Academic
Writing? Yes, I am ready!!!
“Academic Writing
almost drives me crazy every time I came into the class”, “Why is this so
hard?” “Be careful when you come into the Academic Writing class”, “Be ready!”.
Those all are following reasons about Academic Writing class. Almost everyone
from the older cohort (angkatan) said exactly the same about it. They say it was
hard and crazy. Moreover, it has lots of pressures. For those who have already taken
this course and gladly passed the course will feel very release because they have
already succeeded. However, for those who have not taken the course yet, it is
such a nightmare for what older cohort (angkatan) said was spying on them.
Facing the fear of
Academic Writing class, Pool of Writers as known as PoWers tried to facilitate
what FLL (Faculty of Language and Literature) students’ need to prepare the
Academic Writing class and give some tips to get through this difficult lesson.
Pricilia, the chairperson of PoWers Workshop 2014, said that after this workshop,
she hopes that the participants will be helpful enough with this workshop. It
can make the students free from the fear of this lesson. No more fear and get
ready for the class. With the themes “Nuts and Bold of Academic Writing”, PoWers
try to say that class is not something that we have to be afraid of. This has
to be encouraging and help us to write academically just like the name of the
lesson, Academic Writing.
So guys, what
are you waiting for? Come and join in our workshop!!! It
will make you better and get away from the fear of Academic Writing class!! J
ECC SHOW CASE:
GOES TO NATURE
Hello guys! Do you like watching news on television or
just love listening to a story telling? If so, this is great update for you,
because ECC (English Competition Club) will hold an event which will entertain
you. It’s called ECC Show Case. Let’s find out what is that here.
As it name is
a competition club, it will show the ability in some skills that is usually
competed in English competition, such as speech, storytelling, spelling bee,
scrabble, and news casting.
ECC choose a
theme that related with nature. The reason is that recently there were some
natural disasters happening in Indonesia. “Sometime it is caused by the human being who
do not care with this nature, so by this show case we want to make the
audiences aware with their environment by our performance that will talk about
nature”, said Sandra as the coordinator. For this show case, the performance
will be united in a story line which is related with the theme.
“I am still confused what to do, because I am
a new member of ECC, I don’t know what I should do in this show case. I still cannot
picture out this event, but in the other hand I am very happy, because this is
my first chance to show my ability in spelling bee.” said Devi (13ners), as a
new member of ECC.
This event
held to promote this extracurricular and as a place to practice for ECC members
who will join ALSA competition. “I
encourage you to come and see ECC Show Case on March 24th in front of
F building. There are some door prizes for lucky audiences.” Sandra added.
So guys,
mark your calendar on that day. Do not miss it and enjoy their performance!
Grace’12
EDRT Presented The
First Trial of The
Year
“A Beary Unusual
Pet”
Hello everyone! Did you see Kemisan (a weekly
performance in front of F building) on last Thursday, Februari 13th 2014? If you saw it from the early opening, you must have seen a Readers Theater’s performance presented by
some of FLL students. Yup! That was the first trial from one of KBM (Kegiatan
Bakat Minat) in
our faculty, EDRT (English Department Reader’s Theater). Different from the previous peformances, this
time EDRT chose to perform in Kemisan. According to Hannasista ’12 as the chairperson of
EDRT, they decided to perform there in order to attract more audiences and introduce this KBM
to many people especially students from the other faculties.
Carrying a title “A Beary Unusual
Pet” the drama tells about three children who wanted a bear as their pet. At first, their parents were really shocked
about that. Then, they had a good trick to make their children change their
mind. Finally, the children decided to have a puppy and they called it “BEAR”. “I think it was a good and
entertaining performance because the casts could act well and the story was
funny and interesting”, said Ivana ’12 as one of the audiences.
Before the show, the casts did some
preparations such as training three times a week. During the training, they
improved their vocal, intonation and also expression in order to make the
performance better. Brenda ’12 as one of the casts of the Readers Theater’s performance said,
“Actually I was really nervous before the performance, but after the
performance was end, I feel so relief and quite satisfied with our performance
and I think our performance was good.” Not only Brenda who shared her feeling
about the performance, Hanna as the chairperson of EDRT also shared her feeling
about it. “I feel so relief after watching the performance of the casts, I
really appreciate their hard work to prepare the performance during this three
weeks, and I also wanna say thank you so much for all crews who have a good
cooperation in preparing this first tria of this yearl.”
So, what do you think guys? Do you
want to see the other performances from EDRT? Stay up to date for the next trial and hope that
it will be much better and more fun!
Oviera ‘12
EDFM New
Project: When Love Means Letting Go
Love is something that everybody needs
and can’t live without. It always warms heart and often changes someone life.
Unfortunately, all forms of differences in this world sometimes make love grows
in the conditions that it is not supposed to be in. Loving someone who has a
different religion could be one of them. That’s why, sometimes people just have
to try to let someone go and learn to move on.
Since love in differences is such an
endless discussion which is never flat to be talked about, EDFM (English
Department Film Making) chooses it as a big theme for the movies they are
making. That big theme then is divided into three small themes which are
unrequited love, love in different religion, and incestuous love. Those three
small themes will be the basis of their movies plot later on.”We bring the
theme about love in differences because it’s universal, easy to make it into
movies, and also easy to understand.” said Dara, 2012ers, as a leader of EDFM.
She also said that the purpose of making these three movies is to show everyone
that EDFM has no less quality than other KBM.
In the movie making process, the
members who are consisting of 2012ers and 2013ers work together for almost one full
day. They work in such a way for about two weeks. “Tired? Of course”, they
said. But actually they feel happy too, because they can be closer to each
other and also learn something new. Indeed, the cooperation in making these
movies is expected to increase knowledge, especially for 2013ers who will continue
EDFM in the following year.
So far, they have been shooting in
several regions that have beautiful places such as Kopeng, Bawen, Ambarawa, and
Bandungan. They choose those places in order to make every single scene in
their movie felt alive with such cool backgrounds.
“The difficulties in making the movie
are we can hardly find the talents who are match with the characters.” said
Adi, the 2013ers, when PoWers asks about their constraints. But it does not mean that they have already given up.
The movie making will be continued
until the end of this month and then they will have a movie premiere in a
March. Keep on the spirit, guys! (Sita ‘12/Meytha ’13)
ECD 2014, The Year of The Gods and Goddesses
The even semester always
become the time for most big events MFLL. One of the big events is ECD. This year’s ECD have a theme “Bring Out Your
English Talent, Show Us What You Got”. And for the debate competition, they use
Gods and Goddesses name for the debating teams name during the debate. There
are more 20 high schools all around Central Java who registered this year.
There were also two new competitions; Spelling bee and Yell-yell competition. Those
competitions were quite successful, proven by the number of the contestant who
participated. Even though the Yell-yell competition had only two participants,
it still succeeded because it boosted the atmosphere in the closing ceremony. So here is the result of 201 4 ECD:
Competition
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The Champion
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Runner-Up
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Second Runner-Up
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Speech
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SMA Karangturi
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SMAN 1 Salatiga
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SMA Kristen Tri Tunggal
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Story Telling
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SMA Kristen Tri Tunggal
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SMAN 1 Salatiga
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SMA Kr. Satya Wacana
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News Casting
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SMA Kr. 1 Salatiga
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SMA Kr. Satya Wacana
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SMAN 1 Salatiga
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Spelling Bee
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SMAN 1 Kendal
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SMA Kr. Satya Wacana
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SMAKarang Turi
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Drama
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SMA Kr. Satya Wacana
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SMA Tri Tunggal
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SMAN 1 Boja
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Yell-yell
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SMA Kr. Satya Wacana
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SMA Tarakanita
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Debate
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SMA Taruna Nusantara
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SMA Kalam Kudus
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The Grand Champion : SMA Kr. Satya Wacana
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Well, congratulations for the
winners and see you at 2015 ECD.