STUDENTS' ASSIGNMENTS (1)

Assignment for Intermediate-2

This is an assignment for students in the Intermediate-2 (Wednesday & Saturday; Tuesday & Friday) at Independent English Course Bogor.

General instruction:

Read the sentences below. They were written by an elementary-level student. If you find an incorrect portion in each sentence, correct it. 

Write your answers by giving "comments" under this posting, or write them on your exercise book and give it to your teacher at Independent in no later than one week.

Example: The man tooks the money and gives it to me.

Correction : The man took the money and gave it to me.

1.       John can to sang very well a few years ago, but he could not do it nowadays.

2.       Do you know where is the nearest station around here?

3.       One of the childrens whose house is on fire can later left the burnt building and was later rescued by a  firefighters.

4.       Where is your wife, Sarah? I haven’t see him for a few week.

5.       They decided to saw their sick uncle in the hospital.

6.       My nephew schooled in London five years ago and he now worked in German.

7.       After eat the food the children moved to their own room to study with hard ways.

8.       Every Monday she has to use a pair of white shocks and a red-and-white uniform.

9.       If I was you, I will have been a doctor.

10.   Mr Smith, that his wife died of an accident ten years ago, were expected to get marriage in a few months.

MASTER ENGLISH AT INDEPENDENT ENGLISH COURSE BOGOR

INDEPENDENT English Course Bogor welcome new students to join regular and private classes in February 2011.


We have some programmes for Children, Teenagers, and Adults and Young Adults. With 2-8 students in the classroom, students are given a lot of chances to express themselves. Lessons are never boring as students are free to take part in any activities. Songs, games, quizzes, and other extra activities are favourite for students. You can join regular classes or private classes; choose the one that you think is suitable for you.


For company employees and managers, you can have your own class at your office. We will send our best teachers to serve you to master English. We have got experiences to teach company employees, managers and their staff in Bogor. We also have experiences to help professionals from private companies and government offices. 


If you think you need to improve your English, call us at (0251) 2298154.

PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT

Many people think that mastering GRAMMAR will guarantee them to be able to communicate in English well. Students and teachers at INDEPENDENT English Course Bogor do not think so. We believe that the most important in learning and mastering English is PRACTICE.


PRACTICE means: using English consistently without fear. Fear of what? Fear of making mistakes... grammatical mistakes.
PRACTICE means: speaking, writing, listening and reading continuously. 


Does it mean that GRAMMAR is not important? The answer is: GRAMMAR is also important, but not the most important.


When you speak BAHASA INDONESIA, do you also think about Kalimat Majemuk? Kalimat majemuk setara? Kalimat majemuk rapatan? Kalimat sederhana? Kata dasar? Kata benda? We believe the answer is NO.


So, why do you feel that you have to be afraid of making mistakes when speaking English? DON'T BE AFRAID OF MAKING MISTAKES...


Mastering English for communications does not mean mastering all words and phrases in English. 
Do you need a comparison?
How many Indonesian words do you master?
Do you understand the meaning of these Indonesian words: antan? petahana? sangkil? mangkus? sahih?
They are Indonesian words, but most of us do not understand them.
Let alone English words.... 
However, it does not mean that we can't communicate in Indonesian, does it? We still can communicate in bahasa Indonesia although we do not master Indonesian words and vocabularies...


So, practising English and mastering this language do not require you to be able to understand all words, phrases, vocabularies, grammar, structures etc. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU KNOW THOSE WORDS...

Practise now and make yourself PERFECT...

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR

Teachers, staff and management 

of 

Independent English Course (Bogor)

and 

Independent Group of Language Services (Indonesia)

wish you all 

a Merry Christmas 2010 

and 

a Happy New Year 2011. 

May the Christmas and New Year celebrations 

give you all lots of blessing.

Best regards...

CHRISTMAS, YEAR-END AND NEW-YEAR HOLIDAYS

Year 2010 is going to end, and year 2011 is going to come. There are some regular and important events to come: Christmas, New Year's Eve and New Year. To give students and teachers time to celebrate those days, Independent English Course Bogor will have year-end holidays from 23 December 2010 to 5 January 2011. Lessons will not be held from 23 December to 5 January (classes will resume on 6 January 2011); however, our office will still open on 23 December and 5 January as teachers will still have some activities on those days.


Teachers, students, management and all staff wish you a merry Christmas, a happy new year and great holidays.

CLASS PROFILE : INTERMEDIATE 2

This is the oldest group that has studied since Independent English Course in Bogor was established in 2008. Initially the students included Stevanie Clarisa, Mia Sylvia Sanjaya, Fransisca Livia, Andrianus Pujianto, Marwin Suwardi and Habib M Tawakal. Later some new students such as Nora Nisrina, Sekar Hanun Ulwani, Dariatus S and Budi Prabowo joined. Sekar Hanun and Budi Prabowo moved from their Tuesday-Friday class. Recently Nora Nisrina has quit due to her busy activities in mathematics courses.

The students in this class have been studying English with Mr Thomas since they were still studying in another English course. They have had good and active English now. They say that they have no problems with English lessons at school. Since the students in this class have known each other, their friendship is very strong... they support each other to master English.

The students now study in different schools in Bogor. Stevanie Clarisa and Mia Sylvia Sanjaya study at SMA Kesatuan; Fransisca Livia goes to SMKK Baranangsiang; Andrianus Pujianto and Marwin Suwardi study at SMA Regina Pacis; Habib goes to SMA YPHB Bogor; Nora Nisrina, Sekar Hanun Ulwani, Dariatus S and Budi Prabowo go to SMAN 1 Bogor.

ACTIVITIES IN NOVEMBER 2010

Time has been running quickly... It is November now, even it's been the fourth week of the month. There have been some activities done at Independent English Course Bogor.


The intensive English training programme at United Tractors School Jakarta for batch III finally finished on Friday 19 November. On the last two days, the students presented their prepared papers in front of the audience which includes students, English teachers and even UT lecturers. The students looked eager as well as anxious but the paper presentation could finally run well.

In November 2010 Independent students explores MODESTY (some others say simplicity) as one of the 12 living values that needs to be learnt and applied. To live in modesty has a lot of aspects such as honesty, accountability, generousity, self-acceptance and so on.


This month some new students join Independent. Some of them come from another English course in Bogor... They decided to move to Independent as their old English course is going to be closed. Independent's management, staff and other students welcome them. We hope that the new students will enjoy their study here.