Using Semicolons

The semicolon is a hugely powerful punctuation mark. Getting it right will not only impress your tutors and future employers, it will allow you to express your ideas and opinions with more subtlety and precision than ever before. The good news is that it is simple and easy to use and should take you no more than a few minutes to master.

In complicated lists.
The semicolon can be used to sort out a complicated list containing many items, many of which themselves contain commas.

Have a look at this example:

In the meeting today we have Professor Wilson, University of Barnsley, Dr Watson, University of Barrow in Furness, Colonel Custard, Metropolitan Police and Dr Mable Syrup, Genius General, University of Otago, New Zealand.

In a situation such as this, only the mighty semicolon can unravel the mess.

In the meeting today we have Professor Wilson, University of Barnsley; Dr Watson, University of Barrow in Furness; Colonel Custard, Metropolitan Police and Dr Mable Syrup, Genius General, University of Otago, New Zealand.

In most lists a comma is enough to separate the items. In a complicated list like the one above, it is perfectly acceptable to use the semicolon to make the list more understandable.

Separating closely-related independent clauses. 
The semicolon is also used to connect two closely-related independent clauses. Have a look at this example:

• Terry always slept with the light on; he was afraid of the dark. 

The two clauses here are closely connected but the link has not been made explicit. They could have been separated by a full stop.

• Terry always slept with the light on. He was afraid of the dark. 

They could have been connected by a conjunction.

• Terry always slept with the light on because he was afraid of the dark. 
• Terry always slept with the light on, as he was afraid of the dark. 

In this instance we have changed the second clause into a dependent clause; it is directly dependent on the first clause.

If you are going to use a semicolon to connect two clauses, it is very important that the two clauses are both independent. That means that each clause has to be able to stand alone and make complete sense without the other. If either one cannot stand alone, a semi-colon cannot be used.

Style.
Using the semicolon to separate the two clauses has allowed us to imply the relationship between the two without stating it explicitly. This can be quite a powerful tool in allowing/encouraging your reader to make implicit connections. As the reader is involved in the development of the idea, it may well be more persuasive than simply stating the causal relationship between the two clauses. The decision as to whether to use a semicolon or to make the two clauses into separate sentences is one of style and, as such, is up to you the writer. As with many punctuation marks, the semicolon is powerful and can give your writing a good deal more style and precision, but it should not be over used.

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Plagiarism

It is most important for you to be very careful to avoid plagiarism in your writing. What exactly is plagiarism? Basically, it is passing off someone else's writing as your own. It means taking someone else's words and pretending that they are your own. In its most serious form, it is simply copying someone else's work, word for word, and not acknowledging the source that they came from.

Think how hard you work to try to phrase things in precisely the right way and you will understand how annoying it is when someone lifts your own original ideas and claims them for their own. However, it is not only annoying for the writer of the original text, it is also dangerous for the person who copies it. If plagiarism is spotted in your writing, your college has the right to fail your essay, or fail you in an exam, and in the most serious cases of cheating in this way, to send you down from the university. It is very easy for markers to spot plagiarism:

• because they know the subject well
• because they have read all the books you're likely to refer to
• because plagiarism will result in a change of style within the essay

The most important thing is always to quote and reference correctly and then you will avoid problems of plagiarism. But if you need to mention someone else's work and you can't find or don't want to provide a quotation, how can you do it? The best approach might be to follow these steps:

• read and understand the original text
• close the book and write out the main points in your own words
• rephrase the main points into your own passage
• compare your writing with the original and make sure that no sentences or long phrases are the same
• don't worry if the quality of the writing is not quite as high as the original….it's much more important that you use your own words.

Remember, if you acknowledge someone else's writing, it will not be plagiarism.

Remember as well, that without trying to put ideas into your own words, you will never develop your own style and never gain in confidence as far as your writing goes. Stitching a few ideas together from someone else's writing does nothing to improve your own writing skills and nothing for your understanding of the subject.

What do you think about these examples? Plagiarism or not?

Sam's essay:
Third, Carl Gardner describes the new 'high-tech' shopping centres how they varied in size and style, spectacularly produced glass atria or glazed barrel-vaults which helps to use the natural light to flood the shops and walkways.

Original:
Though varied in size and style, nearly all centres offer the same basic features. Most importantly, there are spectacularly engineered glass atria or glazed barrel-vaults to flood the shops and walkways with natural light.

(The answer is in the first comment under this article.)

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Are Rear-Facing Airplane Seats Safer?

They may well be. But don't look for them anytime soon.

By Michael Klesius - AirSpaceMag.com

The U.K.-based Premium Aircraft Interiors Group offers rear-facing seats strictly for economic reasons, and makes no claims about safety.

Katherine Cooper of Xenia, Ohio wonders why the seats in military aircraft face the back of the plane. “It is my understanding that seats are placed in this position for safety,” she writes. “I was under the impression this would protect passengers in case of an aircraft emergency like a sudden deceleration on the ground. Is this so? And if so, why is it that commercial airlines continue to put the seats facing forward?”

People have been debating for at least half a century which way airplane seats should face—forward or backward. According to an article in the December 1952 edition of Naval Aviation News, “Passengers in Navy transport planes have ten-fold better chances of coming out of crashes alive, thanks to backward-facing seats which are being installed in all new planes….The Navy has decided to install the seats after five years of development and testing showed they gave passengers much more protection for the entire back, neck, head and parts of the arms and legs in sudden stoppages. The human body can absorb more shock by the back than by the chest and abdomen, flight surgeons say.” The unsigned article cites two Royal Air Force accidents involving a four-engine Hastings and a two-engine Valetta. Both had rear-facing seats that were credited with minimizing injuries to passengers.

Aft-facing seats were used in Britain and the U.S. as early as 1945, according to the article, but “it took time to prove their advantages justifying the added cost of converting the seats….Navy passengers seem to like the rearward-facing seats. BUAER [the Navy’s Bureau of Aeronautics] distributed questionnaires to passengers during first months of experimentation with them. More than 500 were questioned after a flight, with only a few voting against them and none advancing a convincing reason for their opinions.”

Not long afterward, Britain’s Flight magazine ran an editorial in its July 16, 1954, issue praising a talk by one G./C. A.C. Dudgeon, D.F.C., of Britain’s Transport Command. “It was an informative, persuasive and entertaining talk, and it put the advantages of the aft-facing seat into very clear perspective—no wild claims, no concentration on one aspect of survival to the exclusion of all others. Subsequently a very lively discussion developed and someone called for a show of hands. I was surprised to see that four-fifths of a reasonably well-informed audience (consisting of members and guests of Aviation Forum) were in favour of the rearward-facing seat for all civil transport aircraft.”

Dudgeon was an early crusader for aft-facing seats, citing research dating back to 1942. The Flight editorial dismissed as “fatuous” the airlines’ worry that passengers would view aft-facing seats as an admission that accidents were possible. “One might carry this argument further,” wrote Flight’s editors, “and advocate the abolition of lifejackets and instructions on how to wear them.”



The same magazine revisited the subject in 1964 with another editorial, “Rearward-facing Seats NOW?,” that provided more technical detail. The center of gravity of a decelerating person is six to nine inches higher when facing aft than when facing forward due to the placement of the seatbelt, according to the article. Because the force of impact would be applied higher on the seat, airlines would have to strengthen the seat’s attachment to the floor. This, the editorial acknowledged, would add weight, and would translate to fewer passengers or the need to carry more fuel. “At present, with airlines losing money almost everywhere, it is only too easy to understand their antipathy for this subject,” say the editors. Yet they also cite a 1958 accident involving an airliner in Munich, Germany, which crashed on takeoff with the Manchester United soccer team on board. Those in forward-facing seats were killed, and those in aft-facing seats were saved.

In 1983, Richard Snyder, a research scientist studying crash protection and transportation safety at the University of Michigan, published a paper titled “Impact Protection in Air Transport Passenger Seat Design.” Snyder wrote, “Data appear to overwhelmingly substantiate that the seated occupant can tolerate much higher crash forces when oriented in the rearward-facing position.” He concluded that aft-facing seats were safer, and still holds to that view today. Now retired from teaching, he replied by email from his home in Arizona, “The basis for providing aft-facing seating impact crash protection is substantial and supported by over half a century of experience.”

Despite the research, we all face forward. Car companies, including super-safety-conscious Volvo, aren’t planning to turn passenger seats around anytime soon, and newborns are the only ones who face aft in automobiles. Most train and bus seats face forward. Airplanes just follow conventional practice.

That didn’t stop Bern Case from campaigning to change the standard. In the summer of 1987, Case was working at the Tri-City International Airport in Saginaw, Michigan (today he’s the airport manager for the Rogue Valley International-Medford Airport in Oregon) when Northwest Flight 255 had a disastrous accident on its next stop after Saginaw. The MD-82 had barely taken off from Detroit when it stalled and crashed into the embankment of a freeway overpass, killing 155 passengers and crew members. Only four-year-old Cecilia Cichan survived.

As Case learned the details of the tragedy, he became convinced that rear-facing seats would have saved lives. Throughout the 1990s, he contacted agencies, companies, and airlines, pushing the idea of rear-facing seats. By the end of the decade, he’d given up. “These numerous studies are just ta-ta’d away with clichés,” he says today. “Airlines say passengers wouldn’t like to face backward. But military airplanes and corporate jets have them.” And, he adds, their passengers report no problems. When former president Bill Clinton came to Oregon during the 2008 presidential campaign, Case was invited to board his charter plane, and noted that Clinton had chosen a rear-facing seat.

“Another objection you hear is cost,” says Case. He thinks it’s a non-issue. “The FAA [Federal Aviation Administration ] doesn’t need to say, ‘Change your planes overnight.’ ”

In fact, the FAA doesn’t seem concerned about the matter one way or the other. “Basically, we set standards and the airlines decide how they want their airplanes built,” says Alison Duquette of the agency’s public affairs office. There might be some concern about passengers evacuating an airplane with rear-facing seats, she adds, although “There has been no definitive research on the subject that we’re aware of. [It’s] just a factor that has to be considered.”

According to David Castelveter of the Washington, D.C.-based Air Transport Association, “There is no difference in the safety of commercial airliner seats—only differences in their weights. There can be a lot of back-and-forth on passenger preferences and reasons for them. Nonetheless, most [passengers] would give the nod to forward-facing.” But the association could not produce any surveys or studies supporting this contention, and does not have a policy on the safety of aft-facing seats. Nor does the Flight Safety Foundation, based in Alexandria, Virginia.

So we asked a manufacturer. Sandy Angers of Boeing Commercial Airplanes’ public relations office replied by email: “We are not familiar with any study or survey pertaining to passenger preference of aft-facing vs. forward-facing seats. Airlines traditionally conduct their own market research and may have that data.” As for which is safer, “Boeing does not have a position on whether aft-facing seats offer greater or less safety. All seats must meet regulatory safety standards.”

We weren’t able to find surveys of passenger preference for airplane seating, either. But Alison Trinkoff, a former doctoral student at Johns Hopkins and now a nurse at the University of Maryland, wrote a paper in the American Journal of Public Health in 1985 about preferences on the Washington, D.C., Metro subway system, which offers both forward- and aft-facing seats in every train car. She found that only 25 percent of adults chose aft-facing seats, while 66 percent of children chose them. Trinkoff concluded, “While many adults may prefer to ride facing forward, others might opt to face rearward if safety advantages were known and appropriate seating was made available.”

In the 1960s and 1970s, British Airways (then British European Airways) flew Tridents with half the seats facing backward, and the airline still has some aft-facing seats in business class. Two years ago, a U.K.-based company called the Premium Aircraft Interiors Group began promoting a design called the Freedom Seat for commercial wide bodies, in which every other seat in each row faces aft. The Freedom Seat is more about comfort and economy than safety, however—the shoulders of passengers in adjacent seats can intrude slightly into the space above the legs of passengers to their left and right if they face the opposite way. The configuration translates to an additional column of seats down the length of the economy class cabin of a wide body, and four inches added to the pitch, or the front-to-back spacing between seats. That means 21 more seats in the economy cabin of a Boeing 777 and 50 more in an Airbus A380. “Nobody’s taken us up on it yet,” says business development director Ben Bettell. “I think the main reason is the eye-to-eye contact.” British Airways has solved that problem in their business class cabin with dividers for privacy.

Bettell says that because airplane seats have been facing the same direction for 50 years, airlines may find it hard to adopt radically new seating ideas. He’s hopeful that this will change, and says that one U.S. airline, whom he declines to name, is interested in the company’s aft-facing seats.

As for whether passengers sitting in those seats would be safer, Bettell declines to comment, promising only that the seats will be manufactured to all necessary safety standards.

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Comments?

Session 5 task for certain members of the Friday Class

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Pramudyo:

STORY ONE

In my opionin, Diva’s first story is true, because the reason why she didn’t bring her suitcase made sense and losing her suitcase is an unlucky thing.  About hanif’s story, it kinda confuse me because it could be true or lie, but ultimately i believed that it was false because swimming into deep water for just saving a slipper didn’t make any sense. Kabik’s story is true, because simply it was coherent. Nicholas’s story is way to extreme and i refuse to believe it. My Story about movies was a lie, because i loved movies. Raja’s story is definitely a lie because fighting over a girl as an elementary student is way too early and didn’t made sense. Ricky’s story is truee. Sabrina’s story is very interesting, because staying in foreign country without parents is scary, but somehow i believed it as a truth. Bagas’s story is a truth, its fun to hear a story from someone about their passion on something.  Vivi’s story is way too scary, i believe its a lie.

STORY TWO

Hanif’s second story is truee, because it made much more sense compared to his first story, and i believe its hard to not eat chicken for a very long time. Kabik’s second story is a lie, i dont know why but i just felt that it was a lie. Ricky’s story is a lie. Vivi’s second story made much more sense compared to her first one, but disliking instant noodles? That is weird but it could be true. Raja’s second story is true, i never had experience any sleepwalking in my life, but after hearing his story, it made want to feel how is it like to expereinced a sleepwalking. Sabrina’s story is lie, because leaving your house because of justin bieber?? really? I dont believe it. Bagas’s second story is a lie, because it didnt sound convincing to me. Diva’s second story is a lie, because stabbing yourself with a pencil? I did not believe it. Nicho’s second story is true because he’s pretty much talking about this class hahaha. 

From my two stories, the one about lessons i learned from losing football matches is the true one, the other one about movies is a lie.

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Bagas:

Diva

I think the second story is more believable, because it is possible for a teenager to stab themselves because it is true that most of teenagers are reckless and most likely to be less cautious to whatever the consequences of what they will do to themselves.

Hanif

The first story is more believable because, children tends to be more active doing unreasonable things, and Hanif is a reckless kid. He put his life on the line just to safe his dad’s slippers. And because the second story is not convincing enough because it is impossible that someone never eat chicken for 18 years.

Kabik

Both stories have the details needed to make me think that both is the truth, but the second story is more convincing for me, because it is a typical story a high school girl will experience as soon as they sees someone that meet their expectations about the guy of their dream, with so much of good expectation and become obsessed with those boys.

Pramudyo

The second one is more believable as competition between schools are a common thing during high school years and in a competition there will be a winner or postponed winner (loser) and from losing a competition it is true as what Pram said that there are a lot of things that can be extracted from that kind of situation and work it out as a team.

Nico

The second one is the truth, I am 100% sure because it happened to me also. Simply because we are in the same class, every single class.

Raja

The first story is the truth, because from my experience war between school gangs is a common thing for most of the high school in Indonesia. Most of the time ,school will try to prevent such things to happen and try to interfere similar to what the school in Raja’s story have done to prevent the “war” or tawuran.

Ricky

The second story is the truth because Ricky is a guy who tries to be a man with a healthy lifestyle and what Ricky experience also happened to me for several times so I can relate more to the second story.

Sabrina

 I can assure anyone that the 2nd story of Sabrina is the most believable because for a teenage girl which obsessed to their idol, in this case Justin Bieber . they will do anything for their idol, including running away from home just to get their newest album.

Vivi 

The 1st story is more convincing because the details she put in the first story actually

Supported the flow of the story rather than the 2nd story , and the other thing is who can be sick with instant noodles.

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Kabik:

HANIF

*It is TRUE that Hanif’s dad lost his slipper in the ocean, I think it happens all the time to many people, once you get to the water with your slippers on it could get easily drifted.

# It is FALSE that Hanif  didn’t eat any chicken product until 2018 he tasted chicken and started liking it and eat it almost everyday without any specific reasons.

RAJA

*It is FALSE that Raja had tawuran when he was in senior High School, I can understand that mostly boys are obsessed with girls a little bit too much that they decided to fight to get the girls. But I can not believe that Raja would do this because he seems like a person who don’t like violence.

# It is TRUE that he had sleepwalking and took a shower without realizing it, this story is somehow sounds more possible for me because I know that some people have sleeping issues.

SABRINA

*It is FALSE that Sabrina is left all alone in japan without her parents for four days, it was because her grandfather is passed away that her parents went back to Indonesia, I think no one would continue their trip when they know one of the family member is sick or passed away.

#It is TRUE that Sabrina was runaway from home for about 30 minutes only, she said that she was a big fan of Justin Bieber. I can relate. once when I was a kid I runaway from home because my dad forced me to join the choir of my church and I didn’t want to. So I know exactly how she felt at that time, I totally understand.

VIVI

*It is FALSE that Vivi went hiking with her dad and some of his friends. Well, she sounds so convincing but after I listened to the second of her podcast I do think that this story is false.

# it is TRUE that Vivi does not like eat instant noodle, as I know, Vivi is having a healty lifestyle, she is very concern about what she eats, once when we had a lunch together she had the healthy menu while me, I don’t really care about my diet.

DIVA

*it is FALSE that Diva had traveled without any suitcases at all because she lost them on the way to Korea, I think the international flight would have a decent facility and take care of the passenger’s suitcases well.

# It is TRUE that Diva had stabbed 3 herself three times with pencil accidently and left 2 scars on her hand, she said that it was happened when she was in elementary, I know most of the elementary students are very clumsy and reckless so I can say that it was true.

 PRAMUDYO

*It is FALSE that Pramudyo is hate watching movies, as teenagers I believe we spend most of our times watching movies in the spare time. Especially nowadays we have these famous and booming movies like The Avengers, Taken, The Purge, etc.

# It is TRUE that Pramudyo is learns a lot from his losing at the football game. Losing is not always means that you have failed. Like what he said in the podcast that by losing and competing you learn how to work as a team.

RICKY

* It is TRUE that Ricky was a third grader and scaring a second grader by knocking their doors. Again, as I said before, as a student of elementary it is very normal and we can find it common for children teasing their friends.

# It is FALSE that Ricky met a rabbit dog near his house in Bogor, because I don’t know what rabbit dog is and if it is a rabbit dog with bubbles around its mouth that indicates this animal is dangerous and his house is not safe.

BAGAS

*It is FALSE that Bagas’s life is changes because of boxing, he said that he did the boxing because of his ex-girlfriend, I don’t think it is true that he let himself do the physical exercise in order to make his ex happy with his body. For me it is sound like a body shaming, and I don’t think that the girlfriends would let the boyfriends do something like this.

# it is TRUE that Bagas have been playing drums for years, and performed in several cafes. He looks like he plays drums. I mean, I don’t really know how to identify drummers from their appearance but Im just sure that he plays drum.

NICHO

*It is FALSE that he went to Semarang and was drown in the pool, this story is could be happened in reality but his second story makes me sure that this first story of him is has never been true.

# It is true that Nicho do the assignments in the toilet, because I can hear clearly that he actually did it. This is very funny and smart that he shares this story and help me easily to justify the answer.

Notes:

(*) Means PODCAST 1

(#) Means PODCAST 2

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Nicho:

First Story

Kabik’s story is a true story because all the details are necessary and make sense for me. 

Raja’s story is a true story because i knew that Raja’s school was pretty ‘gentho’ so this is actually a believable story coming from his high school life.

Sabrina’s story is a false story because i do not think any parents would leave their children alone especially in the place they are not familar with for a few days.

Hanif’s story is a true story because i think as a child, we have this sort of spontaneous reaction which is expressed by Hanif jumping to the water.

Bagas’ story is a false story because i can not imagine Bagas with 100kg body could be exist in the pass. I do not think Bagas is that kind of person who would get bothered by his girlfriend’s opinions about physical appearences. The last one, is it even possible to hide broken nose to your parents? Twice?!

Ricky’s story is a true story because i could imagine Ricky being a little bit cruel to someone.

Diva’s story is a false story since she did not sound like she was upset at all.

Vivi’s story is a true story because it makes sense and she seems to be really excited when she was talking about it.

Pramudyo’s story is a false story because it is like a very exaggerated hatred over small things that does not deserve that much of hate.

Second Story

Hanif’s second story is a false story because i think chickens are common food and all of the sudden like it when moved into Jogja even eat it almost everyday? It does not make any sense to me.

Kabik’s second story is a false story because it contains hyperbole that does not fit with what i think about girls. Girls are harder to fall in love than boys.

Pramudyo’s story is a true story because he sounds very sincere and has a deep feeling which is a sign when you are talking about your passion or learn something in life.

Ricky’s story is a false story because i do not think he expressed enough fear that he should have when he met a rabies infected rabbit dog.

Vivi’s story is a false story because i think she sounds like reading wikipedia’s fact and had this kind of flat emotion. These are the features of typical made out stories because there is no feeling towards the story. 

Raja’s story is not a true story. Although i never have any sleepwalking before but i do not think that you could do a shower while maintaining your asleep condition.

Sabrina’s story is a true story because i do not know which one is a true story or not. I am just guessing at this point, her both stories was very hard to decide whether they are true or false. Well done Sabrina.

Bagas’ story is a true story. To be honest, i am confused. I just compare this story to the other one and decide which one is more belivable. Those whether intentional or unintentional delaying for this story and fluent story telling for the first one did a really good job on making me confused.

Diva’s second story is a true story because i think it is very common to be a reckless kid and it is more believable than the other one.

Confession

For my story, the first one actually a false story. I really did have a drowning accident but it was in a swallow pool so my father could bring me up to the surface with ease and without the passed out part.

For my second story is actually a true story. I had this accidental Statistics 1 class that i need to attend and then i realized in the morning that EWS assigment need to be submitted before 12. So what i did is that i went to the bathroom and did all of the the assigments there!

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Sabrina:

Diva

I think the second story is false. The reason why is because I think it is just impossible for Diva to stabbed her hands THREE TIMES. I mean like if it was twice maybe i'll believe her. Eventhough I thought the first story was false but when I heard the second one I decided the first one might be true. 

Hanif

It is kinda confusing but I think the second one is true. I personally don't eat rice at all (ever since I was 3). Rice is somehow scary for me. Like when I eat something and then there is rice in it, I would stop eating. So I can relate to Hanif on his second story.

Kabik

Her second story, in my opinion, can be true. My reason is simple. I've been in that kind of moment once. And also, her first story is not suspicious at all which makes me suspicious of her. She might want to trick us! 

Nicho

His second story sounds so convincing! I heard something, is it water or what? Or is it just an effect? Anyway, I still want to say that the first story sounds true to me. Because he makes it too obvious with the second one. He's trying so hard! Well done, Nicho!

Pramudyo

His first story is just something. Who hates movies????? Ever since I moved to Yogyakarta, movies is like my main entertainment! Anyway Pram, This must be a lie! Sorry but I don't believe you. If he hates someone who loves movie, he hate me then.

Raja

I seriously can't tell which one is true or false. Both sounds convincing. But i'll just say that the second one, I think, is false. I mean like if you're soaked, as a normal human being, you should realize that you're soaked and woke up. But maybe Raja was too tired at that time? I don't know.

Ricky

I heard a couple weeks ago that Ricky have a house in Bogor. It is located near Mila Friday's school right? So I guess his second story might be true. Also, his first story sounds too plain that I had a thought that maybe he's trying to fool us?

Bagas

I do know that Bagas is good at playing basketball. But drums? I don't know. So i'll just say that I believed his first story more than his second story. But if you do play drums, Bagas, that is so cool! Also, it kinda amazes me how he played from cafe to cafe.

Vivi

I often talk to Vivi but I didn't know that she loves to hike! And about her second story, how can you hate instant noodles? In my opinion, it is the invention of the century. Instant noodles tasted good no matter how you eat it. Even if it is raw, it is delicious! (am I the only one who had eaten raw instant noodles?) Anyway, I think her second story is true. Just like what I stated on my comment about Hanif's story, it is possible that you hate something. 

About my story, actually the story about being all alone in Japan without my parents are the true one. Kinda weird right? And I do love Justin Bieber but I am not that crazy. The only Bieber's album I have is his 3rd album. Anyway, travelling without our parents was a chaos. We didn't know where to go and we always woke up at like 11 A.M. because we always sleep late and we had nowhere to go. Such a waste of time. I mean, why would you sleep so much when you're travelling?

That's all Sir. Thank you so much.

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Ricky:

Diva

I’m guessing the story where she lost her suitcase was false because it would be really hard to travel when her family lost all their suitcases, they would have to prolong their visit if they lost valuable items. The other story, although seems painful and I haven’t notice her scar, is more believable because we all get clumsy sometimes.

Hanif

Hanif’s story about saving his dad’s slipper is one thousand times more believable than never liking chicken. Excluding vegans, almost everybody in this world loves chicken. So my guess is the drowning story is true.

Kabik

 I don’t know Kabik well enough to guess which one is true. So, my rough guess is the story where she went to Bali with her family is true, because that’s just something so wonderful to do. While the other story, although really common, is just too boring.

Raja

Raja seems like a nice guy for me; too nice at times. Therefore, even though the sleep walking story seems sketchy and funny, I’m guessing it’s true. He is simply too nice to have a tawuran.

Nico

Nico and I got a lot of classes together, and he seems like the diligent type. He always asks questions when he is in class. Based on that, the drowning story is more plausible and the one where he did his assignment in the toilet is false.

Pramudyo

Football is a very popular sport in Indonesia, I’m not surprised if he loved it when he was a kid. For the other story where he hates movies, is not so believable. While he can dislike certain genres of movies, hating the whole medium it’s exaggerating. So the one story that is true is his football one.

Sabrina 

Sabrina seems as a pretty reasonable girl, but when Justin Bieber was a hit, we were all still pre pubescent; it’s very possible that she threw a tantrum and left for a few minutes. I’m guessing the other story was false because her parent’s would probably take her and her sibling with them.

Bagas 

I knew Bagas very well; he loves to talk  about his past experiences with me and vice versa. Because of that I knew his love for boxing is the true story while the drum one is false.

Vivi

Vivi’s story about her inability to eat noodles seems to farfetched; one portion is never too much. While her hiking story seems more inspiring and coming from a real experience.

My own story.

The first story, where I have my first supernatural experienced, was true. I was never a believer of the supernatural, but in that moment, I can’t find a logical explanation on why I can hear someone knocking back from inside the drawer. 

The second story was false. I never encountered any rabid dog. However, I did find a snake carcass when I jog in Bogor.

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Raja:

First Story

1. It’s a unique story , just imagine we travel to another country without any cloths and that’s

terrible. But for me it’s okay as long as we still have money and credit card. From diva story I

assume that it’s false because I believe that the officer from the flight company is able to find

it. Based on my experience anyway.

2. It’s a heroic story but somehow I don’t believe with the hanif story so I assume it’s false,

because I think that maybe someone helps you.

3. It’s an extraordinary story, Going to a restaurant with specific dress code it’s like well-planned.

I believe it is true.

4. Common story but It’s funny because until now I never hear that Nicho can swim or not so it’s

definitely true.

5. It’s very amazing you know, It is the first time I hear that there is someone that hate to watch a

movie. But one day I ever heard that Pramudyo was going to a teacher with his friend to

watch movie but I don’t know then. So I assume it’s true because for me pramudyo is a

unique person.

6. It is a true story about me anyway. So just a moment after we arrived at that school the

security bring us to the principal office, then about the newspaper It’s also true and the fact is

that until now none of my family know about this war. Lucky me right…

7. Ricky oh Ricky is that the way you scare someone. But I see that you are like funny person, IT

IS FUNNY NOT SCARY. SO I BELIEVE IT IS FALSE.

8. Going to Japan alone is an amazing story because you can test yourself while maybe in the

future you have the opportunity to live or study abroad but I believe that it is false because

Sabrina stay with her brother not alone.

9. Dear bagas. I have an important message for you, just be yourself you know if someone loves

you , you don’t have to change yourself, because what ever happened she should always love

you. But I think it’s true story

10. It’s a thriller story, going to mountain with those conditions, I think it’s false you know, from the

way you tell the story it’s very real

Second Story

1. I think it is true because I ever saw hanif ate a chicken in the orientation program.

2. I actually laugh when kabik said that she was flying. But somehow I don’t believe that kabik is

kind of person that is very easy to fly , I would say false

3. I don’t believe that pramudyo lose so many matches, maybe it’s just a few, so I believe false

4. Rabbit dog is impossible but I believe with those kind of things, maybe it is true.

5. I have the same person that hate to eat noodles so I think vivi is the one of them. It’s true let’s

say.

6. It’s true but in some way it is false because actually it was happened at night not in the

morning and anyway my mother laughed in front of the door and then I realised and woke up

in the bathroom.

7. It’s like kid habbits, the Justin Bieber addicts, I ever being someone like Sabrina , so I think it’s

true because we are same.

8. Bagas never told me that he’s a drummer, that’s why it is false, the way you told the story it’s

like you are nervous hahahah.

9. It think it is true, because I ever see someone that’s same with diva, anyway I will try to prove

it soon.

10. It’s true you know because nicho told me that he was trying to finish the assignment in the

toilet and he did it later.

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Diva:

For Hanif’s stories, I think that his second story is the truth one. The reason why is because the first story is too basic and he used it as a distraction so that we would think that the first one is the truth one since it is very simple. For Kabik’s stories, I think the truth one is also the second story. It is not because I think she couldn’t afford a party at a five star hotel but it is because I think that the story is way too simple for it to be truth, same as my thought on Hanif’s story. For Nicho’s stories, I think the truth one is also the second story, since his voice has an echo effect in the recording which made me convince that he was in the bathroom just as what he stated. For Pramudyo’s stories, I think that the truth one is the first one. When he was telling us about his hatred towards movies he sounded really genuine. Same goes for Raja, I also think his story that is the truth one is the second one because he sounded really genuine when he was telling the second one, the first one is believable but it sounded a bit too made up for me. Ricky’s stories got me the most confused. I honestly couldn’t tell which one was the truth one, but I’m going to say that the truth one is the second one because he made it very believable. For Sabrina’s stories, funny enough she actually told me the first story during High School. That’s when I know the second one is instantly fake since I have already heard the first one. Bagas’s stories were also really hard to guess which one is fake and which one is the truth one but I’m going to go with the first one as the truth.  Lastly, for Vivi. I think that her second story is the truth one because she sounded really assertive when she was telling the story.

For my stories the fake one is the first one, but it is actually not a hundred percent a lie. It actually happened but my suitcase came back a day later. 

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Vivi:

1. My guess on each of my friend's stories

Kabik = story 1: false, story 2: true

Sabrina = story1: false, story2: true

Diva= story 1:true, story 2:false

Hanif = story 2:false, story 1: true

Ricky = story 1:true, story 2:false

Pram= story1: false, story 2: true

Raja= story 1: true, story 2: false

Nicho= story 1: true, story 2: false

Bagas= story 1: false, story 2: true

2. Answers of my own stories:

My first story is actually false. I've never climb any mountain in my life (yet). My second story is very true. I don't like instant noodles, because it makes my stomach gassy. 

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Hanif:

First Story

1.       True. I have heard many stories about people losing their luggage in the airport

2.       True (my own story)

3.       True because the information was so detailed

4.       False, im pretty sure that nicho is a guy who is capable of swimming

5.       False, I understand people that hate a certain genre, but not people that dislike movies in general

6.       False, the teacher arrived on schedule and that seems impossible

7.       True, I have also experienced it in my school

8.       False, when a family member passed away, usually the whole family will check this family member unless something important is going on

9.       True, doing sports especially fighting sport usually changes someone’s mentality

10.   True, hiking is an enjoyable thing for some people and its normal for people to do it

Second Story

1.       False (My story)

2.       False, looks like the experience was a bit exaggerated

3.       True, I have experienced it myself and learned a lot

4.       True, I would have done the same thing and it is common for rabbits to hide in  bushes

5.       True, people might have allergies for certain food

6.       True, sleep walking is normal and maybe it is just his reflexes to start showering

7.       False, I do not think that people will go that far

8.       False, I do not know about people giving their position away in a band

9.       False, that seems too scary

10.   True, I think he is talking about the EWS task

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This is only for KABIK, VIVI, SABRINA, DIVA, HANIF,  RYAN, RICKY, RAIHAN N., PRAMUDYO, RAJA, BAGAS and NICHO.

However, if you didn't log-in to the EWS class with your fingerprint in U203 on Friday morning before you went to your Introduction to Business Class then ignore this because it means you were ABSENT for EWS session 5.

If you did log-in to the EWS class with your fingerprint in U203 on Friday morning before Introduction to Business, but you don't do this task, I will cancel your 'attendance' and mark you ABSENT.
 

Ask questions about Task 1 in the Temporary Friday Group if you want to. But be sure to send your answers to me personally (not to the group).




Ask in the Temporary Friday Group if you have any questions. Be sure to send your voice notes to me personally (not to the group).

Dilemmas ~ FAMILY FEUD

There is a long-standing feud in your family about land and money. Your parents have not talked to your grandparents for ten years and have forbidden you from having anything to do with them... 

Scenario 1

You get a letter from your grandparents asking you to contact them and help with reconciliation.

What do you do? 

Scenario 2

You get a letter from your grandparents asking you to contact them about inheriting the disputed land and money.

What do you do? 

Scenario 3

You get a letter from your grandfather telling you that your grandmother – with whom you used to be very close – is very ill.

What do you do? 

Four songs No. 7

Fiona Apple

"Sleep To Dream"

I tell you how I feel

But you don't care

I say tell me the truth

But you don't dare

You say love is a hell

You cannot bear

And I say gimme mine

Back and then go there

For all I care

I got my feet

On the ground

And I don't go to

Sleep to dream

You got your head

In the clouds

And you're not at

All what you seem

This mind, this body

And this voice cannot be

Stifled by your deviant ways

So don't forget what I told you

Don't come around

I got my own hell to raise

I have never been

So insulted in all my life

I could swallow the seas

To wash down all this pride

First you run like a fool

Just to be at my side

And now you run like a fool

But you just run to hide

And I can't abide

I got my feet

On the ground

And I don't go

To sleep to dream

You got your head

In the clouds and

You're not at all

What you seem

This mind, this body

And this voice cannot be

Stifled by your deviant ways

So don't forget what I told you

Don't come around

I got my own hell to raise

Don't make it a big deal

Don't be so sensitive

We're not playing

A game anymore

You don't have

To be so defensive

Don't you plead me your case

Don't bother to explain

Don't even show me your face

'Cause it's a crying shame

Just go back to the rock

From under which you came

Take the sorrow you gave

And all the stakes you claim

And don't forget the blame

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RUN-DMC

"Walk This Way"

Now there's a backseat/lover

That's always under/cover

And I talk til my daddy say

Said you ain't seen/nuthin

Til you're down on her/muffin

And there's sure to be a change in ways

Now there's a cheer/leader

That's a real big/pleaser

As far as I can remi/nisce

But the best thing/love it

Was her sister and her/cousin

And it started with a little kiss, like this

She starts/swingin

With the boys in/tune

And her feet just fly up in the air

Singin hey diddle diddle with a kitty in the middle

And they swingin like it just don't care

So I took a big/chance

At the high school/dance

With a lady who was ready to play

It wasn't me she was/foolin

Cause she knew what was she was/doin

when she told me how to walk this way

[Chorus: Run-D.M.C. and Aerosmith]

She told me to

Walk this way!

Talk this way!

[repeat 2X]

[repeat all 2X]

Well just gimme a kiss/some head!

Oooh, a-like this!

[Run-D.M.C.]

School girl/sleazy

With a/classy kind of sassy

Little skirt hangin way up her knee

It was three young ladies

In the school gym/locker

And they find they were lookin D

I was high school/loser

Never made it with a/lady

Til a boy told me somethin I missed

That my next door/neighbor

had a daughter/had a favor

And I gave the girl just a little kiss, like this

[Aerosmith]

She starts swingin with the boys in the school

with her feet flyin up in the air

Singing hey diddle diddle with a kitty in the middle

I was swingin like I didn't care

So I took a big chance at the high school dance

With a miss who was ready to play

Wasn't me she was foolin cause she knew what she was doin

when she told me how to walk this way

[Chorus]

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The Waifs 

"London Still"

I wonder if you can pick up

My accent on the phone

When I call across the country

When I call across the world

I see you in my kitchen

I can picture you now

As you toast to your small town

And you drink the happy hour

I'm in London still

I'm in London still

I'm in London still

I took the tube over to Camden

To wander around

I bought some funky records

With that old motown sound

And I miss you like my left arm

That's been lost in a war

Today I dream of home and not of London anymore

I'm in London still

I'm in London still

Yeah I'm in London still

You know it's ok

I'm kinda happy here for now

I think I've finally grown up

And got myself a love of now

If I ever come home and I, I think I will

I hope you're gonna want to hang

At my place on Sundays still

Oh yeah I hope you will

'Cause I'm in London still

You know we got it sorted

We really got it down

To a fine art on Sunday

In our sleepy Sunday town

I wonder what I'm missing

I think of songs I've never heard

I'm dreaming of your voices

And I'm dreaming of your herb

I'm in London still

I'm in London still

I'm in London still

Oh I'm in London still

La la la la London still

I'm in London...

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The Innocence Mission

"Bright As Yellow"

And you live your life with your arms stretched out.

Eye to eye when speaking.

Enter rooms with great joy shouts,

happy to be meeting.

And bright,

bright,

bright, bright as yellow,

warm as yellow.

And I do not want to be a rose.

I do not wish to be pale pink,

but flower scarlet, flower gold.

And have no thorns to distance me,

but be bright,

bright,

bright, bright as yellow,

warm as yellow.

Even if I'm shouting, even if I'm shouting here

inside.

Even if I'm shouting, do you see that I'm wanting,

that I want to be so so

bright,

bright,

bright, bright as yellow,

warm as yellow.

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Features of academic writing

Academic writing in English is linear, which means it has one central point or theme with every part contributing to the main line of argument, without digressions or repetitions. Its objective is to inform rather than entertain. As well as this it is in the standard written form of the language.There are eight main features of academic writing that are often discussed. Academic writing is to some extent: complex, formal, objective, explicit, hedged, and responsible. It uses language precisely and accurately.

Complexity

Written language is relatively more complex than spoken language. Written language has longer words, it is lexically more dense and it has a more varied vocabulary. It uses more noun-based phrases than verb-based phrases. Written texts are shorter and the language has more grammatical complexity, including more subordinate clauses and more passives. More.

Formality

Academic writing is relatively formal. In general this means that in an essay you should avoid colloquial words and expressions. More.

Precision

In academic writing, facts and figures are given precisely. More.

Objectivity

Written language is in general objective rather than personal. It therefore has fewer words that refer to the writer or the reader. This means that the main emphasis should be on the information that you want to give and the arguments you want to make, rather than you. For that reason,  academic writing tends to use nouns (and adjectives), rather than verbs (and adverbs). More.

Explicitness

Academic writing is explicit about the relationships int he text. Furthermore, it is the responsibility of the writer in English to make it clear to the reader how the various parts of the text are related. These connections can be made explicit by the use of different signalling words. More.

Accuracy

Academic writing uses vocabulary accurately. Most subjects have words with narrow specific meanings. Linguistics distinguishes clearly between "phonetics" and "phonemics"; general English does not. More.

Hedging

In any kind of academic writing you do, it is necessary to make decisions about your stance on a particular subject, or the strength of the claims you are making. Different subjects prefer to do this in different ways.  A technique common in certain kinds of academic writing is known by linguists as a ‘hedge’. More.

Responsibility

In academic writing you must be responsible for, and must be able to provide evidence and justification for, any claims you make. You are also responsible for demonstrating an understanding of any source texts you use. More.

Is it OK to sell love letters?

Singer Marsha Hunt sold her 1969 love letters from Mick Jagger at Sotherby's for close to £200,000. Was she right to do so?

Anne de Courcy and Philip Norman

Marsha Hunt performing on Top of the Pops in 1970.

Anne de Courcy, writer, journalist and critic

American singer Marsha Hunt has sold the love letters written to her by Mick Jagger in 1969. They were the centrepiece of an English literature and history sale at Sotheby's – which also included Rolling Stones memorabilia. They fetched £187,250 – considerably more than the guide price of £70,000-£100,000. Hunt, then the "face" of the West End production of Hair, had an affair with Jagger at a time when his relationship with Marianne Faithfull was apparently under strain. Today Hunt is living in France, and has declared "I'm broke", adding that the reason she was selling the letters was because she had been unable to pay her bills. But should one ever sell love letters?

Letters – maybe. But love letters? No. Shortage of money is a powerful incentive, and the knowledge that you are sitting on something so potentially lucrative must be a huge temptation. Put it – or rather them – on the market and your troubles are over, at least for the time being. But love, whether past or present, is not only a private matter; more importantly, it is between two people – both of whom have the right to keep private feelings private. Hunt may feel happy about revealing the intimacies of past passion, but what about Jagger? Even someone who spends much of his life on a stage may not want his deepest feelings publicly displayed and for sale.


Philip Norman, novelist, biographer and journalist

Even acknowledging your general principle (which I don't), this is a very special case. Hunt began her affair with Jagger in 1969, before the era of scurrilous tabloids and fortunes to be made from kiss-and-tell. His letters to her were written in New South Wales, Australia, where he was starring in a biopic of the 19th-century outlaw Ned Kelly. Hunt did not cause his separation from Marianne Faithfull; it was Faithfull's descent into a spiral of heroin use, which ultimately almost killed her. By Hunt's account – never disputed by Jagger – he then told her he wanted to have a child with her. But when a baby daughter, Karis, was born in 1970, he denied paternity. It was eight years before a (US) court ordered him to pay proper child support. And never once did Hunt threaten to sell her story to the tabloids; in fact, she behaved with amazing dignity and restraint throughout. Her take from the Sotheby's sale is still a pittance compared with what modern ex-mistresses wring from megastars.

Anyway, these letters were hardly testaments of grand passion but chit-chat from the film set and about events such as the Isle of Wight pop festival and the moon landing. If they had been at all explosive, you can bet Jagger would have initiated legal moves to stop Hunt selling them (which he could, since they remain his copyright.) Far more revealing would have been his letters to his girlfriend Chrissie Shrimpton, whom he'd dumped for Faithfull. Years later, a (false) rumour reached him that Shrimpton intended to sell a cache of the letters. A legal sledgehammer came into play, and in terror she sent the whole lot back to him.

ADC: Clearly Hunt behaved very well over the affair, and the baby. But for me that doesn't alter the general principle (though I do wonder why if, as you say, these letters are simply "chit chat", they are called love letters) that everyone is entitled to privacy in their private lives. And that even if one of you doesn't mind revealing your half of an affair, the other half might.

Despite the let-it-all-hang-out philosophy today, I still believe this desire for privacy is a general human feeling – look at the outraged squalls of celebrities who have been outed in some amatory misdoing or other. And, look, we've just had the biggest-ever privacy debate in the shape of the Leveson inquiry. And it wasn't the delicacy and modest restraint of the press that was complained of by Hugh Grant et al.

In my biographies, I've often had to consider the question of highly personal letters – usually love letters. Even when the two people concerned have died, sons, daughters, brothers or sisters are often extraordinarily sensitive about the exposure of aspects of the subjects' lives.

Of course letters are the property of anyone they're sent to. But there's also very much a sense of "what I write is mine". Not for nothing is that enshrined in British law in the form of copyright.

PN: They were billed as "love letters", of course, to jack up the price at auction. Hunt later called them "laughing, sad, pensive, deep, observant and touching" but I'd describe them more as "like letters", for they do reveal the softer side of Mick. A specially sweet and supportive one reached Hunt to wish her luck when she played at the Isle of Wight pop festival. An exploding prop pistol had injured his right hand, so he wrote with his left.

Certainly, we all have a right to privacy – and most of us have interrupted enjoyment of it. I, for one, do not expect any of my former girlfriends ever to pitch up at Sotheby's with the gruesomely embarrassing love letters I wrote them. In one, I recall, some paroxysm of forgotten passion made me say I felt like "a leper". Unfortunately, that particular inamorata had a touch of word blindness. "Why did you say you felt like a leopard?" she asked me when we next met.

But we have to admit that celebrities – as F Scott Fitzgerald said of the rich – "are different from you and me". Some, indeed – Mick Jagger certainly among them – will end up in the history books, the quarry of historical biographers such as you, Anne. Is it only the death of the subject and all his family that legitimises publication of their intimate correspondence? Should there be a 50-year rule, as for classified state documents? And might there not be a great-great-great-nephew somewhere who still gets upset?

Anyway: get real. If we didn't want to give pain, why did we become writers?

ADC: Philip, am just wondering if you meant "uninterrupted" not "interrupted" in first line of your second par? I think you're arguing about the particular, Hunt and the "like letters" – as I must now learn to call them – while I'm talking of the general principle: whatever the circumstances, is it right to sell love letters while the writer is still alive?

And for me, I'm afraid it's still a clear, committed and instinctive "no". I didn't even have to think when asked that question.

I don't want to sound too heavy, but for me love is the most precious and powerful of the emotions, and getting rid of the words that express that bond, for cash, has something wrong about it – in a sense, it's almost like selling yourself. Even if the person concerned will one day be a historical character, doing so is still a kind of car-boot sale of the emotions.

I'm also sure that one reason why most of us would hate any love letter we wrote to be made public is not just the revelation of our most secret emotions and fantasies but, as you say, sheer embarrassment – think of the squirm-making language used by Edward VIII to Wallis Simpson. It beats "leper" any time – though I shall always think of you as a leopard.

PN: Yes, I meant "interrupted". How can I tax that old inamorata with word blindness? I have no problem with what you say about love. But, as the Everly Brothers sang, it's "so sad to watch good love go bad".

You can be pretty sure that when love letters go under the auctioneer's hammer, love on both sides has long since gone well and truly stinko. There is unlikely to be a still-bleeding heart to be pierced by arguments over the reserve price. Rather than "selling herself" by wringing this small pension payment from a multimillionaire rock star, Hunt may well feel that she "sold" herself in the first instance – and a sight too cheaply at that.

On a general point, I only said my squirm-making love letters were unworthy to enter the public domain. That certainly wasn't true of Edward VIII's to Wallis Simpson, which forensically expose the foibles of this fitting ancestor of Prince Charles. And in the even more squirm-making letters of Edith Thompson to her young lover Frederick Bywaters (written in mock-Irish brogue) are the makings of a famous 1920s murder and miscarriage of justice.

I like the idea of a car-boot sale of the emotions. Isn't it what we journalists do every day? Vengefulness may turn some spurned women into mercenary old boots. But leave Marsha Hunt out of that.

Taken from HERE.

Idioms #4 ~ The Going Dutch Scandal!

Prima wanted to blow the lid off the IUP 2018 secret scandal: all the IUP men had conspired together and decided to always go Dutch if they took any IUP women out for dinner (even if Rugimin did drop the ball once and treated his date by paying her share too; he thought he was just doing Rugiyem a good turn, and she certainly didn't need him to jump through hoops to prove himself to her). More than once, there were IUP women who jumped out of their skin when they suddenly realized their purses were empty with the Gadjah Wong waiter hovering expectantly having placed the exorbitant bill on the table. And there were some who felt a bit wet behind the ears about this new 21st century 'Men's Rights' dating protocol. There seemed to be a few of these men who thought allowing their date to pop out sheepishly to get cash from the ATM while he waited for her at the restaurant would pour oil on the troubled waters; little did they know, any chance of romance had bitten the dust. He might have thought he'd taken a good crack at wooing her heart, but she'd almost certainly then go into Dr Jekyll and Mrs Hyde mode: all smiles and see-you-next-times as they got into their taxis outside the restaurant, but she'd be cutting up photos of him into tiny bits with a scissors a little while later back at her boarding house. Prima wanted the world to know about all this. Oh well, I gave myself eight minutes to write this gripping stuff for you, ladies and gentlemen, and it's only taken me six; so I have made good time.

To blow the lid off something
A. to use force or violence to get something done
B. to reveal a secret or expose a scandalous situation
C. to accidentally stumble across something hidden or secret
D. to use explosives to open an oyster sauce bottle

To pour oil on troubled waters
A. to add pollution to a place that is already polluted
B. to cause a kitchen fire by throwing water on a flaming frying pan
C. to make a difficult situation worse or stir up a dispute between people
D. to try to calm a difficult situation or settle a dispute

To eat your own liver
A. to take control without authority
B. to eat as if incredibly hungry
C. to be angry and humiliated
D. to combine hobbies: self-surgery with cookery

To jump through hoops
A. to get past obstacles and challenges
B. to make excuses no one believes
C. to escape from an embarrassing
situation
D. to wear fried squid like an ankle chain

To have Dutch courage
A. to be pompous and bossy with hotel or restaurant staff
B. to pretend to be brave, to keep calm despite feeling fear
C. to be well armed, or have military strength
D. to be brave or rude because you are drunk on alcohol

To take a crack at
A. to criticize someone harshly
B. to try to do something difficult
C. to find something hilarious
D. to break a biscuit in half

To do someone a good turn
A. to help someone out without asking for anything in return
B. to change your mind after being persuaded by someone
C. to urge someone to be a better person
D. to reduce the volume on a hi-fi playing bad music

To drop the ball
A. to accidentally reveal a secret
B. to tell someone some bad news
C. to let down a team effort
D. to search for a pen in a drawer

To be a Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
A. to have a dark side
B. to be two faced or insincere
C. to have different sets of friends
D. to have a confusing business card

To make good time
A. to hold a party for friends
B. to use your spare time wisely
C. to stay after work to finish a task
D. to make good progress on a journey or arrive early

To bite the dust
A. to fall on one’s face (look foolish)
B. to die or fail
C. to reluctantly agree to something
D. to wave to a stranger by accident

To be wet behind the ears
A. to be very inexperienced
B. to hide your sadness after hearing bad news
C. to be extremely nervous
D. to lick your own ears with an extraordinarily long tongue


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