Personal Reflection 1

Personal Reflection from Saleh Al kurbi ( 2012 )                                                            

First of all, the course of academic reading and writing skills is use to learn  the student how to improve their level of writing and fully understanding the meaning of new words that might be used in our workplace in the future.

My classmates and I were taught by Mr. Gregory Vrhovnik, an American language teacher. To me, I think Gregory Vrhovnik is one of best teachers  I had met because of some reasons. Firstly , the way of his teaching  is very simple to  understand  Lessons and make us feel comfortable and motivated. secondly, he tells us the Mistakes that we had done and gives us the chance to fix it so that we can learn more from our mistakes.

Doing  summaries during the course is one the best learning experience that I had with this course.  This  pushed me to think fast in a certain amount of time by using my own words to write a perfect  summary which has covered all main points. Also, there is another useful method  that was provided with this course was the online vocabulary quizzes which help us to get and know more vocabulary and fully understanding its meaning and how to use it in a correct sentences.

 I think that the main objectives of this course is all  about how to help  students to improve their language skills Specially the most important part such as  writing skills. this course was extremely helpful, useful, and very resourceful.

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Graded summary 2

The Masdar Project

As stated in the National news "Masdar, Abu Dhabi's clean energy company, is considering building a US$200 million (Dh734.6m) wind farm" (Yee, 2011, April 27).Company of Abu Dhabi clean energy has a plan to build a wind farm. Energy generation comes from the light breezes, and the 7 percent of total power should  be done in 2020. The Masdar's start wind plants will be the first venture. They think the 100mw which will produce by the plant is nothing Compared to 300 mw farms. Masdar wants to sign a contract  in January and the wind farm will start to work two years later. Wind energy in the UAE is limited, because of the nature of the wind. $2m is the cost to install one megawatt of wind power so total is 200m. Wind plants need to be supported by investors and government.

References

Yee, A. (2011, April 27). Masdar plan for $200m pioneering wind farm - The National. Latest and breaking news | thenational.ae - The National. Retrieved March 13, 2012, from http://www.thenational.ae/business/energy/masdar-plan-for-200m-pioneering-wind-farm

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Desert survival : finding water

The Bedouin have experience and knew about wells and direction of the desert. They followed the twittering and flight of the birds to find the water. Bedouins are the only ones  who know where the water is located. Wells are drilled by the Bedouin , they use qerba to purity water and filter it. Wells are still named by the name of  person  who have dug wells. The Bedouin needs to get water by killing the camel , this animals is a good source of water and it has the ability to store water. Camel and goat milk is also used to replace water. Bedouins have the ability and endurance of more than twenty-four hours without drinking water. They are accustomed to live in the desert and because their body are acclimatized.                                                                                                      

References

Malek, C. (2011, August 2). Desert survival: finding water - The National. Latest and breaking news | thenational.ae - The National. Retrieved February 27, 2012, from http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/environment/desert-survival-finding-water

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Malek, C. (2011, August 2)

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