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Study Tips from Sonja
By Sonia

Every week KGRE receives letters from KGRE fans asking this question ‘What is the best way to learn English?’ Unfortunately, there is no easy way to learn English, but Sonia is here today with some tips to make your learning more effective, and hopefully, more enjoyable too.

Join a conversation club or a discussion group
Learners who belong to language clubs have a lot more opportunity to use their English in an interesting way. They can learn form other members of the club and can also help others to learn too. Did you know that learners who are involved in a conversation club generally improve faster than those who aren't? So, join a club today and get speaking!

Listen to the news or other programs in English
By listening to the news in English on the radio we not only get a lot of information but it's also a great way to hear the correct pronunciation and intonation patterns of the announcers. Listening to the radio can be difficult, but don't give up too easily. ‘Get into the Habit’ and keep listening regularly, especially to Kang Guru!

Read articles or books in English
If you choose this study tip, remember to choose an interesting topic! It's much harder to read something that doesn't interest you. Choosing a story or article about something you enjoy will make your reading more worthwhile, more fun and more effective.

Increase your vocabulary
You can do this by checking new words in a dictionary and writing them down with their meanings or in an example sentence. But don't just write them down and forget about them! Go back and look at those new words every few days and try to use them when you speak or write in English. Let's just recap on those study tips.

- Join a conversation club or a discussion group

- Listen to the news or other programs in English

- Read articles or books in English

- Increase your vocabulary

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Study Tips from Internet Surfers

Today we're going to hear some very useful study tips from one of our KGRE fans, Naomi Slowna. Naomi is from Pematangsiantar in North Sumatera, but she moved to Bogor to study and graduated from the Bogor Institute of Agriculture. She enjoys learning English and likes to use it when communicating with people all over the world. Here's Naomi to pass on some of her English study tips. Listen carefully, what are the two ways Naomi improves her English?

‘I had English lessons regularly at school. Many of my friends also took English courses after school hours. So at first they had better English than me. I never took an English course but I used my time effectively and studied English all the time. But actually, the most powerful reason for me to learn English is my hobby — music. I have loved music since I was 5 years old, especially English language songs. But I didn't have much money to buy all the cassettes that I wanted. Even now when I like a song I always need to know the lyrics.

So I listen to the song on the radio carefully and try to write down the lyrics according to what I hear. Sometimes the lyrics of songs can't be heard clearly, especially if there are slang words. Nevertheless I can still learn a lot about vocabulary. You can do the same too. Now, my hobby is watching movies. This helps me a lot to increase my English skills.

Now my English proficiency is far better than before and it is the result of all the time I spent listening, writing and learning. I still write down songs lyrics that I like and as many as I can. I believe our hobbies can be very useful to help us study English. If you have a hobby then use it to study English, okay?’ Naomi uses songs and films to learn English, and what a great idea that is.

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Learning local culture is crucial. Although we live in modern the era, learning local culture is still needed especially for Indonesia teenagers. There are reasons for this. First, learning local culture can enrich national culture. National cultures are derived from many local cultures.

If teenagers know their culture, for instance for me, the 'Ngremo Dance' and they practice it, they will keep the cultures alive. So everybody knows that 'Ngremo dance' is one part of local culture. 'Ngremo Dance' can also be added on the list of national culture. Secondly learning about local culture can enhance our knowledge about all culture. We should acquire many knowledges not only about the latest technologies but also about culture. We are lucky if we have many knowledges. The knowledges, especially important issue, like culture is one big power to face this world.

Furthermore, learning local culture can protect our culture from bad influences of Western culture. As an English proverb says “Every medal has two sides”, Western culture has good influences and also the bad ones. Most of the Indonesia teenagers like to imitate western culture. It’s good when they imitate the good ones, but if they imitate the bad ones, they will lose their personality as Indonesians. They use some western culture to get acknowledgments as modern people.

So, it’s important to learn local culture for the better life. The teenagers who have learnt the local culture can filter the western culture which is suitable for the growth of Indonesia culture/ And in turn, Indonesia teenagers will love their own cultures and respect other nations cultures.

Full winning entry stories - 2007 Writing Competition
Grand winner: Jade Nugrahaningtyas L.
From SMA Negeri 1 Boyolangu, Tulungagung, East Java

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As we know, now a days many people forgot their local culture. Many of them said that the local culture is very boring. They prefer to modern dance or playing games. And now, it’s very important to learn about the local culture, we as society especially as a student, must think what will happen with our country if we can’t protect our local culture?

In Sibolga, many programs has been try to protect the local culture. Every school showed many kinds of performances, like Tor-tor dance, melayu dance, or Minang dance. And it’s one ways to make local culture to be popular.

Many information we can get if we fight to find it. Because, it is very easy to get. We can find in some books, magazines, or internet who explain about culture. So, let’s start now! We must make our culture to be popular. And we as a students, can join with the government to protect the local culture.

Rami
SMA Tri Ratna Sibolga (XI IPA)
Jl. S. Parman 58 Sibolga, Sumatera Utara

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The Benefit of Having an ATM Card

In this modern era, the technology has grown more deeply. Because of that, we have to anticipate the bad thing that being influence by the growing of technology. We have to carefully select the new technology being promote by scientists, in order to protect ourselves from the bad technology influences. A good development of technology will improve our knowledge of science.

Nowadays, development of technology has been raised all over the world with many kinds of technology. Therefore, we have to be more careful in using all of technology that have been promote for us by scientist like ATM card.

Firstly, in using ATM card is a good way in our daily life because it can help us in getting or taking money easily. We can go around any time and can se it to take money any time and everywhere as long as there is an ATM machine stand and active. ATM card is being promote to fulfill our particular needed or our daily needed. Second, by using ATM card we don’t have to queue up as in the bank teller. We don’t have to carry an account book and fill the form, but we directly type all the form dealing with the using of ATM. The most important thing, we have to memorize our own pin number. An ATM card is easy to carry everywhere and practice. Third, an ATM card also can be used for transferring money to others and can used to pay the shopping fee in the big shopping center.

Having an ATM card is a good choice because by using an ATM card we can take money easily in order to fulfill our particular needed everyday.

By: Adriana Baitanu
Universitas Kristen Artha Wacana
Jl. Adi Sucipto, Oesapa
Kupang – NTT 85361

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The Solar Energy Saver For House wifes

The solar energy is a long life energy. It never runs out. Although it’s very hot, but by its heat, help people to dry fishes (in coastal area) and dry clothes. Even now days, solar energy also used to operate a car. It uses the solar energy as the basic power, not petrol. The solar energy saver here seems like the one that the cars have. The different is the solar energy saver reduces the housewives headache. How can it be? Because the government will increase the price of electricity. It makes “Mom” getting more headache. After the impact of the petrol price which increased, now Mom have to thing for the increase of electricity prices.

The solar energy saver itself, placed on the house to reduce the uses of electricity. It puts on the roof. The shape is like parabola which consist of some element that lock the solar energy. After the solar energy is full, it will transform the lamps and some households. Another uses of solar energy saver is replacing the LPG or land oil (oil which use in kompor). It has already proved. Solar is needed. By using some elements to collect the solar heat and then transform it to the pan.

So, solar energy has many functions. Although it’s sometimes very hot but useful for human. Imagine if the solar lazy to go out, we can not dry clothes, fishes, and the important is this kind of new technology will never run. It will useless without solar. Because it’s solar every saver. If it not built today, maybe 10 or 15 years later, it will be a famous equipment.

Yuyun Zakiyah
6 th Semester of Faculty Bahasa & sastra UNIPDU
PP Darul Ulum Jombang
Jawa Timur