How to Make Nopia (Usually Called Mino: Mini Nopia) Special from Banyumas

• How to Make Nopia (Usually Called Mino: Mini Nopia) Special from Banyumas

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Nopia (Mino) is a kind of cake special from Banyumas, Central Java, Indonesia. Nopia is usually called mino as the abbreviation of mini nopia. It means that mino is a nopia that has a small size (mini). This cake has a unique shape like an egg. That is why sometimes this cake is called gecko’ egg. The color is white with the delicious filling that is red sugar. But nowadays, the fillings are variety such as chocolate etc. Here I want to share how to make mino (mini nopia) special from Banyumas.

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Materials:

1. For the Filling

l 800 gram low protein wheat

l 1 kg red sugar or Javanese sugar, slice it

l 100 gram chocolate powder

l 65 gram sweet condensed milk

l 33 gram margarine

l 150 gram water

l Sufficient frying Oil

1. For the Skin

l 1¹/₂ kg medium fat wheat

l 375 gram granulated sugar

l Sufficient water

l Sufficient vanilla

l Sufficient frying oil

Steps:

1. Firstly, make the filling by slicing or mashing the red sugar into the small size or soft texture.

2. Secondly, mix the red sugar that has been mashed with the wheat and others filling materials.

    Stirring evenly in order that all the material are mixed. Then, let it for awhile.

3. Basting the filling dough with oil and let it for awhile.

4. Then, to make the skin, mix all the skin materials till all is mixed and be spread evenly. Let it for

    awhile.

5. After that, set it into 10 gram per dough. Let it for 10 minutes.

6. Make the dough is flat, then fill it with the filling that has been made before. Form it into the truly

    rounded. Make sure that the round is truly close.

7. After all is ready, put it on the gun metal. Heat the oven with a low temperature and put the dough

    for 20-25 minutes (traditionally it is stuck on the traditional stove wall (read: tungku) ).

8. Finally, take the mino and put it on the serving plate.

9. Mino is ready to be served.

It is easily found in Banyumas. So, it can be a gift for your beloved family, friends, or someone else

after visiting Banyumas. Hope it may be useful. 

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Book review: Mastering American English by Grant Taylor

Mastering American English

Title : Mastering American English

Author : Grant Taylor

Place of Publication : New York

Publisher : McGraw-Hill Book Company

Date of Publication : 1956

Number of Pages : 226

ISBN : 0070629420

Introduction 

Mastering American English is a comprehensive exercise book for use with adult students at the intermediate and advanced levels of language learning.

Purpose

The purpose of the book is to help students in studying English grammar without the aid of a teacher.

Content

The book does not cover the entire grammar and structure of language, but it just deal with the major features. The book consists two sections, each on grammatical topic. Special attention is given to those points which are often a problem for learners.

1. Intermediate Section

This section gives an effective and concise review of the fundamental language materials. It includes tenses such as present tense, past tense, and future tense. There are also possessive forms; order and request; irregular verbs; question words; expression of place and time; word order, and so on.

1.  Advanced Section

This section gives extensive practice with those more complex features of English. It includes tenses, adjectives and adverbs; passive verbs; expression of  advisability and necessity; gerund and infinitive; clauses; connecting words; direct and indirect speech; conditional sentences; word order; prepositions, and so on.

Evaluation

• The book is understandable, easy to follow, and useful for both students and teachers.
• The book is complete with exercises, but there is no explanation in it.
• Types of the exercises includes fill in the blank space (close), make statements/sentences, answer questions, matching, finding a location on the map, and reading passage.
• The exercises are given from easy to difficult. In my opinion, it is a good way to guide the readers in learning a topic.
• The answer key in the end of page can be used to check the reader’s ability if they are doing well in exercise or not.
• I think the writers has done the work well by put them into the book.

 Interpretation

An example can help the readers to understand the material easily.

And a picture can interest the readers to imagine what happen in the story.

But they are not given at all in the exercise. Some of them are included, some of them are not.

It will be better if each exercise is completed with a picture and an example in it.

Summary

For all, it is good enough to get this book and find all the information out of the book.

This book can help you in improving your skill and increase your knowledge about grammar.

It will be useful to guide you in writing anything correctly.

It may be happen someday when you must write an essay, a report, or a final project for your study.

Baca Juga:

1. Noun Phrases A set of comprehensive facts and some theoretical tendencies by Dr. Jumanto
2. How to Teach Speaking by Scott Thornburry
3. Speaking Naturally "Communication Skills in American English" by Bruce Tillitt, Mary Newton Bruder
4. LET’S COMMUNICATE IN ENGLISH (A Speaking Course for Intermediate Level) Written by: Prof. Dra. Kasihani K.E. Suyanto, M.A.,Ph.D and Dra. Sri Rachmajanti, Di. TESL, M.Pd
5. “TECHNIQUES AND PRINCIPLES IN LANGUAGE TEACHING (SECOND EDITION)” By DIANE LARSEN-FREEMAN

Book review: Noun Phrases A set of comprehensive facts and some theoretical tendencies by Dr. Jumanto

Noun Phrases

"A set of comprehensive facts and some theoretical tendencies"

Title: Noun Phrases "A set of comprehensive facts and some theoretical tendencies"

Author: Dr. Jumanto

Year of publication: 2008

City : Semarang

Publisher: WorldPro Publishing

Number of pages: 119 pages

Introduction

The book entitled Noun Phrase by Dr.Jumanto is a book contains the description of English and Indonesian noun phrases and of how the two differ from each other, the content of which is based on the results of contrastive analysis between the NPs of the two languages.

The book is intended to be some supplementary material for classes of General Linguistics, Syntax, Structure, and Translation at language colleges.

The purpose

The purpose of the book is the readers are able to understand, analyze the use of, the principles in, the differences between English and Indonesian NPs, and how they are formed and applied in linguistics study.

Whom this book is for?

This book is very beneficial to be used by:

• College students learning English, especially those in the classes of General Linguistics, Syntax, Structure, and Translation at language colleges.
• English teachers of high schools, especially those in need of clear description of English NPs.
• Authors, especially those who are writing English text-books.
• English native speakers who are trying to learn Bahasa Indonesia.
• Linguists

 Content

Part 1 English and Indonesian Noun Phrase

• Chapter 1 – Introduction
• Chapter 2 – English Noun Phrases
• Chapter 3 – Indonesian Noun Phrases
• Chapter 4 – English and Indonesian Noun Phrases

Part 2 A test of Comprehensive Facts and Theoretical Tendencies

• Chapter 5 – A set of comprehensive facts
• Chapter 6 – Theoretical Tendencies

Evaluation

• Understandable

The book simplifies our understanding about English and Indonesian noun phrases. There are no such difficult words that can be found in this book. The book also provides a brief explanation about NPs

• Complete

This book provides so many examples and details of NPs. Begin with the function of NPs in a sentence, the structure of NPs, and the kinds of NPs.

• Informative

It contains knowledge and insight in understanding English (Indonesian as well), especially the formation of the noun phrases.

Interpretation

1. The writer in this book uses academic and scientific style.
2. The materials are delivered not only in English (96%) but also in Indonesian (4%).
3. The writer explains the materials by giving theories and comparing the applied examples in both languages. This is meant to enable the readers to understand the content quicker and well.
4. The writer provides the content with a lot of examples and details, by visualizing words, phrases, clauses, and sentences comparison. Each of the details is explained in many forms such as table, diagram, etc.

Summary

The book explains about the differences between English and Indonesian NPs. For example, It is stated that the differences between English and Indonesian NPs are in their structures. In English NPs, the modifier precedes the head. Whereas in Indonesian NPs, the head usually precedes the modifier.

Example: English NP – beautiful house

         Indonesian NP – rumah indah

The author even provide some suggestions for English teachers in learning those phrases.

In the second chapter, the author provides an explanation of standard, creative, and elliptical NPs.

Baca Juga:

1. Mastering American English by Grant Taylor
2. How to Teach Speaking by Scott Thornburry
3. Speaking Naturally "Communication Skills in American English" by Bruce Tillitt, Mary Newton Bruder
4. LET’S COMMUNICATE IN ENGLISH (A Speaking Course for Intermediate Level) Written by: Prof. Dra. Kasihani K.E. Suyanto, M.A.,Ph.D and Dra. Sri Rachmajanti, Di. TESL, M.Pd
5. “TECHNIQUES AND PRINCIPLES IN LANGUAGE TEACHING (SECOND EDITION)” By DIANE LARSEN-FREEMAN

MOTIVASI HIDUP: PELAJARAN DARI SEEKOR HARIMAU DAN RUSA

PELAJARAN DARI SEEKOR HARIMAU DAN RUSA

HARIMAU harus BERLARI setiap hari untuk berburu untuk tetap HIDUP DAN BERTAHAN. Sama halnya dengan yang RUSA harus BERLARI setiap hari untuk menghindar untuk tetap HIDUP DAN BERTAHAN.

Mereka harus sama-sama BERLARI untuk hidup dan bertahan. Lalu sebenarnya siapakah yang lebih KUAT diantara mereka? siapa yang bisa HIDUP DAN BERTAHAN?

Jawabannya adalah "DIALAH YANG MAU UNTUK BERLARI UNTUK TETAP HIDUP DAN BERTAHAN".

Rusa harus berlari untuk menghindari terkaman si harimau agar tidak MATI dimakan. Sedangkan harimau harus berlari untuk menerkam si rusa agar tidak MATI kelaparan.

Siapa yang BERLARI untuk suatu tujuan, dialah yang akan HIDUP DAN BERTAHAN karena layaknya setiap makhluk hidup sama yaitu sama-sama memiliki MASALAH dan SOLUSI masing-masing.

So, the question is: "Are we ready to survive?"

Book review: How to Teach Speaking by Scott Thornburry

HOW TO TEACH SPEAKING

 

Written by : Scott Thornburry

Series Editor : Jeremy Harmer

Year : 2005

City : London

Publisher : Pearson Longman

Country : England

What Is the Book About?

This book is about looking at speaking learning with easy way and understandable perspective : what is it that good teachers can do? And what is it that good teachers  know?

Who is this book for?

It has been designed for all teachers who wish to improve their knowledge and develop their classroom skills in speaking aspect.

The Purposes:

1. To help the students (with teachers illustrasion) to become fluency.
2. As a good guidance for teacher to teach in speaking area.
3. Emphasize the teachers to be more critically and are able to face and understanding their each students` ability, well.
4. This book is to convey information and facilitate the interpersonal function.

Content:

1. What speakers do
2. What speakers know
3. Speaking in another language
4. Awareness-raising activities
5. Appropriation activities
6. Towards autonomy
7. Planning and assessing speaking

Evaluation:

• The Strength

Simple, Easy to follow, and unserstandable.

The analysis is clear and accessible without being simplistic and be of particular use to pre-service teachers.

• The Weakness

Weakness is lack of practical activities for the classroom (there are some but more is much better.

Intrepretation:

This book is an excellent overview of key concept in thie field , as well a grat source for ideas to help teachers put these concepts into actions. This book is also compact, so even a busy teacher can use it, or even read it prat per part.

Moreover, it is able to change the students paradigm, mental and phsycological proccess that English is hard so, it can be implicated in speaking area.

Summary:

Accordingly, in chapter 1 and 2 we start by looking at what skill spakers can do before looking at what they know. Chapter 3 addresses the problems faced by speakers of another language and maps out the number of priorities of teaching speaking. Chapter 4,5,6  deal with three passages of a general approach to skil development : awareness, rising, appropriation, and autonomy. Chapter 7 are able to look at ways that speaking can be integrated into the language curriculum.

Baca Juga:

1. Noun Phrases A set of comprehensive facts and some theoretical tendencies by Dr. Jumanto
2. Mastering American English by Grant Taylor
3. Speaking Naturally "Communication Skills in American English" by Bruce Tillitt, Mary Newton Bruder
4. LET’S COMMUNICATE IN ENGLISH (A Speaking Course for Intermediate Level) Written by: Prof. Dra. Kasihani K.E. Suyanto, M.A.,Ph.D and Dra. Sri Rachmajanti, Di. TESL, M.Pd
5. “TECHNIQUES AND PRINCIPLES IN LANGUAGE TEACHING (SECOND EDITION)” By DIANE LARSEN-FREEMAN