10 BEST EXPERIENCES IN BANJARMASIN, SOUTH KALIMANTAN

Banjarmasin is the capital and the pulsating heart of the province of South Kalimantan that rests gingerly over a labyrinth of canals thus giving it its illustrious nickname as the city of a thousand rivers. Just as any other major city in the country, Banjarmasin is abuzz with business and traffic. However the city has its own distinct charm that makes it the best place to absorb Kalimantan’s urban culture, both on land as on the water.

Here are 10 experiences you can look forward to in the City of a Thousand Rivers:

Asking and Giving Help/Services

A. Asking and Giving Help/Services
     ~ Memnita dan Memberi Bantuan/Jasa

o    Can You Help me : Bisakah membantu saya?

o    Could You Help me : Bisakah membantu Saya? ( Bahasa kalimatnya lebih halus )

o    Will You Help me : Maukah/Akankah kamu membantu saya?

o    Would You Help me : Maukah/Akankah kamu Membantu saya? ( Bahasa kalimat lebih halus )

o    Help Me, Please : Tolong Bantu Saya

o    Help : Tolong

o    Help-help : Tolong-tolong

o    Do me a favour : Bantu Saya

o    Give me a hand : Ulurkan tanganmu ( Bantu Saya )

Dijawab dengan

1. Giving Help/Services

    ~ Memberi Pertolongan/jasa

o    Certain/Sure/of Curse : Tentu Saja

o    Don't Worry, I Will Help You : Jangan Khawatir, Saya Akan Membantumu

o    Ok, I Will Help You : Baik, Saya akan membantumu

o    Certainly : Tentu

o    What Can I Do For You : Apa yang bisa saya lakukan

2. Rejecting/Refusing/Declining To Give Help/Service

    ~ Menolak Untuk memberi Pertolongan

o    I'm Sorry, I am Busy/Tired : Maaf saya sibuk/lelah

o    No, I Don't Want To : Saya tidak mau membantu

o    I'm Sorry, Do it Yourself : Maaf, kerjakan sendiri

B. Offering Help/Service

    ~Menawarkan Bantuan

o    Can I Help You

o    Could I Help You

o    Will I Help You

o    Would I Help You

o    Let me Help You

o    Anything I Can do for you

1. Receiving Help/Service

    ~Menerima Bantuan/Jasa

o    Yes, Please : Ya Silakan

o    Ok, Thanks/Thank You : Ya, Terima Kasih

o    Ok, Thanks For You Kindness : Terima Kasih atas Kebaikanmu

2. Rejecting/Refusing/Declining Help/Service

    ~ Menolak Bantuan/Jasa

o    Thanks, But I Can do it my self : Terima Kasih tapi saya bisa melakukan sendiri

o    Thanks, But I Can Handle It : Terima Kasih, Tapi saya bisa mengatasinya

o    Thanks, don't better yourself : Terima kasih, Jangan repot-repot

Jenuh belajar Bahasa Inggris? Yuk intip 5 tips untuk mengatasinya

Jenuh, bosan atau malas itu merupakan hal yang wajar. Namun,harus dimanage agar tidak jenuh dalam belajar bahasa inggris. Berikut ini Tips untuk mengatasi rasa jenuh belajar bahasa inggris. 

1. Buat Lirik lagu Lagu membuat kita bersemangat, karena pada dasarnya manusia suka akan musik. 
2. Membuat daftar kosakata disecarik kertas dan membawanya untuk dihafal sambil berolahraga.
3. Mengajarkan orang lain materi bahasa inggris yang Anda ketahui. Sambil belajar anda juga bisa mengajar. Bisa kepada adik kelas, adik kandung, murid atau family anda.
4. Ikut komunitas atau study club bahasa inggris. Ikut komunitas dapat memperbanyak temen, dan menjalin silaturahmi. Biasanya di komunitas Anda akan banyak mendapatkan ilmu baru. 
5. Berpartisipasi untuk ikut seminar atau training. Mengikuti seminar atau training akan membuang rasa jenuh anda. Biasanya ilmu yang biasanya sukar atau sulit dipahami, akan dibeberkan se singkat dan semudah mungkin.

Distributive Adjectives

Kata sifat ini digunakan untuk
menunjukkan bahwa sesuatu itu
digunakan satu demi satu atau
secara terpisah. Kata sifat ini
digolongkan menjadi empat bagian;
each, every, either dan neither.
a. Each
Each digunakan untuk
menerangkan sesuatu itu yang
berarti masing-masing.
Contoh :
1. The three students had each a
book.
= Tiga siswa ini masing-masing
mempunyai sebuah buku.
2. The fifteen students had each a
comic.
= Lima belas siswa masing-masing
mempunyai sebuah komik.
3. The three men had each a white
shirt.
= Tiga orang ini masing-masing
mempunyai sebuah baju putih.
b. Every
Every digunakan untuk
menyebutkan orang satu demi satu
atau yang berarti setiap.
Contoh :
1. Every student (out of the fifteen
present) had an English dictionary.
= Setiap siswa (dari lima belas
yang hadir) mempunyai kamus bahasa
Inggris.
Catatan :
Every jika digunakan dalam kalimat
itu lebih kuat daripada each, karena
every berarti setiap dan tanpa
kekecualian.
c. Either
Penggunaan either dalam kalimat
mempunyai 2 arti :
1. salah satu dari dua.
Contoh :
- You can take either side; that
is, one side or the other.
= Anda boleh mengambil salah
satu sisi; yaitu sisi yang satu atau
sisi yang lain.
2. Setiap dari dua, yaitu
keduanya.
- The river overflowed on either
side; that is, on both sides.
= Sungai itu meluap pada tiap
sisinya yaitu pada kedua sisinya.
d. Neither
Neither ini adalah bentuk negative
dari either yang artinya satu tidak
dan yang lain juga tidak (kedua-
duanya tidak).
Contoh :
- You should choose neither
book; that is, neither this book
nor that, neither the one book
nor the other.
= Anda seharusnya tidak
memilih salah satu buku,
salah satu buku ini tidak,
buku yang ini juga tidak,
buku yang satu tidak,
buku yang lain juga
tidak.

The Emperor and The seed

An emperor in the Far East was growing old and knew it was time tochoose his successor. Instead of choosing one of his assistants or his children, he decided something different. He called young people in the kingdom together one day. He said, "It is time for me to step down and choose the next emperor. I have decided to choose one of you." The kids were shocked! But the emperor continued. "I am going to give each one of you a seed today.

One very special seed. I want you to plant the seed, water it and come back here one year from today with what you have grown from this one seed. I will then judge the plants that you bring, and the one I choose will be the next emperor!"

One boy named Ling was there that day and he, like the others, received a seed. He went home and excitedly told his mother the story. She helped him get a pot and planting soil, and he planted the seed and watered it carefully. Every day he would water it and watch to see if it had grown. After about three weeks, some of the other youths began to talk about their seeds and the plants that were beginning to grow. Ling kept checking his seed, but nothing ever grew. Three weeks, 4 weeks, 5 weeks went by. Still nothing. By now, others were talking about their plants but Ling didn't have a plant, and he felt like a failure. Six months went by-still nothing in Ling's pot. He just knew he had killed his seed.

Everyone else had trees and tall plants, but he had nothing. Ling didn'tsay anything to his friends, however.
He just kept waiting for his seed to grow. A year finally went by and all the youths of the kingdom brought their plants to the emperor for inspection. Ling told his mother that he wasn't going to take an empty pot. But honest about what happened, Ling felt sick to his stomach, but he knew his mother was right. He took his empty pot to the palace. When Ling arrived, he was amazed at the variety of plants grown by the other youths. They were beautiful-in all shapes and sizes. Ling put his empty pot on the floor and many of the other kinds laughed at him. A few felt sorry for him and just said, "Hey nice try." When the emperor arrived, he surveyed the room and greeted the young people. Ling just tried to hide in the back. "My, what great plants, trees and flowers you have grown," said the emperor. "Today, one of you will be appointed the next emperor!" All of a sudden, the emperor spotted Ling at the back of the room with his empty pot. He ordered his guards to bring him to the front. Ling was terrified. "The emperor knows I'm a failure! Maybe he will have me killed!"

When Ling got to the front, the Emperor asked his name. "My name is Ling," he replied. All the kids were laughing and making fun of him. The emperor asked everyone to quiet down. He looked at Ling, and then announced to the crowd, "Behold your new emperor! His name is Ling!" Lingcouldn't believe it. Ling couldn't even grow his seed. How could he be the new emperor? Then the emperor said, "One year ago today, I gave everyone here a seed. I told you to take the seed, plant it, water it, and bring it back to me today. But I gave you all boiled seeds which would not grow. All of you, except Ling, have brought me trees and plants and flowers. When you found that the seed would not grow, you substituted another seed for the one I gave you. Ling was the only one with the courage and honesty to bring me a pot with my seed in it. Therefore, he is the one who will be the new emperor!

" The Prophet taught, "Truthfulness leads to righteousness, and righteousness leads to Paradise. And a man keeps on telling the truth until he becomes a truthful person. Falsehood leads to Al-Fajur (i.e. wickedness, evil-doing), and Al-Fajur (wickedness) leads to the (Hell) Fire, and a man may keep on telling lies till he is written before Allah, a liar." [Sahih al-Bukhari, Vol. 8:116]

Cara Menyusun Adjective yang Benar

Terkadang dalam bahasa Inggris
kita sering membuat kalimat dengan menggunakan lebih dari satu kata sifat. Dalam hal ini kita haruslah mengetahui urutan-urutan kata sifat tersebut, yang mana yang harus lebih dulu dan yang mana yang terakhir.

Contoh:
I have short black hair.
She has a big blue house.

Agar kita tidak bingung dalam menyusun adjectives tersebut perhatikan aturan di bawah ini.

Determiner – Opini – Ukuran – Usia
– Bentuk – Warna – Asal-usul –
Material -Purpose + Noun (kata
benda)
DISINGKAT DENGAN : DOSASCOMP +
NOUN

Deteriner :
Ini merupakan kata asndang atau
articles. Contoh the, a, an.

Opini/opinion
ini menjelaskan opini kita tentang
sesuatu benda. Misalnya: beautiful, silly, horrible,handsome.

Size/ukuran
ini menjelaskan ukuran dari benda
itu, misalnya: big, small, little,
large, tiny,dll.

Age/umur/usia
ini adalah umur atau usia benda
tersebut. misalnya: old, new,
young, ancient.

Shape/bentuk
ini menjelaskan bentuk benda
tersebut. misalnya: square, circle,
flat, round, dll.

Color/warna
ini menjelaskan warna benda
tersebut.

Origin/asal usul
ini untuk menjelaskna asal ususl
bend tersebut, misalnya: lunar,
Indonesian, American,dll

Material
ini menjelaskan material atau
bahan buatan benda tersebut.
misalnya; wooden, metal,
cotton,dll.

Purpose
untuk menjelaskan tujuan benda
itu atau mamfaat benda itu.
misalnya: sleeping (mislanya pada :
sleeping bag)

Contoh:
a silly young English man
a=determiner
silly=opinion
young=age
English=origin
man=noun
black straight hair
black=color
straight=shape
hair=noun
Aturan di atas adalah aturan yang
biasa dipakai, dan tentu dengan
mengikuti aturan di atas, susunan
adjective yang kita buat akan
menjadi benar. Disamping itu perlu
diketahui bahwa urutan-urutan
adjective tidaklah tetap, dan
aturan di atas adalah aturan yang
umum yang biasa dipakai seperti
yang telah saya katakan
sebelumnya.
Determiner adalah kata seperti a,
an, the, this, that. Kata-kata ini
juga merupakan jenis adjective.
Contoh:
• a beautiful, purple doll
• a small, square table

PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE

A.     Pola Kalimat

(+)         S + to be (is,am,are) + V-ing + O+ keterangan waktu.

(-)          S + to be (is,am,are) + not + V-ing + O+ keterangan waktu

(?)          To be (is,am,are) + S + V ing + O+ keterangan waktu ?

Contoh :

(+)    We are studying English at BEC now. (-)     We aren't studying English at BEC now (?)     Are we studying English at BEC now?

1.      Kalimat menyangkal (negative)

Kalimat menyangkal (negative) dibentuk dengan menambahkan "not" sesudah to be (am not, is not/isn't, are not/aren't) dan ditempatkan sesudah subjek kalimat.

Contoh :

Mary is not/isn't typing the monthly report.

The students are not/aren't studying English in the classroom. I'm not/ am not preparing a minute of meeting.

2.      Kalimat tanya (interrogative)

Kalimat tanya (interrogative statement) dibentuk dengan menempatkan to be (is, am, atau are) di depan kalimat. Dalam kalimat tanya to be "am, is, atau are" artinya "apakah".

Contoh :     Are you doing your homework?

Is your father still working in the office? Are the children playing in the garden?

3.      Kesesuaian subject dan auxiliary verb di tenses ini adalah

sebagai berikut :

AM digunakan oleh subject I.

IS digunakan oleh subject she, he, dan it.

ARE digunakan oleh subject you, we, dan they.

B.     Penggunaan

1.      Present continuous tense digunakan untuk menunjukkan suatu

kejadian atau peristiwa yang sedang terjadi atau berlangsung

saat kita sedang bicara

Contoh:

My brother is painting the house. Please be quiet! The baby is sleeping.

Listen! The neighbors are quarrelling again.

2.      Present continuous tense digunakan untuk menunjukkan suatu kejadian atau peristiwa yang bersifat sementara (temporary). Contoh:

I am living with my friend until I can find a house. This machine is not working well.

John is living in his friend's flat at the moment.

David is always busy because he is working on his thesis.

3.      Present  continuous  tense  digunakan  tamtuk  menunjukkan suatu keadaan atau situasi yang berubah-ubah.

Contoh:

The population of Indonesia is rising very fast.

Our economic situation is already very bad and it  is getting

worse.

The cost of living  is increasing. Every month things are dearer.

4.      Present continuous tense digunakan untuk menunjukkan sesuatu yang akan dilakukan di waktu yang akan datang dan telah direncanakan atau ditentukan sebelumnya.

Contoh:   I   am  meeting  my  father  at  the  station  tomorrow morning.

We are holidaying in Europe next month.

My  father   is  having  a  meeting  with  his  staff tomorrow morning.

5.      Beberapa   kata   kerja   tidak   digunakan   dalam   present continuous tense. Kita tidak boleh mengatakan, "I am liking mango very much," tapi kita harus mengatakan, "I like mango very much." Beberapa kata kerja yang tidak digunakan daIam present continuous tense adalah:

kata  yang  menyangkut  pancaindera  :  see,  hear,  notice, recognize.

kata-kata  yang  menyangkut  emosi  :  want,  desire,  smell, notice, forgive, wish, care, like, hate, adore, dislike.

kata-kata yang menyangkut pikiran : think, feel, realize, understand, know, mean, suppose, believe, expect, remember, recollect, forget, recall, trust, mind.

kata-kata yang menyangkut milik : own, belong, possess.

kata-kata  kerja  seperti  :  seem,  signify,  appear,-  contain, consist, keep, concern, matter

Contoh     :

a.  I am knowing her well.                                     (Poor)

I know her well.                                              (Good)

b.  I am understanding what you are meaning        (Poor)

I understand what you mean.                            (Good)

C.        Kata/frase yang biasa digunakan dalam present continuous tense

·       Now                    :           Sekarang

·       At present           :           Sekarang Ini .

·       At this moment    :           Pada Saat Ini

·       Right now           :           Sekarang Ini

·       Still                      :           Masih

·       Look                   :           Lihat

·       Listen                   :           Dengarkan