BE YOU!!!

Be brave to be yourself!! You are Who you are! Even if the society doesnt like it, YOU are YOU! Forgrt what others think and live yor life. DO what you want.. because life is what you make it, and your life is yours!! IT'S REALLY UP TO YOU!! 8-)

HORTATORY EXPOSITION

HORTATORY EXPOSITION

A Hortatory exposition is a type of spoken or written text that is intended to explain the listeners or readers that something should or should not happen or be done. To strengthen the explanation, the speaker or writer needs some arguments as the fundamental reasons of the given idea. In other words, this kind of text can be called as argumentation. Hortatory exposition text can be found in scientific books, journals, magazines, newspaper articles, academic speech or lectures, research report etc. Hortatory expositions are popular among science, academic community and educated people. The Communicative Purpose: To persuade/convince/assure the readers that something                                                        should or should not be the case. The generic Structure: 1.       Thesis                    : statement or announcement of the issue concern 2.       Argument             :Reasons for concern that will lead to recommendation 3.       Recommendation: Statement of what should or should not happen or be done based                                  on the given arguments

SAMPLE TEXTS

Text 1

Recently most people own mobile phone. Why does mobile phone user increase dramatically in recent years? First, the feature and functions has increased. Mobile phone is not used just for calling, but sending text, taking pictures, recording videos, accessing internet, playing games and much more. Second, mobile phone has also become a lot cheaper. Now this communication device does not only fill the pocket of adult but also teenager and student. Even a lot phones are intentionally designed to teenaged market. However should they be allowed to bring them to school? Many schools do not allow students to bring cell phones to school. It is very reasonable because bringing phone to school potentially disrupts the learning process. Most students use cell phones irresponsibly. They use cell phones to talk to their friend during class time. They also use the calculator and camera features in the class as well. Those potentially lead less concentration in the time of learning and teaching process. Students go to school to learn and behave fair way. Mobile phones provide a large temptation to cheat in tests. They can communicate to anyone and almost anywhere in the world. Because of the small size of the cell phone, students can send a text quietly and discreetly. The text can go unnoticed anywhere to get help on answering tests, homework, and other class assignment. Learning in school is to behave fair not cheating. Therefore, schools should ban students from bringing their cell phones. However it should be done fairly. In case of an emergency some student need a call for help, providing easy access to phone is better.

Text 2

A clean and fresh city will surely make the inhabitants healthy. Every morning especially in dry season, all roads must be watered with clean water and swept by the workers of the regional government under the Major’s instruction. To keep the people from heavy pollution caused by cars, trucks and motorcycles, enough trees must be planted along all roads. Every building or house in the city must be surrounded short and small trees which bear colorful flower. Bad and improper habits which cause disadvantages, bad smell and dangerous diseases to people such as smoking and throwing rubbish anywhere should be stopped at once. The major of each city will have to think over the way how to educate people, so that they realize on how important cleanliness and health are for their own sake. Building more public lavatories at every busy place is very badly needed. It will be wise if the Major decides a certain amount of fine to be paid by those who disobey the government regulation on cleanliness matter. A man who urinate not at lavatory, smoke not at smoking room or throw rubbish at the roads should be fined for instance. Besides dirtying the environment with cigarettes’ butts, smoking will also cause pollution and lungs disease to other people. So bad habits and impolite attitude should be immediately stopped, otherwise the city will be dirty, unhealthy badly polluted and will never attract foreign or domestic tourist

EXPRESSING ANGER AND ANNOYANCE (KELAS XI/SEM 2)

ANGER is one letter short of DANGER.so just be careful in bringing this into conversation.If you say the wrong thing, the situation will get worse.

The following are some expressions of Anger and annoyance

1. It really annoys me when ...

2. It burns me up when ..

3. i can't stand it when ...
4. I dont like it when ...

                                                     5. i hate it when ....

Some more expressions are:

1. I can stand on him any longer

2. Dont take it out on me!

3. No wonder you are Livid!

4. he flared up at me

5. Oh, stop complaining, You make me mad!

6. You are talking non sense

7.You are a cunning fellow

8. dont show me your face!

9. Stop YAPPING!

10. I dont care what it is

11. What Non sense!

12. How could you been so silly

13. It's none of your bussiness

14. If you dare to say that again,I'll hit you

15.Damn you!

16. Oh leave it out!

17. What a hell do you mean?

18. Who do you think you are?

19. Get out of my sight/GET LOST

20. What a hell do you want?

When there is a conflict, the best thing to do is to try to resolve it so that the relationship remain good. The following are some expressions we can use when we want to resolve conflict.

RESOLVING CONFLICT
1. Calm down..
2. Oh, come on.. don't be mad
3. Can we discuss this?
4. Dont be angry. Let's talk it over
5. Please let's discuss this

EXPRESSING LOVE

Hi, my dear kids! Perhaps this is going to be one of the interesting materials we have in this semester. I do believe that LOVE will always be pleasing matter to talk. In this part we are going to learn how to express love and how to respond it as well. The followings are some examples of love expressions. Some of them are written by  your senior (last year). Read them then in turn you have to state your own love expressions. Put them down here on this page. (You can write the expressions on the comments). EVERYBODY DESERVES TO BE LOVED..and LOVING SOMEONE  IS OUR RIGHT TOO.. SO, EXPRESS YOUR LOVE!!!:-)
(miz tunggu ekspresi cintamu..)

 LOVE WORDING
1. If loving you is wrong, then I don't want to be right!
2. If loving you is a crime. I'd like to be jailed for my whole life, in your heart.
3.  If you have 1000 years of age, I just want to have 999 years and 364 days, so I never have to live a day
     without you

4.  The sun wouldn't be Red, the sea wouldn't be blue, the stars wouldn't be bright, I wouldn't be happy

     without you.
5. i have a pen ,the pen is blue
   i have a love the love is u
   the pen was broken
   the ink was dry
   my love never die….!!!!
6. What is a flower without the sun, what is the earth without the sky. What am I without you, that is why I tell
    you … I love you

7. The sky is full of golden stars shining in the light of the moon, but the most beautiful light I see is in your eyes
8. When the night comes, look at the sky. If you see a falling star, don't wonder why, just make a wish. Trust
    me, it will come true, 'cause I did it and I found you!
9. You are always in my heart, here and everywhere, There is no one in the whole world that makes me
    feel this way.
10. My love for you is a journey. Starting at forever and ending at never.
11. Without you my days are "Sadday,"Moanday, "Tearsday, "Wasteday, "Thirstday, "Fightday", and
     "Shatterday"
12. If I had the letter “HRT”, I can add “EA” to get heart or a “U” and get “HURT”.
      But Id rather choose “U” and get “HURT” than to have a “HEART” without “U”.


13. You are the sun in my day, the wind in my sky, the waves in my ocean, and the beat in my heart. All my   
     dreams came true the day that I met you. I Love You! You are the sunshine of my life! Thanks for
     brightening my world with the warmth of your Love… You are the fire that burns the passion within my
     soul. I love You with all my heart…

LUPA

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American and British English

AMERICAN ENGLISH AND BRITISH ENGLISH

Betty Sekarasih Hadi Yani, S.Pd

All languages change with time. With the touch of many factors such as the rapid growth of mass media, geographical aspect and social mobility, the languages in this world are constantly changing. It also happens to English. English which is the second most spoken language in the world has some development in it. It has been developed since the era of oldest English (Anglo-Saxon) in Britain. When English is brought to different area, it will have some variations. First, the people who speak it will develop the accents; next some vocabulary will change either due to influences of other languages or by natural processes. English which was introduced in America through British colonization in the early 17^th century, has been developed in many ways. Recently, the form of the language used in the Americas—especially in the United States—and that used in the United Kingdom and the British Islands have diverged in many ways, leading to the dialects now commonly referred to as American English and British English. Differences between the two include pronunciation, spelling,  grammar, vocabulary (lexis).

           

            Key words : language, language change, English, American English, British

                               English, variations, dialects

The Place of Literature in the Language Classroom

The Place of Literature in the Language Classroom

Betty Sekarasih Hadi Yani, S.Pd

A. Introduction

The issue of literature in the language classroom has been debatable in some periods. In the early years of this century literature was considered of high prestige in language study and access to literary works and was assumed as part of the purpose of language learning (Widdowson:1984). The approach was characterized by a concentration on the classics assuming that if the students were continually exposed to the best uses of the English language, it would in some sense ‘rub off’ on their own performance in the language. (Short and Cadlin 1989:91). However, on the one hand the difficulty and the inaccessibility of many literary texts to non-native English speaking students and on the other, the lack of a consistent and suitable methodology for the teaching of literature brought about rather the opposite effect than the expected one. The literature class consisted often of an enthusiastic teacher-orator and passive students being ‘too busy writing in translations of unfamiliar words to respond to the text’ (Long 1986:42). The class is time consuming and seemingly painful to the students because they have to do word by word translation of the text.