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Extensive listening: How to improve listening skills through Extensive listening.

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  Hello Students👋 Extensive Listening Extensive listening is a way to practice your English listening skills. It means listening to many different recordings, videos, and interviews about the same topic. This will help you get context for what you're listening to and will help you learn more vocabulary. Pick a topic that you're interested in and something that you can find a lot of material about. For example, a celebrity or sports star would be a good topic to focus on. Choosing a topic that you are already familiar with will make learning easier. Maybe one of the podcasts that you listened to in our How To Use Podcasts to Learn English post had a topic that you find interesting, such as The Titanic. If you know the basic information about the Titanic, you can listen to many stories, interviews, and news briefs about it. Tips for Extensive Listening to Learn English Choose a topic that will keep your interest and that you are familiar with. Listen carefully, but listen for ma...

Extensive reading through The fairy tale of Princess Rara Jonggrang

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  Hello Students👋 In this post, you will read a legendary story from Indonesia. Not only that, you will also be given knowledge about the elements in the story. Here we go!!! The Princess Rara Jonggrang Once upon a time, there was a powerful prince named Bandung Bandawasa. Bandung Bandawasa won at war by assasinating his enemy, Prabu Baka. But, Bandung Bandawasa fell in love with Prabu Baka’s daughter named Princess Rara Jonggrang. Bandawasa wanted to marry Rara Jonggrang. However, the princess hated Bandung Bandawasa because the prince had killed her father. Princess Rara Jonggrang was thinking of a way to refuse Bandawasa’s marriage proposal. Finally, she wanted to marry Bandung Bandawasa if he could build a thousand temples before dawn. Being helped by genies, Bandawasa built temples very fast. On the other side, Princess Rara Jonggrang wanted to fail him. She asked all women in her village to stay awake and gathered in the east...

How to write Descriptive text

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 Hello, students👋 This post is about the descriptive text. What is Descriptive Text? Descriptive Text is a text which says what a person or a thing is like. Its purpose is to describe and reveal a particular person, place, or thing. In a broad sense, description, as explained by Kane (2000: 352), is defined in the following sentence: The description is about the sensory experience—how something looks, sounds, and tastes. Mostly it is about visual experience, but the description also deals with other kinds of perception. Thus, if we conclude from Kane’s explanation above, descriptive text is meaningful text that describes the experience related to the senses, such as shape, sound, and taste. Most descriptive text is about visual experience, but in fact the experience other than the sense of sight, we can also use to make descriptive text. But in particular, the descriptive text is, “…… is a text which says what a person or a thing is like. Its purpose is to describe and reveal a pa...

Tips and tricks to learn English speaking.

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Hello, studers👋 This post is for those of you who want to learn to speak English. But before that, the author wants to ask you. Are you having trouble learning to speak English? or are you confused about how to learn to speak in English? So the author has some solutions so you can learn to speak English well. Read carefully!!! 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 1. Learning to Speak English Through Imitation You listen to a conversation, a story, or some kind of speech, and then try to deliver that speech in your own words, so in this case, you wait until the speaker completes a thought or an idea then pause, and try to express that idea yourself. 2. Easy to Hard Imitation The idea is that you start with something easy and then increase the difficulty of the activity, forcing yourself to get better. 3. Memorising English Vocabulary Memorize a lot of English vocabulary and phrases. Make notes of the vocabulary and phrases you want to memorize to make it eas...