Learning English can at first seem like a difficult task. Of course, the most important thing to do is to study English with a reputable training provider. There are however a few simple tips you can do on top of your studies that will help to excel your English skills faster:
Find a reputable training provider - Studying English with a reputable trainer can mean all the difference to how fast you are able to learn English. Professionals will be able to help you speak and write English, but beware of fraudulent businesses and individuals who aren't registered training providers. Remember, if something sounds like it's too good to be true, it usually is. It might be fraudulent. Learning any new language takes time, and English is no different.

Listen to English - Listening to English will help you to speak it. If you leave your English class and then don't really hear much spoken English until your next class, it's not as beneficial as if you were to leave your class and watch a movie in English or have a conversation with someone in English. Watching movies in English with English subtitles is especially helpful as you can listen to the words as well as read what they are saying. This will help with your pronunciation and learning new words. If you watch the movie at home, you can always pause and rewind it in order to reread phrases or sentences and practice saying them.
Read English - The more you read English, the better you will be at speaking it. It may be much harder at first, but opt for reading English books and magazines in your free time. You'll find it easier to pick up English. This also includes other things like newspaper articles and even information online. The more English you read, the better you will be at understanding it.

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Find a buddy - A great idea to help improve your English is to have someone who speaks English well, meet you after your classes to help you improve your pronunciation and spoken English. It doesn't have to be for very long, even spending an extra hour a week with someone who can speak English will help to improve your English skills faster.
• Be persistent - Learning any language can be difficult, but the most important thing is to be persistent.
Whether you are studying at a Melbourne Business School or are a student interested in pursuing marketing in an English speaking country, it really is important that you are confident with your English speaking skills. By completing the correct training and by following a few simply tips you should find that your English skills will improve, even faster than you expected!

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When looking for a way to improve English writing skills, choosing the best method is entirely dependent on you. Your current professional and personal circumstances, your writing skill level, how much time and effort you can spend on learning, etc. Will all play a part in the decision.
For example, if your mother tongue is not English and you are just beginning to learn how to write in English, your best bet would be one of the many excellent courses out there that are geared towards learning English as a foreign language. Make sure the tutor or school you choose is accredited (usually, they will have TEFL accreditation - this stands for Teaching English as a Foreign Language).

There are also many great video and audio courses available both in retailers and online. Read as much as you can in the styles, formats or genres you would like to explore. Reading not only improves your vocabulary and level of comprehension, it also gives you a kind of 'writer's sense'. It raises your awareness of style conventions, makes grammar feel more natural, shows you what does work, and - crucially - what does not work.
If you would like to improve your business English, search the web for business documents - annual reports, open letters, mission statements, business plans. Search for common mistakes in business English, and you will quickly learn what to avoid.
Likewise, if you would like to improve your technical writing skills, have a look at technical documents. Keep abreast of news in your chosen field, especially when it comes to terminology - new jargon and acronyms abound.

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If you are having a hard time with academic essay or paper writing, many universities, colleges and other academic institutions offer weekend, part time and short courses in academic writing. There are also several online resources dedicated to the ins and outs of academic writing. If you can afford it, hire a copy-editor who specializes in this form of writing, and would be willing to give you comprehensive feedback.
If you are a professional creative writer, making sure that you improve English writing skills is a high priority. There are luckily many avenues for the professional story teller to take, including writing circles and clubs, creative writing courses, competitions that provide editor-feedback, interactions with editors, online forums, seminars and workshops.

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This year the Department of Culture and Tourism held Visit Indonesia year with tagline Wonderful Indonesia. This country will give you amazing experience whether you a beach lover, shopaholic, ecotourism enthusiast, culinary travel, or avid history of wonderful Indonesia.
For beach lover, Indonesia have so many beaches with beautiful waves. Go visit to Batu Bedaun Beach in Riau Archipelago. It's white sandy beach with clean blue sea and small wave. Or you can hit Pangandaran in West Java or Parang Tritis at Jogjakarta. Kuta beach in Bali is a must visit especially for surfer enthusiast. Batu Bolong Beach at Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara has a huge rock with a hole in it.
On the south coast of central Lombok, just hit Putri Nyale Beach. It stretches an unbroken expanse of clean white sand lapped by waves of the Indian Ocean.

From Sulawesi, Indonesia has two marine spot you must visit, Bunaken in North Sulawesi and Wakatobi in South East Sulawesi. Indonesia for Shopaholic and Gourmet Traveller
For shopaholic, you could shop till you drop in Jakarta. Check out the Jakarta's modern shopping havens; Java is handicrafts galore, batik and most of the crafts made in Solo, Central Java and the villages around Yogyakarta, Bandung in West Java is a paradise for those who love garments, Shopping in Bali can offer excellent bargains. Shops that cater mostly to tourists sell modern artwork, leather goods, casual summer clothing and of course beach wear.
For culinary travel, Indonesia offers heaven gourmet. Travelers love eating and food is a big attraction. The most popular Indonesian cuisine is Sate (Satay), grilled meat skewered on wooden sticks, served with a sweet peanut or turmeric sauce.
Indonesia offers a great taste. Try hot and spicy rendang in Padang restaurant, the sweet Gudeg in Yogya. Soto mie, noodle soup with beef and cabbage from Bogor West Java, brown color broth beef soup "Rawon" from East Java, tangy fish dishes and red bean soup in Manado restaurant, spicy ribs soup from Makassar, Sulawesi.
Ecotourism Enthusiast and Avid History
For ecotourism enthusiast, there are many national parks worth visit. Go to Bukit Lawang in Medan. It is the first orang-utan rehabilitation center. Indonesia will continue stunning you at Kerinci Seblat National Park in Padang, a tropical rainforest heritage of West Sumatra, Siberut National Park-a man and biosphere reserve. Continue your eco journey to Way Kambas National Park-home to rhino and elephants in Lampung.

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In Java, there are Gunung Halimun National Park-the land under the rainbow and Gunung Gede-Pangrango National Park as the most visited national park in West Java. If you want to see a land above the clouds, go to Bromo-Tengger-Semeru National Park in East Java.
For avid historical place, there are many relic sites you should visit Indonesia. Go to Batu Sangkar in Bukit Tinggi, West Sumatra, center of Minangkabau culture. Carry on to Riau, there is a buddhist temple, Muara Takus Temple.
Borobudur and Prambanan are must visit temple. Carry on to Sulawesi by visiting Waruga Cemetery. It is ancient cemetery of Minahasan ancestors. Another cemetery is The Sacred cemetery of Ju Panggola. It is built in 14th century is located in Gorontalo city.

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Many of our readers wondered why on previous occasion we posted an article about fighting corruption!
The local good and law abiding common Indonesian people already know how corruption is chasing foreign investors out of Indonesia, yet nothing serious is done about it by the government, though, the president did form a new committee to fight corruption but this committee is paused helpless since it has no teeth or tools to executive any counter measures policy to slow down and eradicate corruption from its roots.

In fact, the Immigration related corruption cases are huge and it starts from the moment foreigners enter into Indonesia at the Sukarno Hatta international airport in Jakarta.
Then, there is the ordinary fabrication of problems to expats, then blackmail them for solutions, the problems do not usually exist, never the less, they still find any imaginary problem and then start bargaining for huge sums of money from foreigners to settle their odyssey.
We were subjected to a corruption case in Jakarta; it was conducted by a team of the infamous immigration office gangsters and a local accomplice nick named the black widow.
And we have managed to video clip the handing over of blood money to an immigration officer who was sent by his senior officer to collect the ransom money from us to resolve a none existing problem that they have created with my team with the assistance of one of our previous local employees who I dare say was even more corrupt than they were.

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There is a kind of general knowledge in Indonesia, that is if he is a foreigner then its alright to milk him out of few extra bucks.
Lawyers follow suit in Indonesia, for if one is lucky to find an English speaking lawyer, one will find out that his lawyer tends to become very sympathetic to the cause which falls under the general knowledge concept mentioned above.
Beautiful Indonesia is indeed, though, beware of the boomerang... be extra careful not to fall in any sort of problem and make sure you know a decent English speaking legal counselor before you think of conducting any business.

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In Charlotte, North Carolina, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District has made drastic changes to their math curriculum. When their test scores were not improving my much more than three percent, the school district decided to implement Texas Instruments' MathForward program to help students with their math skills. The MathForward program helps to increase algebra readiness and math performance in middle school students.
The program is a comprehensive approach to math reform, it increases the instructional time, which allows students to memorize formulas better and study longer. This helps students a lot because with a subject like math, because math is a subject that requires a lot of study time and class time to fully understand the concepts of math. If a student merely memorizes the math formulas in a one-hour classroom setting, they wont retain the information and that's what this program is trying to do, They want students to retain information for long time use, instead of memorizing just for the upcoming test. Schools want students to do well on their standardized tests, which will help improve the schools ratings. By helping this students retain the math knowledge, not only will it help Improve the schools ratings, but it will help the students to be better prepared for math courses they take in high school and college down the road.

Another way that MathForward helps increase students test score is by increasing the teacher's knowledge in the subject. They create special math trainings for teachers on new ways to teach math and new math lessons that will be beneficial to teaching the students. By giving the teachers continuous coaching and classes that helps develop their effective teaching skills, students will benefit and feel more confident in their knowledge of the math subject, since the teachers that are teaching it are extremely knowledgeable on the subject.

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They are also using technology to motivate the students by creating programs along with MathForward to assist students in math. The students will be more focused and interested when technology is introduced because it is something new and something that will help break up the monotonous subject of math. They will also have administrators and parents involved in backing up the MathForward program to help credit the program and give the students confidence that this program really can help them. By implementing this program into the schools their test scores rose an astounding thirty-five percent, opposed to the three percent from before with just the normal math program. In schools that didn't implement the MathForward program, they will definitely be implementing it during the following year. They are also adding forty math teachers to the district to keep up with the high demand of math teacher that the program calls for.

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UN SMK adalah Ujian Nasional yang diperuntukkan bagi Sekolah menengah kejuruan (SMK) baik kelompok Teknologi maupun Non Teknologi seperti kepariwisataan dan manajemen. Sekolah menengah kejuruan adalah salah satu bentuk satuan pendidikan formal yang menyelenggarakan pendidikan kejuruan pada jenjang pendidikan menengah sebagai lanjutan dari SMP, MTs, atau bentuk lain yang sederajat atau lanjutan dari hasil belajar yang diakui sama/setara SMP/MTs. SMK sering disebut juga STM (Sekolah Teknik Menengah). Di SMK,terdapat banyak sekali Program Keahlian. Dalam UN SMK 2012 dimungkinkan hanya 5 (lima) mata pelajaran (Mapel) untuk Ujian Nasional yakni:

• Matematika,


• Bahasa Indonesia,


• Bahasa Inggris,


• Teori Kejuruan, dan


• Praktek Kejuruan

Silakan Anda Download Soal Latihan UN SMK 2012, untuk sementara kami baru memberikan 3 (tiga) mata pelajaran yakni Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Inggris, dan Matematika.

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Program Teknik

• Matematika,


• Bahasa Indonesia,


• Bahasa Inggris,

Program Non Teknik

• Matematika,


• Bahasa Indonesia,


• Bahasa Inggris,

Bobot UN Praktik Paling Besar

Beberapa aturan aturan baru dalam pelaksanaan ujian nasional (UN) tahun ini di antaranya adalah pemberlakuan lima paket soal, komposisi penilaian, tiadanya kesempatan ujian ulang bagi siswa yang tidak lulus, serta ditiadakannya tim independen. Meskipun begitu, para guru dari beberapa sekolah menilai, secara umum mekanisme dan pelaksanaan UN tidak jauh berbeda dari tahun-tahun sebelumnya.
Terutama dari UN praktik, karena dari situ akan terlihat sedalam apa siswa menguasai materi pelajaran.
-- Sukarno

Menurut para guru yang ditemu Kompas.com, Rabu (6/4/2011), di DKI Jakarta, dari sekian banyak perbedaan dalam pelaksanaan UN 2011 dengan tahun-tahun sebelumnya, perbedaan paling nyata adalah pemberlakuan lima paket soal dan mekanisme pembagian soal secara acak. Kedua peraturan tersebut merupakan hal paling penting untuk disosialisasikan karena banyaknya keluhan, baik dari siswa maupun para guru tentang pemahaman mereka.

"Setelah beberapa kali disosialisasikan, guru yang awalnya bingung sekarang sudah mulai nyambung. Karena pelaksanaannya memang tak segampang itu," ujar Wakil Kepala Sekolah Bidang Kurikulum, SMKN 5 Jakarta, Hasyim As'ari, Rabu (6/4/2011).

Sementara untuk bobot penilaian, selain 60:40, khusus pada SMK juga menggunakan komposisi lain, yaitu 70 persen dari hasil UN praktik dan 30 persen berdasarkan UN tulis. Aturan baru ini seharusnya dapat melegakan para siswa, mengingat pada tahun-tahun sebelumnya, kelulusan 100 persen dibebankan kepada hasil UN.

Ketua Panitia UN dan Ujian Sekolah SMKN 40 Jakarta Sukarno mengatakan, bobot praktik 70 dan 30 persennya adalah hasil UN tulis diberikan untuk membidik output dari pembelajaran yang diterima siswa.

"Terutama dari UN praktik, karena dari situ akan terlihat sedalam apa siswa menguasai materi pelajaran," kata Sukarno.

Perbedaan lain yang mencolok, lanjut Sukarno, adalah ditiadakannya tim pengawas independen dari perguruan tinggi. Pada tahun sebelumnya seperti UN 2009 dan 2010, pengawas dari PTN dibutuhkan untuk membantu melakukan pengawasan pelaksanaan UN di sekolah. Namun, kata Sukarno, saat ini para guru mengaku siap melayani siswa sebaik mungkin, guna meminimalisir terjadinya kesalahan dalam pelaksanaan UN.

"Meskipun berbeda, masalah pelaksanaannya tetap sama. Sama-sama perlu tanggung jawab penuh dalam melaksanakannya," ujar Sukarno.

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Math is a subject many high school students struggle with, but with the right study habits students can see higher performance scores.
Studying math is slightly different than studying for other subjects. Math is a critical thinking course and is learned by actively doing problems. It is very important for students to complete the assigned homework and even extra math problems for practice. Doing homework and practice work helps students learn formulas and techniques they need to know. This also helps improve problem solving and critical thinking skills.

Studying for math begins in the classroom. It is very important for students to take responsibility for studying and being aware of strengths and weaknesses. Attending each class is essential. Not only attending, but becoming an active participant in the classroom, as well as taking notes. Test material is typically covered in class, so it is imperative that students pay attention.
Math is a subject where each class builds on the previous. Students need to make sure they understand the material before moving on to the next topic. The amount of time spent on studying is vital. Students should spend as much time as they need to complete all their homework and fully understand the material.
Using problem solving strategies is beneficial to solving math problems. Problem solving strategies include using one or more variable, completing a table, considering a special case, identifying patterns, guessing and testing, drawing pictures or diagrams, making lists, solving simpler related problems, using reasoning, working backward, solving an equation, looking for a formula and using coordinates.

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The best way to solve math problems is to utilize Pólya's four-step process. Understanding the problem entitles identifying which quantity the problem is asking to find or solve. Once the problem is identified, a plan is devised. The plan explains which skills and techniques are necessary to solve the problem. The plan is carried out then reviewed to see if the answer and method seems reasonable.
If a student is still having problems studying regularly, he or she may best benefit from the help of a math tutor. Tutors, including online math tutoring programs, are a great way for a student to receive individual, personalized assistance with difficult subjects. Tutors can provide the needed assistance and show students how the complete a problem through each step.
Dennis McLynn is the Vice President of Strategic Marketing & Business Development for High Points Learning. HighPoints Learning (HPL) is a leader in Web-based math education and instruction. HPL offers an online math tutoring program that helps raise participants' math scores an average of 15 points in pre and post testing. HighPoints Learning services the 3-12 grade market with products and services that include AchieveMath, Achieve HighPoints, and AYP Math.

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