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Fun Language Learning with Movies

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Movies, the biggest industry in the world, no one gonna say “I never watch movies”, all people gonna say that they are ever watch movie, even that only one or two movies. In this era, movie is not only to entertain, to be promotion media or only mood maker after we spend all of our time for working and studying. They are the teacher, movie can teach us something. From movie we know about culture from another nation, the habit at one nation, another perspective to facing one problem, important issue or event (begin from politic, economic, culture, social, serious disease and many more), study about history, until study about language. We can use movie inside of language learning. Talking about how movie can help inside of language learning, we can take the example from K-Drama, we gonna meet many of our girlfriends can speak or make simple conversation with Korean language. This is show to us if movie have big impact inside of language learning, they are simple, interesting, but effecti...
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Stories inside of Language Classroom: A Way to Developing and Understanding

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S tory, a thing that not only talks about good versus bad, the most powerful life changer of someone, and the important part inside them is they are the admonisher. Story never stops to make us happy, sad, angry, amazed or imagine about every word or every event that happens inside of them. Now let me tell some of my experience about how stories help me to understand English and many aspects of life. Ten years ago, when I still continue my study at elementary school, I including hardship student to develop English language. I got difficult to finish my homework about English, cannot control myself when trying to practice English in class until on public, everything become worse when my teacher complicate and not much help me to understand English. Starting from here, I decided to use another way to learn English. At this point, I am trying to understand English with many methods, beginning from music , movies to the primary helper , stories. At the first phase, I using stories as a moo...
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Review Of short Movie about Gender Equality (Galang Raihan Siraj - 024 - B class)

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Title         : Dani (Short film about Gender Equality) Reviewer: Galang Raihan Siraj Video      : https://youtu.be/yrYMrnEcpUA        This movie is published on Dec 20, 2017, and win the nomination of ‘Best Short Film’ in Capilano Awards 2018. The simple explanation is, this movie tells about Dani, a daughter from one family and has a dream that she can be a director of a film. Dani said, that she wants to be a director of a movie, but her family, actually her father begin to say that a director of the film is just a hobby. In our environment, we always see, that parent prohibit their daughter to join a job just because that job familiar with men’s job, begin talking about a sexist comment, and slowly knock down their daughter's dream and passion. In this movie, we can see that Jasmin Sekhon (Dani actress) shows her disappointment and her angry when her father (portrayed by Jessie Kandola) begin said ab...
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Location: Blitar, Blitar City, East Java, Indonesia
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Will You Be There, Michael Jackson Song: pray and hope

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          We always heard, if Michael Jackson song always got tranding topic, because their song always giving like social message to another people, begin from keep yourself, safe the world, no different between us, and many more. Michael Jackson ever made song that shocking and give deep message to another people about how to be yourself, about that we as human can do right thing, although people around us said something bad and trying so what we do is failed. They are said this song is like prayer for everyone, this song want to said “for all human, never afraid about good thing that you do, as long as that is good activity, keep it up, and god will always with you”, the title is “Will You Be There”.        This song launched at 1991, using Electronic dance music and pop as the music genre, this song become famous after have been choosen as official song of famous movie “Free Willy 2”,   back to the last paragraph, this ...
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Review the article of Mental Health in education

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   By: Galang Raihan Siraj           Hello and good morning everyone, In this time we will review about the mental health issue in education. In this chance, maybe some of us know about this problem, but don’t really understand how to face it, so now, I review one popular article about Mental Health in Education.         This article have title “why mental health education in schools is so important?”, this article have been posted by Joe Mclean and got medically reviewed by Patricia Salber, MD, MBA. In this article the writer said that mental illness become serious problem at around the world, report from America Psychiatric Association said that in America, fifty percent of mental illness problem begin by the age of 14, this is show that mental illness is not simple problem, this is serious problem, the terrible is this is happen at school. School as place for many children to how to be good person, and show to ch...
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Location: Blitar, Blitar City, East Java, Indonesia
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Music, new light to learn and teaching english

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      Hello and good evening. At this time, I would like to tell you about the role of song, that helps our English learning process or teaching process. As we know, is a lot of us always listening to music, am I right? it is happening to me too, which makes me can using English now because using music as my teacher and my dictionary. Here, music shows a new word that I never found it before and teaches me about how to say the word properly. Not just that, music helps me too, an event they did not have lyric. They can make situations around me become friends and help me to understand, focus and calm in my English learning process. Music becomes power and a new method to learn the English language. music has 'puzzle mode' to attract the person to listen to him and give them some questions to be answered, begin with the theme, the meaning of lyrics, why the singer made the song, and many more. For education, especially English Language Education, music can be the media to d...
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Critical Thinking: "Sherlock Holmes" in Small Version

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  We will discuss again about important thing, that will be important when you want to take decision or do something, that is the function of Critical Thinking. For to do critical thinking we need to know some factors, begin from the cause and effect, supporting reason, avoid egoism, until check your news, is there something weird thing, that can make news become ridiculous. Cause and effect is two important things inside critical thinking, when we said A happen because of   B, we need to make the B point (reason) can support the A point, in another said, we need to know that point B is not always the reason of point A. Example: rain making the road wet, not the road wet because of rain. Another aspect is about supporting reason, supporting reason is the vital point of critical thinking, people will be believe with what we said, if we have reason/supporting reason, this reason is coming from real resource, real research, and opinion from trusted people in their profession....
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