I received a comment from a friend who read my blog recently. He says that the title of this blog does not really portrays what's inside it. Well here I would like to express my thanks to all my friends who are willing to visit and comment on my blog.
Since MALAYSIAN ENGLISH FOR DUMMIES is a new blog, I am actually experimenting on this new technology. Blogging and using new IT tech is not really my field as I am a General Studies Lecturer, however at the moment I am trying to linger around this technology and trying to 'upgrade' my IT knowledge (which is limited to only using Microsoft Office) to a new level...exploring the language through the net.
At the initial phase of designing this blog, my actual objective is just to share with the readers on the simple basic English language usage especially by my students which are currently limited to primary schools, secondary schools and college levels students. However, since some of the readers suggest that I should 'decorate' this blog with a funnier section of Malaysian English (or should I say silly mistakes made by Malaysian in their attempt to use English), then I might as well disclose some really silly mistakes made by my students. Just to share it with the readers.
Thus, keep commenting on this blog. All criticisms and comments are most welcome for discussions and upgrading of this blog. May this blog lead our way to improving our Malaysian English!
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
DRILL EXERCISES FOR VERB TO BE
Yep!That was what I did to my students. Since many of them are very careless while using the BE verbs in their essays or sentence structure, thus i make some drill exercises for them focusing on certain area of the tenses. For example:
THE PRESENT TENSE:
1. Ali _______ (is/are) a good boy.
2. They _________ (is/are) looking for the lost purse.
3. It ____________ (is/are) a good story.
THE PAST TENSE
1. Last Monday _________ (was/were) a good vacation.
2. It ___________ (was/were) looking at me yesterday.
3. They ___________ (was/were) absent from class last week.
When they have improved their skills in determining the singular and plural form of both present and past tense I also revised my exercise.
Exercise: Determine the verb to be for the following sentences either in present tense or past tense.
1. I __________ looking at the window when she walked into the class.
2. She ______ a very polite lady.
3. They ___________ quarreling when mother entered the room.
4. Abu and Ahmad _______ talking to each other when Lydia calls.
5. He ___________ sleeping on the couch last night.
6. I ____________ a lecturer in a college.
As you can see from the above exercise, students need to recognize the tenses used in the sentences before they choose the singular or plural be verbs.
The result of this drill exercise is quite encouraging when almost all of my students can answer the questions with a 100% correct.
THE PRESENT TENSE:
1. Ali _______ (is/are) a good boy.
2. They _________ (is/are) looking for the lost purse.
3. It ____________ (is/are) a good story.
THE PAST TENSE
1. Last Monday _________ (was/were) a good vacation.
2. It ___________ (was/were) looking at me yesterday.
3. They ___________ (was/were) absent from class last week.
When they have improved their skills in determining the singular and plural form of both present and past tense I also revised my exercise.
Exercise: Determine the verb to be for the following sentences either in present tense or past tense.
1. I __________ looking at the window when she walked into the class.
2. She ______ a very polite lady.
3. They ___________ quarreling when mother entered the room.
4. Abu and Ahmad _______ talking to each other when Lydia calls.
5. He ___________ sleeping on the couch last night.
6. I ____________ a lecturer in a college.
As you can see from the above exercise, students need to recognize the tenses used in the sentences before they choose the singular or plural be verbs.
The result of this drill exercise is quite encouraging when almost all of my students can answer the questions with a 100% correct.
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