Wednesday, April 27, 2011

To be Student Teachers

Student teachers are often placed into an awkward and stressful situation, not really sure of their authority and sometimes not even placed with veteran teachers who are much help. These are not suggestions how to approach the students instead for how to most effectively succeed in your new teaching environment.

Bahasa

We live in a multilingual country. There are many tribal languages that can be found in this country. To show the unity we stand, we have Bahasa as a national language. A moment in a meeting in my religious event, Pak Sarwono Kusumaatmadja said that it was important for us as Indonesians to master Bahasa. By mastering Bahasa, it will help us to learn other languages easier, not only in written form but also in oral. However, the

Thursday, April 21, 2011

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

The Great 
Pyramid of Giza The
 Hanging Gardens of Babylon The
 Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

The 
Statue of Zeus at Olympia The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus The Colossus of Rhodes The Pharos of Alexandria

Although most people know that a list exists of the Seven World Wonders, only few can name them. The list of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was originally compiled around the second century BC. The first reference to the idea is found in History of Herodotus as long ago as the 5th century BC. Decades later, Greek historians wrote about the greatest monuments at the time. Callimachus of Cyrene (305BC-240BC), Chief Librarian of the Alexandria Mouseion, wrote "A Collection of Wonders around the World". All we know about the collection is its title, for it was destroyed with the Alexandria Library.

The storytelling for children


A condition who someone presents a story to the listeners is called storytelling. Storytelling is also a gentle way to guide young people to build their imagination for constructive personal. Sometimes, a storyteller presents the stories with poetry, music and dance. A storyteller gets the story from books, their own imagination and other storytellers. Stories can connect the cultures, cultural gap, and teach us about life. Storytelling is not only for children but also for adults too.

Raja Ampat islands


Have you ever heard about Raja Ampat islands?  If you never heard about that place, let me tell you a little bit about Raja Ampat islands. Raja Ampat or four kings is a name for four islands, those islands are Waigeo, Misool, Salawati and Batanta.. Not many tourists know about Raja Ampat, but many of divers know about Raja Ampat. Usually, they are passing the information about Raja Ampat between divers. The location for Raja Ampat islands are in Papua.

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Glee,,Don't Stop Believing

Glee is a musical comedy-drama television series that airs on fox in the United States. It focuses on the high school glee club New Direction competition on the show choir competition circuit, while its members have problems with relationship, teenage problems, and social issues.  It is created by Ryan Murphy.

How to Write an Essay

What? Essay writing? Oh...no! That was the problem that I faced several days ago when I got my midterm test. For me writing is the most difficult skill in studying English and I think most of people have the same opinion with me.  Here is an approach for us to arrange a good essay writing. I share it for all of us so that it can be useful in the future.

Getting started on your essay

Before you start writing an essay, you need to decide three things. What are you writing about? Who do you imagine will be reading your essay? What do you want to tell them? A popular kind of essay is to offer your reader an opinion or argument.
You can write a successful essay by starting off with a plan. The key to doing a successful essay is to break the writing down into short, simple steps.

The Mandarin Language


The mandarin language is very important for people around the world; in this era not only Chinese people learn Mandarin language but also other people from another country learn Mandarin too. The mandarin language has been being important language from business section, education section, and economy section etc.  Few years ago, people were not like learn Mandarin language, because they felt the pronunciation and the writing system of the words are difficult. But now those kinds of perceptions are changing.  Government provided Mandarin language in school as education program. Children learn Mandarin language from kindergarten to high school as their second language.

The short story about oprah winfrey

The Oprah Winfrey show is the most famous talk show in United States, and this show is popular for all around the world. It became the number one talk show, and every week 48 million people are watching this show. It is live from 126 countries. The Oprah Winfrey show is named from Oprah’s name. She is the first black American woman, who succeed and has her own talk show, an artist, and as a producer for Broadway theater”The Color Purple”. Oprah was born on January 29 1954 in Mississippi. She lived with her grandmother for 6 years, until her mother took her move to Wisconsin. Oprah had a terrible experience when she was a teenager. One day she ran away from home for one week just to get attention from her mom. Her mom decided Oprah lives with her father and her step mother in Tennessee. Step by step Oprah’s life changes to the better way. 

Thursday, April 14, 2011

sing aloud and learn from it


What across in your mind when you hear “Learning a language”? Not easy? Boring? And really not attracting at all? Spent you time?  It is time to you to change it. Now days, you can find more attractive and efficient ways to learn a language. You can learn language without fell worried to stuck in your class and “bored until you dying”. What you have to do is only find the interesting material that supports you to learn language. There are some materials that you can use to learn language.