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bu/pak bisa tlg jelaskan apa yg dimaksut single word verb,compound verb,main verb, dan auxiliary verb ? thx
Auxiliary verbs are used together with a main verb to give grammatical information and therefore add extra meaning to a sentence, which is not given by the main verb.
They are used to form the passive voice.
They are used to form the continuous tense.
They are used to form the perfect tense.
Be, Do and Have are auxiliary verbs, they are irregular verbs and can be used as main verbs. The verbs 'to be' and 'to have' are the most commonly used auxiliary verbs and work alongside the main verbs in any statement.
Modal verbs are also auxiliary verbs, but will be treated separately, these are can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will, and would, they differ from the others in that they can never function as a main verb.
Be is the most common verb in the English language. It can be used as an auxiliary and a main verb. It is used a lot in its other forms.
Base form = be
Present form = am/is/are
Past form = was/were
Present Participle / Gerund = being
Past Participle = been
The verb do is one of the most common verbs in English. It can be used as an auxiliary and a main verb. It is often used in questions.
Base form = do
Present form = do/does
Past form = did
Present Participle / Gerund = doing
Past Participle = done
Have is one of the most common verbs in the English language.
Base form = have
Present form = have / has
Past form = had
Present Participle / Gerund = having
Past Participle = had
Sometimes there is more than one kind of verb in a sentence. There are auxiliary verbs , modal verbs, and main verbs (sometimes called full or non-auxiliary verbs).
The main verb expresses the main action or state of being of the subject in the sentence and changes form according to the subject (singular, plural, 1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person).
Most statements in speech and writing have a main verb.
The main verb changes its form according to the verb form (perfect tense, past tense, simple tense etc).
For example:
| Modifier | Head | Compound |
|---|---|---|
| noun | noun | football |
| adjective | noun | blackboard |
| verb | noun | breakwater |
| preposition | noun | underworld |
| noun | adjective | snowwhite |
| adjective | adjective | blue-green |
| verb | adjective | tumbledown |
| preposition | adjective | over-ripe |
| noun | verb | browbeat |
| adjective | verb | highlight |
| verb | verb | freeze-dry |
| preposition | verb | undercut |
| noun | preposition | love-in |
| adjective | preposition | forthwith |
| verb | preposition | takeout |
| preposition | preposition | without |
bu, ini karangan essay saya bisa tolong diperiksa, kalu ada yg slah mohon segera dibetulkan ya? dan kalo bisa ditambahin dikit kata2nya biar lebih bagus. thx
Bullying is very negative and creates major problems for our society. It could very well change a person’s life. The victims can be mentally scarred if they are teased often. Bullies hurt other students in many ways. One way is hurting them physically like, kicking, pushing, slapping, or punching them. Another way is hurting them with words calling them names, or saying bad things about them. A third way is hurting them emotionally, leaving them out of school groups, or spreading rumors about them that are not true. Bullying also happens in many different places. In the classroom, a bully might tear up another student's paper. On the playground, bullies hit or punch a victim. On a school bus, a bully might grab a student's glasses and throw them to another bully when he tries to get them back. These days, bullying is not just happening in there, it will be happening on the e-mail or phone that is because of new technology.
With today’s technology has become easier than ever. New technologies made bullies can hurt their victims in many ways. They can use cell phone, SMS, e-mail, MySpace, or other interactive device that is intended to embarrass and frighten them. It can be more easy to use technology than talk face to face. They can come anytime, anywhere and get a threatening message that can feel very personally invasive. Sometimes, it can be more comfortable saying something in text messages instead of face-to-face. There are no reasons for bullies to hurt their victims anymore. It is very dangerous for students.
Bullying can cause physical injury, stress, and depressed. If students had bullying they can feel alone, unsafe, confused, or ashamed. Most of the students will afraid to tell them parents. However, we should tell our parents if we get bully. Parents should look after us to use those new technologies. It will be dangerous if we use it to something bad.
New technologies like phone,SMS,e-mail, and myspace make bullies easier to hurt their victims. They can bully in anywhere and anytime. Consequently we must be careful to use all that technologies. If we get bullying, don’t be afraid to tell our parents or sisters. Technologies can be very useful if we used it in the right area but when we use in wrong area it could be make some mistakes.tlg dijawab secepatnya karna besok sudah harus ditumpuk. maksi
Bullying is very negative and creates major problems for our society. It can change a person’s life. The victims can be mentally scarred if they are often teased . Bullies hurt other students in many ways. One way is hurting them physically like, kicking, pushing, slapping, or punching them. Another way is hurting them with words calling them names, or saying bad things about them. A third way is hurting them emotionally, leaving them out of school groups, or spreading rumors about them that are not true. Bullying also happens in many different places. In the classroom, a bully might tear up another student's paper. On the playground, bullies hit or punch a victim. On a school bus, a bully might grab a student's glasses and throw them to another bully when he tries to get them back. These days, bullying is not just happening in there, it may happen on the e-mail or phone because of new technology.
Today’s technology has become easier than before. New technologies make bullies can hurt their victims in many ways. They can use cell phone, SMS, e-mail, MySpace, or other interactive device that is intended to embarrass and frighten them. It can be easier to use technology than talking face to face. They can come anytime, anywhere and get a threatening message that can feel very personally invasive. Sometimes, it can be more comfortable saying something in text messages instead of face-to-face. There are no reasons for bullies to hurt their victims anymore. It is very dangerous for students.
Bullying can cause physical injury, stress, and depressed. If students had been bullied they can feel alone, unsafe, confused, or ashamed. Most of the students will be afraid to tell their parents. However, we should tell our parents if we get bully. Parents should look after us to use those new technologies. It will be dangerous if we use it for something bad.
New technologies like phone,SMS,e-mail, and myspace make bullies easier to hurt their victims. They can bully in anywhere and anytime. Consequently we must be careful to use all those technologies. If we get bullying, don’t be afraid to tell our parents or sisters. The technologies can be very useful if we use them in the right area but when we use them in wrong area it can make some mistakes.
Bu , tlg bantu sya mengoreksi ttg essay saya yg berjudul bullying amongst adolescents has become easier and more widespread due to new technologies .
tlg dikoreksi n kl bisa ditambah kata2nya , tlg jawab secepatnya ya krn besok sudah harus ditumpuk
Bullying is very negative and creates major problems for our society. It could very well change a person’s life. The victims can be mentally scarred if they are teased often. Bullies hurt other students in many ways. One way is hurting them physically like, kicking, pushing, slapping, or punching them. Another way is hurting them with words calling them names, or saying bad things about them. A third way is hurting them emotionally, leaving them out of school groups, or spreading rumors about them that are not true. Bullying also happens in many different places. In the classroom, a bully might tear up another student's paper. On the playground, bullies hit or punch a victim. On a school bus, a bully might grab a student's glasses and throw them to another bully when he tries to get them back. These days, bullying is not just happening in there, it will be happening on the e-mail or phone that is because of new technology. With today’s technology has become easier than ever. New technologies made bullies can hurt their victims in many ways. They can use cell phone, SMS, e-mail, MySpace, or other interactive device that is intended to embarrass and frighten them. It can be more easy to use technology than talk face to face. They can come anytime, anywhere and get a threatening message that can feel very personally invasive. Sometimes, it can be more comfortable saying something in text messages instead of face-to-face. There are no reasons for bullies to hurt their victims anymore. Bullies can bully their victims by technologies or face to face. For example, if it is 11am they can call their victims and make them scared, frighten, and depressed. They also will tell to not tell their parents, so their victims will fell alone. Bullying can cause physical injury, stress, and depressed. Most of the students will afraid to tell them parents. However, we should tell our parents if we get bully. They may be able to find ways to get bullying stop and get the feelings stop. For parents, they also should look after their children to use those new technologies. It will be dangerous if we use it to something bad. Sometimes, technologies are important but they also can make negative problems. The important things we use technologies are we can still keep contact our siblings in another country. The worst things are, use new technologies for bullying someone and it is bad. New technologies like phone, SMS, e-mail, and MySpace make bullies easier to hurt their victims. They can bully in anywhere and anytime. Consequently we must be careful to use all that technologies. If we get bullying, don’t be afraid to tell our parents or sisters. Technologies can be very useful if we used it in the right area but when we use in wrong area it could be make some mistakes.
Sudah saya koreksi mbak. Tolong diperhatikan yang saya garis bawahi.
Operator 20 Oktober 2009 0:0
Yg sya tanyakan: simple present vs. Present progressive 1. Diane (wash) her hair every other day or so 2. Kathy (sit,usually) in the front row during clas,but today she (sit) in the last row 3. (you,lock,always)the doOR to your apartment when yu leave 4. I wrote to my fren last week. She hasn\'t answered my letter yet. I (wait,still) for a reply 5.after six days of rain,i\'m glad that the sun (shine)again today 6. Every m0rning the sun (shine) in my beDR0m window n (wake) me up 7. Its beauTiful. Ths is the 1st time i\'ve ever seEN sn0w. It (sn0w,n0t) in my c0untry 8. A: close your eyes. N0w listen creFuly. What (I,do)? B: you (rub) the top of your dESK with y0ur hand A: cl0se,buT n0t exaCTLy riGht. Try again B: aha you (rub) your hands t0gether
1. Diane washes her hair every other day or so 2. Kathy usually sits in the front row during clas,but today she sits in the last row 3you always lock the doOR to your apartment when yu leave 4. I wrote to my fren last week. She hasn\'t answered my letter yet. Istill wait for a reply 5.after six days of rain,i\'m glad that the sunshines again today 6. Every m0rning the sun shines in my beDR0m window n wakes me up 7. It's beauTiful. Ths is the 1st time i\'ve ever seEN sn0w. It doesn't have snow in my c0untry 8. A: close your eyes. N0w listen creFuly. What should I do? B: you rub the top of your dESK with y0ur hand A: cl0se,buT n0t exaCTLy riGht. Try again B: aha you rub your hands t0gether
Operator 20 Oktober 2009 0:0
tolong dong kasih contoh comperatif dan superlativ dalam paragraf kalo bisa garis bawah mana yang superlativ dan comparativ. thank
We use the comparative and superlative form to compare and contrast different objects in English. Use the comparative form to show the difference between two objects. Example: New York is more exciting than Seattle. Use the superlative form when speaking about three or more objects to show which object is 'the most' of something. Example: New York is the most exciting city in the USA.
Here is a chart showing how to construct the comparative form in English. Notice in the example sentences that we use 'than' to compare the two objects:
One Syllable Adjectives
add '-er' to end of the adjective (Note: double the final consonant if preceded by a vowel) remove the 'y' from the adjective and add 'ier'
Example: cheap - cheaper / hot - hotter / high - higher
Example Sentences
Yesterday was hotter than today.
This book is cheaper than that book.
Two Syllable Adjectives Ending in '-y'
Example: happy - happier / funny - funnier
Example Sentences
I am happier than you.
That joke was funnier than his joke.
Two, Three or More Syllable Adjectives
place 'more' before the adjective
Example: interesting - more interesting / difficult - more difficult
Example Sentences
London is more expensive than Madrid.
This test is more difficult than the last test.
Here is a chart showing how to construct the superlative form in English:
One Syllable Adjectives
place 'the' before the adjective and add '-est' to end of the adjective (Note: double the final consonant if preceded by a vowel)
Example: cheap - the cheapest / hot - the hottest / high - the highest
Example Sentences
Today is the hottest day of the summer.
This book is the cheapest I can find.
Two, Three or More Syllable Adjectives
place 'the most' before the adjective
Example: interesting - the most interesting / difficult - the most difficult
Example Sentences
London is the most expensive city in England.
That is the most beautiful painting here.
Two Syllable Adjectives Ending in '-y' place 'the' before the adjective and remove the 'y' from the adjective and add 'iest'
Example: happy - the happiest / funny - the funniest
Example Sentences
New York is the noisiest city in the USA.
He is the most important person I know.
IMPORTANT EXCEPTIONS
There are some important exceptions to these rules. Here are two of the most important exceptions:
good
Example Sentences
This book is better than that one.
This is the best school in the city.
bad
Example Sentences
His French is worse than mine.
This is the worst day of my life.
ada contoh dialogue happiness expression, tolong kasih tau ya makasih
I'm so happy right now I could sing!
After her birthday party, the girl was very happy.
I am feeling happy about myself. My wife makes me happy.
I was so happy to help feed the hungry.
The boy was happy when he got what he wanted for Christmas.
I was so happy when I got my puppy.
i am very happy for you that you are getting married.
I'm happy we're helping those in need.
tolong carikan contoh factual recount, personal recount, & imaginative recount. segera di jawab y, tugas ini harus dikumpulkan besok....
Mr. Richard’s family was on vacation. They are Mr. and Mrs. Richard with two sons. They went to London. They saw their travel agent and booked their tickets. They went to the British Embassy to get visas to enter Britain. They had booked fourteen days tour. This includes travel and accommodation. They also included tours around London
They boarded a large Boeing flight. The flight was nearly fourteen hours. On the plane the cabin crews were very friendly. They gave them news paper and magazine to read. They gave them food and drink. There was a film for their entertainment. They had a very pleasant flight. They slept part of the way.
On arrival at Heathrow Airport, they had to go to Customs and Immigration. The officers were pleasant. They checked the document carefully but their manners were very polite. Mr. Richard and his family collected their bags and went to London Welcome Desk. They arranged the transfer to a hotel.
The hotel was a well-known four-star hotel. The room had perfect view of the park. The room had its own bathroom and toilet. Instead of keys for the room, they inserted a key-card to open the door. On the third floor, there was a restaurant serving Asian and European food. They had variety of food.
The two week in London went by fast. At the end of the 14-day, they were quite tired but they felt very happy.
My Rush Time as a Journalist
I usually woke up at eight o'clock a.m. and went to the Press Center to check the daily schedule of briefings and press conferences. It was usually held by the United Nation officials or disaster mitigation team.
It was challenging to visit different refugee camps to find soft stories, human interest stories. After that I went back to the Press Center to cover the press conferences of the day.
It was heart breaking when I saw these survivors fight for food and secondhand clothing. Unfortunately as they said, the food and clothing were limited and inadequate. Emerging to glaring, fool noon, it was time to go back to Press Center to write stories and race against time. I was always fearing that the internet would come crushing down.
After everything was done, only then I remembered to eat. Most times, I only ate once a day because I always had to rush and again it was difficult to find food. I had to travel quite far. I needed to spend a 30 to 45 minutes by car just to find fresh food.
Let me remind you my experience during an earthquake last week. When the earthquake happened, I was on my car. I was driving home from my vocation to Bali.
Suddenly my car lunched to one side, to the left. I thought I got flat tire. I did not know that it was an earthquake. I knew it was an earthquake when I saw some telephone and electricity poles falling down to the ground, like matchsticks.
Then I saw a lot of rocks tumbling across the road. I was trapped by the rock. Even I could not move my car at all. There were rocks everywhere. There was nothing I could do but left the car and walked along way to my house, in the town.
When I reached my town, I was so surprised that there was almost nothing left. The earthquake made a lot of damage to my town. Although nothing was left, I thanked God that nobody was seriously injured.
bu b,inggrisnya teknoogi pada jaman sekarang ada buruk dan ada baiknya. kita harus berhati-hati dalam menggunakannya agar bisa memakainya semaksimal mungkin.
thx ya:)
Teknoogi pada jaman sekarang ada buruk dan ada baiknya. kita harus berhati-hati dalam menggunakannya agar bisa memakainya semaksimal mungkin.
Nowadays technology has a bad and good effect. We must use it as well as possible.
tolong donk kasih contoh gimana ciri-ciri explanation text sama contohnya juga sekalian definisi dari explanation text itu sendiri..
makasiih...
nieg tugasnya buat hari jumat besok..
Explanation Text
Definition and purposes of Explanation
Explanation is a text which tells processes relating to forming of natural, social, scientific and cultural phenomena. Explanation text is to say 'why' and 'how' about the forming of the phenomena. It is often found in science, geography and history text books.
Generic structure of Explanation
General statement; stating the phenomenon issues which are to be explained.
Sequenced explanation; stating a series of steps which explain the phenomena.
Language Feature of Explanation
Featuring generic participant; sun, rain, etc
Using chronological connection; to begin with, next, etc
Using passive voice pattern
Using simple present tense
What is cancer? It is actually a group of more than one hundred separate diseases. Most of us are fear from cancer It is reasonable because next to heart disease, cancer is the second leading cause of death.
Cancer cells come from normal cells because of mutations of DNA. Those mutations can occur spontaneously. The mutations may be also induced by other factors such as: nuclear and electromagnetic radiation, viruses, bacteria and fungi, parasites, heat, chemicals in the air, water and food, mechanical cell-level injury, free radicals, evolution and ageing of DNA, etc. All such factors can produce mutations that may start cancer.
Cancer cells are formed continuously in the organism. It is estimated that there are about 10,000 cancer cells at any given time in a healthy person. Why do some result in macroscopic-level cancers and some do not? First, not all damaged cells can multiply and many of them die quickly. Second, those which potentially divide and form cancer are effectively destroyed by the mechanisms available to the immune system. Therefore cancer develops if the immune system is not working properly or the amount of cells produced is too great for the immune system to eliminate.
tolong bgt kasih contoh descriptive text 25
Descriptive text is a text which has function to describe a certain place, person, or thing, so it's very easy to browse descriptive text in the internet. First, please go to www.google.com, then type the keayword, it can be the name of person, place or thing. Here we give you some examples of descriptive text and for the fifteen others please browse in the internet. Tq
1. Suramadu Bridge
The Suramadu Bridge (Indonesian: Jembatan Suramadu), also known as the Surabaya–Madura Bridge, is a bridge with three cable-stayed sections constructed between Surabaya on the island of Java and the town of Bangkalan on the island of Madura in Indonesia. Opened on June 10, 2009, the 5.4-km bridge is the longest in Indonesia and the first bridge to cross the Madura Strait.
The cable-stayed portion has three spans with lengths 192 m, 434 m and 192 m. The bridge has two lanes in each direction plus an emergency lane and a dedicated lane for motorcycles. The first toll bridge in Indonesia, fares have been initially set at Rp. 30,000 (US$3 in 2009) for four-wheeled vehicles and Rp. 3,000 (US$0.30) for two-wheelers.
The bridge was built by a consortium of Indonesian companies PT Adhi Karya and PT Waskita Karya working with China Road and Bridge Corp. and China Harbor Engineering Co. Ltd. The total cost of the project, including connecting roads, has been estimated at 4.5 trillion rupiah (US$445 million).
Construction was started on August 20, 2003. In July 2004, a girder collapsed, killing one worker and injuring nine others. Work on the bridge halted at the end of 2004 due to lack of funds, but was restarted in November 2005. The main span of the bridge was connected on March 31, 2009, and the bridge was opened to the public in June 10, 2009.Within a week of the opening, it was discovered that nuts and bolts as well as maintenance lamps had been stolen and that there was evidence of vandalism of cables supporting the main span.
Batik is cloth which traditionally uses a manual wax-resist dyeing technique. Due to modern advances in the textile industry, the term has been extended to include fabrics which incorporate traditional batik patterns even if they are not produced using the wax-resist dyeing techniques. Silk batik is especially popular.
Javanese traditional batik, especially from Yogyakarta and Surakarta, has special meanings rooted to the Javanese conceptualization of the universe. Traditional colors include indigo, dark brown, and white which represent the three major Hindu Gods (Brahmā, Visnu, and Śiva). This is related to the fact that natural dyes are only available in indigo and brown. Certain patterns can only be worn by nobility; traditionally, wider stripes or wavy lines of greater width indicated higher rank. Consequently, during Javanese ceremonies, one could determine the royal lineage of a person by the cloth he or she was wearing.
Other regions of Indonesia have their own unique patterns which normally take themes from everyday lives, incorporating patterns such as flowers, nature, animals, folklore or people. The colors of pesisir batik, from the coastal cities of northern Java, is especially vibrant, and it absorbs influence from the Javanese, Arab, Chinese and Dutch culture. In the colonial times pesisir batik was a favorite of the Peranakan Chinese, Dutch and Eurasians.
UNESCO designated Indonesian batik, as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity on October 2, 2009.In return of the acknowledgment, UNESCO demanded Indonesia to preserve their heritage.
Batik or fabrics with the traditional batik patterns are also found in several countries such as Malaysia, Japan, China, India, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Nigeria, Senegal, and Singapore. Malaysian batik often displays plants and flowers in basic patterns.
3. Facebook
Facebook is a global social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region. The website's name stems from the colloquial name of books given at the start of the academic year by university administrations with the intention of helping students get to know each other better.
Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes while he was a student at Harvard University. The website's membership was initially limited to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It later expanded further to include any university student, then high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. The website currently has more than 300 million active users worldwide.
Facebook has met with some controversy. It has been blocked intermittently in several countries including Syria, China and Iran,although Iran later unblocked Facebook in 2009. It has also been banned at many places of work to discourage employees from wasting time using the service. Privacy has also been an issue, and it has been compromised several times. Facebook is also facing several lawsuits from a number of Zuckerberg's former classmates, who claim that Facebook had stolen their source code and other intellectual property.
A January 2009 Compete.com study has ranked Facebook as the most used social network by worldwide monthly active users, followed by MySpace.
4. Kecak Dance
Kecak (pronounced [ˈketʃak]) is a form of Balinese music drama, originated in the 1930s and is performed primarily by men. Also known as the Ramayana Monkey Chant, the piece, performed by a circle of 100 or more performers wearing checked cloth around their waists, percussively chanting "cak" and throwing up their arms, depicts a battle from the Ramayana where the monkey-like Vanara helped Prince Rama fight the evil King Ravana. However, Kecak has roots in sanghyang, a trance-inducing exorcism dance.
Kecak was originally a trance ritual accompanied by male chorus. German painter and musician Walter Spies became deeply interested in the ritual while living in Bali in the 1930s and worked to recreate it into a drama, based on the Hindu Ramayana and including dance, intended to be presented to Western tourist audiences. This transformation is an example of what James Clifford describes as part of the "modern art-culture system" in which, "the West or the central power adopts, transforms, and consumes non-Western or peripheral cultural elements, while making 'art' which was once embedded in the culture as a whole, into a separate entity."Spies worked with Wayan Limbak and Limbak popularized the dance by traveling throughout the world with Balinese performance groups. These travels have helped to make the Kecak famous throughout the world.
Performer, choreographer, and scholar I Wayan Dibia cites a contrasting theory that the Balinese where already developing the form when Spies arrived on the island. For example, well-known dancer I Limbak had incorporated Baris movements into the cak leader role during the 1920s. "Spies liked this innovation," and it suggested that Limbak, "devise a spectacle based on the Ramayana," accompanied by cak chorus rather than gamelan, as would have been usual.
5. Gamelan Music
A gamelan is a musical ensemble from Indonesia, typically from the islands of Bali or Java, featuring a variety of instruments such as metallophones, xylophones, drums and gongs; bamboo flutes, bowed and plucked strings. Vocalists may also be included.
The term refers more to the set of instruments than to the players of those instruments. A gamelan is a set of instruments as a distinct entity, built and tuned to stay together — instruments from different gamelan are generally not interchangeable.
The word "gamelan" comes from the Javanese word "gamel", meaning to strike or hammer, and the suffix "an", which makes the root a collective noun. Real hammers are not used to play these instruments as heavy iron hammers would break the delicate instruments.
6. Sydney Opera House
The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre on Bennelong Point in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was conceived and largely built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, who in 2003 received the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honour.[1] The citation stated There is no doubt that the Sydney Opera House is his masterpiece. It is one of the great iconic buildings of the 20th century, an image of great beauty that has become known throughout the world – a symbol for not only a city, but a whole country and continent.
The Opera House was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site on 28 June 2007.[2] It is one of the 20th century's most distinctive buildings, and one of the most famous performing arts centres in the world.
The Sydney Opera House is situated on Bennelong Point in Sydney Harbour, close to the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It sits at the north-eastern tip of the Sydney central business district (the CBD), surrounded on three sides by the harbour (Sydney Cove and Farm Cove), and neighboured by the Royal Botanic Gardens.
Contrary to its name, the building houses several separate venues rather than a single opera theatre, the two main venues, the Opera Theatre and the Concert Hall, being housed in the two larger sets of shells. The Sydney Opera House is a major presenting venue for Opera Australia, The Australian Ballet, the Sydney Theatre Company and the Sydney Symphony, as well as hosting many touring productions in a variety of performance genres, and is a major tourist attraction. It is administered by the Sydney Opera House Trust, under the New South Wales Ministry of the Arts.
The Sydney Opera House is a modern expressionist design,with a series of large precast concrete 'shells',[3] each composed of sections of a hemisphere of the same radius, forming the roofs of the structure, set on a monumental podium. The building covers 1.8 hectares (4.5 acres) of land, and is 183 metres (605 ft) long and 120 metres (388 ft) wide at its widest point. It is supported on 588 concrete piers sunk as much as 25 metres below sea level. Its power supply is equivalent to that of a town of 25,000 people, and is distributed by 645.5 kilometres (401 miles) of electrical cable.[citation needed]
The roofs of the House are covered in a subtle chevron pattern with 1,056,006 glossy white and matte cream colored Swedish-made tiles from Höganäs AB,[4] though from a distance the shells appear a uniform white. Despite the tiles' self-cleaning nature, they do require periodic maintenance and replacement.[citation needed]
The Concert Hall is located within the western group of shells, the Opera Theatre within the eastern group. The scale of the shells was chosen to reflect the internal height requirements, with low entrance spaces, rising over the seating areas and up to the high stage towers. The minor venues (Drama Theatre, Playhouse, and The Studio) are located beneath the Concert Hall, as part of the western shell group. A much smaller group of shells set to one side of the Monumental Steps houses the Bennelong Restaurant. Although the roof structures of the Sydney Opera House are commonly referred to as shells (as they are in this article), they are in fact not shells in a strictly structural sense, but are instead precast concrete panels supported by precast concrete ribs.
7. The Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower (French: Tour Eiffel, [tuʀ ɛfɛl]) is a 19th century iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris that has become both a global icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world. The Eiffel Tower, which is the tallest building in Paris, is the single most visited paid monument in the world; millions of people ascend it every year. Named after its designer, engineer Gustave Eiffel, the tower was built as the entrance arch for the 1889 World's Fair.
The tower stands at 324 m (1,063 ft) tall, about the same height as an 81-story building. It was the tallest structure in the world from its completion until 1930, when it was eclipsed by the Chrysler Building in New York City. Not including broadcast antennas, it is the second-tallest structure in France, behind the Millau Viaduct, completed in 2004. And while the Eiffel Tower is a steel structure, and weighs approximately 10,000 tonnes, it actually has a relatively low density, weighing less than a cylinder of air occupying the same dimensions as the tower.
The tower has three levels for visitors. Tickets can be purchased to ascend either on stairs or lifts to the first and second levels. The walk to the first level is over 300 steps, as is the walk from the first to the second level. The third and highest level is only accessible by lift. Both the first and second levels feature restaurants.
The tower has become the most prominent symbol of both Paris and France. The tower is a featured part of the backdrop in literally scores of movies that take place in Paris. Its iconic status is so established that it even serves as a symbol for the entire nation of France, such as when it was used as the logo for the French bid to host the 1992 Summer Olympics.
The metal structure of the Eiffel Tower weighs 7,300 tonnes while the entire structure including non-metal components is approximately 10,000 tonnes. Depending on the ambient temperature, the top of the tower may shift away from the sun by up to 18 cm (7.1 in) because of thermal expansion of the metal on the side facing the sun. As demonstration of the economy of design, if the 7300 tonnes of the metal structure were melted down it would fill the 125 meter square base to a depth of only 6 cm (2.36 in), assuming a density of the metal to be 7.8 tonnes per cubic meter. The tower has a mass less than the mass of the air contained in a cylinder of the same dimensions, that is 324 meters high and 88.3 meters in radius. The weight of the tower is 10,100 tonnes compared to 10,265 tonnes of air.
More than 200,000,000 people have visited the tower since its construction in 1889, including 6,719,200 in 2006, making it the most visited paid monument in the world.
8. Lake Toba
Lake Toba (Indonesian: Danau Toba) is a lake and super volcano, 100 kilometer long and 30 kilometer wide, and 505 meter (1,666 ft) at its deepest point. Located in the middle of the northern part of the Indonesian island of Sumatra with a surface elevation of about 900 meter (2,953 ft), the lake stretches from 2°53′N 98°31′E / 2.88°N 98.52°E / 2.88; 98.52 to 2°21′N 99°06′E / 2.35°N 99.1°E / 2.35; 99.1. It is the largest volcanic lake in the world.[1] In addition, it is the site of a super volcanic eruption that occurred about 74,000 years ago,[2] a massive climate-changing event. The eruption is believed to have had a VEI intensity of 8. This eruption, believed to have been the largest anywhere on Earth in the last 25 million years, may have had catastrophic consequences globally; some anthropologists and archeologists believe that it killed most humans then alive, creating a population bottleneck in Central Eastern Africa and India that affected the genetic inheritance of all humans today.
Most of the people who live around Lake Toba are ethnically Bataks. Traditional Batak houses are noted for their distinctive roofs (which curve upwards at each end, as a boat's hull does) and their colorful decor.
Lake Toba offers a nurturing environment for fish such as the tilapia mossambica, aplocheilus pachax, lebistes reticulatus, osphronemus goramy, trichogaster trichopterus, channa striata, chana gachua, clarias batrachus, clarias nieuhofi, clarias. sp., nemachilus fasciatus, cyprinus carpio, puntius javanicus, puntius binotatus, osteochilus nasselti, lissochilus sp., labeobarbus sora, and rasbora sp.[17]
Many other types of plants and animals live within the boundaries of Lake Toba. Flora organisms include various types of phytoplankton, emerged macrophytes, floating macrophytes, and submerged macrophytes. Fauna include several variations of zooplankton and benthos.
9. The Great Wall of China
The Great Wall of China (simplified Chinese: 长城; traditional Chinese: 長城; pinyin: Chángchéng; literally "long city/fortress") or (simplified Chinese: 万里长城; traditional Chinese: 萬里長城; pinyin: Wànlǐ Chángchéng; literally "The long wall of 10,000 Li (里)"[1]) is a series of stone and earthen fortifications in northern China, built, rebuilt, and maintained between the 5th century BC and the 16th century to protect the northern borders of the Chinese Empire from Xiongnu attacks during various successive dynasties. Since the 5th century BC, several walls have been built that were referred to as the Great Wall. One of the most famous is the wall built between 220–206 BC by the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang. Little of that wall remains; the majority of the existing wall were built during the Ming Dynasty.
The Great Wall stretches from Shanhaiguan in the east to Lop Nur in the west, along an arc that roughly delineates the southern edge of Inner Mongolia. The most comprehensive archaeological survey, using advanced technologies, has recently concluded that the entire Great Wall, with all of its branches, stretches for 8,851.8 km (5,500.3 mi). This is made up of 6,259.6 km (3,889.5 mi) of sections of actual wall, 359.7 km (223.5 mi) of trenches and 2,232.5 km (1,387.2 mi) of natural defensive barriers such as hills and rivers.
Before the use of bricks, the Great Wall was mainly built from Earth or Taipa, stones, and wood.
During the Ming Dynasty, however, bricks were heavily used in many areas of the wall, as were materials such as tiles, lime, and stone. The size and weight of the bricks made them easier to work with than earth and stone, so construction quickened. Additionally, bricks could bear more weight and endure better than rammed earth. Stone can hold under its own weight better than brick, but is more difficult to use. Consequently, stones cut in rectangular shapes were used for the foundation, inner and outer brims, and gateways of the wall. Battlements line the uppermost portion of the vast majority of the wall, with defensive gaps a little over 30 cm (one foot) tall, and about 23 cm (9 inches) wide.
10. Tanjung Benoa
Tanjung Benoa, or the Benoa peninsula just north of Nusa Dua has become much busier over the years and has a wide range of accommodation including prestigious resorts like 'The Conrad'. Benoa peninsula is a scenic 5 kilometers of coconut palms and fine sand. The area is the almost exclusive home of luxury hotels, private villas, fine restaurants, open-air cafes and water sports facilities. The resort has become busier over recent years with more hotels Bali Resort and Spa joining impressive resorts like the Aston Bali. The shape of the beach, also makes Tanjung Benoa perfect for water sports with no shortage of shops catering to marine sports enthusiasts.
Right at the tip of the peninsula is the quiet port of Tanjung Benoa, with its village like alleyways and rows of traditional fishing boats and yachts. Offshore "Turtle Island" is the site of a sacred sea temple. Tanjung Benoa has something for everyone -especially if we are a water sport fun. Snorkeling, diving, windsurfing, water skiing, powerboats, banana boats and reef fishing. (The reef is just 200 meters from the shoreline at the northeastern tip)
