Tuesday 17 May 2011

Focous skills

In lab class at 17 May, I chose to focous on Writing skills because I need to improve these skills for me . I read about  paragraph structure (task 3) which tolk about topic sentences . I knew from the strategy of writing the topic sentences do not come at the beginning of the paragraph . The paragraph should support thesis/statement/claim/ belief contained by provide evidence for it in the topic sentences .


Monday 16 May 2011

Library

Last week, I went with my mentors Mark and Sandra and my colleages in Lab class to Library to know the method of working in there . It was not the first time that I go to the library where I went to the Library with my friend who study at university . I knew in the first visiting by my friend on sections of the library and instructed me on the search methods for particular book by the computer that is located there .
When I went to the library last times, the acadmic atmosphere was fun and all students were engrossed in reading their subjects to prepare for their tests.
I felt so excited to study and the visit has given me motivation for strong start fo the study and to share these students their acadmic achievement .
When I arrived to the library, I tried to find the book which I selected from the cumputer but I did not find it . So I asked Mark about it where went us again to the shelf and looked for it . He has taught me how to find any book by class number, shelf number and code section .
I will go back to the library again to look for and borrow the book I was looking for .

Monday 9 May 2011

Cable theft 'caused over 6,000 hours of train delays'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13342162

In this report by Richard Scott '' Transport correspondent, BBC News '' , he mintioned about cable theft which 'caused over 6,000 hours of train delays' . He transfered on '' Network Rail '' which say '' the number of theft incidents in the 2010-11 financial year jumped by 52% to 995'' .
The couse for stealing the cable is to sell it to unscrupulous scrap yards, becouse it has high price of copper .
As a result, Northern, had 1,435 trains cancelled last year and had 983 hours of delays for passengers .
So The Association of Train Operating Companies can't protect every single kilometer ''
"So we try to put various tactical measures in various locations to try to apprehend them and prevent cable theft and
Small motion-activated cameras are being hidden amongst the stones, or ballast, along the tracks as well as in pipes or sleepers.
 ."  said Dyan Crowther, director of operational services at Network Rail that .

The police descovered that the causeof thefts is to fund drug or alcohol habits  rather than by organised crime.  So The British Transport Police thinks the issue is their second highest priority, after terrorism .

All of all , police
And the police are raising awareness of the problem with scrapyards and  the courts often hand out sentences of several years..

Tuesday 3 May 2011

My strengths in terms of my use of English are listening and writing but i want to improve them . I want to improve my academic writing skills to do a good article or essay and to write good research or coursework .

 Also I need to make conversation with foreign student to improve my speaking.

 In pre-sessional programme I would most like to improve all my skills in English especially writing and reading because I will use them alot.

I normally listen to the radio or watch television and read some stories or newspaper to improve my English .