Task 9

Househusband 

This article is talking about househusband live at home and it about how do they live at home to take care of all home work. First, when working at home no need to hurry but they have to take time to finished work because its make everyone at home felt unhappy especially children and wife. second ,househusband should know to show they feeling or love to the household to ensure all people at house felt loved because if there is no love at home there will be problem at home. last but least, househusband have to learn to cook, washing and shopping to ensure all things at home running smoothly.    

Raja Bersiong

The ancient Malay book Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa narrates how during the time of the early kingdoms on the Malay peninsula, there was a Raja or King named Ong Maha Perita Doria in the state of Langkasuka (today’s Kedah). He was an ill-tempered and cruel king who terrified everybody. His realm was believed to be at Kota Aur near the foot of sacred Mount Jerai, near Gurun district.

One day, his food was not ready when the Raja was already hungry. And a hungry Raja is an angry king. He furiously scolded the palace cook. In his haste to prepare the royal meal, the cook accidentally cut his finger and blood trickled into the ingredients. Alas, he was too scared to waste time washing the blood.

When the King ate the food, it was amazingly tastier. He was so fond of it that he summoned the cook demanding to know his secret. Fearing for his life, the cook admitted the incident. Thereafter, the King decreed that all his meals must have blood in it. The King became addicted to human blood and after a while, his incisors grew longer and became distinctly like fangs!

He became known as Raja Bersiong or the Fanged King. As his greed for blood continued to intensify, he ordered his guards to capture villagers for their blood. Local legend recounts they were kept in Gua Penjara or Prison Cave near today’s Pantai Merdeka beach town, before being brought to the royal kitchen. Eventually the people rebelled and Raja Bersiong’s palace was stormed, but he escaped. He hid in the surrounding jungle. Although many tried to kill him, none could. In the end a pawang or shaman managed to turn the Fanged King into a wild boar. Until today, the wild boars reign the jungle with fangs in their mouths.

Raja Bersiong’s dominion was near Mount Jerai, a then sacred mountain, where many Hindu- Buddhist candi or temples were built that have now been excavated and preserved at the Lembah Bujang

Archeological Museum. Recent findings also revealed the existence of the “Temple of the Ninth Water Pool” believed to be Raja Bersiong’s favorite pool. Locals also believe his tomb is situated in Kampung Seberang Tok Soh, Pinang Tunggal in the district of Kuala Muda.

Mount Jerai at dusk Steps towards a candi Raja Bersiong

-Kedah’s Legendary Fanged King

Reading Strategies: Summarizing

Summarizing is how we take larger selections of text and reduce them to their bare essentials: the gist, the key ideas, the main points that are worth noting and remembering. We strip away the extra verbiage and extraneous examples. We focus on the heart of the matter. We try to find the key words and phrases that, when uttered later, still manage to capture the gist of what we've read. We are trying to capture the main ideas and the crucial details necessary for supporting them.

Reading Strategies: Scanning

Scanning is a technique we often use when looking up a word in the telephone book or dictionary. We are search for key words or ideas. Scanning involves moving your eyes quickly down the page seeking specific words and phrases. Scanning is also used when you first find a resource to determine whether it will answer our questions. Once you've scanned the document, we might go back and skim it.   

When we scanning, we start look for the author's use of organizers such as numbers, letters, steps, or the words, first, second, or next. Look for words that are bold faced, italics, or in a different font size, style, or color. Sometimes we will see the author will put key ideas in the margin.    

Reading Strategies: Skimming

Skimming is quickly identifying the main ideas of a text. When we read the newspaper, we are probably not reading it word-by-word. Skimming is done at a speed three to four times faster than normal reading. Usually we often skim when we have lots of material to read in a limited amount of time. Use skimming when we want to see if an article may be of interest in our research.    

There are many strategies that we can be use when skimming. Sometime we read the first and last paragraphs using headings, summarizes and other organizers as they move down the page or screen. This technique is useful when we are seeking specific information rather than reading for comprehension. Skimming works well to find dates, names, and places. It might be used to review graphs, tables, and charts.

Task 3

STAGES OF THE WRITING PROCESS

There are four stages in the wring process.

1.      Prewriting:

Thinking about ours topic, gathering information, and creating an outline of ours ideas for the structure of the written text that will express our ideas on the topic

2.      Composing:

We actually write the text; a collection of words, sentences, and paragraphs that makes up ours written expression on the topic.

3.      Revising:

After composing we have to reexamining the composed text to improve and polish the structure and content to ensure that it expresses of ours ideas in the most effective way.

4.      Editing:

After we have completed ours composing of the written text and what we need to do now is to check our writing  to ensure that there are no grammar, spelling, or mechanics errors.

Task 7

Writing Assignment

Question C 1

The food that I like

The food that I like to eat is omelette fried rice. I started like eat omelette fried rice when I was 15 years old. At first I have no desires or interest to eat omelette fried rice but one of my closes friend came to visited me and take me out to Chinese restaurant to introduce to me about omelette fried rice and asked me if that food is good as he said to me and then I tried to eat and tasted it, the flavor of the food is very wonderful and from that day I always went to that restaurant with my best friend to eat omelette fried rice. This food is very good food, it’s full of carbohydrate from rice and eggs and chicken breast for protein and other than that omelette fried rice also contain with vegetable and it’s good for my diet and to maintaining my body weight. Conclusion is omelette fried rice is the food that I like.