Cambridge Dictionary Online

Cambridge Dictionary Online

       Cambridge Online Dictionary is a famous dictionary based on internet made by Cambridge University. Just like another digital dictionary its provides brief explanation, phonetic transcription (US and UK), pronounciation of the word (US and UK) but it gives more excessis.

The strength of this website :

* It is absolutely free for a well-known amd the most popolar online dictionary.
* Has pronounciation of words.
* Has many vocabularies.
* It is very easy.
* Paperless.
* You always get the latest version of it.
* You don’t need large memory space.
* Includes idioms, american english, phrasal words, and translation to many language. The weaknesses of this website :

* We need to online

* If we use low internet speed, it is difficult to play the pronounciation.

    Cambridge Online Dictionary can be used for teaching as a interesting method for students’ speaking learning process. They don’t need to bring extra big and extra heavy dictionary and they don’t need to install it on their PC. By provide them native speaker’s pronounciation students can try to imitate them. It also  builds students’ curiousity of english that can improve their vocabulary. If you find something you like, you can now share it with your friends via facebook or twitter. Just click on the relevant icon to spread the word.

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Narrative text - Roro Jonggrang

Roro Jonggrang

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful Javanese princess whose name was Roro Jongrang. Roro Jongrang whose beauty very famous in the land was the daughter of Prabu Baka, an evil King.

One day, a handsome young man with super natural power, named Bandung Bondowoso from Pengging, defeated and killed Prabu Baka in a war. On seeing Princess Roro Jongrang’s beauty, Bandung Bondowoso felling in love and wanted to marry her.

Meanwhile, Princess Roro Jongrang, felt sad due to the death of her father. She did not want to marry Bandung because he had killed her father. But she was also afraid of Bandung. So to refuse politely, she made a condition. "I will marry you after you build a well near my kingdom, Jalatunda will be the name of that well." Bandung agreed and started to build the well. But Jonggrang sent her soldiers to kill Bandung and buried him on that well.

But those soldiers were nothing to Bandung's power. He was very angry when he knew Jonggrang's plan to kill him. Bandung came to Jonggrang's palace to make a deal with her but Jonggrang tricked him with her beauty. She said “I am promise, I will marry you. But you have to build one thousand temple in one night as a wedding gift” requested Roro Jongrang. Bandung agreed with this condition.

Helped by the Gennie, Bandung Bondowoso started building the temples. Approaching midnight, the work was nearly done. Roro Jongrang knew and thought, “What shall I do? Bandung is smarter than me. I will lose against Bandung”

Suddenly she got an idea. She up all the women in the place and ordered them to make the noisy sound of grinding rice so that roosters would think it had already dawn.

Bandung Bondowoso got frustrated because he failed to complete the thousand temple. “The princess has decided me!’ following his anger, he cursed Roro Jongrang, “You have cheated me. Now, The thousandth temple is you!”

At once, the princess turned into a statue.

Knowing this, Bandung Bondowoso regretted this and he went away into a far land. From them, people called the temple Prambanan Temple and the princess statue, Roro Jongrang Statue.

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Narrative Text

Narrative Text

What is narrative text? Narrative is basically story. A text that purpose to amuse or to entertain the reader or the listener and deal with actual or vicanous experience in different ways to the reader or listener.

The General Structure of narrative text :
- Orientation : Sets the scene and introduces the participans
- Complication : The problem happened in the story
- Resolution : The crisis is resolved, for better or worse
- Re-orientation : The ending of the story
- Evaluation : A stepping back to evaluate the story or the moral message of the story.

The narrative text uses of temporal conjuction (ex : once upon a time, before, after, etc.). The narrative text also uses the simple past tense.

Roro Jonggrang

Example narrative text are :

Fable : Mousedeer, Crocodile and Kancil, and etc

Legend : Sangkuriang, Malinkundang, Roro Jonggrang, and etc

Fairy tale : Cinderella, Snow White, Pinocchio, and etc

Now listen the following story and do the excercise!

taken from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lapDmCnZN3A (with some editing)

Do the exercise !

After complete the exercise, read the following text and fill up the missing words.

NOTE : we will discuss it on the next meeting

The Ugly Duckling

    Once upon a time there lived a (1) ... . She was excited. Her (2) ... eggs were finally going to hatch. She watched and accounted as one by one the eggs hatched. One duckling, two ducklings, three, four, five ducklings, she said (3) ... happily. Suddenly she noticed that was one more egg. It was bigger and (4) ... than the rest. “This cannot be my egg” she told. Slowly the big egg began to (5) ... and the strange looking duckling came out.


      Mother duck was surprised, the youngest duckling was grey and bigger than the rest. “How ugly this little one is” she told. As the days went by, the ducklings began to grow. But the youngest duckling looked (6) ... of the rest. Everybody looked at him and said “there goes the ugly duckling” his brothers and sisters teased him all the time. The ugly duckling (7) ... very bad when every people laughed at him. He run away and (8) ... behind the rifts on the other lake. “Nobody loves me” he said. One day the duckling decided to run away from (9)... . He swam and swam and on the way he had many (10) ... .

Finally during (11) ... he reached the shimmering lake. There he saw two beautiful white birds with long neck swimming gracefully on the water. Just then he looked in the (12) ... his reflection. To be surprised he saw it looked just like the other two elegant birds. The birds came up to him and said "Welcome young (13) ..., you must be the most beautiful (14) ... in this whole lake." In this time he realized who he really was. The ugly duckling had become a (15) ... swan.

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