example of speech

Good morning all…

First of all I would like to praise to our God for the health that is given to us. And thanks for the chance to be here to deliver my speech about “how to live your life without regrets”

Everyone has made poor choices or done something in their past that could be possibly be labeled as ‘regrettable’. But, think about it. The fact that you are now able to look back and realize that a mistake or misstep occurred means you have learned a valuable lesson. Mistakes are stepping stones to an evolving life. No need for you to sink into regret or despair – keep your chin up

I will tell you how to live your life without regrets.

First, acknowledge a mistake has been made. It’s easy to play the blame game, pointing fingers at someone else or circumstances as to why you have stumbled or why your life is difficult. Taking personal ownership that your past actions resulted in bringing about your current reality is the first step to moving past regrets and moving toward a brighter future.

Second, make amends. If your past actions or words have harmed another person, an apology may be tricky. Judge for yourself if an apology will help matters or only drudge up old wounds better left alone. But, definitely forgive yourself. Nobody is perfect. We all make mistakes. If you feel badly about a past action you’ve taken that cannot be righted, forgive yourself, and let it go.

Third, do overs. Sometimes feelings of regret arise not from our past action, but from our non-actions. Have you ever regretted not taking a vacation, staying stuck in a dead-end job, not attending college… or whatever? It may be too late to reverse those decisions, but you still have options. New opportunities are available around every corner if you just open your heart and follow your dreams.

Fourth, be grateful. The most valuable lessons learned in life often come from the mistakes we make. It may take a walk down a dark alley to see clearly. Embrace your follies, feel gratitude for getting past the worst episodes and eventually finding your way along a less-cluttered path.

Fifth, be careful not to repeat the same mistake. Opportunity will surface only after you take responsibility for faulty actions taken and change your current and future behaviors accordingly.

Sixth, be watchful of future knee-jerk reactions. This is probably the toughest step, not reacting negatively to situations or the people who tend to push your buttons. We don’t always have control over the things life tosses in front of us, but we do control our reactions. Stay calm!

Seventh, looking deeper inside. Re-evaluate the direction your life is taking. Become aware of your future goals and desires. Setting clear intentions will help clear the path so that your life progresses with a freer heart and increased happiness. The best is yet to come! Believe it.

There are tips for you, 1. Remember, nobody is perfect. Including yourself ! 2. Forgiveness is golden. 3. Live for today. Yesterday was then.

I think that’s all. Thank you for listening, it’s a pleasure to speak and share with you.

A Dream within A Dream by by Anwar Fadzery

A Dream within A Dream :

Take this kiss upon the brow!

And, in parting from you now,

Thus much let me avow-

You are not wrong, who deem

That my days have been a dream;

Yet if hope has flown away

In a night, or in a day,

In a vision, or in none,

Is it therefore the less gone?

All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar

Of a surf-tormented shore,

And I hold within my hand

Grains of the golden sand-

How few! yet how they creep

Through my fingers to the deep,

While I weep- while I weep!

O God! can I not grasp

Them with a tighter clasp?

O God! can I not save

One from the pitiless wave?

Is all that we see or seem

But a dream within a dream?

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Tips for Management Time for Collage Students

Tips for Management Time for Collage Students

Many students discover the need to develop or hone their time management skills when they arrive at college. Unlike high school where teachers frequently structured your assignments and classes filled your day. In college, Between going to class, doing the homework, taking the tests, perhaps holding down a job, raising a family—well, how's a mere mortal supposed to do all this stuff? It boils down to managing your time. But how are you supposed to do that?Take a look at these six quick tips for getting a grasp on the busy life of a working student.

1.             Read and Block your courses calendar

Sometimes the best advice is among the simplest: One of the first and most important steps in achieving successful time management in college is to read your course calendars carefully. “[A course calendar] is your best friend,” says Matthew Schlager. If you know the due dates for specific assignments and the time frames for quizzes, papers and exams, you’ll be able to spread out the necessary school work.

2.             Make a Plan and Schedule

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Write down everything in one place. Schedule when you plan to sleep, when you are going to do your laundry, when you're going to call your parentsThe crazier your schedule gets, the more important this becomes. Do you have a large research paper due the last week of the semester? Work backward in your calendar and figure out how much time you need to write it, how much time you'll need to research it, and

how much time you'll need to pick your topic. If you think you'll need six weeks for the entire project, work backward from the due date and schedule the time into your calendar before it's too late.

3.             Make Checklists

Printing or writing out checklists for each class or each day of the week can be a helpfulway of remembering everything you need to get done. “You can check [each item] off after you’re done with it.

4.                Stay Organized

Keeping your school work organized can be a huge factor in saving you some time throughout the week, especially if you’re taking more than one class at a time. If you have separate binders, notebooks and folders for each class, you will quickly be able to find that sheet of notes you need for next week’s test or the printed article you planned to reference for your big research paper.

Avoiding clutter isn’t just important when organizing your notes and hand-outs. Be sure to keep your computer desktop organized in a way that always allows you to locate the files you’ll need for each particular class.

5.                Be Healty

This may seem like the kind of advice you heard from your mother and now pass down to your own kids in the form of warm socks in the winter, sunscreen in the summer and daily vitamins year-round, but it can actually play a huge role in successfully managing your time while in college.

http://www.rasmussen.edu/student-life/blogs/college-life/time-management-tips-college/

http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/professors-guide/2009/10/14/top-12-time-management-tips

Example of Lesson Plan : Speaking

  

Lesson Plan

Subject                                    : English

Skill                             : Speaking

Topic                           : Describing people’s  physical appearance

Time allotment            : 1 x 40 minutes

1.      Goal

            Students can describe about person or their physical appearance orally.

2.      Objective

Terminal objective :

1.      Students will describe their physical appearance, such as their age, height, weight ,hair and eyes individually.

2.      Students will describe about other people’s physical appearance based on certain topic.

Enabling objective :

1.      Students will identify some part of their body than can be described.

2.      Students will comprehend short conversation about describing people’s physical appearance.

3.      Students will comprehend some kinds of  hair and eyes to be described.

4.      Students will comprehend and produce necessary vocabulary for this topic.

5.      Each student will get turn to describe his/her physical appearance orally.

6.      Students will describe about people’s physical appearance with topic that they have chosen.

3.        Material and equipment

·      Picture of famous people

·      Video about describing people

·      Talking stick

·      LCD

·      Handbook

4.        Procedures

1.      PRESPEAKING

(Show the video and  picture of famous people “ Ariana Grande” ) principle Strategic investment because students have different preference with their learning style.

To elicit students’ background knowledge, we will start off with play the video on the LCD projector. It is very short and very easy. Its purpose  to guide students about the lesson today and set up framework for the lesson.

2.      SPEAKING ABOUT DESCRIBING PEOPLE

In order to make easy, teacher give new topic that related with students’ existing knowledge and background. (Meaningful learning)

Teacher      : Students, do you understand how to describing people?

Students     : Yes, Ma’am.

Teacher      : Ok, now I will describe about famous people. Look at this picture !

Students    : Yes, Ma’am.

Teacher      : Have you ever seen this people?

Students    : Yes, we often see her on television.

             Teacher      : Good, now I will describe her. She is Lady Gaga. She  is a famous American singer.                           She is 25 years old. She is pretty. She has straight black hair, brown eyes, and long                               nose. Her weight is 49 kilograms and her height is 155 cm.

Students     :  ( paying attention)

3.      WHOLE-CLASS DISCUSSION

Teacher      : Now, let’s discuss about a student in this class.  Tommy, please come forward.                      Students, please describe about Tommy’s physical appearance.

           S 1             : He is handsome but fairly thin , Ma’am. I think his height is about 165 cm and his                            weight             around 53 kilograms. He has short straight blonde hair with a side part and                              his eyes are brown.

Teacher      : Students, do you agree with she has said?

Students    : Yes/No, Ma’am.

S 2             : I think Tommy’s weight about 55 kilograms and his height is around 168 cm. He has             short straight brown hair and dark brown eyes.  

Teacher      : Now, do you agree with he has said? Do you think who is true, S1 or S2 ?

Students    : I agree with S1 Ma’am/ I agree with S2, Ma’am.

Teacher      :  Okay, now let’s we ask Tommy about his weight and height.

                   How much your weight and height, Tommy?

Tommy      : My weight about 54 kilograms and my height around 167 cm, Ma’am.

Teacher      : Students, now you have known about the way to describing people, right?

Students    : Yes, Ma’am.

Teacher      : Very good, you are smart students.

( A general discussion about describing Tommy’s physical appearance. Teacher choose Tommy as sample because students already know about him, so they can easier to associated their knowledge about Tommy.(Meaningful learning). Then, teacher ask students to discuss about Tommy in order to they can have self confidence to speak in front of their friends ( Language Ego)

4.      SCHEMATA BULDING DISCUSSION

Teacher      : Who is the singer that sing “Firework” ?

S1              : ( raises hand )

Teacher      : Who is she?

S1              :  She is Katy Perry

Teacher      : Who will describe about her?

         S 2             :  She has good voice. She has also beautiful face and long hair

S 3             : She is tall and she is early thirties, Ma’am. I know it because she is my idol.

                  S 1             : I think her dark black eyes make her more beautiful

            (During all interactions the teacher listen and prepare comment or feedback , to make sure that     students realize that they do already know a lot) - principle the Native language effect and           principle Interlanguage

5.      SPEAKING ACTIVITY

Teacher      : Okay, this is the instruction. I will play the music and use talking stick to choose               students. Then, passed it around the students.  When the music stop, students who                   holding the stick have to describe about his/her physical appearance.

                  Do you get it students?

Students    : Yes, Ma’am.

Teacher      : ( playing the music and passed the stick around students. When music stop students              who holding the stick have to describe her/his self. After student describe her/his self,             teacher will give the reward )

This activity based on principle Automaticity because students focused on meaning and message, not on grammar and other linguistic forms)

           Teacher give reward or praise immediately after students do the exercise ( principle the         Anticipation of reward)

6.      POST SPEAKING ACTIVITY

(Asking students to describe a certain topic individually ( principle Language ego because through give turn to students can increase their self confidence) . Students can take example from internet, book, etc as the sources. (principle Autonomy)

             

Teacher             : OK, everyone please choose one of this topics , then describe about the physical                             appearance based on the topic. Every  students will get turn to describe it in front of                       the class. You can browsing or searching the information about these person in                                internet.  These are the topics :

-                  Justin Bieber

-                  Michael Jackson

-                  Barrack Obama

-                  Miss Universe

Teacher             :  Do you get it students?

Students           :  Yes, I get it Ma’am.

7.      EXTRA-CLASSWORK ASSIGNMENT

Teacher            : Work in group, (principle Willingness to communicate) consist of four members.                               Then, please make role play ( principle Automaticity) about describing a famous                      people and practice it next week.

5.      Assessment

Scoring Guide:  

Banjarmasin, June 9^th 2015

Acknowledged by                                                                                 English teacher,

          Signature,

Dr. Cayandrawati S., MA                                                                          Rahma Anjarwati

Example of Narrative Text

Army of Elephants

The following incident is mentioned in Surah Feel of the Holy Quran and it happened during the period of the birth-year of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Abraha Al-Ashram was the governor of Yemen on behalf of the king of Ethiopia. He (Abrahah) thought to build a house (like the Kabah at Makkah) in Sana (the capital of Yemen) and call the Arabs to perform the pilgrimage there in Sana instead of the Kabah in Makkah, with the intention of diverting the trade and benefits from Makkah to Yemen. He presented his idea to the king of Ethiopia who agreed to it. So the house (church) was built and he named it Al-Qullais; there was no church of its like at that time. Then a man from the Quraish tribe of Makkah came there and was infuriated by it, so he relieved his nature (stools and urine) in it, soiled its walls and went away. When Abrahah Al-Ashram saw that, he could not control his anger and raised an army to invade Makkah and demolish the Kabah. He had in that army thirteen elephants and amongst them was an elephant called Mahmud which was the biggest of them. So that army proceeded and none amongst the Arab tribes that faced them (fought against them) but was killed and defeated, till it approached near Makkah. Then there took place negotiations between Abrahah Al-Ashram and the chief of Makkah (Abdul Muttalib bin Hashim, the grandfather of the Prophet), and it was concluded that Abrahah would restore the camels of Abdul Muttalib which he had taken away, and then he (Abrahah) would decide himself as regards the Kabah. Abdul Muttalib ordered the men of Makkah to evacuate the city and go to the top of the mountains along with their wives and children in case some harm should come to them from the invading oppressors. Then that army moved towards Makkah till they reached valley Muhassir. While the army was marching towards Makkah, in the middle of the valley, suddenly it was overtaken by flocks of birds, flocks after flocks, air-raiding that army with small stones slightly bigger than a lentil seed. There never fell a stone on a soldier except it dissolved his flesh and burst it into pieces. So they perished with a total destruction. Abrahah Al-Ashram fled away while his flesh was bursting into pieces till he died on the way (back to Yemen). Such was the victory bestowed by Allah, (the All-Majestic, All-Powerful) to the people of Makkah and such was the protection provided by Him for His House (Kabah in Makkah).

Salar de Uyuni : The Largest Natural Mirror

this is an example of recount text of mine

Salar de Uyuni : The Largest Natural Mirror

                After coming back from hiking, I start to be intrested about travelling. I read books about travelling. I browse about travelling on internet. I am obsessed about travelling now. Someday, when I was browsing about travelling, my eyes pointed at a picture of landmark that looked like a mirror, a giant natural mirror. The name of the  place is Salar de Uyuni.

                Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt flat at 10,582 square kilometers (4,086 sq mi). It is located in the Potosí and Oruro departments in southwest Bolivia, near the crest of the Andes and is at an elevation of 3,656 meters (11,995 ft) above mean sea level. It was created by prehistoric lake dried up. It is part of the Altiplano of Bolivia in South America. The Altiplano is a high plateau, which was formed during uplift of the Andes mountains. The plateau includes fresh and saltwater lakes as well as salt flats and is surrounded by mountains with no drainage outlets.

                When it dried up, it left a couple of seasonal puddles and several salt pans. Bright salt delicately colored mineral lakes in the Andean mountain. The view which full of white salt makes you feel in a dreamland. In other way, when it rains, the salty crust becomes a giant mirror. It is caused by water that cover the surface. The view is really amazing. It looks like you can walk on the sky. The reflection from the water makes you can touch the sky and stand on the sky. The beauty of this vast salt desert makes it one of South America's greatest inspiring spectacles.

                There is no word to explain how beautiful it is. It has sprouted up my desire to go there. Maybe I will regret if I couldn’t go there once in all time of my live. I thanks to God that has created a beautiful place like that.