English

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim....
Assalamualaikum...
This is my first posting in my blog. Today is Tuesday night. I’m sleepy but I supported my self not to give up and try to write this writing.

Some days ago, on Thursday morning, February 26^th 2009 was the first day of the B. Inggris II lesson in 2^nd semester of Mathematic Education class. Frankly, it was the second meeting of B. Inggris II lesson. But on the first meeting, Mr. Marsigit couldn’t accompany us (me and my friends) to study about English because he was in Bandung.

Let me introduce Mr. Marsigit. Who is he? Mr. Marsigit is an English lecturer of Yogyakarta State University. He is 51 years old. He lives near my house, in Plosokuning 2 Minomartani. He has a wife and two sons.

Last Thursday, he told little things about his dreams, about his life. He commanded us to make a half circle with our chairs in the class – it remind me to telenovela “Amigos” and ask three students (Aziz, Riyan, and me) to sit beside him on the small stage under the green board. He told us that go abroad is one of his dreams. And now, he had made his dreams come true. In 1995, he got a change to continue his study in London University. He had gone to Thailand twice in 2000. He also went to Japan and now he almost go to Japan every year. Last year, he went to Australia.

If we look Mr. Marsigit’s blog, we can see that there are many articles about Mathematics in English. Yesterday, I saw his blog and I read an article with title elegy. Mr Marsigit said that elegy expresses his sympathy to the condition of the environment (about teacher, lecturer, student, and natural environment). “Elegy” also explains about unfinished problems that happen in nowadays.

Mr. Marsigit commanded us to make a formal blog to for Bahasa Inggris II lesson. For the information, Mr. Marsigit has many blogs and he said that he learn about blog from his son. He also made a Bilingual Mathematics Book for Junior High School and published by Yudhistira.

Everyone has many different kind of the meaning of Mathematics. In my opinion, Mathematics is fun and useful for us. How about English lesson? Well, I think English is fun too and can help us to refresh our mind. There are some preconditions to work in Bahasa Inggris II and we can sum up it to “SCUEMA”. What is “SCUEMA”? OK, let me tell you about it –it’s Mr. Marsigit says-.

1. S is for Skill. Skill is our ability to face up our problem with our creativity. We must use our mind and our competence.

2. C is for Communication. It is one of the most important things., because without communication, we can’t learn English well. We can’t get the taste and the knowledge. Active communication between the lecturer and the student can help us to improve our English.

3. U is for Understanding. We must understand that knowledge is very important for our life. We must understand what we learn.

4. E is for Experience. Experience is the best teacher. We can learn anything from our experiences in our life.

5. M is for motivation. Motivation is high spirit to learn, to do something for make our dreams come true. Motivation to learn English is important for us.

6. A is for Attitude. Our behavior. Because knowledge without good attitude is nothing.

I think it’s enough. I’m sorry if I can’t write English well, because I still learn, learn and learn…

Thank you for reading…

Wassalamu’alaikum…