Narrative and Descriptive Essays by Haslindah (III C)

HASLINDAH WRITING III

III C

10535 1946 06

NARRATIVE ESSAY

MY ENGLISH TEACHER

When I was still in senior high school, exactly on the second grade, I had to cope with a very difficult problem. It was a time when I didn’t have courage to speak English. I was afraid of making mistakes in vocabulary usage, pronouncing and especially using English structure.

Making things worse, I was basically so shy and regarded as a silent person. I ever said to my friend, Linda, that I didn’t have a bravery to speak English because of those factors.

One day, there was a new English teacher in my school. Her name is Mrs.Marwani. Fortunately, this new English teacher is very caring and patient. She willed to give her hand whenever my classmate and I needed some help to the difficulties of her lessons. She said that she allowed her students to play her cassettes or mobile phone and listen to English language songs during the lesson. In short, while my friend and I took notes or did assignment, they were also interested.

She divided the lesson into two sessions and arranged it in such ways. In the first sessions her students study theories about English language in general term. And then, the second sessions, she asked them to be active participants by joining some certain English games, such as scrabble or our favorite one. There was so much fun with a lot of practice time, instead of theory itself. I could gradually change my mood in learning English.

That English teacher was rarely able to boost my spirit to learn English well. Her ways teaching her students were very deeply affected. She motivated us to be an English teacher like her. It was one of my reasons why I have to take English department at Unismuh Makassar.

DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY

ENGLISH COURSE IN FORT ROTTERDAM

Fort Rotterdam is one of historical place in Makassar. It’s because of this place is include inheritance of colonialism and keeping stories fight of our heroes. Now days, this place becomes an interesting place as tourism object, local or domestic. The location is strategic on Penghibur Street in front of Losari Beach and beside of RRI Makassar. If you enter Fort Rotterdam, maybe the first feeling of you is in past time it’s normally because of the structure of its buildings of the historical things. You will find an inn in the corner side. The place is to be a place for global English course for two weeks every moth. The director of Global English Course makes the fort to be their place. It’s because of they consider this place can stimulate the desire of participants ability of improving their speaking because they will always find native speakers in a relaxed and interesting place.

That place consists of some buildings completed with a large auditorium, some bed rooms, kitchen and some toilet. For two weeks we will spend the time without going anywhere like in quarantine. We will get English course intensively and the other skills like how to write the application letter and how to face interview. Everyday we start our activity a 07:30 o’clock. They are sport for 30 thirty minutes, taking a bath and beginning to study until the lunch time.

At 13:00 we may take a rest for two hours. After that, we must follow our material again in the classroom. While waiting for Adzan maghrib, we will be invited by all instructors to go out looking for some place in Fort Rotterdam and we will be divided into some small meetings so this method is so relaxed and interesting. After having dinner we have to follow the lesson in the classroom again until 20:00 and then we may take a rest until morning.

During we follow the course, my friends and I got improving of our English and we enjoy the course and there are participants still want to follow again the next meeting.