Thursday, December 24, 2009

My English course 125

The English 125 course was very exciting. Most of the students were weak writers at the beginning, but later on during the term practices, they became better and their writing improved with higher scores. There was also the blogs process. It is a site where the class students are members with the teacher as well. They can also post their required writing and comment each other as groups to correct the mistakes they’ve done.

The teacher used to keep the students practicing in writing throughout blogs and portfolio. The vocabulary and grammar practice made me good in writing. In addition to the process writing which strength me in passive verbs and how to use it in proper way.

The most challenging writing portion in this course is contrast and compare. It is better to keep practice because it has many vocabulary and sentences that gets the score high. I helped myself during this course by Hct – HD site which provides the students with all assistant they need.

I can asses my performance in this course as good, but I hope that I can join an English course in summer. I want to achieve to an excellent level of writing that helps me to pass ILETS exam easily.

Friday, December 4, 2009

Fast food and home cooked meals

People sometimes prefer fast food rather than home cooked meals and that is depending on the different principles. I am going to compare and contrast the similarities and differences between the fast food and home cooked meals.

There are some similarities between the two. First similarity is that they both provide a delicious and variety kinds of meals. Fast food is very popular all over the world because they afford salads, shawarma, burgers and more which are can be cooked at home. One more similarity is that they approximatly cost the same price.

Although there are many of similarities, there are also several differences between fast and home cooked meals. The first difference is that some fast food restaurants are not clean and the staffs are untidy but, home cooked meals are clean. Another important difference is that fast food providers usually don’t follow the process of using the oil and provide the meals full with oil in contrast to home cooked meals which aren’t. Another difference is that fast food is ready made and always available whereas home cooked meals are not which take a reasonable time to finish.

We can see that fast food and home cooked meals are similar in many ways but very differences in other. I prefer home cooked meals because it is clean and trustable but sometime I need to get some fast food if I am outside home rather than starving.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Compare and contrast living in Dubai versus living in Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi and Dubai are modern cities and that is why Most of the residents of United Arab Emirates prefer living. I am going to compare and contrast the similarities and differences between Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

There are some specific similarities between the two. The first similarity is that they both are modern and developed of living facilities. Each city has organized roads which provide the security for your family and to not wasting time in rush hour. Another important similarity that is both cities have government and private job vacancies which gives high salaries to the employees so that they can live in a good accommodation and reasonable life level.

Although there are many similarities, there are also several differences. The first difference is that the accommodation rent price is more expensive whereas in Abu Dhabi is cheap. Another important difference is that the people in Dubai used to live in specific places as opposed to Abu Dhabi they live in variety. The most of residents people in Dubai are foreigners while in Abu Dhabi are nationals.

We can see that living in Abu Dhabi or Dubai is similar in many ways but very different in others. I prefer to live in Abu Dhabi where I can get my own accommodation and a good job.