Blog 1.3 - “little weeny quizzy” - Huda G11

 3rd blog of the month!!!

These blogs are going out much faster than it did last year, it’s quite unfamiliar and also sometimes very easy to forget ehehe

But anyways, in our last lesson we continued with our game of diffle, the guess we’re sticking to one game these days as we would have usually changed games every lesson but I don’t mind. Diffle is quite fun and we managed to do it in a few guesses :D

We then moved on to reviewing on some words from last lesson that we defined before doing our very first quiz of the year. I thought that I would be fine and was slightly confident with the quiz…I was wrong T-T 

Maybe I might earn 1 point with the word that I give out? Honestly I’m not quite sure as the moment I said the word, I somehow forgot the definition myself…🤦‍♀️ Getting back our books today so hopefully I get to see at least 5 right answers from the quiz eheheh  

Ended off the class with a seat work so our lesson was very chill, for most of it. I’m starting to really like this topic as I feel that it will most definitely help me with my vocabulary throughout all my lesson. Especially, how most of the words we have learnt these past few weeks have been related to business which will aid me when writing texts for my ABM lessons. 

Not sure when our next blogs will be coming out but I had fun writing this and hope to be writing more in the next few weeks.

Buhbyeee!

Blog 1.3 | Alisa Tee | Grade 11

 

AEP Blog, The Threequel

22nd August 2023

Third blog incoming! These blogs have really racked my brain on the creative side when it comes to intros, haha. But anyway, on with the usual description of last week's lesson: 

It's a little hazy to me, but one thing I do remember is having our quiz. Miss went around the class and gave each of us a turn to pick one of the three words we chose from the vocabulary list we were learning. We had to define and put that word into context, and despite how simple that task was, I barely knew or used any of the words before they were introduced so it was pretty difficult for me.

This was probably not the threequel you were hoping for (apologies if you were) because it, unfortunately, ends here. There isn't really anything else I remember about the last lesson so I'm not able to write as much. Thanks for reading though! :D

PS: Enjoy the usual cowboy kitty! :>

Blog 1.3 - 2nd Ring (Or is "2nd Circle" better??)

 THIRD BLOG RAAAHHHHHHHHHH

okay let's get this over with.

What did we do this week? Or, "day" I suppose, 'cause we only have one day for AEP nowadays. 

Today was pretty simple all things considered. We mostly just did a bunch of seatwork to pass the time. 

Of course, we first started with Diffle and it was finished quite fast (Miss complained but we're just too smart hehehehehe). Soon after, Miss had us write down three of our favorite words from last week's vocab activity. Both from the collocations and the ones we discussed in Miro. We then had a mini quiz where each of us picked one of our three words and said them to the class before writing them down on our notebooks and giving an example sentence.

It basically went like:

Adi: "Facilitate."

Everyone else: *writes down the word and sentence*

Adi: "Wait, what's facilitate again?"

I ended up looking through my notebook for the definition of that one :v

And then after the break, we had another seatwork.

Similar to the collocations one, we had to match up words to its following phrase. The last one was business-themed while this one was more... political? It was all about elections and voting and the constitution. It got me and Alisa thinking about Hamilton for real.

I finished that one pretty quickly and submitted my cutie patootie notebook with the cutie patootie stickers (I will be flexing them all day every day)

Anyways, anything I want to improve? Maybe learn to memorize the vocab better. I'll get into the habit of actually knowing the words and internalizing the definitions lol

That's all for now. 

Thank you for reading!

Blog 1.2 | Alisa Tee | Grade 11

 An Unoriginal Title: Second Blog

15th August 2023

Second blog of term 1! It's a little odd to be writing a blog with such a short interval from the first one, haha. But I'll enjoy writing the weekly AEP reflections nonetheless. Since there isn't really much for me to say (and I've kind of forgotten what happened last lesson), expect this blog to be very short.

Anyway, I'll just start with a vague recap of what we did in our last lesson! We began with (of course) the usual morning icebreaker. This time it was Diffle -- which is basically Wordle except the word isn't limited to just five letters. After that, I believe we worked in our groups to finish up our vocabulary activity. Miss brought out a (the) wheel (of doom) with our vocabulary words on it and whichever word it landed on we had to define and put in context. I didn't get to speak much since I was in a group of three and I didn't really volunteer to speak (sorry guys! -~-''). It was a little nerve-racking to watch the wheel spin, but I guess it counted as good practice since I got to learn a few new words. After that, we were given a list of business terms that were separated into two -- which were mismatched. Our activity was, you guessed it, to rematch them back. Other than that, I don't think I can recall the class doing anything else after that (excluding Padlet obviously).

Unfortunately, I can't say I'm looking forward to our vocabulary quiz on the 16th of August since a lot of the words we covered are pretty new to me. But I'm hoping to learn what I don't know during the process. All in all, nervous about the vocab quiz, but still excited to learn new words. Thanks for taking the time to read this! :]

PS: Have a hungry cat in a cowboy hat while you're at it. ^^

Blog 1.2 - "Vocabulary is not my forte T-T" - Huda G11

 2nd blog of the year! 

The days feel so much longer now that I'm in senior high. Everything feels so rushed for me and though I am able to keep up with my assignments, it just never felt that same as how it did last year. To make things simple...i'm just tired. T-T

In our last AEP class we started off with a familiar game called 'diffle' but this was only for warm up. We actually did it quite fast ahahah! We then moved on to organising and finishing off our miro boards filled with new words, well, new as in the word in a different context, that we had to find the meanings of and it in a 'sentence sandwich' to demonstrate how it's commonly used. Most of our words were related to the business lexical field. 

To test ourselves, Ms Disa gave us a few minutes to look back on our words and try our best to memorise them and be able to explain its meaning and how it's used in sentences. To be truly honest,  I was panicking so much as memorising stuff is not really to my liking so I really needed more than just a few minutes. Thankfully, I had Ayesha and Alisa with me so I could somehow rely on them to explain the words that I struggled on explaining or understanding. Thank you girls hehehe <333

To end the class, we were given different words to pair up in order to form a collocation. It was extremely difficult for me as all the words seemed to go so well with each other. With many helps and hints from my classmates around me, I was able to complete the collocations though I am still not so confident with my answers as I may be getting one or two wrong. The definitions were quite a pain to write as some of them were long but I think it's good as I can always look back on the words and be able to understand a few and possibly use them in my writing as I am in the strand of ABM :D

My blog may be quite short but I truly hope that it was a good catch-up on what's been happening lately in my life :D

See you in the next one! <3

Fahad's Amazing blog#2

 Hi, it's me again and I hope ur doing well. In the 3rd week of aep, we managed to do quite a lot of stuff such as our usual routine of playing diffle every morning. To be honest,diffle has been quite challenging for me because the answer can be more than 5 words, which can get really confusing when you have letters all over the place, nonetheless, it's still a fun activity for your brain since it pushes the limits of your brain and tells it to think outside the box. to mention, we only have 2 periods of aep In 1 week so our time is usually limited and the numbers of activities which can be done is not a lot. After we had done the word game diffle, miss made us put words in  a spin of the wheel, the words came from the assignment she gave us in which we had to put the missing word in a blank, miss had assigned 5 sentences per group, I had gotten paired with my friend hakim, if the word you did was selected on the spin of the wheel, you had to define what it meant. After doing all those activities, we had around 20-25 minutes left so which then miss decided to give an activity in which we had words on the left side, and words on the right side, we had to match those words and after matching the words, we had to find the meaning of the words.Since we had run out of time,miss gave this as a homework.

Thank you for reading my blog.See ya!

Blog 1.2 - 1st Ring

 Hi hii and welcome to another blog!!

I woke up late this morning (oopsie) so I had to do my makeup in a Starbucks bathroom, but besides that I had a pretty smooth-sailing morning. So what did we do on the second week? Firstly, we did another game for warmup of coursee! We played the same game as last time, "Diffle". It was fun and compared to last time, we got the word relatively quickly.

Soon after, Miss Disa had us fix up our little Miro board of all the vocabulary we learned last week. I was mostly done with it but I stayed to edit a few of the sentences and whatnot so that it'll be neater and easier to read. Right after we were done finishing up the board, Miss Disa has us do a little vocab quiz!

In summary, she put all the words we learned in Miro into the wheel of death, and what ever word pops up, the group that handled that word will have to explain the definition and how that word is used in context. It was pretty easy for me since I memorized the definitions for my words already. It was difficult to answer all the words by myself though because my teammate was Dilara and she already moved :(

It still went pretty smoothly so I can't complain too much.

Right after that, Miss made us do a little activity where we pair up words to make collocations. I had some difficulty with this one especially because I wasn't all that familiar with the different words and phrases combined. (Like- Junk bottom? What?). And especially since I had to painstakingly write down all of the definitions too... *sigh*

Nonetheless, I managed to finish up that assignment so it's not that bad anyway.

What do I want to improve? My ability to keep myself awake perhaps. And my intuition so that I can get better scores when making collocations haha

Discussing with my classmates was an option but that is also a gamble in and of itself. 

That's it for now. Thank you for reading!