Thursday, 20 October 2016

Grammar : Synonyms of Verbs and Adverbs for Academic English

Exercise 1. Verb

Instructions : Write the letter associated with the corresponding synonym next to each word      1.      B Obliterate (melenyapkan)         2.      C Severed (memotong)      3.      M Conceive (membuat)      4.      E Tolerate (toleransi)      5.      K Ingest (mencerna)      6.      D Pacify (menenangkan)      7.      A Calibrate (menyesuaikan)      8.      F Magnify (memperbesar)      9.      G Incentivize (mendorong)      10.  N Speculate (mempertimbangkan)      11.  H Levitate (mengapung di udara)      12.  O Illustrate (mengilustrasikan)      13.  J Elucidate (menguraikan)      14.  L Impede (menghalangi)      15.  I Advocate (menganjurkan)

SYNONYMS (Exercise 1. Verbs)      A.    Adjust (menyesuaikan)      B.     Destroyed (membinasakan)      C.     Cut (memotong)      D.    Calm (down) (tenang)      E.     Allow (mengizinkan)      F.      Enlarge (memperbesar)      G.    Support (mendukung)      H.    Float (mengapung di air)      I.       Motivate (mendorong)      J.       Clarify (menjelaskan)      K.    Consume (memakan)      L.     Interfere (mencampuri)      M.   Create (menciptakan)      N.    Theorize (berteori)      O.    Exemplify (mencontohkan)

Exercise 2. Adverb

Instructions : Write the letter associated with the corresponding synonym next to each word      1.      A Methodically (sesuai metode)      2.      N Begrudgingly (menyesuaikan)      3.      D Amicably (secara damai)      4.      C Fiercely (dengan ganas)      5.      K Unintelligibly (tidak dapat dipahami)      6.      I Sporadically (dengan sporadis)      7.      L Unequivocally (dengan tegas)      8.      G Zealously (dengan rajin)      9.      H Laboriously (dengan kerja keras)      10.  M Earnestly (dengan jelas)      11.  L Indisputably (tidak dapat disangka)      12.  J Definitively (dengan pasti)      13.  B Faintly (dengan lemah)      14.  E Discreetly (dengan hati-hati)

SYNONYMS (Exercise 2. Adverbs)      A.    Systematically (secara sistematis)      B.     Weakly (dengan lemah)      C.     Severely (dengan sungguh)      D.    Quietly (dengan tenang)      E.     Privately (secara pribadi)      F.      Intently (sungguh-sungguh)      G.    Eargerly (dengan tak sabar)      H.    Painfully (mengakibatkan)      I.       Occasionally (adakalanya)      J.       Absolutely (betul, benar, memang)      K.    Unclearly (tidak terang, belum jelas)      L.     Indisputably (tidak terbantahkan)      M.   Decisively (dengan jelas)      N.    Resentfully (dengan marah)

1. Vocabulary

    Match the words or phrases from the article with their definitions.

1.      Broken home C      2.      To snap at someone H      3.      To lose touch E      4.      To snap out of it B      5.      To cope D      6.      Blue I      7.      Help line F      8.      Self-injury A      9.      Counselor G

A.    Harm that you do to yourself deliberately      B.     To recover quickly      C.     A family where the parents have separated      D.    To deal succesfully with a situation      E.     To lose contact      F.      A telephone advice service      G.    A person professionally trained to talk to people about their problems      H.    To speak to someone angrily      I.       Unhappy (informal)

2. Comprehension

    According to the text, are the following sentences true or false? (Circle ‘T’ for true and an ‘F’ for       false next to each sentence).

1.      Teenagers don’t want to become adults.      2.      Teenagers often don’t know how to get helps with their depression.      3.      Other people are usually the first to see that you are depressed.      4.      A common symptom of teenage behavior is moody behavior.      5.      It is easy to recover quickly from serious depression.      6.      Talking to a person who is depressed is a good way to help.      7.      Telephone help lines are a private way to talk about your problems.      8.      Anyone can be counselor.      9.      Everyone feels miserable sometimes.

T/F            T/F            T/F            T/F            T/F            T/F            T/F            T/F            T/F

WEEK 5 - SMARTPHONE APPS THAT YOU LOVE

“SMARTPHONE APPS THAT YOU LOVE”

Oke, hello guys back again with me in my assignment :D Oke, in this assignment I will tell you about what smartphone apps that I love. Actually there many smartphone apps that I love, I will tell you some.

Who don’t love music? Everyone must love music, and everyday people must listen some music. In fact many people think music is a part of they life and I the one who thinks like that :D The music application that usually I use is Poweramp Music Player. This app is very cool, the excess of this app is this app display the lyrics of the song that we listen, this app can make personal profile, etc.

Next is Guitar Tuner, this app use to tune the guitar sound. Because I cann’t tune the guitar sound by myself so I use this app to tune my guitr sound. This app is very useful for people like me that have a problem cann’t tune the guitar sound but can play the guitar :D

Next is game, who don’t like game? Surely everyone likes game and save some game in they smartphone. The game what I love is Guitar Hero, this game so diverting for me, its celerity choached my digit. And the music from this game make me so energetic to get ROCK score!!! :D If you want feel to be a rocker you must try this game! :D

And the last is social networks, who donn’t have social networks? Nowadays who do not have social networks? Almost everyone have social networks from child until grandfather and grandmother have social networks. Social networks that I love is Facebook, Line, Instagram, Youtube, Google Chrome, Gmail, Google+, etc. Now this is urgently nedeed social networks for survival.

Along with the development of technology was growing rapidly and the social networks was growing and multiplying. Nowadays many new apps that useful for everyday survival. Now in fact there is mosquito repellent application haha surely you suprised right with this app :D me feel so suprised too :D the unique application :D

Oke, this is my story about smartphone apps that I love. Thank you for your attention and see you in next assignment, goodbyeeeee :D

WEEK 4 - WHAT MOVIE BEST DESCRIBES YOUR LIFE

"WHAT MOVIE BEST DESCRIBES YOUR LIFE"

Hello guys, how are you? I wish you feel better now :D Oke, in this assignment i will tell you about “what movie best describes your life”. The movie what describes my life is “The Imitation Game” the movie based on true story and the movie happen in 1939 after Britain declares war on Germany during The Second War.

Oke, this movie tell about “a mathematician Alan Turing, he is the first computer creator. He make a computer to break the code of Enigma. Turing is accepted by Commander Alastair Denniston of the Royal Navy for a code-breaking job at Bletchley Park, working alongside Hugh Alexander, John Cairncross, Peter Hilton, Keith Furman, and Charles Richards. They are instructed to break the code of Enigma, which, as Maj Gen Stewart Menzies of the MI6 explains, allows the Germans to attack British and American shipping, leading to famine and the loss of life. Turing works in isolation from the others, to the disappointment of his colleagues, and he concentrates all of his efforts in creating a machine, as opposed to calculating by hand.” Alan Turing is my inspiration, because he a mathematician but him make a machine that save many human lives.

When Denniston refuses to fund the machine's construction, Turing writes to Winston Churchill, who arranges the funding and names Turing as the team leader.

Turing's team, which needs more people, places a crossword puzzle in the newspaper, and conducts a mathematical examination for candidates, eventually selecting Jack Good and Joan Clarke.

The machine is eventually finished, and Turing names it Christopher, but it takes too long to execute, whereas the ciphers of Enigma are changed on a daily basis. Denniston wishes for the machine to be destroyed and Turing fired, but the other cryptographers threaten to quit.

At the engagement party, Turing realizes that the machine can be sped up by prerecognizing routine phrases such as "Heil Hitler," and the recalibrated machine starts to quickly decode transmissions. However, the team realizes that, should the Royal Navy act on the new information, the Germans may realize that Enigma is broken and redesign it, thereby voiding the team's work.

As such, the team conceals the success of the machine from Denniston, and delivers the results to Menzies, who uses his influence to prevent the team from being fired. Menzies works with the team to determine which pieces of information can be used while arousing the least German suspicion. Around this time, Turing discovers that Cairncross is a Soviet spy, but Cairncross argues that the Soviets are allied with the UK, and threatens to expose Turing's homosexuality if he tells anyone. Turing finds Menzies in Clarke's home, suspecting her of being a spy. When Turing reveals that the spy is Cairncross, the latter explains that he already knew, and has been using Cairncross to leak information of low importance. Shortly after, fearing that Clarke is in trouble because of her secret involvement with the team, Turing reveals to her that he is a homosexual, hoping to drive her away. She is unfazed by this and Turing lies that has never cared for her. They break up but she refuses to leave.

As the war ends, Menzies tells the team to destroy all of their work and never speak of their achievements to the world.

In 1951, back in the interrogation room, Nock is stunned by the story and says that he cannot judge Turing. However, Staehl has the charges pressed and Turing is given a choice of 2 years in prison or chemical castration. Turing chooses the latter. He is visited at home by Clarke, who witnesses his physical and mental deterioration. She comforts him by saying that his work saved millions of lives. In the end, the team is shown in 1945 burning all of their documents, and a caption reveals that Turing committed suicide in 1954 at the age of 41.

Oke, the describes of my life from this film is he buffetings,and he hard work to keep trying although he fail but him never give up! And he love story with him fiance shame with me, I break someone’s heart by telling the truth to men. And actually still a lot of the same nature to me but enough to me and God only knows :D

Oke, enough for this assignment see you in next assignment, goodbyeeeee

International Culture festival

please forgive me because my expression, my word, etc is so bad. Because I never make a video and I feel so nervous hehe oke, I hope you enjoy with my bad video

WEEK 3 - TWO THINGS THAT YOU HAVE TO BRING EVERYWHERE YOU GO

"TWO THINGS THAT YOU HAVE TO BRING EVERYWHERE YOU GO"

      Hello, guys how are you today? I hope you feel better today. Oke, for this posting I will tell you about “two things that I have to bring everywhere I go”. Actually many things that I bring everywhere I go, but in this posting I will tell you just two things.

      The first things that I have to bring everywhere I go is a phone, I choose my phone because with my phone I can contact someone if I need a help, I can contact my friends to enjoy with me in a place, I can contact my friends to tell about something information, I can search the place that I want to visit with use my internet connection in my aplication phone that is google maps, I can search and find something information with internet connection in my phone, I can play games in my phone if I boring, I can listen many songs everywhere I go with my phone, and etc. The phone is so important to bring everywhere we go, because we don’t know what happen in way to we if we go to everywhere, to be on alert we must bring phone if something happen we can contact someone to help we.

    The second things is wallet because usually in the wallet we bring a STNK, SIM, KTP, ATM, photo, a lot of moneys, etc. So, if we forget to bring wallet everywhere we go that can be big problem if all of your contents in your wallet very important like I mention in up, its so dangerous friends!!! For example, when you while go on a trip suddenly raid by police happen and you forget to bring your wallet that contents your STNK, SIM, KTP, etc. Wowww! That can be big problem and you must dealing with police. I have ever experience raid by police in Sekadau City. At that time I must return to Pontianak to take care of my university lecture cost 09.00 o’clock, and then I see my rem lamp motorcycle do not live so my father bring my motorcycle to machine shop. In the road to machine shop my father hit raid by police at Rawak Circle Traffic,my father forget to bring my STNK and the SIM was died so he call me to go him location and bring my STNK, SIM,and KTP and my uncle deliver me to my father location. After that I say with the police that “I forget to bring my wallet and I was call my father to brought my wallet” after that I show he my STNK,and my SIM but he don’t care he ask a question to me “you want your SIM, STNK, KTP, or your motorcycle to seizure? You must to choose” and I say to him “but my father was brought my wallet to me and now I must go to Pontianak” and he answer “yes, I know. Now you must to choose you want your SIM, STNK, KTP, or your motorcycle to seizure?”. So I choose my STNK to seizure, and I must to join a session next month to take my STNK. And then its my story from my raid by police experience hahahahaha I hope all of you never have a experiencing like me.

      Oke, enough for this task, see you in next task :)

“THE RESUME OF THE PPT SLIDE AND ANSWER THE EXERCISES”

“Subject Verb Agreement”.

What is subject? Subject is the person/people/thing that do the activity.

Example of the subject : I, you, they, we, she, he, it, Mr. Edwin, Mrs. Edwin, my aunt, my grandmother, the house, the driver, etc.

What is verb? Verb is a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence.

Verb have a 3 kinds, that is :

1.      Action Verbs

Action verbs is verb to explain that something happen. This verb also be said to be “dynamic verbs”. Action verbs are words that express action (give, eat, walk, etc) or possession (have, own, etc). Ation verbs can be either transitive (with object) or intransitive (without object). The verbs that action verbs appertain that is explain activity, process, and momentary action.

There is some example to acton verbs :

a.      Linda raises her hand. (kkt)

b.      Alfian gave Marco the pencil. (kkt)

c.       Linda rises slowly from her seat. (kki)

d.      He was pontificating about art and history. (kki)

2.      Linking Verbs

A linking verbs connects the subject of a sentence to a noun or adjective that renames or describes the subject.

To Be : is, am, are, was, were

Example :        a. Lisa is in love with Jason

                        b. We were there!

                        c. I am happy

Verb : seem, appear, become, grow, remain, get, prove, turn, look, sound, smell, taste, feel.

Example :        a. She looks pale

                        b. I feel happy

                        c. That sounds great!

                        d. Your cook smells good

3.      Helping Verbs

Helping verbs are used before action or linking verbs to convey additional information regarding aspects of possibility (can, could, etc) or time (was, did, has, etc).

Modals always function as Helping verbs. Modals : can, could, may, might, shall, will, ought to, should, would.

For example :

a.      Tejo is (helping verb) going (main verb) to Florida.

b.      The trip might (helping verb) be (main verb) dangerous.

c.       Tanya could learn to fly helicopters. (could helps the main verb, learn).

d.      Janine will drive to Idaho tomorrow. (will helps the main verb, drive).

Main Rule of “Subject Verb Agreement”

Only the subject affects the verb!

Rule 1 :

Subjects and verbs must agree in number. This is the cornerstone rule that forms the background of the concept.

Example :        a. The dog growls when it is angry

                        b. The dogs growl when they are angry

Rule 2 :

Don’t get confused by the words that come between the subject and verb; they do not affect agreement.

Example : The dog, who is chewing on my jeans, is usually very good.

Rule 3 :

Prepositional phrases between the subject and verb usually do not affect agreement.

Example : The colors of the rainbow are beautiful.

Rule 4 :

When sentences start with “there” or “here”, the subject will always be placed after the verb, so care needs to be taken to identify it correctly.

Example :        a. There is a problem with the balance sheet.

                        b. Here are the papers you requested

Rule 5 :

If two subjects are joined by and, they typically require a plural verb form.

Example : The cow and the pig are jumping over the moon

Rule 6 :

The verb is singular if the two subjects separated by and refer to the same

person or thing.

Example : Red beans and rice is my mom's favorite dish.

Rule 7 :

If one of the words each, every, or no comes before the subject, the verb is

singular.

Example :        a. No smoking or drinking is allowed.

                        b. Every man and woman is required to check in.

Rule 8 :

If the subjects are both singular and are connected by the words or, nor,

neither/nor, either/or, and not only/but also the verb is singular.

Example : Jessica or Christian is to blame for the accident.

Rule 9 :

The only time when the object of the preposition decides plural or singular verb forms is when noun and pronoun subjects like some, half, none, more, all, etc. are followed by a prepositional phrase. In these sentences, the object of the preposition determines the form of the verb.

Example :        a. All of the chicken is gone

                        b. All of the chickens are gone

Rule 10 :

The singular verb form is usually used for units of measurement or time.

Example : Four quarts of oil was required to get the car running.

Rule 11 :

If the subjects are both plural and are connected by the words or, nor, neither/nor, either/or, and not only/but also, the verb is plural.

Example : Dogs and cats are both available at the pound.

Rule 12 :

If one subject is singular and one plural and the words are connected by the words or, nor, neither/nor, either/or, and not only/but also, you use the verb form of the subject that is nearest the verb.

Example :        a. Either the bears or the lion has escaped from the zoo

                        b. Neither the lion nor the bears have escaped from the zoo

Rule 13 :

Indefinite pronouns (everything, anything, everyone, someone, somebody, nothing, etc) typically take singular verbs.

Example :        a. Everybody wants to be loved

                        b. Everything is gonna be alright

Rule 14 :

Except for the pronouns (few, many, several, both, all, some) that always take the plural form.

Example :        a. Few were left alive after the flood

                        b. Several students understand the material

Rule 15 :

If two infinitives are separated by and they take the plural form of the verb.

Example : To walk and to chew gum require great skill

Rule 16 :

When gerunds are used as the subject of a sentence, they take the singular verb

form of the verb; but, when they are linked by and, they take the plural form.

Example :        a. Standing in the water was a bad idea

                        b. Swimming in the ocean and playing drums are my hobbies

Rule 17 :

Collective nouns like family, committee, herd, senate, class, crowd, etc. usually take a singular verb form.

Example :        a. The herd is stampeding

                        b. Cooper family always attends the annual party

Rule 18 :

Titles of books, movies, novels, etc. are treated as singular and take a singular

verb.

Example :        a. The Burbs is a movie starring Tom Hanks

                        b. Harry Potter has reached Top 3 Best Seller books.

Exercise : Subject and Verb Agreement Exercise

Choose the correct form of the verb that agrees with the subject.

1.        Annie and her brothers (is, are) at school.

2.        Either my mother or my father (is, are) coming to the meeting.

3.        The dog or the cats (is, are) outside.

4.        Either my shoes or your coat (is, are) always on the floor.

5.        George and Tamara (doesn't, don't) want to see that movie.

6.        Benito (doesn't, don't) know the answer.

7.        One of my sisters (is, are) going on a trip to France.

8.        The man with all the birds (live, lives) on my street.

9.        The movie, including all the previews, (take, takes) about two hours to watch.

10.    The players, as well as the captain, (want, wants) to win.

11.    Either answer (is, are) acceptable.

12.    Every one of those books (is, are) fiction.

13.    Nobody (know, knows) the trouble I've seen.

14.    (Is, Are) the news on at five or six?

15.    Mathematics (is, are) John's favorite subject, while Civics (is, are) Andrea's favorite subject.

16.    Eight dollars (is, are) the price of a movie these days.

17.    (Is, Are) the tweezers in this drawer?

18.    Your pants (is, are) at the cleaner's.

19.    There (was, were) fifteen candies in that bag. Now there (is, are) only one left!

20.    The committee (debates, debate) these questions carefully.

21.    The committee (leads, lead) very different lives in private.

22.    The Prime Minister, together with his wife, (greets, greet) the press cordially.

23.    All of the CDs, even the scratched one, (is, are) in this case.