#11 HOW ENVIRONMENT AFFECT OUR STUDY ?

When we talk about study, having a great place to spill out our ideas is the most important. The environment surrounds you will be the big factor for you to be able to retain information in order to apply it in our assessment or job. Here, there are several ways of environment that will give a great impact especially for us, students while study.

Firstly, the environment that surrounds with a soft music and refreshing breezy air would be the best place for students. As for example, songs from Yiruma, river flows in you and kiss the rain and from Bond, innocent should be used while we are studying as it can sooth and keep our mind calm. It will be easier for us to stay focus.

Plus, the lighting aspect should be considered too. It will be impossible for us to stay focus on our study and give our eyes a burdensome to read in a dim lighting. Adequate and appropriate lighting is a must for successful in studying. The lighting source should be even and consistent, no shadows and no glare. By using the fluorescent lights should be fine as from the past research it can help us to be calmer, steady and less distracted.

Moreover, be aware with your feelings. If you feel a little sleepy, don’t hesitate any time and quickly avoid the place which can make you more sleepy such as overstuffed arm chair and bed! Find another spot that comfortable but not too comfortable for you to resume back your study.

Furthermore, the clock will be the main problem and the worst enemy ever especially students. You will keep glancing and wondering “I have been study for 10 minutes only?’ or some children will think “oh my god, my favorites cartoon will start in a bit”. Every problem has its solutions. Use the clock wisely.  Before start doing your assessment, set the clock what time you plan to finish. With setting the clock, it will give us a little pressure to finish up our assessment or tasks.

To make it more fun, interesting and not dull, ask some acquaintances to join you during study. It will be super duper helpful as we can exchange our brilliant ideas with other friends and add up with new one. You must avoid wasting time with chit chat or without a clear direction for your study group. Paying a full commitment and concentration during discussion can drive us to achieve a flying color results with Allah’s wills.

In a nutshell, a great environment is important in order to embellish the effectiveness of our study skills.  

Till we meet again . Thank you :)

#10 STEPS TO IMPROVE OUR PRESENTATION SKILLS

 

Everyone in the world have their own way when talking whether it is fluent or stutter. Some people can control their nervousness when they have to talk in front of many people but majority of them out there fail to do it. They will simply sweating and shivering before they even begin to talk. The worst thing is   some of them will act like a crybaby.There are a few ways to bring our presentation skills to a higher stage. Here are some steps to improve our presentation skills.

First and foremost, you have to take a deep breath and keep calm. Have faith and high confidence level on how you want to deliver your presentation. It takes time and patience to enhance your skills as long as you try your hardest. Miracle is the other name of hard work.

Second, we should have a good body language with the audience so that we can attract them to watch our presentation. Make an eye contact with audience and put a big smile on your face to show them that you are not afraid. Even it is such a small thing, this way will help you to boost your confidence level up even though you are not that confident. It will simply ease your mind and calm your heart and make people to pay their attention to what you are presenting. If these still make you nervous, make an eye contact with just one person at a time. You also must keep your head up and your shoulder straight. Don't play with your hands or else you will look even more nervous. Use your hands gesture to express your point .

Beside of that, you must be able to laugh at yourself. If you made a little mistake, burst the laugh off and the crowd will laugh along with you. Do a multiple practice. This can help you to speak fluently but don't memorize it. Just pick up an important point to be delivered during your presentation. Memorizing word by word is obviously hard because if there is any interruption such as sudden question, we can simply lose our next word. This will make us more nervous or in the other word  is " our mind is blank".Make a cue card for you to hold when presenting your speech.It will help you to utter the word  smoothly and conviniently. Always practice in front of the mirror, even in the shower while you taking a bath and in front of your friends or your family members. 

Last but not least, you must sleep early at night before the presentation, so that  it will be easier for you to prepare yourself on the next  morning. Drink a lot of plain water a week before your presentation so that your voice projection will be great during the presentation. Arrive at the presentation hall early so that you can walk around the stage and make yourself comfortable with it. Try to do a little bit practice on the stage even though there is no audience yet .It is one of  the way for you to warm up your vocal chord before the real presentation start.

In conclusion, in order to develop our presentation skills, we must work harder and just have faith to  Him. As a Muslim, we should gather our hand and pray till the last and don’t forget to say Bismillah before we start our work to get His blessing. 

#9 HOW ENGLISH CAN BE APPLIED IN OUR DAILY LIFE ?

 Malaysians always think that English can’t be applied in our daily life, it is totally wrong because there’s so much way I applying it, not to mention in our daily life.

As for Malaysians, there are thousands way to apply the things that the teacher have thought you in class right? It should not be wasted. Firstly, you can try to speak in English with your parents and family members. Speak with confident even though you do not use formal or broken English and make sure that you speak with correct grammar. It does’t  a big matter or a big deal if the people around you will be laugh for your pronounciation as people nowadays actually envy or the other word to say is jealous for those people who try to speak in English . I don’t know why. We can also learn from  our mistakes that we did as a saying by Billie Joe Armstrong “making mistakes is a lot better that not doing anything”.

Secondly, you can also apply English when you went to grocery shop or the supermarket. You can make short conversation with the seller in English, don’t you? As you keep trying, you will be used to it as the time goes on and it will not be awkward to apply English with other people around you. Don’t be ashamed to use it is the key word to success.

Who said English is hard to be applied? As for students, you can also apply English with your teacher when asking them about question you didn’t understand. You also can have interaction with your classmates and friends in English.

Speaking and listening to English everyday will improve your skills in many aspects. You can also apply English when you’re listening songs. Listening to English songs while study under a shady tree gonna be interesting right. We can enhance our vocabulary and listen to the correct pronounciation  while listening to the singer’s accent.  Nowadays, there are a lot of English songs that you can listen to when you have a leisure time.

From our point of view, English also can be applied when you are watching televisions. You can watch movies, cartoons and show in English. That is how you applied English in a way that you didn’t even realize it.

Interesting facts, right?

In other opinion, you can also make friends using English. In this millennium, Social media use English as the method and is known as a language that connect people around the world.

As the technologies grows around, the gadget become more advance and social media become more important. As the result, more people will apply English in their daily life.

Hope it’ll guide us to apply English in our daily life.

See you in our next entry. 

Thank you J

#8 - SUMMARY OF CATCH US IF YOU CAN BY CATHERINE MACPHAIL

Rory is a young and strong lad who lived with his grandfather whom he called Granda. He lived with his Granda since his mother died due to heart broken after being left by Rory's father, Jeff McIntosh. Rory who was supposed to enjoy his childhood moment with his beloved friends willing to take a big and heavy responsibility to take care of his Granda. Rory accepts that responsibility with a great of gratitude and do not hesitate his duty towards Granda. His Granda who is senile and incapable in doing nothing always makes Rory to get into hot water. Even though  Granda always abandoned Rory with his carelessness , but still Rory love him so much .

Everyday, Rory will ensure that his Granda will take his medication according to Dr Nicol advices. Rory also will buy two hot pies at the nearby bakery for his Granda lunch. He also will make sure that Granda will attend all the hospital appointments arranged by Dr Nicol. Since Rory is too busy somehow to take a good care of his weak Granda, he could not manage to turn up during the football practice every evening as Granda could not be left for a long time or else something bad will be happen due to his forgetfulness.

Some of the incidents of Granda's forgetfulness are, every night, Rory will hide Granda's pipe as he always left it smoulder, putting his shoes in the fridge and the milk in the wardrobe and throw away Rory's homework in the rubbish chute.

Granda was admitted at the hospital due to excessive smoke inhalation. Granda had left the chip pan on and cause fire . Rory was very sad and sits behind his Granda hoping that his Granda will wake up . The authorities seems not sure the capability of Rory in taking care of his ailing ageing grandfather . They were separate without their willingness which lead Rory to plan a Great Escape. Rory was sent to the Castle Street, an orphanage and Granda was sent to Rachnadar, an old folks home.

Rory feel insecure in the Castle Street as he always have a great fight with a girl named Tess. Tess always makes Rory's day miserable. Plus, he really miss his Granda so much and lead him to escape from the Castle Street and went to Rachnadar. Rory know that his Granda was unhappy and dying there at the Rachnadar . There family bond are to tight and not easily unravel.

Almost 3 days Rory plan the Great Escape. He managed to run away with his Granda together. They felt so free. Rory does not anymore having a fight with Tess and Granda can spend his time with his beloved grandson.Luckily, his friend , Darren give Rory the spare key of his mother's caravan for them to take a nap.They had spend a happy moments together by doing some activities such as fishing and enjoying the nature that was the gift from God. They were laughing and chuckled as there was no one who unaware about them. Like heaven !

Rory receive a text message from Darren telling him that the authorities knew about their whereabouts. They began to resume the journey travelling here and there until Rory discovered themselves on TV, that he still he had a father ! Jeff McIntosh . These kind of news made up his mind to go to Liverpool to meet his biological father. Even though Granda still mad with his son action by leaving Rory's mother , but still he loves his son so much.

Travelling so far make Granda feel so weak and harden him to breathe . Rory put aside his plan to meet his Granda. Granda lost his conciousness during at the bus stop. Rory felt so shock when he touches his Granda's heart , there is no heartbeats ! Rory run and yelling for help . He was too scared to lost his Granda again . Granda was sent and admitted to the hospital again . The fate were arranged from God . He managed to meet a man, who was known as Jeff McIntosh which was his father !

Every cloud has a silver lining . After Granda had discharge from the hospital , Jeff McIntosh invite them to have a lunch with his new family. Now, Rory does not suffer any hardships anymore . Rory and Granda had make up their mind to move to Liverpool to stay closer to his father. Jeff McIntosh also will take all the responsibility that all this while abandon to his son, Rory.

THE END