Reviewing How to Article #3 - How to Connect with Native Speakers

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Title    : How to Connect with Native Speakers

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Topic  : Some tips to connect with native speakers

Details :

            The article is started with tha author’s experience when she tried to talk with a French native speaker. The author tried to talk with a clerk nicely, politely, with a smile and with a pretty good pronunciation. But, the clerk felt like she didn’t want her be there. The experience was awkward, seemingly for both of them.

            After the author experienced it and she learned more about the culture of france, she got some points. France culture and her culture is totally different. in France, the people do not smile to the stanger when say greeting. When she really learned about the culture, she could do it better. There are three easy tips for ESL learners to connect with native speakers :

1.    Greet with “Hi, how are you?”

Learners need to make this their normal greeting everyday: “Hi, how are you?” they

can vary it to more casual, “Hi, how’s it going?” and so forth as they get more used to it. They can use it anytime they great someone for the first time. It can be a standard hello greeting to someone they see everyday.

2.    Smile, smile, smile, smile, smile

Every time we greet someone we need to smile. Get you winning native speakers heart by smiling. Do not ever give them a fake smile, it will give the opposite effect.

3.    Smile with the eyes

Learners need to genuinely smile with kindness from within. If they need help working on this one, they can think of something taht’s really cute and makes them feel warm and cozy. That will get that glint in their eyes they need to be ‘real’ to have genuine smile and win the hearts of native English speakers.

Purpose of writer : To help the learners get the connection with native speakers.

Quotation/expression : -

Opinion : This article is worth to be read, especially for ESL and EFL students who wants to have a conversation with native speakers. I have another tip about this, don’t ever ask or talk something sensitive or private in the beginning like asking for job, age, etc. It will be better to talk about their favourite foods, hobbies, good places, etc.

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Why Quit Smoking? (Persuasive Article)

Day : Monday

Date : 30 of May 2016

Title : Why Quit Smoking ?

Times : 9 minutes

Pages : -

Thesis Statements : 

            Smoking is very dangerous. You will have the silly habit if you smoke. Smoking can cause facial wrinkles, stained teeth, brittle bones, heart desease, fire, and even death. If you choose to smoke, it means your life is dying.

Outline :

·         Many people risk themselves in the danger of smoking

·         Facial wrinkles can be caused by smoking

·         Particles from cigrette smoke can make the smokers’ teeth stained

·         Cigarette smoke has an unpleasant odor that lingers on everything from skin and hair to clothing and curtains.

·         4,000 hip fractures in elderly women concluded that one out of every eight fractures was due to smoking-related bone loss.

·         Smoking and deression has a well established connection

·         Kids or teenagers will imitate the adults who smoke. They will think that smoking is OK and even cool.

·         Fires caused by lighted tobacco products are the leading cause of fire deaths in the U.S. During the 1980s.

·         In smokers, oxygen molecules are displaced by the components of cigarette smoke, blocking the transfer of life-giving oxygen.

Pros :

            Smoking put people’s life in danger. Smokers should stop smoking and start a better lifeand healthy life.

Cons :

Many people choose to smoke and risk their life in danger. They even know the dangers of smoking but they still so it. They smoke near non-smokers and put them in danger.

Resolutions :

            But no matter how a smoker justifies his or her addiction, this is the simple, indisputable truth: Just like the slogan says, smoking kills. It makes the habit look kind of silly overall.

Author’s Opinion : -

Vocabulary – expression learned :

·         Threat

·         Lifespan

·         Wrinkles

·         Shrinking

·         Irreversible

·         Impotence

·         Attain

·         Stained

·         Odor

·         Vicinity

·         Lingers

·         Brittle

·         Crippling

·         Density

·         Crummy

·         Indisputable

Comment :

            I agree that people should stop smoking because smoking can be dangerouse not only for the smokers but also non-smokers.  Nowadays, many smokers smoke in public places, it’s polute the environments, the air. I know smokers have the right to choose, but should the innocents people be objected to the dangours of smoking? Certeaintly not! They have right to breath the fresh air, to live healthy.

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A Low-Salt Diet May Be Bad for the Heart (Expository Article)

Day : Monday

Date : 30 of May 2016

Title : A Low-Salt Diet May Be Bad for the Heart

Times : 1 minute

Pages : -

Thesis Statements : 

            Many people with high blood presure eat a low-sodium diet. But Andrew Mente, an epidemiologist at McMaster University in Hamilton, said that low sodium intake may be harmful. The recomendation for the maximum of sodium that should be consumed in a day is 2,3 grams.

Outline :

·         Many people with blood presure eat a low sodium diet.

·         Consuming low sodium may increase the risk for heart disease

·         The recomendation for the maximum of sodium that should be consumed in a day is 2,3 grams

·         The research of sodium diet

·         The explanation of sodium diet from Andrew Mente

Pros : -

Cons : -

Resolutions :

            Eating less salt does indeed lower blood pressure but it will increase heart disease. It’s importan not to rely on blood pressure alone, but rather to look at actual clinical events – heart attack, stroke, mortality.

Author’s Opinion : -

Vocabulary – expression learned:

·         Elderly

·         Cardiovascular

·         Urinalysis

Comment :

            I have no idea about sodium diet can effect heart disease but after reading this article I know a little bit about it. I know something about sodium diet, it will increase thyroid risk if someone eat a low-sodium diet. 

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AGAINST HEADPHONES (Argumentative Article)

Day : Sunday 

Date : 22 of May 2016

Title : Against Headphones

Times : 7 minutes

Pages : 2

Thesis Statements :

Some teenagers in America had lost their hearing. They  can’t hear rustles or whispers, according to a study published in August in The Journal of the American Medical Association. These teenagers exhibit what’s known as slight hearing loss, which means they often can’t make out consonants like T’s or K’s, or the plinking of raindrops. The hearing lost is caused by the overuse of headphones, they listen to the music with a high volume through headphones in hours a day.

Outline :

• The number of teenagers in America with hearing loss — from slight to severe — has jumped 33 percent since 1994.
• Many researchers attribute this widespread hearing loss to exposure to sound played loudly and regularly through headphones.
• The history of headfhones.
• Headphones work best for people who need or want to hear one sound story and no other.
• Make it a New Year’s resolution, then, to use headphones less.

Pros :

Whatever you call it, children are listening to something on all these headphones — though “listening” is too limited a concept for all that headphones allow them to do. Indeed, the device seems to solve a real problem by simultaneously letting them have private auditory experiences and keeping shared spaces quiet. But the downside is plain, too: it’s antisocial. As Llewellyn Hinkes Jones put it not long ago in The Atlantic: “The shared experience of listening with others is not unlike the cultural rituals of communal eating. Music may not have the primal necessity of food, but it is something people commonly ingest together.”

Headphones work best for people who need or want to hear one sound story and no other; who don’t want to have to choose which sounds to listen to and which to ignore; and who don’t want their sounds overheard. Under these circumstances, headphones are extremely useful — and necessary for sound professionals, like intelligence and radio workers.

In the name of living a sensory life, it’s worth letting sounds exist in their audio habitat more often, even if that means contending with interruptions and background sound.

Cons :

many students overuse headphones. They are habitually blast MP3 players, including iPods and smartphones. They use headphones to listen to music at high volumes for more than an hour a day and risk themselves to permanent hearing loss after five years.

Resolutions :

Make it a New Year’s resolution, then, to use headphones less. Allow kids and spouses periodically to play music, audiobooks, videos, movie, television and radio audibly. Listen to what they’re listening to, and make them listen to your stuff. Escapism is great, and submission and denial, too, have their places. But sound thrives amid other sounds. And protecting our kids’ hearing is not just as important as protecting their brains; it isprotecting their brains.

Author's Opinion : 

Headphones work best for people who need or want to hear one sound story and no other; who don’t want to have to choose which sounds to listen to and which to ignore; and who don’t want their sounds overheard.

Vocabulary-expression learned :

• Ubiquity
• Spans
• Amplifier
• Coil
• Sermons
• Din
• Clamor
• Ingest
• Stiff

Comment :

I agree that headphones can cause the hearing loss, actually it depends on the individuals who use it. because sometimes, headphones will be very usefull, as I experienced it, when I want to be focuse with my assignment but it's very noisy around me, I prefer use headphones but I do not overuse it with high volume. If they use it to listen to the music as often as possible with high volume for hours, of course it will make their hearing lost. So just use headphones properly.

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THE SUMMARY OF NOVEL ( ULYSSES MOORE - THE DOOR TO TIME BY PIERDOMENICO BACCALARIO) #MidtermProject

ULYSSES MOORE COVER
Date of Publication : January 1st 2006 by Scholastic Inc.

THE SUMMARY OF ULYSSES MOORE:
DOOR TO TIME

Covenant family has just moved from London to Kilmore Cove, a small city located near the seashore. They live at Argo Manor, a big house left by Ulysses Moore, a mysterious man. This makes Argo Manor as mysterious as its owner. Jason and Julia Covenant, a twin children of the family, at first think that it will be boring to live in such a house. However, they are totally wrong. Argo Manor has more defiances than they can imagine, especially when their parents left Kilmore Cove to keep up with things in London and their friend, Rick Banner, comes. There is only Mr. Nestor, Argo Manor’s caretaker, who is given responsibility to keep an eye on the kids but he lets they do what they want. They decided to spend the day exploring the house.

While examining every room, Julia suddenly felt like swimming.  The three friends got excited and ran down cliffside stairs. The story began when Jason slipped when he climbed up the cliff and he hung on the cliff for a while.  Fortunately, he was able to swing over with help from Rick.  Interestingly, he found a box hidden in a hole by the cliffside.  The box contained a note that was written in a language that they could not understand. They went to the library room and found the Dictionary of Forgotten Languages.  Looking up letter by letter, they were able to translate the note into a riddle. The box also contained a note for a package pickup at the post office.

They picked up the package from the post office.  It contained a set of four ancient-looking keys, each with an animal at its end - elephant, newt, owl, and porcupine.  They continued exploring every room. He found a hidden door behind a large piece of furniture.  The door was locked and it had four key holes in it.  They were so excited as the keys seems to fit the holes on the door.  However, since all keys fits all holes it was a little tricky.  Then, they figured that the animals mean something - O P E N.  That worked!

Behind the door is a long staircase and a tunnel. The tunnel is dark, but they are keep moving forward. A few times Julia wants to turn back, but Jason wants to keep going. Jason risks his life by jumping over a large pit towards the end of the tunnel. Julia does the same in the end. They end up in a cave and find a ship inside. Inconceivably, Jason’s mind connects to the ship, and he makes the ship sail to the other side of the cave and shouts ‘Egypt!’. Once they are there, everything feels different. They overheard other people talking about Pharaoh, Egyptian Tomb, etc. They have traveled through time to ancient Egypt!

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THE SOLUTION OF THE NOVEL

                DavE Reyes phoned JD and asked him to come to starbucks, dave said that he wanted to tell and explain something about his relationship with Joella. When they met, Dave explained everything about the day when JD saw Dave and Joella at starbucks. JD felt so sorry to Dave and asked for apology. The problem had been solved. JD then told Dave everything about his feeling to Joella, he said that he still love her very much but he should marry Betty Ann, a woman from EB church that he didn’t love, dave suggested him not to marry her because it would create a new problem and the marriage could be a lie. JD also told him about his desire to left EB church and move to Joella’s church, he told him teh reason. Dave asked him that he should do it with all his heart and he should  tell his family. When JD went back home, he thought about it. He felt that he can’t do taht because he knew his dad so well and about canceling the wedding, it’s impossible because the wedding would come in a week and he would hurt Betty Ann.

                The wedding finally on the day, JD couldn’t believe he would marry the woman he didn’t love, even on his wedding he still thought about Joella. When Betty Ann walked on the altar with her dad, he asked himself “should I say sorry to Betty Ann and tell her I can’t marry her?” or “should I run out from the church?”, he thought it was late. Betty Ann was already by his side and they were goin to say the vow. When Betty Ann would say the vow she was on silent, didn’t say anything even the vow. Suddenly she said sorry to JD that she couldn’t di this and she ran immadiately out of the church, JD ran after Betty Ann. Outside, Betty Ann explained that she love the relationship and the marriage but she didn’t love JD, she thought that she will love him but she couldn’t find the feeling even on the wedding day. JD was shocked hearing her explanation and he told her that he felt the same thing and he also asked for and apology because he didn’t tell her before. He felt relieved, he couldn’t believe what just happened, he thank to God for giving him the miracle. The day after the wedding, JD came to his parents’ house to ask an apology about the weddin, his dad asked him to fie another mowan from EB church, then he decided to tell his parents about his desire to leave EB church. His dad was so angry and his mom was so shock, his dad said he was no longer his son, and his dad asked JD to get out of the house, his mother cried and tried to stop her husband, his mother said  that she woukd go with her son if her husband didn’t consider JD anymore, she said she love EB but she love her children more, then her husband was silent in anger, didn’t say anything and back to his room.

                One day, JD decided to walk around the place where he and Joella first met. He found joella sitting on a bench alone, and he approached her. Joella shocked seeing JD standing in front of her, he thought JD was on honeymoon with Betty Ann. JD explain everything about the wedding, he asked for an apology and he said he still love her beyond so much and he told her he left EB. Joella didn’t believe what he said and ran away from JD. In Joella’s appartment, she thought about JD. She thought JD lied about loving her and she thought JD wanted to come back to her just because Betty Ann left him on the wedding. She love JD so much and she couldn’t handle the feeling and actually she wanted to come back to JD’s side. She prayed and asked what should she do to God. Several days later Joella met with JD unexpectedly, and they had some conversations. Joella finally forgave him and she told her  feeling to JD, JD was so glad hearing her recognition. Their relationship became better and better. One day, JD purposed Joella and Joella accepted. In about a month later, they finally married and Mr. Neilson tried to forgave his son.

MY OPINION ABOUT THE NOVEL

                June Foster creates the characters very clearly, and the story just like the real life. I got the feeling when I read the book, it’s so roller coaster. The story is about love and forgiveness. I really like the story, even the novel told the christian story and I’m a moslem and I have no idea about the church and their believes I still love the story and can catch the meaning. The novel is so recomended.

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THE CONFLICT OF THE NOVEL

The main conflict of the story is about the believes of JD and Joella. Joella is a christian and believes in the one true God and JD belongs to the Exalted Brethern church and JD has been asked to marry a woman from EB church. The conflict is begun when Joella drove JD home after JD’s accident while they rode the bicycle, and Mr. Neilson didn’t like to see her with JD. His dad was so angry and yelled to Joella to get out of his house. Joella was so sad and she cried. Mrs. Neilson, JD’s mother, felt so sorry to her about that and she drove her home. The days after what has happened in JD’s house, JD was so confused about what should he do, and Joella felt the same.

JD thought that he would never meet her anymore because JD loved Exalted Bethren more than Joella, and he should marry a woman from EB church, as what his dad asked. JD decided to meet Joella for the last time, he should tell something to her and he should ask for an apology. Then, they met. JD ask her an apology and he said that they didn’t had the future, and JD also said he will alway love her and remember her whatever happens. Joella was so sad and felt she needs some prays and she phoned her firend, Dave Reyes, a pastor from her church to meet her at sturbucks two days later. In starbuck she told Dave everything in detail, Dave prayed for her and Joella hugged him as a thank you hug, but in another side over the window, JD saw Joella hugged Dave and he was so angry, why Joella found someone else so soon? JD didn’t believe what just happened.

Several days later, JD found a nice woman from EB church named Betty Ann, a nice woman who loves relationship and marriage. In a reationship with Betty, JD always compared her with Joella, actually he couldn’t forget Joella and still love her, he didn’t love Betty Ann but he believed that he will love her someday. One day, Betty Ann phoned JD and tell him that she got an accident while hiking and she got help from a nice woman named Joella Crawford, JD was so shock hearing that news, It couldn’t be happening.

A months ago, JD purposed Betty Ann in a Mall and she said yes because she had been waiting for the marriage. While they were hanging out around the Mall, she saw Joella and her sister, Tammy, she told JD and she asked him to approached them. JD couldn’t do anything he just asked for help to the God to help him out from this situation. Joella shocked when she met them, Betty Ann told her that JD just purposed her and she showed the ring to Joella. There was something stucked in Joella’s throat, she couldn’t say anything. She excused them and ran to the toilet, she cried. How can JD do that? What about he will always love her and remember her whatever hapens? And how can the woman is Betty Ann?

One day, Dave called Joella. He said that he heard about JD and Betty Ann’s wedding on the news paper. He also said that he met JD when he was with Henry, JD and Dave’s friend, in the Cafe and he had something to tell Joella. Joella then asked him to come to her appartment tomorrow. When they met in Joella’s apartment, Dave told her everything abaout his meeting with JD, he said thet JD had a bizarre behaviour to him. JD said that Dave was a womanizer, he didn’t know what JD was talking about. Then Joella remembered something when she and Dave met in starbucks, she saw JD in another side over the window and she believed that JD thought Joella and Dave were an item.

JD walked around at night and found Joella’s church, he met with an old man and woman there. JD had a conversation with them, they didn’t know that JD was from EB church, they talked about their God and life. Unexpectedly JD felt that he found the light after he got these complicated problems, he thought that what they said about tge god and the life was right but what they said was totally different from what he had learnt in EB. Then he rememberd when his sister, Garolyn, told him that she wanted to abandon EB church because she felt uncomfortable there she felt something was wrong. Now, JD also thought about doin the same with his sister, he decided to choose Joella’s believe. Days passed so fast, the wedding would come in a week but he still couldn’t feel the love on Betty Ann he couldn’t forget Joella, besides he didn’t tell Betty Ann and his dad that he decided to left EB church yet.

THE NOVEL REVIEW OF FOR ALL ETERNITY BY JUNE FOSTER #1

For All Eternity by June Foster
Date of publication : October 13th 2014

Here is the video of the review. The video consits of the introduction and the characters of the story. For the conflict and the solution, I will share them in the text post. I hope you enjoy the video :)

Title: For All Eternity

Date of reading: April, 3rd – 2016

Time of reading: 4 days

Pages: 384 pages