Today

Cleaning up my blog wall, hihii..

Just wanna say thanks a million to Mr. Rhn yg sudah memperkenalkan dunia perbloggingan.

Hari ini sy posting komentar di slh 1 blog org lain, seingga saya teringat dgn akun blog ini.

Ahh..2011-2016 itu tdk sebentar, there are so many stories that I can't write them all.

Just stay in my mind. :)

Tentang perjuangan penuntasan buta aksara,

Tentang perjuangan skripsi,

Tentang perjuangan di dunia kerja,

Tentang perjuangan mencerdaskan anak Indonesia di pedalaman Kalimantan sana,

Tentang perjuangan menempuh  ujian negara..

Karena memang hidup adalah perjuangan, bukan? Am I right?

Lalu, bagaimana nasib perjuangan cinta? Heheee... 

Sampai sekarang, juga masih berjuang :)

Yang pasti, tekad, niat, do'a, usaha.

 ALLAH Maha Baik :)

Arin sayang kalian

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"Narrative" Fun Speaking

Hello students… 


We meet again. I hope you are very happy today and everyday.


Today, we will learn deeper about narrative, and this is a speaking section.. Are you ready?

Before that, first, please look at this picture,

   

I bet you are familiar with her, who is she?

Do you remember her story?

Just for a moment, maybe you need to brush up your brain, this is a –very short- story about her:                                   


                                                 Cinderella

              Once upon a time there was a girl called Cinderella. She lived with her stepsisters. They were very bossy. They made Cinderella do all the housework.

               One day an invitation to the ball came to the family. Her stepsisters would not let her go. Cinderella was sad because she wanted to go to the ball too. Her stepsisters went to the ball without her.

             Fortunately, the fairy Godmother came and helped her to get to the ball. At the ball, Cinderella dance with the prince. The prince fell in love with her then married her. They lived happily ever after.

Anyway, please answer the questions based on the story! Because it will be your first Fun Job J

1. With whom did Cinderella live? 

2. How did Cinderella look like? 

3. Were her stepmother and her stepsisters friendly?

4. When did the story happen?

5. Who is fell in love with Cinderella?

6. In your opinion, is the story happy ending or sad ending?

             Next step, I have another version about Cinderella story, please see the pictures, I hope the pictures will help you to imagine what happened at this story and what you have to do is creating your own story which appropriate with the pictures, make two sentences for each picture in Past Tense and try to link those sentences to make a story. 

Write your story in a piece of paper. Retell the story and record it J

CINDERELLA

Once upon a time, there was a pretty young girl named Cinderella. Cinderella was loved by everyone because she was good and sweet and kind. But Cinderella's widowed father believed she needed a mother. . . .

Source

Did you enjoy it? 
Now, here I also have a video, hope it will make you more understand about this story and easier to do the exercises after that, let’s view and enjoy it J

After watching the video, I believe that you got more information about Cinderella’s story. And then, try to retell thatJ

The next step, we continue to CONVERSATION PRACTICE J    

In this part of the section, I provide you a conversation between Cinderella, her two stepsisters and her step mother. Learn the expression in the dialogue and try to practice it with your group.

Script 1

Once upon a time, there was a pretty lady. Her named Cinderella. She lived with her steps family. But, her steps family pretended her like a servant.

Alice : Cinderella…, Cinderella…, Cinderella…!
Cinderella : Wait, I’m coming. Why do you call me?
Alice : look at that. The floor is dirty. Clean it quickly.
Julie : no, no, no, Cinderella. I’m hungry now, cook some food first.
Alice : Julie, the floor is dirty.
Julie : Alice, I’m hungry
Alice : I don’t care, the floor is dirty
Cinderella : May I say some things?
Steps sister : NO!!
Step mother : What’s happen in here?
Step sister : No, mom. No thing.
Julie : Look at that, that’s rat, rat…
Step mother : Kill it now!
Cinderella : Don’t touch it. Let it go away
Step mother : Cinderella, are you sure….
Cinderella : I’m sure mom. If we let it go, it won’t come back to here.
Step mother : What do you talking about? I wouldn’t say it. I would say ‘are you sure want to get new punish?
Cinderella : a…, a…, a…
Step mother : Okay, let it go away. Then clean the floor and cook some food quickly. And you can’t dinner tonight
Cinderella : okay, mom.

Finish your conversation practice, may some of you will get a chance to perform it next week on my class. Hope it will be yours :)

Now, identify and find out some dialogue expressions from the script below, expression about: inviting, thanking, apologizing, giving - asking information, and so on. Please write your answer, it will be your second Fun Job J

Script 2

Cinderella went to the party. In that party, the Prince bored. All ladies invited Prince to dance with them. But the Prince didn’t want to do it. Then, When Cinderella came lately; the Prince surprised with her and felt falling in love to her. But, no one knew if she was Cinderella, except Cinderella, God and the Fairy. Cinderella looked very beautiful. She looked like a beautiful Princess from the Castle in other Country.

Alice : Will you dance with me?
Prince : I’m sorry, but I can’t. Thanks for your invitation.
Alice : Don’t worry. I can dance with my friends.

Julie : Look at me! He will dance with me!.
Alice : That’s impossible. I’m more beautiful than you, but he didn’t want with me.
Julie : What do you say? You are more beautiful than me. I think I’m prettier than you. So, look at me carefully!!
Julie : excuse me, Charming Prince, Will you dance with me?
Prince : I’m sorry, but I can’t. Thanks for your invitation.
Julie : But why are you feeling you can’t? Maybe I can help you?
Prince : Thanks, but, I can’t dance now. Thanks for your participations.
Julie : You’re welcome.

Alice : Look at your self. Prince didn’t want with you!
Julie : But I can talk with him longer than you!
Alice : Yes, But he just say Thanks…, I’m sorry…, then thanks… again!
Julie : SHUT UP!

Cinderella : Sorry, I’m late.
The Guard 2 : Don’t worry. Come on, lets in to the party room
Cinderella : Thank you.
The Guard 2 : You’re welcome.

Prince : Oh, God. Thanks. You give me a pretty woman.

Prince : Hi, lady. Will you dance with me?
Cinderella : Sure

Cinderella and the prince danced romantically and her step sister was jealous to them. Suddenly, the bell rang.

Alice : Look at that. Actually, we can like that with the Prince
Julie : What do you say, we, I think it just me?
Alice : huh, look at your self. You are ugly.
Julie : But I’m more beautiful than you.
Alice : It is wrong!!!
Julie ; No it is true.
Alice : No
Julie : Look at that.

Prince : Lady, you look beautiful. May I ask some things?
Cinderella : Sure.
Prince : May I know your name
Cinderella : Of course. My name is….
(The bells rang)
Cinderella : Oh, sorry Prince. I must go home now.
Prince : No, lady. Stay in here, please.
Cinderella : I’m sorry, Prince.
Prince : Lady, don’t leave me. Lady…lady…lady…

Cinderella went home quickly. But the Prince felt sad. And luckily, Cinderella’s glass shoe left when she run away.

Source

For your last Fun Job, please record your voice on retelling a whole Cinderella story,

• You can make the story be shorter or longer, but remember about the plot of the story. You must keep them sequentially.

• Don’t forget about the Past Tense :

Subject + past verb/verb 2 + Complement

• You may do some improvisations based on your creativity and your imagination.

submit all your Fun Jobs to my email: ariniresdwita@rocketmail.com

            And those draft will be your own material to present and retell whole story in front of the class on the next meeting J please try, try, and try at home to improve your speaking ability.

Have a nice learning ^^,

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Review of Website for Teaching and Learning Speaking

If you want to improve your English speaking skill,

Please  try  eslgold.com

            When we open the website we will see that this web provides many subject of study. There are 10 subject of study that people can learn from this website, they are: Speaking, Listening, Reading,  Writing,  Grammar,  Vocabulary, Business,  Pronunciation,  TOEFL/TOEIC, and Idioms

            And now, we are focus on SPEAKING, so just click in speaking term

URL: http://www.eslgold.com/speaking/

and there will appear some levels and some situations. In each level there are many examples of conversation. In the speaking pages we will provided  2 main menu those are the main materials of speaking lessons and the grade of the material for.

            There are 8 main material, they are : Phrases for Conversation, Topics for Conversation, Speaking Situations, Textbook Recommendations, Quick Links, Quizzes, Learning Strategies, Teaching Speaking

            And there are 5 grade this material for, they are: Low Beginning, High Beginning, Low Intermediate, High Intermediate, and Advance.

each grade has different materials. There will be some categories, just choose one of them and you can find what you are searching for.

            This website provides material for all kind of learners, whether you are beginner or advance in English. This website also provides the audio file. The student will hear the voice of the native speaker. It will help student to learn the pronunciation, intonation, and stress from native speakers. They also can do many exercises there.

            From this website, teacher can get many ideas and materials to teach, teacher can find some examples of conversation or dialogue in many different levels and situations. I think, if you are a teacher you will be very helped with this site.

            This website is very complete. All of the language skills are provided there. It is very easy to use. We can find the materials, exercise and also the audio.

            In my opinion, this web is very good and appropriate for student or teacher of English, this web can facilitates you in learning English. All materials on ESLgold.com are free of charge and organized by skill and level for quick and easy access. I recommended this web to all student and teacher of English.I hope that it will be usefull for you in helping your speaking ability. Have a nice surfing . . .  :)

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TEACHING SPEAKING promote

Today's world requires that the goal of teaching speaking should improve students' communicative skills, because, only in that way, students can express themselves and learn how to follow the social and cultural rules appropriate in each communicative circumstance. In order to teach second language learners how to speak in the best way possible, some speaking activities are provided below, that can be applied to ESL and EFL classroom settings, together with suggestions for teachers who teach oral language. If you want to know more, please visit this website:

http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Kayi-TeachingSpeaking.html

And from this website, we can know about what is “teaching speaking”, how to teach speaking, and there are a lot of ways to promote teaching speaking.

If you are the teacher of English, you can get a lot of information about teaching speaking, and not to bad if you do some suggestion over there.  If you are as students of English, you can improve your speaking ability based on what this website said. You also can knowing another fun ways to reach your knowledge about speaking learning such as : playing cards, picture narrating, picture describing, and find the differences.

For me, this website is good enough, because there are some information about ways of teaching speaking.  These website give me some descriptions about how to teach speaking well with all of the combination and improvisations.

I will recommend this website for you, as a teacher or student of English that practicing and will improving your skill of teaching speaking.

I hope that it will be useful for you ^^,

Good luck and thanks J

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Exploring Narrative Text

Hello, Dearest Students... :)

What you know about narrative?

Well, now we are learn about Narrative..

Narrative is an account of a sequence of events, usually in chronological order. Relating to kinds of text, narrative is a text which retells the story or previous experiences. The purpose of the text is to entertain or amuse readers or listeners about the story.
Narrative is basically story and within this, story telling, there are many kinds of narrative - comedy, mystery, romance, horror are some of the commoner types. A poem can also be a narrative if it tells a story rather than just describing something.

By using sensory details, the five Ws and H (who, what, where, when, why, and how), and basic story structure, any subject can be made exciting common forms of narrative text which are studied in high school are:

Legend
What is legend? A legend is a narrative of human actions that are perceived both by teller and listeners to take place within human history. Typically, a legend is a short, traditional and historicized narrative performed in a conversational mode. Some define legend as folktale. The example of legend in narrative text are

• Sangkuriang
• Malin Kundang
• The legend of Tangkuban Perahu
• The story of Toba lake

Fable
What is fabel? A fabel is a short allegorical narrative making a moral point, traditionally by means of animal characters who speak and act like human beings. The example of fable in narrative text are:

• Mousedeer and crocodile.
• The Ants and the Grasshopper
• The smartest parrot
• The story of monkey and crocodile

Fairy tale

What is fairy tale? According to Wikipedia, fairy tale is an English language term for a type of short narrative. A fairy tale typically features such folkloric characters as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments. The example of fairy tale in narrative text are:

• Cinderella
• Snow white
• Pinocchio
• Beauty and the beast
• The story of Rapunzel

Science fiction

What is science fiction? Science fiction is fiction based upon some imagined development of science, or upon the extrapolation of a tendency in society. Science fiction is that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know. Some examples of science fiction are:

• To the Moon from the Earth by Jules Verne
• Starship Trooper by Robert Heinlein
• A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

 source : http://understandingtext.blogspot.com


This is structure of

narrative writing

Goal:	Narrative writing tells a story or part of a story.
Characteristics:	The general characteristics of narrative writing include: ·         plot structure o    introduction o    rising action o    climax o    falling action o    resolution ·         conflict ·         characterization ·         setting ·         theme ·         point of view ·         sequencing ·         transitions
Uses:	Narrative writing appears in and is not limited to novels, short stories, biographies, autobiographies, historical accounts, essays, and poems.
........and for your exercises:	Write a story about the best celebration you have ever had; tell why this is your favorite.  Find an example of a narrative; explain the elements that make this a good example.

Do your exercises and please submit your work to my e-mail: ariniresdwita@gmail.com


Due data is a week from now.

Good luck and do your best :)  

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"NARRATIVE" Fun Listening

Welcome students..

Hope that you all in such good condition.

In this session, we are going to study about listening. As we now, listening is the first skill we have to master in order to study a language.


Ok, I think the opening is over, now let's get into the business. Here, we're going to study about narrative listening, before that, I want you to try to understand at least 90% of all those basics knowledge about narrative text I've explained in the previous post, since the next steps will lead you to further understanding about narrative text.


We can start the learning activity by now. :)

Pay attention and have fun with "NARRATIVE"

First, look at this picture  :)

Before we go to the exercise, do you know the animal above?

Yap, you're right, it is Parrot.

Have you ever heard the story about Parrot? No? what a shame, hehe

Now, it's your chance to know that story. Just listen carefully to the audio.

  and after that please do some fun exercises below, 

it will be your weekly assignment:

# CLOSE TEST

Please, fill up the blank to complete this story.

The Smartest Parrot

Once upon time, a man had a wonderful (1…..). There was no other parrot like it. The parrot could say every word, except one word. The parrot would not say the name of the place where it was born. The name of the place was (2…..).

The man felt excited having the smartest parrot but he could not understand why the parrot would not say Catano. The man tried to teach the (3…..) to say Catano however the bird kept not saying the word.

At the first, the man was very nice to the bird but then he got very (4…..). “You stupid bird!” pointed the man to the parrot. “Why can’t you say the word? Say Catano! Or I will kill you” the man said angrily. Although he tried hard to teach, the parrot would not say it. Then the man got so angry and shouted to the bird over and over; “Say Catano or I’ll (5…..)you”. The bird kept not to say the word of Catano.

One day, after he had been trying so many times to make the bird say Catano, the man really got very angry. He could not bear it. He picked the parrot and threw it into the (6…..) house. There were four old chickens for next (7….) “You are as stupid as the chickens. Just stay with them” Said the man angrily. Then he continued to humble; “You know, I will cut the chicken for my (8…..). Next it will be your turn, I will eat you too, stupid parrot”. After that he left the chicken house. 

The next day, the man came back to the chicken (9…..). He opened the door and was very surprised. He could not believe what he saw at the chicken house. There were three death chickens on the (10…..). At the moment, the parrot was standing proudly and screaming at the last old chicken; “Say Catano or I’ll kill you”.

And then, please join this fun quiz

Smartest Parrot quiz » fun quizzes

There are some explanation about that story..

Analysis the Generic Structure

• Orientation : It sets the scene and introduces the participants/characters. In that parrot story, the first paragraph is the orientation where reader finds time and place set up and also the participant as the background of the story. A man and his parrot took place once time.

• Complication : It explores the conflict in the story. It will show the crisis, rising crisis and climax of the story. In the parrot story, paragraph 2, 3, 4 are describing the complication. Readers will find that the man face a problem of why the parrot can not say Catano. To fix this problem, the man attempted to teach the bird. How hard he tried to teach the bird is the excitement element of the complication.

• Resolution : It shows the situation which the problems have been resolved. It must be our note that “resolved” means accomplished whether succeed or fail. In the last paragraph of the smartest parrot story, readers see the problem is finished. The parrot could talk the word which the man wanted. The parrot said the word with higher degree than the man taught the word to it. That was the smartest parrot.

# And for the last, please re-tell those story (The Smartest Parrot), write in your own word  (1 paragraph)

Send your answer sheet in form of word text document to

ariniresdwita@rocketmail.com

with the answer sheet format:

name/class/number (eg: Leon/IX B/25)

# Close test

1. ....

2. ....

3. ....

#Retelling the story

..........

Well student, that's all assignment for this week, enjoy your weekend..

and..

                                                              Good Luck!!!

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Listening Assignment

Well student, are you ready to begin?

First, please look at the pictures below!

Now, think about these words below!

1. study

2. international

3. departments

4. student

5. university

6. world

7. experience

8. class

9. language

10. foreign

A. Vocabulary

Now, please translate those words into Indonesian!

Listening section:

Listen to the audio carefully and then answer the following questions!

exercises:

B. Cloze Test

Studying Abroad (in the United Kingdom)

Lin:

I’m from (1…) and I’ve been studying in Bristol for 4 years. I’ve just (2…) my MA degree. When I first arrived in the UK I found it very difficult as I didn’t know anybody here, but I soon met other Chinese people studying at the (3…), and as my English improved I made friends with more people on my (4…).

Studying in the UK has been a very positive (5…) for me. I’ve met a lot of interesting people and (6…) around Europe in the holidays. For me the most difficult aspect was having the (7…) to take part in tutorials, and when I was told I would have to give a (8…) to the rest of the class, I was very (9….). My tutor helped me a lot, however, and said that for someone using their second (10…) I did very well.

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1. Where is Lin from?

2. What does Lin think about studying in the United Kingdom?

C. Write in your own words.

Retell those narrative story in your own words (write in 2 paragraphs)

Send your answer sheet in form of word text document to ariniresdwita@rocketmail.com

answer sheet format:

name/class/number (eg: Arin/XII IA2/09)

A. Vocabulary

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

....

B. Cloze Test

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

...

C. Write in your own words

Good Luck!!!

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