Application Letter for Romansyah

Contoh:

Jalan Karya Nyata II

Desa Sungai Deras

P. Jambu RT 07 Rw 05

Kec. Tl. Pakedai 78383

Kab. Kubu Raya

West Kalimantan

October 1, 2010

Isi Alamat Sekolah tempat ente ngajar

Contoh:

SMK Negeri 1 Rasau Jaya

Jalan Jend. Sudirman No. 36

Kec. Rasau Jaya 78382

Kubu Raya

West Kalimantan

Dear Sir,

I wish to apply for the position of English teacher at your school. I am male and 24 years of age. I am an Indonesian citizen and still single. I graduated from Al-Azhar university in Egypt last year and I have a university degree.

Language is used to communicate with people in this world. The more we have languages, the more people we are able to communicate. Therefore, besides I have Indonesian and Arabic languages, I am also able to speak English. After I have finished learning English in Pare, I am interested in learning it deeper. I am eager to improve my ability in English since I realize that being an English teacher is a way to improve it. Wise words from my teacher I always remember are ‘no harm to try’ and ‘teach! By teaching, your English will be improved’. It does not mean that I will train your students if you receive me later on. Yet, I will afford as hard as possible to make English not become your students’ problem anymore while increasing my ability in English. With all my teaching techniques, I will proof that what I said above will be true and you will not be disappointed with me.

I have always been told that I have a pleasant personality. Being energetic and dynamic, I can get on very well with other people. The teachers at your school will not feel boring of me coming. Operating a computer is not something new since I know that ICT based learning is the highest level approach to teach the students.

I enclose all documents to be considered. I would be willing to take a series of test at any time. I am sure you will take my qualifications into consideration. I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Sincerely Yours,

Romansyah A Husen, LC.

My lovely bird is dead

John is a busy man and he has a lovely bird. He puts his bird in a cage. He hangs it in the window of his bed room. Although, he is busy whit his job, he can take care of his bird well. He really likes it. One day when he had an appointment with his client in Jakarta, he asked his sister to look after his bird.

John     : Jenifer, can you take care of my bird.

    I am going to Jakarta this morning and I will go home in the 

    afternoon.

Jenifer  : Yes, of course. I like a bird.

John     : Thank you, Jen.

John was relived because his sister could look after his bird. John went to Jakarta while Jenifer was taking care of his bird. When John went home in the afternoon, John asked Jenifer his bird.

John     : How’s my bird, Jen? Have you fed it.

Jenifer  : Yes, of course, I have. This morning I fed it.

John     : This morning? Just this morning?

Jenifer  : Yes, why? Is it not enough?

John     : No kidding! It’s 5 o’clock now. It will be hungry if you have not fed it yet. It needs to feed three times a day. But you feed it just once.

Jenifer  : Three times a day?

             I’m sorry my brother I do not know. I will feed it now.

John     : No, you should not feed it anymore. I will feed it myself.

John hurrily went to feed his bird.

John     : Oh, my God.

             Jenifer! Jenifer! Come here! Look at my bird! It is really weak.

             What a careless you are!

Jenifer  : I’m so sorry my brother.

John     : What did you say? ‘Sorry?’

             It’s too late. My bird has been dead. Now let me alone!

John was very upset knowing his bird dead. Jenifer went away. She ran and cried.

Podcasting

What is podcast?

A podcast is an audio file that anyone can create using computer, microphone, and software program. It is used to improve learners’ pronunciation. It is also used to hear the learners’ own pronunciation and judge the nativelikeness of their speech. It could offer opportunities for contextualizing tasks, while at the same time honing pronunciation.

How can podcasting be useful for learning languages?

The Benefits of Blogging for Learning English

a.   It can improve learners’ writing ability.

There are four skills that we have to master in learning English;
they are reading, speaking, listening and writing. To master all those skills, we have to be accustomed to practice. Blogging is one of the tools to improve our ability in English, especially in writing skill. Some English learners are difficult to write because they seldom practice writing. Others might be afraid of making mistakes in writing such as grammar, punctuation and so on. Moreover, when we are posting something in our blog, we will think much about the errors in it because it can be seen and commented by anyone. However, we do not need to think much about it. We will never be able to write if we always think about the errors in our writing. Our errors and the comments of our writing will improve our next writing.

b.  Enrich learners’ English vocabulary

When we are writing, we often do not know about certain vocabulary that we are going to write. We will look up our dictionary and find the vocabulary that we do not know. In this case, we are enriching our vocabulary. Fancy that if we are writing 20 postings in our blog and each posting has 10 new vocabularies. How many vocabularies that we will get after writing? How if we always keep writing something in our blog? Therefore, blogging can enrich our vocabulary.  

Hortatory Exposition

How to get English

We realize that English that we are learning is not our first language. Therefore, we sometimes get trouble in understanding it. English has four skills; speaking, writing, reading and listening, which are always connected with three elements; grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. And the most important thing that the English learners should have is sights and experiences. Those are required by all of the English learners. Many English learners are difficult to master all of those things. We often find some students being able to speak fluently but they are lack of structures. They cannot arrange their sentences grammatically so that what they are speaking is difficult to understand. And many students are not confident to write because they are lack of vocabulary and grammar. Not only this but also we often find students not being able to understand it at all.  

Report, Descriptive or Explanation Text?

Rasau Jaya

Rasau Jaya is one of Kubu Raya regency. It is wide enough and there are many inhabitants there. We can say Rasau Jaya is a developing place. They are interested in building buildings. There are many new buildings that we can see if we go there. They do not care much about how big their buildings are. They use those buildings variously. Some use them as the place to stay with family, some use them to store things, some use them to both stay and store things and some others use them as other functions such as school, English courses, Computer courses, Bank and so on. Those things make Rasau Jaya crowded.

Recount Text

A Terrible Day

It was Sunday. I never get up early on Sundays. I sometimes stay in bed until 10 o’clock. Last Sunday I got up very late. I did not realize that it was already 11 o’clock. I really enjoyed sleeping with beautiful dreaming so that I forgot everything.

Spoof

A Tricky Lazy Student

Eko was a junior high school student. He was in grade three at that time. He was lazy but tricky. He seldom studied his lessons but he always passed the test given by his teachers. He seldom followed his teachers’ suggestion. When his teachers asked him to study, he just said ‘yes sir, I will’, but he did not study at all. It was very useless to suggest the boy like him. He just counted on his friends’ help when he got problem with his lessons.

Narrative Text

My Experience at English Course

English course in East Java was my dream after I was failed in the final examination of senior high school in 2006. I thought that I did not have any choice. I should go there. My desire to get English was higher and higher. I also needed to separate from my friends in my home because if I was still with them, I would never be able to study. Therefore, I decided to go there as soon as possible. On 11^th of May 2007, I went there with one of my classmates, Nanang Kosim, by ship. It took us three days to get there. After we got there, we directly looked for a boarding house. Fortunately, we got one.

Procedure Text

How to Make Ongol-Ongol?

Have you ever heard ‘Ongol-ongol’? For you who the first time hear it you will not say it is a cake but in fact it is a cake. I often taste it. It is quite delicious. My mother likes to make it. I do not know why it is called Ongol-ongol. Every time I ask her, she says it was your grandmother’s favorite cake. ‘She likes to cook it for me when I was child’, my mother said. Therefore, this cake comes from my grandmother.

Analytical Exposition

Money

Money is not an odd thing in our mind. We can find it surrounding us easily even it belongs to other people. All people in this world really rely on it.

Present Continuous Tense

The Present continuous Tense is used to express an activity that is in progress (is occurring, is happening) right now. The event is in progress at the time the speaker is saying the sentence.

Simple Present Tense

Look at the paragraph below!

Risky’s Daily Activity

Risky usually gets up at 4 o’clock in the morning. Then, she cleans my room and takes a bath. She puts on her clothes and prays. She helps her parents before she has breakfast in the dinning room, and she never forgets to wash her hands before having breakfast.

After breakfast at about 6 o’clock, she goes to school. She goes to school by motorcycle because her school is far from her house. She arrives at school at about 6.15. After school, she usually has lunch and takes a nap.

In the afternoon, she does her homework and sometimes watches TV. In the evening, she stays at home with her parents and studies her lessons. Then, she goes to bed at about 09.30 pm.

The paragraph above uses simple present to tell about Risky’s activity. How do we know that?

Tenses

When we talk about tense, we also talk about verb. Therefore, if you want to learn about the tense easily, you have to understand about the verb first. Because tense is a changing of the verb. The verb can be ‘base form/V1, past simple/V2, past participle/V3, and present participle/V-ing. To make you easier to understand the verb, please read part of speech in the previous posting. Look at the examples below!

Sentence

Sentence is a group of words that contains at least a subject and a predicate. We sometimes find a long group of words but it does not have a subject and a predicate. We can say it is not a sentence because it does not have a subject and a predicate. It is just a phrase. To make it clearer, have a look the examples below and identify whether they are sentences or phrases.

Preposition

The last part of English speech is preposition. This material, I think, is really vital to learn because we cannot put wrong preposition in a certain word. Each word has its own preposition. Moreover, when we find the completion test that is required us to complete by using preposition. How can we answer correctly if we do not know preposition. Therefore, we have to be able recognize what appropriate preposition to complete the word.

Interjection

Are you ever surprised? When you hear that your relatives getting an accident, what you say? Have you ever said ‘oh my god!’, ‘dear me!’? Look at the conversation below!

Jenny          : Do you know why John did not attend the class this morning, Bell?

Bello           : I heard he got an accident five days ago.

Jenny          : Oh my good! What accident he got?

Bello           : He fell down from the high tree and he broke his right leg.

                     Now, he is in the hospital. Didn’t you know it?

Jenny          : No. Nobody told me. I just hear from you.

                     How if we go to hospital to visit him?

Bello           : That's a good idea.

                     Let's get going.

You see the bold expression in the conversation above? It is an interjection.

Verb

Verb indicates what someone or something does or in another word it can be called as action word. There are many things that we will discuss if we talk about verb deeply. However, this will not tell you all about it because it will be discussed more in the next posting. It does not mean that this is not important to learn. Here I will tell you kinds of verbs. But before telling you about the kinds of verbs, let me give the example words of verbs first. Here are the examples of some verbs!