HOLI CELEBRATION

       Malaysian celebrated the Holi festival on the 23 march 2014 at the Shree Lakshmi Narayan Temple, Kuala Lumpur. This event personnel organizer by #SDSHOLI. Holi celebration knows as celebration of colour. Holi is celebrated to usher the spring season with the brightest and liveliest colours. When entered the event, their got registration to ensure the medium level of security. For media their got a small briefing about how the event is conducted so that their can pictures it very well.

The event started with praying to Lord Krishna. Then, when the song started it means Holi started. All people start to pouring colours to our face to celebrate this event. There are using bright colour such as pink, orange, green, blue and yellow. When there are pouring colours to you while saying ‘happy holi’. The event got cooler when their started to pouring water with colour. Besides, The MC conducts and controls the event very well.

        In Malaysia, we have celebrated Holi since the earliest days our fore-fathers set foot in this country. For over 5 decades, it is a celebration that has brought together every person in the community, young and old, friends and relatives, all on a occasion where everyone is equal. It is time to share our affection with our dear brothers, sisters, friends, and relatives, and form bonds within the community as colourful as holi itself .

THE TOP TEN REQUIREMENTS FOR BEING GOOD TEACHING

    Passion as it is about reason. It’s about not only motivating students to learn, but teaching them how to learn, and doing so in a manner that is relevant, meaningful, and memorable. It’s about caring for your craft, having a passion for it, and conveying that passion to everyone, most importantly to your students.

   Substance and training students as consumers of knowledge. It’s about doing your best to keep on top of your field, reading sources, inside and outside of your areas of expertise, and being at the leading edge as often as possible. But knowledge is not confined to scholarly journals. Good teaching is also about bridging the gap between theory and practice. It’s about leaving the ivory tower and immersing oneself in the field, talking to, consulting with, and assisting practitioners, and liaising with their communities.

  Listening, questioning, being responsive, and remembering that each student and class is different. It’s about eliciting responses and developing the oral communication skills of the quiet students. It’s about pushing students to excel; at the same time, it’s about being human, respecting others, and being professional at all times.

  FLEXIBLE not always having a fixed agenda and being rigid, but being flexible, fluid, experimenting, and having the confidence to react and adjust to changing circumstances. It’s about getting only 10 percent of what you wanted to do in a class done and still feeling good. It’s about deviating from the course syllabus or lecture schedule easily when there is more and better learning elsewhere. Good teaching is about the creative balance between being an authoritarian dictator on the one hand and a pushover on the other. Good teachers migrate between these poles at all times, depending on the circumstances. They know where they need to be and when.

Style should good teaching be entertaining? You bet! Does this mean that it lacks in substance? Not a chance! Effective teaching is not about being locked with both hands glued to a podium or having your eyes fixated on a slide projector while you drone on. Good teachers work the room and every student in it. They realize that they are conductors and the class is their orchestra. All students play different instruments and at varying proficiencies. A teacher’s job is to develop skills and make these instruments come to life as a coherent whole to make music.

  Humor this is very important. It’s about being self-deprecating and not taking yourself too seriously. It’s often about making innocuous jokes, mostly at your own expense, so that the ice breaks and students learn in a more relaxed atmosphere where you, like them, are human with your own share of faults and shortcomings.

  Caring, nurturing, and developing minds and talents. It’s about devoting time, often invisible, to every student. It’s also about the thankless hours of grading, designing or redesigning courses, and preparing materials to further enhance instruction.

  Strong and visionary leadership, and very tangible instructional support resources, personnel, and funds. Good teaching is continually reinforced by an overarching vision that transcends the entire organization from full professors to part-time instructors and is reflected in what is said, but more importantly by what is done.

Mentoring between senior and junior faculty, teamwork, and being recognized and promoted by one’s peers. Effective teaching should also be rewarded, and poor teaching needs to be remediated through training and development programs.

  Having fun, experiencing pleasure and intrinsic rewards…like locking eyes with a student in the back row and seeing the synapses and neurons connecting, thoughts being formed, the person becoming better, and a smile cracking across a face as learning all of a sudden happens. It’s about the former student who says your course changed her life. It’s about another telling you that your course was the best one he’s ever taken. Good teachers practice their craft not for the money or because they have to, but because they truly enjoy it and because they want to. Good teachers couldn't imagine doing anything else.

5 WAYS UNCONVENTIONAL WAYS TO BECOME A BETTER WRITER

1. Skip sections

I’m one of those people who feels bad if I miss anything (sometimes known as ‘fear of missing out‘). When it comes to reading, I definitely feel this. If something further ahead catches my eye, I can’t keep reading until I go back and catch up on the parts I missed. I’ve actually realized recently that there is a kind of freedom in giving up that feeling of needing to see everything. Sometimes, it’s okay to skip parts.  One of the benefits of skipping over sections is that you’re not overloading your brain with irrelevant information, so the info that is going in can be processed more easily. Hopefully, this method can help us to remember more of what we read!

 

2. Quit altogether

The older I get, the more I’m becoming a fan of quitting. Not for the sake of it, of course, but when continuing on doesn’t have enough (or any) benefits, sometimes pulling out is the best option. To speak without shame about books we haven’t read, we would thus do well to free ourselves of the oppressive image of cultural literacy without gaps, as transmitted and imposed by family and school, for we can strive toward this image for a lifetime without ever managing to coincide with it. If we really respect our time, let’s spend it on things we enjoy and reading that has long-term benefits for us.

3. Read things you hadn’t thought about reading

Read, read, and read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it.

It’s really easy to get into a habit of doing the same things over and over—this is even true of our reading habits. Once we choose a genre, an author or a topic we like, it’s too easy to keep reading those same things.

If you’re stuck in a reading rut like me, try pushing yourself to try a new genre or writing style now and then. There was a time in my life when I read voraciously, and then again times when work did not permit me to take a single book in my hand, apart from professional literature. That was a shame. Here in recent months I have been reading a lot, even books which probably would not interest me outside, but it is a big and important task to read everything valuable, or at least much that is.

 

4. Walk away and take notes

I came across this post by Shane Parrish recently that explains a trick to getting more out of the books you read. Essentially, it’s a matter of taking regular breaks to make notes on what you’ve read. This helps you to test your comprehension and give your brain a chance to assimilate the information before you continue reading.

 

5. Fight back

We love to share our recreational activities. We love to have an opinion on everything, including what we read. This is a great thing. If what you read makes you angry, or sad, or frustrated, or whatever—use that. If you want to rant against the author’s premise or post a rebuttal to their argument, go for it. This will make your brain work really hard, as you analyze their ideas and form your own in response. This is an important step to take if you want to move from being in motion to taking action—putting pen to paper is the first step.

HOW TO BECOME A GOOD SINGER WITHOUT LESSONS

1.      Find your vocal range

Using a piano, females start at middle G and see if you can match it. For males, start 1 octave lower than middle G. go down until you hit your lowest note, then go up until you hit your highest. Find your range.

 

2.      Now that you know your voice range, go through every note and try to match it with a long even tone.

Make sure when holding out a note to not damage your vocal cords. Be sure to have a glass or bottle of water with you just in case.

 

3.      Find a song in your range

Study it about 10 minutes then sing it.  Just sing ‘Do, do, do or La, la, la’ a good one to start with is ‘Chopsticks’. If you don’t know to play sing it along an online video.

 

4.      Add any kind of melody to your voice.

Make it unique and your style. Before adding melody do not teach yourself how to sing vibrato.

 

5.      Repeat steps 3 and 4 for whatever song you like in your range.

Find the lyric make up your own song. 

HOW TO SPEAK ENGLISH

Part 1: Getting the basics down

·         Start simple such as hello, Hi, and how are you?

·         Practice conversations such as what are doing?

 

Part 2: Getting familiar with the grammar

·         Start with present tenses such as breakfast at 8am

·         Move to the past and future tenses. Such as I saw that movie last week.

 

Part 3: Maintaining progress

·         Label everything. Such as where is my blanket?

·         Keep an eye on your pronunciation. Stressed the first syllable by using ‘BED-room’, ‘BATH-room’.

·         Pick a dialect such as British English.

 

Part 4: Using your Resources

·         Get a good dictionary

·         Speak in English with native speakers

·         Use internet

·         Watch television, listen to song and read books.

·         Think in English

HOW TO LEARN ENGLISH

Part 1: Improving your spoken English

·         Speak little English every day.

·         Don’t wait until you ‘feel more comfortable’ speaking in English.

·         Find native English speaker who is willing to spend some time speaking English.

·         Work on your pronunciation.

·         Correct, clear pronunciation is essential.

·         Pay particular attention to any sound that you are unfamiliar.

·         Be aware that the pronunciation of certain English word.

·         Expand your vocabulary and use idiomatic phrases.

·         Learnt new phase every day and make it sentence.

·         Attend an English class or discussion group

 

Part 2: Improving your writing, Reading and Listening Skills

·         Listen to English radio.

·         Watch English movies and TV shows.

·         Read an English book, newspaper or magazine.

·           Keep diary in English

·         Find the English speaking pen-pal

 

Part 3: Committing To Your New Language

·         Stay motivated

·         Practice everyday

·         Train yourself to think in English

·         Make friends with English speakers

·         Don’t be afraid to make mistakes.

 

 

 

 

TIPS FOR TO SCORE IN MUET READING EXAMINATION

The weightage for this paper is 40 %.

1.     Read

-              Read everything but with a notepad in hand

-              Copy down words which you don’t

2.     Read quality materials

-              Read articles that are published by reliable sources such as: Reader’s Digest, TIME Magazine.

-              Articles used in the exams are usually from these types of source

-              Keep yourself updated on current issues by reading newspapers (Example: The STAR, New Straits Times, The Edge)
 

3.     Use your time wisely!

-              You only have 1.5 hours to answer 45 exam questions

-              ALWAYS read the question first, and underline the keywords

-              Make sure you don’t just skip through the text but scan for specific information
 

4.     Know your vocabulary

-              There will be 6 texts altogether in the exam paper, and the first one always has a non-linear stimuli (Example: graph, chart or diagram)

-              You will need the relevant vocabulary knowledge to describe the trend(s) shown in the given diagram(s)

-              This is also a useful practice for report writing as it deals with the same language functions
 

5.     DON’T ACT SMART!

-              For some questions, you will be asked to ‘infer’ or make intelligent assumptions based on the given evidences in the texts

-              For ‘True/False/Not Stated’ questions, NEVER use your own opinions to answer because what is logical to you may not be academically correct

-              My tip to you is that you should underline the evidence(s) in the texts

-              For ‘True’, you must be able to identify proof that shows that the statement is correct

-              You should also underline evidences that prove a statement to be wrong in order to choose ‘False’ as your answer

-              For ‘Not Stated’, you will find that it is almost impossible to underlineany evidence at all. Hence, these are the fundamental differences between the answer selections ‘True/False/Not Stated’
 

6.     Train your brain

-              Guessing the meaning of a vocabulary can be quite tricky especially when you don’t have the access to a dictionary or the internet (Google.com) during your exam. Hence, you need to train your brain to assess the root word

-              Focus on the prefix/suffix in order to identify the meaning

-              If you think the word is a positive, negative or neutral one – reconfirm again by looking at the context of the texts for clues to support your assumption

-              Review the answers and options given by eliminating the answer that is most unlikely to be correct before making a calculated guess

7.     Assess the writer’s intentions

-              The MUET level comprehension questions do not focus on content alone

-              Instead, the questions given require candidates to assess the writer’s:

Purpose

-              Example: to inform, discuss, argue, compare, persuade…etc.

Style of writing

-              Example: describing, comparing and contrasting, giving examples, explaining causes and effects, sequencing events…etc.

Tone

-              Example: supportive, opposing, indifferent, neutral, biased…etc.

8.    Assess the articles as a whole

-              Sometimes you may be asked to give a suitable title to an article

-              Or to summarize a specific paragraph

-              Or to come up with a suitable conclusion based on the options given. This clearly requires critical thinking skills or HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills) from you

9.     Keep practicing!

-              Essentially, nothing beats practice and more practice

-              Buy good quality reference books such as Longman or Oxford model tests/actual exam workbooks and try doing each reading paper 3 times

-              First attempt: do it as if you’re sitting for the real exam. Do not refer to any workbooks or dictionaries

-              Second attempt: allow yourself to refer to books, and discuss with your friends if you need to (and if you are doing it as a group) before marking both attempts

-              Note: Your 2^nd attempt should score better than your first.

-              Third attempt: Try doing the same set of exam paper again after 2-3 months to see if you are able to retain the knowledge of vocabulary and concepts which you have learned before.

10.  Grade yourself

-              Here’s a useful guide for you to follow when you attempt the exam questions so that you can know where you stand

-              You will need to score:

-              21/45 – Band 3

-              27/45 – Band 4

-              33/45 – Band 5

-              39/45 – Band 6

-              Reading is the MOST important MUET paper as it carries 40% or 120/300 marks