Saturday, September 5, 2009
Dearest 101,
For your assignment, you are supposed to read 2 passages.
"My father had to go to England last year on a lengthy business trip and he took my mother and me with him," said Devi.
"What was the highlight of your trip?" asked Menon.
"It was something unexpected, something i'd known nothing about before i went. Yes, i enjoyed visiting the sights of London, but it was Guy Fawkes Day that i remember most fondly."
"Whats that?"
"Mr. Smith, my father's business associate, explained to us that every year on 5th November, the English celebrate the day they found a terrorist who was planning to blow up the Houses of Parliament with everyone inside."
"I don't remember that on the news."
"No, you wouldn't have - it happened four hundred years ago, in 1605. Can you believe he had already put barrels of gunpowder in the cellars underneath the building? Mr. Smith took us to his daughter's primary school, where they held a model of this terrorist, Guy Fawkes. Then they lit the bonfire, and all the children cheered and were very excited."
"Didn't it feel rather hot?" asked Menon.
Record your own voice using "Sound Recorder" (start/program/acessories/entertainment) if you do not have it then you will have to download "Audicity" from: http://audacity.sourceforege.net/
If you are wondering why you were not given this homework on Friday, this is because while we were cleaning the class for the "N" levels (if im not wrong) we had found this on the teacher's desk and assumed that it was suppsoed to be given to us.
Have a nice day ahead and have a great holiday~!
PLEASE DO NOT FREAK ME OUT AND DONT MESSAGE ME !!! Okies? Okies. :D
But if you do not, i will call you. And im serious. Even if its 41 people. Okay? Okay.
If you think that your friend will not get the message or will forget or is just a plain SOTONG like me :D please call them to remind them ok? Thanks.
BTW. Sorry for the grandmother story. =P
and people... dont ever ever ever ever ever forget to do the homework.
AND MY BIRTHDAY :D lolx. hahaahahha. (thick skinned XD) 17th okay... for those pple
AND ONE MORE THING !!!! Congrats to those who had received the calling system message. Well done :D I would like to thank APRIL for that :D WOHHOOOOO !!!! and of course you for actually listening to me blabber WOOOHOOOO :D
Okies, untill i remember anything else i want to say. Tata :D Au revoir mon ami.
For your assignment, you are supposed to read 2 passages.
The passages and instructions:
Practice Reading the passages and record it when you are ready. Begin with: My name is ____ from Sec ___Passage one:
"My father had to go to England last year on a lengthy business trip and he took my mother and me with him," said Devi.
"What was the highlight of your trip?" asked Menon.
"It was something unexpected, something i'd known nothing about before i went. Yes, i enjoyed visiting the sights of London, but it was Guy Fawkes Day that i remember most fondly."
"Whats that?"
"Mr. Smith, my father's business associate, explained to us that every year on 5th November, the English celebrate the day they found a terrorist who was planning to blow up the Houses of Parliament with everyone inside."
"I don't remember that on the news."
"No, you wouldn't have - it happened four hundred years ago, in 1605. Can you believe he had already put barrels of gunpowder in the cellars underneath the building? Mr. Smith took us to his daughter's primary school, where they held a model of this terrorist, Guy Fawkes. Then they lit the bonfire, and all the children cheered and were very excited."
"Didn't it feel rather hot?" asked Menon.
"Oh, no. It was a chilly night and we all wore coats and gloves. The children were given warm fruit juice while the adults had what they called "punch" which had some alcohol in it, if i'n not mistaken. The food was delicious as they had a barbacue. We has sausages - and they tasted good! i think i polished off three large ones."
Passage 2:
In this passage, a group of women talk about their families' achievements.
//"Did you hear about my nephew Tony's results?" said Mrs Chan, as she handed round coffee to the women sitting on the sofa. "He qualified with a first class degree and got the highest marks of anyone in his year."
//"That reminds me," said Mrs. Tiny, "our Mary is now a Doctor of Law at Kingston University. She wrote to tell me that her husband has just been promoted to Chairman of Canning's Bank too. They..."
//"Biscuits anyone?" interrupted Mrs. Chan. "I got the recipe from that free magazine at the supermarket."
//"Susan's youngest has won a music scholarship," chipped in Mrs Low, who had been waiting for a lull in the conversation to tell her news. "Susan say she doesn't know where she is going to find time to listen to him practice now that Peter is tennis champion. There isn't the room in the house for all the cups Peter's won."
//The ladies sat for a moment contemplating the achievements of their children and grandchildren.
//"How is your scientific work, Molly?" said Mrs. Chan, so suddenly remembering Molly, her cousin, who had been listening carefully but had contributed nothing so far.
//Molly looked mischeviously at their eager faces.
//"I am working on a project called Baby Brains" said Molly, who was doing nothing of the sort. "I'm developing techniques to bosst a baby's brain power while it's still in the womb to encourage Alert Baby Syndrome."
How to hand in you work:
Record your own voice using "Sound Recorder" (start/program/acessories/entertainment) if you do not have it then you will have to download "Audicity" from: http://audacity.sourceforege.net/
You will need a microphone headset if your computer/laptop doesnt have a built in microphone. Click on the record button and begin recording your voice or reading. Click to save you reading to a file. Name the file using you name and class eg: WenFeng_101.wav. Remember where you saved this file.
Use Xmoogle to upload your reading practice. To do this, log on. You should see a button called "reading practice" Click on it and you will see a new screen. Click on browse and select the file you want to upload (your reading) Then click "Upload this file".
When it is done uploading, you should see the name of your file displayed.
If you are wondering why you were not given this homework on Friday, this is because while we were cleaning the class for the "N" levels (if im not wrong) we had found this on the teacher's desk and assumed that it was suppsoed to be given to us.
Have a nice day ahead and have a great holiday~!
PLEASE DO NOT FREAK ME OUT AND DONT MESSAGE ME !!! Okies? Okies. :D
But if you do not, i will call you. And im serious. Even if its 41 people. Okay? Okay.
If you think that your friend will not get the message or will forget or is just a plain SOTONG like me :D please call them to remind them ok? Thanks.
BTW. Sorry for the grandmother story. =P
and people... dont ever ever ever ever ever forget to do the homework.
AND MY BIRTHDAY :D lolx. hahaahahha. (thick skinned XD) 17th okay... for those pple
AND ONE MORE THING !!!! Congrats to those who had received the calling system message. Well done :D I would like to thank APRIL for that :D WOHHOOOOO !!!! and of course you for actually listening to me blabber WOOOHOOOO :D
Okies, untill i remember anything else i want to say. Tata :D Au revoir mon ami.
what we could have been, 10:12 PM.
