The information about new courses on English is available on the website. The courses are going to start next Monday, on the 12th of May 2019. Do not forget to check all the requirements before you decide to join. Then, do the placement test first to know where your level is. Good luck.

When are the courses going to begin?

Dear students, here is the assignment for our lecture on Friday. Write 250 words essay on the recent issue about social media. The deadline for the essay is on Thursday at 11 pm. The essays are going to be discussed in the classroom.

What is the assignment?

The reasons for the extinction of a species, and for the rapid rates of change in our environment, are currently a focus of much scientific research. An individual species' susceptibility to extinction depends on at least two things: the taxon (the biological group - kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, or genus) to which a species belongs, and the overall rate of environmental change.

The word susceptibility is closest in meaning to....

The students are going to improve writing skill. They are going to write status in their social media in English. After that, they are also going to write their planning and daily activity. They believe they can improve their writing skill well.

What are they going to do to improve their writing skill?

A distinctively American architecture began with Frank Lloyd Wright, who had taken to heart the admonition that form should follow function and who thought of buildings not as separate architectural entities but as parts of an organic whole that included the land, the community, and the society. In a very real way the houses of colonial New England and some of the southern plantations had been functional, but Wright was the first architect to make functionalism the authoritative principle for public as well as for domestic buildings.

What way did Wright’s public buildings differ from most of those built by earlier architects?

I have some New Year resolutions. The most important one is being healthier. I am going to take better care of myself. For example, I am going to get more sleep, exercise, and listen to my body. I am going to eat more vegetables and fruits. I am also going to make changes in my eating habits every day.

What is the main point of the speaker’s resolution this year?

The process for converting vegetable oil into Biodiesel is sometimes called ester interchange. To complete this process the vegetable oil has to be combined with a smaller amount of methanol and then put in the presence of a small quantity of an alkaline catalyst (for example, 5% to 1% sodium hydroxide). Vegetable oil is made up of so-called triglycerides, which is a compound of the trivalent alcohol glycerin with three fatty acids.

The word “converting” in line 1 could be best replaced by....

The advantages of going to Britain to learn English seem obvious. Firstly, you will be able to listen to the language all the time you are in the country. You will be surrounded completely by the language wherever you go.

What is one of the advantages of going to the UK to learn English?

Technology will allow homes in the future to be “smart.” Appliances will communicate with each other—and with you. Your stove, for instance, will tell you when your food is cooked and ready to eat. Refrigerators will suggest recipes based on food items you already have.

What does the paragraph above tell us about?

Shall we see what the weather will be like tomorrow? Well, it will be rainy in the morning in southern Oregon and windy in northern Oregon. In the afternoon, The South will see cloudy weather with some rain later in the day. Northern Oregon will also see rain turning to snow and quite windy, with winds coming from the North-East.

What the text above is about?

In 2020 the first self-driving cars will appear for the public. Around 2022, the complete industry will start to be disrupted. You don’t want to own a car anymore. You will call a car with your phone, it will show up at your location and drive you to your destination. You will not need to park it, you only pay for the driven distance and can be productive while driving. Our kids will never get a driver’s license and will never own a car. It will change the cities because we will need 90-95% fewer cars for that.

What is a self-driving car?

There are many reasons to use alternative energy sources. One reason is to reduce pollutants and greenhouse gases. Alternative or renewable energy sources help to reduce the number of toxins that are a result of traditional energy use.

What is the closest meaning of the word “reduce”?

Hello, we are Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens from "High School Musical” and we are going to travel to Peru in June! We are going to stay in Lima for one week. We are going to visit some friends there and we are going to have a conference at Sheraton Hotel; at night we are going to have a concert at Monumental Stadium on June 19th.

How long are Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens going to stay in Lima?

Clarkson is a large town. It has more than fifty thousand people living there. It sits next to a large river, the Clark River. Every day, people take the ferry from North Clarkson to South Clarkson to go to work.

What is there near Clarkson?

Born on March 9, 1903, Wage Supratman was the seventh of nine children of Djoemeno Senen Sastrosoehardjo and Siti Senen.

How many brothers or sisters does Wage Supratman have?

To facilitate Wage Supratman’s education in Makassar, Willem van Eldik, his brother in law adopted him as his stepson and added a European name, Rudolf.

What does the word ‘his’ refer to?

This short explanation on how a cell phone work is really wonderful. A cell phone or in long term ‘cellular telephone’ works by transmitting signals of radio to towers of cellular. The towers are networked to a central switching station. The connection usually uses wire, fiber optic-cables, or microwave.

How telephone cell phone work....

Enter Morni! Morni is an eggy squishy alarm clock and nightstand ambient light. It was designed to look like an egg to remind people of a warm and safe home.

What is Morni?

Unlike an alarm clock’s similar function, Morni ambient light can also be controlled by squishing the eggy alarm clock. You can make it change the color, switch it on or off by using your hand.

What can you do to Morni?

Acid rain is rain that is highly acidic because of sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, and other air pollutants dissolved in it. Normal rain is slightly acidic, with a pH of 6. Acid rain may have a pH value as low as 2.8. Acid rain can severely damage both plant and animal life. Certain lakes, for example, have lost all fish and plant life because of acid rain. Acid rain comes from sulfur in coal and oil. When they burn, they make sulfur dioxide (SO2). Most sulfur leaves factory chimneys as the gaseous sulfur dioxide (SO2) and most nitrogen are also emitted as one of the nitrogen oxides (NO or NO2), both of which are gasses.

What is the purpose of the text?

Nero was born in 37 A.D. as Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus. The philosopher Seneca gave him lessons in the classical tradition, Greek, philosophy, and rhetoric. When his father died, his mother Agrippina married his great uncle, Emperor Claudius.

Who is Lucius Ahenobarbus?

A kite is an object which is made from a light material stretched over a frame. Due to its light material a kite will lift off the ground and fly when it is tilted into the wind. A kite is uses wind to make it fly because it is heavier than air. When wind travels over the surface of the kite, it is split into two streams of air. One stream of the air goes over the kite while the second stream goes under the kite.

What media which use by kite to fly?

In Australia, there are three levels of governments, the federal government, state governments, and local governments. All of these levels of government are necessary. First, the federal government is necessary for big things. They keep the economy in order and look after like defense. Similarly, the state governments look after the middle-sized things. Finally, the local government looks after the small thins. They look after things like collecting rubbish, otherwise, everyone would have disease.

Who is responsible for defense?

Blue whales can live as long as humans. They can live to be 80 to 90 years old. Blue whales eat mostly small shrimplike creatures called krill. Because blue whales are so big they need to eat lots of krill. They eat about four tons of krill a day. That is like eating 32,000 hamburgers a day. Blue whales spend their summers in polar waters eating large amounts of krill. Then they migrate thousands of miles to tropical and subtropical waters to spend the winter.

Which one of the statements below belongs to an opinion?

I would like to send an invitation to a friend for the big event of Khataman Al Qur’an in my Islamic boarding school. I have looked everywhere for her address, but I cannot find it. So now I think it is rather unlikely that I will eventually find her address. If I found her address, I would send her an invitation.

What is the fact from the text above?

Couples that practice birth control do so for various reasons. They may want to limit or space their children, or to have no children at all. Young couples often postpone having children so that both partners can work full-time. Other couples space their children so they can give each child as much attention as possible. Some women are advised by their doctors to avoid pregnancy for health reasons. In many countries with rapidly growing populations, the government encourages couples to limit the size of their families.

"Young couples often postpone having children." The similar meaning of “postpone” means....

Mrs. Nurjannah is happy. Her husband hasn’t gone home for months because he works abroad. Last night Mr. Amin sent a message that he planned to go home this month. Mrs. Nurjannah can’t hide her happiness. Now she is arranging what she will do if her husband comes. If her husband comes, she will cook special food for dinner.

What can we conclude from the text above?

I knew Jihan very well and I know that he never had much money, but he loved Ferraris. He would have loved to own a Ferrari, but he never had the money to buy one. If Jihan had had the money, he would have bought a Ferrari.

What can we infer from the text?

You can connect a USB device for your computer by inserting its USB plug. The first time you plug a USB device into a particular USB port on your computer, windows automatically installs a driver for that device. After the driver has been installed, you can disconnect and reconnect the device without performing any additional steps.

What is the text about?

I have returned to my hometown of Wilson Creek after an absence of 10 years. So many things have changed around here. When I left Wilson Creek, there was a small pond on the right as you left town. They have filled in this pond and they have built a large shopping mall there. A new post office has also been built just across from my old school.

The word “here” in the second line refers to________.

Mary Dexter is a young student who lives in Denver, Colorado, in the west of the USA. Now, she is 17 and is studying at her local high school, but she already has big plans for her future. After she finishes high school next year, she is going to study at a big college in California. She is very excited about it.

What is her plan after graduating from high school?

The sugar glider is a marsupial, just like the many other Australian animals – the kangaroo, the koala and the wombat for instance. The sugar glider is a possum – very similar to the squirrel in Indonesia. It basically lives in trees. It eats leaves and fruit.

What does the text tell us about?

Before disconnecting a USB storage device, make sure your computer has finished transferring data to that device. Click Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media icon in the windows notification area to remove the device before disconnecting.

How do we remove the USB device from the computer?

The Australian sugar glider has a very special skill. It can jump from tree to tree like a squirrel but it can also ‘sort of fly’ as well. In fact, it glides. When it jumps from one tree to another it spreads its four legs out wide, and its extra skin also spreads out and functions as a parachute.

Why can the sugar glider glide from tree to tree?

When we watch television, there are some news about bullying. I think it is a big problem when bullying is done by elementary school students. Bullying can affect everyone consisting of those who are bullied, those who bully, and those who witness bullying. Bullying is linked to many negative outcomes including impact on mental health.

What is the purpose of the text?

Students who are bullied can experience negative physical, school, and mental health issues. The students can get depression and anxiety. They will lose interest in activities. Some students may get health complaint. Bullied students can get bad score in their academic. Students who bullied others can also engage in violent and other risky behaviors into adulthood. Depression and anxiety may also be experienced by the students who witness the bullying activities.

What is the effect of bullying?

Depression and anxiety may also be experienced by the students who witness the bullying activities.

The underlined words means....

When you travel abroad there are certain regulations that you have to comply with; the immigration authorities in all countries require visitors to be in possession of the necessary travel documents. This means that they need to have at least a valid passport. However, depending on the country, they don’t necessarily have to obtain a visa as well. Travelers must also be fully aware of the restrictions that apply to the goods that they are carrying. In some countries you must not import or export certain categories of goods such as plants, alcohol, or cultural artifacts.

What categories of goods should be prohibited to import or export by the visitors?

To fly for less money, you can buy non-refundable plane tickets two or three months before your trip. The cheapest way to fly is as a courier. In return for delivering a package for a courier company, you get a plane ticket that costs as little as one quarter of the regular fare – or even less if the company needs someone at the last minute. Recently, a courier flew round trip from Los Angeles to Tokyo for $100; a regular ticket cost around $ 1.800.

How is the way to fly for less money?

If you’re going to do a lot of travelling by train, a train pass will save you money. Buying a single pass gives you unlimited travel for a period time. Train passes can be especially useful in India, which has the world’s largest rail system; in Japan, where trains are fast and convenient; and in Europe, where trains go to over 30,000 cities.

Which country has the world’s largest rail system?

Monica is one of the most talented person I know, she can cook delicious food, she can drive a car but she rides her bike to work. Last week, we went to the beach and I could see that she could swim and surf really well.

What is the antonym of the word “delicious”?

Jane is amazing with computers; she is good at designing websites. She works from home; she can create amazing videos and info graphics. In her free time, she can play tennis really well.

How does Jane spend her free time?

The most familiar Speleothems (from the Greek word spelaion for the cave and thema for deposit), the decorative dripstone features found in caves, are stalactites and stalagmites. Stalactites hang downward from the ceiling of the cave and are formed as drop after drop of water slowly trickles through crack on the cave roof. Stalagmites grow upward from the floor of the cave, generally as a result of water dripping from an overhead stalactite.

Stalagmites are formed by...

We believe the Earth is about 4.6 billion years old. At present we are forced to look to other bodies in the solar system for hints as to what the early history of the Earth was like. Studies of our moon, Mercury, Mars, and the large satellites of Jupiter and Saturn have provided ample evidence that all these large celestial bodies had formed.

Scientists estimate the age of the Earth as…

My class is going to the movie on a field trip next week. We have to get permission slips signed before we go. We also need to ask our parents if they will drive to the movie theatre. We are going to see a movie that tells the story from a book we read. We love it when movies are made from books. It is fun to compare the movie to the book. I usually like the book better.

Which of the following activity is mentioned in the passage?

As we get older and when we think about our past we sometimes ponder the things that we should have done. In reality, we can always learn from our mistakes and hope to never make them again. For example, if I failed a test because of a lack of study, the next test I will hope to pass because of hard work. We have to be honest with ourselves and live in the now. The only things we can control are the things happening now, in this moment.

Which of the following best describes the tone of the passage?

Graffiti is an art form that can benefit our public spaces just as much as sculpture, fountains, or other, more accepted art forms. Graffiti is the ultimate public art form. Through graffiti, the entire world has become a canvas. No one has to pay admission or travel to a museum to see this kind of art. The artists usually do not receive payment for their efforts. These works of art marking the urban landscape are available and free of charge to everyone passes by.

The information below is stated in the passage, except….

Helen Adams Keller was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She could neither see nor hear from time she was baby. She could not hear what was said to her and did not know how to talk. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. Yet, the brilliant girl was able to overcome all those handicaps, to graduate from a college with honors and become a useful citizen. The story of Keller and her teacher, Anne Sullivan, was made famous by Keller’s autobiography, The Story of My Life, and its adaptations for film and stage, The Miracle Worker.

The information below is stated in the passage, except….

I remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight ailment of which I had a touch. I read all I came to read and then I began to study diseases, generally, turning the leaves idly. I came to typhoid fever, read the symptoms and discovered I must have had it for months without knowing it. Cholera I had with severe complications and diphtheria I must have been born with. I was relieved to find that Bright’s disease I had only in a modified form and, so far as that was concerned, I might live for years.

The word “it” refers to….