English Laliophobia ( Do you have this probem? )

English Laliophobia

Definition :

· Laliophobia is the irrational fear of speaking or of trying to speak. Unlike the fear of public speaking, glossophobia, lalophobics suffer from their condition to varying degrees.

· English Laiophobia is feeling afraid to speak English in public or among English students

The symptoms of Laliophobe :

· Breathlessness

· Excessive sweating,

· Nausea,

· Dry mouth,

· Feeling sick,

· Shaking,

· Heart palpitations,

· Inability to speak or think clearly,

· A fear of dying,

· Becoming mad or losing control.

The Causes of English Laliophobia :

1. Afraid to make a mistake

· Grammar & Structure

Grammar is rules for forming words and making sentences.

Structure is field of study in arranging and organizing sentences.

There are many rules in English that we have to learn. Some of them are rules for making good sentences with right tenses, rules for using sentences in a right time and many others. So if we don’t learn about grammar and structure, it can make us afraid to make mistakes in speaking English.

· Vocabulary

Vocabulary is the most important thing that we must have in speaking. If we have limit vocabularies, it means that the words that we want to speak are also limited. So it is very clear that we are afraid to speak English because we don’t have enough vocabularies.

· Pronunciation

Pronunciation is way in which a language or particular word or sound is spoken. As we know that the Indonesian pronunciation and English pronunciation are very different. If we don’t make ourselves accustomed to speak English everyday, it is impossible for us to pronounce the words in English correctly.

2. Not have self confidence in speaking ability

We fear to speak English when we realize that we have not a good ability to speak. Moreover when we are in condition that we have to speak English but we have to see somebody speak English fluently and correctly before our turn to speak, it can loose our self confident.

3. Unconducive environment

· English is not our mother language

As we know that the first language for Indonesian people is mother language, like Sundanese and Javanese. Our second language is Indonesian. English is our third language. So it is very natural if we fear to speak English because we don’t used to speak English.

· There is no one to speak with

Related to the first point, if we don’t make ourselves accustomed to speak English we will be difficult to find partner to speak English especially at home.

· Never get used to speak English in daily life

Using English as daily language in daily conversation is an easy way to make ourselves accustomed to speak English. And if we don’t do it, it can make us fear to speak English at campus even with our friends.

· Think that English is just a subject that we learn only in Campus

If we want to be able to speak English fluently and perfectly, we may not think that English is just a subject that we should learn it campus. Especially for English students like us, we learn English almost everyday. So don’t just learn it at campus but we have to apply it at home too. We can teach our family that unfamiliar with English with simple daily conversation.

Tips to Overcome English Laliophobe

1. Enrich vocabularies

· Reading a lot of English Book

We have to read a lot of book like English conversation book, short story, etc. Besides adding our vocabularies, reading English conversation book also can give us a lot of information about expressions in daily conversation.

· Watching a lot of movies without caption or translation

There are many advantages that we can get by doing that, like learning about pronunciation, adding our vocabularies, listening the intonation of the sound, moreover we are able to know how far we can understand each sentence that we heard.

· Listening English song

We can add our vocabularies by listening English song by taking a note the lyrics of the song.

2. Practice Makes Perfect

· Do the daily conversation in English

We can do it with our friends anywhere. We have try to tell about ourselves, sharing our problems, asking about lessons and many others.

· Try to exploit this speaking subject as an opportunity to speak English

We have to exploit this speaking subject as an opportunity to speak English. Although the main aim we are speaking just for getting good mark from our lecturer it can make ourselves feel comfortable to speak English. Sometimes we have to be forced to speaking English. By forcing we will be able to speak English.

· Join with the English Club

With joining the English club, at least we have a partner to speak English.

3. Increase self confidence

· Don’t be afraid to make mistakes

We have to think that mistake make us to be better. If you don’t know about grammar or pronunciation, don’t too pay attention about it. Say whatever you want to say. Because every mistake that we had made can make us more conscious to not make the same mistake again.

· Don’t be shy to speak English

Sometimes we fear to speak English because you think that we don’t have ability in speaking. And we are afraid if we speak English, people around us will consider that we pretend to be smart, we pretend to know about English, and even we pretend to be like a tourist. Whatever happening to us, I thing that we can do is just be ourselves. Say whatever we want to say, no matter what people say.

• Believe in ourselves

We have to believe in ourselves that we can do it. We have to sure that we can speak English. We are English students, so we have more ability to speak English than others. No one can believe in us, believe in our capability except ourselves. So I am I, you are you, and we are we. Just be yourselves and try to do the best.

READING

Task 1

Read the text carefully!

Indonesia has a lot of forests. The forests are very numerous. They are in Sumatera, Java, kalimantan, Sulawesi, Papua and in some other islands. We can find a large number of plants and animals in their forests. Therefore, many foreigners make a study of our forests. They want to study about the Indonesian plants and animals.

Some of the animals are monkeys, tigers, elephants, wild bulls, bears, rhinoceroses, etc. these are wild animals. We can find them in some forests in our country. If we don’t want to go to the forests, we can see them in the zoo. Nowadays, the number of the wild animals becomes smaller because people like to hunt them down. Our government is very concerned about this matter, that’s why some animals are protected.

Animals that are protected by the government are the rhinoceroses, elephants, bulls, orangutan, sumateran tiger, comodos, peacocks, cendrawasihs, etc. our government built games reservation to product them. The government also constitutes hunting laws to reduce animal’s killings. We should help the government so that the animals will no be extinguished.

Task 2

Choose the correct answer!

1. Why do many foreigners make a study of our forests?

a. they love Indonesian forests

b. they want to stay in the forest

c. they are concerned about our forests

d. they want to study the Indonesia flora and fauna

2. Paragraph 2 tells us about ….

a. the flora and fauna in Indonesia

b. the wild reserve in Indonesia

c. the hunters of big games in java

d. the reason why the numbers of wildlife decreases

3. Indonesia has a large number of … with a lot of animals and plants in it.

a. islands c. number of areas

b. forested land d. number of rivers

4. “Nowadays the number of wild animals has become smaller”.

The underline words means ….

a. increased c. decreased

b. developed d. grown up

5. How many kinds of animals are protected by government?

a. 8 c. less than 8

b. more than 8 d. a few

Find some verbs in this following puzzle!

I U T Q S N H G G I B O P Y P L C T J W
T S X L F F Y O M W X F G S D L N N Q L
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G N I R B O R W V V U E X S F N A G J P
S T N V J Z T O U P M P S I N G N U Z O
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D R E Y G P P L O M L O T R E W E H A A
H S A E U T E R L I K E L T U D D E H U
B U E T C Q A N J E K D S E J N R N O Q
D H B F S H T I S X S I C N V B M I J X
Q U S A H T V T C Q L I Y R R E G A H N
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A P P L E Z F J N P Q R E H W B U R E B
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K O O H Z Z C F G D A Q X X E W V B T G
K L J E X I N X K U K Q H B W A R F R H
Q S A T G I B E I E R E A I X R D I H Q

WRITING

Task 3

The Simple Present Tense

Observe these sentences!

Þ She cleans the garden every Sunday

Þ Fina does not go to grandma’s house twice a week

Þ You do not work until five o’clock everyday

Þ Do we go to school on Sunday?

Þ Does he have breakfast every morning?

The sentences above include in the form simple present tense. The simple present tense is a form of the sentence that used to state the activity or the incident that is carried out or happen at the moment and it is current continually. It is also used for general truth. The activity incident is normally explained with time like:

- Every… (day, week, month, year, names of the days, months)

- Today - once

- At present - twice

It also could be explained with frequency information like:

- Always - rarely / seldom

- usually - never

- commonly/generally - sometimes

- often - almost

Pattern:

The positive form : S + V₁ + s/es + …….

The negative form : S + do/does + not + V₁ + …….

The interrogative form : Do/does + S + V₁ + …….

Task 4

Give the correct present tense form of the verb in present tense!

Example : He (carry) the book in a briefcase.

He carries the book in a briefcase.

1. Helen (do) the work of two people

2. George always (try) to do the samething

3. The teacher (wish) to speak with you

4. We always (travel) by car

5. He (like) to sit under the tree

6. We (eat) lunch in the Cafeteria everyday

7. I (catch) cold very often

8. Helen also (catch) cold very often

9. She usually (buy) a lot of fruit

10. He (speak) several foreign language

READING

Task 1.

Read the text carefully!

The vast archipelago and the great of islands have made Indonesia the home of a large variety of plant life. The Indonesian flora ranges from the tiny orchid to the giant rafflesia plant. No wonder many botanists were curious to study these plants.

The Rafflesia Arnoldi is the biggest flower in the world. It is unusual because of its large size. It has flower almost a meter in diameter and 1,40 meters in height.

“Rafflesia” is derived from the name of British Governor General, Sir Stamford Raffles, who once governed and built the Bogor Botanical Garden in Bogor. Though it is called Rafflesia after Raffles, the man who discovered the plants was Beccary, an Italian botanist who visited Sumatra in 1928.

Rafflesia consists of two parts which grow in the middle and the petals arround and bellows it.

The Rafflesia plant begins to flowers in its tenth year. It blooms three or four times a year. Before it begins to flower, the leaves and the stem become dry and look dead, but the main root in the ground is still alive.

While the flower is blossoming, it has a very unpleasant smell which attracts insects, especially green flies. They seem eager to explore the flower. But if the flies touch the bottom part of the stick like centre, they will die.

Task 2

Choose the correct answer based on the text!

1. The text above tells us about…

a. Indonesia plant

b. Indonesia flower

c. Indonesia fauna

d. Rafflesia

2. The biggest flower is Rafflesia. “Biggest” is the same meaning as…

a. Tiny

b. Smallest

c. big

d. giant

3. Who built Botanical Garden in Bogor?

a. Beccary

b. Indonesian people

c. Sir, Thomas Stamford Raffles

d. Italian Botanist

4. Where did Beccary discover Rafflesia?

a. in Java

b. in Sumatra

c. in Bogor

d. in Kalimantan

5. Rafflesia has a…

a. fragrant smell

b. sweet smell

c. good smell

d. very unpleasant smell