Learning English

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English = International Language

Everybody knows that English is an international language. As an Indonesian, my English is not good enough. But, I will always learn and have practice. I hope, through this post, I can share my knowledge about English and get some corrections if there are some mistakes here.

I have learned English since I was elementary school, junior and senior high school. I has been 12 years learning English. And since I studied at university, I just started my English course in my third year study.

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I wanna share about my first lesson, a simple English that I learned in the first class of my English course. It is about imperative. Imperative is a direct order, command, a warning or just instruction to others. For an easy example is 'open the door'. Usually it consists only two or three words.

There are two kinds of imperative. Positive and negative imperative. 'Be carefull' is an example of positive imperative and 'Don't go' is an example of negative imperative. 'Watch out', 'Don't leave me', 'Save me', 'take the glass' are also examples of imperative. So, we can conclude here that English is not difficult, we can use only imperative verb to communicate in English.

That's all for now, I hope it is useful for all of us.

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My Level 2 Score in ELTI

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Last tuesday, I had a test in ELTI and it was the test to jump to the next level. It was writting and listening test at 6.30 pm. It was about the grammar, made a story of my childhood, and completed the dialog. I felt that I will pass the test. And then, on last friday I got the verbal test. We had to face the teacher with our partner and then we asked each other with a list question which is given. I think, I did my best there. At the end of the test, we were showed the result for our test.

I gor A- for the writing test, B- for my verbal test, and A- for listening test. Do you think I am good enough in English?

I don't think so. I feel what have I gotten during the course is not enough. I need more practice in English so I can speak well and effective. At the class, sometimes we still used bahasa and the converesation was too simple. I hope I could got more.

What should I do now?

I can't continue the next level on 28 this month because I am going to take a practice in my study (KP = Kerja Praktek). So I said to the front office of ELTI to have a break. They said that I have 8 months for the break. Actually, I am still waiting the confirmation from the company which will be my practice place.

Any suggestion?

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Softskill : Effective Communication Skill

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Effective Communication Skill is one of soft skills that are needed to work at Halliburton. I think, they  use English to communicate in the company because English is an international language and Halliburton is a worldwide company with 60,000 employees and over 80 countries. So, I have to have a skill to communicate effectively and it is in English. Therefore, I take an English course in ELTI Surakarta to increase, to be able, to be confident, and to gain the skill to communicate effectively in English.

In Solo or Surakarta, there are many good English courses such as ELTI, LIA, ILP, etc. I choose ELTI because of the fee, it is cheaper than others. I have to speak in English as often as possible, so I do not prior the quality of the teacher and choose the cheaper one. ELTI stands for English Language Training International that is centered in Jakarta and managed by KOMPAS GRAMEDIA.

Actually, I have starting the course since March. It has been almost three months. I started the course from level 2 for Active Communication. It was twice a week, on tuesday and friday. We had different teacher on that twice meeting in a week. On tuesday, we were taught by Mr. Rusdiayanto and Miss Mei taught on friday. Here is the payment of my course in ELTI.

On 29 March, the first class, was an introducing class. I hated that class because they talked about where they came from. Actually, I am not shy about my home town, Batam is a great town. My childhood was there. But, people from other islands only know about the bad things of Batam. Not mentioned here because you know what. After i told them where I came from, they said "hmm..Black Market". Huft.

For the first lesson in that class was about imperative. Mr. Rusdi showed us a picture of a firefighter saves a girl and asked us what the girl says to the man, only two words. Some student said thank you, but it was not what he meant. Save me. It was what he meant. He wanted to show us that English is simple. We can used only two words to make people understand what we mean. And it's called imperative. It was the first lesson there. The vocabulary that I write down on my note was crescent, in Bahasa means sabit.

First lesson with Miss Mei on friday, the same week, was about noun. There are two kinds of noun, uncountable noun and countable noun. Uncountable noun  means nouns that can be counted by measurement like liter, for example our body needs 8 liters of water everyday. Countable noun means nouns that can be counted one by one, for example I have two hands. As active communication class, we did a lot of conversations on game in the class. With Miss Mei, we played a game like who the best buyer and the best seller. The seller sold fruits and the buyer only had five thousands rupiah to buy fruits as many as they can. The best seller was the seller who gained the most on profit. I was a buyer, I got 25 fruits and still had four thousands on my hand, but they said it was not logic. I think it was great and the seller was the worst.

Day after day, I got boring in the class. The game was boring and the conversation was on the book. But, I still hope that someday it will be useful for my communication skill especially in English. It has been being 10 weeks now. I am going to have a test for this level. It will be held on 7 June for writing test and 10 June for verbal test. Wish me luck.

I forgot something, I was absent the class for three times because of emergency situation, such as rain, headache, and an unknown reason. Hehe.

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EDC : English Day Contract

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It is not English Debate Competition, but it is English Day Contract. English day means we speak in English all day. We, the members of Habibie's boarding house (someday, I will post about our boarding house and the members of it-may be not), make a contract about English day. Here is the story.

Actually, I have forgot the story behind the contract. Haha..

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That night, last sunday, we had eaten at Obonk. As you know, boys talked about women first and it was censored here. It is not because of  its content but there are some names that can not be mentioned here. And the second topic is about football, it was the Barclays Premier League. It was Liverpool vs Sunderland. And the order come.

The contract was be made after we ate. We made a contract to speak English every monday and thursday. For the looser, who speaks Indonesian language, will get a punishment. It is clean the bathroom and the closet. The last monday, the looser was Danu. Congrats to Danu. prok..prok..prok..

We hope, EDC will increase our conversation skill. Amiin.

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