Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Gratitude, Compliment and Congratulation

Sekarang kita akn belajar mengenai Gratitude, Compliment and Congratulation

• Gratitude
Gratitude is an expression that we show or say to express grateful feeling to other people, when speaking English, you say “thanks” very often please say “thank you” when people give you something and give you compliment, etc.

Kinds of gratitude expressions are :
- Thank you very much
- Thank you for you help
- I’m really very grateful to you
- You’re welcome
- Don’t mention it
- I want to express my gratitude to (my teacher, my father, etc)

Respond of expressing :
-You are welcome
-Don't mention it
-It was nothing at all
-No problem
- I am glad I could help

• Compliment
Compliment is an expression that we show or say to express/give praise. Some people use compliment to “butter up” somebody or to flatter in order to increase good will, for example :
- On his/her general appearance
- If you notice something new about the person’s appearance
- When you visit someone’s house for the first time
- When other people do their best

Kinds of compliment expressions are :
- What a nice dress!
- You look great
- I really must express my admiration for you dance
- Excellent!
- Nice work
- Good Job

• Congratulation
Congratulation is an expression that we use the give the congratulation utterance when he/she succeeds in doing something

Kinds of Congratulations are :
- Congratulation
- Congratulations
- Congratulations on your succeeds
- Happy Birthday
- Merry Christmas
- Happy New Your
- Happy Valentine
- Happy Anniversary

A. Giving The Congratulation
- Let me congratulate you
- Good
- That’s great!
- How fortunate
- Pretty Good

B. Replying To The Congratulations
- Thank You
- Thank, I needed that
- That’s very kind of you

C. Surprising
- Oh, it was very interesting! I want to the sea world
- It was fun! Went out with my classmate

Read carefully the dialogue below then practice with your friends
Rosa : How was your school party, Zenny?
Alia : It was fun! We sony song and danced

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B.Inggris Part XIX

Sekarang kita akan belajar tentang LIstening: Make Me a Copy, Please!

~ Description:
Often times students are not able to communicate clearly what they would like to say. It is the purpose of this lesson to help student understand the need to be articulate and precise when explain steps to another student. In addition the student listening will learn to be a more effective listener.

~ Goal:
Student will understand the need to be articulate when communicating.

~ Background Information:
This activity will teach students to explain what they see and guide another students in reproducing the drawing by what they are told.

Example
Teacher : Make a circle, please!
Adit : pardon me?? Repeat, please!
Teacher : Make a circle, please !
Adit : Oh… sure
Teacher :O.K…!! Next, draw in drawing book!
Adit : Hmm... ok

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B.Inggris Part XVIII

Sekarang kita akan belajar tentang LIstening: Make Me a Copy, Please!

~ Description:
Often times students are not able to communicate clearly what they would like to say. It is the purpose of this lesson to help student understand the need to be articulate and precise when explain steps to another student. In addition the student listening will learn to be a more effective listener.

~ Goal:
Student will understand the need to be articulate when communicating.

~ Background Information:
This activity will teach students to explain what they see and guide another students in reproducing the drawing by what they are told.

Example
Teacher : Make a circle, please!
Adit : pardon me?? Repeat, please!
Teacher : Make a circle, please !
Adit : Oh… sure
Teacher :O.K…!! Next, draw in drawing book!
Adit : Hmm... ok

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Surprise Or Disbeliefs

Sekarang kita akan belajar Surprise Or Disbeliefs
apa itu ??

Suprise Or Disbelief is An expression that we show/say when we know /hear/see something that rather difficult to believe and surprise or disbelief used to express something that we can't or impossible.

To Express surprise :
- What a surprise!
- That's a surprise
- Well that's very surprising
- Really ?
- What ?
- Are you serious? You must be joking
- You're kidding!
- Fancy That!
- I must say..... surprise me

Surprising amazement of something :
- Fantastic!
- Wonderful
- It's Great!
- It's terrific
- Wow, that's amazing!
- It's very nice
- Impressive

When you got a surprising fact, you can say :
- Do You Know What ?
- Believe it or not ?
- You may not believe it but...
- Can you believe this ?

Respons :
- Really ?
- Are you sure ?
- Are you joking ?
- Where ? Show Me

Example Surprise :
Dodi : Do You know what ? My father bought me computer yesterday
Adit : Wow, It's very nice.




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B.inggris Part XVIII

Di materi ini kita akn belajar berpidato dalam bahasa inggris..

Speaking : Speech

There are several important aspect of presentation to keep in mind; the academic elements of persuasion are :
• Body language, How to make a proper posture
• Articulation, How their total vocal process works
• Pronunciation, We need to pronounce each word
• Pitch, the highs and the lows of the voice
• Speed, is an important variable to control
• Pauses, is a critical persuasive tool
• Volume, is another good tool for a persuasive speech
• Quality, is gauged by overall impact their voices has on their listeners
• Variance, variance of vocal elements is the most important consider ration of all

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B.inggris Part XVII

Kita akan mengenali karakter kita neh..
AYO....................

To obtain a well-rounded concept of your character’s personality, analyze both his internal and external qualities.

The internal aspects include the following :
Background
Mental characteristic
Spiritual or moral qualities
Emotional Characteristic

The external aspects include following :
Voice
Posture
Movement and gesture
Mannerisms
Dress
Motivating Desiress

Four types of characterization:

* Physical description.
* Speech and actions.
* Direct comment from the narrator.
* Speech and actions of other characters.


Four types of characters:

* Round: A complex and fully developed character.
* Dynamic: A character that develops throughout the story.
* Flat: A character described by one or two traits.
* Static: A character that does not change from the beginning of the story to its end.


Five ways to analyze characters:

* Motivation: What causes the character to act?
* Behaviour: What does the character do?
* Consequences: What results from the character’s behaviour?
* Responsibility: Is the character held accountable for his/her actions?
* Expectations: Are the reader’s expectations fulfilled or challenged? Why is this so?

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News Item

Sekarang kita akan menjadi reporter...
kita akan mempelajari news item...

News Item
• News Item text is a factual text which inform the reader or daily newspaper about events of the day which are regarded as newsworthy or important.


Purpose text of News Item :
To inform the reader or listener. Clear objectives News Item is to inform the news to the readers or listeners . Purpose you read the news or not to obtain information from sources that clearly.

The generic structure of news item :
Correspondence
Newsworthy events :
Recounts the event in summary form
Background events :
Elaborate what happened, to whom, in what circumstances.

Linguistic features :
 Action Verbs.
 Verbal Verbs.
 Mental Verbs.
 Temporal Circumstances.
 Spatial Circumstances.
 Specific Participants.

Structure of the text consist of three parts :
 Core write news or events that are considered important
 Write the background or the cause of the event
 Write a news source, usually contains about quotes from the usual resource witness, or senior official associated with the event.
To distinguish the type of news item text and other text that is easy for news item has a unique feature that is preceded by a city or place. Another characteristic that is the excerpt from the resource persons.


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Monday, February 22, 2010

Direct Indirect Speech

Sekarang kan semester 2..
Jadi ada tugas baru neh...
yang pertama Direct and Indirect Speech..
Here we go..

Direct speech
Direct speech refers to reproducing another person's exact words or saying exactly what someone has said (sometimes called quoted speech)
This an example of direct speech :
-) She said, "Today's lesson is on presentations"
-) "Today's lesson is on presentations," she said

Indirect speech
Indirect speech, doesn’t use quotation marks to enclose what the person said and it doesn’t have to be word for word.
Example :
“I’m going to the cinema”, he said he was going to the cinema.

Tense change
• When reporting speech the tense usually changes. Because when we use reported speech, we are usually talking about time in the past. Note : the reporting verbs that are usually used to report imperative sentence are : Tell, other command, ask, warn, remind.






• When report what someone said, don’t usually repeat their exact words, use our words, we can use reporting word such as tell say as follow by “that clause”

Example :
-) My mother said that she got up at 4 o’clock

In time expression and pronouns :

Direct Speech Indirect Speech
Now
Today/ Tonight
Yesterday
Tomorrow
Last Week
Next Week
Ago Then
That day/ That night
That day before/ The previous day
The next/ Following day
The previous week
The following week/ The week after
Before
This/ These
Here
Pronouns That/ Those
There
They changes according to the context


Modal verb forms also sometimes change :

Direct Speech → Indirect speech
Will → Would
Can → Could
Must → Had to
Shall → Should
May → Might

Note : There is no change to ;could, would, should, might and had to

Example
Direct Speech Indirect Speech
“I might go to the cinema”, he said He said he might go to the cinema




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Sunday, February 21, 2010

B.Inggros part XVI

Ah...
Autobiography...
The next chapter is autobiography...

Autobiography is information about one's own life written by that one person. In it, it tells what that person's life is all about. Use interesting facts to explain as much about yourself you can.

The generic structures of autobiography:
-) Orientation
-) Events
-) The use of simple past tense
-) Pronoun
-) Time conjunctions

-) Orientation
Maksudnya adalah suatu autobiography adalah pengenalan karakter tokoh yang mau diceritakan.
-) Events
Maksudnya adalah bagaimana perjalanan hidupnya ? Dari dia lahir sampai dia wafat bagaimana perjalanan kesuksesannya ? artinya events ini adalah semua hal yang terjadi di hidup sang Tokoh utama
-) The use of simple past tense
Dalam suatu autobiography menggunakan tense simple past
-) Pronouns
Maksudnya kta pengganti subyek (orang, seperti :
Picasso menjadi he
-) Time conjunctions
Maksudnya menunjukkan waktu dari awal sampai akjir dalam suatu autobiography.

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B.Inggris Part XV

Now...
We will discuss about present tense...

Present Tense is simple form which used to express situation going into effect in this time. Like habit, everyday fact or natural phenomenon.

Simple Present tense to express habits, general truth, repeated actions or unchanging situations, emoticons and wishes.

Example:
~For habits = He drinks milk at breakfast.
~For general truth = Palangka Raya is a small city.
~For repeated actions = She only eats egg.
~For unchanging situation = I work in Banjarmasin.

Formula Verbal :
(+)S+ V1(-s/-es)+ Object
(-)S+ do/does+ not+ V1+ Object
(?)Do/does+ S+ V1+ Object+ ?

Characteristic :
1.Actions that happen now or today
2.Some present tense verbs have "ing", "s", or "es" on the end of them
3.Clue words: Now, Today


Any formula Present Tense :
- S + v1 + object
Example:
She Goes to office.
- S + To be + noun, adjective, adverb
Example:
He is happy.

Example adverbs for present tense:
- Always
- Never
- Every
- Often
- Seldom
- Sometimes
- Usually

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B.Inggris Part XIV

Halo.... Again
sekarang kita mempelajari Invitation...
Invitation is,,,....,,,....

Invitation is a way to ask some one to go to an event or a place or to do something.The function of invitation is to ask some one to go to a place or to do something.We usually use the “invitation” in our daily life, for example if we want to hold an event like a birthday party . We use the invitaion and if we want some one to do something , like if we want our friend to help us.We use the invitation too.
There are 2 types of Invitation:
Invitation Formal
- Formal Invitation is the official invitation usually written reply came from such institutions and companies etc.
Invitation Informal
- Informal invitation is not an official invitation written / oral and this invitation is usually given to friends, family and others

Invitation Verbal
Example:
We want to invite you to come to our house
Can you come to my restaurant?
Are you free tonight?

Accepting (menerima)
I like that
That sounds good
Thank you for inviting

Refusing(menolak)
I like that but I can't
I'm very sorry for not able to come
Sorry, I'm very busy

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B.Inggris Part XIII

Sekarang...
mumpung kosong..
kita akan belajar Gaining attention...

Gaining attention is a way or expressions that is spoken so that people will pay thier attention to that we want too.
The example expression of gaining attention :

* Attention, please
* May i have your attention, please ?
* Excuse me, look here !
* Listening to me, please
* Waiter?
* I'm sorry,but ......
* Wow really ?

Example :
Theacher : Attention, please. Today we will watch a movie in the self access center. What do you think ?
Student : That's great

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B.inggris Part XII

Hai....
sekarang neh kita akan belajar tentang Sympathy expressions../
Check this out

Sympathy expression is an expression or feeling of pity and sorrow when we know and see someone or people are unlucky or have trouble and in bad condition. By expressing sympathy we want to show our concern or carefulness on other people’s condition.

How can we give sympathy expression to someone?
We express it directly to him/her orally or we can use a letter or card by post also by short message service (SMS), e-mail, television, radio, and newspaper if he/she who got the trouble is far from us.

Example expressions of sympathy :
I’d like to express my deepest condolences.
I’m sorry to hear that.
I’m awfully sorry about....
Oh, how awful!
Oh, dear!
You must be very upset.
Oh, what a shame.
How pity you are!
How terrible / awful for you.

Example of dialogue that expresses sympathy in a certain situation :
Andi: You know what? Adit has lost his handphone.
Abe : Oh, I’m sorry to hear that

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