One Direction Experience

by An Nisaa Deli, stage2 Simple! English

One Direction is a boys band from England, they are from x-factor singing competition.  they've recorded a single,the single name is Red Nose Day and they gave the royalty to Ghana. They made the clip video in Ghana and some country in Europe. They stayed in Ghana for a few days.

I am a Perfectionist

I am a woman in my mid thirty. In all the years I have passed, I must say that I haven't been able to drive a car, or ride a motorbike, or even a bike.
I insisted that I won't start doing any of those activities on street until I am sure that I have gained enough skill.
How I am so wrong. So in the mid of my thirty, I am here depending my self on anyone who'd take me to places, having no skill sufficient enough to go places by myself. Insisting that I'd do it when I have.

How many of us been treating language the way I treat riding bike? 
Being so sure that you'd speak away as soon as you've gained enough skill to sail away with your words.
Well, I'm so sorry to say, honey dear. It ain't gonna get there till we start using the skill, bump on stones, scratch our knees, get embarrassed, before we can actually gain it.

So let's start talking Tarzan. Speak and get misunderstood. Trust me, before you know it, you'll speak it.

A Letter to Math

in Danny Qiu's FB English Cafe group:

a 5th grade student wrote this in his Maths answer sheet:

Dear Maths,

I'm sick and tired of finding your x
Just accept the fact that she's gone!
Move on dude! :)

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Guy #1    : Look! There's a very beautiful girl sitting alone. Let's go ever there and introduce oursleves. Maybe she wants someone to talk to. I really want to know her.
Guy #2    : Okay.
Guy #1 and Guy #2 approach the girl.
Guy #1    : Hi! Are you alone?
Girl          : Yes
Guy #1    : Are you boring? You must be boring
Girl          : Jerk!
Girl splashes her drink at his face and leaves.
Guy#1     : ??


The short dialogue between the guy and the girl perfectly illustrates a damage from misuse of adjectives. Guy#1's poor understanding of adjective endings costs him a chance of getting to know a pretty girl. If you do not feel a little sympathy for Guy #1, or if you do not understand why the girl is angry, you might want to consider brushing up your English.

But let's review the short dialogue again. As well as being rude, Guy #1's small talk lines-- "Are you boring? You must be boring"-- definitely miss the point he wants to convey. The girl's anger is no surprise to us, but it is a surprise to Guy #1. He does not realize that he has made an incorrect use of English syntax. Clearly he wishes to make an acquintance with the girl. He claims so himself. It is also safe to assume that he is hoping that the girl wants to have someone to talk to; hence he wishes to introduce the topic by asking if the girl feels bored, or so he means to say. But the line "You must be boring" does not make a prediction of the hypothesized boredom the girl may be feeling; the line makes a prediction of the girl's unattractiveness as a conversationalist. No wonder she is outraged! She thinks that the guy thinks that she is a poor conversationalist. Get it? Get it? The girl is angry because Guy #1 uses the adjective "boring", which translates "membosankan" in Bahasa Indonesia, rather than "bored"-- or "bosan" in Indonesian translation-- when what he really means to ask is whether the girl is bored or not.

This is just an example of damages that could arise from misuse of English syntax. The joke may sound deliciously goofy to you when you read it, but it may not be so funny to you if you were the one in a situation similar to that of Guy #1. The guy has clearly stepped off on the wrong foot when he uses mistaken English syntax in his pick-up lines.You do not want to have anyone misunderstand you like that pretty girl in the dialogue misunderstands Guy #1, do you? What the girl calls a jerk, we at A Very Long English Programs Advertisement, inc. call a prospective student.

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Cuz I watch a lot of muvees!

What is your favourite movie? 
When I was little, movie watching is not a common activity.
We had to go to the cinema and paid a big amount of money for the ticket,
buy an expensive VCR and buy a video of any movies we want to watch,
or, the cheapest way, to watch on TV.
Though, it seems like the same thing as we do today, TV in the 80s are available only from 4.30 in the afternoon till 12 midnight.
There was no dubbing technology either, so we must watch the movies in its original language, English. It's not easy, but I learn a lot from this.

The earlier time I watched, I didn't really understand what all the characters talked about. 
After awhile I tried to understand the story from the scenes.
Then afterwards, I realised that some words were regularly repeated. I got some misunderstanding once or twice, but as I grow older and able to read, I get the real meaning automatically.   
Before I understand a word's meaning and some theoretical structure of it, I already knew how to use it ^^.


By college years, as my parents enrol me to an English Course Class, I knew how to communicate in English well. 
Not because I was a diligent student, but because I watched a lot of movies.
So why don't you try it out. 
Go watch movie then speak it.
I guarantee fun in this way of learning ^^v

English = Fun ??

Do you like English?

What do you remember the most about the lessons in your English class; Irregular Verbs, Past Tense, Auxiliary Verbs *what on earth is that?*, or nothing at all?

Are we screwed or what!

With the more people speaking the language,

more places using the language,

and worse more jobs requiring the language,

how come we are the only ones who don't know it at all!!!!!

There are actually several fun ways to successfully learn language.

The one way, namely, being EXCELLENT in an English class

is not one of it.

So what are they?

They are using English in doing your Hobbies.

1. Listening to Music

There are so many great Indonesian bands and new songs. Do you realize, though, that some of their music get inspired by some western bands?

So go check out more western bands.

Listen to their music, get familiar with their words.

You'll be surprised on how easy it will be to understand the meaning of an English song, even if your English score at school is only C-

2. Watching movie

Let's challenge our brain into watching Hollywood movies in English subtitles. it might be a bit more tricky then listening to English songs, but after a while, you'll get much better in understanding English conversation..

It'll be like learning English by travelling to America for only Rp75,000

3. Watching sport show

Do you watch sport show; MotoGP, F1 Race, NBA playoffs, or Premier league? Though we mostly concentrate on the game, paying a bit more attention to the English comments will give out some ideas how the game is actually explained in other language that we already know.

4. Making crafts

Making cute bags, cool shoes, trendy hand-made blouses, and more and more stuff can be found everywhere in the internet. Make sure you try the web that uses English.

That way, you learn and practice your crafting skill and improve your English at the same time.

Smart, right?

These are the most common ways we can do to absorb language in a more fun way. One thing that we need to remember is that, practice always makes perfect. SO after we get the models from the songs, movies, sport show, and craft websites don't forget to use it as much as we can.

Keep on using English and before you know it you'll excell!

Bad English!

Cameron Bates wroteon November 23, 2008 at 9:48pm

This is a challenge to all members of this forum: Please try and beat this ‘news’ story. I bet you can’t.

A herd of wild elephants coming in tens of them, have been obtruding Balairaja subdistrict in Riau since weekend, and the number increased to more than forty as of Monday.

The elephants' rush caused local residents to remain nervous and uneasy for those wild animals, honking their trunks while intruding into the village, have damaged four resident houses, eaten plants at the community gardens and undoubtedly scared of the people around.

"I saw them with my naked eyes, at least there were forty of these mammals with long prehensile trunks really vandalizing our civilization," a Balairaja residents muttered.

Local authorities were reported to not have taken any necessary actions regarding this elephants flee and rather leaving it up to the villagers.

At least seven families were forced to move out of the region due this perturbation, including those whose house crunched by that stampede of large tife-toed animals of the Elephantidae family.

"We feel terrorized by these grayish whoppers, particularly during the night. As people sleep these big ivory monsters wake us up,"said Freddy Simbolon, a Balairaja resident as reported by Antara.

Simbolon has moved his wife and children leaving the villlage.

He and some other adult male inhabitants remained, gearing up for lest the unexpected comeback of the elephants, at anytime.

Another villager whose house was completely smashed by a mass invasion of these four-legged jumbos with tusks claimed that his family were already evacuated.

"Look at my house! It's gone. These animals have eaten anything including my house," he angered.

"Awhile ago, two big elephants collapsed my house, and they just disappeared behind the bush and came back to gluttonously eat the major of rice fields in the subdistrict," Simbolon raised his voice raggedly.