Selasa, 14 Juli 2009

Expressing regret and apolologies

Expression of regret and apologies
- I am very sorry about that...
- Please forgive me for...
- I apologize for ...
- I regret to tell you that...

How to respond
- It doesn't matter
- forget it
- never mind
- no problem
- That's okay

Make some apologies and regrets based on the situation given!
1. When you are in the bus, you step on someone foot. You say...
2. Someone on the phone want to speak to your brother, but he is out. You say...
3. You play football in front of your neighbour house. Then your ball breaks your neighbour window. You say...
4. Your best friend invites you to have dinner in the beach, but you couldn't come with him/her because you have an appointment with someone else.You say...

Simple present tense

Simple present tense
Simple present tense is used to expressed activities or situations as a general truth or habit.
The pattern of simple present tense
statement : ( I, You, They, We) +V1
(She, He, It) +V1 +s/es

Negative : (I, you, They, We) + don't +V1
(She, He, It) doesn't +v1

Interrogative : Do + (I, You,, They, We) +V1 ?
Does + (She, HE, It) + V1 ?

Excercise 1.
Put the verb (if necessary) in the correct form of simple present tense!
1. I (play) tennis every Sunday.
2. Maya (wait) for me to go to school every morning.
3. (do) your father drink coffe every morning?
4. My brother and Dina (study) Math every afternoon.

reading assigment

A Workshop Situation
Before teaching in the workshop, every teacher continually reminds his students to be careful while they are doing their job. a piece of carelesness is enough to cause a serious accident according to the teachers."You are going to practice here soon and remember what I have always told you, "He stresses his caution.
The teacher always pay attention to what every student is doing when a student is trying to remove a piece of metal from a drilling machine, the teacher is coming hurriedly and warns him not to do it again. "You are going to slip on the floor, fall against the machine and cut yourself," The teacher sayas while the student is cleaning the floor.
Finally , the teacher looks at his watch and says," the time is almost up my students. Well, you can stop working now and we are going to go on next time.

Answer the following questions based on the text above!
1. Before teaching in a workshop, what does every teacher do?
2. What is the title of the text?
3. Does the teacher always pay attention to the students' activities?
4. Where does the situation happen?

Selasa, 02 Juni 2009

DESCRIPTIVE WRITING

We have learnt about adjective. Do you still remember what adjective in Bahasa Indonesia is?
You are right. Adjective is kata sifat. We use adjective in descriptive writing, for example when you describe your school, your favourite actreses, etc.

I will give you the example of descriptive writing,

Agnes Monica is my favourite actress. She is very beautiful. She is tall and slim. She has short hair and slanted eyes. Her smile is very nice. She is also smart and energetic. She can act and sing well. Her voice is very amazing. I like her very much.

From the short paragraph above can you find the adjectives?
Your task is try to find out the adjective from the paragraph above, then write a descripion of your idol. You can write one of your idol.