Kamis, 16 Januari 2014

UnoEduTravel - Warung Ketan Kampung Inggris Pare

Aktivitas melepas penat setelah seharian belajar, para pelajar di Kampung Inggris Pare selalu menyempatkan diri menikmati jajanan kecil, berupa Ketan, Pisang Goreng, sembari bertukar cerita tentang daerah masing-masing. Di Warung Ketan lah tempat mereka berkumpul, yang seakan menjadi "Kamar" kedua mereka setelah Asrama/Kosan. Mau tahu lebih jauh seperti apa Warung Ketan di Kampung Inggris Pare? Silahkan simak film pendek di bawah ini (Presented by UNO edutravel)


 

Rabu, 18 Desember 2013

Cara menjawab sesi Reading Cambridge 4, test 4, no. 36-40

Pertanyaan nomor 36-40 (YES, NO, NOT GIVEN)

Cara saya menjawab pertanyaan sesi YES, NO, NOT GIVEN pada Cambridge 4, test 4. Mungkin cara ini juga cocok bagi Anda. Ada 2 langkah :

  1. Temukan kata kunci pada bacaan,
  2. Setelah menemukan kata kunci, bacalah dengan teliti. Terkadang dibutuhkan kemampuan Paraphrase untuk menemukan jawaban yang tepat.


Pertanyaan no. 36:
Personal liberty and independence have never been regarded as directly linked to health-care.

Bacaan:
People are not in a position to exercise personal liberty and to be self-determining if they are poverty-stricken, or deprived of basic education, or do not live within a context of law and order. In the same way, basic health-care is a condition of the exercise of autonomy.

Jawaban: NO



Pertanyaan no. 37:
Health-care came to be seen as a right at about the same time that the limits of health-care resources became evident.

Bacaan:
Just at the time when it became obvious that health-care resources could not possibly meet the demands being made upon them, people were demanding that their fundamental right to health-care be satisfied by the state.

Jawaban: YES



Pertanyaan no. 38:
In OECD countries population changes have had an impact on health-care costs in recent years.

Bacaan:
The second set of more specific changes that have led to the present concern about the distribution of health-care resources stems from the dramatic rise in health costs in most OECD countries,…

Jawaban: YES



Pertanyaan no. 39:
OECD governments have consistently underestimated the level of health-care provision needed.

Bacaan:
… in OECD countries as a whole, health costs increased from 3.8% of GDP in 1960 to 7% of GDP in 1980, and it has been predicted that the proportion of health costs to GDP will continue to increase.

Jawaban: NOT GIVEN



Pertanyaan no. 40:
In most economically developed countries the elderly will have to make special provision for their health-care in the future.

Bacaan:
… in most OECD countries, accompanied by large-scale demographic and social changes which have meant, to take one example, that elderly people are now major (and relatively very expensive) consumers of health-care resources.

Jawaban: NOT GIVEN




Ref. Cambridge Practice Test for IELTS 4

Cara menjawab sesi Reading Cambridge 9, test 4, no. 27-30

Pertanyaan nomor 27-30 (HEADINGS)

Menjawab pertanyaan sesi HEADINGS pada Cambridge 9, test 4, no. 27-30 dengan kemampuan menganalisa KEYWORDS yang tepat.

 Penting: Bacaan dan pertanyaan HEADINGS hampir selalu mempunyai KEYWORDS yang sama !!!

Langkah 1: Pahami pertanyaan HEADINGS
Langkah 2: Lakukan skimming, scanning dan paraphrasing untuk mencari keywords yang tepat pada bacaan.


Pertanyaan nomor 27



Pertanyaan nomor 28



Pertanyaan nomor 29




Pertanyaan nomor 30


Ref. Cambridge Practice Test for IELTS 9

Cara menjawab sesi Reading Cambridge 4, test 1, no. 9-13

Pertanyaan nomor 9-13 (MATCHING FEATURES)

Menjawab pertanyaan sesi MATCHING FEATURES pada Cambridge 4, test 1, no. 9-13 dengan kemampuan menganalisa KEYWORDS yang tepat.


Penting: Anda akan menemukan banyak informasi yang berkaitan dengan pertanyaan. Tugas Anda: Baca dengan teliti semua informasi yang relevant!!!




Ref. Cambridge Practice Test for IELTS 4


Selasa, 17 Desember 2013

Cara menjawab sesi Reading Cambridge 2, test 2, no. 27-30

Pertanyaan nomor 27-30 (HEADINGS)

Menjawab pertanyaan sesi HEADINGS pada Cambridge 2, test 2, no. 27-30 dengan kemampuan menganalisa KEYWORDS yang tepat.

Penting: Bacaan dan pertanyaan HEADINGS hampir selalu mempunyai KEYWORDS yang sama !!!

Langkah 1: Pahami pertanyaan HEADINGS
Langkah 2: Lakukan skimming, scanning dan paraphrasing untuk mencari keywords yang tepat pada bacaan.





Ref. Cambridge Practice Test for IELTS 2

Cara menjawab sesi Reading Cambridge 2, test 3, no. 27-33

Pertanyaan nomor 27-33 (HEADINGS)

Menjawab pertanyaan sesi HEADINGS pada Cambridge 2, test 3, no. 27-33 dengan kemampuan menganalisa KEYWORDS yang tepat.

Penting: Bacaan dan pertanyaan HEADINGS hampir selalu mempunyai KEYWORDS yang sama !!!

Langkah 1: Pahami pertanyaan HEADINGS

Langkah 2: Lakukan skimming, scanning dan paraphrasing untuk mencari keywords yang tepat pada bacaan.






Temukan KEYWORDS !!!


Jawaban dari pertanyaan di atas:

27. Section B                  iv
28. Section C                  vii
29. Section D                 viii
30. Section E                  iii
31. Section F                  ii
32. Section G                 i
33. Section H                 x


Ref. Cambridge Practice Test for IELTS 2

Senin, 16 Desember 2013

Cara menjawab sesi Reading Cambridge 7, GT A, no. 8-14

Pertanyaan nomor 8-14 (HEADINGS)

Menjawab pertanyaan sesi HEADINGS pada Cambridge 7, GT A dengan kemampuan menganalisa KEYWORDS yang tepat.

Penting: PARAGRAPHS dan HEADINGS hampir selalu mempunyai KEYWORDS yang sama !!!

Langkah 1: Pahami pertanyaan HEADINGS
Langkah 2: Lakukan skimming dan scanning untuk mencari keywords yang tepat pada bacaan.  







Temukan KEYWORDS !!!




Jawaban dari pertanyaan di atas:

08. Section A                 v
09. Section B                 vii
10. Section C                 ix
11. Section D                 ii
12. Section E                  x
13. Section F                  i
14. Section G                 iii

Ref. Cambridge Practice Test for IELTS 7

Cara menjawab sesi Reading Cambridge 3 , test 2, no. 1-5

Pertanyaan nomor 1-5 (YES, NO, NOT GIVEN)

Cara saya menjawab pertanyaan sesi YES, NO, NOT GIVEN pada Cambridge 3, test 2. Mungkin cara ini juga cocok bagi Anda. Ada 2 langkah :

  1. Temukan kata kunci pada bacaan,
  2. Setelah menemukan kata kunci, bacalah dengan teliti. Terkadang dibutuhkan kemampuan Paraphrase untuk menemukan jawaban yang tepat.





Jawaban dari pertanyaan di atas:

Pertanyaan 1: Bush flies are easier to control than buffalo flies

Lokasi dalam bacaan: paragraf 2, baris 6-7:
“… avoiding the soft cattle dung in which bush flies and buffalo flies breed.”

Jawaban: NOT GIVEN


Pertanyaan 2: Four thousand species of dung beetle were initially brought to Australia by the CSIRO.

Lokasi dalam bacaan: paragraf 3, baris 6:
“…the CSIRO imported insects from about 50 different species of dung beetle…”

Jawaban: NO



Pertanyaan 3: Dung beetles were brought to Australia by the CSIRO over a fourteen-year period.

Lokasi dalam bacaan: paragraf 3, baris 6:
Between 1968 and 1982, the CSIRO importedspecies of dung beetle…”

Jawaban: YES



Pertanyaan 4: At least twenty-six of the introduced species have become established in Australia.

Lokasi dalam bacaan: paragraf 3, baris 8-9:
Of the 26 species that are known to have become successfully integrated into the local environment…”

Jawaban: YES



Pertanyaan 5: The dung bettles cause an immediate improvement to the quality of a cow pasture.

Lokasi dalam bacaan: paragraf 4, baris 3:
The beetles immediately disappear beneath…”

Jawaban: NO


Ref. Cambridge Practice Tests for IELTS 3

Cara menjawab sesi Reading Cambridge 1, test 1, no. 1-8

Pertanyaan nomor 1-8 (Complete Summary)

Cara saya menjawab pertanyaan sesi Complete Summary pada Cambridge 1, test 1. Mungkin cara ini juga cocok bagi Anda. Ada 2 langkah :

  1. Temukan kata kunci pada bacaan,
  2. Setelah menemukan kata kunci, baca dengan teliti, lalu bandingkan, sampai Anda yakin akan jawaban yang tepat.





Hasil kerja dari 2 langkah di atas:






Jawaban dari pertanyaan di atas:

They tried to preserve burning logs or charcoal unaware that they could create
fire themselves. It is suspected that the first man-made flames were produced
by chance

The very first fire-lighting methods involved the creation of friction by, for
example, rapidly rotating a wooden stick in a round hole. The use of percussion
or persistent chipping was also widespread in Europe and among other peoples
such as the Chinese and Eskimos European practice of this method continued
until the 1850s despite the discovery of phosphorus some years earlier.

Ref. Cambridge Practice Tests for IELTS 1 

Sabtu, 14 Desember 2013

Linking words: Can I be of any use ?

Ryan Higgins has brought some practical linking words to light, used in IELTS introduction paragraph. Here is the example:

In today’s world, the use of technology is ever-increasing. Even in classrooms technology can be commonly seen. It is disagreed that technology will completely replace the teacher in the classroom. Analyzing both the inability of a technology-driven teacher to discipline students in a classroom as well as this robotic teacher’s hindrance to a student’s learning process will show this.

Ryan once says: all sentences in paragraph can be worked as one unity if there are (more) linking words to be ticked. Let’s look at how these linking words (underlined phrases) can be of any use:

Even in – this is a phrase used in English to make it clear that a topic’s characteristics match the characteristics of a topic presented before it. In the paragraph above, it is saying that technology in the classroom is also ever-increasing. Can you see how ‘even in’ links the ideas of our background sentence with our detailed background sentence?

This – probably the most commonly used linking word, here this refers to our thesis and states that the supporting ideas of lack of discipline and educational hindrance will act in support of this thesis. Can you see how the word ‘this’ causes the outline sentence to link with the idea presented in the thesis?

A key point for IELTS essay is sited in the first paragraph, known as the introduction. When the IELTS examiner peruses the introduction to your essay, then she/he should already figure out clearly what the rest of your essay will look like.


Extract from: Ryan Higgins.