EAP 140 AM - WANG, Lingshan - Week 2 4/4

          Today I have reviewed something about sentence patterns, there are five patterns that most English sentences conform to.  The first one is subject/verb/subject complement, the second one is subject/verb/direct object, the third one is subject/verb/indirect object/direct object, the fourth one is subject/verb/direct object/object complement, the last one is subject/verb.  

e.g.
1）This book was written by Zoe.
2）I want to go to beach and see some handsome boy.
3）She is the most famous movie star all around the world.

           Every sentence needs a subject, the subject of a sentence names who or talk about what the sentence is.  There are four different kinds of subject used in English sentence.  We named them the complete subject, the simple subject, understood subjects, and subject after the verb. 

e.g
1) The most important thing is finish your work first.   the complete subject 
2) I want to go.     the simple subject
3) [You] Please open the window.    understood subjects
4) Do you want to join the party with us?     subject after the verb

EAP 140 AM - WANG, Lingshan - Week 2 3/4

Today I learned something about academic writing connectors and basic essay structure.   Punctuation is very an important part of connectors.  I have learned three different kinds of connectors, the first one is "A, but B", the second one is "A because B", and the last one is "A; however, B".  We can't put no comma before and with a complete sentence. We cannot put comma before because. When we write our essay, we can't use connector   
verbs start our paragraph. We need to keep comma before and when it is used is a list.

e.g
I like watching movie, but my younger sister like playing video games.
I got a headache yesterday, still I go to school today.
I don't want to argue with you because I feel so tired.
Because I feel really tired, I don't want to argue with you.
He was still standing there and waiting for her; however, she would never come back.

EAP 140 AM - WANG, Lingshan - Week 2 2/4

We should make negative verb forms, and add not in the appropriate place. In some situations, we should add not after the verb.  For example, the verb is the simple present or past tense of be.  

e.g. 
She was not a good student when she was in school.
I was not feel very good when I saw her in the store.
He is not a bad boy.

We can use be, use, do or does with not before the base form of the verb in simple present-tense verbs.  For simple past-tense verbs, we should use did plus not before the base form of the verb.  

e.g.
I do not think I am wrong.
She does not realize her fault.
He did not go to school yesterday.

EAP 140 AM - WANG, Lingshan - Week 2 1/4

We named the words such as can, may, should,must, and shall modal verbs.  We also consider ought to is a modal verb.  When we want to show certainty, necessity, and possibility, we can use use modal verbs with base form verb. 

e.g
1) People can easily find the problem when they watching this film.
2) I must finish my homework before my parents come back.
3) We should protect environment instead of damage to the environment.

If you want to use a verb in the passive voice, you need to use a form of be with the past participle.  

e.g
1）This book was written by my friend Lisa.
      This sentence use simple past tense.
2）This building will be built in next year.
      This sentence use simple future tense.
3）This song is being played all the night.
      This sentence use present progressive tense.

EAP 140 AM - WANG, Lingshan - Week 1 2/2

          Today I reviewed something about verb tense.  There are four general verb tense, they are simple tenses, simple progressive forms, perfect tenses and perfect progressive forms.  Simple tenses usually use for general facts, such as Miss Li usually goes home by herself.  Here talks about a facts, so we just need to use simple present here.  Sometimes we want to talk about facts or states of being in the past, we also need to use simple tenses. For example, When my sister was young, she always played the doll which from my mom.  Sometimes people want to do some actions in the future or they want to promise something, we also can use simple tense, such as They will finish their homework before dinner.   We use will + base form here.

            Simple progressive forms are verbs tenses for continuing actions.  We can use am, is, and are add present participle to express some actions we do at the present time or some future action which we will do. For example, I am doing my blog job now, and I am going to find some picture for my blog.  For the past progressive, we just need to change the am, is and are to was and were, then add present participle.  We use this tense in two situations, the first one is an action happened at a specific time in the past and it in process; the second one is some things would be happened and they already had some plans, but they didn't happened.
e.g.
1) I was sleeping when she came back.
2) I was going to visit my friend in last summer, but I lost my job and didn't have extra money in last spring.

EAP 140 AM - WANG, Lingshan - Week 1 1/2

        I have reviewed something about verbs today.  The first thing we should do is use the appropriate verb form and tense.  There are five forms for every main verb, and these forms are used to create all of the verb tense in standard English.  The five forms are base form, past tense, past participle, present participle and -s form, and here are some examples about the five forms.

        For regular verb, such as walk, it's base form is walk, past tense is walked, past participle is walked, present participle is walking, -s form is walks.  For irregular verb, such as become, it's base form is become, past tense is became, past participle is become, present participle is becoming, -s form is becomes. For irregular verb, such as become, it's base form is become, past tense is became, past participle is become, present participle is becoming, -s form is becomes.

EAP 140 AM - WANG, Lingshan - Week 1 0/2

This is my first blog post.

EAP 140 PM - WANG, Lingshan - Week 9 4/4

         Finally I finish this course.  Today we have our final exam.  I felt afraid before the exam started, during the exam, I felt it's OK.   This exam not very difficult, but I don't  do very well.  I missed a lot of details and information in Listening Two.  I finish my essay and follow all the rules, but I don't think I express my points very clearly.
         Reading are not very difficult, but some information are not easy to find.  I think I finished readings better than the quizzes I did during this course.
         I think I can't pass this course.

EAP 140 PM - WANG, Lingshan - Week 9 3/4

    Tomorrow is the last day of this course, we will have our final exam of these course.

    I think this course is hard to me.  Four parts, listening, reading, speaking and writing, I didn't do well on them, especially the listening and writing.  I think I should do much more work to improve my English language skill.

    This course is not a easy course to pass.  If people want to pass this course, they must have enough English knowledge already and do lots of work to pass this course.  The other important things can help people pass this course are follow the rules and manage your time.

    Be an adult and take responsibility are two valuable things that I have learned from this course, they will help me a lot in my future study and life.
   
   

EAP 140 PM - WANG, Lingshan - Week 9 2/4

We can't omit the necessary words for grammatical or logical completeness.  To complete compound structures, we should add needed word.  We need to add the word that when there is some danger of misreading without it. If we want to make comparisons logical and complete, we must add words needed. We should add the article(a,an,and the) in necessary place for grammatical completeness.

e.g.The girl who stands under the tree is my girlfriend.
    Here who is needed word.
e.g. He said that she wouldn't back China in this year.
    We should add that here.
e.g. I have a basketball and play it.(wrong)
     I have a basketball and I like to play it.(right)
e.g I have apple in the bowl.(wrong)
    I have an apple in the bowl.(right)

EAP 140 PM - WANG, Lingshan - Week 9 1/4

We called an independent clause which in a sentence hasn't been joined in a right way is run-on sentence.   Independent clauses are word groups, so they can't stand along like sentences.  We should put two independent clauses in one sentence.  We have two ways to use, we can choose one of them. 1) with a comma and a coordinating conjunction(and,but,yet,so,or,for,nor). 2)with a semicolon(or occasionally with a colon or a dash).

e.g.
The girls played basketball, but the boys played tennis. 
I like apple,  but my father like pear.
I don't think I can get high score in this test, but I get a good mark.
I like eating fruits and drinking milk.

EAP 140 PM - WANG, Lingshan - Week 8 4/4

We should choose appropriate verb forms, tenses, and moods in standard English.
base form : I always play...
past tense : Last weekend I played...
past participle : I have been to park before.
present participle : I am playing computer games when he is sleeping.
-s form : He plays computer games everyday.

We should to choose standard English forms of irregular verbs.
e.g.I goes to school by bike.(wrong)
    I go to school by bike.(right)
    I have saw her clothes before.(wrong)
    I have seen her clothes before.(right)
We should distinguish among the forms of lie and lay.
e.g. Please don't lie to me.
     He lies on the bed.
     The ham lays an egg.
     The doctor told me to lay off for a week.