The Tempest BY SHAKESPERE

shuffle(verb)--------Walk by dragging one's feet along or without lifting them fully from the ground
eerie(adjective)------Strange and frightening
piercing(adjective)--Appearing to see through someone; searching
flushed(adjective)--Red and hot, typically as the result of illness or strong emotion
sting(verb)----------Wound or pierce with a sting
babble(verb)-------Talk rapidly and continuously in a foolish, excited, or incomprehensible way
sarcastic(adjective)--Marked by or given to using irony in order to mock or convey contempt
blurt(verb)-----------Say (something) suddenly and without careful consideration
probe(verb)----------Physically explore or examine (something) with the hands or an instrument
wheeze(verb)-------Breathe with a whistling or rattling sound in the chest, as a result of obstruction in the air passages
scorching(adjective)--Very hot
torture(verb)-------Inflict severe pain on
hatred(noun)-------Intense dislike or ill will
intense(adjective)--Existing in a high degree; forceful or extreme
scorn(verb)--------Feel or express contempt or derision for
hover(verb)--------Remain in one place in the air
sag(verb)-----------Sink or subside gradually under weight or pressure or through lack of strength
frustration(noun)--The feeling of being upset or annoyed, esp. because of inability to change or achieve something
     This story is about a king who being chased out by his brother. He reached an island with his daughter and found that the island was not just like common, it had lived by lots of fairies. Prospero, who loves books than in ruling his country, also learn in magic. He and his daughter, Miranda, begin their amazing trip.
     I love this story because it gave me a lot of imagination. I could see fairy flies over the shore and the king sit on the rock with his beautiful daughter. The story had a beautiful ending too. With the cleverness of Prospero, he success to return to his country and resume his position as a Duke of Milan.
     And to his daughter, Miranda, had met a true guy to treat her nicely. She had a romance love story with the man called Ferdinand. They were to fall in love at first sight.
   

The Girl Next To Me Is A Witch

New Words: vine(N):  a climbing or trailing woody-stemmed plant of the grape family
                     wacko (N):  a crazy person
                     solemn (A):  formal and dignified
                     wad (V):  compress (a soft material) into a lump or bundle
                     dart (V): move or run somewhere suddenly or rapidly
                     glance (N): a brief or hurried look
                     protest (V): express an objection to what someone has said or done
                     pry (V): inquire too closely into a person's private affairs
                     frown (V): furrow one's brow in an expression of disapproval, displeasure, or concentration
                     nudge (V): prod (someone) gently in order to draw their attention to something
                     scoff (V): eat (something) quickly and greedily
                     loony (A): crazy or silly
                     hesitate (V): pause before saying or doing something
                     snap (V): break or cause to break suddenly with a sharp cracking sound
                     jerk (V): make (something) move with a jerk

      This story's title had attracted me and had draw my attention to it. I could imagine what it was about to discuss and how scary it was. And so it didn't disappointed me. It was an excellent work as the words it used was recondite. This story was about a girl, Clara Teh's weird experience. She had sat beside a girl who likes holding spiders, handling bees and playing with ants. Beside her curiosity, she had started to investigate the girl beside her. As she started to know more about her, she found that she had more strange thing than the inserts. So, she and her friends followed the strange girl to her house and found even more weird things. Althought it had a happy ending, it still a great story to me.

ASEAN STORIES

      This story is talk about some stories happened or being talk in Asia. In this story, there are stories from Malaysia, Brunei, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and even Indonesia.
      Most of these stories are the stories between animals, in Kampung life, and of the king and queen. The stories was wrote in simple way but it was very interesting because the stories in it was simple but full of attractive.
      I like this story because all the stories in it was I never heard before. But in this stories, there were no much new words to learn. It was a bit easy for me too read.

1st Half Year Unified Test 2 (2011)

A.     Comprehension (20%)

        (5 Subjective Questions)

B.     Vocabulary (20%)

        (Top 1 Standard: Unit 3 --pg32&33)

C.     Literature Component (20%)

        (Poem: 'He Had Such Quiet Eyes' -- 5 True/False Statements

                                                              5 Subjective Questions)

D.     Verb Forms (10%)

         1. The Simple: Past, Present, Future (Active & Passive)

          2. The Continuous: Past, Present, Future (Active & Passive)

          3. The Prefect: Past, Present

          4. The Perfect Continuous: Past, Present

          5. The Conditionals

          6. Gerund

          7. The Infinitives: Bare, To-infinitive

E.     Formation of Words (10%)

        Practice Session 5 & 7

F.     Rewriting Sentences (10%)

        Exercise B

G.     Grammar (10%)

          1. Countable and Uncountable Nouns (Top 1: pg16-17)

          2. Prepositions (Top 1: pg61-62)

          3. Subject and Verb Agreement

Teacher!!!!!!!

     In my life, I had met a lot of teacher. Some of them just teach us on text book, seldom talk with us and care about nothing of us. Some of the teacher only care about marks, they took special care to the one who always score high marks. I hate those teacher because I always not the one who they really care. They even only know the few person who they love the most after teaching us for a year.But some of them were caring person and teach us like their own child.
     I have met a teacher who really care about us and love us like her own child. She walk into my life when I was in primary four. She always told us that we are her child and she was the big mother of us. She never get angry with us but will advise us if we made mistake. She hope we learnt well and be happy always.
     She was about 40 years old when she taught me. She has a long hair and she always put her hair behind her shoulder. She taught us a lot of subjek such as mathematik, english, muxic and other else. This is because in primary school, our formed teacher will be teaching almost all the subjek.
     The most important memory about her is when thechildren's day. She had rented a bus and brought us to Sultan Bandar. We had a picnic there and some of my friends who parents are very wealth had ordered Macdonald for all of us to eat. I felt happy because we were different from other class who need to stay in class.
     This teacher also brought us to the graveyard which just beside our school. We walk out our school when other is studying in the classroom. We felt so excited!! The main reason we go there is to catch spider. This is because the teacher say she like to catch spider when she was young but we all never try it before. So, the theacher suggested us to go to the graveyard for spider!!
     One evening when I was chating with my friends, someone told me that the theacher had a operation before so she couldn't give birth any more. That's why she love us very much. I felt very pityful for her when I heard this.
      She is the teacher I love the most and had a deep memory of her. That is very sad as after few years she had died of desease. I will always remember this teacher.
     

Vocab of Top 1 Standard( pg 32)

1. imperative (adj)
    necessary, commanding
    ---It is imperative that justice is seen to be done.

2. spirited (adj)
    lively and entertaining
    ---He always looks high-spirited.

3. engaging (adj)
    charming, attractive
    ---Peter was an engaging young man.

4. tosses (n)
    throwing
    ---After a few warm-up tosses, he put he shot 63 feet 6 inches.

5. exhilaration (n)
    happiness and excitement
    ---There was a sense of exhilaration about being alone on the beach.

6. conducting (adj)
    behave, transmite energy
    ---She conducted herself with great dignity.

7. enclosures (n)
    closed-up area
    ---I received a letter with three enclosures.

8. resources (n)
    source of help
    ---He has no inner resources and hates being alone.

9. scrutinising (v)
    examine or inspect closely and thoroughly
    ---Customers were warned to scrutinize the small print.

10. crucial (adj)
      decisive
      ---It is crucial that we get this right.

11. dyslexic (adj/n)
      empaired ability to understand written language
      ---He's dyslexic.

12. endeavours (n)
      an attempt to achieve a goal
      ---The manager is expected to see his best endeavours to promote the artist's career.

13.fidgety (adj)
     unable to remain still or quiet
     ---He seems to have a case of the fidgets.

14. imparting (v)
      make (information) known; communicate
      ---Teachers had a duty to impart strong morals to their students.

15. unruly (adj)
      difficult to control
      ---Police tried to subdue the mire unruly elements of the crowd.

16. convinced (adj)
      persuaded
      ---We are convinced of his guilt.

17. spotted (adj)
      saw
      ---His boots were spotted with mud.

18. suicide (n)
      the action of killing oneself intentionally
      ---He committed suicide at the age of forty.

19. counsel (v)
      give advice to (someone)
      ---He was being counseled for depression.
     
20. implore (v)
      beg
      ---I implore you to go now.
     
21. pursuing (v)
      follow (someone or something) in order to catch or attack them
      ---Sophie was being pursued by a number of men.

  

Who Else Is Living In Our House? - JAMES LEE

1. New Words: freaky              rumbled
                         fogged             spattering
                         violent              echoed
                         sprawled          muttered
                         frowned          
                         squeled
                         beamed
                         gaze

2. Idiomatic & expressive sentences:
    a. It was getting dark outside and rainclouds were massing overhead.
    b. My footsteps clattered along the path beneath the huge spreading trees.
    c. The skin on the back of my neck tingled.
            
3. Comments & thoughts:
              I think this story was quite good because it had a lot of new words and beautiful sentences for me to learn. It was a story about Samantha and Ashley are terrified by weird happenings in their new home. They try to discover who else is living in their house.
              Finally, with her friends help, they find that the one who always disturb them was a young werewolf. It was lost and stayed in Samantha's house.
              This story was wrote by JAMES LEE, who always wrote about ghosts. I think this story is not scary at all because it always had the happy ending. Besides that, I think werewolf is a quite cute animal as I never seen it before. I thought if I had a friend of a werewolf it will be very cool.
              I like this story very much because it had tell me that werewolfe can be friend with human too.