Author: Irna Diana

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
Tips on writing good essay for student in local university

Essay, is it looks familiar? when someone already know about about article or news report, perhaps they already understand about essay. Yes, essay is short writing which has more than one paragraphs. In each paragraph, it discusses about different subject. The whole paragraph of essay is divided into three parts. First part is well known as introduction. The second part was called as body/content. The last part is conclusion.

In UNIROW, creating essay seems like a big problem for student. Struggling to make it is not that easy. This is due to limited knowledge they had about essay. most of the times, they just read about essay from magazines or newspaper and only able to create the same essays based on given example. This is bad as essay actually have lots of flexibility in many aspects. Student at UNIROW is expected to understand about the characteristic of essay and also able to create it based on their own knowledge about the topic. It is important to make deep research before creating an essay. Shall we continue our lesson?. In this post, I Would try to introduce Everyone about the description of essay and how to make a good essay based on what they know. The tutorial is based on the skills in learning English effectively.

Simple tips on writing essay

The first part of essay is named as introduction. An introduction is opening stage in essay. It introduce Everyone with the topic that being chosen. This introduction is often located in first paragraph. The first paragraph is useful to give simple insight about the topic. It is encouraged to list few arguments starting from the weakest to strongest arguments. These three arguments are usually called as thesis statement. Thesis statement will make Everyone easily to move between paragraphs. Furthermore, it tells reader about the details of the topic being discussed.

The second part of essay is called as body/content. It is good elements which describe thesis statement. The body is located in the second, third, and fourth paragraphs (for instance, if Everyone have three arguments, they will need to explain it with three paragraphs). In order to make the essay looks good, support the idea with opinion and also facts. It is advised to seek the fact from high quality sources such as university and experts. These high quality sources are suitable in many cases. The fact also available form educational institution. Journal and research are the best sources to support the ideas in essay.

After supporting the idea in each paragraphs with high quality sources, it is the time to make it more natural and alive. To make it easier, always categorize and organize the ideas. It is best to locate and place it in second or fourth paragraph. It is not hard to decide the best place to put arguments. It depend on the topic and the way each author write it. The most import thing is to keep is as good as possible by starting from the weakest argument, middle argument into strongest argument. Once it has been done, surely the essay will looks more professional than before.

The third part of essay is called a conclusion. It restate the important part in each elements. Conclusion always available in the last paragraph. it explain the important content of the article to the reader. Always try to start with general statement and closed with final comment. A final comment is the point of view from the author which describe the last paragraph and state exclusively why the reader should think it is more important than the other elements.

Finally, an essay is divided into three parts. The beginning is often referred as introduction. It basically used as the brain storming to make reader ready for the next elements. Without good introduction, reader may have no idea on what they read and why the need to read it. That Is why it is great to start with good and appealing sentences. Always avoid using ‘heavy’ and mild language as it will reduce the value of introduction. Body or Content is the next elements in Essay. It describe essay with good structured paragraphs along with good supporting materials. Attaching the quotes and facts will make it even better. The last element is popular as Conclusion. It sum up the most important parts of essay. Conclusion usually available in one paragraph and consist of simple sentences.

February 2, 2012
Teaching word identification for student by Learning to Identify it
Words are complex letters and characters which form a meaning. Words are essential parts in sentences. If two or more of words being combined, there would be new description and meaning for it. Student should be able to identify words as it is the basic aspect to clearly understand the conversation. Without understanding the words in sentences, it is hard to follow the discussion and will be difficult for both parties whom involve in conversation. For most people, they just understand the sentence without the need to identify it. The reason is simple, they already use and hear it in daily conversation. But did everyone know if local student were having serious issues in understanding foreign language especially in the part of identify the sentences?

Identifying words is an activity related with analyzing and further research in categorizing words. The definition was taken from the idea from Mochammad Rifai , an author of UNIROW ASIA and professional researcher / teacher / Freelancer in Local area in East Java. Identifying words is conducting lots of action including comparing one word with another. The idea to identify words are to classify each words and also to make it easier for student who need help in creating a sentence in english. Learn is a process to be able to do a something. Identifying is a process to do further extensive research in details. Words is lots combined letters.

So, how do we learn to identify words? Here are the steps to do if you want to identify words:
1. Make sure to write the words in you notes.
2. Always pay attention with the location of the words
3. The basic structure of the sentence is important.
Students were Learning to Identify words in class.

Identifying words in this steps is only for the basic. It will be updated in future. Those three steps above is the basic tips to successfully analyzing words. It always works and never fail. However, under some circumstances, the tips above will no longer works. But don’t worry about it. Another tips to encounter the problems will be available after you understand the first tips above.

Let’s take an example of it. “Student is reading Books”. We will analyzing a sentence above. Each of them will be analyzed carefully. If you were already understand about it, you can skip this lesson. However, you can keep learn it as the further lesson will be more difficult after all element which construct difficult sentences were added. Remember, this is just the basic. If you already understand about it, good for you. If not, it still not too late to learn about it. In fact, it will be too easy for you to learn english by using this method. shall we began the analyzing?

“Student” in the sentence “STUDENT is reading books” was a subject. I though everyone already know about it. I can tell you the basic things about subject but I would like each visitor to make their own definition about it. I would not going to say if subject usually located in the first sentence and the most important part of a sentence. did I say that? guess you were lucky to hear it from me. I always dream each visitor to make their own definition about a something using their own ideas after learning a something. In the next structure of a sentence, I would not describe the characteristic of a something. You have to make your own definition about it. Believe me, You will learn faster by doing so.

“Is Reading” in the sentence “Student IS READING books” mean doing a something. a subject (Student) is “reading” or still read books. “Reading” in the sentence above mean Predicate. What is Predicate? What are the characteristics? You will know about it if you carefully researching about it. Don’t just search it from the internet. It will not doing any good for you at the moment. Why don’t you just find the definition and the characteristics from the sentence above. you will be a great learner in the end if you able to identify it. I will help you with the definition and the special characteristics but I believe you were able to find it yourself. Don’t ask help from the others as it will screw your learning skills.

“Books” in the sentence “Student is reading Books” actually is an Object. Can you identify the object?. Where is the usual place for the object to appear in a sentence?. Do you think the object is useful or not?. That is the basic question if you want to be able to identify words, especially an object in a sentence.

By doing lots of training in researching and identifying words, It is expected that you will be able to use your own idea to learn faster than other. The most extensive learning actually is learning by using own definition. It will not only improve the skills but also cut the possibility to always need on other people. Start learn English faster by analyzing words. One last question for you to test your abilities. can you identify the words based on the sentence above if I added more element such as this sentence: “Student is reading books in DUTA ILMU”. If you were able to identify it, congratulations, You can advance to further tips.
January 19, 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
Identification, Description and Conclusion of English News

News has been a part of modern lifestyle. It inform us of the past events which has been done and also provide us with an estimation for upcoming events as well. Did you know if most public figures said news is really important for them? News has been a great help for human being. It reports any events and archives it for better future. We may not be able to know on what happen today in few years later if there are no newspapers, magazines or online media reporting it. News has been a good sources of information to make decision and inform us for any events which surely will make us stay informed. News maybe available in Magazines, newspaper, Television, Online media and lots of other publication platforms.

Student whom learn in UNIROW always have at least an assignment every month. most of the assignments are easy while the rest may hard to overcome. Almost all assignment require downloading material from internet. Last week, student from UNIROW have an assignment to get an English news. As all of us already know, almost every News have more than one paragraphs. Those Paragraphs will be categorized based on three factors: Header (introduction) main ideas and summary. The lecturer ask them to retrieve news about Papua. Then, it need to be analyzed and categorized into three categories.

The first category would be IDENTIFICATION. Identification is a process to identify the paragraphs. Identification sometimes mean to introduce the whole content. In a simple language, It means opening paragraph. It usually available at the first paragraph. Introduction is the important thing as it give reader the general view before reading the whole paragraphs. Student at UNIROW should understand about identification process.

Irna Diana was reporting News about student’s activities in Senior High Schools in Local areas.

The second category would be DESRIPTION. Description is a process to describe the main ideas. It contains lots of important materials such as ideas, fact and many other things which are important for the readers. Description usually available after the first paragraphs. Description in news could be more than a paragraphs. While introduction is important, Description is far more important than it. Description can give readers the crucial information along with the explanation. Description also contains main reasons why the topics were important. the main ideas were backed up by some important reasons. The reasons will be explained for student in UNIROW in the next post.

The last Category in News would be Conclusion. Conclusion is the process to summarize the content and provide only the important things. Conclusion didn’t describe the topic. It just give brief and clear view about the main ideas. Conclusion could be considered as the important things in news. It strengthen the description and tell public about the topic based on the writer ideas. Conclusion usually available at the end of the paragraphs. After readers read the identification and description, They will be given summarize of the main ideas in the last paragraph. The Conclusion can be anything that influence the readers mind to believe and follow the writers ideas. student at UNIROW must be able to identify the conclusion which is available in the news.

Identification, Description and Conclusion are the three categories that always available in every news. Student at UNIROW should be able to identify all of them. They must get news about Papua and identify each paragraphs. then they write those categories in the left corner of the papers. Identification,description and Conclusion are the soul of each news. read more news and enjoy the excitement. Here are two documents as an example: OBSERVING INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY for YUNITA and International Community Watches Papua.written by Irna Diana (a student in UNIROW at 2009E – English class).

November 29, 2011