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

Fill each blank in the text with the correct word or phrase. Choose from the following list. Use each item once only.

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

2. With particular responsibilities for recruitment and selection. Communication skills and a pragmatic approach to problem solving essential.

·         R&D Manager

3. 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

4. Duties include filing, mailing, relief reception and other general office work.

·         Receptionist

5. Needed for night shift. Clean modern factory. Varied work. Good eyesight essential.

·         Assembly person

6. Successful applicant will be articulate and presentable. Remuneration includes retainer and car allowance plus commission structure.

·         Salesperson

7. Reporting directly to Managing Director. You will take over financial control for all aspects of daily operation.

·         Accountant

8. Sober habits, clean driving licence, able to be on call 7 days per week at times. Uniform supplied.

·         Chauffeur

9. Must be experienced in the repair and maintenance of heavy duty vehicles. References must be provided from previous employers.

·         Motor mechanic

10. You are the first person our clients will meet so you need to be friendly, stylish and efficient.

·         Clerk

11. Some experience in the above-mentioned software is essential but training will be given to the successful applicant.

·         Computer operator

12. 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.