Friday, January 29, 2016

Facebook

Level: English for Junior and Senior High School
24-hours online learning
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service launched in February 2004, owned and operated by Facebook Inc. As of September 2012, Facebook has over one billion active users, more than half of them using Facebook on a mobile device. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notification when they update their profile.
Users can create profiles with photos, lists of personal interest, contact information, and other personal information. Users can communicate with friends and other users through private or public message and a chat feature. They can also create and join interest group and "like pages".
Facebook has affected the social life and activity of people in various ways. With its availability on many mobile devices, Facebook allows users to continuously stay in touch with friends, relatives and other acquaintances wherever they are in the world, as long as there is access to the internet. It can also unite people with common interests and/or beliefs through groups and other pages, and has been known to reunite lost family members and friends.

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Sunday, January 24, 2016

Stage 1 - UN Games for SMP

Level: English for Junior High School
24-hours online learning.
UN Game is essentially the same as Simulation test or Tryout, which is specialized for the students of junior high school and is designed to measure the students' readiness to take English National Exam. However, the students must complete a series of stages from the lowest stage to the highest one. The content of this test is arranged in accordance with the passing standard determined by the department of education and culture of Indonesia.

The test consists of 25 questions in which some materials, such as Caution, Invitation, Short Message, Advertisement, Letter, and Procedure Text, are tested. All the questions are in the form of multiple choice and the students must complete this test for 45 minutes. The passing grade of this test is 8.00. If the students achieve the target score, they will be able to take the higher stage.

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This simulation test is protected with user ID and password. You can contact the administrator to get them if you want to take this test seriously. Test Code: J012416.

Saturday, January 23, 2016

A Cruel King

Level: English for Junior High School
24-hours online learning
A Cruel King
Once upon a time there was a cruel king. Everyone was afraid of him. The people were very poor, because the king took all their money. One day the king's soldiers brought a poor man to the palace. The man didn't have any money and so he couldn't pay his taxes. "If you don't pay immediately, I'll kill you," said the king. "I can't pay," said the poor man, "because I haven't got any money." "Then you must die!" said the king. "GO"
The man fell to the floor." "Please let me go, Your Majesty," he said. "If you don't kill me, I'll teach your horse to talk." The king had a wonderful white horse, and he was very proud of it. He smiled. "All right, he said, you can have one year. If you teach the horse to talk, I'll give you gold and silver. But if you don't, I'll kill you. "GO"
Two soldiers took the man to the horse's stable. "You're stupid," said one of the two soldiers. "You can't teach a horse to talk. It's impossible. At the end of the year, the king will kill you." "Ah," said the man, "I'm not stupid. Before the end of the year four things might happen. The king might die. I might die. The horse might die ... or ... the horse might talk!"

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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Microscope

Level: English for Junior and Senior High School
24-hours online learning

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Microscope
Microscope (from the Greek: micros, "small", and skopedia, "to look" or "to see" is an instrument used to see objects that are too small to the naked eyes. The science of investigating small objects using such instrument is called microscopy. Microscopic means invisible to the eye unless aided by a microscope.
There are many types of microscope. The most common and first to be invented is the optical microscope which uses light to image sample. Other major types of microscopes are the electron microscope and the various types of scanning probe microscope. The first microscope to be developed was the optical microscope although the original inventor is not easy to identify. An early microscope was made in 1590 in Middelburg, Netherlands. Two eyeglass makers variously given credit were Hans Lippershey and Zacharias Jansenn.
It was not until the 1660s and 1970s that the microscope was used extensively for research in Italy, Holland, and England. Marcelo Malpigi in Italy began the analysis of biological structures beginning with the lungs. The greatest contribution came from Antoiy Van Leeuwenhoek who discovered red blood cells and helped popularize microscopy as technique.

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