Let's LOOK the Phrasal Verbs of LOOK #1

It's a beautiful morning here in Salatiga!
How are you all?

Hari ini kita belajar bareng yuk mengenai beberapa frasa dari kata LOOK. Dan kalau temen-temen udah pada tau, it's alright! Bukannya semakin sering kita review pelajaran, semakin baik kita mengingatnya?
Nah, di review LOOK #1 ini kita akan membahas 4 frasa dari kata ini, yaitu: 1). to LOOK DOWN on 2). to LOOK BACK, 3). LOOK FORWARD to, 4). to LOOK UP to.
 I promise you it won't be just "looking-looking".

Mau tau arti dan penggunaannya dalam kalimat? Keep lookin! :)

1). to LOOK DOWN on 

Kalau kamu LOOK DOWN on someone, itu berarti kamu merasa lebih baik dari orang itu.

Mmmm, ini nih contoh kalimatnya:
"Arrogant people LOOK DOWN on others."

Sampai disini jelas kan, temen-temen?
Bisakah kamu berikan 1 contoh menggunakan frasa ini?







2). to LOOK BACK 

Pernahkah temen-temen seperti ini? Ehem..ehem...

To LOOK BACK artinya"melihat ke masa lalu, atau...memikirkan masa lalu."

Contoh kalimatnya seperti ini, temen-temen:
When I LOOK BACK, my childhood was happy!
What about you, dear friends?



3). LOOK FORWARD to 

LOOK FORWARD to berarti "menantikan suatu event dimasa yang akan datang/suatu kegiatan yang dilakukan nanti (biasanya dengan perasaan senang dan berharap)"

Contoh nih ya: Kids always LOOK FORWARD to holiday.

Nah, coba temen-temen lengkapi kalimat ini:

I LOOK FORWARD to____________________.





4). to LOOK UP to...

to LOOK UP to (somebody) artinya "kita kagum & menghormati orang tersebut,& kita berharap bisa seperti mereka.

Contoh kalimatnya: I LOOK UP to my dad.

Who do you LOOK UP to, friends?





WOW! Aren't these phrases cool?! ;)
Thanks for reading, dear friends. I hope you learn something here.

Don't forget to practice.


Stephannie--TrifleEnglish

3 Cara Berterimakasih dalam Bahasa Inggris

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Dear friends, 

Seberapa sering kalian berterimakasih atas kebaikan orang lain? 
Trifle-English edisi ini akan membahas beberapa ekspresi bahasa Inggris untuk menyampaikan rasa terimakasih selain thanks, thank you, dan thank you very much. Simak yuk! 

1)  I can't thank you enough
Ekspresi ini sangat sopan, temans! 
Kita gunakan ekspresi ini pada saat teman, kerabat, kolega, atau siapapun menolong kita, terutama disaat-saat genting. Ibaratnya hampir tenggelam waktu renang, lalu tiba-tiba ada yang bantuin. Nah, kira-kira seperti itu contoh situasinya. Sebenarnya masih banyak, temans. 
Ini contoh kalimatnya: You saved my job for me. I can't thank you enough. 


2)  I really appreciate this
Yang ini juga sopan, temans! 
Ketika kita appreciate seseorang, berarti kita sangat menghargai apa yang telah mereka lakukan untuk kita. 

3) I want to thank you / I would like to thank you
Biasanya ada kalimat lain yang mengikuti ekspresi ini. Contoh yaaaa: I want to thank you for all your supports for me. Intinya, terimakasih kita jelas, ada alasannya. Kita berterimakasih untuk apa. 

Alright, temans! 
Do you have any expressions to thank someone in English? You are welcome to share. Thank you for visiting this blog. Semoga bermanfaat. 

               

My after-Teaching Life

Well, my heart was shouting out loud when I wrote this post, "You miss teaching!" And my answer was, "Yes, I do!" There's nothing wrong with it. It is true that I don't teach anymore. But there are several things I'd like to highlight after not being in the classroom for several months. 

1. Most of my outfits are "English teacher"
I am working for a non-profit organization now, and I realize that I keep the same teacher's t-shirts, skirts, pants, and high-heels. Even though I have not work skirts and heels in my new office, still... I rarely wear casual outfits. Honestly, my closet is full of teacher's outfits and I don't see any ways to get rid of them. I have endured them for so long! 

2. I miss being around my students
Students bring joy. For me, they were always the reasons why I worked so hard to plan my lessons, my motivation to become a better teacher, and to progress in the field. I admit that there were times when my students did not behave good and they drove me crazy but I miss those moments! 

3. I miss being a mentor
The best feeling that I ever got in my classrooms was when the exchange of ideas took place. I was surprised at how they understood the lessons we learned together. There was satisfaction of helping my students to understand the materials being discussed, and to encourage them to use what they already learned outside of the classroom. 

4. I think my memory of teaching will soon disappear
I began to feel this months before. But I've got some ideas. I am starting an English group on Facebook. I have started to help some new teachers planning their lesson plans and shared my ideas of class management with them. These I hope, can keep me on the line. 

5. I can't get the lesson plans out of my head! 
Believe it or not, I plan English lessons every day! I plan but I don't teach. Funny, right? What about you, my friends? Got any experiences like this? I'll be glad to hear from you. 

Playing with Word Clouds

First word cloud of 'The Heart-Winners

I am extremely HAPPY! I just made my own word clouds! 

I really hope you feel the same elation after learning something new: Something FUN. 

Well, I was still up at midnight, trying to look for other possible sites that would help me to make this fun words. I am so thankful for two blogs I visited last night. They provided valuable information and links to follow and to give it a try. 

Blog 21st Century Edtech is a great blog which provides different ways to use word clouds in the classroom, for any subjects. For a brand new user of word clouds like me, it is important to know how to use it in my class with my students. Therefore, this information is really helpful! I will return to this site again! 

But then I found a list of free words cloud generators that teachers can use for absolutely FREE! 

There are several and I had tried them all last night. Smile. I visited Wordle first. It is very easy and no need to sign-up. Just create. I really wanted to create the word clouds on Wordle but after I was ready to create them, it didn't work. However, please make sure that you have Java(TM).

Another great site is Tagul. It's super easy but you need to sign-up first. Well, here's my second word clouds made on this site (including my Heart-winners up there!): 

My Word Clouds on Jobs designed for my El-3 class

Word Clouds on 'Things in the House' for El-2 class 

So, tell me what you think?!
I am so happy and I also think of helping my students to do their own word clouds to review our lesson about 'Personal Information'. I am sure it will be FUN!

Have a great day, everybody! Motivate more people, Win more hearts today!

The Precious Fifteen-Minutes Moment

We all know the importance of being on time. It is not merely a teacher's obligation. It is everybody-- no matter where we work or what we do. A punctual person is acknowledged for his or her readiness to welcome the great responsibility lies ahead. --I hope I put this right-- Smile.

The question now is, what about being earlier in our classroom? Let's say I want to be in the classroom 15 minutes earlier! Voila! 

Well, this being-fifteen-minutes-earlier might not sound very important last year for me. But this year, IT IS! 

This year, I have decided to devote my 15-minutes moment before the class bell to be in the class. Why do I do this? It is simple. I want to make time to understand my students! 

Here are things I really hope to improve in my teaching perspective: 

1. To get to know my students better: I want to know how their day is!  This moment is also important to have light conversations on how they are doing in our English class. On this matter, I really need to know if my students are alright with the activities and which area they still need to improve. 
2. To prepare more meaningful activities that help my students to accomplish the lesson objective. 
3. To help me better in managing my classroom for a peaceful, fun, and engaging lesson! 

By the way, I have started last week. It was our first term of 2015, and I thought why not trying something new and fun?! After all, it is always fun to meet students and to know that they miss our class! 

Tell me what you think about this idea, the heart-winners teachers! *excited* 

Have you devoted some of your precious moments with your students too? I love to hear from you! 

The Road Taken

I had a privilege to teach the Conversation 1 class and the Elementary 3 class this past term in LIA. Basically, these classes would arrive at two different destinations - different goals to achieve at the end of the term.  And to make sure they reach to their destination, I had devoted some of my times examining, planning, and rehearsing on the roads we would take during the term.

I am so thankful I did!

As in our journey to a place, finding unexpected things are normal. So does in the classroom, during the lesson. Some unexpected things occurred. There were several, although not many, activities carefully added into my lesson plan, but they did not fit well to my students. Once I wanted to review the vocabulary of daily routines so I had students stick the sticky paper on the back. The noun should go with the appropriate verb as you can see on this video. I adapted one of the review activities I found on youtube. It is called the 'Kick Me' activity.

This is an interactive type of activity. So if you have already seen the video through the link I provided here, that is how I pictured my students' involvement during the activity. But it turned out that my students only looked at each others' back and tried to put their pair together. Surprisingly, the moved but no talking! No questions were asked for clarification or discussion to their friends! - Well - It was simply a 'silent walking' if I may say.

Thank God I had planned my lesson well! I had a relieved-smile.
It was, again, time to be flexible. To take another road.

The road was fine. It was just not the right one. And by planning and examining ahead, I could use the possibilities of roads to take. I could detour - taking different road without changing our destination. I could definitely do that not without careful planning at first.
I should also know where to go after taking different road, right?

Sometimes the road was busy. Deserted. Somehow it was quiet.
But I have responsible to take my students safe to their destination - to achieve the lesson objective. I had a necessary tool - a map! However, I should not be taking them while looking at the map. Getting lost and suddenly become a bunch of tourists in the middle of nowhere trying to figure which road to take next.

I have learned my lesson! Next term, I surely equip myself with a Golden Compass!