Gerunds and Infinitives

Cloze Exercise: Gerunds and Infinitives

Yuri was in his first year at university, studying History. He was rather a lazy student, and he tended to avoid (work) working whenever he could. In the middle of the semester, his history professor gave out an assignment, due in two weeks. Yuri intended (do) to do the assignment, but he postponed (write) writing it for a week. The following week, he forgot (do) to do it. The night before the assignment was due, he suddenly remembered it, and rushed to the library. He tried (read) to read as much as possible on the topic, but there wasn't enough time. Yuri considered (ask) asking for more time to do his paper, but the History professor was known to be very tough on students, so finally he decided (cheat) to cheat and copy his paper from somewhere else. He found an old article on the same topic, and quickly typed it out. The next day, he submitted the paper. The following week, he was alarmed (see) to see the professor approaching him, looking angry. "Is this your own work, or did you copy it?" asked the professor. Yuri denied (copy) to copy (Not OK) the paper. "If you expect me (believe) to believe that, you must be very stupid," said the professor. "Every word is taken from an article I wrote myself five years ago. Did you really think I would forget (write) writing it?"

10 out of 11

Reference:

From Helen,

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/gerinf1.htm

Understading Plagiarism and Referencing

Understanding plagiarism and referencing

I have found one of the most important book which help me to better unstand about the citing referencing and plagiarism. The name of this book is ‘ The complete guide to referencing and avoiding plagiarism’ written by, Neville, Colin.

In college courses, we are continually engaged with other people’s ideas: we read them in texts, hear them in lecture, discuss them in class, and incorporate them into our own writing. As a result, it is very important that we give credit where it is due. Plagiarism is using others’ ideas and words without clearly acknowledging the source of that information.

Plagiarism means:

Copying directly from a text, word-for-word
Using an attractive phrase or sentence you have found somewhere
Using text downloaded from the Internet
Paraphrasing the words of a text very closely
Borrowing statistics from another source or person
Copying from the essays or the notes of another
Downloading or copying pictures, photographs, or diagrams without acknowledging your sources
When we are submitting academic work for assessment, it is important to provide precise bibliographic information on all of the sources consulted during its preparation. The use of proper citation and referencing within our work will help us to avoid plagiarism, and will enable readers to follow our line of research.

A range of referencing styles is used within the University, so it is necessary for us to check with ours university as to which is their preferred style. They may even provide specific guidelines on its interpretation. Once we have established which style we should be using, it is important to be consistent in its application.

Reference:

http://catalogue.londonmet.ac.uk/search?/Yplagiarism&SORT=D&searchscope=1/Yplagiarism&SORT=D&searchscope=1&SUBKEY=plagiarism/1%2C25%2C25%2CB/frameset&FF=Yplagiarism&SORT=D&searchscope=1&2%2C2%2C

Book: ‘ The complete guide to referencing and avoiding plagiarism’ written by, Neville, Colin

Library resources for globalization research

Library resources for globalization research

I have found one of the most valuable globalization subject base books by Metronet online service. The title of this book is ‘Technology, Globalization and Poverty’ written by, Jeffery James. I have found in here about the main theme of ‘Globalization’ and the relationship among the Globalization and Technology. I have found in here how technology has effected positively on the business, job, and social sector. I understand from here how the technology has been making the world more global than previous. I have guided very positively by this book when I wrote down my full essay in my third month pre-sectional course. This book also helps me to better understand about the technological necessity in my native country Bangladesh.

Reference:

http://catalogue.londonmet.ac.uk/search?/YGlobalization+and+technology&SORT=D&searchscope=1/YGlobalization+and+technology&SORT=D&searchscope=1&SUBKEY=Globalization%20and%20technology/1%2C44%2C44%2CB/frameset&FF=YGlobalization+and+technology&SORT=D&searchscope=1&1%2C1%2C

Book: ‘Technology, Globalization and Poverty’ written by, Jeffery James

Overview of Your Subject

Overview of Your Subject

I will be studying in Masters of Mobile and Satellite Communication. Mobile Communication and Satellite Communication both are under the Communication technology.

Q:

Why the subject is important, interesting, and relevant for our word?

Ans:

Mobile communication has not covered their network all over the world such as; in the airplane, in the sea. So, now we need satellite communication. How microwave transmit ours voice one place to another place, this interesting and surprising technique we can understand by this course .In 1985, the engineers have made them together and so, these new technological development makes the communication sector very comfortable and easy.

Q:

What is the main branch within subject are and what each is about?

Ans:

Microwave, Analog and Digital data transmit and Electronics.
Microwave explain us how the data transmit, why digital technique more reliable than Analogy technique. Many communication chips are have explained in the Electronics subject.

Q:

What the most important issues are currently in this subject are?

Ans:

To protect the data loss in the international roaming system.

Q:

How you think the subject area will develop over the next few areas?

Ans:

I think we will need to involve here the internet security system.

Q:

A few Websites or Books which are useful for finding out more about your subject area?

Ans:

The CISCO NETWORK books, http://www.intute.ac.uk/search.html, http://www.google.com/, http://www.freebookcentre.net/electronics_communication_books/satellite_communication_systems_ebooks.htm.

Live Lecture Summary

Summary (Steve’s Lecture)

The world is facing a enormous crisis, the biggest since the great depression.This situation started in the USA and contagious all the world.The process started in the house market, when the banks lent money for consumers who wanted to have their own house, but could't afford it. These institutions used to sell this debt to other banks, not just in USA, but in all world. When people started default on loans, we run out of money in the market and this situation caused this financial collapse that we are living nowadays. To try to steady the market, the governments put a huge amount of money in this financial instituitions. But the problem still there, we are on a recession.Has globalization caused all this situation?With all this liberalism, this freedom in the market, we have no more rules, no more bounders for goods and financial products. The corporations can do whatever they want to do, for example, they can buy from fabrics in Thailand that pay to their employees less than 2 dollars a day. They make big profits, but encourage poverty and slave work, besides that, normaly they don't care if they are damaging the environment either.In brief, the big corporations are free, they think just about making huge profits, but the world is paying a big price for that.How can we resolve this situation? Is there hope for the planet and humanity?

Reference:

In London Metropoliton Unversity (Live Lecture by Steve Wasser)

Reflecting writing on the Pre-sectional course and university style

Reflecting writing on the Pre-sectional course and university style

Q:

Is the pre-sessional course and British university life as you expected? Have you noticed any differences between the style of learning and teaching in the UK and your own country?

Ans:

Yeah, after completed my bachelor in my native country, I have hoped to study in British university. I have seen a lot of difference, firstly, the education is more organise than my country, secondly, the assessment procedure is very standard than my previous university.

Q:

What are you finding difficulty, easy, useful or interesting about the course? What are you learning from it?

Ans:

At first I felt quite difficult in Academic writing but, now it is easy in my education life.
I felt quite easy in the part of speaking.
I believe that, self study is very useful to improve our writing skill.
Now I know how I will write down the thesis paper, reference style.

Q:

How do you feel about going on to your degree or Master program? Do you feel prepared? What are you looking forward to? What do you think will be the most challenging part for you?

Ans:

I feel well because I overcome my writing skills before enter the master’s course.
I believe I am ok for the master’s course.
Now I need to continue develop the vocabulary about my course related.
Yes really this will be one of the most important for my future career.

Preparing for further study: reading

Preparing for further study: reading

I will be studying Masters in Mobile and Satellite Communication in London Metropolitan University.

My first semester:

Module: CTP148 --- Advanced Communications System ------ 20 credits
The Course Leader: Dr.S.M. Vaezinejad

CTP149 -- Microwave and Optical Communication – 20 credits
The Course Leader: Dr. Bal Virdee

CCP155 -- Research and Development skills --------- 20 credits
The Course Leader: Hassan Kazemian

The Chapter IP security:

Summary:

IP means Internet Protocol. At the current world Microwave needs more security, so we need to apply perfect theory and also the perfect IP. VLAN one of the most important techniques to apply an idle IP addresses. We need to protect the data loss, so we need to learn about frequency which is very important part in IP field.

Reference:

https://intranet.londonmet.ac.uk/prog-plan/postgrad-line/structures/mobile-and-satellite-communications-msc-2008.cfm

Conclusion

Conclusion about my final essay

It is clear that, Technology helps the people to create a new policy in every field. [This sentence provides a link to the previous paragraph and the subject that was discussed on main body].

Sometimes technology makes negative effect in the global world. However, this essay has found that globalization of technology makes the human life comfortable, easy and gives more opportunity to show their own opinion [This sentence refers back to the thesis statement introduction and key ideas].

Above all, this essay has been shown that, Globalization and Technology are hand in hand. Always need to conscious about the bad influence of globalization and technology on the earth and try to makes a strongest globalization of technology in this world. [What I consider as a recommendation].

Day after day technological field is improving more and more, so this essay also hopeful that, in future the global world will more globally than year 2008, by technology.

Paraphrase

Paraphrase

Original:

Of the more than 1000 bicycling deaths each year, three-fourth are caused by head injuries. Half of those killed are school-age children. One study concluded that wearing a bike helmet can reduce the risk of head injury by 85 percent. In an accident, a bike helmet absorbs the shock and cushion the head.

Paraphrase:

In every year the peoples have been effecting over one thousand road accident by bicycle. Head injuries is one of the most caused on that type of suddenly death because, more than seventy five percent peoples have effected by head injuries. Almost fifty percent of student are effecting on this problem. According to research(Smith, 1990) finally suggest that, almost eighty five percent head damage have protected by helmate . helmet try to protect the head from outdanger.

Reference:

Pre-sessional Academic Englisg Course Book, Month 3, Page No: 40

Online Exercise

Exercise on If Clauses

1. If your conditions are competitive, we (Place) will place an order.
2. If I had more time, I (do) would do a course in business English.
3. If we had known more about their culture, negotiating (be) would had been easier. [not ok]
4. If you (customize) customize your CV, your chances of getting a job will be better.
5. We (cancel) will cancel our order if you don't deliver the goods by Friday.
6. If Brittany (speak) spoke better English, she would apply for a job abroad.
7. If you(tell) had told me about the problem, I would have helped you.
8. I (let) will let you know if I weren't satisfied. [not ok]
9. If you execute the order carelessly, they (place/not) will not place another order with you in the future.
10. If I were you, I (worry/not) would not worry about the presentation.

Reference:

http://www.ego4u.com/en/business-english/grammar/conditional-sentences#exercises

Speaking Practice

Speaking Practice

I and two of my friends try to discuss about the Globalization and Information technology. We believe that, globalization and technology go hand in hand. Technology changes the work we do and in nearly all cases, the jobs created by it demand more education and training. It also changes the way business operates by transforming relationships between suppliers, producers, retailers and customers. Yes it is also true that globalization sometimes have affected negatively on financial field but, technology in there have created more new jobs and also many new business policy which have been effecting very positive on finance field. Globalization makes the culture, democracy more change by technology. Now the student can share their own subject easily with others people by internet and also the patient have been getting the online treatment facility by fiber optics.

Listening Practice

Summary

The relationship between China and England are not easy. However, this interconnection has been developing the language exchange and understandings of each country. In 1620, foreign contact with China began through the traders. At this time, the trading was controlled by the government, so it was full of violence and misunderstandings. Although British people tried to learn Chinese to do the effective trade, they were forbidden from learning it because Chinese government protected their languages. After this period, the trading language was developed. It based on Chinese grammar and some essences of English, Portuguese, and Indian. In fact, the first English translation into Chinese was the Bible. Missionaries tried to understand Chinese way of life. After the long history of war, the relationship between China and Western countries were broken, but some Chinese still continued the relationship and keep trading. They came to Britain (sometimes illegally). It is the origin of the people who works and live in Britain now.

Reference: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2008/index.shtml (Lecture: 02)

FRIDAY SELF STUDY

SELF STUDY

1. Write down 4 reasons why you might fail when writing an essay?

ANS:

a) If the sentences are full copies from other writing sources

b) Write down inappropriate information

c) Not use the perfect supporting evidence

d) More grammatical mistakes and not clear the sentence


2. What does ‘brush up’ mean?

ANS:

BRUSH UP: Improve a skill quickly.

For example: She took a two-week course to BRUSH UP her Spanish before her travelling around South and Central America.

3. Is it a good idea to use only internet sources for your research?

ANS: No, Not at all, we can also get much valuable information from Book, article, magazine etc.

4. Which information sources are traditionally used to support academic researches? Where can you find these sources online?

ANS: we need to show the perfect statistical result which are clearly support to your’s opinion or facts.

we can use some researchable website like http://www.eric.ed.gov/, http://research.mla.gov.uk/ . we also can use yahoo and google website.

Intute is also one of the most effective free Web service site for students, teachers, and researchers in higher education .

5. what is a 'spoof website'?

ANS:

Website spoofing is the act of creating a website, as a hoax, with the intention of misleading readers that the website has been created by a different person or organisation.

6). What does it mean to take a 'case-by-case approach to evaluating websites'?

ANS:

Evaluate differentinformations depends on the circumstances, depends on what you need for example, if we are writing an essay we should primary sources area websites.

7). When judging a website, which 3 questions should you ask?

ANS:

Who? Authors , Publishers, Sponcers and Developers.

What? If the material presented is innaccurate, vntrue, illogial or out-of-date then it is unlikely to be a lot of use for serious research.

Where? we will need to establish the location and origin of the information depends on the circumstances.

8. How can you find out more about who wrote the information on the website??

ANS:

We can try to do a quick internet research name, check to see if the author has published anything else...

9. Which URL(Domain Names) are likely to be the most useful for academic research?

ANS:

URL "Uniform Resource Locator" , can give lots of clues about your location within a resource.

10. Which URL(Domain Names) are likely to be the most useful for academic research?

ac, .edu academic or educational servers.co,

.com commercial servers

.gov government servers

.org non-governmental, non-profit making organisations

11. Work through the examples of using your evaluation skills. What 3 things is it important to remember when doing this?

ANS:

When we are doing a research. First , is important to go througth in academic sites where we can find relevant information. Second, evaluate the quality of information that you get. Third, don't use de cut and paste, write with your own words.12.Plagiarism, is what i said before. When you find a information on the internet and just cut and paste in your essay without using your own words.

12) What is plagiarism?

ANS:

Plagiarism, is what i said before. When you find a information on the internet and just cut and paste in your essay without using your own words.

AMPLIFICATION

Failure is the pillar of success

(AMPLIFICATION)

Human life is a serious of battles. We can never win all of them. But we are always anxious for victory. We are never prepared for defeat. As a result whenever defeat comes we get disappointed. Failure often gives us shock. We consider failure curse.

Failure has the other aspect too. Wise people have however, advised use to take both success and failure with the same ease. Failure is very common in this world. It ruins only these who have no power to withstand the troubles of life. But failure cannot dishearten a man of strong will. He knows that after cloud comes fair weather. The way of life is hard and long. Failure is here a guide. Failure makes a man aware of his defects and weakness. Then he starts his work with new energy and finishes it successfully. So, failure paves the road to victory. We gather experience from our failures. History shows that the great man never lost heart when they failed. So, it is true that failure is the pillar of success.

Self Study

Self Study

Q:What is Google Scholar?

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, we can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps us identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.

Q: What are peer-reviewed journals?

A scholarly periodical which requires that each article submitted for publication be judged by an independent panel of experts. Articles not approved by a majority of these peers are not accepted for publication by the journal.

3. What is Intute? Do you know any other similar sites?

Intute is a free Web service aimed at students, teachers, and researchers in higher education . Intute provides access to online resources, via a large database of resources.

I heard, http://www.eric.ed.gov/ and http://research.mla.gov.uk/ this two website also provide to access to online resource but, sometimes they do not give free service.

4. How can you tell if a website is a reliable source of information?

Firstly we need to understand about the topics then we need to identify what information i will need. After that if we will get this information perfectly or get a perfect guideline about to find out this information then I can believe that, this website is a reliable source of information.

Prefixes and Suffixes Quiz

SAT Prefixes and Suffixes Quiz

Q.1) "Pre-" as in "precede"

A. against B. before C. move D. liveliness E. sad

ANS: B (OK)

Q.2) "-ant" as in "sycophant"

A. behavioral B. type of person C. disposed to D. sad E. classification

ANS: B (OK)


Q.3) "poly-" as in "polygamy"

A. rating B. poverty C. disposed to sickness D. many E. variety

ANS: D (OK)

Q.4) "iso-" as in "isolation"

A. periodic B. manipulative C. single D. variety E. predictable

ANS: C (OK)


Q.5) "-ign" as in "benign"

A. having quality of B. very large C. similar to D. predisposed to E. very small or hard to detect

ANS: E (NOT OK)


Q.6) "hypo-" as in "hypothermia"

A. too small B. too large C. the same D. predictable E. noteworthy

ANS: A (OK)

Q.7) "arch-" as in "archrival"

A. crying out B. water C. related to law D. supreme E. overbearing

ANS: D (OK)

Q.8) "-opoly" as in "monopoly"

A. one B. having a controlling interest C. retrospective D. missing an obvious point E. many

ANS: B (OK)

Q.9) "ambi-" as in "ambivalent"

A. quickness B. lethargy C. determinated D. both E. too much

ANS: D (OK)

Q.10) "dys-" as in "dysfunctional"

A. well B. terrified C. the same D. aligned E. abnormally

ANS: E (OK)


Reference:

http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/quizshow.php?title=SAT-Prefixes-Suffixes-Quiz-1&quesnum=10