Friday, 8 August 2008

Friday's exercise on Steve's blog

I am improving my poor logic of my essay's style by rewrite this topic in my own language based on note-taking. I hope it will be helpful for my final assignment.

The impact/ importance of education

1. Education teaches literacy + numeracy.
2. Literate people - trained for many roles:
· Industrial sector
· Service sectors
3. Literate people - learn - themselves.
4. Simple economies (agriculture) – educate women = dramatic improvements - family welfare
5. Developed countries need more skills
· Languages
· Engineering
· Computing
6. Good education: not passive.
7. Good education skills, people ask questions, make improvements.
8. University education: research technical advances + social advances

Literacy and numeracy are the basic background of education and very necessary for everyone’s life. What benefits education brings to us is to learn ourselves and to provide us with both simple and complex skills. With these simple skills trained from education could help us building our family's welfare, working in industrial or sevice sectors in developing country whose economy is mainly based on agriculture. Even in developed countries such as United Stated, United Kingdom, Japan we can still meet the higher requirements of languages, computer skill, negotiating skill, engineering. Good education seems to literate us the way of thinking logically, actively to obtain improvement considerably. On the one hand, university education connected to research technical and social advances push us in progress.

Enrich vocabulary

I found this website by mistake when i try to make my essay more academic after receiving Steave's feeback. We can find many synomymous words and know how to use them in different situation.
http://encarta.msn.com/thesaurus_/stricken.html
How to find synonymous word ?

my poor draft

‘The advantages of a “surveillance society” far outweigh the drawbacks’. to what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

The development of science and modern technology such as CCTV, DNA databases, biometrics has been leading to the trend of rising subtler criminals recently. The society with the minimum of crimes is probably happened when everything is supervised selectively and considerably. An ideal society is as “a world of surveillance” (Simon Davies, director of Privacy International). Surveillance society is absolutely monitored by a large number of cameras everywhere. Therefore some dangerous criminals will be very stricken because their sins is recorded every as an un refutable evidence. It is often said that the people obtain more benefit than drawback from a surveillance society. This essay will weigh up two aspects of a “surveillance society” to know whether it is really good for the people or not.

Many people complained how much inconvenience they feel under ten thousands of cameras installed in public place such as: on the street, in supermarket, in shop, in car park, in workplace...Nevertheless, we must recognise that the social evils, for example, car theft, burglary, assault, drug use, drunkenness, have been decreased significantly since the system of cameras is operated in public places. Moreover, it is very beneficial in favour of companies who want to monitor their employees from a far distance to eliminate wasted time, cut necessary cost to do business more efficiently.

Thursday, 7 August 2008

writing argument in a paragraph



1. The media shouldn't be allowed to follow the private lives of celebrities.
It is often said that the paparazzi are too intrusive when pursuing famous people fro front page photographs, and to a certain extent this is true. However, that brings a million dollars for media companies who know what the publicity is interested in celebrities. Everything about the private lives of celebrities will not be a secrect and will be disclosed without permition or consideration. It is clearly that the role, duty of media chouldn't be limited and out of the private lives of famous people.

2. The death penalty should be used to deal with murderers.
Some people consider that murderers should face capital punishment rather than imprisonment, and in some ways it may be possible to argue this case. However, the death penalty is not only the good solution for murderers because it is also related to human rights.

3. The police should take a tougher stance on dealing with youth crime.
It is generally agreed that youth crime is rising and that the police need to take action of some kind to tackle the problem. Neverthless, the police is not only the authorities who are responsible for youth crime. Their families seem to effect their children's thoughts, habits, education considerably.

4. Fast food should be banned in all school canteens.
A common viewpoint is that young people are eating an increasingly unhealthy diet and that schools chould therefore takemeasures such as banning junk food from their canteens menus. Whilst this may be a sensible idea in some ways, we should not forget that fast food are being sold in a number of shops, suppermarkets. Moreover, profit of some companies is based on producing fast food as the main commodity. To ban selling fast food must be considered carefully.

5. University education should be free for all.
It is widely believe that education is a universal right and that unversities should therefore be open to all those who wish to undertake higher education studies. On the other hand, government couldn't receive money free education in universities. Besides that, government must have a big budget to cover/spend on that kind of education. This is impossible in many developing countries which have a limited budget and heavy debts.

6. Politicians are not doing enough to tackle global warming.
Recent research that the planet is heating up at a faster than expected rate and there have been calls for politicians to do more to address the problem. We should, however, bear in mind that global warming is a big question for not only politicians but also for responsible authities. In order to solve this problem, it requires much time, a better long-term policy, closer cooperation from many authorities.

7. It is harder for women to succed in business than it is for men.
It is often argued that 'a glass ceiling' makes it more difficult for women to have the same opportunities and rewards in business as their male counterparts. This is maybe true in some ways, but there are a lot of social tasks which women often have to do besides doing business such as: cooking, washing, nurse her children..It means that women seem to have more works than man to concentrate in doing business effectively. because a sucessful businesswomen need to fulfil her responsiblity in both family and society. Therefore women seem to meet higher, harder requirements than man 's to suceed in business.

8. The dangers of the Internet are greater than the benefits it brings.
Although many people say that there are risks involved in using the Internet, we have to acknowledge the considerable its benefits. Firstly, Internet is a huge stock of information in every sectors, fields. The second benefit of internet is to broaden our mind, to know many kinds of people, to evaluate every situation in the life and then we can manage our lives better by the way we learn from Internet.

Tuesday, 5 August 2008

Relative clause: Which or what?



http://wwwedu.ge.ch/cptic/prospective/projets/anglais/exercises/relpron2.htm

1. She didn't know who had paid her, was extremely bizarre! (who)
2. Someone who had been to Red Square before told us the way to the main gate.
3. What I ought to do is find out whose handbag this is.
4. Peter, whose motorbike had broken down, met a man who managed to fix it.
5. The drawer in which he found the gun was the same one I had searched. (who)
6. Those who arrive late in class must stay afterwards to do the work they have missed. (what)
7. The dog which I bought was the same one which you saw the day you arrived.
8. That is the boy whose mother knows the man who repaired our heating system.
9. He is the one who asked me I gave the money to. (what)
10. The snow, had been falling all day, was what gave us trouble. (what)

My score just 73%. Those wrong answers left as you can see. Then i check and correct it.
1 which
5 which
6 which
9 which
10 was

After correcting it, i found that i couldn't know the difference between which and what. Any different?

prefix exercise



http://www.lapasserelle.com/lm/pagespeciales/prefixes.suffixes/eng.prfx.lit.mean1.html

I found something connected to prefix. It is formed from a simple words but have a different meanings. I did it by hint on website and now, i am doing it again to warm up my mind because i can't use hint again when i copy it in my blog.

  1. On the _water__ = afloat

  2. By _cause_ of = because

  3. In the __rear___ of = behind

  4. In lower __place___ = below

  5. By the __side___ of = beside

  6. To __make___ able = enable

  7. To make __large___ = enlarge

  8. To make __live___ = enliven

  9. To make ___rich___ = enrich

  10. To make ___beautiful___ = embellish

  11. To make __bold___ = embolden

  12. To __put___ power to = empower

  13. To __close__ in = enclose

  14. To ___put__ into danger = endanger

  15. To put on a __list___ = enlist



After i did twice, my score now is 12/15

Prefix exercise



http://admin.sfcc.edu/~jgraney/vocabulary/prefix_page.html
http://205.126.22.50/language/lessons/prefixes.html

1. Miyoko her shoes. (placed incorrectly)

2. My mother an old rocking chair. (finished again)

3. Jamie his jeans. (washed before)

4. The artist the orange paint. (applied again)

5. Father the furniture. (arranged again)

6. The guard the door. (opposite of locked)

7. The doctor the patient. (admitted again)

8. The pupil . (behaved incorrectly)

9. The workers must the bridge. (build again)

10. The person the check. (dated before)

I just get 5/10. Here is my right answer:
4 reapplied
5 rearranged

7 readmitted

8 misbehaved

10 predated

Unfortunately, i can't check with the wrong answers. Here they are:
1 misplaced
2 refinished
3
prewashed
6 unlocked
9 rebuild

I still don't know why they are wrong. Anyone help me?