Senin 19 Januari 2015, Berlokasi di BBC Pondok Gede JI. Raya Jati Makmur No.1, Pondok Gede, yang dihadiri oleh siswa internal maupun eksternal dari area pondok gede dan sekitarnya berjalan lancar, peserta merasa puas dan gembira telah menghadiri kegiatan yang diadakan di BBC Pondok Gede.

Kegiatan yang diadakan pada sabtu malam ini mengakat tema Wonderfull Indonesia, yaa.. Kegiatan English Night night kali ini ramai diikuti lebih dari 300 peserta yang berasal dari siswa internal BBC dan siswa dari SD, SMP, serta SMA sekitar lokasi BBC Pondok Gede. Para peserta tampak antusias saat kegiatan diadakan di BBC Pondok Gede. Kegiatan yang sudah ke-4 kalinya ini diadakan oleh BBC, dan kali ini menampilkan Singing Dancing Talent & BBC Awards Drama and Music.

Penasaran dengan kegiatan yang diadakan oleh BBC Pondok Gede? Segera datang langsung ke lokasi dan daftarkan diri kalian. Jangan lupa mampir ke website kami

Senin (13 Okt 14), Seperti yang telah admin janjikan melalui account facebook BBC - ETS, kali ini kami akan memberikan beberapa bahan lomba untuk latihan para peserta, agar peserta dapat menampilkan performa yang terbaik serta mekanisme dan ketentuan kegiatan BBC Actions 2014, yang mana para peserta dapat melihat, mendownload, dan mempelajarinya serta dengan mudah dapat memprediksi dan memiliki inovasi yang dapat memacu semangat dari peserta lainnya.

kita mulai dari mekanisme dan ketentuan dari kegiatan BBC Action 2014 dalam lomba "GERAK JALAN CERDAS DAN KREATIF”, adalah sebagai berikut :

1. Kategori
1. SD kelas 4 s/d 6
2. SMP
3. SMA/K
2. Jumlah Peserta
1. Peserta harus berjumlah 7 orang untuk 1 group, yang terdiri dari 1 orang komandan regu, dan 6 orang anggota regu.
3. Daftar Ulang
1. Setiap regu mendaftarkan ulang di panitia untuk mengambil nomer dada dimulai dari pukul 08.00 wib
4. Kriteria Penilaian
1. Kekompakan
2. Variasi Gerakan
3. Penampilan
4. Kreatifitas
5. English Competence
6. Energik dan Semangat
7. Pengetahuan Umum
5. Penjelasan Lomba Gerak Jalan Kreatif
1. Jarak tempuh untuk setiap group adalah sekitar 1,5 km (SD), dan 2 KM (SMP/SMA).
2. Setiap group melewati rute yang sudah ditentukan panitia.
3. Disetiap rute yang dilewati peserta, peserta akan berhenti di pos - pos yang sudah disiapkan.
4. Disetiap pos, peserta akan mendapatkan instruksi - instruksi untuk dijalani dengan durasi waktu ± 3-5 menit.
6. Pembagian Pos dan Instruksi yang diberikan :
1. Pos Sport and Art :
1. Pos 1 : Kreatifitas formasi baris-berbaris instruksi dalam bahasa Inggris.

1. Pos 2 : Group Performance, dalam hal ini setiap group menampilkan kreasi tari modern dengan musik pengiring yang ditentukan oleh panitia, untuk lagunya dapat didownload di link berikut, atau bisa bisa cek video berikut ( music 1 - Music 2 - Music 3 ).

1. Pos 3 : Yel - yel kreatif, dimana setiap group menampilkan yel - yel group mereka.
1. Pos Education :
1. Pos 4 : Quicky Maky Quiz; setiap regu diminta untuk menyelesaikan soal-soal mengenai hal-hal yang bersifat pengetahuan umum berupa pertanyaan yang diberikan dalam bahasa inggris. Pertanyaan- pertanyaan dapat berupa tentang sejarah, matematika, IPS, IPA, dsb. Contoh : How many provinces are there in Indonesia?
2. Pos 5 : Story telling; setiap regu menampilkan sebuah cerita melalui gambar yang telah dipelajari sebelumnya. Cerita juga dapat ditampilkan dalam bentuk drama ( Gambar untuk cerita / drama disediakan panitia, dapat dilihat dan di download disini Versi SD - Versi SMP - Versi SMA )

1. Pos 6 : Film Dubbing; setiap regu diminta untuk mendubbing dialog dari sebuah film yang sebelumnya telah dipelajari. (Film disediakan oleh panitia, dapat dilihat dan di download langsung dari website ini versi SD - SMP - SMA)

Minggu (28/09/14), Pendidikan anak usia dini merupakan pembentukan mental dan karakter semasa kecil sebelum masuk sekolah pada tingkat pertama di Sekolah Dasar. Inilah yang disebut sebagai masa emas pada si anak tersebut. Melalui pendidikan prasekolah, selain mental, seorang anak dipersiapkan secara matang untuk bersaing, mempunyai keterampilan dan menumbuhkan kreatifitas berfikir dan bertindak tersendiri, menjadi seorang pemimpin yang handal, dan berani tampil di tengah-tengah masyarakat. Untuk membantu mengembangkan dan menyalurkan bakat serta kreatifitasanak sejak dini dan mendukung program pemerintah dalam hal mencerdaskan bangsa, maka BBC Group sebagai lembaga Pendidikan dalam bidang Bahasa Inggris dan Bimbingan belajar bermaksud mengadakan ”Pop Up Card Creativity Competition”, sekaligus memperingati HUT Kemerdekaan RI ke 69 Serta Open House BBC Mekarsari. Acara tersebut diatas diselenggarakan dengan untuk siswa/i. Taman Kanak-Kanak (TK) dan Sekolah Dasar (SD). Semoga dengan kegiatan akan memberikan manfaat dalam rangka ingin ikut berperan serta dalam mencerdaskan anak bangsa dan ikut serta dalam mencetak generasi penerus bangsa yang kreatif dan berkualitas demi kemajuan bangsa Indonesia.

Diadakannya lomba ini adalah merupakan kegiatan yang ditunjukan untuk anak-anak Taman Kanak-Kanak (TK) dan anak-anak Sekolah Dasar (SD) di luar rumah atau di sekolah. Sedangkan tujuannya yakni :

• Mengembangkan kreatifitas, imajinasi anak serta menyalurkan bakat.
• Melatih keselarasan motorik, penguatan percaya diri, pengembangan afeksi, dan komunikasi aktif.
• Membentuk moral anak, daya pikir anak (kognitif), dan keterampilan anak (psikomotorik).
• Melatih kemandirian dan tanggung jawab dalam mengerjakan sesuatu.

Acara yang diadakan pada akhir minggu jam 08.00 - selesai di BBC Mekarsari ini, mewajibkan siswa mulai dari kelas kindergarten (TK), Children (SD kelas 1-3) sampai Children (SD kelas 4-6) untuk ikut serta dalam meramaikan acara, serta panitia tidak menutup pendaftaran bagi siswa ekternal untuk mengikuti kegiatan di cabang BBC mekarsari dalam pembukaan perdananya.

Serta tidak lupa kita sebutkan para pemenang dari tingkat SD kelas 4, 5 dan 6:

• Grace Aleta (Kelas 5) Juara 1
• Friska (Kelas 6 SD 06 Mekarsari) Juara 2
• Yahra A. (Kelas 6 SD 06 Mekarsari) Juara 3

Dan berikut adalah para pemenang lomba dari tingkat PAUD/TK dan tingkat SD kelas 1, 2 dan 3 :

Oh iya untuk kalian yang penasaran dimana sih lokasi BBC Mekarsari ini, kalian bisa cek di halaman Hubungi kami disini..

Rabu (08 Okt 14), Guys, Generasi muda adalah harapan serta aset bangsa yang sangat berharga. Mereka harus dipersiapkan dan dibekali sejak dini dengan berbagai kemampuan / kompetensi yang baik agar mereka kelak mampu mandiri dan siap bersaing dalam kehidupan yang semakin kompetitif. Untuk memberi pembekalan dan pembinaan bagi mereka diperlukan kerjasama yang senergis antara lembaga formal dan non formal sehingga mereka diharapkan bisa menjadi generasi penerus bangsa yang memiliki kemampuan berkualitas yang dibutuhkan untuk memajukan bangsa ini.

Dalam rangka mengimplementasikan program kerja BBC Group tahun 2014 sekaligus memperingati Hari Pahlawan, maka kami bermaksud mengadakan kegiatan LOMBA GERAK JALAN CERDAS DAN KREATIF yang akan diikuti oleh siswa sekolah dasar dan menengah. Kegiatan ini sekaligus mengintegrasikan fungsi dan tanggung jawab BBC Group sebagai lembaga pendidikan dan pelatihan dalam bentuk Corporate Social Responsibility ( CSR ). Disamping kegiatan lomba gerak jalan cerdas kreatif, ada beberapa kegiatan non lomba yang akan kami laksanakan yang merupakan gabungan kegiatan dalam bidang seni, olah raga dan pendidikan yang dikemas dalam satu paket kegiatan sport & edutainment, antara lain :

1. Perlombaan
1. Lomba Gerak Jalan Cerdas Kreatif
2. Non Perlombaan
1. Senam Masal Kreatif
2. English Games
3. Singing
4. Dancing
5. Drama
6. Brain Gym
7. and more...

Kegiatan kali ini bertajuk “BBC ACTIONS 2014” (art, education & sport) dengan mengambil tema “smart and creative generation.”. Kegiatan yang akan diadakan pada hari minggu, 23 November 2014 dan berlokasi di Wisata Taman Buah Mekarsari mewajibkan siswa internal BBC-ETS dan Bimbel Calculus ini serta memberikan kesempatan kepada siswa eksternal ( sekolah dan masyarakat sekitar lokasi cabang ), yang mana melingkupi wilayah JABODETABEK + KARAWANG, dan dari berbagai jenjang pendidikan, baik dari pendidikan formal maupun nonformal mulai dari SD, SMP dan SMA/K.

Kegiatan BBC Actions 2014 ini diselenggarakan dengan tujuan untuk :

1. Mengintegrasikan fungsi dan tanggung jawab lembaga pendidikan dan pelatihan dalam bentuk Corporate Social Responsibility ( CSR ).
   
2. Menyediakan wahana guna memacu dan mengembangkan kreativitas peserta didik.
   
3. Menyediakan wadah bagi para peserta didik untuk mengembangkan semangat dan motivasi untuk meraih prestasi.
   
4. Mengembangkan bakat dan minat peserta didik.
   
5. Membangun citra positif terhadap lembaga.
   

Catat Infomasi Pendaftarannya:

Pendaftaran dapat dilakukan diseluruh Cabang BBC Group, setiap hari kerja (Senin s/d Jum'at) Jam 09.00 s/d 18.00.

Bingung dimana lokasi cabangnya? berikut linknya Lokasi Cabang BBC

Biaya peserta yang mengikuti Lomba Gerak Jalan Cerdas Kreatif : Rp. 350.000,-/Group ( 1 Grup terdiri dari 7 orang ) dansudah termasuk :

1. Pendaftaran
   
2. Tiket masuk Taman Buah Mekarsari
   
3. Makan Siang
   

Pendaftaran di tutup tanggal 15 November 2014

*Jika kamu lihat poster ini, pastikan nama kamu dan teman groupmu sudah terdaftar..!!

No.	English Proverbs	Indonesian Proverbs
1.	Still water runs deep.	Air tenang menghanyutkan.
2.	Where there is a will, there is a way.	Dimana ada kemauan, di situ ada jalan.
3.	Practice makes perfect.	Alah bisa karena biasa.
4.	Give him an inch and he will take a yard.	Dikasih hati, minta jantung.
5.	No pain no gain.	Berakit-rakit ke hulu, berenang-renang ke tepian. Bersakit-sakit dahulu bersenang-senang kemudian.
6.	When in Rome, do as the Romans do.	Di mana bumi dipijak di situ langit di junjung.
7.	A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.	Lebih baik satu burung di tangan daripada sepuluh burung di pohon.
8.	Look before you leap.	Pikir dahulu pendapatan, sesal kemudian tidak berguna.
9.	Empty vessels make the most noise.	Tong kosong nyaring bunyinya.
10.	Persevere and never fear.	Rajin pangkal pandai.
11.	A good marksman may miss.	Sepandai-pandai tupai meloncat, akhirnya jatuh juga.
12.	Rub salt into the wound.	Sudah jatuh, tertimpa tangga pula.
13.	A bad workman blames his tools.	Buruk rupa cermin dibelah.
14.	United we stand, divided we fall.	Bersatu kita teguh, bercerai kita runtuh.
15.	It’s no use crying over spilt milk.	Nasi sudah menjadi bubur.
16.	The grass is always greener on the other side.	Rumput tetangga selalu lebih hijau.
17.	Killing two birds with one stone.	Sekali berenang, dua tiga pulau terlampaui.
18.	Like father like son.	Buah jatuh tidak jauh dari pohonnya.
19.	What goes around, comes around.	Setiap perbuatan akan kembali ke diri sendiri.
20.	Dancing with elephants.	Bagai telur di ujung tanduk.

1. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes. Be confident. People can only correct your mistakes when they hear you make them.
2. Practice every day. Make yourself a study plan. Decide how much time a week you are going to spend studying and stick to it. Establish a routine.
3. 
   Practice the 4 core skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening. They all need to be worked on for you to improve.
4. Keep a notebook of new words you learn. Use them in sentences and try to say them at least 3 times when you speak.
5. Use your body clock. If you’re not a morning person, study in the afternoon.
6. You will find words easier to remember if you try to remember an example sentence using that word rather the word on its own.
7. Give yourself a long term goal. Focus on working towards it.
8. Give yourself short term goals too and reward yourself when you achieve each one.
9. Create an atmosphere in which you want to learn, not because you have to. You’ll learn more when you’re learning because you want to.
10. Get help! If you don’t understand something you’ve got to ask someone. Ask your teacher, classmates or friends for help.
11. Review! Review! Review! Make sure that you take the time to review things you have studied in the past.
12. It’s not a good idea to study on your own for more than 30 minutes at a time. Take regular breaks, get some fresh air and stretch your legs.
13. Don’t be in such a hurry to move up a level. Concentrate on the level you are at now.
14. Don’t translate into English from your own language. Think in English to improve your fluency. Talk to yourself…but not on the bus otherwise people will think you have gone crazy!
15. Use English whenever you can. It’s as simple as that!

Source: http://www.ecenglish.com/101-ways-to-learn-english

Another fall has rushed summer from the scene, and for teachers that means one thing: school.

Teachers have a lot of work to do to be ready before their students return to class. Make sure you are not missing anything with this back to school checklist.

Busy Teacher’s Top 10: Back to School Checklist

· 1

Lessons plans are the most important element to a successful start to the school year. As a teacher, you want to feel organized and in control from the first day of class. If you have been teaching one year or twenty, it is valuable to ✔ go through your teaching notes from last year and perhaps even earlier. Hopefully, as you went through the year, you marked which activities were successful with your students and which ones you planned to avoid in the future. Now is the time to look at these notes, not the day before you are getting ready to teach that lesson. If you take the time out now, you can focus more of your time and attention on the lessons which need more while being reassured that you have a firm handle on your other lessons.

· 2

If you are a first year teacher, you may have a little more work to do than someone with prior years to fall back on. If this is the case, ✔do a rough plan of your entire school year and all the subjects you will teach. If you have nine months of class and twelve chapters to cover in grammar, you will have to cover each chapter in approximately three weeks. You should make a plan for each of your subjects so you know exactly how quickly you must cover the material. While you are planning your year, be sure to schedule in make-up days or even make-up weeks. This way when you get behind, as most teachers find is inevitable, you know you will have an opportunity to make up the material you missed. Scheduling these times before the year even begins will decrease your stress level and your students’, too because you will never feel the pressure that you will never catch up with your original schedule.

· 3

Having your own classroom can be both a blessing and a struggle. Teachers often find themselves frustrated because decorating is the last thing they have on their minds. ✔ Keep your classroom simple yet stimulating for your students. There are many bulletin board designs that you can simply tweak to last the whole school year. For example, turn one bulletin board into a tree, and each month change the item on the tree – apples in fall, icicles in winter, flower buds in spring and fruit near the end of the school year. You can have your students do craft projects to decorate the tree, and they will find pride in having their work displayed. Other options for a yearlong bulletin board would be a clothesline where you hang outstanding papers or a tic-tac-toe style grid in which, as a class, you write a summary of the important events each month in one box. By investing a little planning time before the year begins, you will save yourself much time later on when you have more pressing needs than bulletin board ideas.

· 4

It is not only your first day of school coming up, but your students’ first day, too. ESL students are often starting their studies in a new school and sometimes in a new city or even country. Therefore, ✔anything you can do to help your students feel welcome will make their first days at school more enjoyable. One option for welcoming them is to prepare some kind of welcome board outside your classroom door. This way, even before they step over the threshold, they feel like they are wanted. It can be much too easy for ESL students to feel like they are in the way or not as good as other students. By seeing their names in a welcoming design, they will know that you, their teacher, are happy to have them in class and want them to feel welcome. Your design can be as simple as using letter cutouts to spell “Welcome to ESL 101” and then cut outs of books with each student’s name written upon one. You can also make your welcome board more elaborate and tie into a yearlong theme or use a world map to show where your students come from (if your class is highly diverse). No matter what you do, your students will feel like they are part of an exciting new adventure when you take the time to welcome them with their names outside the classroom.

· 5

The final element of your classroom that will need preparation is ✔ your students’ desks. Hopefully you know what arrangement works best for you and your teaching style (desks moved together to make bigger tables rather than rows of disconnected seats, for example), so get this ready ahead of time. If you can, fill in your students’ names on a seating chart and put their names on the desks as well. Include pictures of your students in your seating chart if possible. This will help you learn your students’ names faster and aid any substitute teachers you may need throughout the year. Even if you cannot get pictures of your incoming students, be as prepared as you can be by making sure all the final touches are done in your classroom. Label cubbyholes, coat hooks and lockers with your students’ names as well. You will want your students to know they have a place in the classroom that they can call their own this year.

· 6

Now that you have your rough lesson plans for the year and have your classroom ready, you can ✔make a knowledgeable supply list for your students. Your list will depend greatly on what your school provides to students. Think about things they will need throughout the year: pencils, pens, crayons, notebooks, construction and other specialty papers, markers, tissues, an art smock, book covers, snacks at certain points in the year, etc. You know better than anyone else what your students will need, and the sooner you let them and their parents in on that knowledge, the better prepared your students will be for the school year. Keep in mind, many ESL students’ parents do not speak English, so keep your items simply worded and perhaps provide translations. Mailing this list out before school starts is ideal, but if you cannot do that, at least give it to your class the first week of school.

· 7

Believe it or not, even before school has started is the time to ✔ start thinking about field trips. Try to think what language centered, out of classroom experiences will be beneficial to your students. Will you be doing a unit on sports? If so, is there a stadium or an arena nearby that you can tour? Will you be studying local history? If so, look for some landmarks that played a significant role in your area’s past. Are you studying a particular piece of literature? Check to see if that piece has a screen version coming out or a stage version in production. Plan to take your students there for an intense listening challenge. With almost any unit you will be teaching, there is likely to be a location that you can take your students. When planning, think about what time of year you will be covering the unit and what your budget is for transportation, tickets and other pieces of your field trip. If you need approval for such an activity, get your request in now before your co-teachers can take more than their share of the budget.

· 8

Now is also the time to be thinking about ✔ guest speakers for your class. Again, think about the themes you will be covering throughout the year and try to identify people in the community that may be able to speak to those themes. Some visits take several weeks to arrange, and some organizations like the police and firefighters schedule all their school visits before school starts. It is never too early to make a call and get someone scheduled to come and speak to your class, and any time you can bring a native speaker in, especially someone who is not a language teacher, will be a benefit to your students.

· 9

Have you spent all summer in a bathing suit and sandals? It is time to ✔ get those professional clothes out of the closet and make sure they are free of wrinkles and in good condition now that school is just around the corner. You will be far too busy on the first day of school to worry about pressing a shirt, so do it now. Also, make sure you have other wardrobe necessities – ties, pantyhose, dress socks, shined shoes and jewelry – ready to grab in a hurry on the first day of school. You may want to treat yourself to a new suit or dress to wear on the first day to give you the feeling of professionalism and excitement as the new year begins.

· 10

Finally, keep in mind that your class will need time to get to know each other as well as you, so✔ plan some icebreakers on the first day. Depending on the language level of your students, you may want to keep the language and vocabulary very basic. Busyteacher.org has many resources for these types of activities. Check out Fabulous Ideas for the First Day of Class, 7 Back to School Games and Activities To Help Your Students Bond, and How to Break the Ice: 5 Creative Ways to Get Your Class Talking for a start.

The time has finally come and another year is about to begin. It will be over before you know it, but make sure you are ready at the start of the race before it is time to start running.

Source: http://busyteacher.org/6977-esl-teacher-top-10-back-to-school-checklist.html