Asking, Giving, and Refusing Help VIII C

check this video!! this video is from my students in eighth grade at Mts Al hasanah. they live in dormitory because this school  is one of  boarding schools in my city, Bengkulu Indonesia :) check this out Group 1   http://youtu.be/hFfLS4s3ZOk Group 2 http://youtu.be/WuWkRK6H9CM Group 3 http://youtu.be/iugpJRTibTE group 4 http://youtu.be/dLSDeC-h_yc group...

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Access to Clean Water: A Problem for Indonesia

Access to clean water is one of Indonesia's biggest problem. According to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Report 2007, published by the National Development Planning Board, piped water is accessible to 30.8 per cent of households in the country's cities and 9 per cent in its villages. Such fi gures show the limitations of the municipality's water service provider, PDAM. Lack of investment in clean water is one reason PDAM gives for its limited outreach. Based on a government statement, to meet the MDGs target by 2015, Indonesia needs Rp43 trillion (US$4.6 billion) in clean water funding. The government currently provides Rp500 billion. In order to close the funding gap, the government expects private investment in drinking water infrastructure. The need for clean water funding is something that cannot...

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Helping Children Discover Their Own Identity

Children of today's advanced world are different from those in the past. With easy access to modern technology, chil dren of today are able to learn everything they encounter in their life, including world-class information. In terms of knowledge of the world, one must admit, they seem to surpass children brought up in the era when techno logical equipment was still traditional. The rapid growth of children's cognitive, physi cal and social adaptations is an indication of how they can be easily shaped by the modern vicinity. This is a critical period when children are begin ning to try to discover their own true identity. Parental guidance is necessary to assist them in leading to the correct path. To do this, intervention, however, is not always mandatory if parents are upbeat that their offspring can handle the conundrum they...

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Little Peachling

Many hundred years ago there lived an honest old woodcutter and his wife. One fi ne morning the old man went off to the hills with his billhook, to gather a faggot of sticks, while his wife went down to the river to wash the dirty clothes. When she came to the river, she saw a peach fl oating down the stream; so she picked it up, and carried it home with her, thinking to give it to her husband to eat when he should come in. The old man soon came down from the hills, and the good wife set the peach before him, when, just as she was inviting him to eat it, the fruit split in two, and a little puling baby was born into the world. So the old couple took the babe, and brought it up as their own; and, because it had been born in a peach, they called it Momotaro, or Little Peachling. By degrees Little Peachling grew...

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Most Firms Ignore Waste Treatment

Only 26 percent of a total of 2,173 medium and large-scale enterprises in the city regularly submit samples of their liquid waste for assessment, the Jakarta Environmental Mana gement Agency has said. The remaining 1,602 enterprises failed to deliver reports of the liquid waste they produced as set out in gubernatorial decree No. 299/1996. The decree requires all enterprises pro ducing liquid waste to treat the waste before disposing of it into rivers. It also requires fi rms to send samples of the treated waste to the agency every three months. The companies on the list include hotels, apartments, office buildings, restaurants, hospitals, and industrial plants. The above fi gures do not include regis tered small-scale enterprises such as commu nity markets, small workshops and small offi ces which amount up to at...

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Teddy Bear Time

When a visitor to Bearborough last year forgot to put on her watch, she asked some local bears the time and she got some strange answers. "Half past three," the bear who sells fruit and vegetables said, glancing up at the Town Hall clock. "A quarter to nine," the bear in the bakery replied, looking at the clock high on the church. "Nine minutes after fi ve," the bear who sells ice cream on the corner of the main street said, peering at the clock in front of the train station. You have probably guessed that all the clocks in Bearborough were wrong. That was because old Mr Minim, the only clock mender in town, had become a little shaky on his legs. Although fi t and well in every other way, he simply could not face climbing up a ladder to mend clocks high up. As you can imagine, the clocks really were a problem....

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Miss Mole Catches a Ghost

Quite often Miss Mole would look after the young ones who lived in the woodland, when their parents went out in the evening. "I just love baby-sitting," sighed Miss Mole, as she gazed at the little animals, "you're all such darlings!" "But we're not babies," grumbled the fieldmice twins, "we're almost grown up!" "Well you'll always be babies to me," giggled Miss Mole, as she gave them all a great big hug. But one evening when Miss Mole was baby-sitting, something very strange happened ... All the little animals had walked over to Miss Mole's house just before dark. They were laughing and joking and making lots of noise as they went along. All of a sudden one of the rabbits heard a strange sound. Then one or two of the little animals...

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