Class 2: English for Early Childhood Professional
Posted on | June 16, 2008 | 1 Comment
There’s a debate in class saying that this English is too difficult for the children, it’s more for the adults. Well, everyone thinks that we should be studying English that is meant to be used to teach the children not us. However, if you see the subject name carefully, it’s for the professional; it’s not named English for Young Children like other subjects such as Mathematics for Young Children. You get what I mean? There’s nothing wrong with the subject. As a professional, you should know proper English, I’m sure you don’t want the parents reading or hearing remarks with lots of grammatical mistakes here and there from you about their children, it will affect your credibility as a childhood professional.
The second class was enough to make me confused 
We’re learning the noun clauses. All those grammatical rules are making me so blur hahaha… Frankly, I was trying quite hard in the class to digest all these things. Now I really regret that I never made an effort to remember all these rules back then in school hahaha…
A noun clause is a dependent clause that functions as a noun. It needs to be connected with an independent clause(aka introductory clause) to form a complex sentence. There are 3 types:
- that clause
e.g. The bulletine states that science courses required a laboratory period. - Wh- clause (Where, Who, When, What, whatever, wheneverm which, how etc.)
e.g. I do not know where is the cafetaria located. - if/whether clause
e.g. I’m not sure whether or not this measurement is correct.
Basically this is the summary. I’m so lazy to elaborate Next we proceeded to Academic Writing. We were taught how to write essays! Feeling like you are going back to study for you PMR, SPM or in your English tuition class. I’ll just list out the steps:
- Prewriting:
Brainstorming – think about all the things you can think of from the topic
Listing – list everything you’re thinking out
Clustering – group those related together - Planning – Plan your paragraph with thesis statement, then add on with supporting statement.
be sure that, one paragraph only discuss one topic. - Writing draft – Start making them in sentences.
- Revising draft – Check the mistakes such as spellings, grammars and so on.
- Final copy
Done! Compose this post for 2 days That’s because I don’t remember much on what I was taught because of all those grammar rules *blur* I had to revise everything all over again -.-”
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