ENGLISH LANGUAGE

ASSIGNMENT 1

PREPARED FOR
MISS LYNDY TAN

PREPARED BY
ALAN WAN YING LEE/ 051704499
ADELINE PHANG JIA QING / 051704516
ELEANOR TAN SZEYING / 051704511
JACQUELINE FUH ERN CHEE / 051704509
NG JI CHIEN / 051404409

DIPLOMA IN QUANTITY SURVEYING

EXECUTIVE COLLEGE

05 JUNE 2017
Question(s):

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Part 1:
One key to being competent in a language is to keep reading. Reading is a start step of many
things, which build a more solid stair for your achievements.
In a group, you are to select your favourite author and write a descriptive essay of your
preferred author. Your description should include their personal background, struggles (if
any), early work, recent publications, their road to fame and current updates.

Part 2:
You are also to produce a A3 size poster summarizing the biography of your preferred author.
You should include your preferred author’s personal background, early work and recent
publications.

Report
-Intro
-Personal Background
-Struggles
-Early Work
-Recent Publication
-Conclusion

Stephen William Hawking was born on the 8 th of January in Oxford, England. His father
Frank Hawking was a well-known researcher in tropical medicine, and his mother Isobel was
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a Scottish. His parents attended the University of Oxford. He is the eldest child. He has two
younger sisters, Philippa and Mary and an adopted brother, Edward. He was not an
outstanding student, but gradually he began to have interest in science subject and he wanted
to become a scientist. In 1958, he and his friend built a computer by using clock parts, old
telephone switchboard and other recycled components under the guide of the mathematics
teacher.
After Stephen Hawking gained his Ph.D., he became first a Research Fellow and later on a
Professional Fellow at Gonville and Caius College. In 1970, he as a physics cosmology has
published a proof that if the universe obeys the general theory of relativity and fits any of the
modelsog physical cosmology developed by Alexander Friedmann, then it must have begun
as a singularity. In the beginning of 1973, Stephen Hawking moved into the study of quantum
gravity and quantum mechanics. His work in this area presented by his result in 1974,
showed that black hles emit radiation, known today as Hawking radiation. He was elected
Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge from 1979 to 2009.
Stephen Hawking studied at University College Oxford at the age of 17. He decided to study
cosmology as the university did not offer a degree in Mathematics. He graduated with first-
class BA (HONS) degree in natural science and began his graduate work at Trinity Hall,
Cambridge.
Stephen Hawking’s theories on black holes and his search for a grand unification theory,
which would link the theories of relativity with those of quantum mechanics, have propelled
him into scientific ranks of Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein. He has also published
several works of popular science in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in
general, including the runaway bestseller “A Brief History of Time”.

Notes (not paraphrase yet)

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In 1963, Hawking contracted motor neurone disease and was given two years to live. Yet he
went on to Cambridge to become a brilliant researcher and Professorial Fellow at Gonville
and Caius College. From 1979 to 2009 he held the post of Lucasian Professor at Cambridge,
the chair held by Isaac Newton in 1663. Professor Hawking has over a dozen honorary
degrees and was awarded the CBE in 1982. He is a fellow of the Royal Society and a member
of the US National Academy of Science. Stephen Hawking is regarded as one of the most
brilliant theoretical physicists since Einstein.

http://www.hawking.org.uk/about-stephen.html

swh family books what’s his recent research.