COM1110- English Communication

Skills

Wan Noor Farah Wan Shamsuddin

(Refer to course structure on BB)
How are you feeling today?
What are we learning today?
◉ How to contact your instructor?
◉ Introduction to COM1110
◉ Assessment (How to excel in this
subject?)
◉ Getting to know your friends
◉ Parts of speech

May the odds be ever in our favour

 Welcome to
Semester January 2020 Session
Where all the chaos and “fun” are..
 Contacting
your instructor
Wan Noor Farah Wan Shamsuddin
Email: noorfarah.shamsuddin@newinti.edu.my
COLAL Office, Level 3 (near the bridge to the café)
Extension Number: 2541
What is English Communication
Skills (COM 1110)?
 o r ts Parts of
Re p Speech

Topic Sentence,
Email
Thesis Statement

Subject- es
Verb Ag Te ns
ree ment Verb
 Face2Face & Online
◉ Face-to-face: 2 lectures per week (3
hours total)
◉ Online tasks: 1 online task per week
Assessment
How will you be graded for this course?
 Assessment Week Proposed Date Weightage
Test 1 Week 5 17 Feb 2020 10%
(Monday)
Test 2 Week 10 23 March 2020 10%
(Monday)
Assignment Week 13 17 April 2020 20%
Report Writing (Friday)
Oral Presentation Week 14 20 April 2020 10%
Based on the report (Monday)
Reflective Essay Week 12 10 April 2020 10%
TBA (Friday)
Final Examination TBA TBA 40%
TOTAL 100%
 Mid Sem Week 5 Week 12 Week 13 Week 14
Break Week 10
Week 1-2 Test 1 Reflective Report Oral
(CNY) Test 2
Lecture (10%) Essay Assignment Presentatio
25 Jan-2 (10%)
(10%) (20%) n (10%)
Feb
A+ 90-100 Pass

A 80-89

A- 75-79

B+ 70-74

B 65-69

B- 60-64

C+ 55-59

C 50-54

C- 45-49 Fail

D 40-44

F 0-39
Expectations
What do you need to do to get good grades?
◉ Complete all assessments before the last week Please contact
your instructor if you are unable to complete any assessment.
◉ Attendance- 80% to avoid barring
◉ Online tasks- are very crucial to help with your grades! Stay
active online and offline.
◉ Final examination is compulsory!
◉ Be comfortable with your classmates and help each other
◉ Safe environment to allow mistakes to happen.
◉ Have funnnn yawwwwww- bring those smiles to class.
Now, we’re going to play
a game.

Are you ready?

 Find your classmates!
You have 10 minutes for this!
Arrange yourself from youngest
to oldest
Parts of Speech
 Can you try to group these
words into 8 different groups?
• Nilai • Happily
• Sleepy • INTI
• I • So
• Phew • Study
• It • Easy
• In • At
• Oh my god! • Or
• Heroically • Sleep
What is Part of Speech?
◉A name given to a word based on
its job in a sentence.
Verb- Action/ state
◉ Every sentence in English must have a verb.
◉ Only verb words have tenses (To indicate time).

◉ Dylan plays tennis three times a week. (Action/ Physical)

◉ I am a teacher. (State/situation)
Linguistics
◉ I am going to the market (English).
When?
Have you been there?
 Main verb & Auxiliary Verb

She is sleeping.
Main Verb- verb that expresses an action. It gives the major
information in terms of nature of the action.

Auxiliary Verb- tells us more about the time of the action.

Observe the following examples
Sentence Verbs What it means?

She is sleeping. is sleeping Action is being done in the present.

(Right now)

She was sleeping. was sleeping Action was done in the past. (Past)
Noun-person/place/animal/ thing/
feeling/ idea
◉ Sarah went to New Zealand on vacation with her
family last year.
◉Sarah went to New Zealand on vacation with her
family last year.
◉Proper Noun vs Common Noun
 Proper Noun & Common Noun
Common Noun Proper Noun
teacher Ms. Farah
student Ng Jun Kit
country Malaysia. New Zealand
Do not have to be capitalized Have to be capitalized
Pronoun- word that replaces a noun

◉ Jungkok is at the movies with Jungkok’s girlfriend. Jungkok

really enjoys spending time with Jungkok’s girlfriend.

◉ Jungkok is at the movies with his girlfriend. He really enjoys

spending time with her.
Adjective-give info about noun/pronoun

◉ Adjective describes a noun or pronoun.

◉ Adjectives typically come before a noun or after a stative
verb, like the verb to be.
◉ Example:
◎ The hardworking student completed her assignment
early.
◎ It can be difficult to balance time to study and work
responsibilities.
 Adverb- gives info about verb, adjective,
adverb
◉ Yesterday, we walked somewhat slowly in a very
beautiful garden.
◉Yesterday, we walked somewhat slowly in a very
beautiful garden.
Conjunction
◉ Conjunction is a word that joins two clauses.
◎ Coordinating conjunctions: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
◎ Subordinating conjunction: because, although, when,
…
◉ Example:
◎ It is raining, so they do not go to the park.
◎ Although he likes to watch movies, he does not like to go
to cinema.
Preposition
◉ Preposition comes before a noun or a noun phrase and links it to other parts of
the sentence.

◉ Examples: on, at, by, as far as, in addition to, as a result of, …
◉ I chose to interview people living in Selangor.
◉ Olivia sits next to Harry.
◉ I stopped the recording in the middle of the interview due to a low battery.
Interjection
◉ An interjection is a word solely designed to convey emotion or feeling.
◉ Example:
◎ Eww! There is cockroach in the box.
◎ Hello! How are you?
◎ Hooray! I got the job!
◎ Well, what did your mom say?
 Hmm (interjection), I think she’s She loves to eat cake
very pretty. She (pronoun) sings very
(noun). well.

Students are not allowed to use Farah travelled (verb) to

mobile phones during Farah Vietnam last year.
(preposition) her classes.

She is very a cheerful Farah drives carefully (adverb) to

(adjective) person. work every weekday.
She does not like to drink coffee, but
(conjunction) she likes to go café.
 Online learning

1. Introducing Yourself (Discussion Board) (Due: Sunday,

19 January 2020, 11.59pm).
2. Online Quiz- Parts of Speech (Due: Sunday, 19 January
2020, 11.59pm)
Blackboard Task- Week 1
 Thanks!
See you on Friday!