English Assignment: Explanation

Frost Flower

It is as beautiful as it is rare.  A frost flower is created on autumn or early winter mornings when ice in extremely thin layers is pushed out from the stems of plants or occasionally wood. This extrusion creates wonderful patterns which curl and fold into gorgeous frozen petioles giving this phenomenon both its name and its appearance.

Conditions have to be just so for frost flowers to form.  Early winter and late autumn are the optimum time to come across them as although the weather conditions must be freezing it is vital that the ground is not.

As the temperature gets to freezing or below the sap in the stem of the plants will expand.  As it does so the outer layer of the stem comes under increasing pressure and microscopically thin cracks, known as linear fissures, begin to form.  These will finally give way under the pressure of the sap and split open.

Water is continuously being drawn up the plant’s stem while the ground remains unfrozen. It travels up the plants external structural axis (stem!) and reaches the split or splits.  As it does so, it oozes slowly out and it freezes.  Yet more water is coming behind it.

This new water reaches the cracks and it too freezes, pushing the previous slither of ice away from the stem.  In this manner the amazing ‘petals’ that you see in these pictures are formed.  

Incredibly, the frost flower effect can happen to wood even when it has been made in to a fence or a gate, as seen above.  In this case the water is extruded through the pores in the wood rather than cracks.  

The frost flower has a number of other names: you may know them as frost castles, ice castles, ice blossoms, or even the very scientific sounding crystallofolia. Yet the name is something of a misnomer:  frost is created by water vapor. Frost flower, on the other hand, are formed from liquid water.

If you come across one – be careful!  Rather than attempt to pick it up, if you have a camera or a phone with you take a picture instead.  Frost flowers are incredibly delicate and will more often than not shatter when touched. 

Not only that, as they are made of such thin sheets of ice, they will melt away as the sun rises higher in the sky.  You may get frost flowers again the following day, but unless the conditions are just right the chances are your first glimpse may be your last.

Source: http://www.kuriositas.com/2012/12/frost-flowers-natures-exquisite-ice.html?m=1

English Assignment: Gerund

Infinitives

1. I get to say whatever I want

2. I ask him to take that cake from the bakery

3. Her mother expected her to be a good person

4. She beg her mother to let her go to the party

5. You've already promised to take me for lunch

6. I offer her to buy my car

7. I forgot to do my homework

8. I deserve to have a better life

9. I agree to accompany my mother to that art exhibition

10. I choose to move out and start a new life

Gerund

1. My teacher hardly tolerate coming late to school

2. I enjoyed sleeping early

3. I resist eating unhealthy foods

4. My mom forbid using drugs

5. I dislike working out in the gym

6. I do mind letting you borrow my stationary

7. I practice shooting sometimes when I have nothing to do

8. I can't help noticing that mistake you made the other day

9. I deny stealing that eraser of yours 

10. I quit cheating on pop quizzes

English Assignment: Speech

Chairman of the Student Consul Election Speech

Hi everyone! Good morning and I hope you're all feeling great today. My name is Agastya Prabhaswara and today I'm standing here in front of all of you ought to tell about my vision, my missions, and also hopes for this beloved school of ours and also how capable I am for being a chairman for the student council.

First of all, I'd like to tell all of you briefly about myself. I'm a perfectionist and an organized person, probably some of you have already known that. I have a great time management, a great guts, and a calm state of mind when things get rough. Last but not least and most importantly is that I'm an incredibly awesome person. That's why I think that I'm the best candidate that would fit by Chairman of the Student Council title. 

And about my vision. My vision is to make our beloved school maximized its potential and be the best school the city ever has. But, all of that only can be a dream without all of you. Together we will prove that a dream could be reality with the power of working together. So, let's work together and believe in ourselves that we could make things that big. If you still don't believe in yourself, the least you can do is believe in me by voting me for this position.

Well, that's all from me. Thank you for your attention. Don't forget to vote me and have a great day.

English Assignment: Holiday

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                Well, I’m expected to write about my holiday, but I don’t even know where to start because my holiday is either boring or I didn’t do anything in my holiday. Or both. So, here it goes. My holiday started in December 24^th, that day I went to Trans Studio Mall. There, I watched 47 Ronin with my mom. Seriously guys, with my mom. I mean I’m almost 16 and still watching movies with my mom while a person my age

watches movies with their friends or even girlfriend and I’m here watching movies with my mom. That was just pathetic. Well, besides the fact that I’m a pathetic person, the movie was great (who cares if it’s related or not, I mean the fact that I’m pathetic and the movie was great). The story lines and the acting are great.

                Okay, the next day December 25^th, I went to TSM again, great. I know I go to TSM a lot as if I lived there and been there most of the time. But, this time I went with my old friends, so this time it wasn’t pathetic. This day I watched Laskar Pelangi 2: Edensor, a sequel of Laskar Pelangi and Sang Pemimpi. What I can say about this movie is it's just boring and a complete waste of time. So, don’t bother watching it. Believe me, just don’t.

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                Let’s just skip December 26^th and 27^th caused there’s nothing important going on there. And let’s also skip December 28^th and 29^th because that day I only went to TSM (again). Let’s also skip December 30^th because there’s nothing important going on (again).

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December 31^st, yeah New Year’s Eve everyone. It was an exciting day for me because of course the next day is 2014 (I have no idea why I was so excited either). So, my family and I were going to have a barbeque party. Well, it wasn’t really a party though because there were only me, my mom and dad, and also my sister. But, it was exciting. We stayed up late, watched some movies in the TV, and watched fireworks display on the middle of the night (though I’m not really interested in fireworks because I don’t get the point of fireworks. So it goes up to the sky, boom, and gone. Then what? I mean I admit at one point it was beautiful, but it just like a brief beauty. well let’s just not discuss about this. I think this is where my holiday ends. So, thanks for reading it, I guess.

English Assignment: If Conditional

If I have tons of money, I'll buy a seaside cottage
If I had tons of money, I'd buy a seaside cottage
If I had had tons of money, I'd have bought a seaside cottage

If it rains today, I won't go anywhere
If it rained today, I wouldn't go anywhere
If it had rained today, I wouldn't have gone anywhere

If I get a good score, my parents will be pleased
If I got a good score, my parents would be pleased
If I had gotten a good score, my parents would have been pleased

If I have a time, I will come to your birthday party
If I had a time, I would come to your birthday party
If I had had a time, I would have come to your birthday party

If I have a space shuttle, I will go to outer space
If I had a space shuttle, I would go to outer space
If I had had a space shuttle, I would have gone to outer space

If I have nothing to do, I will read a novel
If I had nothing to do, I would read a novel
If I had had nothing to do, I would have read a novel

If you betray me, I hardly will trust you again
If you betrayed me, I hardly would trust you again
If you had betrayed me, I hardly would have trust you again

If you forget my birthday, I will remind you
If you forgot my birthday, I would remind you
If you had forgotten my birthday, I would have reminded you

If I stay at home all day, I'll be really bored
If I stayed at home all day, I'd be really bored
If I had stayed at home all day, I'd have been really bored

If you fall from the ladder, I will be down here laughing at you
If you fell from the ladder, I would be down here laughing at you
If you had fallen from the ladder, I would have been down here laughing at you