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Going to School

My mother got me ready for school then I had to wait for her to brush my hair and place every strand

in just the perfect position.

I had to show her my shoes that I had cleaned the night before and my school bag had to be neatly put on my shoulder before I could

get near the door. Only after my mother was totally satisfied, would I be allowed to rush out of the front door.

I would leave home at 7 am on the dot and make my way down the lane. After a walk of about 700 metres I would be able to see the tall steeple of the

school.

The playground would be full in the summer and the noise would make me want to rush into the yard and get into a good game of football before the bell

ringing.

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The Bear and Rabbit

Once upon a time, there lived a bear and a rabbit. The rabbit is a good shot. In contrary, the bear is always clumsy and could not use the arrow.

One day, the bear called over the rabbit and asked the rabbit to take his bow and arrows.
The rabbit was fearing to arouse the bear's anger so he could not refuse it. He went with the bear and shot enough buffalo to satisfy the hungry family. Indeed he shot and killed so many that there were lots of meats left after.

However the bear did not want the rabbit to get any of the meat. The rabbit could not even taste the meat. The poor rabbit would have to go home hungry after his hard day's work.

The bear was the father of five children. Fortunately, the youngest child was very kind to the rabbit. He was very hearty eater. The mother bear always gave him an extra large piece of meat but the youngest child did not eat it. He would take it outside with him and pretended to play ball with the meat. He kicked toward the rabbit's house.When he got close to the door he would give the meat with such a great kick. The meat would fly into the rabbit's house. In this way, the poor rabbit would get his meal.

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Lampung University

Lampung University or Unila is one of the best universities in Sumatra. This university is the pride of Lampung society and it was produced by the best people of Lampung. The university is located inBandar Lampung, Indonesia. In 1965, Unila was decided as a university by the government decision. In the beginning of this university, Unila only had two faculties, Law Faculty and Economic Faculty, and Unila was located in the three areas. There were on Hasanudin street, Jendral Suprapto street, andSorong Cimeng street. Since 1974, Unila had been built in Gedong Meneng. Now, every faculty has been located at that location.

Spesifically, Unila is located on Jalan Soemantri Bojonegoro No.1, Bandar Lampung. Unila is popular as a green campus because there are many trees in every areas of this university. It shows that Unila care to the environment and this behavior must be modeled by other university, especially in Lampung. Unila has many facilities besides faculty buildings. It’s useful for students to study and to apply other activities. Unila has GSG and it is used for many events, such as; graduation of students or lecturers, and orientation meeting for the new students. In front of GSG, there is a library. In the library, there are many useful books for students in helping their academic activity. Unila also has a Rectorate building where rector and his assistants do their job.

In the future development, Unila want to build a hospital and it has a program to become Top Ten University in 2025.    

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The Red Bird Of Paradise

An Indonesian endemic, the Red Bird of Paradise is distributed to lowland rainforests of Waigeo and Batanta islands of West Papua. This species shares its home with another bird of paradise, the Wilson's Bird of Paradise. Hybridisation between these two species are expected but not recorded yet.

The Red Bird of Paradise, Paradisaea rubra is a large, up to 33cm long, brown and yellow bird of paradise with a dark brown iris, grey legs and yellow bill. The male has an emerald green face, a pair of elongated black corkscrew-shaped tail wires, dark green feather pompoms above each eye and a train of glossy crimson red plumes with whitish tips at either side of the breast.

The male measures up to 72 cm long, including the ornamental red plumes that require at least six years to fully attain. The female resembles the male but is smaller in size, with a dark brown face and has no ornamental red plumes. The diet consists mainly of fruits, berries and arthropods.

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Kata Sifat dan Kata Keterangan

Adjective (kata sifat) memberikan informasi tentang kata benda. Contoh:

·         She’s an excellent dancer.

·         I’ve got a new apartment.

Adverb (kata keterangan) merubah kata kerja, yakni kata keterangan menjelaskan bagaimana sesuatu dilakukan. Contoh:

- She learns quickly.
- You can speak English well.

Adjective (kata sifat)

Adjective bisa ditempatkan sebelum kata benda. Contoh:

·         This is a beautiful bird.

·         “This is a bird beautiful.” tidak benar.

Kata sifat memberikan informasi seperti ukuran (kecil, besar), bentuk (bulat, persegi), warna (kuning, hijau), kebangsaan (Cina, Polandia), dan opini (baik, buruk).

Adjective tidak mengalami perubahan yang tergantung pada jumlah (tunggal atau jamak). Contoh:

·         She has a cute puppy.

·         She has three cute puppies.

Perhatikan bahwa adjective (cute) tidak mengalami perubahan baik dalam bentuk tunggal (puppy) maupun jamak (puppies).

Adjective juga bisa ditempatkan setelah kata kerja tertentu seperti be, feel, look, dan taste. Contoh:

·         I’m really happy today.

·         She’s got a new job so she feels great.

·         You look wonderful!

·         This chicken tastes delicious.

Adverb (kata keterangan)

Adverb sering dibentuk dengan menambahkan -ly di belakang adjective. Contoh:

·         quick (adjective) - He’s quick at learning new things.

·         quickly (adverb) - He learns quickly.

·         bad (adjective) - He didn’t get a bad test score.

·         badly (adverb) - He didn’t do badly in his test.

Untuk adverb yang terbentuk dari adjective yang berakhiran dengan huruf “-y”ganti “-y” dengan “-i” dan tambahkan “-ly“. Contoh:

·         easy (adjective) - He thinks math is easy.

·         easily (adverb) - He can do math easily.

·         happy (adjective) - He’s a happy man.

·         happily (adverb) - He works happily every day.

Untuk adverb yang terbentuk dari adjective yang berakhiran dengan huruf “-le” ganti “-le” dengan “-ly“. Contoh:

·         simple (adjective) - The teacher makes difficult things simple.

·         simply (adverb) - He teaches simply and clearly.

Beberapa adverb sama dengan adjective. Contoh:

·         He runs fast (adverb) - He’s a fast runner. (adjective)

·         He studies hard. (adverb) - It’s a hard life. (adjective)

Adverb untuk “good” adalah “well“. Contoh:

·         She’s a good pianist.

·         She plays the piano well.

Adverb juga bisa mengubah adjective dan adverb-adverb lainnya. Contoh:

·         That’s a good book.

·         That’s a very good book.

·         She’s a talented girl.

·         She’s an incredibly talented girl.

·         You’re right!

·         You’re absolutely right!

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Contoh penggunaan idiom

Arti idiom (as) hard as nails:

- sangat keras

- keras kepala

- keras/ulet dan agresif

- tak mengenal rasa takut

- tegas dan tanpa kompromi

- bersikap kasar/kejam dan tanpa ampun

- tidak peka, tidak berperasaan

Contoh penggunaan idiom (as) hard as nails dalam kalimat:

- Don’t try to bargain with Liz. She’s as hard as nails.

- Bob may seem sweet and easily swayed, but in fact he’s hard as nails.

- The old loaf of bread was dried out and became as hard as nails.

- Ann was unpleasant and hard as nails.

- Lou Ann knew the garment business and was hard as nails when negotiating with the dress-makers.

- The teacher is as hard as nails. He’s strict and accepts no excuses from students who do not do their work.

- He's a shrewd businessman and hard as nails.

- He is hard as nails on the subject of campaign financing.

- He was a good man, hard as nails and soft as butter, depending on the circumstances.

- Hemingway, hard as nails on the outside but soft as a baby impala on the inside, was an archetypical son of the era.

- He is also an enigma to most of his staff, which has long been baffled by the fact that he can, by turn, be boastful, humble, hard as nails and sob-sister soft.

- Young Keith looks a great prospect, a fast and astute runner with the ball, hard as nails in driving play, a good kicker and passer.

- You are something else. I mean, sometimes I see you can be as hard as nails, and then other times you're just this starry-eyed dreamer.

Catatan

Idiom yang juga memiliki makna yang serupa dengan idiom (as) hard as a nails adalah(as) tough as nails

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Phrasal verbs

Phrasal verbs adalah bagian dari kata kerja yang disebut juga dengan istilah multi-word verbs (kata kerja multikata).

Multi-word verbs, termasuk phrasal verbs, adalah hal yang umum dipakai dalam berkomunikasi dalam bahasa Inggris. Umumnya banyak orang menyebut semua multi-word verbs dengan sebutan phrasal verbs. Beberapa contoh phrasal verbs: pick up, turn on, get up, look up, break down, etc.

Phrasal verbs terdiri dari basic verb + another word or words. Kata lain yang menyertai kata kerja dasar bisa berupa preposisi dan/atau adverbia. Gabungan dua atau tiga kata yang menjadi kata kerja multikata (multi-word verbs) disebut frase (phrase). Itulah mengapa kata kerja ini disebut dengan istilah “phrasal verbs”.

Hal penting untuk diperhatikan adalah bahwa phrasal verbs tetaplah disebut kata kerja, misalnya kata “get” dan “get up” adalah sama-sama kata kerja. Tetapi “get” dan “get up” mempunyai arti yang berbeda. Meskipun berbeda arti, phrasal verbs tetap diperlakukan dan dipelajari sebagaimana umumnya kata kerja. Dan masalah yang sering dihadapi adalah ketidakjelasan makna dalam suatu kalimat karena phrasal verbs memiliki beberapa arti yang berbeda.

Phrasal verbs juga dapat berupa intransitive dan transitive.
- The witness finally broke down on the stand. (Intransitive)
- She looked up her old boyfriend. (Transitive)

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Pengertian Verb

Verb adalah suatu kata yang digunakan untuk menunjukkan tindakan dari subject, menunjukkan peristiwa, atau keadaan (go, occur, sleep, want). Kata kerja merupakan satu dari delapan part of speech. Kata ini tidak selalu berbentuk simple (satu kata), melainkan mungkin berupa frasa hasil kombinasi dengan particle ~ phrasal verb (get in, make up, read over).

Beberapa macam-macam verb antara lain sebagai berikut.

1.    Transitive dan Intransitive: Transitive diikuti direct object (The boy kicked the ball.), sedangkan intransitive tidak (Cheryl often sneezes while cleaning).

2.    Regular dan Irregular: Pada bentuk regular, past tense dan participle didapat dengan menambahkan suffix-ed pada base form sedangkan pada irregular, caranya lebih bervariasi.

3.    Action dan Stative: Action (eat, play) menyatakan bahwa sesuatu terjadi, sedangkan stative (love, need) menyatakan kondisi yang cenderung tetap.

4.    Finite dan Non-Finite: Finite dipengaruhi tense dan subject-verb agreement, sedangkan non-finite tidak.

5.    Linking Verb: menghubungkan subject of a sentence dengan deskripsinya (She is young and beautiful).

6.    Causative: Kata kerja untuk menunjukkan bahwa subjek tidak bertanggungjawab langsung terhadap aksi yang terjadi (I had my house renovated last week).

7.    Auxiliary Verb: Auxiliary merupakan kata kerja yang muncul sebelum kata kerja utama. Kata kerja bantu ini dapat dibedakan menjadi:

primary auxiliary (be, do, have): menguatkan makna kata kerja utama

modal (can, could, may, might, will, would, shall, should, must): mengekspresikan willingness (kemauan), ability (kemampuan), necessity (kebutuhan), dan possibility (kemungkinan).

phrasal modal (be able to, be going to, ought to, used to, etc): modal verb yang terdiri dari lebih dari satu kata.

8.    Verb Voices

Voice berguna menyatakan apakah suatu subject of a sentence melakukan atau menerima aksi. Adapun dibedakan menjadi:

Active Voice: subject melakukan aksi (I has cleaned your thick book).

Passive Voice: subject menerima aksi (The book was edited by Beatrice Sparks).

 

9.    Verb Moods

Moods dalam bahasa Inggris antara lain:

Imperative: untuk memberikan perintah, peringatan, nasehat, instruksi, maupun permintaan (Sit down! Don’t be careless).

Subjunctive: untuk mengekspresikan unreal situation (conditional, wish, as if / though), requirement, maupun suggestion (I wish the teacher were nice to me).

Indicative: untuk membuat pernyataan, penyanggahan, maupun question (The weather is cold).

 

10. Verbal

Gerund: berfungsi sebagai noun (I hate waiting).

Infinitive: berfungsi sebagai noun, adjective, atau adverb (To travel is a bad idea).

Participle: berfungsi sebagai adjective (your broken smile).

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Bentuk/jenis teks dalam bahasa ingggris

Report

Fungsi Report: Untuk menggambarkan cara hal-hal yang (misalnya: hal buatan manusia, hewan, tumbuhan). Hal-hal yang harus menjadi wakil dari kelas mereka.

Struktur Report:

- General classification (memperkenalkan topik laporan / memberitahu apa fenomena yang sedang dibicarakan)

- Description (memberitahu rincian topik, seperti; penampilan fisik, bagian, kualitas, kebiasaan / perilaku)

Karakteristik:

* Penggunaan kata benda umum

* Penggunaan present tense (Horse usually weigh more than 160 kg)

* Penggunaan behavioural verbs (Snakes often sunbathe in the sun)

* Penggunaan kata kerja yang berkaitan (are, is, has)

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