Tuesday 11 October 2011

Clip One
Question:
1.    What is the meaning of carpe diem?
-       Carpe diem means Seize the day

2.    Is Mr. Keating’s style of teaching unusual? Give 2 examples.
-       Yes, because he is not classroom-oriented teacher. He created the situation where the picture their seniors can speak. Which then making the students feel that the picture really speak to them.

3.    What does fertilizing daffodils’ mean?
-       Fertilizing daffodils’ means dead person.

4.    Why does Mr. Keating ask them to refer to him as “O captain, my captain”??..
-       This is because Mr. Keating think that he is the leader in the class and this work is same with a captain ship.

Clip Two
Question:
1.    What is poetry, according to Mr. Keating?
-       Beauty, romance, love and anything.

2.    Is literature relevant? How?
-       Yes

3.    What is the purpose of education?
-        Education is everything something that can enhance knowledge and can improve the attitude of individual.

Thursday 6 October 2011

accents..








Task: find a video clip and search/detect the accent used....
Step: 1. video clip/ TV series/ film
          2. is it easy to understand? why?
          3. your own accent??


In this task, i choose video about fight master Silat in National Geografic channel.
In this video also, there are 2 accent,that is Malaysian and American accent. For me, this type of accent is easy to me understand because it have clear pronounciation. 
Beside that, if i talk maybe like more to Kalantaness English. So i must learn harder to improve my pronounciation.