Category: Teaching in School

Top Five Activities in University (UNIROW)
Campus and University.

University is an awesome place to improve the skills and gain more knowledge. It is also a great place to hangout with friend and do some social activities. Many activities can be done beside learning in university. So what kind of activities that can be done while we learning in University? This post will give some clues on what should be done while gathering knowledge.

Activities in University.

Campus is the best place to do lots of activities. Various people from all around places come up to the university for the same purpose. To study hard and achieve the degree they really want. Student in Universities may choose interesting activities based on their hobbies. For student whom really interesting I sport, there are Football, Volleyball, etc.

Top Five Activities in University.

This is a list of top five activities in campus which is taken from my private observation. The observation was done last season. It actually takes few weeks to complete and the result available below.

This is top five activities to that can be done in College.
1. Hangout with friends.
  
  Gathering with friends. This is an activity which is really popular in local college. In every corner of the campus, there would be groups of students chatting with their friends. Hang out with friends has been the most favorite activity because it make them happy just by talking with friends. lots of people in social sites such as Facebook and Twitter agree with this opinion. They even recommend it because it will not only improve friendship but also will benefit them in many ways. It make sense as a someone who gathering with others have more experiences in speaking or listening than the one whom live alone.
2. Goes Online using free Internet Access (Wi-Fi). What else to do if students didn’t have times to hangout with friends? Going Online is the answer. They enjoy doing social activities through online social networking. Activity to go online has been a choice for student because it is easy to be done and they rally happy while doing it. Most of them have lots of friends in social networking and prefer to go online whenever there are free times. They were using free internet access. This activity is the preferred choice of almost all student in university. Internet access is still not cheap enough in local areas. Using free internet access is a good thing to do.
3. Tasting food. Everyone need food and student is no exception. Student in university whom spent more times learning ‘heavy materials’ tend to be hungry earlier. Off curse I need to make research to prove my idea. Tasting Food is very popular activity in college. There are few places which provides foods for them and most places were awesome, fresh and make them sleepy. Am I said sleepy? well, it is true. Some of my friends still did this in their free times. Combined with hanging around with friends, it will be a great choice to do. Tasting foods will make student sleepy, err, I mean happy and ready to hang out with friend or continue following the classes.
4. Hanging around looking for good scenery. A very recommended activity. There are few spectacular and amazing scenery around campus. Student don’t need to pay just to visit good place which offer good scenery. Actually there is always good scenery everywhere. If I have to ask you, which one do you think is better, watching white board in class or watching good scenery outside of class? Surely the answer would be outside of class. Just for info, Student will watch those white board for years that is why it is less entertaining for them. Student should crate good scenery if it is possible. In local area, Campus allow them to make an artistic arts which will make student really happy and enjoy visiting campus.
  Only few people did the activity to enjoy good scenery in campus but it surely a good activity. student can walk around university while enjoy awesome scenery. A must activity if you want to enjoy the time while learning in University.
5. Taking picture or video. This activity is the most loved activities by most student. They taking the picture or record the movie that will be be shared through their favorite social sites. Most of the times while gathering with friends, they will taking a picture and upload it to their group. There is no need to buy for high price camera. The fact is, student love to use their phone to capture the picture/videos.
Those are five activities that are popular among student that can be done while in university. Any other activities you may know? share with me here through comment below and I may add it into the post.
May 9, 2012
English Materials for Students and Teacher in Junior High School
Learning a something new requires dedication and high motivation. Without doing so, it will most likely going to fail. Learning English is the same. It need lots of dedication and enough motivation. Students with high motivation would find learning English are quite interesting while the others would think it just another boring activities. With high dedication, a student will learn English at anytime and anywhere.

Motivation and Dedication are the key to learn English successfully. However, without the material to learn, nothing can be achieved. Even a student who having great dedication and high motivation will have less chance to success without materials. Material is a something that ie being learnt. It consist of multiples documents or worksheet to be used by student. Learning a material will increase student’s skills and ability in understanding English.

Student whom learn at junior high school is capable in learning it. Anyone who still at elementary school are not recommended to learn this materials. Because of the difficulties of gathered materials, only student in junior and senior high school are recommended to use it. However, I encourage anyone who learn English to use it. Read more at THE EXPRESSIONS OF ENGLISH MATERIAL FOR JUNIOR AND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.

Discussion about English Materials

‘English Materials’ for student and teacher Have been updated. Mochammad Rifai (Mentor of this blog) have been uploaded the materials to public repositories in University. Student and teacher have the option to ask questions about English Materials especially used to teach English fast and efficient. In order to make anyone satisfy, I will try to explain on the part of the materials and how essential it is in learning English. read the quote below.

Teacher is to be kind of walking resources center in the classroom. in the other words teacher should always be ready to offer help if it is needed. Therefore, teacher has to appear to be well prepared and knowledgeable about the material.

From the statement above, we know that teacher should always be well prepared and master the material very well. Then, for you that really want to be an English teacher for junior high school and senior high school. Below is some of English material for student in junior high school and senior high school. But, it’s okay for anyone whom already become an English teacher to use it too. Everyone else are welcome to read this post.
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Wish it useful and everyone would gain more knowledge, Really Dee ^.^
ENGLISH MATERIAL OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL AND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.

All materials are exclusively for student in junior High school. Teachers are allowed to use the list of materials here to use as base materials in teaching English. By creating all the materials below, teacher will have better chance to successfully teach their student in understanding English.

PART I EXPRESSION MATERIAL (The first chapter in learning English)
1. Introducing (contains introduction methods for student in junior high schools)
2. Asking for and giving advice (always make sure students have no difficulties in asking for help from teacher and giving advice to others)
3. Expressing obligation or non obligation (student should understand it)
4. Expressing surprise (sometimes unpredictable moments happen and it will be great if student able to express it in English)
5. Expressing pride (use the expression when necessary)
6. Expressing capability or incapability (sometimes student need to express their capability in doing sometimes and at the sometimes express incapability in other activities.)
7. Expressing an apology (everyone make mistakes. asking for apology is important. A part section in teaching English for student. They will use it more often than others.)
8. Expressing pleasure or displeasure (another important materials for student to pleasure a someone)
9. Expressing an agreement or disagreement (able to agree and disagree with others opinion is also important)
10. Expressing sympathy (when a bad things happen to others, student should sympathy for it)
11. Expressing like and dislike (whenever there is a something new, there will be a someone like it while another might dislike it. Also important for others)
12. Expressing satisfaction or dissatisfaction (while enjoy a product or moments, we may satisfy or else dissatisfy with it)
13. Offering services or help (student should be able to offer helps to other)
14. Inviting someone (Inviting a someone is necessary if there is a something new such as concert or new movies in the town)
15. Asking for, giving, and refusing to give permission (student will need this a lot)
That is the basic materials to be used for student in Junior high schools. Any teachers are allowed to use it and when the materials become available, student are expected to learn from it.

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February 27, 2012
Increase Student’s skills by Using Fun Way Quantum Teaching Method

Lives in plural society have great impact. Lives in plural society in here mean life with no borders. There is no gap to communicate across the sea, mountain, and state. And because of Communication becomes necessary. We will never find human being live side by side without communication. Therefore, in order to make communication run well, we have to know the language. English as an international language has important role in plural society. We have to learn English in order to communicate with people around the world. But now the question is, is it easy to learn English? Of course, the answer will be different for each English learners. But did you ever consider learning English in fun way?

Learn English in fun way means the student would never ever feel boring with the lesson. We also able to increase our English ability and skill more and more without restrictions. These fun way in mastering English are by reading (for example reading a favorite novel), watching movies, listening to the music and playing game with English as it subtitle. So that, you will never realize you have mastering English. Four ways above were called as Four Aspects in Fun Way method. Student in UNIROW TUBAN should be able to do all the aspects.

Learning English Using Fun Way methods are consist of 4aspects: Reading, Watching, Listening and Playing. Doing all of those aspects will surely help any student who having difficulties in learning English. Those four aspects were not that hard and everyone should be able to do it. Whenever there are free times to spend, just make sure to do it and believe it or not, skills in learning English will be improved drastically. This is true because learning English with happy feeling is guaranteed to be successful. In fact, learning anything when there is happy situation, there is a high chance that the skills will be improved without anyone realizes it. So, here we are going to learn how to learn English by using Fun Way methods starting from the first aspect.

“Fun Way Method to increase Student skills in learning English ability and skills in UNIROW TUBAN.” written by IRNA DIANA on Feb 16 is a method which is easily applicable to any students. “Increase Student’s skills by Using Fun Way Quantum Teaching Method applied in UNIROW TUBAN (Courtesy of IRNADIANA.COM)” is a method which having great prospect to improve skills and ability in learning English. Rating: 5.0.

Reading is the first aspect of Fun Way method. Reading a favorite novel is an example. While reading a novel, almost many skills will be improved such as skill in learning grammar and skill in understanding English structures. Many words will be added in vocabulary as well. If the novel is the favorite, surely it will be interesting. This is the key of Fun Way method. However, just make sure not to read the novel in every time. Just do it when there are free times to do. Reading as the first aspect in Fun Way method is really awesome. Read novel, get some information and enjoy the story while acquire new technique and improve few skills.

Teaching Students with Fun.

Watching favorite Movies are guaranteed to improve the skills in learning English. Enjoy the story and pay attention in the voices and read the sentences in the bottom of the screen. Doing it when there are free times and understanding English customs will be easy. Pronunciation is the key in this aspect. Just by carefully watching how the actor and actress pronoun the words, the skills in speaking will be improved greatly.

Listening favorite music is a good idea in Fun Way method. This is the most easily aspect. Doing it in every moment is possible. This aspect will greatly enhance the skills not only in pronunciation but also in understanding idioms and many beautiful words which are uncommon for almost many people.

Playing Games is the last aspect in Fun Way method. Many games nowadays were equipped with English subtitle and this is great. Playing favorite games are guaranteed to make any skills in learning English improved drastically. This is because there are lots of conversations, many music and millions of interaction in games. So, playing favorite games have a great impact in enhancing skills in studying English.

Four aspects in Fun Way methods are Reading, Watching, Listening and Playing. It is essential to do all of them. Just by doing them, there are great chances that the skills in learning English will be improved without anyone realize it. Fun Way method is applicable to anyone including student in UNIROW TUBAN (written by Irna Diana and supervised by ARICK).

February 16, 2012
Writing Essay Comparison and Contrast Topics by Irna Diana in UNIROW

Essay is short writing about any interesting topic which state opinion of the authors in appealing and good structures. It deliver the articles in special format. The structures follow general guidelines in creating good structural article and journal. An essay should have a header which Is referred as introduction. Another elements such as content and final words or conclusion also available which make it as good source for scientific articles.

Essay is divided into several types such as introduction, essay narration, essay description, essay classification, essay persuasion, essay comparison and contrast, essay process, essay definition, and essay cause and effect. At this time, I particularly would like to introduce the essay comparison and contrast. This is an essay which compares and contrasts things from the same general class. In making a good essay comparison and contrast, There are some steps need to be done. understanding the organization of essay is the key. The organization of essay comparison and contrast are introduction, body and conclusion. Here is some of simple way in making a good essay comparison and contrast. To fully understand on how to organize an essay comparison and contrast, the first thing to do is making an introduction.

Introduction contains a topic that is going to be discussed. It is basically an opening before the reader read the main content. Of course, it is located in the first paragraph and because of it is located in the first paragraph,make sure to create a general statement about the topic that is going to be discussed with clear and better opinion along with some supporting ideas. Adding an example or illustration will be great. A general statement is like a door in the house. Therefore, absolutely it should make the readers understand on what we were talking about. They will have their own point of view based on the information they read. They will have a temporary description about the topic. Afterward, write the thesis statements.

Try to write Comparison and Contrast for the object above.

The sentences in Thesis statement should clearly state both subjects (compare and contrast) and the controlling idea. In other word, it also named as the sub points for the comparison and contrast. It compare both ideas.When It is the time to organize an essay comparison and contrast, the second thing that need to be done is making body of the essay. The body of an essay comparison and contrast is more complicated than any other types of essay. It is the core or main component of essay which compare two things that point out their similarities. Make sure to understand the differences among the topic because the contrast and similarity need to be clearly understood to appealing essay comparison and contrast.

“EASY WAY IN MAKING ESSAY COMPARISON AND CONTRAST” Written by Irna Diana on Feb 10 is a simple tutorial for student whom learn English.“EASY WAY IN MAKING ESSAY COMPARISON AND CONTRAST” describe how to make essay comparison and contrast with an easy method. Rating: 4.6.

It is advised to make comparison and contrast in the same general class. For example, you can compare a social network, Facebook and twitter. But you will not compare Facebook and search engine, Google as it is totally in different general class. If you write about two things, be sure to write an explanation which apply to both of them. Afterward, write the topic sentence. It has to describe the topic and explain controlling idea for each paragraph. Explaining it in detail aspect for both things being compared are recommended.

Organizing an essay comparison and contrast is not that hard. The third thing to do is making a conclusion. A conclusion is the end of essay with a summary of the main point. The main point, of course, the similarities of a comparing things and the difference of a contrasting things. Then, you can add final comment. A final comment about things that you have compare and contrast personally. It have to be clear, and contain the summary and idea of both content and opinion.As a result, the organization of an essay comparison and contrast is divided into three part; introduction, body, and conclusion. In the part of introduction contains general statement and thesis statement. If you want to make a body of essay comparison and contrast, measure you write things from the same general class. Afterward, you write the point of similarities from the things you compare and the differences from the things you contrast. The points of the things must apply to both things. Another important thing in making a body, absolutely, are the topic and controlling idea for each paragraph. Finally, in conclusion you have to make summary about the things you talked about and add your personal final comment.

February 10, 2012
Learn create good News Report by explaining the situation

News Report is just like reporting event as news for public consumption. It has to be well written, informative and straight forward. The content should be factual without any tendencies to in fluent the reader’s opinion. It is fine to express self idea, just don’t make it looks like it is the most important part of the news. The general rules for news still apply.

Student whom learning to construct news report should learn about how to make an appealing news. There are links provided in this article which will help them with the basic aspect to setup a news report. First thing first, don’t afraid to make it. Just think it is a casual article but it must be suitable for public. Always avoid excessive use of the same words. Using mild and strong language are not recommended. Just use the language often used by the public. We want them to understand about the events don’t we?. Using hard to interpret language is the first mistake. Only use it in very hard situation.

Learn create News Report by observing the situation and describing the picture for public.

Look at the picture in left. What do you see? Try to inform public for what it is all about and how to make them clearly understand with the situation. Doing so will make it easier to write a news report. News Report is often called as Newspaper report. This is because news report usually appear at newspaper. Reporting news is also another popular term fro news report. Based on the personal definition, News report is an activity which conduct reporting news for public. Student in UNIROW are taught to create news report. They should be able to identify each parts of news report. By identifying each parts of news report, It is expected that they could create their own news report.

There are two postings about news report. One of them is Analyzing news in UNIROW and the other is MAKE A GOOD NEWS REPORT in UNIROW. Both of them will give clear definition about news report and also able to help any learner to study News report. In the first post, student are taught about each parts of news report. there are three parts of news report mainly consists of Opening (Identification), Content (Description) and the last is Summary (Conclusion). Each parts are explained using simple words. Each of them were explained pretty clear. After learn the first post, It is a good idea to move into the second posts. In this post, Student could learn on how to create good news report which consist detail of each three parts in news report. Student will have options whether to create good news report or stay using standard news report.

It is obviously clear that news report is reporting news. There are fourteen emails sent to my inbox asking about news report I accidentally disable the comment form and thus made reader not be able to leave comment in this blog (fixed by now). All the emails asking about the simple question. They ask whether news report is reporting news or it is news which is being reported again. So the answer is clear. News report is reporting news. If a someone want to report a something which was already happen, then creating news report is the answer.

There are three documents shared here for student in UNIROW. Their name are available in Documents. All of the documents are about news report. It is available at this place due to no site provide help to student who want to study news report. Make sure to ask permission before downloading materials from this site. You are allowed to download the document as long as it is used for non-commercial use. The first document is for NESTIK about reporting news in school. This type of news report is good for reporting news at formal institution. The second news report is for ASMAWATI. This type of news report is used in reporting crime and other related things. The last news report is for AGUSTIN which contain news about Economy. This news report is suitable for news about monetary. This post is written exclusively by IRNA DIANA.

December 12, 2011
Tutorial and Steps to create Good News Report for students in UNIROW
News Report is an activity to deliver the events which have been already done for public. News Report are commonly found in Journals, Magazines and Newspapers which the purpose is to inform the readers about what is happening in the whole world, especially any events around them. News report has been an important parts to get breaking national and world news, broadcast video coverage, and exclusive interviews.

Student in UNIROW are subject to create good news report. They were seeking for news report example and how to write a news report. This article was trying to help them by discussing what is news report writing and what is the structure of a newspaper report. To start create good news report, they ned to understand about news article structure. What is it? It is a structure which construct Standard News Report. What are they? Here they are:
1. Introduction. It is the head of the News Report which is quite important. It also often referred as Identification. It is located in First Paragraph and off course it will answer 4 H questions (What, Where, When and How). “What” is for what message that used to be informed. “Where” is used to be the place or the news has taken. Then, “When” is to identify the time, when the event happen or the news has published. The last, “Who” is for the author or the reporter of the news. It tells the reader about general content of the news being delivered.
2. Description. It is often referred as Body of the Paragraph. The main function of it is to describe the chronological event, time and who are involved in it. When a someone try to make a report news from the newspaper, for instance. It is advised not to reduce the value by throwing and cutting some elements. Don’t make it less informative, alternatively, adding few more supporting idea is good choice. Try to add self opinion, critic and suggestion, which absolutely related with the news being reported. at UNIROW, students are taught the simple ways on how to write effective news reports. Most of them need to know the basics and move forward to the advanced techniques.
3. Conclusion. This the last parts in News report. It is the most important elements as it sums up the everything from beginning of the articles. Make sure to read Introduction and Description for few several times before creating Conclusion. It also the best place to express our final thought about the event being reported. The main function is to make readers understand about the topic. In advanced technique, Writer also state the solution or opinion about it.
Students in UNIROW were trying to create News report in garden.

Students whom learn in English Department in UNIROW should try to create news report in daily basis. Analyzing the factual events which happen around them is the first step to create good and appealing report. As a student whom learn English in UNIROW, We are responsible to keep our environment stay in good condition. We cannot just sit, watch and close our eyes with everything which may happen around us in every seconds. By hearing, becoming a witness and even watching news, we can make News Report which help the others. Students should learn to make public stay informed and about what was happen today. Doing so will make them able to improve their Writing Skill easily.

News Writing which is available in newspaper basically has more information on how to write a news story. If students were seeking for tips for writing newspaper articles, they should read the news and analyze it. Most questions like as ‘How to write a news article’ and ‘How student should create appealing news’ were answered just by looking at the news they were reading.

Introduction is to introduce reader with good facts. Description is the paragraphs used to convince reader while Conclusion is the main idea from the writer. That is the simple rules in writing News Report. In UNIROW, creating news report isn’t that hard but it could be a great trouble if the student didn’t know the first simple rules above. (written exclusively by IRNA DIANA for student in UNIROW).
December 5, 2011