Pherasel verbs in academic English

I did these exercises which were related to phrasal verbs in Academic Vocabulary in use book( unit 6 exercises 6.1 and 6.2)

6.1
1-We conduct (carry out) a series of experiments to test out our hypothesis.
2-Before the test you should revise (go/look back over) chapter 7 and 8 of your text books.
3-In his article on the American Civil War Kingston discusses (goes into) the reasons why the situation developed in the way it did.
4-Cole presents (puts forward) some fascinating theories on the development on of language in his latest book
5-The psychologist observed (pointed out) that it was very unusual for a young child to behave in this way.
6-Please check (go through) your work again carefully before handing it in.
7-In this article Simpson aims (sets out) to prove that the Chinese reached America long before the Vikings.
8-Women now constitute (make up) over half the student population in ,most universities in this country

6.2
1-on 2-out 3-out (my answer was wrong it should be up) 4-out 5-out (it should be up) 6-forward 7-on 8-out

first introduction( first draft)

To what extend are we influenced by media images?
It is generally agreed that media images are becoming an important and serious aspect of today's life .thousands of them are found every where and they are available to everybody. People absorb media images from television, magazines, internet, and newspaper or even on billboards and video games. Undoubtedly, media images are powerful because they affect our expectations, attitudes or even our social convention moreover, they have narrowed our notions since people use media frequently.(Sam Femanio and marck Nickerson, media &values magazine ,1999).thereby, what need to be awarded is that the most of our decisions, beliefs, and values are based on what we know for a fact and how we have put our trust on the mass media. However, we should know how media and its images really work. It is often argued that the mass media and its images have had negative on our life both in terms of the mentally and physically and also there has been a little discussion about whether they should be controlled or not. However, this essay will examine the influence of media images on society and it will be considered how it influences our decisions.

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Answer to Steve`s questions about grammar

Q) Which of the grammar points you have problems with are more important for a) writing b) speaking c) both?
A) I think my speaking is weaker than my writing and it is not fluent enough.

Q) Do you think that doing lots and lots of grammar exercises is the best way to improve your grammar?
A) yes,I think is the best way for me because I might find out more about my weaknesses and my mistakes and try to correct all of them.


Q) Can you think of any other activities that you could do without having to pick up a grammar book?
A) I think 1) listening to radio especially (BBC4) migh be useful or even when my teachers are taking about a subject, listen very carefully to them and write some notes could be good.
2)doing grammar exercise on internet could be helpful activies and entertainment as well.

Q) How do you think you've learnt the grammar you already know well?
A) doing many exercise and reviewing all of them when I forget them and don`t remember their rules


Q) Can you find some online exercises to help you with your grammar weaknesses.

Evaluate my first Seminar

I try to evaluate my self how well did my first seminar and I am going to write some notes in a nut shell about it:

Actually I wasn’t bad in first seminar but I think it could be better, I will need more improvement in some areas for instance, I hadn’t done enough research and preparation in addition, I should practise more about my languages because sometimes I felt it wasn’t accurate for other students in my group.
One of my good points was I listened to other students well when they were talking about specific subject and didn’t interrupt them too much! And also should be indicated that I had prepared enough phrases and expressions which some of them were formal and some of them were more informal. I argued my opinion clearly and respectably but it would be better if I spoke more during the seminar.
In during the seminar I tried to give some research and evidence to my group which could support my opinions and ideas.
For next seminar I am trying to improve my weak points and use and support more my strong points.

Plastic Product Design with Management Msc

http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/pgprospectus/courses/plastics-product-design-with-management.cfm

This link is related to my subject at London Metropolitan University which will start september 2008. this course consist of 3taught core modules with 1 optional taught module and a project.For Msc these 6 module must be passed.It means I will need to collect 180 credits.

The aims of the product design with management course are to: a) Provide the basis of business management in addition to the underpinning product design modules for science and engineering graduates. b) Provide foundation knowledge and practical skills related to managerial work. c) Use computer programme to manage project planning and control processes.

About pejman ( who am I ?)

I graduated in metallurgy engineering at one of famous university in Iran. I was working in a factory at control project section beside of my studying. After graduating I decided to continue my subject in one of good universities in London so I chose London metropolitan university because it has only had my favourite subject which is plastic product design with management. This is mixed by two different subject, management and engineering science. I hope it will develop my knowledge, confidence, professional values and also my attitudes in preparation for a successful career in industry in future .

Since April 2008 I have been studying English at London met and by starting my main subject it will have finished .I hope my English would be acceptable and good enough at the end of this course because be honest I am really worry about it!!!

I have been working part time in one of luxury hotels in London which is called Café Royal since 4 month ago. In during working there I have learnt many things which all of them could have been useful for my experience or even for my English. In addition, I have found new friends who all of them are so lovely.

At the moment I am a little bit tired because I have been living in London more than 8 month without any holiday and I think it would be helpful if I took a rest for a couple of days without thinking about English, polymer department ,London ,costs, job, and even lovely self study but unfortunately it is impossible :(

I love tennis and I have been playing it since 12 years ago. It is one of my hobbies in London and also I like football I used to play it with my friends but now I just support one of famous Iranian teams which is called PERSPOLIS from abroad.

God willing,all students will succeed in finishing their course.

First Seminar

Today’s as a group we discussed about the media in different part, now I would like to write some of my ideas which I found out from discussion.

first of all one of interesting subject which I found out was viewing TV in Japan has decreased in last 10 years because all Japanese people prefer to use internet and playing games instead of sitting in front of TV. However, they are thinking watching TV waste their times.

other subject was about all children in china are really interested to watch cartoon especially frictions cartoon which could be in some way has negative effect in their life because the majority of them are trying to follow the hero and first roll of character .

one of the subject which we disagreed about it was about the main purpose of TV, we had different ideas about that two Chinese guys strongly believed that selling and money is the main purpose for all producers to show the program on TV whereas, others members believed that it should be mix of entertainment and education in equal balance .

all of us agreed that a child has limited view of the world .if the child doesn’t enough knowledge he/she is forced to choose by own his/her favourite program and obviously ,they cant recognize which one is good and bad one the other hand, movies shouldn’t be censored for young people because they are old enough to watch every things
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the last subjects which I remembered was about developing technology in the next twenty years .all agreed that in the couple of next years we will see new technology in the world and also we agreed that watching TV is not useful for health because while they watch something on tv usually they eat unhealthy food.