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Mid Test

The mid test has finally come, I thought I studied hard for EL test since I studied until 10 pm or so... Because I really wanted my score to be around 90s for this test… Turned out the test was harder than I’ve expected.

What’s worse was that I barely made it to the final question aka the bonus question. I was hardly keeping my eyes open as well as keeping myself conscious, since I fell asleep numerous times while doing the test. I almost decided to give up since I was 98% unconscious at that time aka ‘too sleepy to handle’. I even got warned most of the time because I slept when I haven’t even finished my test.

Luckily, I barely made it to the last question. The bell finally rang, which indicates that the first session of midterm test has finished. I didn’t answer the bonus question though, because I’ve got no time to do it. I was disappointed since I didn’t do my best on the first subject of mid test. So I was expecting to do better next time.

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Presentation & Reinforcement

On the next week of english class, my group made a poster titled, “School? More Like Prison” In this case, we used simile to compare both objects and rhetorical question to ask for things which doesn’t require an answer.

The poster means that most schools these days limit the students’ achievement and talent by being annoyingly strict over anything. The audiences for our poster are mostly for the teachers and parents, and mainly for the educational department.

I liked the concept because we were able to speak our voices, so I was very glad and proud that we made the writing like how we wanted.

The reinforcement was on thursday, which was D-1 of English Midtest. I was literally confused and didn’t understand most of the materials because I rarely paid attention to Bu Fajris explanations.

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Advertisement

We have finally reached the 9th week of english class aka a week before the reinforcement begins. This week, we learned about how to make a good advertisement based on three elements, logos, pathos, and ethos. Logos means logic, which requires us to use arguments based on facts, evidences, and reasons. For example: Gummy White prevents over 50% of stains to live in our teeth. Pathos, which means passion or emotion is used to give more emotional effect for the audience; happy, sad, emphatic, etc. Ethos or ethical appeal is used for giving credibility, which will convince the audience to buy our products. After we’ve learnt about how to make a good ad, Bu Fajri divided us into groups consisted of 4 to 5 people. We were given an assignment, which was to make a persuasive poster related to public services. My group was confused on which topic should we choose, it was either about marijuana, gay marriage, or school. We ended up choose the school topic for our PSA, but since today lesson has finished, we were told to continue our task tomorrow and do the presentation.

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Speech

After we’ve learnt about rhetorical devices and the structures for persuasive writing, we were given off a task, which is to make a persuasive speech. I spent a period to find a good topic for me to discuss. I found some nice topics that are really interesting for me to write, but I ended up choosing “How Bullying Can Lead To Suicide”. Bullying is something that I hate the most, despite the fact that I, myself admitted to have ever bullied someone. Later on I realized how badly bullying can affect the victim’s health, mentally and physically. So I made that speech in order to speak my voice, as someone who has been bullied and has bullied other. I want to encourage people to stand up against bullying or discrimination by writing this speech, and I’m I glad I’ve written it.

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Persuasive Writing & Rhetorical Devices

The materials for this week were persuasive speech and rhetorical devices. In making a speech, we must use rhetorical devices in order to give off encouraging and persuasive effects to the audience. There are so many types of rhetorical devices, it was around 11 if I’m not mistaken. I just wanted to explain three items this time, which are: hyperbole, rhetorical question and repitition.

First of all, hyperbole is used to exaggerate things to give the audience a more emphatic feeling. For example, “They starve for days, haven’t eaten for years.”

The second is the use of rhetorical question. It is used to ask a question to the audience and doesn’t expect an answer. For example, “You know what is ironic? I see human, but not humanity.”

The last one is repitition. For example, “We should protect the nation, we should stand up against prejudice, we should make this world a better place.”

P.s. The examples are all mine.

That's all I've learnt, Bu Fajri told us that we'd make a speech in front of the class for the performance score.

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Formative 1

It was finally the formative week, and on Thursday morning my class did an english formative. When I opened the question paper, I was devastated due to the fact that I understood almost nothing. It was depressing. I didn’t studied a night before the test because I’ve underestimated it… Turned out the test was really hard, like literally hard. I regretted my action; of not studying. I thought my score would be around 70s, but it was 82, higher than my expectation… Lucky me.

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Opinions

It was the 5th week of our meeting in english class and we learned about opinion. Opinion is something that we, as human beings, express in our daily lives in order to make a living. Yes, opinion is something that we need. Stating an opinion is the same as expressing your inner feeling that you really want to utter in words. It's our judgment, point of view, or even a statement about something. We can state an opinion, and respond to it by either agreeing to it, or even disagreeing. In stating an opinion, there must be a condition that you must obey. You can't tell an opinion that may hurt someone, in other words, your opinion shouldn't contain any harsh word, or even humiliating someone. Second of all, you must only state an opinion at the correct time in the right situation. Be polite, that's the rule. So, back to the main point, in stating an opinion, you can choose one of the expressions below: “I think...” “In my opinion...” “I believe that...” “Contrary to popular belief...” Etc. Responding to an opinion can be either agreeing or disagreeing. Agreeing to an opinion use phrases like: “I agree to that.” “Of course.” “So do I.” Etc. Disagreeing with an opinion involves words like: “I don’t agree to that.” “However...” “I'm afraid I have to disagree.” That's all that I've learnt in english class, week 5.

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Wish and Hope

We learned about wish and hope in the 3rd and 4th weeks of our english lesson. I thought that wish and hope are the same, but it’s actually two different things. We expressed hope as, “I hope I can…”, whilst wish with, “I wish I could…”

Seeing from its phrases, which I always use to remember the difference between two, you could see that they use different tenses. Now I’m going to tell and explain what I’ve learnt about how to express hopes and wishes in english class.

First thing first, as you can see, we use past tense for wish and present for hope. We use past tenses like “could”, “would”, etc to express something that’s least likely or even unlikely to happen. We use it for things that are impossible, like for example, “I wish I could fly.”

On the other hand, hope is used to express something that will most likely happen in real life. It’s usually used to tell our dreams, and things we expect to happen in the future. E.g. “I hope to become a doctor.”

After we learned about how to express it grammatically correct and understand the difference between two, we were told to make a display about our wish and hope. Well, in this case, I wrote about what I hope to happen, mostly the good things about my future, such as: - I hope to graduate with good grades. - I hope to enter UNPAD or UI with medical major.

I also wished for things I really wanted to happen, but are impossible or the chances are almost zero, like: - I wish I had 2 years of holiday. - I wish I could fly.

Those are what we learned and did in the 3rd and 4th week of english class. I’m glad I understand how the two differentiate now.

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Suggestion and Offer

This was the second week of english lesson, and we learned about suggestion and offer. We have english lesson with Bu Fajri every Wednesday noon and Thursday morning. That day, on Wednesday, where we had our third meeting, I felt so lazy because I just had lunch and was feeling very sleepy, so I didn’t manage to study properly. I did some studies at home, though. Here are what I’ve got from studying suggestion and offer:

- Suggestion is defined as an expression of giving an idea for someone to do something, in which we can give, accept, or refuse the suggestion. 
- Offer is defined as an expression of willingness to do something, in which we can give, accept or refuse the offer.

There are some types of way to give a suggestion. It’s either by giving it with ‘could’, ‘let's’, ‘why don't’, or ‘shall’. 
- Could is sometimes used for giving a suggestion towards one. E.g. You could talk with her.
- Let’s is used for giving a suggestion for ‘us’ (for a group in which you also contributed in.) e.g Let’s watch the movie tomorrow.
- Why don’t is used to refuse an idea, but is expressed as giving a suggestion for the better choice, to give more polite and friendly effect. E.g. Why don’t we go tomorrow since I have some assignments to do?
- Shall is used to ask for an agreement of ones by giving a suggestion. E.g. Shall I open the door?

We can respond to a suggestion by either accepting it or refusing it. Some expressions of accepting a suggestion are, for example, “Yes, I would like to.” “Okay, let’s go.”. The expressions of refusing it are, for example, “Let’s not.” “I can’t.”

Giving an offer can be formal or informal. Formal offers use polite word and register (would, could, shall, etc.) e.g. “Would you like to..?”. While the informal ones use more friendly register, e.g. “Won’t you go to my house?”

Responding an offer is almost the same as suggestion, we can either accept it or refuse it. Accepting an offer can use a phrase like, “Yes, thank you.” And refusing an offer can use, “No, thanks.”

Those are what I have learnt about suggestion and offer. I hope by learning this, I can understand about it thoroughly and use it in such a proper way.