Generosity

Mahatma Gandhi went from city to city, village to village collecting funds for the Charkha Sangh. During one of his tours he addressed a meeting in Orissa. 

After his speech a poor old woman got up. She was bent with age, her hair was grey and her clothes were in tatters. The volunteers tried to stop her, but she fought her way to the place where Gandhi was sitting. 

"I must see him," she insisted and going up to Gandhi touched his feet. 

Then from the folds of her sari she brought out a copper coin and placed it at his feet. Gandhi picked up the copper coin and put it away carefully. 

The Charkha Sangh funds were under the charge of Jamnalal Bajaj. He asked Gandhi for the coin but Gandhi refused. 

"I keep cheques worth thousands of rupees for the Charkha Sangh," Jamnalal Bajaj said laughingly "yet you won't trust me with a copper coin." 

"This copper coin is worth much more than those thousands," Gandhi said. 

"If a man has several lakhs and he gives away a thousand or two, it doesn't mean much. But this coin was perhaps all that the poor woman possessed. She gave me all she had. That was very generous of her. What a great sacrifice she made. That is why I value this copper coin more than a crore of rupees."

Walking in Obedience

Dreamworks team in Hollywood has found a new star. The new star was announced as "the Prince of Egyp ', but we've known for a long time as Moses. The story is filled with drama, action and conflict, and has become the subject of more than one film. But in essence, it is a very basic story of one man who learned to follow, believe and obey God.

Moses began his life with a rocky road. He was nearly killed at birth, but adopted into the family household of Pharaoh. He grew up a prince of Egypt, but he is really the son of a Hebrew slave. She lives in two worlds until he forty years, then decided to members more time for friends compatriots ... but who instead became a boomerang. Moses good intentions - but Moses tried to do what he believed to be the work of God in its own way. Does this sound familiar your ears? He killed an Egyptian who was beating a Hebrew, and then his body was buried by sand. He thought no one was looking, but the incident was revealed. Maybe he did not dig deep enough, and the desert wind was blowing so hard that may be the victim of his toes sticking out of the sand soon!

When we try to bury our sins in our own way, it will never succeed. Sin will keep coming back. We're finally going to continue to lie, continue to deceive, if we want to cover our sins.Then, afraid to expose ourselves before others. When sin comes into your life then the fear will quickly follow. A man once said to me, "I never felt dicekat fear, paralyzed by fear, until I started having an affair. Later on I lived in terror and fear that my wife will find out the secret."

When Moses struck and killed the Egyptian, he saw to the east and west ... but he did not look up. He worried about what people could see, but do not remember that the eyes of God saw.Faced with sin and rejected by his people, he did the only thing he knew, he fled. Until finally Moses met with God in the wilderness, where he was ready to believe, obey and follow God, that's when he began to be used by God to change people.

Keep this in mind, if we are not ready to believe, obey and follow God, we are not ready to be used by God, no matter how great our good intentions!

Lunch 'Break'

I can surely eat a horse! Wanna try new foods ..

Today's Daydream

Anda sedang mempelajari bahasa Inggris dan anda ragu apa yang akan anda pelajari terlebih dahulu sekarang?

-     Kalau saya bicara tanpa menggunakan Grammar apa jadinya?

-     Kalau saya belajar Grammar lebih dulu, saya mesti mulai darimana?

-     Saya takut bicara karena Grammar saya tidak bagus

-     Saya takut berkorespondensi dengan guru bahasa Inggris saya karena Grammar saya buruk

-     Saya takut …………

akhirnya ketakutan itu menghambat semuanya … mempelajari percakapan susah, belajar Grammar lebih susah.

Kejadian ini sangat sering terjadi dan menjadi faktor penghambat utama para siswa yang belajar bahasa Inggris. Faktor penghambat lainnya adalah penyakit “takut salah” yang menghinggapi para pelajar. Takut salah sekaligus juga takut mencoba, takut dikoreksi, takut ditertawakan. Come on … What’s wrong? Seorang mentor mengatakan dengan penuh canda “You are not going to jail just because you wrong in pronouncing a word in English” Ya, be calm! Kita tidak akan dituntut secara hukum, tidak juga dihitung sebagai dosa, jika kita salah mengucapkan sebuah kata dalam bahasa Inggris ketika belajar.

Grammar : Pilar Utama?

Sekarang mari bicara, apa tujuan anda belajar bahasa Inggris? Menjadi akademisi? Mendukung karier pendidikan di tingkat yang lebih tinggi? Memperluas koneksi di tingkat tertentu? Jika anda ingin menjadi seorang akademisi, anda harus lulus berbagai test, ujian formal dan ketika misalnya menjadi seorang penerjemah, anda juga akan disumpah. Anda akan ditest sejauh mana kemampuan anda memahami tata letak sebuah bahasa yang berarti mempelajari Grammar. Untuk hal ini, Grammar sangat penting. Tapi apa umumnya tujuan para pelajar? Biasanya adalah pertanyaan ke-2 dan ke-3. Menunjang karier pendidikan dan memperluas koneksi. Dunia yang serba terbuka ini, sangat memungkinkan kita terus membuka akses demi akses untuk memperluas ekspansi pengetahuan kita. Language is a matter how to use, to communicate. Mungkin anda akan sering melakukan korespondensi lisan dan tertulis yang mengharuskan kita menggunakan tata bahasa yang baik. Tapi jika ingin lebih cepat, communicating adalah pilihan yang bagus. Anda juga akan diakui jika mampu melakukan sebuah conversation dengan good communicating.

Esensi Pengajaran : Apa yang selama ini diajarkan?

Pernahkah anda mengikuti kursus bahasa inggris sejenis? Atau, materi apa yang pernah anda dapatkan dalam bahasa Inggris? Untuk sebagian lembaga kursus, saya bersepakat mereka membuka kelas-kelas percakapan, dan ESP. Dan mungkin dari sekian banyak kelas yang dibuka, anda tidak mendapati satupun kelas “grammar”. Mengapa? Karena masalah bahasa adalah masalah bagaimana kita mampu menggunakannya … berkomunikasi dengan baik. Setinggi apapun status seseorang, jika buruk dalam skill komunikasinya, akan berkurang nilainya dihadapan rekanannya. Tapi untuk sekolah, saya ingin mengatakan bahwa lembaga formal hanya mengajarkan, menyediakan kegiatan monoton dalam kerangka kurikulum yang tidak aplikatif. Kita akan mendapati bahwa nilai bahasa Inggris seorang siswa sangat bergantung kepada pengetahuan yang bersangkutan akan Grammar. Padahal, ketika sang pelajar atau mahasiswa lulus dan masuk dunia kerja, pertanyaan yang akan ditanyakan ketika interview adalah : Do you speak English? Dan bukan : Do you know what is Simple Present?

Akibat dari terlalu banyaknya materi Grammar yang diajarkan di sekolah adalah kemampuan siswa berubah dari yang seharusnya menghasilkan skill, menjadi siswa yang hanya menguasai product knowledge. Ya, siswa biasanya menghafal apa itu Tenses, Auxiliary dan lainnya, lengkap beserta rumus-rumusnya. Tetapi ketika diminta untuk presentasi di depan kelas, dan menerangkan keseharian aktifitas, ia bahkan tidak bisa menggunakan Simple Present yang rumusnya telah dihafalnya.

Do That : Start speaking now!!!

Sekarang sudah kita lihat, berapa persen hasil pengajaran bahasa Inggris di sekolah mampu kita gunakan, berguna menunjang masa depan kita? Rubah sekarang, yang diperlukan dari sebuah bahasa adalah bagaimana bahasa itu efektif digunakan untuk berkomunikasi dalam pekerjaan kita? Mulailah kenali apa yang dibutuhkan ketika belajar bahasa Inggris. Kita dituntut untuk mampu menggunakan bahasa Inggris setidaknya untuk komunikasi. Dan pada khirnya, skill kita lah yang menentukan, sejauh mana kita bisa?

Students To Do

Dear students ..

For our next course, here are some stages i would like you to do:
1. Continue posting entries as many as possible. You should remember that out target is 200 posts.
2. For those who applied blogger by using email: yahoo.com; yahoo.co.id; ymail.com; rocketmail.com; plasa.com; etc, notice that further we should converse your web blog into a new one using email: gmail.com. Don't worry .. for the posts you have made could be exported to the new you'll apply.
3. Try to write posts and other applications as well as add gadgets in English since i'd like you to prepare your web page to be publicly commercialized.
4. Learn more about blogging by finding books, articles or discussion issued to the matter.

Additionally, for those who haven't had their own web page yet, i strongly advise you apply yours immediately!

Well, have a nice work students! Good luck ..
Thank you

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Why should I teach English?

Teaching language, basically, needs more than just patient. It further requires ability of managing self-characters, which is the other part of psychological improvement. That's the reason why i should be proud of being a teacher.

Indonesian students, especially those who speak English rarely, mostly argued that English is the hardest subject to learn. I think i understand their difficulties which could strongly be influenced by some English grammar aspects that wouldn't be found in their mother tongue. For this i truly agree to the term 'difficult'. 'I can still breathe though i don't speak English', some students said. 'We're proud enough with our native language,' the others argued. 

Often, when i teach English to the students in class, they react as if i were a stranger who came from an unknown planet talking about something they would never understood. On the other time, i feel like teaching how to write a scientific journal to the illiterate people. It just looks like i give them something they don't even need. Then why should i keep teaching? Such question takes my breath and keeps running on my blood everytime.