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       Indonesian Government is trying  to develop the quality of education by many ways. One of those ways is by creating   some schools as school which have better standard in quality . it's called International school base or RSBI. These school models have been found in every province or regency in Indonesia. SMP N 2 Gunung Talang in my area ( Solok, West Sumatra) is one of the school that is pointed by educational  Department as RSBI school. In getting this  chance is not easy. The school society ( Principal, teachers, students and parents have done the hard work to create this school to be RSBI. One of the way is making English society. All teachers and students must use English as a second language in exploring the material of the lesson in front of the class. For teachers who teach English subject in the class room will not be difficult, what's about for other subjects, such as: math, science ? Wow... the school face a problem because they cannot speak English well and of course they cannot explain the lesson by using English in the classroom. To solve this problem, we must force the school members to learn English, We take  course after school, use English  a day in a week that is called English day, and  I create a  small canteen where we speak English in doing transaction of buying and selling some thing. We have an area which is for students and teachers speaking English . This area is called by "English Area", and we place English Canteen in here.It is interesting canteen, isn't it ?. Yea, the students who wants to buy some thing like snack, writing utensil, etc  , they must use English, and also the shopkeeper will serve buyers by using English. As a teacher I hope all of my students can speak English better day by day. To make the students are interested to visit this canteen I have some regulation like : a good buyer will get a star every month ( the star which is made of color paper ) and the most stars owner will get a beautiful prize from school. Can You imagine  that every students who visit this canteen  without mother's language but they speak English ? oh... how happy I am. I do monitor every break time  and hear they make dialogue in English. From this writing I invite all of students and teachers to  visit the English canteen and practice , try to  use English beside in other place around us  or when ever and where ever you are, because we all know practice makes perfect and don't be afraid about wrong but try to use it part by part with your friends and with your teachers.