OBLIGATION

Hello everyone. Welcome to Moonlise blog. 🙂 Today we will learn about obligation.

First aid. Road accident personal helping person to car or cycling driver medicine vector cartoon background. Accident road, automobile crash and people help driver illustration

From the picture above, what do you think about the picture?

Alright the people have a car accident. So they have to go to the hospital.

We can conclude that it’s their obligation to go to the hospital, right?

WHAT IS OBLIGATION?

According to Cambridge Dictionary, Obligation is something that a person feels morally or legally forced to do. It means we have to/ must obey something. In English, there are three modals that we usually use, such as: Must, Have to and Should. So do you know the differences between those modals? Okay, please give attention to the next explanation!

“Must”

Must is a strong obligation (possibly based on the speaker’s opinion).

The Structure of Must:

(+)	Subject	+	must	+	Main verb
(-)	Subject	+	must+not	+	Main verb
(?)	Must	+	subject	+	Main verb

Example:

For the example, look at the picture. It shows that he has a bad score in exam.

It means that, “He must study hard, so that he can get a good score”.

From this example we can conclude that is a strong obligation that come from the speaker’s opinion.

The other example of must:

“You must do your homework every night.”

“I must stop smoking!”

“Have to”

Have to similar to must. It also strong obligation, but it (possibly from outside). It means, it can be a regulation that we have to obey (can be a school regulation, traffic regulation, etc).

The Structure of Have to:

(+)	Subject	+	Have to/has to	+	Main verb
(-)	Subject	+	Do/does+not + have to	+	Main verb
(?)	Do/does + subject	+	Have to/has to	+	Main verb

For the example of have to, look at this picture bellow.

From the picture above we can see that in our country, “Every student has to wear a uniform to school”.

The other example of have to:

“John has to wear a tie at work”

“In Indonesia, you have to drive on the right”

“Should”

Different with must and have to, should is a mild obligation. Should in here use to give and advice to someone. So the obligation can be accepted or not.

The Structure of Should:

(+)	Subject	+	should	+	Main verb
(-)	Subject	+	should+not	+	Main verb
(?)	Should	+	subject	+	Main verb

For the example of should, please look at this picture bellow.

“You should stop smoking. It’s bad for your health.”

From this example we can see that someone give an advice to the smoker. So the smoker can accept the advice or not.

The other example of should:

“You should stop eating fast food.”

“You should go for walks more often.”

“We should go to the park tomorrow.”

“The Example Of Obligation”

For more example of obligation, you can watch this video bellow.

Exercise

Complete the sentences with ” Must, Must Not, Have To or Don’t/Doesn’t Have To, Should, and Should Not.“

1. I …………. study this weekend. It’s my obligation as a student.
2. You …………. feed the animals in the zoo. It’s forbidden!
3. I …………. make my bed every morning. I …………. help my parents at home.
4. You …………. do exercise every day. It’s good for you.
5. You …………. listen to loud music. It’s bad for your ears!
6. You …………. help me now. Dad helped me this morning.
7. They …………. study harder if they want to pass their exams.
8. You …………. use your mobile phone in class.
9. She …………. wear a uniform at school. She can wear jeans.
10. You …………. eat fast food. It’s bad for you!

Learning Grammar

Hello everyone……..Welcome to my blog.
Today I want to tell you about learning grammar and my experience with it.

Grammar is the sound, structure, and meaning system of language. The goal is to teach the students grammar through meaningful activities which are both fun and engaging. It is essential that the teacher always has the goal in mind for teaching grammar and that the students learn this in communicative ways.
Young children are wonderful at absorbing new languages. They can get maximum of language through games and activities that they find funny. Their success in learning a foreign language does not depend on their knowledge of grammar. As Pinter (2006) stated that children can use grammatical structures very well, and they can speak language clearly, but they are not able to say why they use particular structures.
Teachers, of course, should be aware of the grammar and structures that they want their children to know. But they should teach just a minimum of grammar because mastering grammar is to help them speak with organized sentence structures in order to make themselves understood. Some children are able to deal with simple grammar at the age of ten or eleven. If our students learn proper speaking habits while they are young, this should help them become good communicators in the future. According to this statement, I have an experience when I was in junior high school. My teacher taught us simple grammar. My teacher always makes an example using simple grammar.
My teacher gave us the assignment to arrange words using grammar which was explained in the form of groups and it made us understand about learning grammar.

That’s all for today. Thank You.

Learning Words

Hello everyone…
Welcome to my blog. So now I want to tell you about learning words and my experience about it.

Learning words is related to vocabulary. When we want to learn words we should know the vocabulary. Vocabulary is about learning words, but it is about much more than that. Vocabulary can be split into two types: receptive vocabulary and expressive vocabulary. A child’s receptive vocabulary consists of the words the child understands when he/she hears or reads them. A child’s receptive vocabulary consists of the words the child understands when he/she hears or reads them. A child’s expressive vocabulary consists of the words the child uses when he/she speaks. Children typically understand or recognize more words than they actually use when speaking.
Vocabulary is the basis for learning a language. As children learn to read, they must learn to decode (sound-out) print, but they also must have a vocabulary base (word knowledge) in order to make sense of what they decode.
As a teacher, we can use these things to teach the words to our students. For example, when I was in elementary school, my teacher taught us to use posters. On that poster, there are pictures of animals, fruit, things, and others, and every picture has a name. So my teacher always read each name of the picture, and we should follow after her. After that, my teacher will ask us to memorize the word. From this method, our vocabulary is increased.

That’s all for today. Thank You.

Learning the Spoken Language

Hello, welcome to my blog, everyone…..

So today I want to tell you about my experience in learning the spoken language. In learning the spoken language, meaning must come first. If children don’t understand the meaning of the spoken language, they can’t learn it.
Like my experience when I was in junior high school if the teacher don’t tell us the meaning or we don’t know the meaning, we will lazy to learn that material, and some of my friends don’t want to learn it because they don’t understand it. For us, we should know the meaning first.

I have a second experience when I ever taught a student at Advent Elementary School when I was in the second semester. when I taught them full in English, they don’t understand the material that I gave to them, so I use bilingual. From that method, they can understand what I said.

That’s all for today. Thank You.

Learning Language Through Tasks and activities

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Welcome back to my blog. 😀 😀
So in this blog, I will tell you about learning a language through tasks and activities.

According to Van Gert(1995), Classrooms and activities are seen as the ‘environment’ or ‘ecosystem’ in which the growth of skills in the foreign language takes place.
In learning a language, we begin by analyzing the environment created by activity in terms of demands on learners and support for learning. In the learning language process, task demand and task support should balance.

In my experience when I was in school, the teacher gave us a task, and we should do the task. After giving the task the teacher will check the task and if there is a student who finds difficulty in this task, the teacher will explain the task. so at this point in learning language, the environment between task demands and task supports should be balanced.

Okay, that’s all for this blog, Thank you 😀

Children Learning a Foreign Language

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Now I want to tell you about children learning a foreign language. Do you know what is the difference between children and adults in learning English? Children are often more excited and lively as learners. Children also seem less embarrassed than adults at talking in a new language. Like me when I was young I was never shy to ask my teacher about words I don’t understand.  Children will have a go at an activity even when they don’t quite understand why or how. But, they easy to lose interest if they find a difficult task.
As future educators, we will find that important differences do arise from the linguistic, psychological, and social development of the learners, and that, as a result, we need to adjust the way we think about the language we teach and the classroom activities we use.
In this topic, I will give an overview of the theory relevant to children’s language learning.
I begin with the work of two of the major theorist in developmental psychology, “Pieget and Vygotsky”, highlighting key ideas from their work that can inform how we think of the child as a language learner.
Piaget tells how children function in the world that surrounds them and how this influences their mental development. Piaget said that a child is an active learner and thinker, constructing his or her own knowledge by working with objects or ideas. Different from Piaget, Vygotsky focuses on social modern developments (social cultural theory). He has investigated how adults use language to mediate the world for children and help them to solve problems. According to Vygotsky, language is the most important tool for cognitive growth in children.

Reviewing movie Called “WONDER”

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So, today I want to tell you about my reviewing the movie called wonder.

In this movie, there is a boy who hasn’t like ordinary kids. His name is August Pullman. He called Auggie. He has had facial differences since he was born. He is an intelligent boy, especially in science. He really likes star wars, he really likes Halloween, and he has a sister named Via. Via really loves his brother. She is the most understanding daughter. He also has a good family who always supports him.
In this movie, he is entering fifth grade and wants to go to public school. He got homeschooled before. In his first school, he gets bullying. It makes him hate to go to school. But his parents support him at that time. When he comes to school again, he got a friend who helps him with a pop quiz, his name is Jack Will. Both of them spend their time together. Time by time He got many friends. Auggie proved by the difference he had, he could achieve.

The Pro in this movie is even though Auggie has a genetic abnormality, he is still strong.
and the contra is he has been bullied and many people look to underestimate him.

My own reflection about this movie is, even if we have to be less, we should stay strong.

My favorite actor/actress in this movie is Via. Because she is a really understanding girl, even though her parents give more attention to his brother, she is still strong.

I think that’s all about my review, Thank You.

First Meeting in Teaching English to Young Learners Class

Hello guys…. 😀 Welcome back to my blog. So here I want to tell you about my first meeting experience in the Teaching English to Young Learners Class. September 17th, 2019, we have a class about Teaching English to Young Learners. In this class, we were talking about how to teach young learners.

In this photo, my lecturer told us what is the meaning of young learners and what will we find when we teach them. After that, my lecturer told us to write down our perspectives on teaching young learners. We should tell our opinion about the difficulties, good and bad, our approach, and the technique of teaching young learners.

So here is my perspective on teaching young learners.
For me, the difficulty to teach young learners is they are still labile and moody, and some times difficult to make them hear what we said. I love teaching children because they are still innocent and they are fun to teach. So, that is my good thing for teaching young learners. My bad thing about teaching them is they are still labile, sometimes, some of their gossip and laugh when I am teaching. They don’t give attention to me. The approach that I used is, will guide them in an interesting way that will make them understand and interested in the lesson. The technique that I used to teach them is I will make a game related to the lesson every meeting. So that they are more interested in the lesson.

Okay guys, I think that’s all about my experience. Goodbye and Thank You. 😀 😀

Tell A Story

Haii guys.. 😀 😀 . Now I want To tell you about my experience. My experience was told a story to Junior High School students.
My group went to SD Advent Ciracas.

                    

This was the first time I told a story in front of students in Junior High School because I just tell the story only to my niece before.
😀 But,when we arrived at this school, my nerves suddenly disappear because the students were very welcome us and I felt so happy.
My group told a story in one class. When we went into that class, there were 27 students in that class and there was one teacher to guide us. I was very shocked to see their class. Because There was a lot of creativity in their class about their lesson.

      

They are very creative. When we want to start our story, we gave them paper about the story one sheet per person. The reason we gave them the paper is so that they understand the story.

     
My friends and I have different stories. But before we told a story to them, we prayed first.
The story that I told them was about mouse deer and crocodiles. The reason why I gave this story is that this story is about animals, and we know that most kids really like the topic of animals. This story told about a crocodile who was very easy to believe something. I told this story to them so that they are wise to believe something and so that they thought first before they believe in something.

When I started telling the story, they look very serious listening to the story. I was very amazed by them because they could understand my story. I thought they are smart students. They were very interested in the story that I told although there were some students who didn’t pay attention to the story.

                          
After I finished reading the story, I gave them the moral value of the story and they were so happy because they like the story. I was also very happy because I was success telling the story to them.
After my group was finished telling the story, we said thanks to them because they want to listen to our story. After that, we said goodbye to them.

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