HAPPY IDUL FITRI

In conjunction with Idul Fitri Holiday,

Independent English Course management, teachers and students

would like to wish you

a very happy Idul Fitri 1 Syawal 1430 H.

May the holiness of Idul Fitri and the spirit of Ramadhan strengthen your faith, hope and love so that you will serve God by loving others more seriously.

RECENT AND NEW CLASSES

In August 2009 Independent opens new classes for new students. As usual, Independent provides small classes so that students will have more opportunities to express themselves in English. Each class normally has about 3-6 students. Although new students have different timetables, Independent tries to accommodate their need.

Meanwhile, classes at UT School Jakarta are still running. The intensive training will end on Friday 28 August 2009. After that, the students will go to different sites for their OJT (On the Job Training), and Independent will support them with an English distance learning programme. Miss Siti Wastunnahari will supervise the programme, supported by Independent teachers.

UT SCHOOL ENGLISH TRAINING PROGRAMME STARTED

As planned before, the English training programme at UT School Jakarta started yesterday, Tuesday, 28 July 2009.

The training was officially opened by Mr Amin Santoso, the director of UT School, during an opening ceremony held on the fourth floor of UT Learning Center building, started at 8 o'clock.

Some people such as Mr Amin Santoso, Mr Edot (UT Service Division GM), Mr Bustamamsyah, Mr Teguh, Mr Maryono and Mrs Juni Utami gave speeches. Independent English Course also introduced the teaching staff who would handle the English training: Mr Thomas A. Sutadi (director), Miss Siti Wastunnahari (Training Co-ordinator), and the teachers: Mr Muhardi, Miss Ramadhani Nuryunawati, Miss Sri Rejeki and Mr Dwinanto Nugroho.

At 10.00 the students took the Preliminary English tests in their own group/class.

The intensive training programme will last till 28 August 2009 and will be continued with a long distance learning programme for about 10 months.

UT SCHOOL ENGLISH TRAINING PROGRAMME

UT School Jakarta has trusted INDEPENDENT English Course Bogor to organise a special English training for UT School second year students for acedemic year 2009/2010. The training programme will be held at UT School at Jl Raya Bekasi Km 22 Jakarta.

The training will be given to 128 students and held in two batches:

1. Batch 1 (64 students) will start on Tuesday 28 July 2009 and finish on 28 August 2009.After 23 day training, the students will join OJT (On the Job Training) for about 7-10 months) in different areas in Indonesia. During the OJT, students learn English through distance learning programme that we hold. After OJT, they will come back to Jakarta to join a 3-day English final examination.

2. Batch 2 (64 students) will start 3 months later. The training will be held similarly.

The UT School English training programme is conducted through a CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) scheme, and hence it is not business oriented.

This training programme will be held continuously from year to year. From 128 students who join the programme, some of them will continue to join another English training programme for higher level. If we can organize the training successfully this year, UT School will automatically ask us handle all the training programmes.

WE'RE BACK

We apologize for the technical problems that made this blog unable to renew any posting from March 2009. Now we are back... We hope that we can still help you to improve your English.

Independent’s First Anniversary

Sunday, 1 March 2009 is a special day for Independent English Course Bogor. It is the first anniversary…

The history started in January 2008. Mr Thomas rented a house at Jalan Raya Taman Cimanggu 50 RT 03/Rw 01 Kedung Waringin, Tanah Sareal, Kota Bogor. Then he put an advertisement in the Radar Bogor to recruit teachers and administration staff. Some banners were also prepared and made.

There was preparation period from 14 February to 28 February 2008 … At that time Miss Irma and Mr Thomas prepared the classrooms, did the marketing, organised the administrative affairs, etc.

In March 1, 2008 we started the course activities. We had some students… Miss Ramadhani joined and handled the classes… Till then, the course licence had not been issued by Dinas Pendidikan. This lasted until 31 July 2008. Then, at the end of July 2008, Dinas Pendidikan gave a temporary course licence, and effective from 1 August 2008, Mr Thomas handled the course full-time… and together with other staff organised the course.

There have been many achievements so far such as the growing number of the students, the recognition from the government (by the issuance of our permanent course licence on 31 December 2008) and the new interests from personal parties, formal institutions and big companies in having cooperation with Independent. We hope that in the future Independent will grow up and will be able to serve the society better.

Ad multos annos…

SIX SPECTACULAR TECHNIQUES TO MASTER ENGLISH QUICKLY

ONE: Learn English through simple things. Use the words about things around you… food, drink, utensils, vehicles, feeling, weather, etc. Use simple expressions or phrases such as greetings and daily questions… (How are you? Where are your friends? Would you like some juice? etc.)

TWO: Use your English every day... every time you can use it... on and on... Speak a lot... Write a lot... Listen a lot... Read a lot... In short, be active!

THREE: If you do not have any people to talk to, TALK TO YOURSELF... as if you talk to other people. When talking to yourself makes other people disturbed, do it in your heart and mind.

FOUR: Just talk... Just read... Just write... Just listen... Do not be afraid of making mistakes... Making mistakes is human nature. Anyway… speaking is free... reading is free... writing is free... and listening does not need money.

FIVE: Do it from now. Do not wait until tomorrow what you can do today.

SIX: If you do not agree with these tips, just do tips numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.

Good luck.