Rabu, 11 Juni 2014

How to Quickly Learn English with 3 Easy Steps


An easy way to learn English - Maybe you are looking for a lot on how to quickly learn English and how to speak, write, and memorize all the rules of grammar in English. Learn English much make students frustrated, because they do not know how the right method. As a result, the learning they do of course in vain and do not produce results significantly.

In a quick way to learn English, there are actually only three easy steps that you can apply and produce good results. The steps we will describe briefly below.

Ø  Focus on not only the input and output
Most students and teachers of English provides an understanding that the key lies in the mastery of the language written and spoken. Indeed, it is not wrong because a lot of people who directly practice speaking boldly, he will get used and then gain the ability to speak English well.

But for faster, one should also hone the ability to hear. The ability to listen is one of the keys to success in learning English. For that you have to spend countless hours to listen to English songs, English subtitles, and of course the English-language film.

By listening to a variety of words in the English language for a long time, the ability to listen can be increased considerably. Surprisingly, you will also improve by leaps and bounds in the context of speaking. The situation has been proven and then, you should be the next person to prove this.

Ø  Grammar is important, but do not be too charged
Grammar is important for you as a student. Why is that? Because the status of English in Indonesia is a foreign language, not the native language, or a second language. Thus, the grammar is a must to learn.

However, do not think of grammar as a load that requires you to adjust it as perfect as possible. In terms of writing, grammar is important of course, but in speaking English, we can provide a bit of tolerance with grammatical mistakes or grammar. However, the intent of the words we utter should be kept clear.

Grammar is important, but not to beat our courage to express in English.

Ø  Repeat and then go slow
The key in a quick way to learn English is to slow down and keep repeating. At school, students read the text too fast then the teacher provides materials with an attitude as if overtaken by time. As a result of understanding is often not optimal. Students will only get short-term memory and the teacher is difficult to succeed in teaching.

A study shows that repetition is performed continuously and in a slower tempo will result in better learning achievements. Students must obtain materials with repeatability up to a dozen times. With the repetition, then formed a long-term memory. Then, the students were able to learn English better, and certainly effective.


That's 3 major steps in a quick way to learn English. Good luck and may you succeed

Article "Edge of Tomorrow"

EDGE OF TOMORROW
As you may have heard, the new Tom Cruise movie is basically an alien-invasion Groundhog Day, in which our hero must live the same day over and over again, trying to do it a little better each time. But whereas the Harold Ramis–Bill Murray classic is a comic meditation on getting over yourself and learning to appreciate life, Edge of Tomorrow is about something else: making action movies.
It begins with the sort of montage you’ve seen in a million other Hollywood blow-’em-ups, particularly post-9/11: a series of clips from faux-news broadcasts, which quickly convey that in this version of the near-future a mysterious alien race that looks like the demon spawn of the Flying Spaghetti Monster has invaded the Earth and rapidly annihilated much of it. Europe, in particular, is a bloody mess. In a few of these clips, we see a military spokesman named William Cage (Cruise), who looks like the slick propagandist that he is. You may recognize him from the many other films in which Tom Cruise has played a callow hustler of one kind or another, from The Color of Money to Rain Man to Jerry Maguire. The most obvious precedent is Lt. Daniel Kaffee, the Navy lawyer from A Few Good Men, who, like Cage, begins his movie hoping to avoid real work or risky entanglements.
Cage’s Colonel Jessup is Gen. Brigham (Brendan Gleeson), British leader of the United Defense Force, the international military effort to thwart the extraterrestrials. He orders Cage to the front with a camera crew, the better to sell his impending, D-Day–like invasion of alien-dominated France to a worldwide audience of potential recruits. When Cage refuses and then runs—Tom Cruise does like to run—Brigham has him handcuffed and shipped to the front with new orders: to join the squad of grunts who will storm the beach first and surely be slaughtered. He shortly is.
And then he wakes up: back at the base, in handcuffs, experiencing the previous day all over again, Phil Connors–like. How or why this is happening is not clear at first, but on one of his repeat trips to the invasion, Cage finds the Virgil who can guide him through this hell: Rita Vrataski, a legendary UDF soldier called the Angel of Verdun because of her miraculous feats of alien-killing in that old French city best known for a brutal WWI battle. Rita—the name, as Manohla Dargis points out, may be a nod to Andie MacDowell’s character in Groundhog Day—is played by Emily Blunt, whose surprising performance as an utterly convincing badass may be the best thing about this movie. Vrataski, too, had a period of chronic do-overs and, unlike Cage, she knows why: It has to do with those murderous extraterrestrials, called (for reasons that were never quite clear to me) Mimics. They can control time, and because Cage killed one of the “Alpha” Mimics, that time control was passed on to him. He now has the power to “reset the day.”
Perhaps the speculative biology and metaphysics of all this is clearer in All You Need Is Kill, the illustrated Japanese novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka that Edge of Tomorrow is based on. In the movie, though, it’s just graspable enough for you to focus on what really matters: watching Tom Cruise get killed over and over and over again. Vrataski takes Cage under her wing—or, rather, under her giant, weaponized cricket bat—and schools him in the art of near-future warfare. Then they attempt to memorize the events of the beach invasion so that they can duck and weave and kill their way to the lead alien beast, a kind of central brain that, as we learn in a looong scene of exposition, directly controls the littler creepy-crawlies causing all the carnage across the continent.
If that sounds like a video game, it should. Sakurazaka’s novel was inspired by playing one, and Edge of Tomorrow is essentially a cinematic version of Halo in which a single player gets unlimited lives so that he can learn to dodge all the enemies and win the game. That repetition would get tedious if not for the comic brio that Cruise and director Doug Liman bring to the butchery: Again and again, Cage tries and fails to dodge some weapon or vehicle or alien tendril and amusingly goes down.
This practice-makes-perfect routine looks a lot like an actor rehearsing his stunts—and as Cruise is fond of reminding us, he does his own stunts. This is surely not a coincidence: Liman and his screenwriters have built in enough nods to other movies—Groundhog Day, Alien, Saving Private Ryan, and so on—to make clear that the meta-ness is the point. This is a movie about Tom Cruise working very, very hard to please the world.
And please me he did, though I was already a fan. Not that the pleasure was particularly profound: Despite the movie’s allusions to World Wars I and II, Edge of Tomorrow is utterly shallow when it comes to war, giving us an inhuman enemy we are never asked to understand and a small cast of fellow soldiers who are mostly forgettable. Lately, it seems, we don’t expect anything more from a Tom Cruise movie: He’s taken on a string of big-budget, crowd-pleasing action flicks, after avoiding them for most of his career. Watching his physically expert but psychologically thin performance in this one, it’s hard not to feel as though he, too, is caught in a time loop of sorts, doing variations on the same thing over and over—and getting very good at it, but with much less than the fate of humanity at stake.


English Assignment

Confusing words – 1
Choose the correct word for each sentence.
Note: Answer is the one that underlined.
  1. She works for an advertisement/advertisingagency.
  2. How will the increase in interest rates affect/effect your sales?
  3. My bank manager has agreed to borrow/lendme another $2,000.
  4. We’ve had to cancel/postponethe meeting until next Monday.
  5. These machines are controlled/inspected at least once a day.
  6. My plane was delayed/postponed by an hour due to computer failure.
  7. Before coming here, I studied economics/economy at university.
  8. I am interested/interesting in their new camera.
  9. She applied for a job/work as a personnel officer.
  10. Some employees have a long journey/travel to work every day.
  11.  The cost of life/livinghas gone up again.
  12. Please send precise measurements/measures when ordering.
  13. We expect prices to raise/rise by at least five percent.
  14. We only exchange goods if you produce a receipt/recipe.
  15. I must remember/remindthe boss about that meeting this afternoon.
  16. Can you say/tellthe difference between these two products?
  17. The company is extremely sensible/sensitiveto any criticism.
  18. There’s some more paper in the stationary/stationery cupboard.



Banking Services
commission                 issued                          statement                    credit rating
debited                                    outstanding                 withdraw                     credit transfer
in full                           salaries                                    banker’s draft             financial institutions
interest                                    slip                               cash dispenser             standing order

Bank offers many services to business and their customers. Here are some of the most common:
Many people now have a card which enables them to 1. withdraw money from a 2. cash dispenser. You feed your card into the machine and key in your PIN (personal identification number) and the amount of money you want. If you have enough in your account, the money requested will be 3.issued up to a daily limit. Your account is automatically 4. debited for the amount you have drawn out.
Provided you have a sound 5.credit rating,you can get a credit card from a bank and other 6. financial institution. To obtain goods or services, you present your card and sign a special voucher. When it receives the voucher, the credit card company pays the trader (less a 7. commission) and then send you a monthly 8. slip. Depending on the type of card you have, you will either have to pay 9. in full or be able to pay part of what is owed and pay 10. interest in the balance left 11. statement.
 If you need to make fixed payments at regular intervals, e.g. for insurance premiums, you can arrange a 12. credit transfer (sometimes known as a banker’s order) so that the bank will do this for you.
If you have several bills to pay, you can do this by 13. standing order . You write one cheque for the total sum involved, fill in a 14. Outstanding for each bill and hand everything to the bank cashier.
The transfer system is also used by employers to pay 15. salaries directly into employees’ bank accounts.
If you are dealing with a supplier for the first time, a16. banker’s draftmay be used as payment. This is a cheque guaranteed by a bank and therefore it is not likely to ‘bounce’.


What’s the job?
accountant                              clerk                                        personnel officer
advertising executive             computer operator                 R&D Manager
assembly person                    draughtsperson                       receptionist
chauffeur                               motor mechanic                      salesperson

  1. You will be in charge of a team of highly creative individuals delivering new quality products and enhancing our existing range.
·         Personnel officer
  1. With particular responsibilities for recruitment and selection. Communication skills and a pragmatic approach to problem solving essential.
·         R&D Manager
  1. With mechanical design experience to work as a member of a team producing designs and drawings for production. Experience of our products range is not essential.
·         Draughtperson
  1. Duties include filing, mailing, relief reception and other general office work.
·         Receptionist
  1. Needed for night shift. Clean modern factory. Varied work. Good eyesight essential.
·         Assembly person
  1. Successful applicant will be articulate and presentable. Remuneration includes retainer and car allowance plus commission structure.
·         Salesperson
  1. Reporting directly to Managing Director. You will take over financial control for all aspects of daily operation.
·         Accountant
  1. Sober habits, clean driving licence, able to be on call 7 days per week at times. Uniform supplied.
·         Chauffeur
  1. Must be experienced in the repair and maintenance of heavy duty vehicles. References must be provided from previous employers.
·         Motor mechanic
  1. You are the first person our clients will meet so you need to be friendly, stylish and efficient.
·         Clerk
  1. Some experience in the above-mentioned software is essential but training will be given to the successful applicant.
·         Computer operator
  1. You will be an essential member of an agency responsible for some of the country’s top accounts. You will be responsible for the administration of local and national promotions.
·         Advertising executive



As you were reading the advertisements, did you notice word partnerships such as financial control and communication skills?
Look through the advertisements again and see how many more you can find.
Complete each of the sentences below with a suitable word partnership taken from the advertisements.

  1. We’re looking for new products to add to ourselling list.
  2. She’s an advertising executive of this team. We can’t do without her.
  3. You get more money if you work on the advertising company but it ruins your social life.
  4. He had a very good idea to solving problems.
  5. I didn’t get the job as a driver as I didn’t have a driving license.
  6. My concern are health and safety but I’m also concerned with the general welfare of employees.

Selasa, 06 Mei 2014

RESENSI FILM

Nama   : Michael Antonius
NPM   : 24211457
Kelas   : 3EB02

RESENSI FILM

TARZAN



Tarzan is the thirty-seventh animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. It was produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, and released to theaters by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution on June 181999. It is based upon the Tarzan of the Apes series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and is the only major motion picture version of the Tarzan property to be Disney. It is also the last "bona fide" hit before the Disney slump of the early 2000's making $171,091,819 in domestic gross and $448,191,819 worldwide.

PLOT
In the late 1880's off the coast of Africa, a young couple and their infant son escape a burning ship and land on the unexplored rainforests of Africa, where they craft themselves a treehouse in which to live using salvaged ship parts ("Two Worlds"). Meanwhile, a gorilla couple namedKerchak and Kala are traveling with the rest of their group when their infant son is killed and eaten by a leopard named Sabor. The next day, the still-heartbroken Kala hears a distant child's cry and, following it, stumbles upon the treehouse. She enters the treehouse to find it trashed, and blood covered paw prints (as well as the corpses of the couple) on the floor. Kala rescues the baby from a still-hungry Sabor and returns with it to the rest of the group, but Kerchak despises the boy for his appearance. Nevertheless, Kala decides to raise the boy as her own, naming himTarzan ("You'll Be in My Heart").

A few years later, Tarzan makes friends with feisty young female gorillaTerk. One day, Terk and two of her friends go to a pond where the elephants are. Terk tells Tarzan he can hang out with them if he gets a hair from an elephant being sarcastic hoping it would get rid of him, but Tarzan takes her seriously, so he tries to get a hair but he starts to cause a commotion with all the elephants including a young elephant thinking Tarzan is a piranha named Tantor. Eventually, he gets the hair and sends all the elephants (except Tantor) into a stampede right into the gorillas, almost killing a baby gorilla. He then befriend Tantor and goes on adventures with Tantor and Terk ("Son of Man"). Despite his inability to compete with the rest of the gorillas, Tarzan perseveres and eventually grows into a strong, capable, and gorilla-like grown man. When Sabor attacks the group again, Tarzan successfully fights with and kills her, earning Kerchak's respect, even though Tarzan only has one scratch. Tarzan then notices a group of humans arriving: Professor and his daughter Jane, who have traveled to Africa in search of gorillas, along with their hunter guide Clayton. Jane then has an encounter with a horde of angry baboons, who chase after her. Jane runs towards a cliff and tries to jump to the other side, only to be caught mid-leap by Tarzan. She screams as she is taken to a branch, where she demands to be put down. Tarzan puts her down, but then the baboons get closer and she screams, "No! Pick me up!" The chase then rages on, but finally, Tarzan gets Jane to safety. Curious about Jane, Tarzan proceeds to examine her, at one point playing with her feet, tickling her. He then notices her gloved hand. Taking off the glove, Tarzan places his hand against hers, then puts the side of his head to her chest and listens to her heartbeat, and this is when he realizes that he and Jane are the same. He takes Jane back to her camp.Tarzan And Jane
Meanwhile, Tarzan's friends, who are trying to find him, arrive at the human trio's campsite and proceed to destroy it, playing music on various human objects they find in camp ("Trashin' the Camp"). Tarzan returns Jane to camp, but departs with the other animals before Professor Porter and Clayton arrive. In the jungle, Kerchak instructs the others to stay away from the campsite, but Tarzan protests, believing that the humans pose no threat. Tarzan secretly returns to the campsite and is introduced to the other men, and the three of them teach Tarzan about the human world ("Strangers Like Me"); nevertheless, Tarzan refuses to tell them the gorillas' location, fearing Kerchak's fury. A few days later, when the boat to England arrives, the trio, unable to find the gorillas, prepare to leave, and Tarzan is heartbroken to see Jane depart. Clayton tells him that they will stay once they find the gorillas. Tarzan, eager to have the humans remain, schemes with his friends Terk and Tantor to get Kerchak out of the way while Tarzan shows the humans the nesting site.

When Tarzan, Jane, and Archamedis board the ship the next day to return to England, Jane and her father are captured by the thugs (who have also turned on the captain and his officers); as soon as he steps on the boat’s deck, Tarzan realizes what’s going on, and after watching the thugs closing in on him, he narrowly avoids them by jumping over them and landing on one of the cages. Clayton’s men start climbing the cage so Tarzan quickly jumps to another cage and then to the ship’s mast. He briefly gets distracted after hearing Jane calling out his name as she’s taken to the cargo room, but before he could even try to do something, one of the thugs takes hold of his right ankle, leaving him hanging from the mast. He shakes him off by kicking him on the face, but the rest of them are catching up with him quickly, so he climbs to the top of the mast and makes a huge leap from there, towards the ship’s funnel, much to the amazement of his pursuers. He manages to reach its end and hang from it; however, he immediately finds out that the funnel is too slippery for the shoes he is wearing. He desperately tries to hold tight, but being unable to lay his own feet and keep them in place, his left hands slips away, and Tarzan is left horrified as he watches his right hand slowly slip away as well. He finally loses his grip and falls from a great height, crashing right into a pile of boxes. Tarzan slowly crawls out of the remnants of the shattered boxes, obviously in an enormous pain. Two of Clayton's men take advantage of this and rush towards him, grabbing him and slamming him against the ship's superstructure. He uselessly tries to break free from their grip, but he's just too weak and hurting from the fall. It is just then that Clayton appears on deck, firing his shotgun into the air and asking what was going on. Tarzan, still trying to break free, begs for Clayton's help, to which Clayton mocks him (pretending he didn't know him and calling him "ape man") and hits him with his shotgun right in his stomach. Clayton then reveals that he wanted to find the apes so that he could sell them for a high price, and admits that he couldn't have done that if it wasn't for Tarzan telling him where the apes were. Tarzan understands what he had done, and then screams out loud in anger as he watches Clayton walk away and tell the thugs to lock him up with the others.

As the crew storm the jungle, Tantor and Terk rescue Tarzan and they race off to stop Clayton and his men. In the ensuing battle (in which the gorillas are aided by various jungle animals), Clayton shoots Tarzan in the arm and mortally wounds Kerchak with his rifle. Tarzan and Clayton duel among the treetops until Tarzan wrests Clayton's gun away and smashes it. Clayton pursues Tarzan with a machete into a tangle of jungle vines, which Tarzan uses to ensnare Clayton, with one of the vines becoming looped around Clayton's throat. Clayton's wild slashing at the vines to free himself cuts the vines holding him in the air, but does not notice the vine around his throat, and does not cut it, causing him to fall and hang himself. Tarzan then finds the dying Kerchak, who apologizes to Tarzan for his behavior and makes him, as the uncontestedly most capable of the younger generation, leader of the gorillas. Kerchak dies, and Tarzan and the gorillas mourn for his demise.

With Clayton's men captured and the crew released, Jane and Professor Porter prepare to depart for England. However, realizing where her heart belongs, Jane returns to the jungle and is soon followed by her father; the three of them reside happily in the jungle among the animals and gorillas ("Two Worlds Finale").

CAST
  •          Tarzan (Voiced by Tony Goldwyn) is a man raised by gorillas who finds out he is truly a human. He is the protagonist of the film.
  •          Jane Porter (Voiced by Minnie Driver) is a daughter of Professor Archimedes Q. Porter as part of an English explorer group. She's the first of the group to meet Tarzan and they fall in love. She is the deuteragonist of the film.
  •       Professor Archimedes Q. Porter (voiced by Nigel Hawthorne) is Jane's short-sized father and an eccentric biologist.
  •         Tantor (voiced by Wayne Knight) is a paranoid elephant and best friend of Tarzan and Terk. He has Terk step all over him most of the time, but when Tarzan is in danger he steps up and tells her off. He is the secondary tritagonist.
  •          Terk (voiced by Rosie O'Donnell) is a feisty, tomboy-ish ape who acts as a foster sister of sorts to Tarzan. She at first considers him a pest, but later warms up to him, often helping and keeping Tarzan out of trouble with Kerchak. She is the primary tritagonist.
  •          Kala (voiced by Glenn Close) is Tarzan's foster mother, who rescued him from Sabor after losing her own baby to the leopard. She rears Tarzan as a man of the apes, and lends a voice of compassion and understanding to Tarzan when he feels that he doesn't belong, explaining that Kerchak simply can't see they are one and the same.
  •          Kerchak (voiced by Lance Henriksen) is the xenophobic leader of the gorillas, who refuses to accept Tarzan as his son because he is human. He is Tarzan's foster father who gets euthanized by Clayton
  •        Young Tarzan (voiced by Alex D. Linz) Shown as having many difficulties, such as nearly killing the gorillas, warthogs, monkeys, baboons, cobras, snakes, scorpions, lizards, aardvarks, porcupines, bees, dragonflies, parrots, toucans, woodpeckers, owls, frogs, flying squirrels, mandrills, crocodiles, tortoises, archerfish, chameleons, bats, rhinos, genets, armadillos, and hyenas by causing an elephant stampede while trying to obtain an elephant hair, and feeling insecure because of his differences.
  •          Young Tantor (voiced by Taylor Dempsey) is an elephant who notices Tarzan and tries to warn the other elephants, but goes unheard; he later befriends Tarzan.
  •          Clayton (voiced by Brian Blessed) is the guide of Professor Porter and Jane Porter, and the principal antagonist of the film. He's a hunter who kills and euthanizes animals in the jungle
  •          Sabor (voiced by Frank Welker) is the leopard who killed Tarzan's parents which left Tarzan orphaned. He was then raised by the gorillas.
  •          Tantor's Mom (voiced by Estelle Harris) is young Tantor's mom who easily loses her patience due to her son's annoying chattering.


SONGS
The songs for the film were written and performed by the singer Phil Collins.


DEEP CANVAS
To create the sweeping 3D backgrounds, Tarzan's production team developed a 3D painting and rendering technique known as Deep Canvas. This technique allows artists to produce CGI background that looks like a traditional painting. For this advancement, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded the creators of Deep Canvas a Technical Achievement Award in 2003.

After Tarzan, Deep Canvas was used for a number of sequences in Atlantis: The Lost Empire, particularly large panoramic shots of the island and several action sequences.

Expanded to support moving objects as part of the background, Deep Canvas was utilized to create about 75% of the environments in Disney's next major animated action film, Treasure Planet, though the results were less stunning, due to the film's tighter painting style which could have been accomplished without such advanced software. Deep Canvas was designed to accomplish a very loose, brushstroke-based style without hard edges, but Treasure Planet's backgrounds were more hard-edged and clean
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Deep Canvas was finally used in a more natural setting in restrained doses for Disney's final two traditionally animated theatrical releases, Brother Bear and Home on the Range.
An advanced version of Deep Canvas technique was originally planned to be used in Angel and Her No Good Sister, a Disney animated feature which features bluegrass music. However, since the project was cancelled, it is unknown if Deep Canvas will be used on any of the new projects given the Disney/Pixar merger and the software Disney will have acquired as a result.

AWARDS
  • ·         1999 Annie Award in the Technical Achievement in the Field of Animation category (for the Deep Canvas process).
  • ·         2000 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for the song "You'll Be in My Heart" by Phil Collins.
  • ·         2000 Academy Award for Best Song for the song "You'll Be In My Heart" by Phil Collins.
  • ·         2000 Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media.