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Aris Aruji Pane

201212579050

READING MATERIAL

                                                                                                                                                          

Class               : Senior High School Class XII (Second Semester)

Topic               : Korean music / PSY / Gangnam style

Objectives       :

-       students will be able to understanding and explain about topic related

-       students will be able to express about opinion related to the topic

-       students will be able to write simple paragraph based on the topic

-       students will be able to use noun, pronoun, and conjunction

Material           :

Gangnam Style

Have you seen it? Can you do it? What am I talking about? I’m talking about Gangnam Style. It’s daft, fun, and it’s caught people’s attention around the world. The song, sung by the Korean pop artist PSY, has become an international hit. More importantly, the dance that goes with it, has caught on – big time!

Since Gangnam Style was released in July the video for the hit has been watched more than 700 million times – on YouTube alone and this figure is rising fast. It has more than five million ‘likes’ on the channel and is officially the most ‘liked’ on YouTube. The question is – can you dance Gangnam Style? You can’t? I think you’d better watch the video! The song has gone to No 1 in 28 countries.

Right now PSY is the biggest pop star on the planet. The 34-year-old Korean singer is credited with getting the world dancing. PSY – short for Psycho – real name Park Jaesang – invented Gangnam Style to mock the pretensions of Seoul’s wealthy citizens who falsely associate themselves with the fashions and styles of the sprauncy Gangnam district of Seoul. The area is described by some as a kind of Korean Beverly Hills. Whatever! The song has put it on the map.

Since the song’s release, and its huge worldwide success, the ‘King of Korean Pop’ has been inundated with requests to meet the world’s top leaders and pop artists. These include Barack Obama, David Cameron and UN leader Ban Ki-moon, who is also Korean. All have learned the moves of this crazy dance! PSY has also taught Madonna and Britney Spears how to Gangnam Style! We have seen flash mobs; in one case 30,000 dancing Gangnam Style! The whole thing has become a sort of cult.

Of course, mastering the dance is something to achieve. It is a sort of wide legged strut, as if sitting on a horse, hands crossed at the wrists as though gripping the reins followed by a whipping gesture. The absurd dance is totally ridiculous but it’s funny. I’ll leave you to practice it in your English lesson! It’ll certainly liven the lesson up – Gangnam Style!

EXERCISES

1. Gangnam Style: What is Gangnam Style? Go round the room swapping details with others. (5-10 minutes)

2. Vocabulary: Students should now look through the article and underline any vocabulary they do not know. Look in dictionaries. Discuss and help each other out. The teacher will go through and explain any unknown words or phrases.

3. The article: Students should look through the article with the teacher.

a) What is the article about?

b) What do you think about the article?

c) Was this an easy or difficult article to understand?

d) Discuss the article

4. Gangnam Style: In pairs think of five things from the article about Gangnam Style. Then add five things you know about this. Write them below. Discuss together.

From the article                           Your thoughts

1.                                             1.

2.                                             2.

3.                                             3.

The teacher will choose some pairs to discuss their findings in front of the class.

5. Let’s think! In pairs. On the board write as many words as you can to do with Gangnam Style. One-two minutes. Compare with other teams. Using your words compile a short dialogue together.

6. Let’s write an e-mail: Write and send a 200 word e-mail to your teacher about: Gangnam Style. Your e-mail can be read out in class.

7. Sentence starters: Finish these sentence starters. Correct your mistakes. Compare what other people have written.

a) Gangnam Style ________________________________________________

b) In 2012 ______________________________________________________

8. Put the words into the gaps in the text.

Gangnam Style

Video     officially      channel      attention     hit       likes      figure      daft

 

Have you seen it? Can you do it? What am I talking about? I’m talking about Gangnam Style. It’s (1)_____, fun, and it’s caught people’s (2)_____ around the world. The song, sung by the Korean pop artist PSY, has become an international (3)_____. More importantly, the dance that goes with it, has caught on – bigtime!

Since Gangnam Style was released in July the video for the hithas been watched more than 700 million times – on YouTube alone and this (4)_____ is rising fast. It has more than five million ‘(5)_____’ on the (6)_____ and is (7)_____ the most ‘liked’ on YouTube. The question is – can you dance Gangnam Style? You can’t? I think you’d better watch the (8)_____!

9. Put the words into the gaps in the text.

	Cult      dance     crazy     mock     song     planet       success       sprauncy

 

The song has gone to No 1 in 28 countries. Right now PSY is thebiggest pop star on the (1)_____. The 34-year-old Korean singer is credited with getting the world dancing. PSY – short for Psycho – real name Park Jae-sang – invented Gangnam Style to (2)_____ the pretensions of Seoul’s wealthy citizens who falsely associate themselves with the fashions and styles of the (3)_____ Gangnam district of Seoul. The area is described by some as a kind of Korean Beverly Hills. Whatever! The (4)_____ has put it on the map.

Since the songs release, and its huge worldwide (5)_____, the ‘King of Korean Pop’ has been inundated with requests to meet the world’s top leaders and pop artists. These include Barack Obama, David Cameron and UN leader Ban Ki-moon, who is also Korean. All have learned the moves of this (6)_____ (7)_____! PSY has also taught Madonna and Britney Spears how to

Gangnam Style! We have seen flash mobs; in one case 30,000 dancing Gangnam Style! The whole thing has become a sort of (8)_____.

10. Put the words UNDER into the gaps in the text.

Gangnam Style

Have (1)__ seen it? Can you do it? What am I talking about? I’m talking about Gangnam Style. It’s daft, fun, and it’s caught people’s attention around the world. (2)__ song, sung by the Korean pop artist PSY, has become (3)__ international hit. More importantly, the dance that goes with (4)__, has caught on – big time!

Since Gangnam Style was released in July the video (5)__ the hit has been watched more than 700 million times – (6)__ YouTube alone and this figure is rising fast. It has more than five million ‘likes’ on the channel and is officially the most ‘liked’ on YouTube. The question is – (7)__ you dance Gangnam Style? You can’t? (8)__ think you’d better watch the video!

Can    you    for    the     I     an      on     it

The song has gone to No 1 in 28 countries. Right now PSY is the biggest pop star on the planet. The 34-year-old Korean singer is credited with getting the world dancing. PSY – short for

themselves with the fashions (2)__ styles of the sprauncy Gangnam district of Seoul. The area is described by (3)__ as akind of Korean Beverly Hills. Whatever! The song has put it on the map.

Since the song’s release, and (4)__ huge worldwide success, the ‘King of Korean Pop’ has been inundated (5)__ requests to meet the world’s top leaders and pop artists. (6)__ include Barack Obama, David Cameron and UN leader Ban Ki-moon, who is (7)__ Korean. All have learned the moves of this crazy dance! PSY has also taught Madonna and Britney Spears (8)__ to Gangnam Style! We have seen flash mobs; in one case 30,000 dancing Gangnam Style! The whole thing has become a sort of cult.

how     who      and    its    with    also      some      these

Note: sprauncy - smart or showy in appearance Origin: 1950s: perhaps related to

dialect sprouncey 'cheerful'

RESOURCES :

www.newflashenglish.com

LINKS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0 – video link!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangnam_Style

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/08/gangnam-styledissected-

the-subversive-message-within-south-koreas-music-videosensation/

261462/

http://www.metrolyrics.com/gangnam-style-lyrics-PSY.html

Education

Education in its general sense is a form of learning in which knowledge, skills, and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching, training, research, or simply through auto didacticism. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts.

Education, in general terms, may be explained as the process of acquiring data and knowledge, along with learning various forms of behavior and competency in a specific field.

The purpose of education is to form human minds with values and principles that help to distinguish between wrong and right. The purpose of education though has a much broader aspect which also brings learning skill for a certain area along with achieving overall development. While life passes education never ends, so education purpose entails a continuous change in direction.

We often ask what the purpose of education is but hardly think why it is so important for each personally and within the whole community and civilization. While we grow up and become more mature we begin to realize what education purpose is in reality. We start to understand its importance only when we meet difficulties in our personal and professional development. As mentioned above education represents the process of gathering knowledge, but knowledge has no end so does education and one can never affirm that he or she knows everything.

In its basics education purpose is to teach a person how to write, read and understand that transforms him or her into a literate person. The abilities thought in primary school remain for the whole life, improving all the time the more we read and think. In this sense education purpose is to teach an individual to acquire social and professional skills that help him to interact with the society and maintain social relations. The purpose of education is to give people the tools to survive and to struggle within the society. In school, college and other educational institutions individual is a part of a whole, of the group, the same or different aged people so deriving from this point the purpose of education comes to be learning to compete with others and be the best as well as in real life, meaning at work, in business and even in relationships.

Education purpose from philosophical point of view is to teach us how to think and analyze the world around but not to tell us what to think and what to do. It aims at creating the necessary understanding for what is good and bad individually. To develop creative thinking and imagination represents the purpose of education. Eric Hofer, a well known American writer, supposes that the purpose of education is to cultivate the will and offer the tool to learn. In his opinion the purpose of education is to create individuals that are able to learn by themselves but not already learned ones because nobody is able to know everything.

From professional view the purpose of education is to help a person to gain his goals and career objectives that as a result will create conditions for economic growth and overall welfare. Knowledge builds humans with lots of resources out of illiterate individuals. The purpose of education is to offer personal and career fulfillment, so humans will tend to transmit knowledge from generation to generation into eternal improvement. Thus the purpose of education is to spread education within the existing civilization and to the oncoming ones.

The purpose of education is to create a healthy and well developed society, where the center is the educated and resourceful individual, to educate all students and give everyone equal opportunity as a means to succeed in life. Through knowledge and skill, all individuals can achieve greatness. In addition, common values such as punctuality, following rules, cooperation, learning to work and get along together as well as a sense of responsibility are all-important factors of education. The combinations of knowledge and skills as well as the common values will help our young students bloom into adults and become responsible and productive citizens.

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hedonism?? are you??

HEDONISME

Hedonisme adalah pandangan hidup yang menganggap bahwa orang akan menjadi bahagia dengan mencari kebahagiaan sebanyak mungkin dan sedapat mungkin menghindari perasaan-perasaan yang menyakitkan. Hedonisme merupakan ajaran atau pandangan bahwa kesenangan atau kenikmatan merupakan tujuan hidup dan tindakan manusia. 

Bagi para penganut paham ini, bersenang-senang, pesta-pora, dan pelesiran merupakan tujuan utama hidup, entah itu menyenangkan bagi orang lain atau tidak. Karena mereka beranggapan hidup ini hanya sekali, sehingga mereka merasa ingin menikmati hidup senikmat-nikmatnya. di dalam lingkungan penganut paham ini, hidup dijalani dengan sebebas-bebasnya demi memenuhi hawa nafsu yang tanpa batas. Dari golongan penganut paham inilah muncul Nudisme (gaya hidup bertelanjang). Pandangan mereka terangkum dalam pandangan Epikuris yang menyatakan,"Bergembiralah engkau hari ini, puaskanlah nafsumu, karena besok engkau akan mati".

Hedonisme adalah derivasi (turunan) dari liberalisme.Sebuah pandangan hidup bahwa kesenangan adalah segalanya, bahkan kehidupan itu sendiri. Bagi kaum hedonis, hidup adalah meraih kesenangan materi: sesuatu yang bersifat semu, sesaat, dan artifisial. Pandangan ini lahir di Barat, yang memuja kebebasan berperilaku.masih ada sekelompok manusia yang menyandarkan falsafah hidupnya hanya untuk meraup kesenangan. Ia tidak peduli kesenangan yang didapat dia tempuh dengan cara apa. Baginya, kesenangan adalah satu-satunya kebaikan.Prinsip hidup “asal senang” ini adalah prinsip hidup kaum hedonis.

Faktor yang Mempengaruhi Hedonisme

Gaya hidup hedonisme tentu ada penyebabnya. Ada banyak faktor ekstrinsik (faktor yang datang dari luar) yang memicu emosi mereka menjadi hamba hedonism, antara lain :

1.      Orang tua dan kaum kerabat

Orang tua dan kerabat adalah penyebab utama generasi mereka menjadi hedonisme. Orang tua lalai untuk mewarisi anak dengan norma dan gaya hidup timur yang punya spiritual. 

2.      Faktor Bacaan

Faktor bacaan memang dapat mencuci otak mahasiswa untuk menjadi orang yang memegang prinsip hedonisme. Mereka senang dengan bacaan mengenai trend atau gaya hidup terbaru dan entertainment sehingga timbul keinginan untuk mengikuti atau menirunya.

3.      Pengaruh tontonan

Pengaruh tontonan, tayangan televisi (profil sinetron, liputan tokoh selebriti dan iklan) juga mengundang mahasiswa untuk mengejar hedonisme. Majalah remaja popular dan kebanyakan tema televisi sama saja. Isinya banyak mengupas tema tema berpacaran, ciuman, pelukan, perceraian, pernikahan.hamil di luar nikah dan bermesraan di muka publik.

Gejala hedonisme ?

Rasa gengsi tinggi yang diperoleh dari menonjolkan merek-merek terkenal dan mahal, atau simbol-simbol kemewahan lainnya adalah merupakan gejala umum sekarang ini. Lihat saja di kota-kota besar saat ini semakin banyak bermunculan butik-butik atau toko-toko pakaian dan perlengkapan lainnya yang merupakan barang impor dan bermerek dengan harga yang fantastis mahal.

Pengajaran atau konsep moral dari Hedonisme adalah menyamakan kebaikan dengan kesenangan.Jadi semua kesenangan dan kenikmatan secara fisik selalu membawa kebaikan. Pandangan hidup ini mengajarkan pada pengikut atau mereka yang siap mengikutinya bahwa pemujaan terhadap kesenangan dan kenikmatan dunia harus dikejar, dan itulah tujuan hidup yang paling hakiki bagi manusia.

Sikap dalam menghadapi Budaya Hedonisme :

Untuk mengantisipasi pengaruh negatif budaya hedonisme bagi mahasiswa perlu diadakan sosialisasi, yaitu :

1.      Perlunya kearifan dalam memilih barang agar tidak terjebak dalam konsumerisme.

2.      Menanamkan pola hidup sederhana dalam kehidupan sehari-hari.

3.      Dalam memilih barang mahasiswa perlu membuat skala prioritas dalam berbelanja sehingga dapat membedakan barang apa yang benar-benar diperlukan dan barang-barang yang diinginkan namun tidak diperlukan.

4.      Penerapan pola hidup sederhana dalam kegiatan sehari-hari diperlukan untuk mengatur keuangan mahasiswa agar pendapatan yang biasanya berasal dari orang tua tidaklah lebih kecil daripada pengeluaran.

5.      Adanya kedewasaan dalam berpikir sehingga kita dapat membentengi diri dari pola hidup konsumerisme.

6.      Bergaul dengan siapa saja namun kita dapat membatasi diri dan tidak terjerumus kedalam hal-hal yang negatif seperti hedonisme.

7.      Membahagiakan diri sendiri itu penting, namun jangan juga keterusan dan melebihi batas kemampuan kita, sehingga berujung menghalalkan segala cara.

8.      Menyeimbangkan dan bersiteguh dengan kaidah-kaidah agama yang kita anut dan norma masyarakat yang berlaku, dan membekali diri dengan keyakinan bahwa sesuatu yanh berlebihan itu tidaklah baik.

Memilih gaya hidup hedonime, terus terang tidak akan pernah memberikan kepuasan dan kebahagiaan. Ibarat minum air garam, makin diminum makin haus.Bagi yang belum terlanjur menjadi pengidola hedonisme maka segeralah berbalik arah, berubah seratus delapan puluh derajat. Bahwa kebahagian hidup ada pada hati yang bening, saatnya bagi kita kembali untuk menyuburkan akar-akar spiritual- kembali ke jalan Ilahi, tumbuhkan jiwa peduli pada sesama, buang jauh-jauh karakter selfish (mementingkan diri sendiri), dan miliki multi kekuatan – kuat otak, kuat otot, kuat kemampuan berkomunikasi, kuat beribadah, dan kuat mencari rezeki.

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