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KangGURU Magazine for April 2001
The Kang Guru Radio English magazine is produced three times per year in April, August and December. Special thanks to AusAID for their continued support of the magazine. The magazine is a compilation of articles and information taken from the Kang Guru Radio Program with additional material included for special purposes. Send us a letter or E-mail, written in English, and we will gladly send you your own copy of our latest magazine- FREE!. Our new magazine is out NOW and is full of great information, photographs and activities for you to enjoy. Our postal address is -
PO Box 3095, Denpasar 80030 What's in the latest KangGURU magazine? April 2001 There are many of the usual Kang Guru features in this magazine including Listeners' Letters, Aussie Music with Olivia Newton John, Lizzy's Listening Tips and Idioms Inggris. We feature news from AusAID of course with projects in Maumere, Yogyakarta and Jakarta. Nina is back to talk about Gender Equity and there is a brief article on TB in Indonesia - a real killer. Teenagers from Australia talk about some of the things that go to make up their lifestyles in Oz. 'A Slice of Life' features tow young Aussie on the move! Nat and Dan talk about their surfing business with KG.
There are the usual English language activities for you to do plus some special news about our new KG Photographic Competition for 2001. Be in that if you can. KG even has new posters and stickers for you and they are just great! There is also a lot of news about two new Kang Guru activities for Indonesian language learners. They are the Kang Guru Connection and Kang Guru in the Classroom.
So all in all, another great magazine for you to enjoy. Write and tell us what you think of it. (Keep checking magazine excerpts shown below as they will change regularly)
A Message from Kevin and the Kang Guru Team G'day, welcome to our first Kang Guru magazine for 2001. We here at KG are looking forward to the next two years because we have many new and exciting activities and services planned for you, the English language learner in Indonesia. For one thing, there will be three magazines each year instead of just two. The radio program will be designed more for the language learner with more language activities, news and competitions. The KG website is becoming more and more popular and because of your support, the website will expand with the introduction of the Kang Guru Connection and KG in The Classroom. We would appreciate your assistance this year in our efforts to improve all aspects of Kang Guru. If you have any suggestions or advice then please write to us. We really do appreciate your letters and comments and we really do read every letter that you send us. The information will help us to plan for the future of Kang Guru. Ogi, Darmika and myself are all very happy to be back this year and we look forward to working with you. We hope to hear from you during the coming months by letter or email, and perhaps I will get to meet you as I travel about Indonesia this year. A letter now about music on KG from Yuistiana who lives in Solo. Dear Kang Guru, If you ask me about my favourite Aussie music star, it is Olivia Newton-John. She's so beautiful with her blonde hair. I like her voice. Some of the songs I like from her are "Summer Nights", "I Honestly Love You", and "Baby, I Can't Sleep Tonight". If I'm not mistaken, "Summer Nights" is the OST from 'Grease" in which she sang together with John Travolta. It took me a long time to be able to sing along with this song 'cos they sang so fast. Whereas "I Honestly Love You" and "Baby I Can't Sleep Tonight" are often played on PTPN Rasitania, one of the radio stations in Solo, in its "Back to Sixties" program called "Golden Memory". That's all I know about my favourite Aussie music star, Olivia Newton-John. Olivia Newton-John was born in Cambridge, England on September 26th, 1948. Her family moved to Australia when she was 5. As a teenager Olivia sang on Australian television regularly during the 1970s. She also worked a lot in England with several albums being quite successful. Her first real success was back in the country of her birth. In the late 70's, a producer in Los Angeles was looking for an actress to be in a film with John Travolta. The new movie was called 'Grease'. Released in June 1978, 'Grease' became one of the biggest selling musicals of all time and the soundtrack album sold millions all over the world.
The bad news came in 1992 - Olivia Newton-John had breast cancer. She was taken to hospital and operated on, and then had to undergo a period of chemotherapy. Olivia went home to Australia to recuperate. In February 1993 she got the all clear - the cancer had gone. Olivia recently sang at the opening of the 2000 Olympics in Sydney with another well known Australian singer, John Farnham. Living In Australia - Teenager Style What do Aussie teenagers do on the weekends? Clementine and Kellie spoke with Kang Guru and talked about what they do in their spare time. Clementine is 15 and Kellie is a little older. She is 17. They both live in New South Wales in a beautiful seaside town called Macksville. Macksville is on the eastern coast of Australia, in New South Wales. Look it up on a map to see where they live.
Clementine talked about her recreational activities at home. "On the weekends I usually spend my time with my friends either going to the movies or going shopping at the mall or going to the beach. But I also ride horses as my sport. So on the weekends sometimes I go to gymkhanas and competitions. A gymkhana is where a whole group of people compete against each other, riding their horses in different events. It is quite formal and very popular in my area". Kellie said that she usually just hangs out up town or goes shopping and to the beach in the summer time. She enjoys going to parties too and in the summer these parties are often held outdoors in the fresh air. Macksville, and nearby Nambucca Heads are great places for fun on the beach, and things like that.
Aussie Teenagers and Work
Do you have a part time job? If you do, then why not write to KG and tell us about it. Maybe you work in a shop, in a warung or restaurant? It will be interesting to compare your jobs with those held by Aussie teenagers still at school. A Letter From A Midwife! When I was reading your KG magazine published in October 2000, I found the article on AusAID in Indonesia page about Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies. I imagine if that program could also be carried on my village. I myself would be happy if I could join the program, so I could get improvement in knowledge because I am a midwife. Let me introduce myself. My name is Harini Setiyobudiarti. I am a midwife in Tempeh Lor. I want to develop my village through Posyandu. Through this letter I also want to say "Have a Nice & Happy New Year 2001". Hopefully the relationship between Australia and Indonesia will become closer and the Kang Guru magazine still always exist in Indonesia. Looking forward to hearing from you Yours sincerely Thank You KG! Hello, how do you do? First of all I wanna say thank you for your attention to my mail. This is my first mail for you. I have been Kang Guru reader for a year. I know about Kang Guru from my sister Roslina. I'm so pleased to receive your magazine. I realize my English is bad so that your magazine is very useful for me. I can improve my English, enrich vocabulary, get entertainment on my leisure time. I also follow your Radio program. I like it very much. I can increase my skill in listening comprehension. I wanna have English cassette to improve my listening skills. I do believe you can help me. I wanna be English expert one day. I wanna travel throughout the world. Australia is my destination. Because of it I should have a good English. Before ending my mail to you I hope you wanna reply my mail and give me some advice how to get perfect English. OK, I'm looking forward to reading your mail. Thanks for all. Byeee Idioms Inggris - about music Let's take a look at some idioms about music. The first idiom is face the music. We use face the music to say that someone has to be strong and responsible, they have to be prepared to accept the results, usually negative, of their actions. It is time to be held accountable. The word music does not necessarily indicate a good time ahead.
The second idiom is went for a song. We use went for a song when we want to say that something was sold very cheap. If something sells for a lot less than it should have then we say that it went for a song.
The third idiom is to change his tune. If someone changes their mind and the change is quite big, quite significant, then we often say that he has changed his tune.
face the music - bertanggungjawab Idioms Inggris - about houses Now we are looking at idioms using the word house. The first idiom is as safe as houses. We use as safe as houses to say that something is very safe. If a situation, a piece of equipment or perhaps an arrangement between people is very safe then we say it is as safe as houses.
Another idiom that Aussies love to hear is on the house. If the owner of a hotel or a restaurant says, 'Ah, it is on the house', it means the drinks or the meal are free. Yes, free!
as safe as houses - sangat aman
Dr. Stuart Collins and Dr. Servatius Pareira work with the Integrated National Tuberculosis Program in Indonesia and are based in Maumere. Stuart provided Polres Sikka with valuable information about TB in Indonesia:
Listen to KGRE in May and June for more information about TB in Indonesia. AusAID has provided $5 million to the World Health Organization to assist that organization in finding and curing people with TB in Indonesia. Kang Guru Posters and Stickers
Aren't they fantastic? If you would like a new KG poster (60 cm x 20 cm), then write to us and tell us why you want one. Better still, where are you going to put it? We know it will look great in your room but we would really like the posters to be where lots and lots of people will see them. Do you have any great ideas? Tell us and we will send you a few posters - one for you and some extra ones for those special places you mentioned. A 'Slice of Life' from Australia Nathan Folks and his partner, Dan, began their Aussie Surf Adventures business a few years ago. They teach people how to surf. How did they get started and what is their life like? Nathan and Dan were both born in New South Wales, and as you can probably guess - quite close to the beach. Nathan became serious about surfing when he was 12 years old. Like many Australian teenagers who live close to the beach, Nathan spent a lot of his spare time at the beach improving his skills and enjoying himself at the same time. Nathan and Dan began teaching surfing after they began their surfing business.
Nathan (Nat for short) explains about their Aussie Surf Adventures business : "Okay, with Aussie Surf Adventures we provide our customers with everything: tuition, surf boards, food, accommodation, and transport between Sydney and Byron Bay in northern New South Wales. Customers get on the bus in Sydney and as we travel north along the coast we stop at different beaches and teach them how to surf. It is a real social event with beautiful weather, good Aussie tucker and of course, great beaches to surf at. We began the business with a small bus (bemo) but after a while we had to buy a big bus to carry all the people and the equipment. We get guests from Australia, the domestic market, by just doing some local promotion but we also attract the international market as well. They're great fun. These guys all rock up into Sydney, they're looking for something to do, something Australian and we offer exactly that and we all have a ball". Email address surfadventures@hotmail.com |
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