Narrative Text

Diposting oleh aminSaryanto on Rabu, 11 September 2013


The Bear and Rabbit

Once upon a time, there lived a bear and a rabbit. The rabbit is a good shot. In contrary, the bear is always clumsy and could not use the arrow.

One day, the bear called over the rabbit and asked the rabbit to take his bow and arrows.
The rabbit was fearing to arouse the bear's anger so he could not refuse it. He went with the bear and shot enough buffalo to satisfy the hungry family. Indeed he shot and killed so many that there were lots of meats left after.

However the bear did not want the rabbit to get any of the meat. The rabbit could not even taste the meat. The poor rabbit would have to go home hungry after his hard day's work.

The bear was the father of five children. Fortunately, the youngest child was very kind to the rabbit. He was very hearty eater. The mother bear always gave him an extra large piece of meat but the youngest child did not eat it. He would take it outside with him and pretended to play ball with the meat. He kicked toward the rabbit's house.When he got close to the door he would give the meat with such a great kick. The meat would fly into the rabbit's house. In this way, the poor rabbit would get his meal.
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Descriptive Text

Diposting oleh aminSaryanto on Minggu, 08 September 2013


Lampung University

Lampung University or Unila is one of the best universities in Sumatra. This university is the pride of Lampung society and it was produced by the best people of Lampung. The university is located inBandar Lampung, Indonesia. In 1965, Unila was decided as a university by the government decision. In the beginning of this university, Unila only had two faculties, Law Faculty and Economic Faculty, and Unila was located in the three areas. There were on Hasanudin street, Jendral Suprapto street, andSorong Cimeng street. Since 1974, Unila had been built in Gedong Meneng. Now, every faculty has been located at that location.

Spesifically, Unila is located on Jalan Soemantri Bojonegoro No.1, Bandar Lampung. Unila is popular as a green campus because there are many trees in every areas of this university. It shows that Unila care to the environment and this behavior must be modeled by other university, especially in Lampung. Unila has many facilities besides faculty buildings. It’s useful for students to study and to apply other activities. Unila has GSG and it is used for many events, such as; graduation of students or lecturers, and orientation meeting for the new students. In front of GSG, there is a library. In the library, there are many useful books for students in helping their academic activity. Unila also has a Rectorate building where rector and his assistants do their job.

In the future development, Unila want to build a hospital and it has a program to become Top Ten University in 2025.    
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Review

Diposting oleh aminSaryanto on Kamis, 05 September 2013


HABIBIE AINUN, The recent love story
  One of the most popular romantic melodrama movies by a young director, Faozan Rizal, has break record of the most watched movie in theater. The movie which based from B.J habibie’s biography “HABIBIE & AINUN”, are starring by Reza Rahardian as Habibie, and Bunga citra Lestari as Ainun.
  The story of this movie, which based of BJ habibie’s biography began with the first met of Rudy Habibie and Ainun when they were in high school. As the two smartest students, their teachers and friends were often making fun of them and told her that she looked like palm sugar because she has dark skin. When they were graduated, Rudy work as an engineer from Germany and Ainun work as a pediatrician
  Ainun, though she had many admirers, but the one she loved the most was only Rudy. After married a few months later at 12 May 1962, Rudy returned to Germany with his wife. The power of their love made them survived and fought until they had their established position. Bad thing appeared suddenly when a doctor told Ainun that she got ovarian cancer, fortunately she can survived. Rudy as a genius person of Indonesia had a big dream to make plane for his country. This big dream then came true. Rudy made IPTN (industri pesawat terbang nusantara) in 1974.
  His career in Indonesia increased from time to time, but not easy at all, and his big dream came true through Gatotkoco in 1995. In 1998 crisis happened in Indonesia and student demanded president Soeharto to step down. Rudy then was appointed to replace Soeharto, but it was not long before people accused him of corruption until he decides not to run for president again. In all that times, Ainun was always there to support him, to be his medicine, to be his shoulder for him to lean and to cry together.
  Happiness returned to their life, but unfortunately the ovarian cancer in ainun appeared again and even more severe. Until the time she couldn’t survive like before. Rudy did everything to save the life the woman he loved the most, but nothing he could do when death came.
 This movie is not only showing the romance between prof. Habibie and his wife, but also showing the political condition of Indonesia at that time. Indonesia also can see how the people in Germany have a great respect to prof. Habibie, while Indonesia appointed him did corruption.
  Although the acting and makeup of Reza rahardian and bunga citra lestari are great, but their body gesture when being old doesn’t fit. They only had old face but the body just like young people. And as Ainun, Bunga citra lestari doesn’t fit for the image of Java oriental woman like ainun.
  Overall, this movie contains a very nice love story. By this movie, we could see that the real true love is not Romeo and Juliet who tragically suicide to keep their love to each other, but Habibie and Ainun who grew old together and separated by destiny of death. This movie is a great movie in the end of 2012, but I think this movie will get more moviegoers if release right on Valentine’s Day.
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News item

Diposting oleh aminSaryanto on Senin, 02 September 2013


People Killed and Injured in Blast at Nightclub
Three people have been killed and eight others injured in a hand grenade blast at a packed village nightclub.
The explosion in Idvor, north of Belgrade, occurred at 2:30 a.m. Sunday (0030 GMT Sunday; 8:30 p.m. EDT Saturday) when a man activated the grenade at the entrance to the club. About 150 customers were inside at the time.
Such incidents aren't unusual in Serbia since the wars in the Balkans in the 1990s when many hand grenades and firearms were taken home from war fronts.
Serbia's state TV says the man was angry because he and three of his friends were refused entry by the club's security. He and one of his friends were killed in the blast.
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Discussion Text

Diposting oleh aminSaryanto on Jumat, 30 Agustus 2013


The advantages and Disadvantages of Distance Learning
A few years ago, distance learning was seen as an inferior way but nowadays even famous and established traditional colleges and universities are providing distance learning courses and it is generally considered a way to improve one's life.
However, people still argue whether distance learning give more advantage or disadvantage. Some of them who see the benefit of distance learning will say that distance learning needs no commuting. Of course it saves money and time that students would take. Furthermore, distance learning can be done at any student’s convenience. Mostly of the classes of distance learning are asynchronous. It means that students do not have to attend a lecture at a fixed particular time and place. Students can review the assignments and do their homework during off-hours or from home. Additionally, distance learning gives more accessibility. No one can deny it. People with limited mobility may encounter the problem when they take traditional class. With the online class system, the problem is absent.
Despite the many advantages, the other people will see that distance learning is costly and needs complex technology. To attend online learning, student must have a computer with possibly access to the internet. Admitted or not, such technology devices are not always available for common students. Another disadvantage of distance learning is that it does not provide immediate feedback. Unlikely traditional classroom, students have to wait for the feedback and comment until the instructor has review the works and sent response to them. Most of the time students will study alone. Distance learners may feel isolated or miss that social physical interaction that comes with attending a traditional classroom.
Regarding the individual’s learning style, some students are able to learn when there is a live interaction between them and the available of accompanying teacher while others don’t really need it. So before deciding a choice of attending distance learning or not, each student needs to do a fair analysis regarding the kind of person he/she is.
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Explanation Text

Diposting oleh aminSaryanto on Selasa, 27 Agustus 2013

Making Paper from Woodchips

Woodchipping is a process used to obtain pulp and paper products from forest trees. The woodchipping process begins when the trees are cut down in a selected area of the forest called a coupe.
Next the tops and branches of the trees are cut out and then the logs are taken to the mill. At the mill the bark of the logs is removed and the logs are taken to a chipper which cuts them into small pieces called woodchips. The woodchips are then screened to remove dirt and other impurities. At this stage they are either exported in this form or changed into pulp by chemicals and heat. The pulp is then bleached and the water content is removed.
Finally the pulp is rolled out to make paper.
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Hortatory Exposition Text

Diposting oleh aminSaryanto on Sabtu, 24 Agustus 2013



The Importance Of Reading
I personally think that reading is a very important activity in our life. Why do I say so?
Firstly, by reading we can get a lot of knowledge about many things in the world such as Science, technology, sports, arts, culture, etc written in either books, magazine, newspaper, etc.
Secondly, by reading we can get a lot of news and information about something happening in any parts of the world which can we see directly.
Another reason, reading can give us pleasure too. When we are tired, we read books, novel, comic, newspaper or magazine on the entertainment column such as comedy, short story, quiz, etc. To make us relaxed.
The last, reading can also take us to other parts of the world. By reading a book about Irian Jaya we may feel we’re really sitting there not at home in our rooms.
From the facts above, it’s obvious that everyone needs to read to get knowledge, information and also entertainment. Or in summary we can say reading is truly important in our life.
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Kalimat Phrasal Verb

Diposting oleh aminSaryanto on Jumat, 16 Agustus 2013


Salah satu verb yang memiliki banyak phrasal verb adalah “get“, 8 diantaranya yang sangat umum adalah sebagai berikut:

Get up
Bangun dari tempat tidur di pagi hari. Ini berbeda dengan ‘wake up’ yang berarti terjaga atau saat kita membuka mata setelah tertidur.
Example: Although my alarm wakes me up at 5, I don’t get up until 6:30.
Get into
Masuk ke mobil atau taksi. Kita menggunakan ‘get on’ untuk bus dan kereta api, tetapi untuk mobil kita pakai ‘get into’.
Example: Jack is too fat to get into his car.
Get on (with someone)
Memiliki hubungan yang baik dengan seseorang.
Example: She doesn’t get on with her brother. They’re always fighting.
Get off
Saat dimana kita menyelesaikan pekerjaan dan kembali ke rumah di hari itu.
Example: Do you wanna go for a dinner after work? I get off at 4:00.
Get in (somewhere)
Berhasil memasuki sebuah tempat setelah berusaha keras atau bahkan menggunakan tindakan kriminal.
Example: Thieves got in the office by breaking the window.
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Verbal

Diposting oleh aminSaryanto on Selasa, 13 Agustus 2013



Gerund
: berfungsi sebagai noun (I hate waiting).
Infinitive: berfungsi sebagai nounadjective, atau adverb (To travel is a bad idea).
Participle: berfungsi sebagai adjective (your broken smile).
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Gabungan dua atau tiga kata yang menjadi kata kerja multikata

Diposting oleh aminSaryanto on Sabtu, 10 Agustus 2013

Phrasal verbs adalah bagian dari kata kerja yang disebut juga dengan istilah multi-word verbs (kata kerja multikata).

Multi-word verbs, termasuk phrasal verbs, adalah hal yang umum dipakai dalam berkomunikasi dalam bahasa Inggris. Umumnya banyak orang menyebut semua multi-word verbs dengan sebutan phrasal verbs. Beberapa contoh phrasal verbs: pick up, turn on, get up, look up, break down, etc.

Phrasal verbs terdiri dari basic verb + another word or words. Kata lain yang menyertai kata kerja dasar bisa berupa preposisi dan/atau adverbia. Gabungan dua atau tiga kata yang menjadi kata kerja multikata (multi-word verbs) disebut frase (phrase). Itulah mengapa kata kerja ini disebut dengan istilah “phrasal verbs”.

Hal penting untuk diperhatikan adalah bahwa phrasal verbs tetaplah disebut kata kerja, misalnya kata “get” dan “get up” adalah sama-sama kata kerja. Tetapi “get” dan “get up” mempunyai arti yang berbeda. Meskipun berbeda arti, phrasal verbs tetap diperlakukan dan dipelajari sebagaimana umumnya kata kerja. Dan masalah yang sering dihadapi adalah ketidakjelasan makna dalam suatu kalimat karena phrasal verbs memiliki beberapa arti yang berbeda.

Phrasal verbs juga dapat berupa intransitive dan transitive.
- The witness finally broke down on the stand. (Intransitive)
- She looked up her old boyfriend. (Transitive)
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Macam-macan Verb

Diposting oleh aminSaryanto on Kamis, 08 Agustus 2013



Voice
 berguna menyatakan apakah suatu subject of a sentence melakukan atau menerima aksi.

 Adapun dibedakan menjadi:

Active Voice: subject melakukan aksi (I has cleaned your thick book).

Passive Voicesubject menerima aksi (The book was edited by Beatrice Sparks).
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Bentuk teks dalam bahasa ingggris

Diposting oleh aminSaryanto on Senin, 05 Agustus 2013


Recount text
Fungsi Recount text: Untuk memberitahu pembaca apa yang terjadi di masa lalu melalui urutan-urutan kejadian.
Struktur Recount text:
- Orientation (yang terlibat, kapan dan di mana peristiwa itu terjadi)
- Events (menceritakan apa yang terjadi dalam urutan kronologis)
- Re-orientation (opsional - penutupan acara)
Bahasa yang biasa digunakan:
* Penggunaan kata kerja di masa lalu (went, studied)
* Penggunaan kata ganti dan kata benda (John, he, she)
* Penggunaan kata sifat
* Penggunaan frase adverbal
* Penggunaan lampau (We went for a trip to the beach)

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Dialog dalam Bahasa Inggris

Diposting oleh aminSaryanto on Sabtu, 03 Agustus 2013


asking and giving direction
student :                      Excuse me. Is there a library near here?
parking attendants:     Yes. There's one near here.
student:                       How do I get there?
parking attendants:     At the traffic lights, take the first left and go straight on. It's on the left.
student :                      Is it far?
parking attendants:     Not really.
student :                      Thank you.
parking attendants:     Don't mention it.
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belajar tentang WAS/WERE

Diposting oleh aminSaryanto on Kamis, 01 Agustus 2013


Hi Fellas..
Pada kesempatan kali ini saya akan coba mengajak teman2 belajar tentang WAS/WERE.
Kapan itu digunakan dan bagaimana penerapannya??
Lets learn together!!
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Pada Simple Past Tense yang sudah kita pelajari, terdapat penggunaan WAS/WERE pada kalimat nominal. Pertama-tama yang harus kita perhatikan adalah subyeknya.

Bila subyek kalimatnya I, She, He, It, atau subyek tunggal lainnya, kita menggunakan WAS.
Sedangkan bilasubyek kalimatnya You, We, They, dan subyek jamak lainnya maka kita menggunakan WERE.

Untuk lebih jelasnya teman2 bisa perhatikan tabel di bawah ini.
Subject
To be
I
He
She
It
Singular (1)
was
You
We
They
Plural (more than 1)
were


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Okey fellas...
 
Sekian pembahasan saya mengenai penggunaan was/were, semoga bermanfaaat..
Bila ada pertanyaan atau kritik dari teman2, jangan sungkan untuk menulisnya di comment box yaaaa...

Thank you for visiting my blog.
Dont give up!! Keep learning!!
and...... FIGHTING!!!

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Asking and giving help

Diposting oleh aminSaryanto on Minggu, 28 Juli 2013


Christopher :   Hi, Jess.
Jessica :           Hi, Chris.
Christopher :   what are you doing?
Jessica :           well. I’m planting a rose now. Can you help me get the flower pot over here,                 please?
Christopher :   yes, of course.
Christopher takes the flower pot and gives it to Jessica.
Christopher :   here you are.
Jessica :           thank you, Christopher.
Christopher :   you’re welcome. These flowers are beautiful. Are they all yours?
Jessica :           yes. My mother bought them for me.
Christopher :   oh, I see. By the way, would you like me to water the flowers?
Jessica :           no, thanks. You don’t have to.
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future perfect tense

Diposting oleh aminSaryanto on Minggu, 21 Juli 2013

Future perfect tense digunakan untuk:

a. menyatakan kejadian atau kegiatan yang akan dan baru saja/sudah selesai dilakukan pada waktu tertentu di waktu yang datang.
- I’ll have left by the time you read this.
- I like looking at these pictures, but I’ll have had enough by lunchtime.

b. menyatakan kejadian atau kegiatan yang telah dimulai pada waktu lampau yang akan sudah dilakukan dan belum selesai di masa yang akan datang.
- They will have lived here for four years next April.
- I’ll have been here for six months on May 22nd.


Keterangan waktu yang biasa dipakai dalam future perfect tense adalah by, by the time, before, for etc.
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8 Aturan Membuat Interrogative Sentence

Diposting oleh aminSaryanto on Jumat, 19 Juli 2013


Membuat interrogative sentence(kalimat pertanyaan) kadang sulit juga kadang tidak. Mungkin sudah banyak yang mengerti cara membuat atau menggunakan kalimat pertanyaan baik itu dalam teks tertulis ataupun percakapan sehari-hari. Namun begitu tidak ada salahnya jika disini saya mengutipkan 8 aturan dasar dalam membentuk kalimat tanya tersebut seperti yang saya adaptasi dari tulisan Swan (2005: 465-466) di bawah ini:

1.      Auxiliary verb harus terletak sebelum subyek

Dalam kalimat tanya (interrogative sentence), secara umum auxiliary verb memang harus terletak sebelum subyek.

Contoh:

Have you received my letter of June 17? (bukan you have received my letter of June 17?)
When is Oliver leaving? (bukan when Oliver is leaving?)
Why are you laughing? (bukan why you are laughing?)
What are all of those people looking at? (bukan what all of those people are looking at?)

2.     Gunakan do, does dan did jika tidak ada auxiliary verb.

Ketika sebuah kalimat pernyataan (declarative sentence) akan dijadikan kalimat pertanyaan (interrogative sentence), jika dalam kalimat tersebut tidak memiliki auxiliary semisal pada simple sentence dan simple past, maka kalimat pertanyaan tersebut harus diganti dengan do, does atau did.

Contoh:

Do you like Mozart? (bukan like you Mozart?)
What does ‘periphrastic’ mean? (bukan what means ‘periphrastic’?)
Did you wash the car today? (bukan you wash washed the car?)

3.     Jangan mendampingkan do dengan auxiliary verb yang lain.

Do tidak digunakan dengan auxiliary verb yang lain maupun dengan be.

Contoh:

Can you tell me the time? (bukan do you can tell me the time?)
Have you seen John? (bukan do you have seen John?)
Are you ready (bukan do you are ready?)

4.     Gunakan Bare Infinitive dalam kalimat tanya yang ber-auxiliary do, does dan did.

Setelah do, does dan did sebagai auxiliary memang harus diletakkan sebelum subyek (lihat point 5 di bawah), dan setelah subyek tersebut maka lexical verb atau ordinary verb (kata kerja utama kalimat) tersebut harus menggunakan bare infinitive (kata kerja murni tidak ditambah s, es, ed, atau ing) dengan kata lain tidak berubah menjadi past form (kata kerja bentuk kedua), past participle (kata kerja bentuk ketiga) dan juga past participle (kata kerja yang diakhiri –ing <v-ing>)

Contoh:

What does the boss want? (bukan what does the boss wants?)
Did you go climbing last weekend? (bukan did you went climbing last weekend?)

5.     Hanya auxiliary verb yang terletak sebelum subyek.

Seperti penjelasan point ke-1 diatas, hanya auxiliary verb yang terletak sebelum subyek. Artinya, ordinary verb atau kata kerja utama tetap terletak setelah subyek.

Contoh:

Is your mother coming tomorrow? (bukan is coming your mother tomorrow?)
Is your daughter having a lesson today (bukan is having your daughter tomorrow?)
When was your reservation made? (bukan when was made your reservation?)

6. Ketika who, which, what, atau whose adalah subyek (atau bagian dari subyek), maka do tidak digunakan.

Seperti dijelaskan di point ke-2, jangan gunakan do jika tidak ada auxiliary verb yang lain. Namun hal tersebut tidak berlaku jika diawali oleh who, which, what ataupun whose yang difungsikan sebagai kata tanya yang menanyakan subyek.

Contoh:

Who phoned? (who adalah subyek, maka do, does, atau did dihilangkan) bandingkan dengan kalimat pertanyaan di bawah ini:
Who did you phone? (did ditambahkan karena menanyakan obyek)

7.     Dalam indirect question (kalimat tanya tidak langsung) letakkan auxiliary verb setelah subyek.

Dengan kata lain kembali menjadi declarative sentence alias kalimat pernyataan, sehingga dengan demikian secara otomatis tanda tanya (?) harus dihilangkan.

Contoh:

Tell me when you are leaving. (bukan tell me when are you leaving?)

8.    Preposition (kata depan) diletakkan di akhir wh-questions.

Umumnya, ketika membuat kalimat tanya jenis wh-question, preposition atau kata depan diletakkan di akhir kalimat.

Contoh:

What are you talking about? (bukan about what are you talking?)
Who did you buy the tickets from?
What did you clean the floor with?

9.     Selalu akhiri kalimat pertanyaan dengan tanda tanya (?)

Nah ko, ada 9?? Tenang.. ke-8 aturan tersebut diungkapkan oleh Swan—pakar grammar English british—nah sedangkan tambahan ini asli dari saya… seperti yang telah saya pelajari selama ini, yaitu ketika kalimat pertanyaan itu ditulis, jangan pernah tidak menyertakan tanda tanya (?) di akhir interrogative sentence .

Contoh:

Who are you? (bukan who are you)

Mengapa saya tambahkan keterangan no-9 ini, yah karena pengalaman saja, ternyata tanda tanya pun mempengaruhi nilai TOEFL ataupun IELTS…. Gila bukan…..

Sudah ah, thanks a lot…..
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