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Jumat, 30 Juni 2017

Birdy ; My Favorite Solo Singer




Jasmine van den Bogaerde, better known by her stage name Birdy, is a 21th year old British singer and songwriter. At 12, she signed a record deal after winning talent contest Open Mic UK. Two years later, her haunting cover of Bon Iver’s Skinny Love went viral on YouTube.

Birdy was born on Mei 15, 1996 in Lymington, Hampshire . Her mother is a concert pianist and her father is a writer. She has two older half-brothers, a younger brother and a sister. All of her family are into music and art, so they understand her passion for it.

People probably don’t even know her face, but this New Forest- born singer’s music is everywhere. Some singers perhaps are overexposing their music and career, but this isn’t prevail to Birdy, as what she said, “I’ll occasionally get strange glances, but generally speaking I get left alone, “ “ I don’t think I would cope otherwise. I was a shy kid when I started and I never wanted to be out there doing lots of promotion or going on TV shows and things. I just wanted to let my music speaks for me.”

Birdy began writing songs at the age of 12. By 14 she’d had hits in the UK and Europe. At 19, she’s a Grammy nominated, six-time platinum, multimillion-seller whose fans include Jennifer Lawrence, George Clooney and Ellen DeGeneres. You probably hear her soundtracks of The Hunger Games, The Fault in Our Stars, Disney’s Brave, a track she wrote with Mumford & Sons and the RED Valentino campaign. Her song “Wings” was featured in the movie trailer for the recent film “Winter’s Tale”.

Birdy has produced three albums Birdy (2011), Fire Within (2013), and Beautiful Lies (2016). She has a beautiful voice and she’s really good in playing piano, almost all of her songs she plays piano. Her favorite song of her sophomore album “Fire within” is called “ All You Never Say” which she wrote with Dan Wilson (Adele, Taylor Swift) in Los Angeles. Her albums consist of various genres like indie folk, indie pop, also baroque pop. Her songs like Wild Horses, Keeping Your Head Up, Words, All You Never Say, and Terrible Love are the most i like.

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Pucok Krueng




that’s beautiful place, isn't it? It is still natural, no one destroy it either, it has a blue-green water, and you can feel the serenity near the water. But hang on. It’s not easy to get there as you can imagine. We went there in previous year , the road is still dangerous, but i don’t know the situation of the road now, cause i just went there once.

Several times ago, i made a plan with three of my friends, all of them are girls. We decided to go to Pucok Krueng, but i called it “Horrific Trip”. Firstly, i was so excited to go there, i saw some pictures in the Instagram about that place and I was interested by the place.

Obviously, when we went there it took a very long road. I rode with one of my friends by her motorcycle. When i rode her motorcycle, i was shocked. The situation was too quite, no one there. Then some bad things came to my mind suddenly and i told her some scary things, it drove her crazy. The road was terrible and we heard many monkeys surround us. We almost fall, we were so afraid if we would get lost.

Then i tried to disappear all the bad things. We tried to fight our fear and focus on the expactation. Then we changed to drive. We didn’t realize that we lost the two of our friends, their rode too fast. However, we kept riding by follow the road. I tried to call them but there was no signal there. At the half of the road, our friends were waiting for us and we continued our trip.

Time passed by around one hour, finally we arrived. And i had never stop to thank God. And guess what? The view is awesome. We took a rest for a while, we grabbed some snackes and talked with a villager there. At the end, we climbed  seven small caves over there and we took a lot of pictures. It was a worst but coolest journey with three of my friends. 
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My Activities During Ramadhan



Ramadhan is the amazing moment for every muslim in the world. We considered it as a blessing month.
Ramadhan is a meaningful month for me. Every year, me and my mother get busy by many activities especially in this Ramadhan. I almost had no time to take some rest, i had been running on my errance everyday.

Unbelievable, my mother was ordered up to 60 boxes of cookies, it’s killing us both ! but we can’t refuse it cause it is a prosperity from Allah. Then i convinced my mother that we can finish it no matter what, Insha Allah, Allah will give us strength to do it, beside i have many assignments from lecturer. I almost gave up at that time, but i tried to enjoy every moment in this Ramadhan.

Fortunately, i can divide my time for each of my houseworks, i wrote the list of my activities during ramadhan and i sticked it on my desk wall. After i had a predawn meal, i cleaned up my kitchen with the help of my mother. Then, i opened up my laptop and did my homework by degrees while waiting for Adzan. After i did shalat, i got to sleep around 2 hours. When i wake up, i spent my time to recite quran for a moment.

After i finished it, i’m going to help my mother to make some cookies. We can produced 8 jars of cakes for one recipe. In the other hand, i gotta do my homework during we take some rest from the kitchen activity. I felt so exhausted at that time, but i had to fight for it. I spent my time doing my homework about 3 hours in the afternoon. At 4 p.m. i helped my mother to cook.

At night, we continued to make some cookies again and we had some food around us to reveal some stress out. My mother and I really enjoy those stress moments, we made some jokes and told some odd stories. Before everyone get to sleep, we often cooked some meals and we ate a lot. Then i started continue to do my homework until 1 a.m.

Overall, i wasted my time to sleep only 5 hours everyday and i got the busiest day in this Ramadhan. However, i should have to Thank God because i have given good condition and i can finish my works.
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Kamis, 29 Juni 2017

Compilation of Medias for Teacher to Use In Teaching English


This paper aims to provide a number of medias that can be used by a teacher in teaching-learning process. the medias are consist of printed media, maquette, audio, audio visual, board game, realiea, and technology based media. there are also some steps in using those medias that easier the teacher to use it in order to create a better learning process. The medias provided as follow ;

PRINTED MEDIA
















In this section, teacher will use magazine as the media in teaching process. The topic that will be given is Description Text. Based on K.D. 4.10., especially for the first grade of Senior High School.
In the first phase, teacher  makes a discussion  about description text with the students based on their previous knowledge, and sharing ideas what they like to describe as a warming up. Here the teacher will make a little bit chit-chat with students in order to impress them about this topic.
Second phase, teacher will intoduce what descriptive means, how can people use it and also the steps in describing something in order to make the description teks well organized.  This activities will take time around 15 minutes.
Third phase, for the main activities, teacher will show them a magazine that has been prepared. This magazine consists of a number of pages that provides bedroom decoration. This magazine is suitable for student as a learner in receiving knowledge because this kind of magazine contains one full size picture of bedroom decoration for each pages and  it will make them interesting and easier to catch every stuffs in those pages, the pictures are colorful as well. While they looking at the picture, they try to make some simple sentences by describing the pictures and then they arrange it into a good paragraph.
The last phase, teacher will divide them into a group which consist of 4 students. Then, she will let them choose one bedroom decoration picture that she has printed before as their exercise. They must make a text based on the picture that they have choosen. For homework task, teacher will ask them to make a description text based on their interest. For additional information, this media only use in one meeting.    


MAQUETTE




This maquette is used for second grade of Junior High School, the topic that will be given is recount text based on K.D 3.4 .
First section, teacher will introduce the students about Past Tense, when and how to use it by provides them a simple formula. After that, the teacher shows them a maket with “zoo” theme. There, the teacher will guide the students to make some example of sentences by using past tense based on the miniature in the maket.  
Second section, the teacher will give them an exercise. The students will be asked to make a paragraph by writing a story based on the maket. They should act as if they were in that zoo, and then,  they come forward and retell their story to their classmates.
The last section, the teacher will asked the students to write down a short story based on their experiences in the past.


AUDIO VISUAL

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In the first section, the video that will be given is about “the motivational video” which tell about children’s dreams in the future and obstacles that they had to pass in reaching those dreams. The audio does not fill with speaker’s voice, but a backsound only. Thus, the teacher have to read the text slowly by following the rythm of the backsound. The teacher will ask the students to write some notes about the words that they do not know the meaning, so that the students have to pay attention. The teacher may replay the video twice or based on the students’ needs. The length of the video around three minutes. This media will be implemented in f Junior High school  based on K.D 4.13
In the second section, after the video had played, the teacher will discuss with the student about the meaning of the video, the words that they have notes in order to looking for the meaning, and then the students are expected to know the moral value of the video. This discussion might not takes a long time, it is approximately thirty minutes during discussion.
In the third section, the teacher will provide another topic to teach in order to use the time maximally, so that the learning process will be effective.
In the last section, the teacher will ask the students to make a home project. Before that, the teacher will discuss with the students which are the cheap and easy properties or materials that they want to use. Here the teacher expect them to draw or print out the picture which tell about their hobby when they still a kid, then they have to draw themselves what they want to be in the future, and what are the things that they do to reach their dreams. On the next meeting, they will be asked by the teacher to retell their story based on their paper in front of the class.  


AUDIO

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The audio that will be given is a short conversation between two people. This audio consist of short question and answer about self introduction, asking capability, time information, asking direction, and also favorite food. This media will be implemented in fisrt grade of SHS based on K.D 4.4.
In the first section, teacher will do some conversation with the students which related to self introduction and asking about their daily activity that they often do. Then, the teacher will play the audio about the conversation that stated above. Here, the teacher will teach the students how to use the correct question and answer grammatically. She also ask the students to repeat the audio twice, this activity takes time around 15th minutes.
In the second section, teacher will choose another topic that related to this activity as well in order to fulfill the time. This mean that, the teacher wants the students still pay attention and prevent them for getting bored. So that, the learning activity may still conducive.
In the last section, the teacher will divide the students into a group which consist of 5 students. The homework that will be done is making a short conversation, the students have to perform by doing a conversation in a place based on their choices. For example, if they are in the airport, they should act and make a conversation about the airport or place that they want to travel to.
  

BOARD GAME



In this section, teacher will use “Football Game” as a board game. This material only used for review in the last meeting before the students pass the exam.
This board game consist a lot of vocabularies on the floor side of the board. Before they play the game, the teacher will review some topics that they have learnt before. After that, the teacher will divide them into a group which consist of 5 students into each groups. The students will play the football game. They have to work as a team, one of them have to detain the opponent in kicking the ball into the net. Before the ball have striken  into the net, they should be able to make a sentence based on the vocabulary which the ball stay on it by using any tenses that they have learnt.

REALIEA

               

In this topic, teacher will use classroom objects as the media. The topic that will be taught is about preposition. This media will be used in first grade of Junior High School.
First, teacher will give some examples of sentences by using preposition. Teacher only use oral communication by giving them a clue (pointing out the object). Here, the teacher expected students to understand how to positioned the preposition precisely. After the teacher has provided the example, the teacher starts to ask the students what does the preposition means, how to use it, how many preposition in English, etc.
Second, the teacher will ask for the students to come forward and play a simple game. Teacher will divide them into two groups. Then, one student of each groups come forward to play. Here, the teacher will give them the same object, then the teacher command them to do based on the sentence that the teacher directed to them, they should pay attention. Example, the teacher gives them a pen, then teacher provides a sentence like “ i put my pen in my friend’s bag.” The student must do it based on the instruction. The duration of this game played around 20 minutes.
The last, the students will be given an exercise. They have to write a paragraph for free topic, the paragraph must consist of  preposition that have been learnt.

TECHNOLOGY BASED MEDIA



For technology based media, the teacher will provide an English learning app called “ English Listening and Speaking/Listen and Speak”. This app is very appropriate, helpful and useful for the students to learn English more easy. Listen and Speak app also easy for students to own it, they have just to download it in the app store of their smartphones. This app is available for all types of smartphones. The profit of the app are not containing an advertisement and this app only need a small RAM. They can download it freely (no payment). This app also helps the teacher to teach English because it can use whenever they want to.
To use this app, the students have to sign in via email or facebook. After that, they may start to use it. This Listen and Speak app is enable students to translate all kind of sentences or phrases, it gives the students the way to analyze their speaking ability by giving them an ilustration which sides or aspects that need correction.
                           
If the students want to enhance their writing ability, they can follow written task by clicking the box that provided in that app such as, Short Stories (easy level and intermediate), IELTS writing (Task I), Essay (Inter-Advanced), they also can detect the meaning of the words of those stories by clicking the words. To enhance their listening ability, they can follow some conversations of native speakers by clicking the conversation boxes (easy-intermediate), there are hundreds topics provided. They also can enhance their sentences, vocabulary and verbs. Interestingly, this app also consist of English games, so that they might not bored in learning English, plus, they can count on their scores as well. 
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