Comment Azkia for her performance

Comment Ayu Rosalina for her performance.

Here is a speech by Purbo Suseno, a student of SMA 1 Demak, graduated in 2013.
The speech was presented at the speech competition in UNNES (ESA WEEK) in 2012.

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April 20^th 1889, a boy was born in a little village in Austria, and 44 years later he became German Chancellor. He led German forces and started the WWII. He is Adolf Hitler. I think you have already known about his crime. Starting war, Racism; The Holocaust; the genocide crime of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, and also his Indoctrination, especially for the young people to follow his path or even worship him. But after all of his Bad Attitude, we have something to learn from him. Not “how to shape your mustache like tempe”. But it’s how he influences people to follow the way he thinks. He says “Tell a lie, make the lie big, keep saying it repeatedly and eventually they will believe it”. The same pattern occurs in Indonesia, especially in our mass media.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Mass Media refers to all media technologies that are intended to reach a large scale of audience via mass communication.

A good mass media, should concern more on utility of Information instead of sensationalisms. It should educate people to think and aware of the situation.

The problem is that mass media in Indonesia is out of control. Judging Power is the power of Media to judge a person or an institution whether they are right or wrong and sometimes it’s not even based on fact. Now, they’re doing that to worsen the image of the government.

They create false reality; reducing the fact on the news that being reported, well in this case is our government. They filter the news, reporting the badness of the government with bigger rations, so what people of Indonesia always hear is failure, incapability, and of course LIE.

Now that they’ve told lies, they need to make it believed. The media keeps report that false reality again and again. They‘re being creative on serving the news using different format; Interview, Talk shows, Polling, or Live reporting. Sometime, they report different news but it still contains the same ideas about how bad the government is.

Proper example of this was the corruption case. Media blew up every corruption cases like Century Bank, Nazaruddin, Angelina Sondakh, and many more. They make us think that our president is failed dealing with corruption. They direct us to see only the bad side of the president. They keep report it over and over, interviewing politician that not neutrals and do nothing but babbling and mocking the government keep worsen the situation. Finally, people lost their faith to the government and SBY it self. They rebelling, riot is every where asking the president to resign.

Think and examine Ladies and Gentlemen! The government is doing a great job revealing the corruption. The President and his KPK is being objective on these cases. It is proven by the likes of Nazaruddin and Angelina Sondakh who are the president’s men, was named as a suspect. SBY do not interfere the law to save his men. President SBY found KPK to reveal corruption cases, and now he accused to be a failed president because too many cases revealed. That is false reality! Or what I prefer to call a LIE.

Ladies and Gentlemen we have to be aware of this kind of conspiracy. We should be wise no to accept every information shown by the media. Open your eyes wide and see what’s happen surrounds you! Use your heart and your mind to decide which is right or what is wrong. Once again think and examine Ladies and Gentlemen,

Thank you for your kindly attention, Good Morning

Study Tip – How to Practice Listening!

You have been studying English for a long time. You have a good knowledge of English grammar and you know lots of words. You can read things in English and you can communicate well in writing. You have trouble understanding what people are saying, however, and it’s impossible for you to watch English movies or TV shows without subtitles. Does that describe you?

NOUN CLAUSE

Dear Students,

To fill your holiday for the three days try out, study the  explanation below to answer the questions in your book. And do the quiz below.

1. Noun Clause NC 1

2. Quiz quiz

good luck.

Example of Speech

Good morning, my honorable the judges and all participants. Let me introduce my self. My name is Shinta Ismi and I’m from 1 Demak High. Before I deliver my speech, let us thanks almighty Allah SWT. Because of His blessing, we can be here joining the speech contest with a good condition. Also, let’s not forget to always keep our hope for our Prophet Muhammad SAW’s help in the doomsday.

Ladies and gentle men, in this chance, I choose “Prevention of Drugs for Teenagers” as my speech title. Now, let’s see the hot news in our nation. Some moments ago, our government held an event in Jakarta with a purpose to keep the young generation from the attack of drugs. The reason to hold this event is because the drugs become more exist in teenagers’ life. But, the existence of drugs is not in the right way. It even can destroy teenagers’ life. How can? Before I explain it, I want define what drug is first.

Adverbial Of Place

Learning English British Council

We use adverbials of place to describe:

Location

We use prepositions to talk about where someone or something is.
 Examples:

• He was standing by the table.
• You’ll find it in the cupboard.
• Sign your name here – at the bottom of the page.

Direction

We use adverbials to to talk about the direction where someone or something is moving.
Examples:

• Walk past the bank and keep going to the end of the street.
• The car door is very small so it’s difficult to get into.

Distance

We use adverbials to show how far things are:
Examples:

• Birmingham is 250 kilometres from London.
• We were in London. Birmingham was 250 kilometres away.

From : http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/

Australian Debates

Australasian debate has three debaters on each team, and two teams in each debate, called the "affirmative" and the "negative." Each side gets three constructive speeches, one for each speaker, alternating between the two teams. Constructive speeches are usually seven minutes long, although the exact time can vary from tournament to tournament. Some, but not all, tournaments also give each team one rebuttal, called a reply speech, starting with the negative. There are no points of order, personal privilege or information.

In Australasian debate, more than in other format, each speech has particular responsibilities, and adjudicators specifically examine if these responsibilities are met. This is called "method," and it is the deciding factor in many debates.

Report Text

Text 1

Singapore

Singapore is a beautiful country just off the coast of the Malay Peninsula. What is strange is that the capital city is also called Singapore. It is a lovely city built on a pretty harbor. Over 40.000 ships pass through Singapore each year. Approximately 3 million people live on this tiny island which is only 616 square kilometers in area. Most of these people are Chinese; however, Indians, Malays, Portuguese and Europeans also make up the population. The  main income for Singapore comes from commerce and manufacturing. Tourism is also very important to the economy and there are some really good hotels to stay in.

Text 2

A modem is an electronic device, attached to a computer, that allows the transfer of data. Modem stands for MODulator-DEModulator.
Data can be transferred two ways using a modem. Data is sent is called uploading. Data when received is called downloading.There are various speeds of modems including 14.4, 28.8, and 33.2 baud. The lower the baud, the slower the speed of the modem to transfer data.
Modems work in association with communications software. Special software such as Netscape lets a computer access the internet.
Modems are becoming increasingly more important in this age of technology and assist people to join the information superhighway.

The texts are taken from Text Types in English, written by Mark Anderson and Kathy Anderson)

Answer the following questions based on the texts above!
1. Answer these question based on text 1!

• How big is Singapore?
• What is special about Singapore?
• What is the majority of Singapore population?

2. Answer these questions based on text 2!

• What are the functions of a modem?
• Mention types of a modem?
• The word 'assist' has the same meaning as ...

3. Analyzing text.

• Which text does belong to report?
• How do you know?
• Which text does belong to descriptive?
• Why?
• Which sentences from the report text shows the specific thing?
• Which sentence from the descriptive text shows the general thing?

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