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Tittle                  : Creative and Innovative English

Author               : Drs. Otong Setiawan Djuharie

Publisher            : Yrama Widya, April 2008

Pages                 : 160 pages

English competence is one of the modal for one to live in the future. In gobalization, every ones freely goes in an out of the country. It of course require an English language skill to know that it is one of international language. To have Engish skill well, it must be learnt since small to make it more fluent in other purpose so that the people can not say “even though he is fluent in English but he is from Indonesia and it is more dominating him”. It could be mean if one has studied since child it will give more benefit to mastery English.

This book is purposed to give the students around 9-1 years the proper knowledge and information on how nice English is. Most of students say that English is difficult. It happens cause they do not understand how nice and important English is. Then it required any efforts to make them look at English from the other view. This book has its own characteristic way to persuade the students open English book as if it is the story.

This book has different method from the others that make it as an advantage. From the cover it is colourful and match with student’s preferrence purposed to persuade the students opening the book. After such opening the page the student served with the topics and the subjects which are matched with their habit. It will make them more interested more over by the student opening the next pages assumingg will be more interested cause it makes as if the book tells about them.

An other advantage of this is the method that involves the students not only as an object but also as the subject. The materials that are arranged according to the student’s habit, way of thinking, preferrene and the like or dislike are served in the contents of this book that help them understanding about themselves in english.

This book consists of 20 lessonss. Each subjects has the emotional ingredients about student’s life such as “where is my”, “the weather’, “what are you doing”, etc. In this case when the students have already involved in the class then studying these chapters the students will be prepared English well before entering the junior high school.

Last this book is completed by the general exercises from first lessson to the last purposed to know how far the student’s skill and understanding of English that can also be the material for the teacher or the parent to evaluate how far does their children’s progress.

This book can be one of the  good references for parents or teachers to learn English to their student or children by the guidance of them of course.

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BOOK REVIEWS

Title            : Communicative and Interactive English for the Third Grade of Senior High School

Author        : Otong Setiawan Djuharie

Publisher    : YRAMA WIDYA

Published   : April 2006

Pages          : 320 pages

The Communicative and Interactive English for the Third Grade of Senior High School is a teaching textbook for senior high schools based on Kurikulum Berbasis Kompetensi (KBK) that carries the student orientedness, where students who became the core teaching and learning activities. The core material in this book based on the basic needs of an early intermediate to intermediate and is designed so that students will be involved fully in the inquiry learning environment that stimulates and challenges to explore, create, and innovate. Material properties of this book are not a dogmatic theory of language and speaking, but the form of stimuli that arouse curiosity to use the language and struggling with the language interaction and communication.

This book contains basic competency in English (speaking, reading and writing) to be controlled and performanced by students in senior high school level. Grammar enrichment presented in a condensed comprehensive and holistic per topic - not partially - to support a more meaningful linguistic performance and in line with the order-bridge so that in its turn will get linguistic mastery learning achievement (mastery learning). So that the focus directed, listening skills intentionally presented separately from this book.

Unfortunately, Indonesia do not use KBK as its curriculum today. There is a new curriculum which is KTSP (Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan). So, this book is not longer appropiate for the senior high school. It just can be for the second reference only.

This book is intended for SMA/MA, but can also be used for the general public as reference material.

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Draft Essay
Smoking dangers

Cigarettes that you Taukah small size it can make your death? What are the dangers that cigarette? According to the science kedoteraan, cigarettes contain several kinds of harmful substances which can attack the body's health. Substances from cigarettes is attacking Heart, Lung, reproduction equipment and much more.

Smoke contains more than four thousand of substances and two thousand of them have been declared impacted not good for our health, such as radioactive material (polonium-201) and materials used in the paint (acetone), floor cleaner (ammonia), ubat silverfish (naphthalene), insect poison (DDT), termite poison (arsenic), toxic gases (hydrogen cyanide) used in the "death chamber" for pesalah who undergo the death penalty, and many more, really horrible.
And substance in cigarettes is the most dangerous Tar, Nicotine and Carbon Monoxide. Tar contains approximately forty three ingredients that cause cancer or so-called carcinogens. Nicotine has a substance in cigarettes that can cause addiction, which causes the user is very difficult to stop cigarette smoking. Nicotine is a substance in cigarettes that cause heart disease risk, 25 percent of people living with heart disease caused by smoking activity, still want to smoke?

he following are the dangers of smoking on our health, smoking can cause:

    Stomach cancer,
    Colon and uterine cancer,
    Oral cancer,
    Esophagus cancer,
    Pharynx cancer,
    Cancer pankrias,
    Breast cancer,
    Lung cancer,
    Chronic respiratory disease
    Stroke, or Heart disease,
    Sterility,
    Disconnect the beginning of menstruation,
    Gave birth to babies with disabilities
    Miscarriage baby,
    Bronchitis,
    Cough,
    Peptic ulcer disease,
    Emfisima,
    Muscle weakness,
    Gum disease,
    Eye damage

Which of the above are the dangers of smoking for current smokers, what's that active smokers? Active smokers are people who are directly inhaled cigarette smoke, whereas passive smokers are those who do not directly inhale smoke, but inhale cigarette smoke issued from the mouths of people who are smoking.


Below is a danger of cigarette smoke for nonsmokers.
Increase the risk of lung cancer and heart disease
Respiratory problems including pneumonia and bronchitis
Sore or painful eye
Sneezing and coughing
Sore throat
Headache

The substances contained in cigarette smoke are:
2 times more nicotine
5 times more carbon monoxide
3 times more tar
50 times more chemicals that are hazardous to health

Dangers of cigarette smoke on pregnant women and fetus
Miscarried fetuses
Tumbesaran fetus terencat - 30% higher
The death of the fetus in the womb
Bleeding from the placenta (placenta abruption)
Weight loss - 20 to 30%

Dangers of secondhand smoke on infants
Problems and respiratory disease
Disrupt the development of intelligence
Ear outbreaks
Leukeamia
Brain cancer 22%
Tired
Sudden death syndrome.

So,.............Don't Smoking.!!!

Smoking dangers

Cigarettes that you Taukah small size it can make your death? What are the dangers that cigarette? According to the science kedoteraan, cigarettes contain several kinds of harmful substances which can attack the body's health. Substances from cigarettes is attacking Heart, Lung, reproduction equipment and much more.

Smoke contains more than four thousand of substances and two thousand of them have been declared impacted not good for our health, such as radioactive material (polonium-201) and materials used in the paint (acetone), floor cleaner (ammonia), ubat silverfish (naphthalene), insect poison (DDT), termite poison (arsenic), toxic gases (hydrogen cyanide) used in the "death chamber" for pesalah who undergo the death penalty, and many more, really horrible.
And substance in cigarettes is the most dangerous Tar, Nicotine and Carbon Monoxide. Tar contains approximately forty three ingredients that cause cancer or so-called carcinogens. Nicotine has a substance in cigarettes that can cause addiction, which causes the user is very difficult to stop cigarette smoking. Nicotine is a substance in cigarettes that cause heart disease risk, 25 percent of people living with heart disease caused by smoking activity, still want to smoke?

he following are the dangers of smoking on our health, smoking can cause:

    Stomach cancer,
    Colon and uterine cancer,
    Oral cancer,
    Esophagus cancer,
    Pharynx cancer,
    Cancer pankrias,
    Breast cancer,
    Lung cancer,
    Chronic respiratory disease
    Stroke, or Heart disease,
    Sterility,
    Disconnect the beginning of menstruation,
    Gave birth to babies with disabilities
    Miscarriage baby,
    Bronchitis,
    Cough,
    Peptic ulcer disease,
    Emfisima,
    Muscle weakness,
    Gum disease,
    Eye damage

Which of the above are the dangers of smoking for current smokers, what's that active smokers? Active smokers are people who are directly inhaled cigarette smoke, whereas passive smokers are those who do not directly inhale smoke, but inhale cigarette smoke issued from the mouths of people who are smoking.


Below is a danger of cigarette smoke for nonsmokers.
Increase the risk of lung cancer and heart disease
Respiratory problems including pneumonia and bronchitis
Sore or painful eye
Sneezing and coughing
Sore throat
Headache

The substances contained in cigarette smoke are:
2 times more nicotine
5 times more carbon monoxide
3 times more tar
50 times more chemicals that are hazardous to health

Dangers of cigarette smoke on pregnant women and fetus
Miscarried fetuses
Tumbesaran fetus terencat - 30% higher
The death of the fetus in the womb
Bleeding from the placenta (placenta abruption)
Weight loss - 20 to 30%

Dangers of secondhand smoke on infants
Problems and respiratory disease
Disrupt the development of intelligence
Ear outbreaks
Leukeamia
Brain cancer 22%
Tired
Sudden death syndrome.

So,.............Don't Smoking.!!!

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Enjoy Watching Television

Nowadays, many problems that make us unhappy and stress. It is because our brain is forced to think creatively and smartly in order that we can compete in our jobs and schools. But, if our brain is forced too much, it will depress us. To prevent it, we need some entertainments which reftresh our mind. Watching television is the solution to refresh our mind.

First, watcing television gives us some entertaimants. Mostly TV channels present some programs which are amusing and attactive, such as TV dramas, movies and TV shows. TV dramas and movies present fiction stories which gives us funny, happy or sad stories. It makes the viewers come into the stories and enjoy it. It gives satifaction for them. TV shows such as games, quizes, comedies and reality shows take a part of entertainments too. It makes the viewers can stay all day in front of the television because it is absolutely not boring.

Second, watching television also gives us some informations. News, talkshows and pollitics discussion are the informative one. News present the hot and latest issue and talkshows talk about everything taht happen around us. Then, the politics discussions give us knowledge about government.

These advantages make us happy and enjoy watching television. It also can refresh our mind after our tiring activity in the office or school.