A few words for my Enrich 4 students...

Photo by Will Etling

I know all of you are struggling with your Essay and Presentation tasks.
Please remember these advice from me :

1. Use standard English

This is a must. Don't force your audience to understand something that is not presented in Standard English, they might get the wrong impression and understanding .

2. No Pain No Gain

Your effort shows in your work. To put in effort is a lot of "pain". Yep, you have to study, plan, do research, make notes, write it out...and most important...think it out. But sorry...there's no other way and there's no easy way...you have to face it !! [this means : go and sit on that desk...close that FB and end that online game and open up your essay and presentation drafts ^^]

3. If you say :

You are right^^ I believe in you.... I know you can !!

Last words for today......

Good luck with those essays and presentations !

Photo credit : First photo by Will Etling , all others credited to weheartit.com.

Comet 1 - The Song in Lesson Six

Hi everybody !

This is about the song in Lesson 6 [page 33] in your Comet One books, the title of the song is Graduation and it's by Vitamin C. I found some videos from you tube to help us learn the lyrics.....and I thought maybe you'd enjoy watching some of these video clips ^^ The lyrics are in the second video. The last video I added for fun, I'm sure you know the movie ....and I guess almost every body in class have watched it^^ Hope you enjoy !

Video from YT by daretobelieve




Video from YT by littlecat995

Video from YT by trixietang18

Enrich 4 - Task Consultation

Here I put your Essay and Presentation consultation under "comments" for this post. Please post your consultation in comments below this post. Corrections from me are below your entry.

Andhika, It's great that you've made use of our blog to consult about your essay writing task !! I've moved your writing to the comments of this post....you could find the correction there, thanks for posting^^ See you in class.

ps. I hope the rest of my students will follow Andhika's lead ^___^

Enrich 4 - Persuasive Strategies

Hi to all my High Intermediate / Enrich 4 Students. As I informed you in class today, I will be postings some tips for your writing in this blog...so here it is. I hope these strategies will help you when you write a Persuasive Essay [or presentation].

Persuasive Strategy Definitions :

1. Claim - your main point ---> state your argument

2. Big Names - experts and important people that support your side of the argument ---> mentioning their names will make your argument more convincing

3. Logos - using logic, numbers, facts, and data to support your argument ---> facts and numbers and information can be very convincing

4. Pathos - appealing to your audience’s emotions ---> getting people to feel happy, sad or angry can help your argument

5. Ethos - making yourself seem trustworthy and believable ---> if people believe and trust you, you are more likely to persuade them

6. Kairos - building a sense of urgency for your cause ---> try to convince your audience that this issue is so important they must act now

7. Research - using studies and information to make your argument seem more convincing; you can use words, graphs, tables, illustrations ---> using reliable research can help your argument sound convincing

Source : http://www.readwritethink.org/

Comet 2, Nice work

Wew, nice work mam.

Want to make a long story?

I can help you, just post unfinished story and I'll continue it until I get bored.

By the way this is my 2 internet account:

-facebook: Hendrik B. Satria

-Kaskus : monstergelo

Comet 2, More Scrapbook Pages^^

Yup ! We have more of them....Nadia and Bimo have submitted their works :

This one is Nadia's, it seems she had a great vacation in the sun !

Oh, she has put in two cute drawings :)
Wow....she had a beautiful trip to Bali !!

Ok, this one is Bimo's....
Hmm...a very intriguing tale, Bimo :)

Oh Dear...Bimo got lost somewhere.....
Err...Bimo, is there an engine in that car ?? he he he

Below is the whole page, it's actually very big,
it's the largest scrap page in the class :)

That's all for now, but I think there will be a few more scrapbook pages trickling in.....

Comet 2, Scrapbook Pages of Room 303

I'm glad most of you have submitted your stories on your scrapbook pages ! Some of the stories are imaginary stories, others are about what happened on your last vacation. Looks like most of you went on a trip with your family or friends^^ Let's enjoy them here. I'll give them back to you [corrected] next Monday, before the test, Ok!.

First one is by Grace...wow, she's put a LOT of effort
into it....it's awesome, Grace...great job !

The stickers are beautiful....

The whole page....

Next one is by Intan...oh, Intan it's so cute :)
I like your choice of cute drawings for your scrapbook page...

The small stars are also nice...they look nice even though
your paper got squished in your bag ^^

This one is by Dinar. Wow.... the words are very colorful !

Nice crayon drawing, Dinar !....

Okay...now you know Krisna loves Soccer, look below...
Wow...the page looks great, Krisna !

It says he had a wonderful time ...he he...Great !

And this one is by Richard....
This is very interesting, Richard !

It seems Richard doesn't like to ride in airplanes....

I wonder if Richard met a Prairie Dog in Bangkok ?? he he

Hmm...Aditama hasn't finished his, I wonder when
he will finish it? The Crocodile looks interesting...

And Sofyan asked me to hold on to his unfinished scrapbook page. He's afraid it will be ruined inside his bag...because he has too many heavy books ^^ He will finish it next time he meets me....I think...

Ok...I'll correct the contents of your scrapbook pages as soon as I can...and I'm still waiting for more scrapbook pages from other great students of Room 303 !!

Comet 2 - Review BY Bimo

Hi to my former Comet 2 students...remember book reviews? ...well...only Bimo submitted one here, but because I'm re-organizing this blog, I've put his original work and the correction from me in the comments section of this post. You are welcome to take a peek^^

Here we're discussing the book review by Hendrikus B.S.
[ in case you don't know...it's Bimo !]

Comet 2, Scrapbook-page for your stories

Here are the two examples of scrapbook pages for the project in Lesson 10 we talked about today. You could make a simple scrapbook page and write your stories on the space in the middle of the page. The list of materials you could use for scrapbook making is found in lesson ten. You could use crayons, markers or pens to write ...Ok, have fun making your scrapbook pages ^^

I hope to post some of your scrapbook here :)

Comet 2, lesson 6 - Story Review

So, are you ready for our first activity in this blog ??
We'd better start now or we will lose time, right ?

You'd better open your Comet 2 books to page 37....
got it ?.....Ok, now look at activity 5.

This is what we are going to do : We are going to read "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" by Jeff Kinney. After we read the story for "Day 1" , we review the story by completing the grid in activity 5. We have discussed and practiced this in class, so you should be able to do it ^____^

Oh, by the way...Tashia, have you found your book yet ? ...I hope you have :) Ok guys [and girls] , please look at the illustration below for more information :

Click HERE to read the story

You could post your work here, and I will give comments.....I'll be waiting^^

Teaching source : http://www.eslmonkeys.com , http://www.funbrain.com/

Hi to all my students...

Okay, as promised, I have created this blog for us. Tomorrow we will meet in class and we will decide the content, the fun stuff and the rules of this blog. I hope you and your friends will have fun as you learn English with me in class and in here, our little cyber space !

See you soon :)

Ms. L T