TULISAN (SOFTSKILL)

How to Solve Eating Difficulty in Children?

Eating difficulty is an issue that is so fundamental and often case to children. Sometimes, when a child is so difficult to chew food invited to make us frustrated. Since then, usually we will try a variety of ways like providing herbal appetite enhancers and hunting child's favorite foods every day. The matters the child eating disorder also intrigued our interest to make an article about tips to overcome the difficult child to eat. Here are the details.

Serve meals with small portions

Maybe the kid does not like the size of your portions that so reluctant to eat the food there. Many children are ilfeel after seeing a sizable portion. So, try to give a little so that they can eat faster and do not get bored in spend food.

Get together with family

Do not let children eat alone and we need to create an atmosphere of togetherness when the child was time to eat. For example, you and your husband are on the table then eat foods together. With the atmosphere of togetherness, then the child's appetite will occur slowly.

Provide healthy snacks

One of the things that concern by parents is the development of the child if he did not want to eat. Of course, when children are fussy eaters then its growth will be stunted and not as friends. One of the best ways to keep it is to try to give nutritional healthy snack. Give interesting snacks such as nuts, dried fruits, and nutritious bread.

Variety of food and a nice appearance

Perhaps, he needs a variety of foods that your appetite he has incurred. For example, you could give spinach on the first day, broccoli on the second day, and chicken-based dishes in the next day. Variety of foods is a very important thing to prevent children from boredom and the desire not to eat.

However, there is one more thing that could trigger a child's appetite, which is an interesting food dish. For example, you can cook carrots to form a star or a unique object. Children will be attracted by the shape and believed to increase appetite. Hopefully, some difficulty eating kids tips above can help you.

3 Ways to Treat an Air Conditioner in Avoiding Disease

When you use a home air conditioner, do not forget to take care of on a regular basis. Because when AC is not treated regularly and carefully, it will have a bad air and becomes a place to spread the disease. The dirty AC can store a variety of viruses and bacteria that continuously spread throughout the room. It also enters into the smell of the inhabitants. As a result, the occupant will experience pain or repeated infections. The following treatments below should you do in order to make AC work optimally and be durable.

Do not forget to turn off the AC

When traveling or in a space that is not used, do not forget to turn off AC. If the air is not too hot, try to shut down about one or two hours a day. If necessary use a reminder or timer contained in the AC facility. When the air conditioner is turned off, open the windows and doors widely so that there is an air exchange.

Clean the AC regularly

Check the filter components on the air conditioning, at least once a month. A dirty air filter will hinder the air circulation and being a comfortable place for germs, bacteria, and fungi. Bacteria are what will flow to the evaporator coil (evaporator coil) and then spread back across the room. The dirty AC components can affect the performance of the cooling system becomes more severe, so it does not produce the maximum cold and wasteful.

Selective in use

Minimize the potential health problems with the use of air conditioning as selective as possible. Because, if in the same room there is a family member which is sick, viruses and bacteria can be spread through the air helped. So when a family member is sick with the flu, for example, try using the AC to a minimum. This advice also applies if there is one family member who smoked in the room or when the middle of the room and furniture cleaned.

Sumber:

http://www.caramudahbelajarbahasainggris.net/2013/04/7-Contoh-Artikel-Bahasa-Inggris-dengan-Topik-Berbeda.html#.Ucq2v9gvbUs

THE NOUN-PHRASE

Frase Benda (Noun Pharases)

Suatu frasa benda adalah suatu frasa di mana kata pokoknya adalah kata benda dengan kata-kata lain yang menerangkan kata benda tersebut.

Example:
Green book Green = kata sifat Book = kata benda
The police the = determiner police = kata benda
Beautiful girl Beautiful = kata sifat girl = kata benda

1.1 Count and Non-Count Nouns

The noun phrase ini dibagai menjadi 2 bagian, yaitu count noun dan non-count noun. Seperti kata-katanya, count noun adalah ungkapan kata benda yang dapat dihitung, sedangkan non-count noun adalah ungkapan kata benda yang tidak dapat dihitung.

Contoh count noun :

Book => one book, two books, three books, dan seterusnya.

Contoh non-count noun :

Milk  => one glass of milk, two glasses of milk, dan seterusnya.

With Count Noun	With Non-Count Noun
a, the, some, any	the, some, any
this, that, these, those	this, that
none, one, two, three, . . . . . . .	none
manya lot of a large number of a great number of (a) few fewer . . . . . than more . . . .. . than	much (usually in negatives or question)a lot of a large amount of (a) little less . . . . . than more . . . . tha

Kata ‘waktu’ dapat menjadi kata yang bisa dihitung dapat pula menjadi kata yang tidak dapat dihitung, tergantung dari konteksnya. Jika yang sedang dibicarakan mempunyai arti occasion maka kata ‘waktu’ termasuk kedalam kata yang dapat dihitung, namun jika artinya a number of hours, days, years, etc, maka kata ‘waktu’ termasuk kedalam kata yang tidak dapat dihitung.

Contoh :

We have spent too much time on this homework. (non-count)

She has been late for class six times this semester. (conut)

Exercise

1. He doesn’t have (many / much) money.

2. I would like (a few / a little) salt on my vegetables.

1.2 A and an

Kata a dan an merupakan kata imbuhan yang diletakkan di depan kata benda tunggal yang berarti satu. Kata a digunakan sebelum kata yang berawalan huruf konsonan, sedangkan kata an digunakan sebelum kata yang berawalan huruf vokal. Tapi ada beberapa kata yang tidak memenuhi aturan tersebut.

Example:
A baseball is round.(pernyataan umum yang biasa)
There are many students in the school. A student is in the room (a student berarti salah satu dari siswa yang banyak pada kalimat sebelumnya)

An digunakan sebelum kata yang diawali dengan huruf bersuara vokal. A digunakan sebelum kata yang diawali dengan huruf yang bersuara konsonan.
Example:
A book an apple
A car an eye
A year an hour
(an hour = memakai an karna hour di baca awer – jadi bila disatukan jadi en awer)

1.3 The

Kata the digunakan untuk menunjukkan/menyatakan tentang sesuatu yang sudah kita ketahui, atau tentang sesuatu yang sudah diketahui khalayak umum/orang banyak.

The boy in the corner is my friend. (Pembicara dan pendengar sama-sama mengetahui orangnya)

The earth is round. (Hanya ada satu bumi)

Apabila digabungkan dengan non-count nouns (kata benda yang tidak dapat dihitung), kata the bisa dugunakna untuk kalimat yang khusus/spesifik, tapi tidak dapat digunakan untuk yang bersifat umum/general.

Sugar is sweet. (General – all sugar)

The sugar on the table is from Cuba. (Specific – the sugar that is on the table)

Exercise

Tambahkan kata ‘a’, ‘an’ atau ‘the’ jika kalimat dibawah ini membutuhkannya. Namun jika tidak membutuhkan, biarkan saja kosong!

1. Jason’s father bought him the bicycle that he had wanted for his birthday.

2. The Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship form _____ France to the United States.

1.4 Other

Sebagai determiner untuk plural countable nouns atau uncountable nouns. Digunakan sebagai determiner mengacu pada hal yang tidak spesifik (belum jelas yang mana yang dimaksud).
• I don’t want these books. Please give me other books. (belum jelas other / yang lain itu yang mana, pokoknya yang lain)
Sering noun nya dihilangkan sehingga tinggal other nya saja. Sehingga other berfungsi sebagai pronoun.
I don’t want these book. Please give me others.
(others = other books)
• This chemical is poisonous. Others are poisonous too.
(others = other chemicals = tapi belum jelas bahan kimia yang lain yang mana yang dimaksud)
• I don’t like this sugar. I want other sugar. OR I don’t like this sugar. I want other.

Sumber:

http://rikudoeyes.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/bahasa-inggris-bisnis-1/

http://nadyarynda.wordpress.com/2013/06/22/the-nouns-phrase/

PASSIVE VOICE

PASSIVE VOICE

Use of Passive

Passive voice is used when the focus is on the action. It is not important or not known, however, who or what is performing the action.

Example: My bike was stolen.

In the example above, the focus is on the fact that my bike was stolen. I do not know, however, who did it.

Sometimes a statement in passive is more polite than active voice, as the following example shows:

Example: A mistake was made.

In this case, I focus on the fact that a mistake was made, but I do not blame anyone (e.g. You have made a mistake.).

Form of Passive

Subject + finite form of to be + Past Participle (3rd column of irregular verbs)

Tense		Subject	Verb	Object
Simple Present	Active:	Rita	writes	a letter.
	Passive:	A letter	is written	by Rita.
Simple Past	Active:	Rita	wrote	a letter.
	Passive:	A letter	was written	by Rita.
Present Perfect	Active:	Rita	has written	a letter.
	Passive:	A letter	has been written	by Rita.
Future I	Active:	Rita	will write	a letter.
	Passive:	A letter	will be written	by Rita.
Hilfsverben	Active:	Rita	can write	a letter.
	Passive:	A letter	can be written	by Rita.

Example: A letter was written.

When rewriting active sentences in passive voice, note the following:

• the object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive sentence
• the finite form of the verb is changed (to be + past participle)
• the subject of the active sentence becomes the object of the passive sentence (or is dropped)

Examples of Passive

Tense		Subject	Verb	Object
Present Progressive	Active:	Rita	is writing	a letter.
	Passive:	A letter	is being written	by Rita.
Past Progressive	Active:	Rita	was writing	a letter.
	Passive:	A letter	was being written	by Rita.
Past Perfect	Active:	Rita	had written	a letter.
	Passive:	A letter	had been written	by Rita.
Future II	Active:	Rita	will have written	a letter.
	Passive:	A letter	will have been written	by Rita.
Conditional I	Active:	Rita	would write	a letter.
	Passive:	A letter	would be written	by Rita.
Conditional II	Active:	Rita	would have written	a letter.
	Passive:	A letter	would have been written	by Rita.

Passive Sentences with Two Objects

Rewriting an active sentence with two objects in passive voice means that one of the two objects becomes the subject, the other one remains an object. Which object to transform into a subject depends on what you want to put the focus on.

	Subject	Verb	Object 1	Object 2
Active:	Rita	wrote	a letter	to me.
Passive:	A letter	was written	to me	by Rita.
Passive:	I	was written	a letter	by Rita.

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As you can see in the examples, adding by Rita does not sound very elegant. That’s why it is usually dropped.

Personal and Impersonal Passive

Personal Passive simply means that the object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive sentence. So every verb that needs an object (transitive verb) can form a personal passive.

Example: They build houses. – Houses are built.

Verbs without an object (intransitive verb) normally cannot form a personal passive sentence (as there is no object that can become the subject of the passive sentence). If you want to use an intransitive verb in passive voice, you need an impersonal construction – therefore this passive is called Impersonal Passive.

Example: he says – it is said

Impersonal Passive is not as common in English as in some other languages (e.g. German, Latin). In English, Impersonal Passive is only possible with verbs of perception (e. g. say, think, know).

Example: They say that women live longer than men. – It is said that women live longer than men.

Although Impersonal Passive is possible here, Personal Passive is more common.

Example: They say that women live longer than men. – Women are said to live longer than men.

The subject of the subordinate clause (women) goes to the beginning of the sentence; the verb of perception is put into passive voice. The rest of the sentence is added using an infinitive construction with 'to' (certain auxiliary verbs and that are dropped).

Sometimes the term Personal Passive is used in English lessons if the indirect object of an active sentence is to become the subject of the passive sentence.

Source: http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive