To Infinitive and Gerund

To infinitive

  1.       He came here to pick me up

  2.       She was the first to come and the last to leave

  3.       She is too young to understand the problem

  4.       I agree to sign the contract

  5.       I asked him to mail the letters

  6.       I want you to see him tomorrow

  7.       We ordered him to clean the house

  8.       He decided not to continue the work

  9.       It it difficult to do the work

  10.   I persuaded him to change his mind

Gerund

  1.       Fishing needs patience

  2.       I enjoy living in this city

  3.       I always finish working at 7 o’clock

  4.       He always avoids meeting me

  5.       I don’t mind helping him in the school

  6.       Her leaving made me sad

  7.       Jane is thinking of going to Japan net month

  8.       I am interested in seeing this film

  9.       I have no reason for leaving this village

  10.   I could hear her crying

Waterspouts

Waterspouts are tornadoes over water. But scientific work over the last 30 or so years has led to a more complicated picture with waterspouts differing in some ways from tornadoes over land, especially large ones. Waterspouts and all the different kinds of tornadoes have a similar basic structure with air moving upward. At the ground or ocean surface, winds are rushing faster and faster as they swirl into the vortex and then upward. Often with both tornadoes and waterspouts, the vortex is seen coming down from the cloud, but not obviously touching the ground or ocean. Such vortices that don't seem to touch the ground are called "funnels" or "funnel clouds." It's important to say "seems" not to touch because often, especially in the beginning, the vortex is invisible along part of its path. We begin to see the vortex when its lower air pressure cools the air enough to condense water vapor in the air into tiny water droplets.

How waterspouts form

1.      The first sign, which can be seen from the air but usually not from a boat, is the formation of a dark spot on the ocean. Smoke flares dropped in these areas show the air is moving in a circle and upward. Many dark spots die out without progressing any further. But some begin to take on a spiral pattern of dark and lighter water.

2.    At this second stage someone on a boat at the surface would probably feel the wind shift and maybe increase. Also, if you looked upward, you might see a funnel coming from a cloud overhead or off to one side.

3.       People on boats will see the third stage. Even though it might be invisible, a vortex is reaching the ocean surface from the cloud. When the wind speeds reach around 40 mph, the wind begins to kick up spray in a circular pattern — the spray vortex. At this time you might see the funnel pointing down from the cloud toward the ring.

4.     The fourth, or mature, stage is when the funnel reaches all the way from the cloud to the ocean. You can usually see through the funnel - it's really a thin cloud of tiny water droplets. During this stage, small waves are being kicked up and the spout leaves a bubbly wake behind as it moves across the ocean. These tiny bubbles could be carbon dioxide and other gases that are dissolved in the water that are caused to effervesce by the low air pressure in the spout's center - like a bottle of soda that's just opened.

5.      In the fifth, and final stage, the spray vortex weakens and the funnel becomes shorter and maybe more tapered. It often twists around and the bottom of the waterspout may move out from under the cloud.

Where waterspouts are most likely

"Waterspouts probably occur more frequently in the Florida Keys than anywhere in the world." Waters around the Keys, especially from Marathon past Key West on westward to the Dry Tortugas, probably see 400 or 500 waterspouts a year. Since they are so common, most go unreported unless they cause damage. So many waterspouts hit the Florida Keys because the weather and geography supply two necessary ingredients. First, the islands and the shallow water along them help heat the air. During the summer, waterspout season, the air is extremely humid with temperatures in the mid-80s into the low 90s. The heat causes the air to rise. As it rises, the air's humidity condenses into the tiny water droplets that make up clouds. As water vapor condenses, it releases more heat that makes the air rise even faster. Rising air currents are needed for waterspout formation. The second important waterspout ingredient in the Keys seems to be the regular east or northeast "trade winds" that blow right down the islands. These winds help line up the clouds. Lines of clouds encourage waterspouts.

My Last Holiday

Hi everyone, I’d like to tell you about my last holiday. I spent my holiday in Singapore, Thailand, and Malaysia. I went there with my mother and my sister. My father didnt go with us because he just had 3 days off. I didnt take off in Bandung, so on December 27 I went to Soekarno Hatta International Airport. First of all, I went to Singapore.

On my first day in Singapore I spent my time at Universal Studios. I didnt take so many ride because a lot of people was here. The ride that I like so much is the revenge of a mummy, it was just too amazing and fun. After wasting many times at Universal  Studios, I went to Hershey’s to buy some chocolates. At 8 pm, I watched Song Of The Sea. The view is just so beautiful but I didnt take any photo there. It was kind of short film with a firework as a closing.

Second day, I went to Garden by the bay, it was a forest-but-garden-like in the middle of the country. There is a fake waterfall there. And then I went to Merlion and took a photo there. After that, I went to Orchard street and shopping for some hours. I bought an ice cream which called “es potong” by an Indonesian. It just 1$ for one ice cream. I bought it for like three times because I think the weather is a little bit hot.

On the third day, I went to Thailand. I went to Tang Kuan Hilltop. And I went to Songkhla Beach. The thing that I like from Thailand is the food, Tom Yam. It was so delicious.

After Thailand, I went to Malaysia. I spent my new years eve at Bukit Bintang. But I went to hotel at 11 pm because I was just really tired. The next day, I went to Istana Negara then to Dataran Merdeka, and Twin Tower. On the next day, I went to Genting Highland. First we went by a bus, but we had to stop and going there by a skyway, i think it was just a little bit scary. The weather is soooooo cold that I only wanted to do is sleeping with a warm blanket. But at least I went window shopping and bought some things for my father. On the last day, I went to Batu Cave and Putrajaya. Putrajaya is so beautiful. The view was amazing and the mosque was so good. 

On January 2, I went home to Indonesia.

President Student Council

Hello there, my name is Nadira Nurul Fadhilah. Today I’d like to promote myself as a president student council. First of all, I’m a student that have a big dream about everything and I hope it will come true. I don’t have any experience of being a leader, but I believe I can make it with a help from all of you.

A leader is seen as someone with a can do anything attitude. They are challenges to be faced, to be overcome, and to be learned from. The leader demonstrates to everyone else how things should be done and works harder at accomplishing the goals than anyone else.

A leader must be able to visualize where he/she wants to be, so my vision is :

1.       Improve the students’ faith and religion

2.       Make the school environment become clean and comfortable

A leader must be able to strategize and resolve conflict, so here is my mission :

1.       Improve a religion extracullicular and enhance the education in class

2.       Hold a “Jumat Bersih” activity and give a fine to people who is littering

Anyone can be a leader, after all it is all in the manner and attitude with which one chooses to carry himself/herself. 

If Conditional

1.      I’ll be happy, if I pass the physic test.

I’d be happy, if I passed the physic test

I’d have been happy, if I had passed the physic test

2.      I’ll be happy, if I get so many novels

I’d be happy, if I got so many novels

I’d have been happy, if I had gotten so many novels

3.      I’ll be happy, if I listen to the music

I’d be happy, if I listened to the music

I’d have been happy, if I had listened the music

4.      I’ll be happy, if I see my parents happy

I’d be happy, if I saw my parents happy

I’d have been happy, if I had seen my parents happy

5.      I’ll be happy, if I’m sleeping

I’d be happy, if I were sleeping

I’d have been happy, if I had been sleeping

6.      I’ll be happy, if I have the days off

I’d be happy, if I had the days off

I’d have been happy, if I had had the days off

7.      I’ll be happy, if I spend my time with my friends

I’d be happy, if I spent my time with my friends

I’d have been happy, if I had spent my time with my friends

8.      I’ll be happy, if someone is having a joke

I’d be happy, if someone were having a joke

I’d have been happy, if someone had been having a joke

9.      I’ll be happy, if I’m free from some kinds of sport at school

I’d be happy, if I were free from some kinds of sport at school

I’d have been happy, if I had been free from some kinds of sport at school

10. I’ll be happy, if I’m being a successful person

I’d be happy, if I were being a successful person

I’d have been happy, if I had been being a successful person

1.      I’ll buy a car, if I have 100000USD

I’d buy a car, if I had 100000USD

I’d have bought a car, if I had had 100000USD

2.      I’ll go to some beautiful places, if I have 100000USD

I’d go to some beautiful places, if I had 100000USD

I’d have gone to some beautiful places, if I had had 100000USD

3.      I’ll try Cappadocia air balloon in Turkey, if I have 100000USD

I’d try Cappadocia air balloon in Turkey, if I had 100000USD

I’d have tried Cappadocia air balloon in Turkey, if I had had 100000USD

4.      I’ll buy some clothes, shoes, and bags, if I have 100000USD

I’d buy some clothes, shoes, and bags, if I had 100000USD

I’d have bought some clothes, shoes, and bags, if I had had 100000USD

5.      I’ll buy a new handphone, if I have 100000USD

I’d buy a new handphone, if I had 100000USD

I’d have bought a new handphone, if I had had 100000USD

6.      I’ll buy many kinds of camera, if I have 100000USD

I’d buy many kinds of camera, if I had 100000USD

I’d have bought many kinds of camera, if I had had 100000USD

7.      I won’t ask some money to my parents, if I have 100000USD

I wouldn’t ask some money to my parents, if I had 100000USD

I wouldn’t have asked some money to my parents, if I had had 100000USD

8.      I’ll give some money to people who needed it, if I have 100000USD

I’d give some money to people who needed it, if I had 100000USD

I’d have given some money to people who needed it, if I had had 100000USD

9.      I’ll give some money to my parents, if I have 100000USD

I’d give some money to my parents, if I had 100000USD

I’d have given some money to my parents, if I had had 100000USD

10. I’ll save some money at the bank, if I have 100000USD

I’d save some money at the bank, if I had 100000USD

I’d have saved some money at the bank, if I had had 100000USD

Analytical Exposition

The House Believes That infotainment brings more harm than good. In this modern age, some informations is one of the things that we can have it all the time. We can access it from television, person to person, or internet. But, there are some informations that, maybe they said, brings more harm than any good to everyone. Infotainment is one of the nformations that they believe brings harm, especially for the chlidren. Infotainment is a program that talking all about actress. Some people say it gossip. Infotainment is not only talk about their job, but also their love story, their family problems, or other problems. Infotainment can be showed in television for two until four times in one day.

The good side of the infotainment is we can be a great human like an actress by look on their success. We can see the way to be a success person. They are success because their performance in television and we can follow them if we know the secret of their success, like the infotainment says. People who fond on the infotainment programs believe that the content of infotainment program are based on the fact and encourage celebrities to do positive things in public. Moreover, celebrities need such program to promote their profile. Besides, infotainment entertains the audience while informing them through the use of sound effects, background music, and humor.

The bad side of the infotainment is the content may not be appropriate, for example issues such as war or violence should not be made to be entertaining. Some people say many infotainments talk about celebrities that isn’t true. Many news about that is a lie and just make any sensation  to make the clebrities more popular. They say that infotainment programs are merely about slandering another person. Sometimes the program goes too far into the private lives of people. For example, the news about the divorce of someone. Sometimes the stories are reported without asking the confirmation from that person. So, the infotainment may deliver the wrong informations in order to maintain their image.

In my opinion, the infotainment can be a good information for us. The important thing is we can choose which is the good information and the bad information. We can follow the good for our life. Sometimes we can follow the lifestyle from the celebrities. Otherwise, the infotainment can brings harm for us because we indirectly talk about someone’s privacy. And sometimes the information is not the truth. 

Source : http://amalinastryhard.blogspot.com/2012/12/english-discussion-and-explanation-text_24.html?m=1

Announcement

Park Manager III

Arizona State Parks, San Rafael Short Grass Prairie Reserve, Patagonia, AZ

Grade/Salary: (21) / $34,097 - $52,145 per year

Closing Date:  (usually about 4 weeks from the announcement date depending on the type of job professional/staff)

The Position:

1. Manages the daily operation of San Rafael Short Grass Prairie Preserve.
2. Plans for the development of Preserve facilities and resources.
3. Prepares yearly operating budget.
4. Oversees preserve administration, interpretive education Programs, facility and grounds maintenance activities, Supervise park operations staff.
5. Ensures security at the preserve, visitor center, and historic site locations. Residency is required.

Minimum Qualifications:

1. One year of experience equivalent to a Park Manager II or two years of experience equivalent to a Park manager I, or Park Operations Coordinator.
2. A Bachelor's degree in Park Management, Forestry, Natural Resource Management, Geology, Ecology, Recreation Planning, or closely related field may substitute for one year of the Park Manager I or Park Coordinator experience.

Special Selection Factors:

1. Possession of or eligibility to obtain Arizona Class D Driver's License.
2. Employment is contingent on the passing of a medical/physical examination.
3. Must be Arizona Law Enforcement certified or eligible for certification.
4. Must be able to work week-ends, rotating shifts and holidays as required.
5. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a pre-employment alcohol/drug test. The test is to determine the presence of alcohol and/or illegal drugs, unauthorized prescription drugs (it is illegal to use another person's prescription drug) in your system

Physical Abilities:

1. Must have normal hearing, be able to walk, stand, stoop and climb stairs for extended periods of time.
2. Must be able to lift 50 lbs.
3. Vision must be corrected to 20/40 or better.

Preference:

1. Previous experience managing natural resource and historical parks with multiple visitor site locations and interpretive education programs.
2. Bilingual (Spanish/English) speaking skills.

How to Apply: Submit a professional resume to:

State Parks Human Resources, 1300 W. Washington, 2nd Floor, Phoenix, AZ 85007

Phone: (602) 542-2456  Fax: (602) 542-6949

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Arizona State Parks will make reasonable accommodations during any and all phases of the selection process for individuals with a disability. Please contact the State Parks Human Resources Manager at (602) 542-6900, by the resume deadline date of this announcement to request accommodations.

As a condition of employment, employees are required upon hire to sign a drug-free workplace agreement.

Following an offer of employment, and prior to starting work, individuals must have a pre-employment drug test by a physician designated by the Arizona State Parks Department. The examination will be paid for by ASP. Satisfactory to clearance to perform essential job functions will be required for employment.

1. What is the announcement about?
2. When is the closing date to apply this job?
3. How many years of experience for the minimum qualifications?
4. What is the purpose from the alcohol/drugs test?
5.  What is the physical ability that the person should have?
6. How many languages for the speaking skills? What is it?
7. What should the person do to apply that job vacancy?
8. Where is the place for submitted the resume?
9. What will Arizona State Parks do during any and all phases of the selection process for individuals?
10. What is the contact of the State Parks Human Resources Managerif we want to request accomodation?