LESSON PLAN - Memorizing Vocabulary

Title                            : Memorizing Vocabulary
Day                             : Friday,   - 08- 2009
Level                           : Junior High School
Number of Student     : 27 Students
Subject                        : English
Time                            : 45 Minutes (13.30- 14.15)

Teacher : Hasan Sanjani
General : Give students some vocabularies to memorize.

Main Target:
1. Students can understand well vocabularies which are given.
2. Students can say and pronounce all the vocabularies well.
3. Students can practice the vocabularies which are given anywhere and in real life or in their daily activities.

Tools which are needed: Whiteboard, Marker, Eraser, Pencil, Pens.

The Steps:

· 08.00 – 08.05, English subject begins. Teacher starts to say hello to the students first. And Teacher does not forget to begin lesson with praying and students follow it.

· 08.05 – 08. 20, Teacher appoints students to rememorize previous given vocabularies to remembering and refreshing the lesson before start new one. Teacher begins to give new vocabularies and practice them in front of class, complete with the example of vocabularies on sentences.

· 08.30 – 08. 42, Teacher appoint students to memorize the vocabularies by heart together. While teacher say the word then students follow him. Students can make a sentence using new vocabulary.

· 08.42 – 08.45, Make sure all of the students has memorized the vocabularies. Lesson is finished. Teacher end the process of learning and command the students to do ending praying.

Evaluation:

Teacher give command to students to practice their memorized vocabularies and give more vocabularies as homework.

What Makes English Difficult??

So far I feel English is a difficult language to learn because of some reasons. The first reason is that English has so many words and also many English words has same sound but they are spelled differently. For example, holly and holy sound are exactly same, but they are spelled differently ( you can see by yourself in a dictionary ).

The second reason is that English has so many idioms. There are so many idioms in common use by English speaker. And the most important reason is English has grammar system. I feel that English grammar is hard to learn because it has many exceptions. Of course this difficulties will be effect to our understanding in learning English. But actually, if we learning vocabulary frequently with open dictionary frequently too and also with the other ways to increase our vocabulary, maybe the difficulties will be decrease.

English is a difficult language, but English is a unique language and also it has many variation words. With study frequently, it can help your problems in learning English.

By : Wiranti Yulianingrum

The Powerful Influence Of Weather

Weather has a powerful effect on people. It influences health, intelligence, and feelings.

In August, it is very hot and wet in the southern part of the United States. Southerners have heart attacks and other kinds of health problems during this month. In the Northeast and the Middle West, it is very hot at some times and very cold at other times. People in these states tend to have heart attacks after the weather changes in February or March.

The weather can also affect intelligence. For example, in a 1938 study by scientists, the IQ (intelligence Quotient) scores of a group of undergraduate college students were very high during a hurricane, but after the storm, their scores were 10 percent (%) below average. Hurricanes can increase intelligence. Very hot weather, on the other hand, can lower it. Students in many of the United States often do badly on exams in the hot months of the year (July and August).

Weather also has a strong influence on people’s feelings. Winter may be a bad time for thin people. They usually feel cold during these months. They might feel depressed during cold weather. In hot summer weather, on the other hand, overweight people may feel unhappy. Tje summer heat may make them tired and irritable.

Low air pressure relaxes people. It increases sexual feelings. It also increases forgetfulness. People leave more packages and umbrellas on buses and in stores on low-pressure days. There is a “perfect weather” for work and health. People feel best a temperature of about 64°F with 65 percent (%) humidity (moisture in the air).

Are you feeling sick, sad, tired, forgtetful, or very intelligent today? The weather may be the cause.

written by ROSA CHARIS SHOULINA

Indonesians Education Problems

Indonesia as one of developed country has many reasons to establish education aspect in globalization era. Nowdays, however, Indonesians have many problems in their study habit.

First aspect is their ability to choice invansion culture from western. It made them lost their willingness to read. They prefer play console or watch movie in cinema to read a book. Library, had been built for support education, was left by society; mall or coffeeshop became very crowded place for them. The ability to distribute material of study is second aspect. Quality level of teacher should be asked by society, well being of teacher has became problem in education environment for a long time. It made Indonesians lost their probability to face modernization. Tools for research in education is so limited that has made us who are want to make research blocked by it. It is third aspect of problems in study habit. Professor always work in abroad better than in Indonesia for reaons in years ago. How poor Indonesia is!

bY : Abid Alif M

Why we need to drink a lot?

About 80% body of human being consisted of the water. Moreover, there are some parts of body of us which having water component above 80%. Two most important organs with water component above 80% are brain and blood. The brain owns component as much 90%. For a while the blood owns water component up to 95%.
The drinking quota of human being normally at least 2 liter or 8 glasses a day. The amount above has to be added if you are smoker. Those great quantities of water are needed to change secretory dilution from our body through urine, sweats, respiration, and secrecy. If we consume less than two liter per day, of course, the body will balance itself by way of “inhaling” water from the components of the body. From the brain? Not yet, but from the closest source: blood.
Blood which is water inhaled, will become to jell. The effect of this inhaled blood, so the way of coagulation will less be fluent compared to watery. When it through kidney (the place to filter poison from the blood) kidney will work extra hard to filter the blood. Meanwhile, the kidney’s filter is very smooth, so the gore can caused the torn in the glomerulus kidney. As a result, your urine will be reddish. That’s the sign of the beginning of kidney’s filter weakness. If it let continuously, someday you probably have to spend Rp. 400.000/ week for blood wash.
When the gore circulates through the brain, its transportation will rather obstruct. Brain won’t be “watery”, and because the brain cells consume a lot of oxygen and food, it’s tardy in this blood stream can cause broken brain cell or do not function properly. If this problem added with heart sickness, so stroke can quickly attack.
Now, the decision is yours. Will you choose doing “investment” by drinking 8 glasses of water a day or “paying interest” for kidney disease or stroke?

By : Rahmi Salisa Himawati

Why are women not allowed to have husbands more than one?

In our society, it’s common for a husband to have wife more than one maximally three, whereas women are not permitted to have husbands more than one. Some people say that this is discrimination for the women; it is injustice. This time I am going to make it clear.

The first of all, I would like to give explanation about the terminology about having more than one couple married. Having more than one wife for men is called polygamy. On the other hand having more than one husband for women is called polyandry. I’m sure that we usually hear these terminologies. The former is allowed in our law and the last is not allowed.

Actually there are many reasons about the prohibition of polyandry, but in my writing I will explain one reason only. It is based on status of the children they have. The women can naturally delivery a baby, and it is quite different with men. Men can have a baby but they can not delivery it. Now try to compare between two girls who are monoandry and polyandry. When a woman who has one husband deliveries a baby, we can still identify whose father the baby belongs to, but if a woman who is polyandry deliveries a baby, we can not easily to identify that the baby belongs to which husband. It can belong to first husband, second husband, even third husband.

If we want to compare polygamy with polyandry, we can find that there are big differentiations between them. When a polyandry man has a baby from second wife, we can say that the baby belongs to this father and this mother because it is clear enough, but when a polyandry woman has delivered a baby, it is hard for us to justice that the baby’s father is the first husband, second husband, or third husband.

We can allegory this problem with a kettle and a cup. The kettle is men and the cup is women. When a kettle full of with milk is poured in to several cups, we can say that the cups consist of milk. It is just like a man has many wives. It is easy to identify the father of the baby because there only one source. Now try to see how if a woman is polyandry. There are three kettle (husbands), consisted of different kinds of drink (each of them are orange juice, whiskey, and tea) and an empty cup (the wife of three husbands). Now pour the orange juice into the cup, and then pour the whiskey and the last pour the tea. Can you guess what the cup contains now? Absolutely it’s hard for you to say that the cup contains orange juice because you have poured whiskey and tea also. It’s simply the same with identifying the father of a baby whose mother has many husbands.

From the brief explanation above, we can see clearly the reason why polygamy is allowed while polyandry is forbidden in our law. It is just a matter of baby’s status. There are still many reasons why this practice is illegal but I can explain only based on this point of view because of limitations of my ability in explaining. Thank you for reading my writing. And I really hope your comment for better work.

By : Karman

Why People Choose Laptop

Laptop is a kind of computer unit which has same function with PC (Personal Computer), but has different form. At this time, most people choose laptop because of some reasons and benefits. These are several benefits of using laptop.

The first, laptop is a portable device. It means that we can move laptop and bring it anywhere. This portability is very helpful to help your work, study, and other activities. We need not complicated cable installation to activate laptop.

Next, laptop is enabling for us to use special facility in some areas or places. It is hot spot area. We can use free internet access in some public places by laptop. Some people like to use this facility to do their activity which deal with internet.

The last, laptop is efficient use of electric energy consumption. This device also has a battery as the source of electric energy. We can just charge the battery and use laptop without spend much energy. It also means that we support the government program to save the energy. That’s why laptop becomes very popular.

By : Rio Herwanto