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A tongue twister is a specific sequence of words whose rapid, repeated pronunciation is difficult even for native speakers. Often these are similar words which follow one another but differ in certain syllables. Alliterations are also frequent. In addition, some tongues are difficult because of their unusual word composition (sentence structure) and therefore require a high level of concentration. Some Tongue twisters are made for amusement, but on the other hand, professional speakers such as actors, politicians, and television / radio hosts use them as articulation exercises. Tongue Twisters to improve pronunciation in English A collection of my favorite tongue twisters to warm up your lips and tongue ... Remember: it's not just how fast you say them, but how clearly too! There are thousands of tongue twisters out there - here is a collection of some (short, long and small poems), whose text makes some sense, and which can also be used to speak more clearly. Classic Tong

Idiom: a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language Every language has its own collection of wise sayings. They offer advice about how to live and also transfer some underlying ideas, principles and values of a given culture / society. These sayings are called "idioms" - or proverbs if they are longer. These combinations of words have (rarely complete sentences) a "figurative meaning" meaning, they basically work with "pictures". This List of commonly used idioms and sayings (in everyday conversational English), can help to speak English by learning English idiomatic expressions. This is a list, which contains exactly 66 of the most commonly used idioms and their meaning. Smart Idioms A hot potato Speak of an issue (mostly current) which many people are talking about and which is usually disputed A penny for your thoughts A way of asking what someone is thinking Actions speak louder than words People's intention

So, you want to travel abroad? Plan ahead. Most destinations require only a few weeks of preparation, but depending on visa and immunization requirements, you may need a few months of planning time for some trips. Research your international travel destination and know what to expect before you leave. Step 1 Get a passport. To get a passport, you need a minimum of 2 passport-size photos, a birth certificate and 1 other form of identification (preferably that proves your citizenship in your country of origin). If you have a passport, be sure it has at least 6 months left before it expires. Some countries will not issue a visa more with more than 6 months remaining before the expiration date. Step 2 Check the visa requirements for your destination. Countries participating in the Visa Waiver Program do not require citizens of reciprocating countries to pre-arrange a visa, but other countries may require a visa to be in your passport before you arrive. Step 3 Check for immunization rec

A Brief Summary Chapters 1 to 3 Mr Lockwood, a rich man from the south, has rented Thrushcross Grange in the north of England for peace and recuperation. Soon after arrival, he visits his landlord, Mr Heathcliff, who lives in the remote moorland farmhouse called "Wuthering Heights". He finds the inhabitants of Wuthering Heights to be a strange group: Mr Heathcliff appears a gentleman but his manners and speech suggest otherwise; the mistress of the house is in her late teens, an attractive but reserved, even rude woman; and there is a young man who appears to be one of the family although he dresses and talks like a servant. Being snowed in, he has to stay the night and is shown to an unused chamber where he finds books and graffiti from a former inhabitant of the farmhouse called "Catherine". When he falls asleep, his dreams are prompted by this person and he has a nightmare where he sees her as a ghost trying to get in through the window. He wakes and is unable

Gin Gin Gustine. (2013). Designing and implementing a critical literacy-based approach in an Indonesian EFL secondary school : International Journal of Indonesian Studies. 1 This paper explores the design and implementation process of a critical approach to teaching English, one that is termed Critical Literacy, in an Indonesian secondary school. Despite its popularity as pedagogy and a way of thinking in the West, there is a gap in terms of the implementation of a Critical Literacy approach in South East Asian countries, especially in Indonesia. As the study seeks to provide ways to design and implement a critical literacy approach in EFL classes, action research is employed as the methodology of this research. The method of action research applied in this study is based on the seminal contribution of Kemmis and McTaggart (1990) who described cycles of action research: plan, act, observe and reflect. Data includes classroom observation, students’ reflective journals and interview

Yuyun Yulia. (2013). Teaching Challenges In Indonesia: Motivating Students And Teachers’ Classroom Language : Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics. 3(1). 1-16. This paper critically describes the main challenges English language teachers face in teaching in Indonesia. It is part of a larger study evaluating the teaching of EFL English in Indonesian junior high schools. The study is to analyze two main challenges teachers face in structuring teaching and learning in class in the Indonesian context, namely, student motivation and teacher’s classroom language. English as the most important global language has become a compulsory subject in developing countries such as Indonesia. The teaching of English language currently is very marketable to students at all levels of education. In response to this, the government has been trying to develop the English language curriculum in order to cater for the needs of Indonesian society. Teachers, for example, have been trained through pre-serv

Short Biography of Imam al- Bukhari (rah) Imam Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Ismaeel bin al-Mughirah al-Bukhari was born on 13th of Shawwal 194 AH in Bukhara. a town in the eastern part of Turkestan. His father died while he was still in his infancy and his upbringing was left entirely to his mother, who looked after his health and education very carefully and spared nothing in order to provide him with the best education. Quite early in life, Imam Bukhari's intellectual qualities became noticeable. He had great piety and an extremely good memory and devotion to learning. It is said that while he was still in his teens he knew by heart seventy thousand Sayings of the Holy Prophet Muhammad. At the age of 16, he went to Macca with his mother and enjoyed his stay in the Holy City so much that he decided to prolong his visit in order to benefit from the company of the great Muslim scholars who were always to be found there. At the age of eighteen, he wrote his first book on the subjec

By Patricia Kuhl Welcome to my blog. In this opportunity, I’d like to summarize a video by Patricia Kuhl. In this video, she speaks about an interesting topic, is the linguistic genius of babies for 10.17 minutes. She opens her speech by showing a photo of baby but she will speak about something which we can not see, it is their little brain. She explains about two studies of the baby brain. The first is by using the modern tool of neuroscience are demonstrating to us what’s going on up there is nothing short of rocket science and the second is her study aims to shed some light on what the romantic writers and poets described as the “celestial openness” of the child’s mind. She also explain reason we can not preserve the language by speaking to adult because a language has a period for learning. Babies and children in their period on learning, they can preserve the language if we speak with them because they are genius. When they turn seven, there is a systematic decline. After we pub

By Terry Moore In this chance, I would like to summarized a video by Terry Moore. He talks about why is x the unknown for 03.53 minutes. By watching this video, perhaps our curiosity will be have the answer. As we have known that x is always unknown. When we unknown about something, it indicates that we know nothing about something. Therefore we always write or say x. At the beginning of his speech, he directly say that he has the answer about our question why the letter x always represents the unknown. He told about kinds of x, which are the X prize, the X files, project X, TEDx. So, where the “x” come from? For further explanation about a mystery letter, x, stay read this summary till the end because he will reveal a mystery about “x” and enjoy it. Start when he decided to learn Arabic about six years ago, which turns out to be a supremely logical language. This language like crafting an equation when we want to write a word or a phrase or a sentence because every part is extreme

By Kelly McGonigal Hello! Welcome back to my blog. Today I would like to summarize a Ted video by Kelly McGonigal. She talks about how to make stress your friend for 14.28 minutes. A fun topic because it is about how to make stress as our friend. Means, you do not have view stress as an enemy. Perhaps you and I have ever felt stress in our life and we do not know what and how stress really is. By reading this summary, we will know and learn about stress which explain by Kelly as a health psychologist. She has mission that is want to help people to be happier and healthier. Okay. Let move to the next paragraph. When open her speech, she asked the audience to make a confession about the level of stress. She told about what she has been teaching for 10 years is doing more harm than good because she have turned stress into the enemy. So, she has been telling the people that stress make us sick. Otherwise, she wants change our mind about stress. Are you ready for that? Keep reading! She

By Diana Laufenberg Diana Laufenberg had talked about how to learn from mistake. The topic which is closest to our life because we do it much and often. When we did, we promised ourselves to do not repeat again. In the fact, we did for more once. So, Diana had explained how to learn from mistake. She has been teaching for a long time, and in doing so have acquired a body of knowledge about kids and learning that she really wish more people would understand about the potential of students. The differences between she and her grandmother the way they get the knowledge and information as she has told to the audience. This was different than either generation had experienced before, and it changed the way she interacted with information even at just a small level. But the information was closer to her. She could get access to it. From Kansas, she moved on to lovely Arizona, where she taught in Flagstaff for a number of years, this time with middle school students. She taught geograph

By Christine Sun Kim Alhamdulillah, praise be to Allah. I've summarized summarize a ted talks video by Christine Sun Kim about music of sign language. One of the interesting languages for me is sign language because we use the unspoken way to communicate with people who can not speak or hear as a normal person. So, in this video, she talks about 15.11 minutes with interesting topic. She started her speech by delivering the symbol of musical. Piano, “p” as her favorite musical symbol means to play softly. After explain about her favorite musical symbol, Kim continued about American Sign Language history and her background. First of all, French sign language was brought to America during the early 1800s. as time went by, mixed with local signs then evolved into the language as we know ASL. So, it has a history of about 200 years. Then, her background. Kim was born deaf and taught to believe that sound was not a part of her life before she realized that sound was very much part of

By Jamila Lyscott Holla! Welcome back to my blog. Today, I’d like to summarize a video of ted talks. In this opportunity, I’d like to summarize a video by Jamila Lyscott, an articulate person. In this video, she talks about ways to learn English for 04.29 minutes. In her speech, she speaks quickly and fluently. I would say that she is like a rapper. So, it is a bit difficult for me to catch all of her content by listen one time. So, I need more than one time to comprehend it. Hope you will understand and can learn from this summary. In the opening of her speech, she said, “today, a baffled lady observed the shell where my soul dwells and announced that I'm "articulate" which means that when it comes to enunciation and diction don't even think of it. She can speaks in three languages and adjust them based on the condition. One of her condition was when her professor asks a question and her answer was tainted with a connotation of urbanized suggestion. There’s no mis

By Jay Walker Assalamu’alaikum warahmatullah wabarakatuh Today, I’d like to summarize a video by Jay Walker. In this video, he speaks about English mania for 04.28 minutes. Perhaps, we are one of the English mania. In this video, he delivered whether a mania good or bad. So, by reading this summary and watching the video, we know about the mania especially English’s mania. He delivers three examples of manias and starts his speech with Beatle mania: hysterical teenagers, crying, screaming and pandemonium. Then with sports mania: deafening crowds and all for one idea, is get the ball in the net. Next, religious mania: there’s rapture, weeping, and visions. Mania is good. Mania can be alarming or mania can be deadly. Now, the world has a new mania is a mania for learning English. He gives example about Chinese students in learning and practice their English by screaming it. The students repeat the sentence after the teacher loudly. It happen in China. They learn English harder because

By Patricia Ryan Anyeong! Thanks to God who still give me bless and mercy to live so that I can post this blog. Anyway, today, I’d like to post a summary of video. It is a ted talks video by Patricia Ryan. She made a video with the topic don’t insist on English for 10.35. I think this is an interest topic because as an English language student, we insist on English indirectly. We pushing ourselves to must be like a native speaker of English language especially. We are trying to love it so that we can make it a part of our life. By summarize this video, hope you will find some advices or you can learn how to put your English properly. In this video, she tells about her and her friend experience in teaching English. Okay. At the beginning, Patricia opens with a joke which say that the audience perhaps think she has lost her way and guided by someone to back to her seat. It gives the audience an attractive interaction. We will ask, so, who is the old woman come to back stage and speak

By ShaoLan The next video is from ShaoLan. She talks for 6.10 minutes about learn to read Chinese. An interesting topic because Chinese language is one of the famous languages in the world. Most of people nowadays are trying to learn Chinese. In this video, ShaoLan explains a fast methods of learning Chinese because she expected the people want to understand and appreciate the beauty of this sophisticated language could do so. I suggest you to watch this video because it teach us how to use a fast method and easy to learn and remember a language, specially Chinese. As the students of language education department, we need to looking for the fast or short way to learn a new language to know its basic. Well. At the first of her speech, she introduces herself. She is a calligrapher’s daughter who growing up in Taiwan and she learn Chinese from her mother. Her mother who has showing the beauty, the shape and the form of Chinese characters. Since the age of five, she started to learn how

By Jhon McWhorter I have summarized a video by Jhon McWhorter. He speaks about a texting topic. A topic that we often do nowadays, that is texting. But, in this video, he says that texting is killing language. So, what does Jhon mean? by reading this summary, you will know the answer why does he call that way. He opened his speech by saying that we always hear that texting is a scourge. He said that the idea is that texting spells the decline and fall of any kind of serious literacy, or at least writing ability among young people in the United States and the whole world today is not true. Actually, texting is miraculous thing, a kind of emergent complexity that we are seeing happening right now. Basically, if we think about language, it has existed for perhaps 150.000 years, at least 80.000 years and what it arose as is speech. People talked. That’s how we use language most. Writing is something that came along much later. According to traditional estimates, if humanity had existed

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the study As a teacher, we have a wealth of information to choose for our students. Nowadays, teaching a language is not as difficult as the past. We can bring the history into the classroom through pictures, music and others visual to a degree never before possible. We can communicate with students from other countries and we can take classes from teachers who we have never met before. We can apply the physics from the classroom to simulations available for us through the internet and we can develop project across grade level. Students are no longer limited by the walls of classroom or the knowledge of the single textbook. The world is available to most classrooms, even when students do not have their own computers. Teaching language needs good and interesting media. Media used in teaching learning activity will keep the learner focus on the teacher, thus the classroom will be on teacher’s control. The media used should be effective and intere

The History of Tunas Bangsa Senior High School Tunas Bangsa Senior High School in Southwest Aceh regency is one of senior high schools in Aceh province. Tunas Bangsa Senior high school is in Jalan nasional, South Korea aid school complex, Ujung Padang, Susoh, Southwest Aceh regency latitude 4.939594850100979 longitude 95.85094928741455 at a height of 826 cm above sea level. Tunas Bangsa Senior High School has six classrooms and all of the them are science major/program. This school has achived a number of accomplishment, academic and non-academic.. Time of teaching learning process start from morning until evening. Tunas Bangsa Senior High School is the one of favorite schools in Southwest Aceh. Initially this school is one of three aid schools from South Korea for Indonesia in Southwest Aceh after tsunami in Aceh in the end of 2004. So that, people are more familiar this school’s name by Korea Senior High School. This school established since May 22, 2008 and made public school in

Become like “paddy” as proverb says “semakin berisi semakin merunduk.” The proverb is familiar with Indonesian. Our parents or grandparents often remind us to be like paddy when we grow, when we have knowledge more than others, they remind us to still be a low profile person. Honestly, this writing was inspired by my father when we had dinner in a night. It began when he asked me about one of my friends who we met in the hospital. He asked me how she has been there and how close we are? Naturally, I’m a person who has two sides of my point of view. I try to see the strengthens and weaknesses of someone. If someone ask me about someone who I know closer, I will tell them two sides of the person based on my point of view and if someone who I do not know closer, I will tell them doubtfully even I choose to do not explain anything. So, at the night, I told my father two sides of her so that he has his own point of view based on mine. Back to the paddy. In the night, he told me about poin

Thursday night was unforgettable night for me. This accident began when I and my friend went to somewhere. Somewhere which we usual visit it. We was riding her motorcycle at the night when my phone felt. Yeah, felt. It felt not on the floor, on the grass or something that is usual falling down. It felt on the road somewhere. Perhaps it felt when we went there or when we returned home. Exactly, I realized that my phone felt when I was home. Opened the door and I remembered my phone. Tried to avoid a suspicion that my phone felt, I asked my cousin to call my phone. Perhaps it was in my bed and I’ve forgotten to bring it. I’m shocked and does she. Still positive thinking and back to the road which we passed while she was calling my phone. Hope that the phone was not on the road because it would be pulverized by a car or motorcycle. We still hope that my phone would be found by us or someone who would give back to us. After 20 times we called, the phone picked by unknown person or people

Cross-culture differences can often intensify problems with grading systems. For example, many grading systems are criticized for being culturally biased because they tend to the values, norms and knowledge of middle class,White, English-proficient families. As a result, students who are from different socioeconomic or cultural groups may be at a disadvantages for grades. Such students may struggle with the conflicting values of their schooling environment versus their family values. Group work activities can present additional problems. Students from different socioeconomic or cultural backgrounds may experience difficulty participating fully in a group; as a result, they may have less control over the final group product and the resulting grade. Such difficulties may be connected to language differences that impede communication or differences in family conditions that limit out-of-school group work opportunities. Tests and some testing techniques have also been critized as being

Monday, April 3rd, 2017 was unforgettable day for us. Some days before that day, I have got a message from my cousin in the village. She asked me to buy a hair dryer for her friend’s wedding party. She told me that I should check in some stores such as Natural cosmetic store in Lamnyong, Kotty in Peunayong and Pasar Aceh. In the morning of that Monday, she sent me the money. So, I could buy it after my class was over. I went with my cousin. We went after dhuhur. The first store we visited was natural in Lamnyong but there has not hair dryer. Next, we moved to Kotty in Peunayong. When I was riding, I asked my cousin to search for that store by using google map. Actually, I have never been visited the Kotty. I only heard that store’s name. So, we were so confuse to follow the directions. Finally we arrived there. I asked my cousin, “ are you sure here is the place?”. “yeah sis, I sure here is the place. Can you read the name in that billboard?” “Yeah, is that Kotty, right? But I doubt ab