Listening 2: Midterm Test

The midterm test has passed and the results have been announced. The results varied from low to high. Some got straight A and B criteria, and some struggled in lower range for better achievement.
However, test may turn to be a good learning experience when it is followed by the reflection and review. The midterm test material is available in the link below:
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You can review the test and spot possible weaknesses which need improvement.
I would suggest one tip: INCREASE YOUR LISTENING FREQUENCY.

Pronunciation Practice: Unit 12

Here are the materials for unit 12.
1. Minimal Pairs A
2. Minimal Pairs B
3. Minimal Pairs C

Pronunciation Practice: Unit 5 and 9

Directions:
1. Download the materials below

    Unit 5:
       Activity 2.b
       Activity 2.f
       Activity 3.b

    Unit 9:
       Activity 2.d
       Activity 2.f

2. Listen to the recording as many times as you want, the more times the better.
3. Do the tasks in the book and write the answer on a piece of paper.
4. Submit the work before the exam

IMPORTANT!
The midterm exam is conducted ORALLY next week.
The following is the exam procedures:
1. You will be called to enter the exam room one by one.
2. Submit your work (Unit 5, 6, 8, and 9).
3. You will be given a test paper containing a list of
    - single-syllable words
    - two-or-more-syllable words
    - sentences.
4. You are to pronounce the words and sentences.

Don't hesitate to contact me you have any enquiries.

HAPPY LEARNING and GOOD LUCK

Pronunciation Practice: Unit 8

Directions:
1. Download the materials below.
    a. Acticity 2.b
    b. Activity 2.f
    c. Activity 3.b
2. Listen to the recording as many as you want.
3. Do the tasks on a piece of paper and submit the work in the following meeting.

GOOD LUCK!

Pronunciation Practice: Unit 6

Directions:
1. Download the materials below:
    a. Minimal Pairs A: Activity 2.b
    b. Minimal pairs B: Activity 2.b
    c. Activity 2.f
    d. Activity 3.b
2. Listen to each material as many times as you want.
3. Do the tasks on a piece of paper and submit in the following meeting.

GOOD LUCK!

How to Motivate Yourself By Steve Chandler: CREATE A VISSION

(For PBI09 A, B, and C)
Motivation is an important factor to one's success. Motivation must be created, developed and maintained.  How can one motivate him/herself? Steve Chandler explains how a person can do that. Download the material HERE. Listen to his explanation and write a 50-word summary.

Listening 2 (Activity 13: Lucy's Bag)

The purpose of this activity is to identify particular objects based on the descriptions. Download the recorded material from the link below so you can do the activity in the workbook.

Download link: Activity 13 - Lucy's Bag 

I wish you success with every effort in your life.
Don't hasitate to leave comment if you have anythink to say.

Pronunciation Practice (DIAGNOSTIC ACTIVITY)

This Diagnostic Activity is designed to find out the areas of difficulty possibly faced by the learners in pronouncing English words, phrases and sentences or expressions. You can find out your possible difficult areas by doing the Diagnostic Activity. Download the four files below and do the activity yourself. We will discuss the results in the next meeting.

Download links:
1. Diagnostic Activity
2. Track A2
3. Track A3
4. Track A4

Happy Learning
I wish you SUCCESS with every effort in your life.

Muhadi

LISTENING 2 (ACTIVITY 5: PHOTOS)

Dear students,

The material for Listening 2 (Activity 5: PHOTOS) is available in the link below. Please download the material, listen to it and do the activity in your work book.Other materials are also available. You can download the other materials and use it to improve your speaking.

Download links:
Listening 2 - Activity 5: Photos
The Key to Excellent Speaking by AJ Hoge


Happy Listening
I wish you success with every effort in your life.

If you have any enquiries or comments, you can leave ones in the comment box. I would love to hear from you.

LISTENING ASSIGNMENT

Dear students PBI 09 A, B, and C) in STKIP.

Please study independently today (Tuesday, October 12th, 2010). You can download the material from the link below, and do the activity number 4 (At the Beach) in your work book. We will meet again next week and please be ready with the completed activity.

CLICK HERE to download the material.

Happy Listening

Final Semester Notes

Dears readers in STKIP PGRI Ponorogo.

This semester has come to an end and you've just finished taking the final term examination. I'm glad to see that you have been learning really enthusiastically during the semester and many of you have earned good results. For few of you who did not perform well, take a lesson from it. Be better in the coming semesters.

For you, the students of PBI09 A, B, D, E, and F, who are eager to see the marks of the final term semester examinations, click the link below to download the list.

Structure 2 PBI09A
Structure 2 PBI09B
Listening 1 PBI09D
Listening 1 PBI09E
Listening 1 PBI09F

For any enquiries, you can email me at muhadi.et@gmail.com

Summary of Text Types

Under the Genre-Based Approach, the students are introduced to types of texts commonly found in the real life context. The texts include narrative, recount, descriptive, report, explanation, analytical exposition, hortatory exposition, procedure, discussion, review, anecdote, spoof, and news item. The followings are the summary of these texts. The summary includes the purpose, generic structure, and main linguistic features of each type.

NARRATIVE
Purpose: To amuse/entertain the readers and to tell a story
Generic Structure:
1. Orientation
2. Complication
3. Resolution
4. Reorientation
Dominant Language Features:
1. Using Past Tense
2. Using action verb
3. Chronologically arranged

RECOUNT
Purpose: to retell something that happened in the past and to tell a series of past event
Generic Structure:
1. Orientation
2. Event(s)
3. Reorientation
Dominant Language Features:
1. Using Past Tense
2. Using action verb
3. Using adjectives
Narrative and recount in some ways are similar. Both are telling something in the past so narrative and recount usually apply PAST TENSE; whether Simple Past Tense, Simple Past Continuous Tense, or Past Perfect Tense. The ways narrative and recount told are in chronological order using time or place. Commonly narrative text is found in story book; myth, fable, folklore, etc while recount text is found in biography.
The thing that makes narrative and recount different is the structure in which they are constructed. Narrative uses conflicts among the participants whether natural conflict, social conflict or psychological conflict. In some ways narrative text combines all these conflicts. In the contrary, we do not find these conflicts inside recount text. Recount applies series of event as the basic structure

DESCRIPTIVE
Purpose: to describe a particular person, place or thing in detail.
Dominant Generic Structure:
1. Identification
2. Description
Language Features:
1. Using Simple Present Tense
2. Using action verb
3. Using adverb
4. Using special technical terms


REPORT
Purpose: to presents information about something, as it is.
Generic Structure
1. General classification
2. Description
Dominant Language Feature
1. Introducing group or general aspect
2. Using conditional logical connection
3. Using Simple Present Tense

EXPLANATION
Purpose: To explain the processes involved in the formation or working of natural or socio-cultural phenomena.
Generic Structure:
1. General statement
2. Explanation
3. Closing
Dominant Language Features:
1. Using Simple Present Tense
2. Using action verbs
3. Using passive voice
4. Using noun phrase
5. Using adverbial phrase
6. Using technical terms
7. Using general and abstract noun
8. Using conjunction of time and cause-effect.

ANALYTICAL EXPOSITION
Purpose: To reveal the readers that something is the important case
Generic Structure:
1. Thesis
2. Arguments
3. Reiteration/Conclusion
Dominant Language Features:
1. Using modals
2. Using action verbs
3. Using thinking verbs
4. Using adverbs
5. Using adjective
6. Using technical terms
7. Using general and abstract noun
8. Using connectives/transition

HORTATORY EXPOSITION
Purpose: to persuade the readers that something should or should not be the case or be done
Generic Structure:
1. Thesis
2. Arguments
3. Recommendation
Dominant Language features:
1. Using Simple Present Tense
2. Using modals
3. Using action verbs
4. Using thinking verbs
5. Using adverbs
6. Using adjective
7. Using technical terms
8. Using general and abstract noun
9. Using connectives/transition
Then what is the basic difference between analytical and hortatory exposition. In simple word. Analytical is the answer of "How is/will" while hortatory is the answer of "How should". Analytical exposition will be best to describe "How will student do for his examination? The point is the important thing to do. But for the question" How should student do for his exam?" will be good to be answered with hortatory. It is to convince that the thing should be done

PROCEDURE
Purpose: to help readers how to do or make something completely
Generic Structure:
1. Goal/Aim
2. Materials/Equipments
3. Steps/Methods
Dominant Language Features:
1. Using Simple Present Tense
2. Using Imperatives sentence
3. Using adverb
4. Using technical terms

DISCUSSION
Purpose: to present information and opinions about issues in more one side of an issue (‘For/Pros’ and ‘Against/Cons’)
Generic Structure:
1. Issue
2. Arguments for and against
3. Conclusion
Dominant Language Features:
1. Using Simple Present Tense
2. Use of relating verb/to be
3. Using thinking verb
4. Using general and abstract noun
5. Using conjunction/transition
6. Using modality
7. Using adverb of manner

REVIEW
Purpose: to critique or evaluate an art work or event for a public audience
dominant Generic Structure:
1. Orientation
2. Evaluation
3. Interpretative Recount
4. Evaluation
5. Evaluative Summation
Dominant Language features:
1. Focus on specific participants
2. Using adjectives
3. Using long and complex clauses
4. Using metaphor

ANECDOTE
Purpose: to share with others an account of an unusual or amusing incident
Generic Structure:
1. Abstract
2. Orientation
3. Crisis
4. Reaction
5. Coda.
Dominant Language Features:
1. Using exclamations, rhetorical question or intensifiers
2. Using material process
3. Using temporal conjunctions

SPOOF
Purpose: to tell an event with a humorous twist and entertain the readers
Generic Structure:
1. Orientation
2. Event(s)
3. Twist
Dominant Language Features:
1. Using Past Tense
2. Using action verb
3. Using adverb
4. Chronologically arranged

NEWS ITEM
Purpose: to inform readers about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important
Dominant Generic Structure:
1. Newsworthy event(s)
2. Background event(s)
3. Sources
Dominant Language Features:
1. Short, telegraphic information about story captured in headline
2. Using action verbs
3. Using saying verbs
4. Using adverbs : time, place and manner.

How to Speak English Excellently

I believe every English learner wants to develop excellent speaking. I believe everyone can. But how...? Here I want to share you the way.

I introduce AJ Hoge to you. I DO AGREE with what he says about "THE KEY TO EXCELLENT SPEAKING."

This is what he has to say:

"What is the most important English skill? What skill must you have to communicate well? Obviously, number 1 is Fluency. What is fluency? Fluency is the ability to speak (and understand) English quickly and easily... WITHOUT translation.

Fluency means you can talk easily with native speakers-- they easily understand you, and you easily understand them. In fact, you speak and understand instantly.

Fluency is your most important English goal.
The research is clear-- there is only ONE way to get fluency. You do not get fluency by reading textbooks. You do not get fluency by going to English schools. You do not get fluency by studying grammar rules.

LISTENING IS THE KEY

To get English fluency, you must ..."

You want to read and listen to the complete key? click the download link.

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Simply download the file, listen to it and HAVE FUN with your English study.

GOOD LUCK!

Easy English Grammar Online

Dear students...

We have been studying English grammar for almost one semester, but I know that one semester is just not enough to master the materials. The course, Structure 2, will soon come to an end. However, I do suggest that you keep going in your study.

For more learning and practice, I suggest you to visit the sites below where you can read explanation, find examples, do exercises and, of course, have fun.

Just click the links below!

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For all students in STKIP PGRI Ponorogo, keep learning and have fun...!!!

You can if you believe you can...

How many of us are often doubtful about what we can do, especially when it comes to new experience. We often don't realize that we have super tool which makes us able of doing and achieving anything; our brain, our thought. Our belief and strong thought about particular situation make it come closer. This is what is recently known the power of attraction.

This is also true about learning English.
From my experience of contact with English learners during the last ten years, I found that many of them couldn't achieve success because they believed they would not succeed. Many of them say, "I can't speak English," with English. Although they have spoken English, they keep thinking they can't. The more they say it, the more they believe it, and the further will success be from them.

Successful English learners begin and continue their learning journey with a belief that they can achieve success, they can speak English, they can write in English.

Click this link below to download and read more about believing and achieving.

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