Minggu, 01 Mei 2011

COCO CHANEL

Pernahkah kalian mendengar nama Chanel? Apakah kalian mengenal simbol ini?
Atau mungkin beberapa dari kalian memiliki produk-produk dengan merk yang disebutkan diatas.  Atau kalian juga mengenal jenis-jenis tas seperti ini?

Ya. Seperti yang kita ketahui selama ini bahwa kita mengenal Chanel sebagai brand fashion yang sangat terkenal di seluruh dunia. Produk yang dihasilkan dari Chanel yang harganya juataan rupiah atau bahkan jutaan dollar telah banyak dipakai di seluruh dunia, bahkan artis-artis terkenal Hollywood-pun banyak yang menggunakan tas dengan merk tersebut. Bahkan kini kita juga banyak menjumpai replika-replika yang harganya mulai dari puluhan ribu rupiah, hingga ratusan ribu rupiah.
Tapi apa sebenarnya Chanel itu sendiri, dan apakah itu hanya sebuah brand fashion semata?
Chanel adalah nama seorang wanita cantik, dia lahir di Paris Perancis pada tanggal 19 Agustus 1883. Terlahir sebagai Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel dari seorang ayah bernama Albert Chanel, seorang penjual di pasar dan ibu yang bernama Jeanne Devolle, seorang pencuci baju.Ia juga memiliki lima saudara yang masing-masing bernama Julie, Antoinette, Alphonse, Lucien, dan Agustin.
Setelah ibunya meninggal dan ayahnya meninggalkan mereka, Chanel kecil kemudian tinggal di panti asuhan di biara Katholik Roma. disanalah kemudian ia mulai belajar menjahit. 
Pada usia delapan belas tahun, ia keluar dari panti asuhan dan mulai bergabung dengan sirkus yang bernama Moulins, sebagai seorang penyanyi kabaret. Hingga kemudian ia menemukan nama Coco, yang ia pakai hingga kemudian hari.
Sebagai seorang penyanyi kabaret, karirnya ternyata tidak terlalu bagus. Namun disitulah pula ia bertemu dengan seorang laki-laki muda yang bernama Etienne Balsan, yang kemudian menjadikannya seorang mistress. Dan dari laki-laki itulah ia mendapatkan kemakmuran dan bergelimang harta. 
Beberapa kali kemudian dia menjalin hubungan dengan beberapa laki-laki.
Awal debutnya adalah ketika ia berhasil menjadi penjahit berlisensi dan keahlian membuat topi-nya kemudian segera diakui oleh berbagai kalangan. Apalagi kemudian topi-nya dikenakan oleh seorang aktris terkenal Gabrielle Dorziat, dan diperagakan di depan publik.
Setelah itu dia mulai membuka butik yang diberi nama Deauville, dan mulai memperkenalkan rancangan-rancangan bajunya yang terkenal.
Selanjutnya bersama adiknya ia merambah pada produksi parfum chanel-nya yang terkenal pada tahun 1917.
Tahun-tahun berikutnya, setelah ia berhasil meraih kemasyhurannya di Perancis, Hollywod mulai melirik dirinya untuk merancang baju-baju yang hendak dikenakan oleh para artisnya.
Hingga pada PD II, ia juga pernah dikait-kaitkan dengan Nazi Jerman, tapi ia lolos di pengadilan atas campur tangan keluarga Kerajaan Inggris.
Pada tanggal 10 Januari 197, di usianya yang menginjak 88 tahun, ia menghembuskan nafas terakhir di Hotel Ritz, di kediaman di mana ia tinggal hampir lebih dari tiga puluh tahun lamanya.
Coco Chanel yang terkenal mungkin telah meninggal, namun tak ada yang tidak kenal namanya hingga kini.


Notes. Untuk para wanita, ada hal yang bisa kita ambil dari kisah hidup seorang Coco Chanel tersebut, bahwa di masa dimana wanita masih dibatasi ruang geraknya, namun ia menjadi wanita yang tidak bisa dikalahkan oleh keadaan hingga kemudian ia bisa meraih kemasyhurannya hingga ke seluruh dunia. Itu artinya bahwa kita wanita dalam keadaan apapun dan bagaimanapu pasti bisa maju dan berhasil. Hanya saja harus digaris bawahi bahwa apapun yang hendak kita raih tetaplah harus berada pada jalur yang benar, yang tidak menentang moral. Oke ladies, always keep your spirit!

Sabtu, 30 April 2011

QUESTION TAGS

Pernah dengar yang disebut Question Tags dalam pembelajaran Bahasa Inggris? Bagaimana kalian mengartikan kalimat seperti ini dalam Bahasa Inggris?
  1. Mereka sangat bersemangat bukan?
  2. Pak guru berkata benar bukan?
What do you think? How will you say that in English?
Benar sekali. Mungkin kita akan mudah mengartikan kalimat yang ada di depan, tapi bagaimana kita mengartikan kata 'bukan?' atau biasanya kita juga mengucapkan 'kan?'. Kedua kata tersebut adalah kata-kata yang biasa kita ucapkan to ask an agreement, atau menanyakan persetujuan ataupun kesepakatan kita akan apa yang orang lain bicarakan atau sebaliknya.
Bentuk dari Question Tags itu sendiri biasanya apabila:
  • Statement-nya positif maka diikuti tag negatif.
  • Statement-nya negatif maka diikitu tag positif
Atau berkebalikan.
Let's check bellow:
Untuk memudahkan kita belajar, mari kita gunakan bahasa yang sederhana. Seperti biasa kalimat dalam Bahasa Inggris selalu diperkaya dengan to be (am, is, are, was, were), verbs, have/ has/ had, do/ does/ did, dan modal (will, can, shall, may dan must).
Examples:
Positive Statements with negative tags
  • They are so spirit full, aren't they?
  • We were friend, weren't we?
  • Teacher says the truth, doesn't he?
  • He came here two days a go, didn't he?
  • Sarah has opened her boutique, hasn't she?
  • They had kept their promise, hadn't they?
  • Kim can do his work better, can't he?
  • You should study hard, shouldn't you?
Negative Statements with positive tags
  • They aren't spirit full, are they?
  • We weren't friend, were we?
  • Teacher doesn't say the truth, does he?
  • He didn't come here two days a go, did he?
  • Sarah hasn't opened her boutique, has she?
  • They hadn't kept their promise, had they?
  • Kim can't do his work better, can he?
  • You shouldn't study hard, should you?
Besides apa yang sudah dijelaskan di atas we have also some special cases, atau kasus-kasus spesial beserta tags spesial juga.

Example:
1. Pada kalimat: 'I am okay' tag yang digunakan bukan 'amn't I', melainkan 'aren't I', jadi kalimatnya adalah  sebagai berikut: 
    I am okay, aren't I?

2. Pada kalimat: 'You have three brothers', atau 'We have to go now', kita tidak menggunakan tag 'haven't you?' atau 'haven't we?'. Kenapa? Coba kita bandingkan dengan kalimat diatas: 
Sarah and Bella have opened their boutique.
--> kalimat ini adalah Perfect Tense yang mana susunan kalimatnya adalah S + have/ has/ had + V3, maka ia kan menggunakan tag 'haven't they?'
Sementara kalimat: 
* You have three brothers; dan
* We have to go now.
Kedua kalimat diatas memiliki susunan kalimat yang terdiri dari S + V + Comp.
Do you know what I mean? Berarti have pada dua kalimat di atas tersebut adalah Verb, so, it's mean that we have to use tag 'don't we?', menjadi seperti dibawah ini:
* You have three brother, don't you?
* We have to go now, don't we?

3. Kalimat: 'Nothing stay in here tonight', kita menggunakan tag 'did it?', jadi susunannya adalah:
    Nothing stay in here tonight, did it?

4. Kalimat: : 'Let's work together', yang mana Let's adalah singkatan dari Let us, memiliki tags 'shall we?' menjadi:
    Let's work together, shall we?

Bagaimana? Sudah jelas tentang apa yang disebut Question Tags? Meskipun untuk saat ini terutama pada American English tag lebih sering diganti menjadi 'right?' saja, contohnya: 
We have to study hard, right?
Tetapi bagaimanapun juga Question Tags yang sebenar-benarnya tetaplah harus dipelajari.

Now check the video from ABA English below!


Dan lihat juga teks dari dialog diatas:


ABA ENGLISH
UNIT 12. THE DEPRESSED WORKMATE
Andy     : Nice day, isn’t it?
James   : No, not so nice.
Andy     : You are a little bit depressed, aren’t you?
James   : Am I?
Andy     : Well, you aren’t in a good mood, are you?
James   : I’m always in the good mood.
Andy     : You are English, aren’t you?
James   : Yes I am.
Andy     : So, be happy.
James   : Why, because I am English?
Andy     : Yes, because you are English, because you are not ill, because it’s sunny, because you have a pretty wife and because it’s a good idea, isn’t it?
James   : Yeah, you’re right Andy. It’s a nice day, isn’t it? Thank you.

Bagaimana menurut kalian? Bukankah kita banyak menemui tags pada dialog tersebut? Well student! Perhatikan baik-baik dialog diatas dan jangan lupa perhatikan juga bagaimana mereka mengucapkan tags tersebut. OK!

Kamis, 28 April 2011

BECOMING NEWS ANCHOR 2nd Day


They are so spirit-full. See also these pictures:

Well done student!

GENRE OF THE TEXT

There are eight types of Genre of the Text, they are:
  1. RECOUNT
  2. PROCEDURE
  3. DESCRIPTION
  4. REPORT
  5. NARRATION
  6. EXPLANATION
  7. EXPOSITION (Hortatory Exposition and Analytical Exposition)
  8. DISCUSSION
And here is the explanation bellow: 

1. RECOUNT
Purpose/ Social Function: to retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining. Events are usually arranged in a temporal sequence.

Generic Structure:
  • Orientation        (Provides the setting and introduces participants)
  • Event                (Tells what happened, in what sequence)
  • Re-Orientation  (Optional - closure of events)
Language Feature:
  • Focus on specific/ individual participants.
  • Use of Simple Past Tense.
  • Circumstances of time and place.
  • Focus on a temporal sequence of events.
  • Use of material process.

2. PROCEDURE
Purpose/ Social Function: to describe how something is accomplished through a sequence of actions or steps. 

Generic Structure:
  • Goal.
  • Material (not required for all Procedural texts)
  • Steps.
Language Feature:
  • Focus on generalized human agents.
  • Use of Simple Present Tense (plus sometimes imperative).
  • Use of mainly temporal conjunctions (or numbering to indicate sequence).
  • Use of mainly material (action) clauses or material processes.

3. DESCRIPTION
Purpose/ Social Function: to describe a particular person, place or thing.

Generic Structure:
  • Identification (identifies phenomenon to be described).
  • Description   (describes part, qualities, characteristics)
Language Feature:
  • Focus on specific participants.
  • Use of attributive and identifying processes.
  • Frequent use of Epithets and Classification in nominal groups.
  • Use of Simple Present Tense

4. REPORT
Purpose/ Social Function: to describe the way things are, with reference to a range of natural, cultural (man-made) and social phenomena in our environment.

Generic Structure:
  • General Classification (tells what the phenomenon under discussion is)
  • Description                (tells what the phenomenon under discussion is like in terms of: parts, qualities, habits/ behavior or 'uses' if non-natural). 
Language Feature:
  • Focus on Generic Participants (group of things)
  • Use of Simple Present Tense
  • No temporal sequence
  • Use of 'being' and 'having' clause.

5. NARRATION
Purpose/ Social Function: to amuse, entertain and to deal with problematic events which lead to a crisis or turning point of some kind, which in turn finds a resolution.

Generic Structure:
  • Orientation       (sets the scene and introduces the participants)
  • Evaluation        (a stepping back to evaluate the plight)
  • Complication    (a crisis arises)
  • Resolution        (the crisis is resolved, for better or for worse)
  • Re-Orientation (Optional)

Language Feature:
  • Focus on specific and usually individualized participants.
  • Use Material Processes
  • Use of Relational Processes and Mental Processes.
  • Use of temporal conjunction and temporal circumstances.
  • Use of Past Tense
 6. EXPLANATION
Purpose/ Social Function: to explain the factual things to explain processes or evolution which is happened to natural phenomenon or social phenomenon.

Generic Structure:
  • A 'general statement' about what is to be explained - this stage is the statement of phenomenon.
  • A 'series of events' known as the 'explanation sequence' - the events may be related according to time or cause or according to both relationship.
  • A 'concluding statement' - this stage is optional.

Language Feature:
  • Focus to a non-human discussion.
  • Menggunakan Simple Present Tense.
  • Use 'temporal dan causal conjunctive relations'.
  • Use 'abstract nouns', seperti 'temperature, heat' dsb.
  • Use Passive Voice.

7. EXPOSITION
Exposition can be divided into two, they are: Hortatory Exposition and Analytical Exposition.
Purpose/ Social Function: to reveal the arguments which can be agree or not agree of some case.

Generic Structure of Analytical Exposition:

  • Thesis       (position and preview).
  • Argument  (point and elaboration)
  • Reiteration (restatement of thesis)
Generic Structure of Hortatory Exposition:
  • Thesis       (position and preview).
  • Argument  (point and elaboration)
  • Recomendation.
 Language Feature:
  • Focus to a general discussion (human and non human)
  • Use Simple Present Tense.
  • Use logical 'conjunctive relations' dari pada 'temporal'.
  • Use the general noun.
  • Use 'thinking verbs'
  • Use 'connectives'

8. DISCUSSION
Purpose/ Social Function: to inform about some controversial things and give an argument from the agree side or from the opposites.

Generic Structure:
  • Issue                     (statement of Issue, and Preview)
  • Argument For        (Points and Elaboration)
  • Arguments Against (Points and Elaboration)
  • Recommendation   (Summary/ conclusion)

Language Feature:
  • Focus to a general discussion about human and non-human.
  • Use Simple Present Tense.
  • Use Logical Conjunctives'
  • Use 'Thinking Verbs'.
  • Use 'Adverbial Manner'.
That the Genres of the Text and the explanation of each text. So, can you make the differences and the similarities among them? I hope you can.

Text Lagu Barat

Justin Bieber lagu yuk, mumpung lagi happening. Kalau yang this one, kesukaan my daughter, because every time she hears this, she will sing this song along:

Eenie Meenie

By Justin Bieber

(Sean)
Eenie meenie miney mo
Catch a bad chick by her toe
If she holla (if, if, if she holla) let her go
She’s indecisive
She can’t decide
She keeps on looking
from left to right
Girl, c’mon get closer
Look in my eyes
searching is so wrong
I’m Mr. Right
You seem like the type
to love em and leave em
and disappear right after this song.
So give me the night
to show you, hold you
don’t leave me out here dancing alone
You can’t make up your mind, mind, mind, mind, mind
Please don’t waste my time, time, time, time, time
I’m not trying to rewind, wind, wind, wind, wind
I wish our hearts could come together as one
Cause shawty is a eenie meenie miney mo lover
Shawty is a eenie meenie miney mo lover 3x
(Justin)
Let me show you what your missing
Paradise
With me you’re winning girl
You don’t have to roll the dice
Tell me what you’re really here for
Them other guys?
I can see right through ya
You seem like the type
to love em and leave em
and disappear right after the song.
So give me the night
to show you, hold you
don’t leave me out here dancing alone
Can’t make up your mind , mind, mind, mind, mind
Please don’t waste my time, time, time, time, time
Not trying to rewind,wind, wind,wind
I wish our hearts could come together as one
Cause shawty is a eenie meenie miney mo lover
Shawty is a eenie meenie miney mo lover 3x
(Sean)
Eenie meenie miney moe
Catch a bad chick by her toe
If she holla (if, if, if she holla) let her go
Eenie meenie miney moe
Catch a bad chick by her toe
If she holla (if, if, if she holla) let her go
Shawty is a eenie meenie miney mo lover 4 x

Can't make up your mind, mind, mind, mind, mind
Please don't waste my time, time, time, time
Not trying to rewind, wind, wind, wind, wind
I wish our hearts could come together as soon
Shawty is a eenie meenie miney mo lover 4 x

And this the most popular one:

 

Baby
By Justin Beiber

 

Ohh wooaah Ohh wooaah Ohh wooaah
you know you love me, I know you care
Just shout whenever, And I’ll be there
You are my love, You are my heart
And we will never ever-ever be apart
Are we an item? Girl quit playing
“We’re just friends”
What are you sayin?
Take another look right in my eyes
my first love broke my heart for the first time,
And I was like
Baby, baby, baby oohh
like baby, baby, baby noo
like baby, baby, baby ooh
Thought you’d always be mine, mine
Baby, baby, baby oohh
like baby, baby, baby noo
like baby, baby, baby ohh
Thought you’d always be mine, mine
oh oh
For you, I would have done whatever
And I just can’t believe we ain’t together
And I wanna play it cool, But I’m losin’ you
I’ll buy you anything, I’ll buy you any ring
And I’m in pieces, Baby fix me
and just shake me til’ you wake me from this bad dream
I’m going down, down, down, down~
and I just can’t believe, my first love won’t be around
And I’m like..
Baby, baby, baby oooh
like baby, baby, baby noo
like baby, baby, baby ooh
Thought you’d always be mine, mine
Baby, baby, baby oooh
like baby, baby, baby noo
like baby, baby, baby ooh
Thought you’d always be mine, mine
Luda, When I was thirteen, I had my first love
There was nobody that compare to my baby
And nobody came be between us
Or can ever come above
She had me going crazy
Oh, I was stars truck
She woke me up daily
Don’t need no Starbucks
She make my heart pound
and skip a beat when I see her in the street
and, At school, on the playground
But I really wanna see her on a weekend
She knows she got me dazing
Cuz she was so amazing
And now, my heart is breakin’
But I just keep on sayin’..
Baby, baby, baby ohh
like baby, baby, baby noo
like baby, baby, baby ohh
Thought you’d always be mine, mine
Baby, baby, baby ooh
like baby, baby, baby noo
like baby, baby, baby oooh
Thought you’d always be mine, mine
(Now I’m all gone)
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
Yeah Yeah Yeah
(Now I’m all gone)
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
(Now I’m all gone)
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
Now I’m all gone, gone, gone, ooh
I’m gone



BECOMING NEWS ANCHOR

In discussing News Item, students class X in SMA N 1 Kertek Wonosobo Presenting their performance as a television News Anchor.
Here it is the video:

And here it is the picture bellow:
First performer:

And this following one:
They might not perfect yet, but they've tried to give their best performance, I give my salutation to them. Go go my student go!

Selasa, 26 April 2011

SIMPLE PAST TENSE AND SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE

Kalimat Simple atau Sederhana secara umum hanya terdiri dari Subject + Verb/ to be + Object, seperti contoh di bawah ini:
  1. Darla is very beautiful.
  2. She was my best friend in elementary school.
  3. She always got the first rank in my class.
  4. She always make her parents happy.
Pertanyaannya sekarang adalah, yang manakah yang termasuk kalimat Past dan yang manakah yang termasuk kalimat Present? Apa yang membedakan antara kalimat Past dan kalimat Present? Apakah Subject, to be/ verb atau Object?
Perlu kita ketahui, bahwa Subject ataupun Object tidak mungkin bisa menjadi pembeda antara kalimat Past dan kalimat Present. Dan yang tersisa adalah verb ataupun to be. 
Betul sekali, dalam sebuah kalimat, yang bisa menjadi pembeda bahwa kalimat itu adalah Past atau kalimat itu adalah Present adalah verb ataupun to be-nya.
Mari kita lihat kembali contoh kalimat di atas.

  • Darla is very beautiful; dan
  • She always makes her parents happy.
is dan makes di atas mewakili kalimat Present

Kemudian kalimat yang lainnya:

  • She was my best friend in elementary school.
  • She always got the first rank in my class. 
sementara was dan got mewakili kalimat Past.

Let's check this
PRESENT
PAST
Verb 1
Ex.: sing
Verb 2
Ex.: sang
To be
Am
Is
Are
To be
Was

Were
Have
Has
Had
Do
Does
Did
Can
Will
Shall
May
Could
Would
Should
Might

Sudah bisa kita lihat bukan apa yang harus di rubah dari Present ke Past ataupun sebaliknya. Adapun untuk perubahan Verb 1 ke Verb 2 akan kita pelajari lebih lanjut.