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Teaching and learning Expression using English Material

Using expression in conversation has great impact in relationship. Student should understand on how to use it and what condition require it. In this article, I’m trying to explain few simple thing about ‘expression‘.

About Expression.

What is expression? Expression is a situation when we show our feeling to the other people. When a some one asking a question, it is best not only to answer the question abut also showing the expression at the same time. As an example, if our friend ask “Do you know how to learn effectively?”. Kindly answer the question honestly and don’t forget to smile at them. Smiling at this even was called as showing “expression”. “Expression” may not the same as “expressing opinion”.

Happy Expression.

Smiling is an example of happy expression.

As human, we cannot live without other. It is advised to keep good relationship. The best way to keep good interaction is by asking the condition. We can use “How are you?”. It is a type of question which is widely used to ask a condition of a someone. They will answer the question based on their condition. Most of the times they will say “I’m Fine, thank you”. What to do then? Smile at them and say few words. Smiling is an activity to show happy expression.

Sad Expression.

Sad Expression is the opposite of happy expression. If someone told us about sad events such as losing money or stuffs, it is encouraged to show them sad expression.

Teaching student to use expression.

We already talk about expression and expressing opinion. Both of them were not same. Expression involve an activity to tell another people by using movement or attitude. Expressing Opinion may involve doing expression. It is widely known as showing the expression by using words and sentences.

Learn on how to use expression.

Using expression is subject to follow the situation. It is always good idea to learn on how to use it and when it have to be used. Always avoid using wrong expression as it will lead into trouble. Expression will make other people really like us. It also has the ability to turn the relationship into negative. Expression is good for almost in any situation. Sometimes it is better to use expression rather than answering the question. Expression is the only choice when we don’t want to talk or discuss about a something. Just shake our head to the left and right and they will know what it means. Expression also useful to answer question make the answer looks formal. We can say “no” to refuse a something. Shaking the head to left and right or give a sign if it is ‘no’. Combining both expression and expressing opinion will result in good result.

Teaching student in Junior and Senior High School to use expression.

Student in Junior and Senior High Schools should be able to use and implement the expression into their daily activities. For student in Junior High School, teacher should understand the basic emotional element of human in young age. Expression involve an activities to move or express the feeling. Emotional elements and expression is closely related. Student with good emotional focus will have bigger possibilities to express their mind. For Senior High School, teacher has to be quite sure about what they need in young ages. They want to be famous and always get what they want. Thinking about it will make teacher able to teach them successfully. For student in junior high school, Teacher should directly show them various expression while teaching. They have the skills to copy and imitate the teacher activities.

For student in Senior High School, try to tell them a story and read their expression. They already understand on what should be done and what expression they should avoid. Keep doing some intensive communication and show them various expression while communicating. Alternatively, both teacher in Junior and Senior High School can teach them on what should they do whenever they encounter an events. Teacher should understand about few kinds of English material about expression. Few of them are introducing expression, asking for and giving advice, expressing pleasure and displeasure, etc. Further information about it available at ENGLISH MATERIALS for STUDENT in JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

January 4, 2013
What should student do to learn English Effectivelly
Learn Effectively.

Learning English Effectively is an activity performed by student to maximize their time while achieving great result at the same time. It was inspired by using excellent Teaching Plan for teacher.

Student may learn seven times a week and still have no improvement in their skills and knowledge. It is because they trying to memorize and not to analyze. local teacher always ask student to memorize on what was available in books. The old pattern to learn should be changed. Learn to memorize is good for few things and very bad for many things.

Learn to analyze is better as it stimulate the brain to find out why a something is true while the others were wrong. They’ll began asking why it is happen and what make it possible. Such question is common things when student began using their brain to learn many things.

To learn effectively, student should understand on what they should learn and how to improve their minds easily.

What To Learn.

To learn effectively student should understand about what they need to learn. This is very important as it will give much difference in result whether student will gain benefit or not. Two students whom learning harder may got different result because one of them understand on what they should learn while the others only learn about what is available in books. Student whom learning harder about many things related with the lesson may achieve better result. Don’t just depend on books given by the schools. It is common mistakes to only depend on that books. There are so much resources in the internet. Use Mobile Phones to gather the resources.

Stimulate the Mind.

One more things to understand is human including student has an excellent brain. They essentially able to learn almost many things. What it needs is to open the mind with so many positive thinking. Students whom thinking the lesson is difficult will get nowhere. They must understand if learning is easy. Teacher may inspire them on what the other student in foreign countries did. Student in local areas were too much left behind. Basically it i an idea to think higher than the standard. If student was learning in elementary school, they should learn the way student in Junior High school thinking about the lesson. Teacher is responsible to make student thinking the way like that. It has no effect for student and yes, they were able to think like that.

How to Learn Effectively.

Student has to learn harder to get the best achievement. It is a condition which may lead into boring situation. For most student whom enjoy learning and make it as habit, it may become a happy situation. I remember myself being happy every time it come to learn English during my bed times. Here few things to which may sound interesting:
1. Learn about a subject at once and improve it over time. Student should learn a chapter at the first time and when they think a chapter is easy, they may need to learn more than a chapter at a time. It was proven to be effective. I remember doing the technique while in junior high school. I manage to learn a books which designed to be used for a year in just a single week. Off course I didn’t fully understand.
2. Always seeking for the related materials about the subject being studied. It is good to improve knowledge and beat the competition. I remember my teacher didn’t be able to answer most of my question even if they were related with the subject. The answer is simple, I get huge knowledge about the subject while the other may just read basic info from books. It is best to always get related and authentic materials elsewhere.
3. Read books which is interesting. It is quite important for student. Most teacher didn’t understand about it. They only ask student to learn and never realize reading interesting books has big impact for the student.
  Student whom really love reading will get the read speed increased. It will make easier to understand a chapter quicker. Student whom reading faster may able to understand large topic at once. Reading interesting books will improve the skills in reading, increase the speed rate and refresh the mind. Books is source of the knowledge, right?
Student should only use the right method which may work best for them. Few tips above may work best for the author but there is no guarantee that it will work best for all students. Therefore, each student should try the best method for them. If you find the best and effective method in learning, kindly share it here.
May 15, 2012
Learning process should be fun

learning should be fun.

Is it fun to learn? Well, in my personal perspective the answer is sometimes yes and few times probably not. It depend on the situation and what subject being learnt. Learning English has been great moment for me. Always doing it in night after playing with my cute cat (Yes I love pet). Making learning fun is essential. Most student didn’t enjoy studying and if they have to do it, they think it as something that has to be done to make them smarter.

I have good conversation with professor from Australia about it. He has the same opinion with me. “Studying didn’t make student smarter”. Please do not quote it without proper understanding. Studying didn’t make student smarter because what make them smarter is their brain able to absorb knowledge. So it is the work of the brain. What does it mean? it clearly mean even if student didn’t study in the night, they’ will be smarter if they able to absorb the lesson. Studying is process to be smarter but the real answer to be smart is depend on how student use the brain. They need to teach the brain in order to be smarter. And yes, studying in the night is on of the process to become smarter. But off course there are so much better ways.

Fun or not, it was differ between student. So if a method is working for someone, it may fail for the other. To make the learning process really fun, just make sure to only learning whenever we were ready to learn. Learning while ready will make it easier to master the lesson. Student being considered as ready if they were happy and really want to learn the lesson.

Gathering with Friends.

What good it is for learning? Well, gathering with friends is an activity which will make student happier. During my research in local school few months ago, I wasn’t surprised if the result is student really love to hangout with friends rather than spending times in class. They learn in class for several hours and it make them losing the mood. Gathering with friend will bring back the mood and there is one positive effect, improve the knowledge. The professor agree with my research and showed me few facts through email. I may need to post it here in future.

Basically student is learning hard in class and learning fun outside of class while gathering with their friends. There is no difference between inside and outside of class. Both of them enable student to learn. Teacher should understand if student may able to improve the skills just by gathering with friends. What they need to do is creating good environment to make it happen.

Learning while gathering, is it possible?

Off course it is possible to learn while gathering with friends. Many teachers may didn’t agree with me as they though gathering with friends isn’t a learning process. Well, actually hangout with friends can be a good method to learn faster. They could share the experiences, training their skills and bound to find the weakness. Teacher only need to make it real. They need to make good environment which will make the student willing to learn while hangout with friends. As an example, applying ‘Friday as English day’ is effective. There are so much possibilities to make it true.

Gathering with friends and have fun.

It is nice to gather with friends and chatting all the day. Gathering with friends have been a tradition in local area. All students like to talk with their friends while they are gathering in free times. Some of them were chatting and shouting each others happily. Such situation made me think to develop a new way to learn English. After analyzing the situation for more than three weeks, I found a new way that maybe useful for everyone. It is a way to maximize the times by using any activities to learn English. After reading a blog about How To Learn Faster which has lots of articles about learning English faster and better, I came up with a new idea. I brought the idea to ‘a someone who have an authority’ and he seems really delighted with the idea.

For three consecutive weeks, I made reports on how student use their free times. Most of them spent the times by hanging around with their friends. The gathered with their friends and split up when the class was started again. So basically, they gather with friends. Doing lots of activities such as chatting, shouting and joking happily.

If you were thinking the idea is to make them using English in their activities, you were wrong as It is impossible to make them using English in their activities as student in local areas have low confident in using English in their free times. If you were also thinking to have them start using English in their activities, you were wrong too.

The idea is to make student learn English without they realize it. Is it possible? during the testing made by ‘The man who have an authority’, it is possible to make student learn English without they realize it. This technique was named as passive super learning. It require lots of preparations and the result is really awesome. It is a technique to transfer the knowledge by doing conversation. I doesn’t need to be using English It depend on the subject, if they good and has good confident, English is preferred, otherwise, native or local language is the choices. When the conversation started, the knowledge was being transferred because they will got so much explanations with joy.

So, what should be done in order to make it possible? Well, because it use passive super learning techniques, it require a someone that is smart enough to transfer the knowledge to the others. The testing was done by ‘A someone who have the will’ whom really good in English and Myself. The result was really great. It will be continued in the next post as it is in the middle of the midnight when I write this post. Ah, I almost forgot, gathering with friends was chosen because many student in UNIROW love to do that. Read about Top Five Activities in University (UNIROW) and you will understand. ‘A someone who have the will’ is a man who found lots of techniques in teaching English. He is an expert in learning English faster. He is not the best but really curious when it come to learn English. At least, that is what I though about him. He didn’t like publication, tough.

May 11, 2012