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Improving English skill by watching western movie

Watching English movie

One of my hobby is watching english movie . Movie provide both audio and visual that can help me to understand the language easily. When I watch a movie,   I am not only listen to the characters but also watch their movement. Beside that it also help me to strengthen my listening, reading and speaking . Moreover, by watching movie help me to understand foreign people, included their custom, belief, values, behavior, hope and dream . From watching a movie,  I can get a lot of correct English sentences into my head, then I learn what word that they use , and I also learn how they say these word .

I am sure that most of student in this class watch a lot of American and british movie. But they watch them with Indonesian subtitles. If you one of the student who doing this way , it can makes you miss out on an easy and fun way to improve your English.

If you watch an American movie with English audio and English subtitles your English skills will improve very quickly. When you listen to English and read English at the same time it re-enforces the English vocabulary, grammar and even slang in your brain. If you do this for only 15 minutes every day, within a month you will already notice you can understand a lot more English than before.

From my own experience , I suggest you to watch movie at least more than two times. you can start watching movie with Indonesian subtitle, and then you watch again with an English audio and subtitle so you can be sure , you understand what’s going on. This way can improve your English skill very quickly. If you do the same, you can too .

Movies is an excellent way to get a view into the ideas, myths and values of the culture.  Learning English by watching movies in the language can be a fun and enjoyable way to help learn the language.

There are many benefits that can be achieved through watching movies :

1.  The first, watching is something enjoyable, moreover if you understand about it. By watching, you can know the current things. English movies are developing very much nowadays and even in Indonesia .

2.  The second, watching English movie is very good for English students, not only as something enjoyable but also as motivation to learn English.

3.  Finally, the students can also learn a lot of things from watching English movies, such as pronunciation, vocabulary, style, intonation even western culture, habit, ect.

Conclution

Learning English should not be a tough thing. A right method will make the study happier and easier. Learning English by watching movies can help students improve their English skills. It is interesting that people pay more attention to it and they would be interested in it. If a person is interested in one thing, he would try his best to do it. So, watching movies and is a useful method for learning English.

Arguing Recomendation and Writing and Image

ARGUING RECOMMENDATIONS

Every people will have argued a recommendation (sometimes called a proposal). Recommendations are the hybrid of argument, drawing on the principles and practice of factual, causal, and evaluate arguments. So, for the most part, writing a successful recommendation is a question of applying what you have already learned about the different kinds of argument and their support. All recommendations establish a current situation (how things now) and a problem future situations (how they would be if the change were instituted). In other words, recommendations rely on arguments of fact and arguments of effect. How central either type is to your recommendation will depend on the emphasis demanded by the particular situation.

AUDIENCE NEEDS AND VALUES

Most recommendations ask readers to do something, not merely to give their armchair agreement to a claim. Human nature being what it is, people are more likely to take action if there is a possibility that the action will benefit them in some way. Thus, a powerful way to support any recommendation is to appeal to the needs, values, and desire that you have identified in your readers. Making such an appeal means paying particular attention to the early stage of audience consideration: who is your audience? What are their needs and values likely to be regarding your claim?

When Your Values Differ from Assumed Reader Values

Recommendation actually works with two sets of values: the reader’s and the writer’s. While a successful recommendation must appeal to the appropriate reader values, it will originate in values held by the writer. Indeed, most recommendations are born in the writer’s experience of dissonance, that be sense of mismatch between one’s values and a current situation. Often the values that move you to recommend a certain change will be the same those that will move your reader to accept your recommendation. But sometimes writer and reader values do not coincide. You do need to be aware of the difference between them.

RECOMMENDATIONS EMPHASIZING THE PERESENT

Some recommendations, construct on problems and current situation, living a detail proposal for change to another argument. The goal of such arguments is to demonstrate more that something needs to be done than what exactly that something is. To except this kind of recommendation, your readers need an accurate and usually, detail of the current situation. They must grasp the situation as it before they can agree or disagree with your evaluation of it. Recommendation emphasizing represent usually open with a factual argument.

Establishing the Current Situation

Establishing this detail is critical to the recommendation for a couple of reason. First, readers are likely to take exact figures more seriously than irate vagueness. Second, misrepresenting the facts, where intentionally to strengthen your case or negligently through sloppy research, will be detected.

Evaluating the Current Situation

All recommendations contain some evaluate elements. In recommendations emphasizing the present, the subject of the evaluation n is the current situation. If you have a good understanding of your audience and their needs and values, you probably won’t need to write a full-blown evaluation complete with a defined evaluative term. The transit authority letter, for example, doesn’t require an explicit judgment of the situation presented. Sometimes your recommendation will be addressed to reader who may not immediately recognize the problems in the current situation. In this case, you’d be wise to identify what is wrong by providing a clear and limited evaluated term.

Applying the Toulmin Model

The Toulmin logical model is especially useful when you’re  composing a recommendation/ Placing your claim and support in the Toulmin paradigm will help you detect any weakness of reasoning or wording in your argument and will suggest the secondary claims you’ll need to support the central claim. Remember that in the Toulmin model, the warrant is equivalent to the major premise in a syllogism; it is the general statement about a class that enables the data (or the minor premise in a syllogism) to justify the claim (or conclusion in a syllogism). One of the virtues of the Toulmin system is that once you have started your argument in its terms, you can recognize what further support (backing) your argument will need.

RECOMMENDATIONS EMPHASIZING THE FUTURE

When your recommendation emphasizes the probable future effect of its proposed changed, you’ll have to move beyond the current problems and the general claim that something must be done; you’ll also have to identify, reasonably convincingly, what that something is.

Presenting the Recommendation

The recommendation itself—the proposed plan for change—must be crystal clear. Some situations will call for a rather general recommendation, leaving the details to others, whereas in other cases, particularly when you have some responsibility for implementing the plan, a detailed recommendation will be necessary. Generally, the more concrete your recommendation, the more effective it will be, provided your plan reflects a sound understanding of the operations of the group that will implement it. But there are times when a great deal of detail is inappropriate.

Arguing the Effects of Your Recommendation

Recommendations with future emphasis always and evaluate the probable effect of the proposed plane. Your recommendation will know strong if you can show that the proposed changes (the causes) are related to the results you predict (the effects) through established causal principles.

Judging Effect in Terms of Assumed Need and Values

In developing your recommendation, you will probably identify several probable effects, only some of which will meet the needs and values of your readers. Suppose you support your recommendation to faculty of a pass-fail grading option by predicting the effect of students’ doing less work in their courses.

When some effects are undesirable

Few recommendations can promise exclusively positive result. But as long as the desirable effects outweigh the undesirable one, your recommendation is worth making. If you are on a committee recommending the building of a new expressway, you should admit that the building of the new expressway, whatever its ultimate advantages, will cause inconveniences. This will be more effective and responsible approach than ignoring altogether the obvious negative consequences of your recommendation.

Implementation

Your recommendation the building must pass one further test, it must be feasible. A crucial element of a general or detailed implementation plan is an analysis of costs.

Applying the Toulmin Model.

The Toulmin model will help you evaluate the reasonableness and completeness of recommendations emphasizing the future. Depending on your assessment of the readers’ needs, that backing may follow at least two directions. On the one hand, you’ll probably want to support the generalization with a secondary factual argument that compares the number of student-faculty contact hours in semester and trimester systems.

A second issue raised by the warrant is the unstated assumption that student-faculty contact is a good thing.

RECOMMENDATIONS THAT CONSIDER PRESENT AND FUTURE

The two types of recommendations we have discussed rarely occur in pure form, many recommendations contain some discussion of both the current situation and the future possibilities. The strategies present and evaluate the current situation, lay out the recommendation, and finally identify and evaluate the probable results of the recommendation.

The Format of Recommendations

I.         STATEMENT OF PROBLEM

II.      STATEMENT OF RECOMMENDATION

III.   ADVANTAGES OF RECOMMENDATION

IV.   DISADVANTAGES OF RECOMMENDATION

V.      COSTS AND IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

WRITING AND IMAGE

The concept of image has developed something of a negative flavor, suggesting superficiality and deceit.  But the image here’s differently and more positively, to suggest the ways in which writing honestly reflects to the reader the kind of person the writer is. In arguments, writers project an image of intelligence, probity, and trustworthiness. The qualities cannot be created out of thin air; they must be true reflections of the writer and thus are developed over time and through experience. The writer must be aware that this image will need to be slightly adjusted to fit the context of a given argument.

Image consists of many elements. Its intelligence, honesty, and accuracy, word choice, sentence construction, figures of speech, spelling, punctuation and physical format, and sounds.

THE ROLE OF VOICE

A writer’s voice is the role that he or she takes for a particular occasion, almost like an actor taking a part in a new play. Voice is simply the written manifestation of this adaptability.

The Importance of Ethos

A major element of a successful image is the ethos projected by the writer. The ethos is the impression of the writer’s character that the reader gets; a positive ethos is one reflecting sincerity and trustworthiness.

THE VIRTUE AND LIMITATIONS OF PLAIN WRITING

            The most famous advocate of his plain style was British writer George Orwell, who formulated the following six stylistic rules in one of the most famous essays without writing style. “Politics and the English Language”:

        i.            Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

      ii.            Never used a long word where a short one will do.

    iii.            If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

    iv.            Never use the passive where you can use the active.

      v.            Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of any everyday English Equivalent.

    vi.            Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

But plain writing carries its own risk, as Orwell notes in his sixth rule. Writer who use the plain style exclusively risk prose that is clear but undistinguished, serviceable but dull. To help you avoid this extreme, here are some friendly amendments to Orwell’s rules:

        i.            Don’t be afraid to use metaphors, simile, or other figures of speech, provided they are not overworked.

      ii.            When a long word is the best one, use it.

    iii.            Use long sentences for variety and when they best suit your needs.

    iv.            Dare to something different.

      v.            Break any of these rules rather than confuse your readers.

FIGURE OF SPEECH

            Two of the common figures of speech are metaphor and analogy. A metaphor is an implicit comparison of two unlike subjects so that aspects of one (usually concrete and familiar) illuminate aspects of the other (usually more abstract or unfamiliar). Analogy is like metaphor in that dissimilar subjects are compared, but in analogy, the comparison is usually extended through several points.

Some cautions About Figures of Speech

             Metaphors, similes, and analogies can illuminate and generate ideas, but they can’t prove a point; they offer clarification, not evidence. Ultimately all analogies break down if persuaded too far; the two subjects of an analogy are finally different subjects. Analogies are risky if people take them too literally, as they did the “domino theory” analogy in the 1960s and 1970s. The domino analogy compared countries in Southeast Asia to row dominoes. When dominos are placed on their ends in a row, they will fall down by one if the first in the series is pushed. According to the domino theory, the countries would fall to communism in the same manner. The domino theory may not always be this faulty, yet the theory cannot become an excuse for falling to analyze the particular complexities of a specific situation.

CONNOTATIVE AND SLANTING

            Good writers must be aware not only of the denotation of words but of their connotations as well. The denotation of a word is its explicit meaning, its dictionary definition; the connotation of a word is the meaning or meaning suggested by the word, the word’s emotional association. Writer of arguments need to be sensitive to the connotations of words and to use these connotations appropriately. Writers are often tempted to use not only connotation but also blatantly emotional terms as illegitimate supports for their arguments. As a writer of responsible arguments, you must not fall into the trap of letting such language suggest conclusions your argument does not support. The temptation to slant is probably strongest in arguments of ethical evaluation; of all the arguments you write, these are the most personal, the most self-revealing, and thus the most important for you. Slanting, while almost unavoidable in such cases, must not become a substitute for sound support of your argument.

THE MUSIC OF LANGUAGE

            Less obvious but powerfully convincing is prose that holds our attention because of a fresh and pleasing combination of sounds. Such prose contains euphony and rhythm. Euphony, a term that comes from Greek roots meaning “good sound,” is a pleasing combination of sounds. Euphony, of course, depends on the ear of the readers or listener, but ears can be trained to become sensitive to this quality of prose, just as we learn to be sensitive to different qualities of music. Rhythm is recognizable pattern of sounds through time. In prose, rhythmical units are often divided by grammatical pauses such as commas or periods, though a rhythmical break may also occur at some other place where we would pause to catch our breath if we were reading aloud. Good prose writers learn to know their prose rhythm, to develop them as they gain experience in writing, and to recognize and use the appropriate rhythm for a specific purpose. The sound of your prose will affect how readers react to your argument, even if they are not conscious of the role sound plays in written prose and even if they have not developed the skill to create sound-pleasing prose themselves.

ESSAY WRITING ASSIGNMENT

SUMMARY OF ARGUING RECOMMENDATIONS and WRITING AND IMAGE

Summarizing by:

SITI NURFIQAH (F42111058)

UTIN NOVIANTI ALAWIYAH (F42111052)

YUNI SUSANTI (F42111064)

SILVIA ANGGRAINI (F42110034)

ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM

LANGUAGE AND ARTS EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION FACULTY

TANJUNGPURA UNIVERSITY

2013

Best Websites for Teaching and Learning

Sometimes we feel bored to study by reading a book. But below, i provide you some websites foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover. So we could learn anytime and anywhere, we don't need to bring a thick book again. check this out!

Projeqt 

Projeqt describes itself as "dynamic presentations for a real time world." Use it to create linear and stacked slide presentations for any type of event. Embed images, text, documents, or add data from your favorite social media tools. Tip: Use in your library to create a stacked slide show to feature books by genre.

My Storymaker 

What story do you wish to tell? The Ghost Who Made Friends with the Genie or how about The Fox Who Wanted a Cupcake? My Storymaker is the perfect storytelling environment for confident and reluctant writers to tell these stories and hundreds more. As you control a character’s actions, emotions, and interactions, the program writes the story. Tip: Use with kids who feel unsuccessful and frustrated during creative writing activities.

Vialogues 
Do more than watch a video: discuss, question, and comment. Vialogues puts the “think and do” into video watching. Vialogues allows you to post a video and then invite participants to answer questions, discuss or just comment. This asynchronous tool can be used for private or public interactions. Tip: Use this tool with media literacy lessons.

Jux 
Tell stories with graphics, text, and audio with this visually compelling application on desktops, iPads and iPhones. Network socially without sidebars, ads, or logos in this online environment that focuses on the content you create with photos, video, and slideshows.Tip: Use this tool to share daily life in your dynamic library with the school community using video, photos, and text.

Stixy 
Collaborate, create, organize, and share content on Stixyboards, a flexible Web-based bulletin board. Customize and design an unlimited number of digital bulletin boards by uploading files, drag ‘n’ dropping photos, notes, images, documents, or to-do lists. Tip: Use this site to help students organize information in a way that make sense to them to collaboratively create and share projects.

Teaching Language Skills 

 This is one my TEFL assignment that i have done it. Its about teaching language skills, that include reading skills, writing skills, listening skills, and speaking skills. Hopely you can learn from it :)

POETRY CLASS

“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”

by Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer 5
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake. 10
The only other sounds the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep, 15
And miles to go before I sleep.

Summary

On the surface, this poem is simplicity itself. The speaker is stopping by some woods on a snowy evening. He or she takes in the lovely scene in near-silence, is tempted to stay longer, but acknowledges the pull of obligations and the considerable distance yet to be traveled before he or she can rest for the night.

Form

he poem consists of four (almost) identically constructed stanzas. Each line is iambic, with four stressed syllables:

Within the four lines of each stanza, the first, second, and fourth lines rhyme. The third line does not, but it sets up the rhymes for the next stanza. For example, in the third stanza, queer, near, and year all rhyme, but lake rhymes with shake, mistake, and flake in the following stanza.

The notable exception to this pattern comes in the final stanza, where the third line rhymes with the previous two and is repeated as the fourth line.

Do not be fooled by the simple words and the easiness of the rhymes; this is a very difficult form to achieve in English without debilitating a poem’s content with forced rhymes.

The Importance of ICT in Education

 IT is a skill which is essential in the world we live in. Students need to use the latest technology to offer them an effective education in the twenty first century. ICT in Education is important! ICT is one of the key skills needed to access and enrich learning of all kinds. It's all about communication, and in the world in which our children are growing up, it is vital: whatever they do, they will have to be ICT-literate. ICT connects all areas of the curriculum. The internet can be a powerful resource; if children aren't connected at home school provision becomes even more important. ICT should be seen as a essential skill because if you aren't using it all the time, you forget how to!