Belajar Bahasa Inggris

Once again I feel grateful for VOA Special English that I found another listening and reading exercise for my student on the topic of environment and education (bullying problem at school). Great work VOA special English. You have made my life a lot easier for providing us about news in special English.

This news is intended to teach English as a second language or third. You can subscribe to VOA Learning English if you like the video in special English. I highly recommend this for teacher since the language is spoken in slower speed and use comprehensible vocabulary terms. The transcription of news into text has been done for you by them so this is something good for English learners specially in Indonesian context learning environment.Here are examples for topics like general interest and education. Please subscribe to http://voaspecialenglish.com



 

Jika anda suka main FB pasti anda sudah pernah melakukan chatting real time. Jika anda bermain dengan applikasi FB seperti permainan game sosial seperti Zynga Poker pasti anda juga banyak menjumpai akronim atau singkatan-singkatan dalam bahasa Inggris yang barangkali bagi pemula membingungkan. Berikut link  untuk akronim yang mungkin bisa membantu anda dalam ber-facebook ataupun dalam chatting:  http://www.web-friend.com/help/lingo/chatslang.html

If you are a teacher you can use the following video to teach listening, vocabulary and; reading to your students specially high school students in Indonesia. The kind of text we are studying here is under news item text.



Here is a listening and vocabulary exercise you can do with the video:

Fill the blanks with the words mentioned in the news
An oil ……………….. that threatens to become the America’s worst environmental disaster in decades has started washing ashore along the gulf coast as fisherman rushed to ………………. up shrimp and conservation crews spread floating ………………around marshes to try to protect them. The spill is bigger than first imagine, five times more than first ……………… infact and much closer. Figures of oily sheet are reaching the missisippi Delta blocking the Louisiana delta shoreline in long thin line. The oil slick is threatening hundreds species of fish, Birds and other wild life along the gulf coast, one of the world’s richest sea food ground ……………….. with shrimp, oyster and other marine life.
David Kennedy is from the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. “This is a very very significant event and it’s a great ……………………… and certainly from my own perspectives having dealt with this for a long time, uhm… I am frightened. This is a very very big thing. The efforts that are going to require to do anything about it especially if it continuous on are just uhm ……………………….
Barrack Obama has ………………….cabinet officials to deal with the crisis. “My administration will continue to use every single available resource that are ……………………., potentially the government of defense to address the incident. Earlier today the DHS secretary, Palitano announced that this incident is as of national significant and department of interior has announced that they will be sending a swot team to the gulf to ………………………. all platforms and rigs.

Match the meaning of the words studied.

1. Disposable      a) to form an approximate judgment or opinion regarding the worth, amount, size, weight,  etc.
2. Teem               b) to look carefully at or over; view closely and critically
3. Estimate           c) Something laid down on the floor as of liquid
4. Inspect             d) take out or up with or as if with a scoop
5. Barriers             e) worry, solicitude, or anxiety
6. Dispatch            f) emotionally or psychologically overwhelming; mind-blowing
7. Scoop               g) anything built or serving to bar passage, as a railing, fence, or the like
8. Spill                  h) to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
9. Mind-boggling    i) free for use; available
10. Concern           j) abounding or swarming with something, as with people:

II. Put in context

1. The school principal is …………………… the students’ uniform to check its appropriateness.
2. The fair ………………………….with people that it’s difficult to move around.
3. The car is now ………………..so I want to use it.
4. The rise in kidnapping victim where children as target is a ………………………incident that everybody is very…………..
5. I have………………..someone to take care the matter right away. So please stay here.
6. After I ………………..the damage then you can claim the reimbursement for it.
7. I don’t want create any ……………………..between a teacher and a student.
8. Fisherman nowadays us huge net to …………………………fishes in deep ocean.
9. If you …………………..anymore sweet liquid then I will make you clean it up.
10. Stop listening to our conversation. It’s none of your……………….

Sering kata "fuck" digunakan anak-anak sekarang ini bahkan dari filem gang sering menggunakan kata ini. Sebenarnya apa sih yang dimaksud dengan kata "F" disini. Mari kita lihat penggunaan:

Secara literal arti dari kata "fuck" adalah to have a sexual intercourse (Berhubungan badan \ berhubungan sex). Kata ini termasuk kata yang vulgar atau kotor. Saya tidak merekomendasikan menggunakan kata ini tetapi kalo anda ingin tahu cara penggunaannya baca berikut ini:

• Kalo anda jengkel atau anda tidak sengaja mengijak sesuatu , anda bisa mengatakannya:

• Kalo jengkel pada seseorang anda bisa mengatakan ini juga:

• Memperingatkan supaya berhenti main main = Quit Fucking around! - berhenti main-main

• Untuk arti sangat / sekali = Beautiful fucking car! - Mobil yang sangat cantik sekali. This food is fucking good - makanan ini enak sekali.
  

• Untuk arti sesuatu yang terjadi = What the fuck is going on? - Apa yang sedang terjadi?

• Untuk mengusir orang atau artinya pergi = Fuck off! - Pergi sana!

• Untuk arti kata merusak = you just fucked up my project. - kamu baru saja merusak proyekku.