Name : Ahmad Rozikin

Nim : A1B220024

Room : 002

Prodi : pendidikan bahasa inggris



 3 Activities on English website

British council

In the morning at 08.20 I start to do my assignment for ICTLL, then I try to visit British council. In website of British council there are a lot of materials to improve English skill like, listening, reading, speaking, writing, grammar, vocabulary, general English, business English and then some. My favorite lesson that I always learn in this website is podcast, that’s such an interesting podcast because there are so many podcast and the hosts talk about many interesting topics in every podcast.

There are online courses as well here like, learn English subscription : self access courses, 100% online teacher-led course, personal online English tutor, and short courses in future learn. If you have enough money you can try to take the courses and learn there with a native English speakers.

In this morning I do some exercises in listening skill in this website. First of all I choose a topic about an invitation to a party, and in the audio there’s a girl who invites her good friends to come to her party in her cousin’s house and she tell the direction to go to her cousin’s house. Actually there is a transcript in this listening exercise to help people to comprehend the audio but if people understand the audio easily so they don’t need to read the transcript. Each listening exercise has some tasks as well to test understanding for people who have listened the audio. After listening to the audio I try to do the tasks and I’m so grateful because I can answer all of the question correctly. In my opinion this listening exercise is very useful to increase our ability of English skill.

In this listening practice there are different level start from beginner A1 until advanced C1 level, so it makes people easier to know which level they have and get the higher level after finishing the level before. For now I would like to improve listening skill in intermediate B1 level because I think this is the level that I have for now, but unfortunately this level is easy for me because I can understand the audio so easily, so that I change the level to the upper intermediate B2 level and I think this level is quite hard for me so I better try to master this level first till I really understand all of the materials easily without any problems again.

For improving my listening skill I usually listen to podcast in this website, even though the podcasts are so long time but I keep listening to them until finish because I really like this podcast. Now I have listened to more 30 podcasts and it takes much time to finish them, but there are some difficulties that I have while I listen to the podcast such as, I still find it hard to understand what the hosts say about specific topic or when coming across new vocabulary and unfortunately this podcasts do British accent whereas I do American accent so it makes me get confused to distinguish British and American accent. But it’s fine because from this I can improve my knowledge about British accent then one day I will take an IELTS, I can do it easily.

That’s my activities that I have done in British council to improve my listening skill, and in my opinion this Website comes in handy for English learners who would like to improve every skill in English.

VOA learning English

On Monday afternoon, I start visiting website on the internet, the name of the website is VOA learning English. As far as I look there are many videos about English here like, English in a minute, English the movies, how to pronounce, talk2us, everyday grammar TV, and new words. First of all I try to open English in a minute and learn some new vocabularies, actually there are a lot of videos about new vocabularies here but I don’t watch them, so I change another lesson in this website.

I find an interesting material in this website, it’s about read, listen, and learn. There are also many videos in this section but that’s only audio and a picture, so in this lesson we need to read the transcript while listening to the audio or just listen the audio. This lesson also gives some new words  from the audio to learn, I think this website is quite useful to improve English skills especially in American accent.

There are 3 deferent level in this website, beginning level, intermediate level and advanced level. For people who still have low ability of English, they can start to learn in the beginning level, but unfortunately in this website there is not translation in Indonesian language so it will make people find it hard to understand if they are still in beginning level.

I also learn about how to pronounce : sounds made with the tip of the tongue in this article. From that lesson finally I know how to differentiate consonants in English, and that really easy to understand the material because the teacher speaks slowly and clearly. So I recommend people who want to learn pronunciation easily to visit this website and watch all of the videos to improve English skill so fast.

Actually this website has YouTube channel too and uses the same name with this website, so that people can access videos about English in VOA learning English more easily on YouTube. There are so many videos on that channel that people can use to improve their ability and there are a lot of kinds of English materials there to improve different skill.

As far as we know that this website has fewer materials than British council, so that it makes people don’t want to visit this website continually. 

Cambridge assessment English 

On Wednesday morning, I try to visit Cambridge assessment English to improve my English skill again. In this website there are many kinds of materials such as, learning English, free activities, exam preparation, test your English, parents and children, games and social media and more resources. First of all I try to find out which level that I have for schools in test your English section, than the result of the test that I get is intermediate level. Actually the test is not too difficult because it’s about grammar lesson so that I can do the test easily.

There is also teaching English material in this website, perhaps it is for people who want to increase their teaching ability. Some kinds of material in teaching English like, qualifications for individuals, qualifications for schools and ministers, language for teaching, train for trainer, professional development, Cambridge English teaching framework, Cambridge English trainer framework, Cambridge English for examiners, resources for teachers, general English teaching resources, webinars for teachers, and information for preparation centers.

If people would like to take exams and tests, they can try to visit this website because there are many exams and tests here like, Cambridge English qualifications, schools, general and higher education, business, pre A1 starters, A1 movers, A2 flyers, A2 key for schools, B1 preliminary for schools, B2 first for schools, A2 key, B1 preliminary, B2 first, C1 advanced, C2 proficiency, B1 business preliminary, B2 business vantage, C1 business higher, linguaskill, IELTS, and OET.

In my opinion Cambridge assessment English is very useful website to improve English skill and check English level. Learning English in this website is fun because there is a fun way to make learning to be easy.

When learning here I find an interesting lesson, that’s intonation lesson. So in this lesson I need to listen to short audio and guess the meaning of the intonation, and that’s really helpful to comprehend how the sentences are pronounced using the right intonation.


 

Readability check

The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) predicted moderate to heavy rain across Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Maluku, and Papua on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020.

According to the agency's statement, moderate to heavy intensity of rain potentially showers parts of Aceh, North Sumatra, West Sumatra, Jambi, Bengkulu, South Sumatra, Bangka Belitung Islands, and Lampung regions. Several areas of Banten, West Java, Central Java, Yogyakarta, and East Java were also estimated to see rainfall with moderate to heavy intensity. In Kalimantan, moderate to heavy rains were predicted to cover parts of West Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan, South Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, and North Kalimantan.

 Meanwhile in Sulawesi, moderate to heavy rain was expected to wet some areas of North Sulawesi, Central Sulawesi, Southeast Sulawesi, and South Sulawesi. The potential for moderate to heavy rain was also forecasted to occur in parts of Maluku, North Maluku, Papua, and West Papua. While, Bali, West Nusa Tenggara, and East Nusa Tenggara were predicted to be showered with moderate rain. Apart from these said areas, today’s weather was expected to be cloudy and light rain, as noted in the BMKG’s weather forecast.

 

Readability scores

Flasch reading ease : 17.7

Spelling issues : 14 %

Grammar : 13 %

Sentences > 30 syllables : 88%

Readable rating : E

Reading time : 0:48

Speaking time : 1:27

as far as i concerned, readability is very useful to check level of reading. After checking that news, in turned out the level of the news is quite low and that’s not difficult to read. By using this readability it can make people to check how difficult a text and if people get the higher level they can change another text.



Website evaluatios

These are my evaluations of Cambridge English :

The first, it’s very useful website for people who want to improve their English start from beginning until advanced level.

Second, some materials in this website is free and it makes people easier to access the lesson

Third, there is English test in this website, so it’s really helpful to know which level that people have

In my opinion about this website, there so many important and useful lessons that can help English learners or teachers to improve their ability, so that I recommend this website for people to learn English.

 

Write and improve

I have tried write and improve website then I know the best way to improve writing skill. When tried to write some sentences and checked it, it turn out I made some incorrect grammar then I know the mistake that I always do in writing skill and corrected it again. So it is the best website to improve writing skill ever and it can make progress easily by using this way.


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