INSTITUT PENDIDIKAN GURU MALAYSIAKAMPUS BATU LINTANG

PROGRAM PERSEDIAAN IJAZAH SARJANA MUDA PERGURUAN

(PPISMP-BC/PJ/PSV, SEM 1 ) AMBILAN JAN 2012

KERJA KURSUS PENDEKLANGUAGE PROFICIENCY- PI1311D

NAMA/ANGKA GILIRAN : DOREEN TIONG NINGNO. KAD MATRIK : 201201009NO. KAD PENGENALAN : 860115-53-5334KUMPULAN : PPISMP (GSTT) JAN 2012 SEM 1KOD MATAPELAJARAN : PI1311D- BAHASA INGGERISNAMA PENSYARAH : PUAN TAN PHAIK LEETARIKH SERAHAN : 19 MARCH 2012

CONTENTS

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1. Course work

2. Graphic Organiser - Reading

3. Essay – Reading

4. Reference

Graphic Organiser – Reading

When reading?

- Weekend- Free time- Any time

What type of books do you read?

- History- Novels- Tragedies- Comedies - Adventure-

Why should I read?

- Expand knowledge and culture

- Develop imagination and creative way

- Improve writing and speaking

Whose encourage or culture you in reading as a hobby ?

- Parents- Friends

READING

R eference

Internet:

1. http://www.harley.com/reading/why-read.html

2. http://www.publishyourarticles.org/knowledge-hub/essay/an-essay-on-the-

importance-of-hobbies.html

3. http://www.writework.com/essay/my-favorite-hobby-reading

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HARLEY HAHN'S WORLD OF READING

Why Should You Read? Your Key to Mental Fitness

Harley Hahn's World of ReadingStart here: IntroductionWhy should you read? Your Key to Mental FitnessResources: Reading Resources on the InternetBook reviews (fun to read): What is Harley Reading?List of books reviewed...From Newest to Oldest...Alphabetical by Title...Alphabetical by Author

Training Your Mind Why Reading Is So Important Talking With the Great Writers Different Types of Reading A Plan to Improve Your Reading Getting Started

Training Your Mind

Everyone knows you must exercise regularly to maintain good health. In-deed, staying physically fit is a big part of our culture. We consider (and rightly so) that healthy people are attractive people. Since most of us want to be attractive, there is no shortage of exercise clubs, training videos, magazines, and books offering to help us stay physically fit.

Unfortunately, however, our culture does not place the same emphasis on mental fitness. Although we worship men and women with strong, healthy-looking bodies, we don't have the same degree of respect or at-traction for smart, educated, mentally healthy people. This is a shame, be-cause there are immense rewards for people who have developed the abil-ity to think well.

If your mind is well-trained and flexible, you will be able to understand a

great deal of what happens around you. And if you are also well educated — that is, if you understand basic science, mathematics, music, art, litera-ture, history, and so on — you will find it much easier to make good deci-sions throughout your life. Over the long run, this leads to a sense of con-trol over your destiny and a much better life than otherwise.

People who are poorly educated or who don't think well — that is, people who are not mentally fit — see things differently. Their world is con-trolled by mysterious, often malevolent forces. Such people live within a system they will never master, forced to follow rules they will never un-derstand. Although it may not be obvious, most people spend their lives being manipulated by others. They are told what to do, what to think, how to spend their money, and what they should and should not aspire to in life.

In my opinion, if you want to live well, you must be able to use your mind well. For this reason, I want you to be able to concentrate, to solve problems, to understand complex ideas, and to think clearly and quickly. Such skills will make it easier for you to make informed decisions, under-stand current events, choose good friends, manage your money well, make wise long-term decisions, and appreciate music, art and literature,

The key to developing such skills is to enjoy learning, and to have the ability and motivation to teach yourself.

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Why Reading Is So Important

We all know that the best way to keep yourself physically fit is to exer-cise every day. Some days you do more; some days you do less. The im-portant thing is to make physical fitness part of your daily routine.

What many people do not appreciate is that the same principle holds for mental fitness. If you want to be able to think well and to learn well, you must exercise your mind daily.

As with physical fitness, there are any number of activities you can do to keep in shape. However, over the long run, the very best way to exercise your mind is to form the habit of reading. Here is why.

Think of the difference between watching television and reading a book. Watching television is, essentially, a passive experience. You sit, you look, and you listen. Such concentration as you have is driven by outside stimulation. In fact, when you are caught up in a TV show (or even a commercial, for that matter), it is a lot more like being hypnotized than

being aware and present with your thoughts.

Reading a book, on the other hand, requires active concentration. As you read, you must put in a great deal of effort to look at the words, figure out what they mean, and build up images, thoughts and opinions within your mind. Moreover, if you are reading and you stop concentrating, even for a second, everything stops. Nothing happens until you start concentrating again.

For this reason, reading regularly forces you to increase your powers of concentration, a skill whose value would be difficult to overpraise. Read-ing also requires you to develop your imagination and your critical think-ing.

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Talking With the Great Writers

Aside from enhancing your mental skills, reading has another advantage, one that is less apparent but just as important.

There are many great men and women in the world, but in your lifetime you will meet very few of them. Through your reading, however, you can communicate with the greatest minds that have ever lived: the smartest scientists, the wisest philosophers, the best poets, and the most talented storytellers.

For example, four of my favorite storytellers are P.G. Wodehouse, Erle Stanley Gardner, Isaac Asimov and Arthur Conan Doyle. Since all of these writers are dead, there is no way they will be able to come to my house and tell me a bedtime story. However, whenever I want, I can pick up one of their books and read as much as I want.

Similarly, it is unlikely that Albert Einstein would visit me and take the time to explain the theory of relativity. (And even if he could, I would probably have trouble understanding his accent.) However, I have a small book that Einstein himself wrote, Relativity: The Special and General Theory, in which I can read the master's own words, and teach myself a bit about relativity at my own speed.

(By the way, don't be scared by the title of the book. If you understand basic math, you can understand special relativity. General relativity is a lot harder, though.)

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Different Types of Reading

I am sure, by now, you agree that reading is good for you. However, not all reading is equally productive.

In the same way that a daily 20-minute brisk run will keep you more fit than an occasional 2-minute walk, you can bless yourself with enormous, long-term benefits by reading books that stretch your skills, your imagi-nation, your vocabulary and your powers of understanding.

We all know that some books are harder to read than others. If you try to read something that is too far beyond your ability, you will become frus-trated and confused. However if you only read things that are easy — recreational reading, we might call it — you won't be able to increase your mental skills.

Recreational reading is important (and fun), but you need more. My sug-gestion is to develop a reading program that, day by day, will help you improve your mental capacity.

The secret of training your mind is to read books that are just a bit harder than you can manage comfortably. Over time, as your mind develops, your ability to read and to think will grow.

So I suggest that, every day, you make a point of spending at least 20 minutes reading something that challenges you. Choose a topic or story in which you have an interest, but make sure that it forces you to think. Over time, move deliberately from one book or article to another, making sure to choose new material that is just beyond your current level of comfort.

How do you tell if you are being challenged? Every now and then, as you read, ask yourself these three questions:

Am I encountering words I don't understand?

Am I forced to stop once in a while to think carefully about what I am reading?

Are there times when I must reread passages in order to under-stand them more clearly?

If the answers to these questions are no, you are not challenging yourself enough.

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A Plan to Improve Your Reading

It is my firm belief that human beings thrive on purposeful effort, and that

mental effort is just as important as physical effort.

I read a lot and I learn a lot, and I am constantly thinking of new ideas. Over the years, I have been able to train my mind so that it works ex-tremely well. This has allowed me to become successful in many differ-ent ways, and I would like the same for you.

So here is a simple, four-part plan you can use to help improve your read-ing skills:

1. Get a good, medium-sized dictionary.

The best dictionary for you is one that is large enough to have the infor-mation you need, but not so large that you can't handle it easily. A small, pocket-sized dictionary would be convenient, but it is not good enough for what you want.

I have a number of dictionaries. Two of them are large, unwieldy refer-ence books: one modern and one very old (which is helpful when I read old books).

I also have a number of dictionaries devoted to specific subjects: mathe-matics, the arts, literature, medicine, computers, geography, slang, Ameri-can usage, quotations, rhymes, and uncommon words; as well as a great many other reference books, including a comprehensive thesaurus.

Of all these reference books, however, my favorite is The Oxford Refer-ence Dictionary, published by Oxford University Press. Years ago, when I was looking for a dictionary, it was the only one I could find that was large enough to have the words I didn't know, but small enough to sit next to me in bed as I read at night.

What about the free online dictionaries? I'll talk about them in detail on a related page:

Reading: Resources on the Internet

For now, I'll just say that the dictionaries you find on the Net aren't good enough for our purposes.

Although such dictionaries can be handy when you are reading online, for serious reading, you need to get yourself a good, print dictionary.

2. Get a small notepad and a pen to keep with you as you read.

Whenever you see a word you don't understand, write it down. If you have your dictionary with you, take a moment to look up the word right

away. Otherwise, look it up later, whenever you get a chance.

Once you have learned about the word, cement it in your memory by us-ing your notepad and composing a sentence in which you use the word. When it comes to new words, reading is not enough: to make a word your own, you must use it in your writing.

You will find that building your vocabulary will pay off more than you might think. In every profession, people with better vocabularies are more successful. This is because the more words you know, the more ideas you can understand; and the more you understand, the better you can express yourself.

3. Spend at least 20 minutes a day reading something new.

Start with something fun and easy — even a magazine will do — and day by day, work your way toward more challenging and valuable material. If you are not sure where to start, begin with the stories and essays on this Web site.

When you begin your reading program, there is one common mistake I want you to avoid. Simply reading is not enough. Over time, you must progress, and to do so you must have variety.

I have met people who, although they read a lot, get very little out of their reading, because they read only one or two types of books. For example, such a person may read only mystery stories, or biographies, or science fiction, or romance.

I encourage you to sample a wide variety of books, to embrace the un-known by making a habit of reading material that is completely foreign to your experience.

That's easy for me to say, but how can you find such a wide variety of reading material?

4. Get a library card.

Getting a library card is one of the best favors you can do for yourself, and you will be setting a good example for everyone in your life, includ-ing your children.

I use my local library a lot. In fact, right now, I have 19 books checked out. One of my favorite pastimes is to cruise the shelves, looking for new and exciting things to read. (In fact, I check out so many books, just to see what they are, that I am sure the local librarians wonder what I am do-

ing.)

If you live in the United States, one valuable service of which you should be aware, is the interlibrary loan facility. Most people don't know it, but if you want a book that your local library doesn't have, they will help you get it. To do so, your library will find what you want in another library and request the book on your behalf. The book will then be sent to your local library, where you can check it out. There may be a small fee for this service, but it is worth it.

Every time I hear about a book that piques my interest — from a friend, or on the Net, or in another book — I search my local library. If the book is there, I'm in luck. Otherwise, I simply request it by interlibrary loan.

In fact, I use interlibrary loans so much that I know the people who run the service by their first names, Marie and Jackie, who are both wonder-ful. No matter what I want, one of them manages to find it for me. My guess is that your library has a Marie or a Jackie who will do the same for you.

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Getting Started

A few days ago (as I write this), I had an unusual experience. I met two very different people, within a few minutes of one another, who both loved reading.

The first meeting was related to the local newspaper. I live in a medium-sized town that has only one daily newspaper, which is of poor quality. To boost circulation, the publisher hires people to stand in public places and give away free copies of the paper.

As I was walking in a small shopping plaza, a young man called me over and offered me a free newspaper. I told him, no thanks, I don't read the local newspaper. (In fact, I rarely read any newspaper.)

He agreed with me that the local newspaper was pretty bad, but he had an interesting idea. He looked upon that particular newspaper as a "begin-ning" paper, one that inexperienced readers might start with. Later, as their reading skills improved, such people might progress to higher qual-ity publications that were more challenging to read, such as the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal.

He then went on to talk enthusiastically about his love for books and reading.

A few minutes later, as I was walking away, an attractive woman with a young daughter approached me and asked if I practiced yoga. (My first thought was that when she saw how strong, good-looking, and healthy I was, she just naturally assumed I must do yoga. Later, I realized I was wearing a yoga T-shirt.)

I started to chat with the woman. She told me she lived on a boat, and she talked about herself a bit. She then asked what I did for a living. I told her I was a writer, which prompted her to tell me how much she enjoyed reading many different types of books.

In fact, just by listening to her, I could see — and this was also the case with the young man — that reading widely had sharpened her mind, and left her with a sense of confidence and the ability to think clearly and quickly.

It is this type of confidence and skill that I want to encourage you to de-velop.

As human beings, we are primarily problem-solving animals. As such, we structure our society and our organizations in such a way that the most valuable rewards go to the people who can solve problems well.

For this reason, the single best way to assure your success in life is by keeping your mind active and powerful. This requires a lifetime effort and learning how to think well is the most important part of that journey — a journey that begins with only nine words:

Turn off the TV and find something to read.

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Essay On The Importance Of Hobbies Manish Rajkoomar Essay

Hobby is something that one likes to do in one's spare time. The Oxford Dictionary defines hobby as a favorite activity that a person does for pleasure and not as his or her regular business. In short, hobby is one's favorite pastime.

Hobby is not an inborn inclination. It is developed through a constant and system-atic process. A bobby is not pursued to make a profit. The main purpose of a bobby is to derive pleasure out of it. It gives us mental and physical relaxation. One makes the best use of one's spare time by pursuing a hobby.

While making a choice out of many ways of speeding our time, we ought to ensure that is restores our lost energy and cheers us up. There are a good number of hob-bies. The hobby that fits our interest, nature and our budget would be the best.

A young person needs all round development of his or her personality. Hobbies play an important role in developing one's personality. A person may become like a ma-chine if he does his routine work throughout the day. he may lose interest in his work or feel bored of it. Who does not know the famous saying 'All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy', so every person should have a hobby to keep himself active physically as well as mentally. Most people should take some time off from their routine work and play games or go on picnic, movies or pursue their hobbies. A hobby keeps a person active, busy and cheerful.

There is hardly a person who does not have a bobby. Not only the educated but also the uneducated pursue one hobby or the other. Some of the common hobbies are playing cards, flying of kites, petting of birds and animals, gardening, stamp collect-ing, coin-gathering, sewing, crafts, embroidery, knitting, cooking, photography, writing letters to editors of newspapers, writing poetry, reading books and maga-zines, swimming, listening music, watching movies, surfing internet, traveling etc.

Selecting of hobby depends upon the time for hobbies. They become busy in shaping their careers. However, it is very important to develop a hobby. Some hobbies can open up new vistas of knowledge, entertainment and careers. Painting, music, com-puter software development, graphics designing etc. are some such hobbies.

A creative product may not be of any commercial value. But it gives satisfaction to the artist. if one is dedicated and works hard, he will gain from it. The creative per-son could become and author, and editor or even and art director. A graphic de-signer can start graphic designing as a hobby. Later one, he can adopt it as a profes-sion.

Painting is a popular hobby. It is learned after years of practice. A neat hand is re-quired for his hobby. Many professional schools of painting have been established to train children as well as the youth. Many students today seek a career in computer. They can attain perfection in it if they start with computer software development as a hobby.

Gardening develops a sense of eco-responsibility in our minds. it keeps us in touch with Nature. One can plant trees, flower plants, vegetables or bonsai plaints in one's compound. A garden full of flowers looks beautiful and give us sweet fragrance. Flowers and beauty to the garden as well as the house. They delight the sense and give us a great relief from the world full of tension and pollution.

As a student, one may cultivate the hobby of reading newspapers and magazines regularly. They keep one aware of the current national and international events. In the long run, one will benefit from it if one has to appearing competitive examina-tions. Besides reading periodicals, one may also have interest in reading novels.

Traveling is another important passion. It is very thrilling to visit new places and to meet with different kinds of people of various culture. Travel management now also opens a wide range of career for youngsters.

The old, especially in rural areas spend their spare time in playing cards. The young and the old take delight in flying kites. Others hobbies include billiards, snooker, tennis etc. Swimming and a few games can be considered sports as well as hobbies.

Hobbies give pleasure. They soothe the should. Hobbies should be least costly. They should provide creative satisfaction and relaxation.

R.I. Stevenson, a writer of the Nineteenth century, in his essay. 'An apology for Idlers' condemned overwork and over business. He recommended his readers to find time to got to a park and relax, enjoy tea, speak to passerby, play a musical in-strument, to bask in the winter sun, to meditate - in short to do anything, that is not called 'work' Bertrand Russell also condemned silly and overwork of modern Times. He believed in recreation and relaxation.

Each one of us should choose a worthwhile hobby that give us change and joy. At times our hobbies become our profitable vocation.

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I can't begin to explain how reading has enriched my life. I live in a small fishing village called Lancaster, 200 miles northeast of Anchorage, Alaska. It's strictly a fishing and mining town with a year-long population of 424. We're a loyal, self-sufficent group, and count among our ranks five teachers, an architecht, two medical doctors and a dentist. Unfortunately, we are over three hours from the nearest city, limiting our access to most cultural events, athletics and other typical extracuricular actiivites.

That's where reading comes in. My local forefathers were an industrious bunch, who sa-vored their independence yet acknowledged the need to augment the town's resources. I share their perspective about Lancaster being a mixed blessing. We have peace and seren-ity in our isolation, but we otherwise lack essential stimulation from the "lower 49". In 1977, a small group of locals, including my newly married parents, solicited funds from our county seat in Anchorage to finance the first local library. They negotiated a lease for a 400 square foot trailer on the northeast corner of our town square. Since June of 1978, 223 Main Street has been our local library and it's my favorite place in the world.

The library has only one paid employee and operates strictly with volunteers. I've worked there for free since I was fourteen, carding books, organizing shelves and serving patrons. My greatest achievement has been reading nearly every book we have. Through the power of literature, l feel that I've visited and experienced places far away from rural Lancaster. I began at age six with the Nancy Drew mystery series. I was amazed at her cunning and skill and her ability to reason her way out of any situation. By age ten I had progressed to the Alice Dywer series that chronicles a family's journey across Europe during the World Wars. The stories moved me beyond belief, magically bringing to life the history lessons I was taking in school. While my classes required me to memorize dates, names and battles, the Dwyer books introduced a human perspective to the events, and made me consider the devastating effects of each battle on the people who lived there. They also gave me a new respect for our soldiers who fought in the war.

Since my freshman year in high school, I have been thoroughly enraptured by Shake-speare. While I found his style intimidating at first, I have come to love his eloquent prose. I also marvel at how classic his work is. How many other authors produced charac-ters and stories so universal in appeal that we remember them after more than two cen-turies? Who else but Shakespeare could redefine our language, introducing new words, phrases and cliches? My life would have a terrible void without his work.

Sadly, state funding is limited and we are always faced with the challenge of fighting for our library. This past year, I assumed a more administrative role and added fundraising to my list of achievements. I solicited donations from townspeople and conducted used book drives in three surrounding towns. I also developed an inter-library loan program in the county, increasing our access to previously unavailable titles. I appreciate how read-ing has broadened my life, and I want the younger children in town to reap that benefit as well.

I can't imagine the excitement I'll feel when I first visit Harvard's libraries. I am awestruck by the possiblility of having access to over a million titles in hundreds of disci-plines. I know firsthand the power of the written word to transform lives. It has greatly broadened mine. It's given me the confidence to leave Lancaster, knowing that I am as educated and well-versed in cultural and world events as someone in Paris. As long as I can read, I can travel anywhere, learn anything and enjoy the wisdom of brilliant authors throughout history. Whenever I have spare time, you can find me at the library.

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