nah .. saya punya cara sendiri nih untuk belajar bahasa inggris menjadi lebih hav fun :D
Ketika kita mempelajari sesuatu entah itu pelajaran bahasa Inggris atau
pelajaran lainnya, seringkali terjadi hal sebagai berikut. Anda sudah
mempelajari semuanya, berusaha mengerti dan memahaminya, dan tahap
selanjutnya Anda mendapatkan sebuah tingkat pengertian tertentu dari apa
yang Anda pelajari. Tetapi kemudian terjadi sebuah masalah, ketika anda
diminta untuk menjelaskan apa yang telah anda pahami, Anda merasa tidak
mampu menjelaskan. Dan biasanya muncul frasa sebagai berikut : "aku
mengerti ....tetapi susah untuk menjelaskannya". Dalam hal ini yang saya
maksud adalah menjelaskan sebuah pokok bahasan, bukan menjelaskan
sebuah perasaan.
Kesulitan menjelaskan secara teratur apa yang telah dipahami akan
menyulitkan seorang pelajar ketika menghadapi ujian yang bertipe essay.
Nah, di tulisan blog kali ini saya ingin berbagi tentang sebuah cara
untuk membantu mengurangi kelemahan dalam hal tersebut.
Otak mempunyai banyak bagian, termasuk salah satunya bagian otak yang
mengatur kemampuan berbahasa, bagian tersebut berada di pusat limbik
dari cortex kita. Ada banyak cara untuk meningkatkan kemampuan otak,
salah satunya adalah dengan melakukan senam otak. Di tulisan kali ini
saya akan membahas hanya satu gerakan yang berhubungan dengan
peningkatan kemampuan berbahasa. lakukan gerakan ini di kala santai,
seperti pada waktu menonton tv, sedang duduk-duduk santai, atau pada
waktu mengobrol dengan teman.Gerakannya adalah sebagai berikut :
1. Duduk rileks di atas sebuah kursi, kemudian silangkan kaki di atas
kaki yang lain seperti pada gambar di atas. (Maaf apabila gambarnya
kurang indah :) )
2. Tekan bagian tengah mata kaki dengan tangan kiri seperti pada gambar di atas.
3. Sambil tetap menekan bagian tengah mata kaki dengan tangan kiri
seperti pada gambar 2, secara bersamaan tangan kanan menekan bagian
tengah dari betis seperti pada gambar di atas. Lakukan tekanan sampai
agak terasa sakit, tapi tidak usah mengerahkan tenaga terlalu
berlebihan.
4. Setelah kedua posisi tangan sudah benar, gerakan selanjutnya adalah
menggerakkan bagian telapak kaki ke atas dan ke bawah dalam ritme sedang
- sambil kedua tangan tetap berada pada posisi yang telah dijelaskan di
atas. Gerakan ini seperti ketika Anda duduk bersilang kaki sambil
menunggu sesuatu, biasanya telapak kaki akan bergerak untuk
menyeimbangkan kegelisahan. Nah seperti itulah. Lakukan dengan posisi
sebaliknya, dan lakukan sesering mungkin. Semoga bermanfaat.
2 .Belajar Pidato : JFK Speech - We Choose to go to The Moon
Ada baiknya
kita belajar Bahasa Inggris dengan mempelajari pidato-pidato terkenal
dari tokoh-tokoh dunia yang memberikan perubahan pada jalannya sejarah.
Berikut ini dapat kamu ikuti pidato terkenal Presiden Amerika Serikat
John. F. Kennedy (alm) di Rice University pada tanggal 12 Sepetember
1962 yang menegaskan tujuan program angkasa Amerika untuk mendarat di
bulan di tahun 1960-an. Dan sejarah mencatat pada tanggal 20-Juli-1969,
Apollo 11 berhasil mendarat di bulan pada pukul 10:56 pm waktu setempat.
Sumber : Youtube
Pidato ini berdurasi 18 menit dan teksnya dapat diikuti pada catatan di bawah ini :
TEXT OF PRESIDENT JOHN KENNEDY'S RICE STADIUM - MOON SPEECH
President Pitzer, Mr. Vice President, Governor,
Congressman Thomas, Senator Wiley, and Congressman Miller, Mr. Webb, Mr.
Bell, scientists, distinguished guests, and ladies and gentlemen
I appreciate your president having made me an honorary
visiting professor, and I will assure you that my first lecture will be
very brief.
I am delighted to be here, and I'm particularly delighted to be here on this occasion.
We meet at a college noted for knowledge, in a city
noted for progress, in a State noted for strength, and we stand in need
of all three, for we meet in an hour of change and challenge, in a
decade of hope and fear, in an age of both knowledge and ignorance. The
greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.
Despite the striking fact that most of the scientists
that the world has ever known are alive and working today, despite the
fact that this Nation¹s own scientific manpower is doubling every 12
years in a rate of growth more than three times that of our population
as a whole, despite that, the vast stretches of the unknown and the
unanswered and the unfinished still far outstrip our collective
comprehension.
No man can fully grasp how far and how fast we have
come, but condense, if you will, the 50,000 years of man¹s recorded
history in a time span of but a half-century. Stated in these terms, we
know very little about the first 40 years, except at the end of them
advanced man had learned to use the skins of animals to cover them. Then
about 10 years ago, under this standard, man emerged from his caves to
construct other kinds of shelter. Only five years ago man learned to
write and use a cart with wheels. Christianity began less than two years
ago. The printing press came this year, and then less than two months
ago, during this whole 50-year span of human history, the steam engine
provided a new source of power.
Newton explored the meaning of gravity. Last month
electric lights and telephones and automobiles and airplanes became
available. Only last week did we develop penicillin and television and
nuclear power, and now if America's new spacecraft succeeds in reaching
Venus, we will have literally reached the stars before midnight tonight.
This is a breathtaking pace, and such a pace cannot help
but create new ills as it dispels old, new ignorance, new problems, new
dangers. Surely the opening vistas of space promise high costs and
hardships, as well as high reward.
So it is not surprising that some would have us stay
where we are a little longer to rest, to wait. But this city of Houston,
this State of Texas, this country of the United States was not built by
those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This
country was conquered by those who moved forward--and so will space.
William Bradford, speaking in 1630 of the founding of
the Plymouth Bay Colony, said that all great and honorable actions are
accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and
overcome with answerable courage.
If this capsule history of our progress teaches us
anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is
determined and cannot be deterred. The exploration of space will go
ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great
adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of
other nations can expect to stay behind in the race for space.
Those who came before us made certain that this country
rode the first waves of the industrial revolutions, the first waves of
modern invention, and the first wave of nuclear power, and this
generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age
of space. We mean to be a part of it--we mean to lead it. For the eyes
of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond,
and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag
of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace. We have vowed that we
shall not see space filled with weapons of mass destruction, but with
instruments of knowledge and understanding.
Yet the vows of this Nation can only be fulfilled if we
in this Nation are first, and, therefore, we intend to be first. In
short, our leadership in science and in industry, our hopes for peace
and security, our obligations to ourselves as well as others, all
require us to make this effort, to solve these mysteries, to solve them
for the good of all men, and to become the world's leading space-faring
nation.
We set sail on this new sea because there is new
knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won
and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear
science and all technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it
will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the
United States occupies a position of pre-eminence can we help decide
whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying
theater of war. I do not say the we should or will go unprotected
against the hostile misuse of space any more than we go unprotected
against the hostile use of land or sea, but I do say that space can be
explored and mastered without feeding the fires of war, without
repeating the mistakes that man has made in extending his writ around
this globe of ours.
There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict
in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest
deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful
cooperation many never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why
choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest
mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?
We
choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade
and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are
hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of
our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are
willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we
intend to win, and the others, too.
It is for these reasons that I regard the decision last
year to shift our efforts in space from low to high gear as among the
most important decisions that will be made during my incumbency in the
office of the Presidency.
In the last 24 hours we have seen facilities now being
created for the greatest and most complex exploration in man's history.
We have felt the ground shake and the air shattered by the testing of a
Saturn C-1 booster rocket, many times as powerful as the Atlas which
launched John Glenn, generating power equivalent to 10,000 automobiles
with their accelerators on the floor. We have seen the site where the
F-1 rocket engines, each one as powerful as all eight engines of the
Saturn combined, will be clustered together to make the advanced Saturn
missile, assembled in a new building to be built at Cape Canaveral as
tall as a 48 story structure, as wide as a city block, and as long as
two lengths of this field.
Within these last 19 months at least 45 satellites have
circled the earth. Some 40 of them were "made in the United States of
America" and they were far more sophisticated and supplied far more
knowledge to the people of the world than those of the Soviet Union.
The Mariner spacecraft now on its way to Venus is the
most intricate instrument in the history of space science. The accuracy
of that shot is comparable to firing a missile from Cape Canaveral and
dropping it in this stadium between the the 40-yard lines.
Transit satellites are helping our ships at sea to steer
a safer course. Tiros satellites have given us unprecedented warnings
of hurricanes and storms, and will do the same for forest fires and
icebergs.
We have had our failures, but so have others, even if they do not admit them. And they may be less public.
To be sure, we are behind, and will be behind for some
time in manned flight. But we do not intend to stay behind, and in this
decade, we shall make up and move ahead.
The growth of our science and education will be enriched
by new knowledge of our universe and environment, by new techniques of
learning and mapping and observation, by new tools and computers for
industry, medicine, the home as well as the school. Technical
institutions, such as Rice, will reap the harvest of these gains.
And finally, the space effort itself, while still in its
infancy, has already created a great number of new companies, and tens
of thousands of new jobs. Space and related industries are generating
new demands in investment and skilled personnel, and this city and this
State, and this region, will share greatly in this growth. What was once
the furthest outpost on the old frontier of the West will be the
furthest outpost on the new frontier of science and space. Houston, your
City of Houston, with its Manned Spacecraft Center, will become the
heart of a large scientific and engineering community. During the next 5
years the National Aeronautics and Space Administration expects to
double the number of scientists and engineers in this area, to increase
its outlays for salaries and expenses to $60 million a year; to invest
some $200 million in plant and laboratory facilities; and to direct or
contract for new space efforts over $1 billion from this Center in this
City.
To be sure, all this costs us all a good deal of money.
This year¹s space budget is three times what it was in January 1961, and
it is greater than the space budget of the previous eight years
combined. That budget now stands at $5,400 million a year--a staggering
sum, though somewhat less than we pay for cigarettes and cigars every
year. Space expenditures will soon rise some more, from 40 cents per
person per week to more than 50 cents a week for every man, woman and
child in the United Stated, for we have given this program a high
national priority--even though I realize that this is in some measure an
act of faith and vision, for we do not now know what benefits await us.
But if I were to say, my fellow citizens, that we shall
send to the moon, 240,000 miles away from the control station in
Houston, a giant rocket more than 300 feet tall, the length of this
football field, made of new metal alloys, some of which have not yet
been invented, capable of standing heat and stresses several times more
than have ever been experienced, fitted together with a precision better
than the finest watch, carrying all the equipment needed for
propulsion, guidance, control, communications, food and survival, on an
untried mission, to an unknown celestial body, and then return it safely
to earth, re-entering the atmosphere at speeds of over 25,000 miles per
hour, causing heat about half that of the temperature of the
sun--almost as hot as it is here today--and do all this, and do it
right, and do it first before this decade is out--then we must be bold.
I'm the one who is doing all the work, so we just want you to stay cool for a minute. [laughter]
However, I think we're going to do it, and I think that
we must pay what needs to be paid. I don't think we ought to waste any
money, but I think we ought to do the job. And this will be done in the
decade of the sixties. It may be done while some of you are still here
at school at this college and university. It will be done during the
term of office of some of the people who sit here on this platform. But
it will be done. And it will be done before the end of this decade.
I am delighted that this university is playing a part in
putting a man on the moon as part of a great national effort of the
United States of America.
Many years ago the great British explorer George
Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to
climb it. He said, "Because it is there."
Well, space is there, and we're going to climb it, and
the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and
peace are there. And, therefore, as we set sail we ask God's blessing on
the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man
has ever embarked.
Thank you.