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Mei 31, 2015
Trend Fashion 2015
Bagi anda yang senang mengikuti perkembangan trend fashion, pastinya harus selalu up-date berita fashion yang semakin hari semakin modis dan keren pastinya. Sedikit saja ketinggalan mengenai trend fashion yang sedang booming pastinya anda akan dianggap old-fashion atau ketinggalan jaman.
Berikut beberapa model trend fashion 2015 yang sedang trend untuk para remaja masa kini :
Kaos polos adala salah satu baju yang sangat sederhana, biasanya anak remaja sekarang lebih menyukai baju kaos polos. Tapi kaos polos ini tidak sembarang kaos yang sering anda lihat dipasar, namun kaos polos yang bermerk yang membuat tubuh anda terlihat elastis dan nyaman untuk dipakai. sehingga anda lebih tampil percaya diri. Kaos polos yang mempunyai merk juga tidak mudah robek saat anda melakukan kegiatan yang berat, karena bahan yang dirancang elastis.
Saat korea booming, sweater menjadi terkenal di Indonesia karena boy/girl band korea biasanya memakai baju jenis sweater ini, model baju ini simple namun tetap terlihat gaya dan elegan, jika dipadukan dengan baju kemeja maka akan terlihat casual. Baju model ini pun sangat cocok digunakan di Indonesia, diklim tropis ini karena bahannya mudah menyerap keringat.
High Heels, bagi para wanita adalah hal yang sangat penting karena akan membuat penampilan semakin menarik, dijaman sekarang banyak high heels yang dijual beragam bentuk dan motif, siapa saja yang menggunakannya akan terlihat tampak cantik, tetapi dalam memilih high heels kita juga harus menyesuaikan dengan bentuk kaki agar pada saat digunakan kaki merasa nyaman, selain itu saat memilih high heels kita juga harus menyesuaikan dengan pakaian yang digunakan beserta motifnya.
Source :
http://www.gayahidupku.com/fashion-info/trend-fashion-anak-muda-2015.html
Berikut beberapa model trend fashion 2015 yang sedang trend untuk para remaja masa kini :
1. Trend Baju Kaos Polos
Kaos polos adala salah satu baju yang sangat sederhana, biasanya anak remaja sekarang lebih menyukai baju kaos polos. Tapi kaos polos ini tidak sembarang kaos yang sering anda lihat dipasar, namun kaos polos yang bermerk yang membuat tubuh anda terlihat elastis dan nyaman untuk dipakai. sehingga anda lebih tampil percaya diri. Kaos polos yang mempunyai merk juga tidak mudah robek saat anda melakukan kegiatan yang berat, karena bahan yang dirancang elastis.
2. Trend Baju Sweater
3. Trend Sepatu High Heels
High Heels, bagi para wanita adalah hal yang sangat penting karena akan membuat penampilan semakin menarik, dijaman sekarang banyak high heels yang dijual beragam bentuk dan motif, siapa saja yang menggunakannya akan terlihat tampak cantik, tetapi dalam memilih high heels kita juga harus menyesuaikan dengan bentuk kaki agar pada saat digunakan kaki merasa nyaman, selain itu saat memilih high heels kita juga harus menyesuaikan dengan pakaian yang digunakan beserta motifnya.
Source :
http://www.gayahidupku.com/fashion-info/trend-fashion-anak-muda-2015.html
Mei 30, 2015
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1. Listening (Passive Skill)
2. Speaking (Active Skill)
3. Reading (Passive Skill)
4. Writing (Active Skill)
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A Short Story—Hills Like White Elephants, by Ernest Hemingway
The Story:The hills across the valley of the Ebro were long and white. On this side there was no shade and no trees and the station was between two lines of rails in the sun. Close against the side of the station there was the warm shadow of the building and a curtain made of strings of bamboo beads, hung across the open door into the bar, to keep out flies. The American and the girl with him sat at a table in the shade, outside the building. It was very hot and the express from Barcelona would come in forty minutes. It stopped at this junction for two minutes and went to Madrid.
‘What should we drink?’ the girl asked. She had taken off her hat and put it on the table.
‘It’s pretty hot,’ the man said.
‘Let’s drink beer.’
‘Dos cervezas,’ the man said into the curtain.
‘Big ones?’ a woman asked from the doorway.
‘Yes. Two big ones.’
The woman brought two glasses of beer and two felt pads. She put the felt pads and the beer glass on the table and looked at the man and the girl. The girl was looking off at the line of hills. They were white in the sun and the country was brown and dry.
‘They look like white elephants,’ she said.
‘I’ve never seen one,’ the man drank his beer.
‘No, you wouldn’t have.’
‘I might have,’ the man said. ‘Just because you say I wouldn’t have doesn’t prove anything.’
The girl looked at the bead curtain. ‘They’ve painted something on it,’ she said. ‘What does it say?’
‘Anis del Toro. It’s a drink.’
‘Could we try it?’
The man called ‘Listen’ through the curtain. The woman came out from the bar.
‘Four reales.’ ‘We want two Anis del Toro.’
‘With water?’
‘Do you want it with water?’
‘I don’t know,’ the girl said. ‘Is it good with water?’
‘It’s all right.’
‘You want them with water?’ asked the woman.
‘Yes, with water.’
‘It tastes like liquorice,’ the girl said and put the glass down.
‘That’s the way with everything.’
‘Yes,’ said the girl. ‘Everything tastes of liquorice. Especially all the things you’ve waited so long for, like absinthe.’
‘Oh, cut it out.’
‘You started it,’ the girl said. ‘I was being amused. I was having a fine time.’
‘Well, let’s try and have a fine time.’
‘All right. I was trying. I said the mountains looked like white elephants. Wasn’t that bright?’
‘That was bright.’
‘I wanted to try this new drink. That’s all we do, isn’t it – look at things and try new drinks?’
‘I guess so.’
The girl looked across at the hills.
‘They’re lovely hills,’ she said. ‘They don’t really look like white elephants. I just meant the colouring of their skin through the trees.’
‘Should we have another drink?’
‘All right.’
The warm wind blew the bead curtain against the table.
‘The beer’s nice and cool,’ the man said.
‘It’s lovely,’ the girl said.
‘It’s really an awfully simple operation, Jig,’ the man said. ‘It’s not really an operation at all.’
The girl looked at the ground the table legs rested on.
‘I know you wouldn’t mind it, Jig. It’s really not anything. It’s just to let the air in.’
The girl did not say anything.
‘I’ll go with you and I’ll stay with you all the time. They just let the air in and then it’s all perfectly natural.’
‘Then what will we do afterwards?’
‘We’ll be fine afterwards. Just like we were before.’
‘What makes you think so?’
‘That’s the only thing that bothers us. It’s the only thing that’s made us unhappy.’
The girl looked at the bead curtain, put her hand out and took hold of two of the strings of beads.
‘And you think then we’ll be all right and be happy.’
‘I know we will. Yon don’t have to be afraid. I’ve known lots of people that have done it.’
‘So have I,’ said the girl. ‘And afterwards they were all so happy.’
‘Well,’ the man said, ‘if you don’t want to you don’t have to. I wouldn’t have you do it if you didn’t want to. But I know it’s perfectly simple.’
‘And you really want to?’
‘I think it’s the best thing to do. But I don’t want you to do it if you don’t really want to.’
‘And if I do it you’ll be happy and things will be like they were and you’ll love me?’
‘I love you now. You know I love you.’
‘I know. But if I do it, then it will be nice again if I say things are like white elephants, and you’ll like it?’
‘I’ll love it. I love it now but I just can’t think about it. You know how I get when I worry.’
‘If I do it you won’t ever worry?’
‘I won’t worry about that because it’s perfectly simple.’
‘Then I’ll do it. Because I don’t care about me.’
‘What do you mean?’
‘I don’t care about me.’
‘Well, I care about you.’
‘Oh, yes. But I don’t care about me. And I’ll do it and then everything will be fine.’
‘I don’t want you to do it if you feel that way.’
The girl stood up and walked to the end of the station. Across, on the other side, were fields of grain and trees along the banks of the Ebro. Far away, beyond the river, were mountains. The shadow of a cloud moved across the field of grain and she saw the river through the trees.
‘And we could have all this,’ she said. ‘And we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible.’
‘What did you say?’
‘I said we could have everything.’
‘We can have everything.’
‘No, we can’t.’
‘We can have the whole world.’
‘No, we can’t.’
‘We can go everywhere.’
‘No, we can’t. It isn’t ours any more.’
‘It’s ours.’
‘No, it isn’t. And once they take it away, you never get it back.’
‘But they haven’t taken it away.’
‘We’ll wait and see.’
‘Come on back in the shade,’ he said. ‘You mustn’t feel that way.’
‘I don’t feel any way,’ the girl said. ‘I just know things.’
‘I don’t want you to do anything that you don’t want to do -’
‘Nor that isn’t good for me,’ she said. ‘I know. Could we have another beer?’
‘All right. But you’ve got to realize – ‘
‘I realize,’ the girl said. ‘Can’t we maybe stop talking?’
They sat down at the table and the girl looked across at the hills on the dry side of the valley and the man looked at her and at the table.
‘You’ve got to realize,’ he said, ‘ that I don’t want you to do it if you don’t want to. I’m perfectly willing to go through with it if it means anything to you.’
‘Doesn’t it mean anything to you? We could get along.’
‘Of course it does. But I don’t want anybody but you. I don’t want anyone else. And I know it’s perfectly simple.’
‘Yes, you know it’s perfectly simple.’
‘It’s all right for you to say that, but I do know it.’
‘Would you do something for me now?’
‘I’d do anything for you.’
‘Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?’
He did not say anything but looked at the bags against the wall of the station. There were labels on them from all the hotels where they had spent nights.
‘But I don’t want you to,’ he said, ‘I don’t care anything about it.’
‘I’ll scream,’ the girl siad.
The woman came out through the curtains with two glasses of beer and put them down on the damp felt pads. ‘The train comes in five minutes,’ she said.
‘What did she say?’ asked the girl.
‘That the train is coming in five minutes.’
The girl smiled brightly at the woman, to thank her.
‘I’d better take the bags over to the other side of the station,’ the man said. She smiled at him.
‘All right. Then come back and we’ll finish the beer.’
He picked up the two heavy bags and carried them around the station to the other tracks. He looked up the tracks but could not see the train. Coming back, he walked through the bar-room, where people waiting for the train were drinking. He drank an Anis at the bar and looked at the people. They were all waiting reasonably for the train. He went out through the bead curtain. She was sitting at the table and smiled at him.
‘Do you feel better?’ he asked.
‘I feel fine,’ she said. ‘There’s nothing wrong with me. I feel fine.’
The literary analysis:
The short story “Hills Like White Elephants,” by Ernest Hemingway, is about a young couple and the polemic issue of abortion. Though the word “abortion” is nowhere in the story, it is doubtlessly understood through Hemingway’s powerful use of two literary elements: setting and symbolism.
From the first paragraph the setting immediately introduces the tense atmosphere that will surround the rest of the story. The story takes place in Spain in the late 1920’s. The setting is described as follows:
The hills across the valley of the Ebro were long and white. On this side there was no shade and no trees and the station was between two lines of rails in the sun. […] The American and the girl with him sat at a table in the shade, outside the building. It was very hot and the express from Barcelona would come in forty minutes. It stopped at this junction for two minutes and went to Madrid.
The couple is in the middle of making a drastic decision where there are only two choices, two directions, just like the two rail lines that pass by the station. The openness and loneliness around the railroad station imply that there is no way to back out of the problem at hand and that the man and the girl must address it now. The heat turns the scene into a virtual teakettle, boiling and screaming under pressure. The landscape that encompasses the station plays a fundamental role in the conflict of the story through its extensive symbolism.
When the girl sees the long and white hills she says that “they look like white elephants.” As she observes the white hills she foresees elatedly the birth of her baby – something unique like the uncommon white elephant. The color white symbolizes the innocence and purity of her unborn child. She also admires the rest of the scenery:
The girl stood up and walked to the end of the station. Across, on the other side, were the fields of grain and trees along the banks of the Ebro. Far away, beyond the river, were mountains. The shadow of a cloud moved across the field of grain and she saw the river through the trees..
The fields of grain and trees represent fertility and fruitfulness, which symbolize her current pregnant state and the life in her womb. The Ebro River also represents life, as it germinates the fields. Just as the girl appreciates the panorama and its connection to her unborn child the “shadow of a cloud,” which represents the abortion of the fetus, overcomes her happiness. After an exchange of words with the man she again looks at the scenery, but this time in a different way, as the following sentence illustrates: “They sat down at the table and the girl looked across the hills on the dry side of the valley and the man looked at her and at the table.” The man is obviously in favor of the abortion, and everything he says is an effort to persuade her into it. As she considers his point of view she looks at the dry side of the valley, which is barren and sterile, symbolizing her body after the abortion. The man and woman continue arguing and stop for a little when she says, “Would you please please please please please please please please stop talking?”
He did not say anything but looked at the bags against the wall of the station. There were labels on them from all the hotels where they had spent nights.
The American apparently wants this abortion because he wants to keep his current lifestyle. The bags with all the hotel labels on them are symbolic of his vivacious spirit. If the woman goes ahead with the pregnancy, he would have to settle down and raise a family, which would mean forgoing his youthful desires of seeing the world.
The story ends with the couple expecting their train’s arrival in five minutes. There is no resolution and there is no decision stated regarding the abortion. Hemingway’s interweaving of setting and symbolism helps him juice each sentence to provide maximum detail. This story was not only intended for the pleasures of reading, but also though provocation. Hemingway has intentionally left the readers to conclude for themselves what will happen next.
Source :
http://www.jamesrament.com/a-short-story%E2%80%94hills-like-white-elephants-by-ernest-hemingway/
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http://www.jamesrament.com/a-short-story%E2%80%94hills-like-white-elephants-by-ernest-hemingway/
English phrases for having fun
A phrase is a group of words acting as a single part of speech and not containing both a subject and a verb. It is a part of a sentence, and does not express a complete thought. The phrases in the first two sentences of this page are italicized.
The first sentence contains five phrases: "of words," "acting as a single part of speech," "as a single part," "of speech," and "not containing both a subject and a verb." Except for the phrase beginning with as,all the phrases are acting as adjectives. The phrase beginning with as is adverbial.
The party season has started! Here's our essential guide to talking about having fun.
Fun or Funny?
Be careful with the word "funny". It means "amusing" or "strange". So, for example, you can say:
"My Uncle John is a very funny man. He's always telling jokes!"
"A funny thing happened to me yesterday. I saw Rob and said hello, but he completely ignored me."
To talk about enjoying yourself, you can say that something is "fun" or that you "had a lot of fun":
"His parties are always fun."
"We had a lot of fun at his party."
Enjoy
An alternative to saying "fun" is "enjoy". Remember, you need an object with the verb "enjoy":
"I really enjoyed myself at the party last night."
"I really enjoyed the party last night."
I had…
"I had a great time … (at the party)"
You can also say "I had…"
… a fantastic time
… a wonderful time
… a brilliant time
… a fabulous time
… an amazing time
… a wonderful time
… a brilliant time
… a fabulous time
… an amazing time
"I had a ball …(at Sarah's party)!"
"I had the best night ever last weekend!" (the best time / party you have ever had)
"We had a good old knees-up at the party." ("Knees-up" is a British English word meaning "to dance".)
Other expressions
to party / party hard = to enjoy yourself
"We partied all last weekend."
"They party hard every weekend."
"They party hard every weekend."
to have a wild weekend = to have a really fun weekend
"The students had a bit of a wild weekend and didn't recover until Wednesday."
to let your hair down = to stop being serious and to enjoy yourself
"I like letting my hair down at the weekend because I study hard all week."
to stay up all night = not go to bed until the morning
"They went out on Saturday and stayed up all night."
Describing the evening
You can …
… chat with friends
… catch up with their news
… dance all night long
… have a couple of drinks
… flirt with a good-looking guy / girl (= talk to someone in a particular way because you are attracted to them and you want them to be interested in you, too!)
… go on somewhere else (leave one party / event and go to another)
… catch up with their news
… dance all night long
… have a couple of drinks
… flirt with a good-looking guy / girl (= talk to someone in a particular way because you are attracted to them and you want them to be interested in you, too!)
… go on somewhere else (leave one party / event and go to another)
The music was
… great
… right up my street (just the type of music you like)
… right up my street (just the type of music you like)
The other people there were
… fun
… up for a laugh (keen to have fun and to party)
… up for a laugh (keen to have fun and to party)
The atmosphere was
… electric (dynamic and exciting)
… laid-back / chilled
… laid-back / chilled
The decor was
… funky / retro (not modern, but unusual and interesting)
… a bit tacky (negative word, meaning a little "cheap-looking")
… cool
… 80s-themed (made to look like a party from the 1980s, etc)
… a bit tacky (negative word, meaning a little "cheap-looking")
… cool
… 80s-themed (made to look like a party from the 1980s, etc)
Don't forget to check out our pages on English vocabulary for parties and social occasions and Party idioms for more English phrases and idioms!
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10 advantages of studying English language
Education is The wealth of knowledge acquired by an individual after studying particular subject matters or experiencing life lessons that provide an understanding of something. Education requires instruction of some sort from an individual or composed literature. The most common forms of education result from years of schooling that incorporates studies of a variety of subjects. "Jamie knew the importance of an education, so she chose to go to a four-year university after graduating from high school."
Here are 10 advantages of studying English language courses in a university, rather than in a language school
1. Full access to University facilities and high standards of teaching and quality Universities are built for students. At London Metropolitan University we believe that everyone has the right to an affordable quality education. Our course fees for 2013/14 have been set at levels significantly lower than other Universities and many language schools, and we were recently awarded the highest accolade from the UK government’s Quality Assurance Agency for our academic standards. English Language courses are also accredited by the British Council and we are members of English UK.
2. Are the university lecturers well experienced and highly trained? Making sure that you’re being taught by fully trained, accredited teachers and lecturers is the first step to ensuring that your language class is going to be of great value to you. Language schools often employ recently qualified teachers with relatively little teaching experience. However, at London Metropolitan University, your lecturers are very experienced and have a high level teaching certification such as the DELTA and/or a Masters and may also be studying towards a PhD, so you can be sure that they are trained to high standards and have wide experience in the classroom. Two of our lecturers Ian Lebeau and Simon Kent are also well know course book writers. Ian has co-authored Pearson’s Language Leader series and Simon has co-authored the Language Leader and Market Leader series of Business English coursebooks. Both are sole all over the world. Why not study here and be taught by the authors of the coursebooks you may be studying in your own country?
3. What is the classroom nationality mix? London Met is as dynamic and multicultural as the city in which it is situated. Here you will meet and study with people from around the world, who will enrich your learning. Since our students come from a range of backgrounds, we have always made sure that the education we offer is accessible and flexible. A greater variety of student nationalities in the classroom means more opportunities to practice your English and gain international friendships. In London Metropolitan University there is a great variety of nationalities of students who are all attracted by the degree programmes and choose to study firstly, on English language programmes to improve their confidence and level. In some of our Academic English classes there can be classes of 18 students all with different nationalities.
4. What is the average class size? Our English classes range from 6 – 18 with 10 -14 being the average class size at most times of the year. A class that’s too small doesn’t offer opportunities for group work or communication with a variety of students. However, a class that’s too big means that students don’t have the chance for one-on-one time with their teacher.
5. Do classes cover the 4 most important language skills? Getting a well-rounded language education is the best way to gain better language skills. By covering reading, writing, listening and speaking skills in the classroom, you can be sure that your communication in English will improve dramatically. You will have 2 days a week where the focus is on output skills such as writing, speaking and pronunciation. For the other 3 days a week, you will get input from the lecturers on how to improve your reading, listening, grammar and vocabulary. Self-study time is important so to make the most progress as is possible, we encourage you to do independent learning, as you would do on a university degree.
6. Is there a variety of English programmes and levels to keep you stimulated? At a university language school it is rare to find beginners’ classes and they are mostly taught in language schools. However, for intermediate level students who want to study for a longer period of time, (6 months to an academic year) it is often good to have a variety of different English courses. Here at London Metropolitan University, we offer a wide range of English programmes. Apart from General English programmes we offer Academic English, Business communication and exam preparation classes such as IELTS and experience courses such as our English Plus programmes. Students often do a combination of these classes and the variety is often very helpful in developing their English further for work or for study.
7. Do you have the option to move on to a different or higher-level course? In a language school it can be difficult to feel you make progression. Sometimes you get stuck in the same level once your English has improved and it is a frustrating experience. However, if you study English language in a university, once your English has improved and reached a good B2 level, you have many other options of what you can study. Depending on your previous academic background there is a huge range of foundation, undergraduate, postgraduate or professional qualification programmes you can progress onto. All this makes it much more satisfying to know you are improving your English and working towards improving your future education and career options and not just your language abilities.
8. What activities are there for your free time? UK universities have student unions which are great for you to get involved in and meet people and make a difference. The Student Union is also the place to go for student societies, social events and independent advice. There are many societies such as Japan Society, LGBT, Islamic Society, Politics Exposed, Psychology Society, Socialist Worker Society, Females in Finance, Fitness Society – there’s a whole range of societies on offer at London Met, but if none of these catch your eye, it’s always possible to set up your own. “Give it a go” is a fantastic programme run by the Students’ Union which offers you the chance to take part in salsa classes, city walks and trips to Thorpe Park, Chinatown and Winter Wonderland and is a great way to meet new people. There are many facilities for studying in our well-resourced libraries or if you are a more active person there are many of sports activities and teams to join and participate in.
9. What are the accommodation options and are there people available to talk to if you are having any trouble with accommodation? Coming to University and living in a major city like London is an exciting prospect. It is vital that you have somewhere safe, affordable and comfortable to live. Staff, in the University’s Accommodation Bureau, are able to help and advise you on many of the issues with accommodation in London. Knowing someone is there to talk to, even if you don’t need them, can be a huge relief. It’s important that the staff can help you with questions or problems you might have.
10. What other support is there for you as a student of a university? A university has many teams of staff who work in supporting students as they focus on their studying. It can be difficult to access such a wide range of professional support in many small language schools. Here at London Metropolitan University, theDepartment of Student Services provides much of the support you might need during the course of your studies. Student Services should be your first port of call if you are looking to maximize your potential and make the most of your student experience, have problems with finances or in finding accommodation, are planning for your future career, are wanting more connection with others, require support with a physical or mental health disability, or are simply worried about missing the good things in life.
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