I AM GEORGE FROM LOS ANGELES

 HELLO, MY NAME IS GEORGE

Hello Smart English Education viewers, 

How is everything today? I hope you are always happy and okay.

Well, English learning today is telling about Juggling, do you know what it is?

Read the following text and answer the questions.

Hi! I'm Josh, 29 years old. I'm from Los Angeles California, and this is my story. I started out as a juggler, performing, travelling, and doing shows. I've got 9 gold medals in the World Championships of juggling. I have got Guinness World Records titles. And now I consider myself as a content creator because I create videos for a living.

Juggling is so awesome and I love it so much. I started to learn juggling when I was in an elementary school. My friends and my family were always supportive of my juggling, but when I started talking of making it as a career, there was a little bit of hesitation from my parents.

I started my street performing at Santa Monica and did some random gigs here and there. I started performing more seriously. I started to grow my own social media followers. I knew I wanted to be more than a juggler, and I wanted to have a strong relationship with my fans. My way to go there is through World Records Wednesdays. Every single Wednesday for two and a half years now, I would break or set a world record, including most apples sliced while juggling knives, the longest time to juggle five full-sized basketballs, the longest time to balance a guitar on your head, and many more.

I truly believe that if you love something and you're willing to work hard enough at it, you can make it a career. Treat it like a real job, wake up at 7 A.M. and start working. You can't expect results without putting in efforts. I went from full time performer to full time content creator. I never want to stop performing, there's just nothing like this.

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GOING TO KELIMUTU

 ANY BODY KNOWS WHERE KELIMUTU IS?

Hello Smart English Education Viewers,
English lesson today is learning Beautiful of Indonesia

It's taken from BRIGHT for SMP/MTs Grade IX

UNIT 2 — BEAUTIFUL INDONESIA

Activity 1

Read the following email which was written by Laila to Novia, after reading this email, you will get exercise then just do the exercise when you can click the link at the end of this reading text below for today only and it's no more day for you. If you have difficulties about the text, chat me as soon as possible. 

Remember, Do your literacy as well you preserve!

To               : novaria@gmail.com

Subject       : My holiday

Attachment : 1 photo

Before we read the text below about Kelimutu, I want to check your understanding, do you know where Kelimutu located is?

Kelimutu was a beautiful island which is located in Pemo village, Kelimutu District, Ende Regency, Flores, East Nusa Tenggara.

Have you ever gone to the place?

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Hi! Let me tell you about our journey to Kelimutu Lakes. So, today we (1) ____ (wake) up early in the morning. Dad and the driver of the car, Mr Divo, had a cup of coffee.

At about 5 in the morning, we (2) ____ (leave) the hotel for Kelimutu. It was still dark and cold outside. Along the winding road we (3) ____ (meet) local people. They were wearing sarong over their head, apparently to fight the cold. At first, I could not see around clearly because it was still foggy. However, gradually, I could see a lot of trees on the sides of the road. Mostly, nutmeg trees. It was the first time for me to see the real nutmeg tree.

When we (4) ____ (arrive) at the slope of Kelimutu, we (5) ____ (see) a lot of people around. They were ready to climb just like us. The trek to go up the Kelimutu was not tough. We saw birds on the tree above us. Some of the birds (6) ____ (sing) beautifully that we (7) ____ (stop) to enjoy it.

When we reached the top, the sun had already risen. Incredible! From the top we could see three lakes with three different colour. They were black, blue, and green. People said that the colour would change continuously. It was a perfect view!

After taking pictures, we (8) ____ (go) down to the parking area and (9) ____ (have) breakfast. While waiting for our meal being cooked we went shopping at the stalls nearby. My mum and I (10) ____ (buy) traditional clothes. Dad bought a bracelet.

You should come here someday, Nova. You will witness this magic land.

Kiss and Hug from Ende

Laila

For your practice after learning the reading text, please do the following questions by clicking the link below, if you didn't find the information in the text, you may browse it from internet!

QUESTIONS ABOUT KELIMUTU (ONLY FOR NOW)

FAMILY MEMBERS AND ROOMS OF A FAMILY

 

Hello my blog viewers,

Are you happy? Are you okay? Are you fine? I always hope so. 

Today is very special day because we can learn more about family. What is family?

In this case, we learn about:

FAMILY MEMBERS:

NUCLEAR FAMILY which consists of parents and children

EXTENDED FAMILY which consists of maybe grandparents, parents, children, uncle and aunt.

By this matter, we will know them one by one:
1. FATHER

a male parent, protector, and provider who guides, nurtures, and supports the physical, emotional, and moral development of his household. (Your male parent)

2. MOTHER

a female parent or caregiver who anchors the family through continuous care, emotional support, and household guidance. (Your female parent)

3. SON

a male child or person in relation to his parents, whether through biological birth, adoption, or a legal/household relationship. (A male child of your parent)

4. DAUGHTER

a female child, offspring, or female descendant in relation to her parents. (A female child of your parent)

5. BROTHER

a boy or man who shares one or both parents with another person (a male sibling), or someone related through step, half, or foster relations. (Your male sibling)

6. SISTER

a female sibling who shares one or both parents. (Your female sibling)

7. GRANDFATHER

the father of a person's mother or father. 

8. GRANDMOTHER

the mother of a person's father or mother, or a female ancestor.

9. UNCLE

the brother of your mother or father, the husband of your aunt, or a close family friend whom you address with respect. (A brother of your father or mother)

10. AUNT

the sister of one's father or mother, or the wife of one's uncle. (A sister of your father or mother)

11. NEPHEW

the son of your brother or sister, or the son of your spouse's brother or sister. 

12. NIECE

the daughter of your brother or sister, or son of your spouse's brother or sister.

13. COUSIN

most commonly the child of your aunt or uncle, meaning you share at least one grandparent.

After you learn more about the members of a family, now you will learn about the rooms in your house, just read it as well as possible you do now.

ROOMS OF A FAMILY:

Now, we will learn about many kinds of the rooms in our family. Do you know what and how many kinds of the rooms?

We will discuss this topic one by one. As we know that every family has many rooms in his house, so what are they?

We will see it here:

1. LIVING ROOM

It is a kind of rooms we usually use to receive a guest in our house.

2. FAMILY ROOM

It is a special room for our family which we usually use to meet together with our family at home

3. DINING ROOM

Dining room is a room in our family we can function it as eating together with family

4. KITCHEN

Kitchen is a place of our house we usually use to cook anything, like cooking rice, cooking vegetables, cooking meat, cooking instant noodles and others

5. BED ROOM

This is a very special room, no family doesn't have this room. Every family has the bed room because it is used to sleep our family, for father, mother, brother, sister and others

6. BATHROOM

Don't you have a bathroom at your house? I believe that you have it. So what is the function of this room? You know it is used to have a bath, to pee and other activities in this room.

7. GARAGE

What is this guys? It is a kind of a family room which we usually use for parking our cars or motorcycles included a bicycles if we have them all.

8. TERRACE

This is an area in front of our house, and we usually use to have a relaxed time with family, siblings, friends, parents colleague and others.

9. GARDEN

It is an extra area outside of a house room which we can use for gardening, like planting some flowers, kinds of vegetables, fruits and other activity.

10. TOILET

a plumbing fixture consisting of a ceramic bowl, seat, and a water-flushing mechanism used for the elimination and disposal of human urine and feces

11. WAREHOUSE

a designated room, garage, basement, or attic used to keep household goods, seasonal items, or bulk supplies in an organized manner (Room for keeping house sets or things).

Okay my students, 
I think that's all for today, thanks for your attention in learning English today, please learn as well about materials today you learn, so that you can understand about kinds of rooms in your house. See you!

MY NEW BAND

THE SKIPPER

Dialogue: The Skipper

Activity 1

Hello everybody, 

welcome back to Smart English Education Site.
How are you doing guys? I hope everything will be okay with you.

In this section, 

I want to share you a special material today, what is it?

It is about "MY NEW BAND" So, what is it about? As you know that this band consists of Sisca, Timmy, Rey and Jo, and they are in the talk show interview. 

Here is the interview.

Host      : Hello everybody. So glad to be here again with you today 

                especially because there are great people with me now.

Timmy  : Hi, everyone. I’m Timmy, and she is Sisca. 

                 They are Jo and Rey.

Sisca, 

Jo, Rey  : Hi! Hi!

Timmy  : Sisca is the vocalist, Jo is the keyboardist, 

                 Rey is the guitarist and I play the drums.

Host       : Timmy, tell me about your group.

Timmy   : Yes, we are The Skipper.

Host       : Why The Skipper?

Timmy   : Because skipper means captain 

                  so we want to be a captain in the music world.

Host       : I see. Tell me about The Skipper’s new album.

Timmy   : It is not an album actually. It’s a single.

Host       : OK.Timmy: The title is ‘Shadow’. 

Read the sentences below, write T (True) or F (False) and don't forget to make correct sentences!

1. There are five people in the group.                                          T or F

2. Shadow is a single from The Skipper.                                     T or F

3. Skipper means Captain.                                                            T or F

4. Rey is the vocalist of the group.                                               T or F   

5. Jo and Timmy play the musical instruments                             T or F

     

Adopted from English Text Book page 42 of Bright An English.

TRIP TO MERBABU

 MERBABU MOUNTAIN IS SO BEAUTIFUL

NICE TO BE HERE

Hello everybody, nice to meet you today.
How is everything? Are you okay today? I hope so!

Today we are going to learn about something we did past time, or we can say it as experience, in this case we call it as recount. Do you know it so far?

Well guys, don't worry, we will learn slowly, step by step in order it will be clear. So far based on the experience, we know that this text is a monologue, and it consists of four main parts, first will be about Title, second about Orientation, third about Event and the last is about Re-Orientation.

Okay guys, let's see the text below!

ACTIVITY 3 

Read the following text below carefully!

My Trip to Merbabu Mountain

I remember the most memorable holiday I had was when I went hiking at Mt. Merbabu. In the beginning, I was not sure whether I could climb all the way to the top, but my friends encouraged me, so I decided to give it a try.

The journey started on a sand truck from my high school to the first post for hikers located in Boyolali. It was the gathering point for all the climbers, not just students from my school. There, I got to meet new people. Some students were like me, but there were also professional mountain hikers.

At around 8 P.M., it was time to start the hike, so we prayed together for a safe journey and finally set off. We marched in a single column through a rainforest with flashlights for lighting. I brought a good flashlight with me, so I walked behind the leader of our team and lit the way. We kept on going until a little past midnight when we arrived at the second post, also known as the resting point. It was a windy and rainy night, so setting up camp was a little tricky. We worked together and managed to get some rest.

The next morning, it was a race against time, as we wanted to get a clear view of Mt. Merapi from the top of Merbabu before it was covered by the clouds. At dawn, we woke up, prayed Subuh, ate some instant noodles, and started the climb to the top. We walked even though we were a little tired from the march last night. Thankfully, the terrain was not too steep, so we could maintain a pace. It was here where the experienced climbers really stood out. They were not out of breath and could climb while jogging.

One of the most unforgettable moments for me was before reaching the top. We were exhausted and cold; luckily, a nice person gave us a warm drink. With the energy from that nice warm drink, we finally reached the top and got a beautiful view of Merapi Mountain. After that, we took some pictures, and as our adrenaline rush came to a stop, we slept soundly—the important rest we needed before descending the mountain.

It is adopted from English Text Book page 44 to 45 Grade IX Bright An English

Activity 4

Read the text again and decide whether the following statements are TRUE or FALSE.

No.	Statement	True	False
1.	The writer was confident about reaching the top of Mt. Merbabu from the beginning.	☐	☐
2.	The writer brought a flashlight to help the group during the hike.	☐	☐
3.	The writer and the team faced challenges in setting up camp due to windy and rainy weather.	☐	☐
4.	The terrain during the climb to the top was very steep.	☐	☐
5.	A nice person provided the group with a warm drink before reaching the top.	☐	☐

Activity 5

Answer the following questions based on the text in Activity 3.

1. Where did the writer go for their most memorable holiday?

2. How did the writer overcome their initial uncertainty about the hike?

3. Describe the journey from the high school to the first post for hikers.

4. Why did the group pray together before starting the hike?

5. How did the group navigate through the rainforest at night?

6. What challenges did the group face when setting up camp at the resting point?

7. Why was it important for the group to reach the top before the clouds covered the view?

8. What did the group do at dawn before starting the climb to the top?

9. Why did the writer mention the experienced climbers standing out?

10. Why did the group need a sound sleep before descending the mountain?

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