Paper)

This assignment is the last assignment for this subject and we have to do a 2500~3000 words research paper for this assignment. This assignment is a group assignment which we needed to formed a group with 4 members. So, I have formed a group with Cheong Siew Leong, Lee Yuan June and Kelvin Chiew. Then, our research topic is coffee shops, and we have to compare and contrast them in our research paper. Moreover, the coffee shops we have chosen for our research is the coffee shops from Penang and Pahang, and then we started to do the research about the coffee shops and working on the research paper. After we have done with our research paper, we also have to record a video for our presentation for the research paper. For the presentation, we are given a task for our topic, which is to speak about the social and economic roles of the traditional coffee shop in Malaysia. Our audience is comprised of a group of people from mixed ages and ethnic backgrounds who are here as part of UTAR’s free adult lifelong learning programme.  How will you try to interest them in your topic and persuade them? Which argumentative strategy will you use? Use samples from your research essay in this presentation. After we have recorded the videos, we burned it into a disk and submitted to our lecturer.

From this assignment, I have learned how to do a face to face research with the peoples. Also, I have improved my communication skills through this project because we need to ask the question and communicate with the peoples we wanted to do the research. Moreover, I have improved my presentation skill too via presenting our research. Lastly, I have perform a very good teamwork with my group members during the time we work on our research paper and presentation.

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English 2 - Class Assignment 3 (Debate)

In this assignment, we have to form a group with 2~3 member to work on this assignment. This assignment is about the debate skills of us. So, I have formed a group with my partner Lee Yuan June, and we got a topic for our debate which is Sabah and Sarawak deserve to get more from the federal government than what they are currently receiving, and we are against the topic that have given to us. For this topic, our opponent is Kabil Kumar, Preyashini Murugan and Melika, we performed our best during the debate.
From this assignment, I have improved my debate skill and able to do an effective research on the project. Also, I am able to give a very good teamwork with my partner and receive more understanding about our country.

English 2 - Assignment 2 (Compare and Contrast Essay)

This assignment is the second class assignment and this is an individual essay with not less than 800 words. In this assignment, we have to write an compare and contrast essay about the movie we have chosen for the essay, and the movie we can choose is only either historical movie or musical movie. Then, the type of movie I have chosen for my second individual essay is historical movie, and the 2 movie I have chosen is "300" and "Pearl Harbor". These two movie is a historical movie about war. So, I have compare the three differences of these 2 movies which is the differences of the reason of the war started, types of war and the setting from the movies.

From this assignment, I have improved my writing skills in essay and able to do a effective research on the project. Also, I have improved my knowledge about the history of the war.

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The movie "300"

The movie "Pearl Harbor"

English 2 - Class Assignment 1 (The Vegetables)

This assignment is the first class assignment from this subject, and this is an individual assignment which we need to write an essay with not less than 800 words. In this assignment, we are required to choose a type of vegetable and start to observe the vegetable that we have chosen, then, write an essay with not less than 800 words to explain your observation on your vegetable. Also, we need to observed our vegetable with our 5 sense which is taste, sight, hear, touch and smell. So, the vegetable that I have chosen is cucumber and I have observed it with my 5 sense.

From this assignment, I have improve my writing skill through this assignment. Also, I have learned how to observe on something and explain it accurately with my 5 sense.

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