2nd Quater final Chelsea(4)-(4)Liverpool

Alex (right) celebrates his goal with fellow scorer Didier Drogba and Michael Ballack (©Getty Images)

Incredible finish
Six minutes later Liverpool's lead on the night was wiped out as Alex fired in a free-kick with immense power, and Chelsea seemed to have put the issue beyond doubt in the 76th minute when Drogba surged away and Reina could not do enough to keep out Lampard's side-footed shot. Eleven minutes from time Lucas's drive diverted in off Michael Essien and then Kuyt was allowed room to head in Albert Riera's cross. One more goal and Liverpool would be through but instead that went to Chelsea and the inspirational Lampard, the home side's joy tempered only by a second-half booking for Ashley Cole, meaning he will be suspended for the first leg at Barcelona on 28

Task 6-BLOG QUESTIONNAIRE-SKBP 1023

1. Do you enjoy blogging?
Yes I’m really enjoying blogging. It is because I can give my own opinion and sharing information with others. For example, I can share my favorite football club with others even though there is some people did not like it. (Do you agree with me Sheela??)hihihi

2. Based on your experience what is the benefit of blogging?
Based in my experience, blogging can help bloggers improve their writing skills. Other than that, the writer can be more confident with their writing or giving opinion and let the others read it. I can also share anything with other blogger and communicate with each other. For example, in the chat box corner, the visitors can contact with others or give comment about the blog and those comments then become part of the knowledge shared in the blog.

3. Do you need more assistance to set up your blog?
Yes, I need an assistance to help me set up my blog. For the first time I need someone to teach me how to create a blog account and the layout of the blog. Then, all the setting things and posting, I do it myself.

4. Do you have any memorable/favorite topic in your blog?
Yes. I think all of my group members know my favorite topic. The topic is about the conference at PNB Hotel. The most I remember on that day is the varieties of food and it is hard for me to choose what I want to eat first. This is the most difficult decision that I have to make.

5. List 5 advantages of blogging for you
• blogs allow for a give-and-take
• can give our own opinion
• improve my writing skills
• improve the proficiency level of blogging
• keep track of information about anything that I want to know

6. List 5 disadvantages of blogging
• many blogs are filled with false information
• blog are easy to start and hard to maintain
• Need to keep it constantly updated otherwise you lose potential readers
• Hard to finding the best content among all
• it might take some time to get used to it

7. Will you continue blogging after the course?
Yes because I really enjoy blogging and I can keep improve many things about me.

8. Do you think that blogging improve your writing?
• Yes

9. .Do you think that we should continue with blogging activity for the next batch of students?
• Yes

10. Will you recommend your friend to blog?
• Yes

11. Can you teach a friend to set up his or her blog?
• Yes

UEFA Quater-finals

Quarter-finals - 08 April 2009 - Anfield - Liverpool - England
LIVERPOOL (3)- (1) CHELSEA

Branislav Ivanović is engulfed after equalizing for Chelsea


Didier Drogba's excellent performance is rewarded with a goal

Task 5-Concordance

Hye everyone,
This is the 5th posting for the assignment in this course. For this posting I need to find to articles about concordance and its application in language learning. What benefit concordance will give to language learners?
Firstly, we must understand what concordance is. According from the information that I got in during the lecture, concordance is a list of words in a piece of text or a collection of texts (usually referred to as a corpus). It is also an alphabetical index of the principle words in a book or the works of an author with their immediate context.
The concordance is used for:
▫ comparing different usages of the same word
▫ analyzing keywords
▫ analyzing word frequencies
▫ creating indexes and word lists
From my reading on the article, a concordance is a simple program which allows searching of large text file for words or phrase. It helps determine the appropriate circumstances of use for a word, phrase or construction.


http://www.athel.com/teach3.html

http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/conference/papers/Cobb%20-%20Giving%20learners%20something%20to%20do%20with%20concordance%20output.htm


Concordance is being used in many courses for example in language teaching and learning, data mining, literary and linguistic scholarship, and etc.

The concordance gives lots of benefits especially for language learner and teacher. It enables learners to access a piece of text non-sequentially or to study the ways in which it uses language. Concordances are not only used for literary purposes, but also as cross-reference systems for computer programmers, which enable teams of programmers working together to keep track of all references to, for example, a variable name, across all the files which make up a project.

UEFA

UEFA General Secretary David Taylor displays a ballot paper carrying the name of Chelsea FC during the draw for the quarter-finals soccer matches of the Champions League at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon March 20, 2009. The quarter-finals will be played April 7 and 8 and the return legs on April.14 and 15, the semi-finals will be played April 28 and 29, the second legs to be staged May 5 and 6, the final is to be played May 29, 2009 at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome.
REUTERS/Denis Balibouse (SWITZERLAND SPORT SOCCER)

task 4-Seminar kebangsaan E-Kom

hye everybody,
This is the 4th posting for the assignment. First of all, thanks to Datin for invite me and my entire friend in group 1 to the PNB Hotel, Darby Park. The conference held on 18-19 Mac 2009. The conference is about the development of ICT among people in rural areas. The topic for this conference is “Merapatkan Jurang Digital”.
There is a lot of intellectual attend the conference. So,i gain a lot of knowledge there. There are several information that i want to share with all.





This topic was presented by a woman from Uitm Penang. It is about the problem among our society on writing.
What is writing apprehension?
Apprehensive writers basically have:
• Negative attitude and perception towards writing-anxiety, fear and worry.
• Perceive writing as a very difficult task-hard to express and elaborate thought and ideas
• Very prejudice toward their own writing performance-believe that they will receive a bad responses and comments from the teacher.
There are several symptoms for the apprehensive writers:
• Hands cramp
• Hate writing
• Mental blocking problem
• Produced shorter essays
• Ideas hardly develop
• Scared to write.
These are happen because of several factors:
• Culture-face saving
• Proficiency level
• Lack of confidence
• Lack role model
• Teachers comment
• Examination





There is also has the information about the student nowadays:
Today Student-Generation Y
Survey of 7705 college student in the U.S published in:
Connecting to the Net Generation: What higher Professional needs to know about: Today Students by Reynal Junco and Jeanna Mastrodicasa (2007)
• 97% own a computer
• 94% own a cell phone
• 76% use instant messaging
• 15% of Im users are logged on 24 hours a day/and 7 day a week
• 34% use website as their primary source of news
• 28% own a blog and 44% read blogs
• 49% download music using peer to peer file sharing
• 75% of student have myspace or other social networking account
• 60% own some type of portable music and/or video device such as iPod