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

           Tomorrow we will have our final exam, I feel a little bit nervous now, but I think I can handle it.  I am a repeat student in this course, and in this term I feel much better than last term.  I think in this this term the performance of mine is better than before, and I do something well in this term.  However, I still have some shortcomings, such as listening.   My listening skill doesn't improve too much in this term, actually it bad.  I try to find some ways to fix this problem, but seem it does not work.  I hope tomorrow I can try my best to get more points in the listening sections. 
            Another thing which makes me worried is grammar.  I still make a lot of grammar mistakes in my essay and my grammar homework which hurt my scores to some extent.  I think I will take more practices on grammar.
            Hope I can get enough scores to pass this course.  GOD BLESS ME.

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

      Today we learned something about how to make the reading exam questions.  To make the reading questions, first we reviewed the CAEL exams we did before, and generally the reading exam questions have four types, they are short answer question, multiple choice, table and matching.  Each of them have different types of forms, we should know these forms and answer these questions. I think it is a good way to get reading skill and improve our reading score because we can know what the exam maker wants to ask us.  I think we can use the same way to improve our listening skill. 
      

      

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

Today I still reviewed something about preposition.  The preposition at is used before a noun indicating the corner of something. The preposition in is used before a noun indicating an enclosed space.  The preposition on is used before an electronic medium.  The preposition at is used before a noun indicating the edge of something.  The preposition at is used before a noun indicating a target.  We should notice the use of preposition when we writing our essay.

e.g
1)  At the conner of this room, a little boy sits over there.
2)  In this house, there are three rooms with a toilet.
3)  He told me this story on cellphone.
4)  At the end of the garden, there is a river.
5)  I hit out at the boy because he always laugh at me.

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

Today I reviewed something about preposition.  The preposition at is used before a specific time. The preposition in is used before a geographic location. The preposition before a noun indicating the edge of something is at. The preposition before a noun indicating a target is at. The preposition in is used before a noun indicating an enclosed space.The preposition before a specific day is on. 

e.g.  
1）  My family will arrive at 10:30 a.m. in this Saturday.
2）  I find an bird in my house.
3）  My grandmother usually sits at the table and do some housework.
4）  At the end of the TV show, all the people have a happy ending.
5）  In the box, we find a letter from a girl who named Tina.
6）   I hope everything will be okay on my wedding day.
           
           
           

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

Today I reviewed something about how to use comparatives and superlatives with care.  In English, there are three different forms of most adjectives and adverbs, for example, high(the positive), higher(the comparative), and highest(the superlative).  Usually, we use use the comparative to compare two thing, and use the superlative to compare things which over two.

e.g.
1) I think this text book is more useful than the old one which we have used before.
"more useful" is a comparative, we use it here because we compare two different text book here.
2) He is the most naughty boy in the kindergarten.
"most naughty" is a superlative, we use it here because we compare many boys that over two in the kindergarden.

EAP 140 AM - WANG, Lingshan - Week 8 3/4

Today I reviewed something about how to use adverbs to modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs.  The adverbs which modify verbs or verbals, are almost always answer the question like When? Where? How? Why?  We should notice that sometimes we may use adjective

e.g.

1)  I will find a helpfully review to help me understand what this book means.
"Helpfully" is an adverb, but we should put an adjective here.  We should put "helpful" instead of "helpfully".

2)  We are very proud of our son's quickly reaction.
 "Quickly" is an adverb, but we should put an adjective here.  We should put "quick" instead of "quickly".

EAP 140 AM - WANG, Lingshan - Week 8 2/4

Today I reviewed something about object complement.  A direct object and completes its meaning are followed by an object complement.  When we use adjective functions as an object complement and they describe the direct object.  The verb, for instance, call, consider, create, find,keep and make are usually go with object complement.  

e.g.
1) You make me tired.
 "Me" here is an object, "tired" here is an adjective function use as an object complement which describe "me".
2) I found him painful.
 "Him" here is an object, "painful" here is an adjective function use as an object complement which describe "him".

EAP 140 AM - WANG, Lingshan - Week 8 1/4

Today I reviewed something about how to use adjectives to modify nouns.    The adjectives usually precede the nouns they modify, and they can also function as subject complements or object complements which follow the nouns they modify.  

Subject complements
     A linking verb and completes the meaning of the subjects are followed by a subject complement.  When we use adjective functions as subject complements, and the adjective functions describe the subjects.

e.g.
1)  This book is useless to me.
"book" here is a subject, "useless" here is an adjective use as a subject complement.
2)  Love is blind.
"love" here is a subject, "blind" here is an adjective use as a subject complement.

EAP 140 AM - WANG, Lingshan - Week 7 4/4

I read the Part 13 of Bedford today, and I noticed lots of meaningful grammar rules which need to be looked out.

Sometimes it is easy for me to ignore the consistency in personal pronouns. 

e.g.

1）We have many responsible teachers in our school, and the teachers give us the best education. 
You can develop your academic and creative thoughts in here.  In this sentence, we must be the only personal pronoun when you makes the meaning be confused.

In addition, using both indirect and direct questions in a sentence is wrong. 
e.g.
2)I am not sure whether Mike arrived home and, if he did, would he call me again?  
The second half of the sample cannot be a direct question, which can be changed as, whether he would call me again.

Usually, I do not know the right way to make verbs consistent, especially when there are more than two verbs.  
e.g.
3)Everyone finishes the homework, gives it to teachers, and gets the grades in at least two days.

EAP 140 AM - WANG, Lingshan - Week 7 3/4

I reviewed something about repair misplaced and dangling modifiers today.  First one is about limiting modifiers.  It is important to put the modifiers next to the words they modify. 

e.g.

1)He only lives with his grandparents when his parents are not at home.  

Actually, the clause is modified by only, so the sentence needs to be revised as:

He lives with his grandparents only when his parents are not at home.

It is necessary to put phrases and clauses in right positions because if not, readers will be confused about the meanings.  

e.g.

2)There are many bottles of famous singers who received the awards on the table.  The singers were not received the awards on the table, so it should be changed to:

On the table are many bottles of famous singers who received the awards.

In addition, making modifiers be clear to read is important.  

e.g.

3)After experimentalizing in the labs over and over again, Madame Curie found radium eventually.  
If Madame Curie was put in front of after, the sentence would be hard to read and understand.

EAP 140 AM - WANG, Lingshan - Week 7 2/4

We should add the article(a,an,and the) in where is necessary for grammatical completeness. 

e.g. 
    1) I bought an iphone and case yesterday. (wrong)

        I bought an iphone and a case  yesterday. (right)

     2)I need book which in the booklet. (wrong)

        I need the book which in the booklet. (right)

Although and but can't appear in one sentence at same time.  Because and so cannot appear in one sentence at same time.  If and so can't appear in one sentence at same time as well.

e.g. 
3)Although I finish my homework, but I can't play video game. (wrong)

  Although I finish my homework, I can't play video game. (right)
4)Because the weather is so bad, so I won't go outside today.(wrong)
   Because the weather is so bad, I won't go outside today. (right)