Minggu, 27 Mei 2018

News Item Text Assignment

 Islamic study in Ramadhan  and break the fast together





There were many people in conference room of  Muhammadiyah University of Purworejo on Wednesday May 23, 2018.
They  consist of students, lecturers and society  .
They join an event here. The event is known as islamic study in ramadhan and break the fast together.
This event was held during ramadhan month  in the conference room of muhammadiyah university of purworejo and started  at 16.45 PM. Muhammad Annur, one of the committees, said that the target of this event is  students, lecturers, and the public/ society. “And this event has a purpose  to improve the sense of kinship and tighten the bonds”, Muhammad Annur  said.
There were many agendas in this event. The event began with islamic study in ramadhan, breaking the fast together, then  pray maghrib , pray isya and the last is pray tarawih.
At 16.45, the opening was started.  Then, continue to the next agenda , introducing  the speaker by translator from Kemiri and Tuksongo Purworejo. There were 2 translators because the speaker is come from Egypt. The first one is a lecturer in Chicago and the second is an alumnus of al-azhar university.
“The reason  why do we invite the abroad speaker is to increase knowledge and insight into the wider Islam”, Muhammad Annur said.
The next agenda was speech by the speaker from Egypt.
“He is a lecturer in Chicago, USA”,  Muhammad Annur said.











The speaker  brought a speech with the  theme “The islamic differences between the past and present in America.”
He talked about  Once in America the adherents of Islam were very few. Not like now. It shows that in this century  islam is better than the last century.
“The diamond mosque is very scattered so can easily be found. So to worship is not as difficult as it once was. It's just that there is one weakness they are lower than the Indonesian Muslims is when asked how many children they will answer the number of their pets. Unlike Indonesian Muslims who will clearly mention the number of children even his name,” He said.
In the end of speech he suggest us as Muslims in Indonesia, we should be grateful for being able to worship very easily, complete facilities, and the government's attention to Islam is maximal.



 

After kajian finished, then the next agenda is breaking  the fast together. And then pray maghrib, pray isya, religion speech before pray tarawih, It is about 15 minutes, and the last is pray tarawih.











“I hope this event can be done every year, and become better than in previous years.” Muhammad Annur said.

Minggu, 20 Mei 2018

Exposition Text Assignment







How to encourage English department students to speak English more often and confidently.




As we know a lot of english students who pay less attention to the aspects of speaking, most of them still use Indonesian or even java, this is a bad habit so they rarely speak English, here are some tips to encourage students English to speak more often in English and confidently.

There are several ways and tips  to encourage students to speak English more often and confidently include:

            1. Game
Firstly, Make a game, of course, is to make a workable game for all students. This game takes precedence that makes the students to appear in front of the class like story telling, Then other students are required to respond, can respond, give questions, praise, or assess the appearance of his friend, So in this case all students will inevitably will talk more.

2. Film
Secondly, using the film media by utilizing the existing technology classroom LCD Projector to play a movie. after watching the student fim is required to retell or just conclude. Therefore, the film must be the latest or at least liked by many students. So when at the end of the film, they are told to go forward or sit as well, to tell the story of the story in the movie. They will be interested, confident and enthusiastic, this is very helpful for students to speak english, it can also add to the vocabulary of students.

3. Speaking Log
Then the third is to support and train the activities of speaking in English to be more confident, we can by giving a speaking log activity, which is routine activities that must be done every day. So each student has an speaking log paper, a paper in which it contains; name, topic of conversation, partner and duration of conversation. Then during the lesson we can ask for all the paper speaking logs to check the extent of their activities. On the best results, we can give the gift as a form of appreciation, but it also can give encouragement for other students to more routinely speak english.