Sekarang hampir semua bisa anda lakukan melalui internet mulai menonton saluran tv luar negeri hingga les bahasa inggris gratis secara online. Sayangnya mencari tempat-tempat seperti ini di Internet yang menyenangkan dan gratis melalui search engine bukanlah hal yang mudah karena kebanyakan kita hanya diarahkan pada situs dengan kata-kata yang terdapat pada isinya dan bukan pada maksud situs tersebut. Hal itu disebabkan banyak sekali situs di luar sana yang hanya berkonsentrasi untuk mengoptimalisasi situsnya agar muncul di search engine tetapi tidak menyediakan informasi yang diinginkan oleh pembacanya. Berikut daftar review beberapa situs penyedia layanan kursus online bahasa inggris baik untuk anak-anak hingga dewasa dan untuk berbagai keperluan dan tingkat kemahiran.

1. Online English Courses
http://www.1-language.com/englishcourse/index.htm
Situs ini sudah berdiri cukup lama dan menyediakan kursus gratis berbahasa inggris yang mudah bagi para penggunanya, kebanyakan pengguna situs ini merupakan orang asia.

2. Free English Language Lessons
http://english-online.org.uk/course
Penyedia kursus online dari Inggris ini didukung oleh sejumlah organisasi dan universitas untuk memberikan materi-materinya. Ada berbagai kategori, yaitu menulis, berbicara dan memahami bacaan berbahasa inggris.

3. Test, Learn & Study English Online
http://www.world-english.org
Disini anda bisa menemukan kategori tes bahasa inggris untuk mengetes kemampuan bahasa inggris anda, dan belajar bahasa inggris terarah dengan beberapa sub kategori.

4. Advanced English Lessons
http://www.englishpage.com/index.html
Program yang ditawarkan dari situs ini adalah belajar bahasa inggris untuk orang yang sudah bisa dasar-dasar bahasa inggris. Program ini sangat cocok bila anda ingin memperdalam kemampuan membaca dan mengerti bacaan bahasa inggris yang sering anda temui di buku literatur atau internet.

5. Free English Classes Online
http://www.eslgo.com/classes.html
Kelas-kelas online di situs ini menawarkan berbagai pembelajaran bahasa inggris mulai dari grammar, writing, reading dan tingkatan-tingkatan seperti beginner, intermediate dan advanced.

6. Learning English
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/
Program dari BBC, salah satu media broadcasting terkemuka dan tertua di dunia ini memberikan kursus online berbahasa inggris yang juga disertai bantuan audio untuk meningkatkan kemampuan mendengar dan berbicara.

7. Essential Lessons for Beginning English Learners
http://esl.about.com/od/beginningenglish/ig/Basic-English/index.htm
Jika anda seorang pemula belajar bahasa Inggris, disini anda bisa menemui pembelajaran penting dan sederhana untuk pemula agar mempermudah anda untuk belajar.

8. English Activities Online for Kids
http://www.syvum.com/online/english.html
Jika anda memiliki seorang anak, adik atau murid, maka situs ini dapat membantu mereka untuk mempelajari bahasa inggris dengan bantuan beberapa visualisasi sederhana dan gambar-gambar menarik untuk anak.

9. Visual English Activities for ESL Students
http://www.visualesl.com
Pembelajaran visual bahasa inggris untuk siswa SD dan SMP ini memiliki berbagai macam fitur seperti gambar dan audio untuk melatih pengucapan, percakapan dan lain sebagainya.

10. Activities for ESL Students
http://a4esl.org
Situs ini hampir mirip dengan VisualESL di atas, namun dengan materi dan antarmuka situs yang berbeda.

11. ESL Online Learning Games
http://www.eslkidstuff.com/OnlineGamesMain.htm
Belajar bahasa inggris untuk anak lebih mengasyikkan untuk anak tersebut jika divisualisasikan dengan permainan. Anda dapat menemui permainan-permainan menarik untuk belajar disini.

12. Learning English for Kids
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids.htm
Les online belajar bahasa inggris yang disediakan oleh lembaga kebudayaan inggris yang terkenal ini memiliki banyak sekali media, materi dan kategori pembelajaran.

13. ESL and TOEFL Online COurses
http://www.worldwidelearn.com/language-courses/esl-course.htm
Disini anda bisa menemukan kursus online bahasa inggris untuk ESL atau TOEFL.

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Halo sahabat Netter.. Inilah jadwal MotoGP 2013 di Trans-7 lengkap dengan nama-nama pembalapnya. Secara resmi FIM (Federasi Motorsport Internasional) telah merilis kalender terbaru MotoGP musim 2013 dan mulai akan digelar pada bulan April nanti. Dimana Losail International Circuit (Qatar) adalah sebagai seri pembuka di ajang balap motor kelas dunia ini dan Circuit Ricardo Tormo, Valencia (Spanyol) adalah seri penutupnya.

Terkait kalender musim 2013, perubahan juga terjadi di MotoGP Jerman. Karena berbarengan dengan gelaran F1 GP Jerman, balapan di Sirkuit Sachsenring diundur dari yang sebelumnya 7 Juli menjadi 14 Juli.

Nah khusus buat anda semua penggemar berat olahraga balap moto grand prix, berikut kami berikan informasi lengkap jadwal MotoGP 2013 termasuk jam tayang di Trans7 serta nama pembalap yang ikut serta pada MotoGP musim 2013 kali ini, yuk checkidot:

• 7 April 2013, Qatar di Losail Pukul 02:00 WIB
• 21 April 2013, Austin, Texas AS, Pukul 02.00 WIB

• 5 Mei 2013, Spanyol Jerez, Pukul 19:00 WIB
• 19 Mei 2013, Prancis GP, Le Mans, Pukul 19:00 WIB

• 2 Juni 2013, Italia, Mugello, Pukul 19:00 WIB
• 16 Juni 2013, Katalunya, Barcelona Pukul 19.00 WIB
• 29 Juni 2013, Belanda, Assen, Pukul 20:00 WIB

• 14 Juli 2013, Jerman, Sachsenring, Pukul 19:00 WIB
• 22 Juli 2013, Amerika Serikat, Laguna Seca, Pukul 04:00 WIB

• 18 Agustus 2013, Indianapolis, Indiana, Pukul 01:00 WIB
• 25 Agustus 2013, Ceko, Brno, Pukul 19:30 WIB

• 1 September 2013, Inggris, Silverstone, Pukul 20:30 WIB
• 15 September 2013 San Marino, Misano (Italia), Pukul 19:00 WIB
• 29 september 2013, Spanyol, Motorland Aragon, Pukul 19:00 WIB

• 13 Oktober 2013, Malaysia, Sepang, Pukul 15:00 WIB
• 20 Oktober 2013, Australian, Phillip Island, Pukul 12:00 WIB
• 27 Oktober 2013, Jepang, Motegi, Pukul 13:00 WIB

• 10 November 2013, Valencia, Spanyol, Pukul 20:00 WIB

>>> klik gambar untuk memperbesar.

Itulah sobat kabar terbaru mengenai Jadwal MotoGP 2013 dan jadwal kualifikasi serta jam tayang atau siaran langsung MotoGP di Trans7 yang dimulai pada bulan April dan akan berakhir pada bulan November 2013. Dan untuk mengetahui siapa saja yang ikut berpartisipasi dalam ajang balap motor bergengsi ini, silahkan baca disini => Daftar nama pembalap MotoGP 2013lengkap dengan nama tim masing-masing.

Btw, siapa jagoan anda di MotoGP musim 2013 ini?  Selamat menyaksikan ya...  :) Saksikan dulu yuk kumpulan video lucu gokil banget dan video hantupaling seram. Hihiii

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Recount Text

What is Recount?

1.         1.      Definition of Recount

1.         2.      Generic Structure of Recount

1.         3.      Language Feature of Recount

1.         4.      Examples and structures of the text

Our trip to the Blue Mountain
Orientation	On Friday we went to the Blue Mountains. We stayed at David and Della’s house. It has a big garden with lots of colourful flowers and a tennis court.
Events	On Saturday we saw the Three Sisters and went on the scenic railway. It was scary. Then, Mummy and I went shopping with Della. We went to some antique shops and I tried on some old hats. On Sunday we went on the Scenic Skyway and it rocked. We saw cockatoos having a shower.
Reorientation	In the afternoon we went home.

1.         A.     Vacation to London

1.         B.      Between Recount and Narrative

1.         C.      Visiting Bali

1.         D.     My Horrible Experience

• Using personal participant; I

• Using chronological connectives; then, and, suddenly

• Using linking verb; was, were

• Using action verb; moved, left, walked, made, etc

• Using simple past tense pattern; earthquake happened, I was on the car, my car lunched on one side, etc

1.         E.      My Grandpa’s Funeral in Toraja

• First,

• Then,

• After that,

• Finally,

Recount is a text which retells events or experiences in the past. Its purpose is either to inform or to entertain the audience. There is no complication among the participants and that differentiates from narrative

1. Orientation: Introducing the participants, place and time

2. Events: Describing series of event that happened in the past

3. Reorientation: It is optional. Stating personal comment of the writer to the story

• Introducing personal participant; I, my group, etc

• Using chronological connection; then, first, etc

• Using linking verb; was, were, saw, heard, etc

• Using action verb; look, go, change, etc

• Using simple past tense

Example of Recount text

1.          

Mr. Richard’s family was on vacation. They are Mr. and Mrs. Richard with two sons. They went to London. They saw their travel agent and booked their tickets. They went to the British Embassy to get visas to enter Britain. They had booked fourteen days tour. This includes travel and accommodation. They also included tours around London

They boarded a large Boeing flight. The flight was nearly fourteen hours. On the plane the cabin crews were very friendly. They gave them news paper and magazine to read. They gave them food and drink. There was a film for their entertainment. They had a very pleasant flight. They slept part of the way.

On arrival at Heathrow Airport, they had to go to Customs and Immigration. The officers were pleasant. They checked the document carefully but their manners were very polite. Mr. Richard and his family collected their bags and went to London Welcome Desk. They arranged the transfer to a hotel.

The hotel was a well-known four-star hotel. The room had perfect view of the park. The room had its own bathroom and toilet. Instead of keys for the room, they inserted a key-card to open the door. On the third floor, there was a restaurant serving Asian and European food. They had variety of food.

The two week in London went by fast. At the end of the 14-day, they were quite tired but they felt very happy.

Something which happened in the past is the main resource to compose both recount and narrative text. In writer’s point of view, the thing is an experience. It can be what the writer has done, hear, read, and felt. Composing recount and narrative is retelling the experiences of the past event to be a present event.

What does recount differ from narrative?

The easiest way to catch the difference is analyzing the generic structure. Recount text presents the past experiences in order of time or place; what happened on Sunday, then on Monday, the on Tuesday. In simple way, recount describes series of events in detail. It does not expose the struggle on how to make them happen. The event happened smoothly. On the other hand, narrative introduces crises and how to solve them. Narrative text always appear as a hard potrait of participant’s past experience. It reveals the conflict among the participants. Cinderella’s conflicts with her step mother and sister are the example. The conflict is the most important element in a narrative text. Narrative without comflicts is not narrative any more.

There were so many places to see in Bali that my friend decided to join the tours to see as much as possible. My friend stayed in Kuta on arrival. He spent the first three days swimming and surfing on Kuta beach. He visited some tour agents and selected two tours. The first one was to Singaraja, the second was to Ubud.

On the day of the tour, he was ready. My friend and his group drove on through mountains. Singaraja is a city of about 90 thousands people. It is a busy but quiet town. The street are lined with trees and there are many old Dutch houses. Then they returned very late in the evening to Kuta.

The second tour to Ubud was a very different tour. It was not to see the scenery but to see the art and the craft of the island. The first stop was at Batubulan, a center of stone sculpture. There my friend watched young boys were carving away at big blocks of stone. The next stop was Celuk, a center for silversmiths and goldensmiths. After that he stopped a little while for lunch at Sukawati and on to mass. Mass is a tourist center

My friend ten-day-stay ended very quickly beside his two tour, all his day was spent on the beach. He went sailing or surfboarding every day. He was quiet satisfied.

Let me remind you my experience during an earthquake last week. When the earthquake happened, I was on my car. I was driving home from my vocation to Bali.

Suddenly my car lunched to one side, to the left. I thought I got flat tire. I did not know that it was an earthquake. I knew it was an earthquake when I saw some telephone and electricity poles falling down to the ground, like matchsticks.

Then I saw a lot of rocks tumbling across the road. I was trapped by the rock. Even I could not move my car at all. There were rocks everywhere. There was nothing I could do but left the car and walked along way to my house, in the town.

When I reached my town, I was so surprised that there was almost nothing left. The earthquake made a lot of damage to my town. Although nothing was left, I thanked God that nobody was seriously injured.

Generic Structure Analysis

Orientation; introducing the participant, using first person point of view, I was on the car las week.

Events; describing a series of event which happened. The car lunched to one side. Telephone and electricity poles was falling down, etc.

Re-orientation; stating the writer’s personal note. Thanking God because nobody was seriously injured.

Language Feature Analysis

1.          

Last month my family and I went to Toraja to attend Grandpa’s funeral. It was my first time to go to such a ceremony. We gathered there with our kin in the ceremony.

Overall, the ceremony was quite elaborate. It took about a week. Several days before the ceremony was done, grandpa’s body was kept in a series of houses arranged in a circular row around an open field called tongkonan. His corpse was dressed in a fi ne wearing.

The funeral was performed in two phases. First, we slaughtered the pigs and buffaloes, and then moved the corpse to face north. In this ceremony we wore black clothes. After that, the corpse was placed in a sandal wood coffin. Then, it was brought out of the house and placed on an open platform beneath the granary. Meanwhile, my uncle, my brother, and I prepared the wooden puppet and a funeral tower called lakian. The next phase of the ceremony was held in this place. The coffin is borne from the house and placed in the lakian. During the day, there were also buffalo matches. They were great matches. In the night, we were feasting, chanting, and dancing.

On the last day, the grandpa’s coffin were lowered from the funeral tower and brought up to the mountain side family graveyard. It was followed by great shouting and excitement from the relatives and the guests. Finally, we installed the wooden puppet on a high balcony where other puppets representing the members of a whole family were already there. The funeral ceremonies made my family and me tired. However, we were grateful because it ran smoothly.

Questions

1. When did the writer attend the funeral?

2. How long did the writer and his family hold the ceremony?

3. What did they do to the corpse before the funeral was done?

4. What did they do after the corpse was placed in a sandal wood coffi n?

5. What did they do on the last day of the ceremony?

Notes:

A recount text is a text that tells you a part of experience. A recount text has an orientation, a series of events in chronological order, personal remarks on the events and a reorientation that “rounds off” the sequence of events. In the text, you find words and phrases used to start, connect a sentence with the next one, and end your composition. Those words and phrases are:

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Pengertian Narrative Text

Disebutkan bahwa A narrative text is an imaginative story to entertain people (teks narasi adalah cerita imaginatif yang bertujuan menghibur orang). 

Jika melihat pada kamus bahasa Inggris, secara harfiah narrative bermakna (1) a spoken or written account of connected events; a story. (2) the narrated part of a literary work, as distinct from dialogue. (3) the practice or art of narration. 

Cerita Narrative Text

(Narrative bermakna : 1. sebuah cerita baik terucap atau tertulis tentang peristiwa-peristiwa yang berhubungan. 2. bagian yang diceritakan dalam sebuah karya sastra, berbeda dengan dialog. 3. Praktik atau seni bercerita) 

Jika disimpulkan, maka sebuah narrative text adalah teks yang berisi sebuah cerita baik tertulis ataupun tidak tertulis dan terdapat rangkaian peristiwa yang saling terhubung.

Generic Structure dari Narrative Text

Bagi sobat yang masih duduk di bangku sekolah tingkat menengah, penjelasan mengenai narrative texts tak usah sulit-sulit ya.. Intinya, narrative text ini mempunyai struktur / susunan seperti di bawah ini : 

• Orientation : It is about the opening paragraph where the characters of the story are introduced.(berisi pengenalan tokoh, tempat dan waktu terjadinya cerita (siapa atau apa, kapan dan dimana) 

• Complication : Where the problems in the story developed. (Permasalahan muncul / mulai terjadi dan berkembang)

• Resolution : Where the problems in the story is solved. Masalah selesai, --- secara baik "happy ending" ataupun buruk "bad ending".

Kadangkala susunan (generic structure) narrative text bisa berisi: Orientation, Complication, Evaluation, Resolution dan Reorientation. Meski “Evaluation” dan “Reorientation” merupakan optional; bisa ditambahkan dan bisa tidak. Evaluation berisi penilaian/evaluasi terhadap jalannya cerita atau konflik. Sedangkan Reorientation berisi penyimpulan isi akhir cerita.

Jika sudah mahir membuat cerita narrative, susunannya bisa diubah-ubah kok, yang terpenting bagian-bagian di atas masih tetap ada dalam tulisan narrative sobat. 

Grammar Used dalam Narrative Text

Grammar (tata bahasa) yang sering muncul dalam membuat narrative text adalah:

Menggunakan tenses "Past", baik simple, past perfect, past continuous, past perfect continuous, atau bisa saja past future continuous. (aturan ini bukan aturan wajib yang mutlak harus dipenuhi kok. Tidak percaya, tanyakan pada guru bahasa Inggris.

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