Using Motivation in our Studying Processes

• Motivation is something that can influence our life, such as studying, working, and relationship. Motivation can be influenced by two factors, inside and outside factors. First, inside motivation or inside of ourself. Inside motivation is our hope and dream to reach our goals. Our inside motivation can influence our attitude in learning processes. For example, if we want to be good teacher, we must study hard about how to be good teacher, the subject that we want to teach and make sure that we have good confident. Inside motivation is related to our effort to reach our goal. So, if we we want to be successful person, we must have a good motivation from inside. Second is outside motivation or outside of ourselves. Outside motivation is the influence from outside like parents, friends and other to support our effort to reach our goals. For example for our parents, they usually give us their support and advise, it can help us to increase our motivation. And from our friends, if we have good friend that usually makes a discussion or friendly in the class and can explain the lesson if we do not understand. It can make we want to go to campus happily. And also from our enviroment in the class. If we have a clean and comfortable class, it will make us comfort to study and good lecturers can influence our motivation, too. For example if they teach clearly and we can understand about their subjects. Inside and outside motivation is related each other. If we have good inside motivation but not good in outside motivation, can damage our effort to reach the goals. So, if we want to reach our goal well, we must have a good motivation both of them.

The Dangerous of Internet especially for Children

Today, I am going to talk about the dangerous of internet especially for children. Nowdays, internet is the main part of the human activities because we can do everything with it, such as search engines, social networking, and even to get money from it.

But have you ever think the dangerous of it?

The dangerous if our brother or sister that are young use it in their labil soul?

Now, I will explain the internet danger and the safety tips for us to avoid children to use it in bad way.

There are many bad effect that can be influenced by internet for children. I will explain three internet dangers and the safety tips so we can apply in our life.

First internet danger is cyberbullying. Cyberbullying includes sending hateful messages or even death threats to children, spreading lies about them online, making nasty comments on their social networking profiles, or creating a website to bash their looks or reputation.When it happens online, there’s no one to filter it.cyberbullies don’t witness their victims’ reactions, the way they might if they insulted others to their faces.the expert say that In the age of YouTube, a website that hosts videos shot by users, “Kids are looking for their 15 megabytes of fame.They do it to show that they’re big enough, popular enough, cool enough to get away with it.

Internet safety tips for us

• To keep others from using their email and Internet accounts, kids should never share Internet passwords with anyone other than parents, experts say.
• If children are harassed or bullied through instant messaging, help them use the “block” or “ban” feature to prevent the bully from contacting them.
• If a child keeps getting harassing emails, delete that email account and set up a new one. Remind your child to give the new email address only to family and a few trusted friends.

The second internet danger is Pornography.One of the worst dangers of the Internet, for many parents, is the idea that pornography could pop up and surprise their children. But parents may not realize that some kids are going online to seek out web porn, too.

Internet safety tips for us

• Install Internet filtering software to block porn sites from any computer children has access to.
• Consider using filtering software that monitors and records instant messaging and chat room conversations, as well as websites visited.
• Consider using a monitoring program that filters pornography keywords in several languages. Why? Because some teens have figured out how to get around filters by typing in porn-related search terms in other languages.

And the third danger of internet is damage reputation. Camera phones, digital cameras and web cams are everywhere these days, and kids can be victims of their own inexperience with new technology. Many post pictures, videos or notes online that they later regret. A child’s online reputation is a growing concern, with the rise of online social networking and profiles.Kids are trying to look cool. They’re doing it because everyone else is doing it.

Internet safety tips for us

• Explain that even if a child delete their posted photos, others may have already copied them into public forums and websites.
• Tell children not to let anyone, even friends, take pictures or videos of them that could cause embarrassment online.

• Talk to the kids about possible consequences, the expert say. A 17-year-old might think it is hilarious to post a my space photo of himself looking drunk, with empty beer bottles strewn around him. But will a college admissions officer be impressed? Probably not.

Although there are so many benefit or advantages that we can get from internet, but we can not ignore what will happen for our young generation if they use it in unappropriate way. Let’s keep and watch out our younger to do a right way in this globalization era. Don’t you think we should extent it to them??

Thank you for your attention.

My Inspired Person in My life

Now, I want to tell you about my inspired person in my life. She is Raden Ajeng Kartini. Kartini was born into an aristocratic Javanese family in a time when Java was still part of the Dutch colony, the Dutch East Indies. Her father’s name is Raden Mas Sosroningrat and her mother’s name is M.A Ngasinah.

Kartini was the fifth child and eldest daughter in a family of seven, including half siblings. She was born into a family with strong intellectual tradition.she is like reading. She read cultural and scientific magazines as well as the Dutch women’s magazine. From her letters, it was clear that kartini read everything with a great deal of attention and thoughtfulness.

Kartini’s concerns were not just in the area of the emancipation of women, but also the problems of her society. Kartini saw the struggle for women to obtain their freedom, autonomy and legal equality was just part of wider movement.

President Soekarno declared Kartini’s birthday day 21 April, as “Kartini Day”- an Indonesian National Holiday.

In contrast, those who recognize the significance of Kartini argue that not only was she feminist who elevated the status of women in Indonesia, she was also a nationalist figure, with new idea who struggled on behalf of her people, including her in the national struggle for independence.

In her letters, Kartini wrote her views of the social conditions prevailing at that time, particularly the condition of native Indonesian women. She wanted women to have the freedom to learn and study. She inspired me to become a woman with a good attention to the people around me.

Tips to Develop Your Interest in Studying

Interest in you study is the important role because it can influence your way of studying. Many people have found a subject is interesting and have even made a career of it. There are several ways that can help you to develop your interest.

First, think of how and why the subject is important to your general education. The extent and variety of your interests help you to understand the modern world and to measure your growth as an educated, well rounded person. Try to study the subject which are related and important part of your subject.

Second, think of how the subject is related to other subjects, or to other times, places, problems, and purposes. Although your study schedule is broken into separate and individual courses, you are not learning isolated information and ideas. A subject that does not seem interesting in relation to other subjects.

Third, interest depends upon understanding. If you do not understand the rules of something, you can do that correctly. When you begin to study a new subject, try to keep an open mind, and do not start by thinking the subject is boring and difficult. Feel the subject and make you understand it so you can be successful in your study.

Guidelines for Ethical Listening

Listening is one of the important element in our interaction. We should listen to the people that give their ideas, and give us knowledge and experiences. Listening is also important in our studying especially in study foreign language. There are some rules to guide us in listening so we get the point of our interaction.

First guideline for ethical listening is be polite and attentive. If we listen to the people show nonverbally that we support and encourage the speaker. Try to respect and appreciate the speaker and do not make a noise or have a conversation with others while they speak.

After that, avoid prejudging the speaker is also the rules for ethical listening. While the speaker speak, we must listen first before deciding to accept or reject the speaker’s ideas. It is also important to comment or give our opinion in polite ways.

Then, maintain the free and open expression of ideas is also important tip for ethical listening. We can express our ideas in the modest way and appreciate our friends while they speak. In our life, we must respect each other so we can get harmonization in our enviroment.

In conclusion, there are guidelines for ethical listening such as be polite and attentive, avoid prejudging the speaker, and maintain the free and open expression of ideas. We can apply these tips in our interaction and we will get the point of their speak.

Punk Versus Metal

Collided twins. Perhaps, that would be the most suitable term to describe how metal and punk related each other. Although they stand together under the music sky, they seem like have different wings to fly. Music characters, ideology and fashion are some of the differences between these two extreme genres of music. Therefore the following information wold be important for you to recognize both metal and punk.

The first difference is music characters. Punk is originally influenced by garage rock music. Punk musicians produce their song with nasal sound and the lyrics are often shouted instead of sung. Heavy and dry sound of drum is colaborated with guitar sound which includes highly distorted power chords. They also apply guitar breaks within their music but they hate to use complicated guitar solo because they believe it is not necessary. In other hand, metal songs are usually produced by using highly amplified distortion, extended guitar solo, dense bass, and drum sound, emphatical beats and vigorous vocals. Keyboard instrument is sometimes used to vary the sound. The roots of metal are blues rock and psychedelic rock.

Ideology is the second difference. Punk which is sometimes called left rock has a well-known quote: DIY. DIY stands for “Do For Yourself”. Mostly of punkers are antiestablishment, anti social, and they hate government. Their ideology is reflected in their song lyrics which usually talk about how hard to live in the street, desperation of youth and the suffering of the citizens, and, of course, the weakness of government. Therefore, they apply DIY to show that they do not believe in government. Contrastly, death is a predominant theme of metal. Metal songs mostly talk about someone who is left behind and forsaken by the society. They also talk about an imaginary place to escape from the pain. In short, metal particularly expresses individual pain and desperation.

Other difference is in fashion. Punkers, fans of punk, are recognized from their appearance. They cut their hair in mohawk style and feather cut. Then boots, chains and tight denim are some of inevitable parts of punk. In other hand, metalhead or headbangers, fans of metal, usually use jeans, black T-shirt and black leather jeans jacket. They commonly use like long hair because they believe that long hair will give them the power they need to rebel against the world.

Although metal and punk are different in some points, both of them still have similarities.

Both metal and punk had a similar history. They came from the same country, United Kingdom. They were born and grown there. Besides, they appeared for the first time in the beginning of 1970.

The second similarity is their position in the world. In their first appearance, it was hard for them to be accepted by the society. Punk was rejected because of their anarkism image and their ideology which against government. Metal also faced the same thing. It was rejected because their songs which talk about death made its existence was related to the sects of death lovers and or satanism, the lovers and believers of devil. Therefore, major label refused to produce metal and punk album.

In conclusion, metal and punk are collided twins. They are different in music characters, ideology, and fashion. However, they came from the same motherland. They also had to face the same obstacle which was against the world in their fist appearance. In our point of view, no matter what they think of the world and what the world thinks of them, both metal and punk musicians are just humans who need to be understood and heard. It would be far better for us not to blame and underestimate them just because of the way they express what they fell inside.

Guidelines for Ethical Speaking

Speaking is the way how you deliver your words in your interaction. The way how you speak reflects your personality. For some people, it is hard to speak in front of a crowd people or the central of attention. There are guidelines for ethical speaking that can help you to solve your speaking problem.

First, make sure that your goals are ethically sound. You can adjust your goals in your speaking with the condition that you want to speak. So, your friends will listen to your speaking and appreciate you .

Second is be honest in what you say. Honesty is the important thing in your speaking. If you tell a lie, your friends will avoid to have an interaction with you. And also do not juggle statistics and quote out of context. You must brief to say honesty in your speaking but in a good manner, so your speaking will proper to listen.

Third is be fully prepared for each speech. You must avoid to deliver a speech without preparation. You should; be informed about subject, organize your ideas and practice your delivery. Make sure that you have a good preparation so you will confident to deliver your speech.

To conclude, you must know the guidelines for ethical speaking such as, make your purposes sound great, honesty in your speaking, and good preparation for each speech. You can practise these ways in your daily activity and after you fell that you are ready to speak in formal situation, you also can do that. It is possible for you to share with your friends about your speaking.

How to Make a Good Speech

Many people may think that it is quite difficult to make a good speech. People usually make a speech in formal situation, such as at school, at office, and goverment institution. There are several ways to make a good speech, so you will confident to deliver our speech.

First is selecting a topic. This is the main step to continue to another step. The topic of the speech should be interesting and you know about well about it. You should brainstorming the topic with many ways, such as personal inventory, clustering, reference search, internet search. You can use the way that you are familiar with. After you choose the topic, it will be easy to do the next step.
Second is making a general purpose. There are three general purposes in a speech; to inform, to persuade, to entertain. You should choose the general purpose that concordant with your topic and the situation in which you want to deliver it. You can use more than one general purposes in your own speech provided that you do not make the audience confused. And after you choose general purpose, you must make a specific purpose. The specific purpose must based on general purpose and consists of the issue which you want to talk about in your speech.

Last is make a central idea. The central idea that you make should relevant to your specific purpose. The difference is that you explain more detail in the central idea. You explain deeply what your speech about in this step.The central idea in speech is same like the thesis statement in writing.

In conclusion, how to make a good speech is not hard like you think about before. If you follow th steps, such as selecting a topic, making a general purpose and central idea, your speech will be better. The important thing is that you make it relevant from first step to another. And you will make the audience interested with your speech.

What Have I learned so far from English Grammar 3 Class and -How It is Useful for us to be an English Teacher

First of all, I want to introduce myself. My name is Mery Cris Natalia and now I study at State University of Jakarta and take English Education Major. I am at the 3rd semester and I take 19 credits. One of my subjects is English Grammar 3. My lecturer names is ms.Leony. I like this course because it can help me the grammatical rules and increase my ability in English. I also like  lecturer because she explain the material briefly and always ask her students whether they understand or not.

So far, I have learned half of materials in this course. First, I have learned about synthesis and sentence construction. The main meaning is the joining together of parts so as to form a whole. It involves joining a number of short sentences or expressions together to form one or more longer sentences. It is useful to help us not to write many very short sentences, give chances for us to learn about and practice ways of joining shorter statements, and also help you to practice in the use of conjunctions and other joining words. In this topic, I also learned about the meaning of simple, compound and complex sentences.

a) A simple sentence contains only one finite verb, e.g. Exhausted by the climb, Peter sat down to rest.

b) A complex sentence consists of two or more main clauses or statements, each contaning a finite verb and neither being dependent on the other. E.g. I saw him walking to school but he did not notice me.

c) A complex sentence consists of any number of main clauses but it is also contains one or more dependent (or subordinate) clauses which will not make complete sense by themselves, e.g. The car which he borrowed from his uncle was badly damaged when he ran off the road and hit a tree. ( The three dependent statement are in italics; the main one is the car was badly damaged)

After that,I also learned about joining main clauses or statement. I studied how to join sentence with conjunctions and other joining words. I studied about;

Ø Relative pronouns → uses pronouns to connect the dependent clause to the independent clause. The relative pronouns are who, whom, which, that, and whose.                 E.g. I saw the man whom you talked about yesterday.

Ø Although and though→ uses to express unexpected results and introduces an adverb clause. E.g. Although it was rain, I decided to go to Bandung.

Ø Because→  introduces a dependent clause which should not be punctuated as a separate sentence,

Ø e.g. I did not go to campus because my mother was sick yesterday.

Ø Since → followed by a definite date or point in time which answer the question ‘when?’, e.g. She lived in Tangerang since 1989. And

Ø for→ followed by a length of time which answers the question ‘for how long?’,

Ø      e.g. He went to Australia for 2 years.

Ø So that→ use to show the purposes of an action,                                      e.g. He lent me some money so that I can bought a new book.

Ø So→ often shows the consequences of an action or situation,                                                  e.g. I was late so I did not follow the mid term test.

Ø Before, after, until→ can be used to introduce a time expression,                        e.g. My mother went to Surabaya before I came back.

Ø If and unless (unless = if……not)

Ø e.g. If I were you, I will take that university.

Ø During→ usually followed by a noun or pronoun with which it makes a phrase and does not contain a verb,

e.g. I watched thriller movie during my rest time. And while→ usually starts a clause which contain a finite verb, e.g. The phone rang while we were eating.

Second topic is Non defining and defining relative clauses. Non defining clause is not giving any definition that put together between two commas so the reader know that it is not very important and skip it because it is just additional information. The meaning of the the main clause remains exactly the same weather we include the clause or not. For example, The Prime Minister’s reshuffle means that the cabinet, which now has twenty members, will reduced to twenty. In addition, defining relative clause define something. If it is refers to subject, it can not be omitted, and if it is refers to object, it can be omitted or we can omit the relative clause. For example,            The new houses they are building in our road are just like square boxes.

Third, I studied about verb patterns with -ing form and infinitives. Both gerund (verb +ing) and the infinitive can function as nouns standing alone, or they can operate as verbs in non-finite noun clauses.

Gerund can function as a noun. On the whole, the gerund is more readily identifiable with a noun than the infinitive is. The gerund may stand alone as the subject of a verb,                       e.g. Swimming is his favourite hobby.

There are two particularly confusing verb phrases, used to and to be used to.                         Used to + infinitive refers to habitual action in the past, and used to can not be followed by a noun (or a gerund). For example, When I was a child, I used to play with a doll.

If a verb follows to be used to, therefore the gerund form must be used. To be used to suggests familiarity through a repetition of the activity or occurrence; it does not state the existence of habit such as, e.g. I am used to seeing on his bad action he does.

There are so many verbs that may be followed by the gerund, like admit, grudge, pardon, it is no good, etc, but there are notes to remember in gerund:

v The verbs; acknowledge, admit, fancy, imagine, may also be followed by a noun + to be or to have,

e.g. – The Minister acknowledged that the reports were substantially correct.

– The Minister acknowledged the reports to be substantially correct.

v The gerund after stop indicates the cessation of an activity,                                          e.g. He stopped smoking for his health. ( i.e. He did not smoke anymore.)

Stop may be followed by an infinitive— an infinitive of purpose,

e.g. He stopped to smoke a  cigarette.

v Suggest raises special problem when followed by a ‘that’ clause,                           e.g. I suggest that she should see a doctor immediately.

And verb followed by an infinitive. It is necessary first to distinguish two important patterns:

i. I offered to help ( S × V × infinitive)

ii. I invited him to come (S × V × noun × infinitive)

There are groups that follow only pattern (i), then only follow pattern (ii), and that can follow either pattern (i) or (ii).

1) There are verbs in this group that the infinitive without a preceding noun is used after this verbs.This group follow (i) pattern. There are verbs that can be followed by a clause introduce by that, such as, afford, appear, bother, happen, promise, chance, seem, volunteer, fail, etc.

Note: The verbs appear, chance, happen, and seem may be followed by a ‘that’

clause only when they have the subject it.

e.g. It appeared that everyone understood my explaination.

2) A noun + infinitive is used after these verbs, such as accustom, command, compel, direct, entreat, get, implore, instruct, order, persuade, remind, require, teach, trust, warn, oblige etc.

Notes:  a) The verbs command, direct, entreat, implore, order,require consist of

noun that is found between this verbs and a ‘that’ clause.                                                                      e.g. The commander ordered that his troops should lay down their

arms.

b) The verb persuade and remind, a noun is always found between these

verbs and a ‘that’ clause,

e.g. – He persuade me to change my plan.

– He persuade me that my plan is bad.

c) The verbs instruct, teach ,and warn, a noun is optional between these

verbs and a that’ clause,

e.g. -The Chancellor warned Unions not to press for higher wages.

– The Chancellor warned that higher wages would mean higher

prices.

d) The verbs compel, force, and obligate, Make is roughly synonymous

with these verbs, but is followed;

(i) in the active, by a noun + infinitive without to, e.g. He made me do all

the work again.

(ii) in the passive, by an infinitive with to,e.g. I was made to do all the

work again.

e) Get may also be followed by an object + past participle

E.g. You should get your passport renewed.

3) The infinitive, with or without a preceding noun, is used after this verbs, such as ask, beg, choose, dare, desire, elect, expect, help, mean, request, want, and wish.

Notes : a. The verbs ask, beg, desire, expect, request,and wish  No noun is

found between these verbs and a ‘that’ clause.

b. If no noun is used after dare, two patterns are possible :

* the infinitive with to, e.g He dared to call me a fool to my face.

* the infinitive without to ( more especially in negative and interrogative

sentences) e.g. He daren’t tell me what happened.

c. Help may be followed by the infinitive with or without to :

E.g. Everyone helped (me) (to) clean the place up.

And also verbs followed by the gerund or infinitive, such as advise, attempt, can’t bear, decline, forbid, hate, neglect, permit, prefer, regret, require, need, and so on.

Notes : 1. After some verbs, the choice may be determined by considerations of

style rather than meaning,

e.g. It is just starting to rain (NOT starting raining).

2. With many of the verbs expressing feelings or attitudes (like, love,

prefer, hate, etc) the distinction between gerund and infinitive

corresponds to the distinction general versus particular, e.g. I like

looking the view of beach.

Actually, I have learned the materials in the previous course, like conjunction and gerund and infinitives. But in this course, it is more complicated than before and so many additional rules and exception.I have not know well or good understanding about gerund and infinitive, especially when we must use gerund and when to use infinitive.But I will try to memorize the verbs that are used in gerund and/or infinitives.

Finally, I think this course is very useful for me to be a good English teacher because as a teacher we must know the rules and exception in English grammar so it can develop my ability in writing, speaking, and reading. And I hope this class will be interesting and my friend and I not feel boring like before so it can help me to reach my goal,hopefully.

My Personality and Experiences

In this opportunities, I would like to tell about my personality and experiences. I think my traits or characteristics are shy, coward, honest, and bad-tempered. I will explain them more detail. I think I am shy because sometimes it is difficult for me to start conversations with other people or introduce myself to my new friends. And I am anxious in social situations, particularly situations in which there is an audience and I am the center of attention. My mother said that I am shy because my father is shy too, so I think heredity influence someone traits. Then,coward. Coward means that I am coward if my score is bad or if I want to present my task. I am afraid if my material is not good enough or the audience will be bored with my presentation. After that, honest. I am honest if think something is bad, for example if I work in group to present material, I usually say that my friend voice is low and so on.and it is means I always try to be honest to my mother about my activity or if my friend entrust me something. And the last is bad-tempered. I angry if my friends lie to me and did not respect to my faith.
And now I would like to tell about my experiences especially the pleasant and sadden moment in my life. First, the pleasant moment. It happened for about a year ago when I was accepted in State University of Jakarta at English Education Major. Because one of my dreams is to be a good teacher. I want to help the children especially who live in the village to know and have knowledge about International language so our country will be a development country. And I think teacher is a honourable job in the world. I hope I will get all of my dreams easily. Next is the sadden moment. It was happened when my father was died at 2000. I think, it was too early for my father to go because I was 11 years old and still need a leader in my life until my adulthood. At that time, my mother did not have any job and must be a single parents for her children. But, with all of the blessing from God, my mother can handle it and bring me and my brothers to school. I always have a big commitment in myself to help my mother in many for example to get scholarship in my study.