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Anis' AEP Diaries 2.2 - Slowly Warming Up

🎀 Season 2: Episode 1 🎀 

Friday, 1st December 2023 

“Avoiding Rudeness”. 

Sometimes when we speak, we fail to recognize or acknowledge the words that come out of our mouth. If you think about it, we speak to communicate – we speak to express. However, there are myriads of aspects that we tend to overlook when doing so which includes our tone and use of language. Admittedly, speaking towards the people who we consider as family and friends my come off as easy, considering that it happens almost like it’s our second nature. Be that as it may, speaking formally towards the people outside of our intermediate circle could pose as a challenge. 

Especially in this 21st century where our lives are pretty much dominated by technology, there is an increase use of electronic applications in where we communicate using a digital platform. Given a scenario that we aim to communicate our thoughts to people we do not know, our new lesson taught us how to properly structure our sentence by using modal verbs, Ps and Qs and quantifiers. What this does is that, it reduces the horrible risk of being rude. 


There were two major things that made me feel connected to the lesson: 

First, it was the fact that we were learning using physical handouts which makes it a more hands-on activity and is very engaging. Prior to the this term, we have been using our digital devices for the most part. This change of pace feels really refreshing and brings me back to when we had lessons in primary school! It’s just really fun being able to annotate the texts and have something we could hold (mostly to fidget with hahaha) while the class goes by. 

Secondly, the resurfacing of the Ps and Qs rule. Ever since I was a little girl, my mom is the individual that has positively impacted me in my English language development. With my kindergarten enforcing that all kids shall have the basic level of English language, she was adamant on making sure that I wasn’t only learning the practical part of English, but also the mannerisms that comes with it. I still remember very vividly of this one day in where my class of 15 little kids sat in a circle and shared something we have in mind. Without hesitant, I told the story about the Ps and Qs! To have something I could reminisce back on when I’m learning some big girl stuff makes my inner child extremely happy! 

So far, AEP has been really good to me – and most importantly, I have been good to AEP. It really feels as if we are bonding as a class, especially when we all collectively just have these sneaky and cute side comments to share our perspectives when we do a sharing session based on the subtopic we were discussing. 

Stay tuned to watch my experience in AEP unfolds as term two of the school year progresses by. I guess I’m closing this blog off by saying, bye bye and jumpa lagi!  

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