Basic English 1

UNIT 1
SELF IDENTIFICATION
Lecturer: Rosdiana Mata, S.S., M.Pd

Objectives
After completing this lesson you should be able to:
 Ask somebody about his/her identity; for example name, address, age and occupation
 Answer the questions about somebody identity
 Describe somebody identity.
A. READING SKILLS
DIALOGUE 1

Jeremy Thomson: Hello. Are you Marc Chevalier, the Author?

Marc Chevalier : Yes....
Jeremy Thomson: I don’t think we’ve met before. My name’s Jeremy Thomson... I
work for the BBC
Marc Chevalier : Oh!Yes, of course. Nice to meet you

DIALOGUE 2

David Baker: Mr. Thornton, I’d like to introduce two visitors, Toni Bellini
Mr. Thornton: How do you do.
Toni Bellini: How do you do
David Baker: And this is Gabriella Frigo.
Gabriela Frigo: Pleased to meet you, Mr. Thornton.
David Baker: They’r from Milan-they’re our representatives in northern Italy
Mr. Thornton: Ah, Yes. Tell me about the sales of the TD range in your part of Italy.

DIALOGUE 3

Lucy: Hello, Daniel.

Daniel: Hi, Lucy. How are you?

Lucy: Fine, Thanks. How are things with you?
Daniel: Oh, not bad! Busy as usual.

DIALOGUE 4

Mr. Wilson : Good morning James.

James: Oh. Good morning, Mrs. Wilson. And how are you this morning?
Mr. Wilson: I’m very well, thank you. And you?
James: I’m fine, thank you.

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 Mrs. Wilson: Good. Are there any letters for me this morning?
James: No, there aren’t
Mrs. Wilson: Oh

Attention Attention
To know somebody’s name you say: To ask somebody’s age, you say:

What is your name? How old are you?

What is your complete name? How old is he?

Full name? How old is she?

Middle name? Or what is your (His/her) age?

Last name? To answer those questions, you say:

First name? I am twenty years old.

Surname? I am in the early twenties.

Nickname? My age is twenty.

If you are asking somebody else, you say: His/her age is twenty.

What is his name?

Her name? To ask somebody’s occupation, you say:

What are their name? What is your occupation?

To answer the questions above, you say: What is his/her occupation?

My name is …….. What do you do?

His name is Andi What does she/he do?

Her name is Betty To answer those questions, you say:

Their names are Betty and Andi I am a lecturer

B. LISTENING SKILLS
 WatchingMythe complete
drama from Sisters and Brothers part 1 (Eps.He
1)is ….
name is Anita
C. WRITING AND SPEAKING SKILLS
Bachdim
 Write down your personal information in the form of paragraph.
She is ….
 Ask your new friends about themselves and write their description under the following
My full name is ….., etc.
headings. My occupation is teaching
EXERCISE 1
My job is ….
To ask somebody’s address, you say: 2

What is your address? or

Where do you live?

 To answer the questions above, you say:

My address is Jl.Bali no.5 Kupang.

I live at Jl.Bali no.5 Kupang.

NO. NAME AGE OCCUPATION ADDRESS

D. GRAMMAR SKILLS
PRONOUNS
A. PERSONAL PRONOUNS
First Person Second Third Person
Person
Singular Plural Singular & Singular Plural
Plural
Subject I We You He, she, it They
Object Me Us You Him, her, it Them
Possessive My Our You His, her, its Their

Subject Pronouns Object Pronouns Possessive Pronouns

I Me My Mine
You You Your Yours
He Him His His
She Her Her Hers
It It Its Its
We Us Our Ours
You You Your Yours
They Them Their Theirs
(a) I read a book. It was good.
(b) I read some books. They were good.
(c) I like tea. Do you like tea too?
(d) John has a car. He drives to work.
(e) John works at my Office. I know him well.
(f) I talk to him every day.
(g) That book is hers. Yours is over there. (INCORRECT: that book is her’s. your’s is over
there.)
(h) Her book is here. Your book is over there.
(i) A bird uses its wings to fly. (INCORRECT: a bird uses it’s wings to fly.)
(j) It’s cold today.
(k) The Harbor Inn is my favorite old hotel. It’s been in business since 1933.
A pronoun is used in place of noun. The noun it refers to is called “antecedent”. In (a): the
pronoun it refers to the antecedent noun book. A singular pronoun is used to refer to a singular
noun, as in (a). A plural pronoun is used to refer to a plural noun, as in (b). Sometimes the
antecedent noun is understood, not explicitly stated. In (c):I refers to the speaker, and you

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 refers to the person the speaker is talking to. Subject pronouns are used as subjects of
sentences as he in (d). Object pronouns are used as the object of verbs. As in (e), or as the
objects of prepositions, as in (f). Possessive pronouns are not followed immediately by a
noun; they stand alone, as in (g). it must remember that possessive pronouns do not take
apostrophes. Possessive adjective are followed immediately by a noun; they do not stand
alone. Compare: its has no apostrophe when it is used as a possessive, as in (i). it’s has an
apostrophe when it is used as a contraction of it is, as in (j), or it has when has is part of the
present perfect tense, as in (m).

EXERCISE 2
Fill in the blanks with the following pronouns

I he she am do

1.MyHowhis
old is Ani?
her ………. is isdoes
twenty five.
2. What does Jhon do? ………..is an engineer.
3. Benni is still young. ……….age is 15.
4. How is your father? He ……..fine, thank you!
5. What is your sister’s name? ……….sister’s name is Tini.
6. ……………he study Engineering?
7. Do you belong to the Commerce department? Yes, I …..
8. Is Anna still in her teens? No ……..age is 23.
9. Hello. I …………… Tanto. How do you do?
10. Dick, do you live around here? Yes, …….do.

EXERCISE 3
Directions: identify the personal pronouns and their antecedents.
1. Jack has a part-time job. He works at a fast-food restaurant.
2. Most monkeys don’t like water, but they can swim well when they have to.
3. The teacher graded the students’ paper last night. She returned them during class today.
4. Nancy took an apple with her to work. She ate it at lunch time.
5. A dog makes a good pet if it is properly trained.
E. VOCABULARY
Find out the meaning of the following accounting terms:
accounting property
business transaction
checks activa
creditors passiva
customers
debts
monetary

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F. TONGUE TWISTER
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck
wood. A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck chuck is a
woodchuck would chuck wood.

Basic English 1
UNIT 2
SPELLING AND PRONUNCIATION
Lecturer: Rosdiana Mata, SS., M.Pd

Objectives
After completing this lesson you should be able to:
 Ask how to spell words and names.
 Answer questions on how to spell words and names.
 Ask how to pronounce words and names.
 Answer questions on how to pronounce words and names.
 Ask for the meaning of a particular word.

A. PRONUNCIATION
CHECK YOUR ABC’S
LONG VOWELS and SHORT VOWELS (listen to the audio from ship or sheep 1 unit
1-5)
B. READING SKILLS
Dialogue 1
THOMAS: hello
JUWITA: hello, is that Alex?
THOMAS: NO, it isn’t. Alex isn’t here at the moment. Can i take a message?
JUWITA : can you ask him to call me back, please? It’s JUWITA
THOMAS: Sorry, would you like to spell your name?
JUWITA: JUWITA: J-U-W-I-T-A and my number is 956432
THOMAS: OK
JUWITA: Thanks, bye
THOMAS: bye.
Dialogue 2

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Student : “Excuse me, Sir. What is the meaning of that word?”
Lecturer : “What word?”
Student : “That one. It’s written Q-U-E-U-E ”
Lecturer : “Oh, that means Line”
Student : “Can you tell me how to pronounce that?”
Lecturer : “Sure. It’s pronounced /kju:/.”
Student : “What about that word D-O-U-B-T? What does it mean”
Lecturer : “Oh that means not sure. It’s pronounced /daut/.”
Student : “Thank you, Sir!”
Lecturer : “You’re welcome.”

EXERCISE 1.
Questions
1. What is the caller’s name?
2. How do you spell that?
3. What is meant by Q-U-E-U-E?
4. How do you pronounce Q-U-E-U-E?
5. What other words’ meaning is asked by the student in dialogue 2?
C. SPEAKING SKILLS
Asking and answering questions in the form of conversation with your friends in the terms of
spelling and pronunciation. (see dialogue 1 and 2).
D. LISTENING AND WRITING SKILLS
Listen to the song and pay attention to each lyrics, then write the words that said by the singer.
Filling out the words in the blanks of the song

HEAL THE WORLD

BY MICHAEL JACKSON

THERE'S A PLACE IN YOUR …….

AND I KNOW THAT IT IS ………..
AND THIS PLACE COULD BE MUCH BRIGHTER THAN TOMORROW
AND IF YOU REALLY …….
YOU'LL FIND THERE'S NO NEED TO ……
IN THIS PLACE YOU'LL FEEL THERE'S NO HURT OR ………
THERE ARE WAYS TO GET THERE
IF YOU CARE ENOUGH FOR THE LIVING
MAKE A …….. SPACE
MAKE A ……… PLACE...

REFF:

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 HEAL THE ………..
MAKE IT A BETTER PLACE
FOR YOU AND FOR ME AND THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE
THERE ARE PEOPLE ………
IF YOU CARE ENOUGH FOR THE ……..
MAKE A BETTER PLACE FOR YOU AND FOR ME

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY

THERE'S A LOVE THAT CANNOT …….
LOVE IS STRONG [
IT ONLY CARES OF JOYFUL ……….
IF WE TRY, WE SHALL SEE IN THIS BLISS
WE CANNOT FEEL ……. OR DREAD
WE STOP EXISTING AND START LIVING
THEN IT FEELS THAT ALWAYS
LOVE'S ENOUGH FOR US GROWING
SO MAKE A BETTER ………
MAKE A BETTER WORLD...
(BACK TO THE REFF)

AND THE DREAM WE WERE CONCEIVED IN

WILL REVEAL A JOYFUL FACE
AND THE WORLD WE ONCE BELIEVED IN
WILL SHINE AGAIN IN ……….
THEN WHY DO WE KEEP STRANGLING
LIFE WOUND THIS EARTH
CRUCIFY ITS ……
THOUGH IT'S PLAIN TO SEE
THIS WORLD IS HEAVENLY BE GOD'S GLOW
WE COULD FLY SO ……..
LET OUR SPIRITS NEVER DIE
IN MY …….. I FEEL YOU ARE
ALL MY …………
CREATE A WORLD WITH NO FEAR
TOGETHER WE CRY HAPPY ……..
SEE THE NATIONS TURN THEIR SWORDS INTO PLOWSHARES
WE COULD REALLY GET THERE
IF YOU CARED ENOUGH FOR THE LIVING
MAKE A LITTLE SPACE TO MAKE A BETTER PLACE...

E. VOCABULARY TEST
 Find out the words as much as possible which are pronounced /si:/, /bi:/, /ti:/
and /es/ in the initial words.
 Find out the meaning of the following terms: classify, recording, cash, debt,
credit, discount, transfer, internal, external, receipt.
 Do the scrambles below

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 Basic English 1
UNIT 3
PUNCTUATIONS

1. PERIOD (.)
 Period is used to mark the end of a sentence:
Edward walked into the hotel.
 Period is used after initials:
T.E. Mason. Or Susan L. Militon
 Period is used after abbreviations:
Dr. Mrs. N.Y.

2. QUESTION MARK (?)

Question mark indicates the end of a direct question:
How can the cars climb the steep hills?
Note: it is not used at the end of an indirect question:
He asked who had been the first to arrive.
3. EXCLAMATION POINT (!)
Exclamation point is used at the end of a sentence expressing anger, amazement or other
strong emotion:
Get out!
Of course!
What a wonderful surprise!
4. COMMA (,)
a. Used to separate items in a list :
Red, pink, yellow and white flowers filled the vase.
b. Used after adverbial clauses and phrases, and phrases without a verb, that come before the
main clause:
When the sun shines brightly, the world seems a happier place.
Happy and contented, she feels asleep.
c. Used before and after any element that interrupts the sentences:
The fire, although it had been put out, was still very hot.
d. Used before and after a part of a sentence which gives more information about the subject:
The Alps, which are the highest mountains in Europe, are a popular centre for skiers.
e. Sometimes used to separate main clauses joined by a conjunction:
We look forward to meeting him, but found him very unpleasant.
f. Commas are used in dates to enclose the year when the date appears in a sentence:
July 4, 1776, marks the signing of the declaration of independence.
g. Commas enclose degrees and titles that follow the name:
George Talbot Hunt, Ph.D., Professor of History, Western Reserve University.
h. A comma follows the close in a letter:
Sincerely, fondly,
i. A comma follows the salutation in a personal letter:
Dear Bob,

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 j. A question attached to the end of a sentence is set off by a comma and ends with a
question mark:
Those are your books, aren’t they?

5. COLON (:)
a. Used after a main clause where the following statement illustrates the content of the
clause:
The garden had been neglected: it was full of weeds.
b. Used before a long list:
Your shopping list should include the following items: sugar, bread, coffee, meat,
vegetables.
c. The colon may also follow expression such as the following or as follows:
When morning came, they wished for the following: breakfast in bed, heavy clothing, and
more oil for the heater.
d. The colon follows the salutation in a business letter
Dear Mrs. Mason:
e. The colon separates hours and minutes in writing time:
Departure time is 12:00 P.M., and arrival in London is 6:15 A.M.
6. SEMICOLON (;)
a. Used to separate two parts of a sentence which are closely related :
He had never been to Rusia; it had always been his ambition.
b. Used to separate parts of a sentence already separated by commas:
There are two facts to consider ; first, the weather; second, the expense.

7. DASH (—)
a. The dash, approximately twice as long as the hyphen, used to isolate part of a sentence as
a question, a comment or for extra information :
The idea—so I belief—came from my brother.
The giant trees, spectacular waterfalls, peaceful meadows—who could ask for more?
b. Used instead of a colon or semicolon to make the writing more dramatic :
People crowded in, ambulances arrived, flames roared into the air—it was chaos.
8. HYPHEN (-)
a. Used to form a compound from two other words:
Hard-hearted ; fork-lift truck
b. Used to form a compound from a prefix :
Ex-president ; pre-recorded
c. Used to form a compound word from two other words which are separated by a
preposition :
Mother-in-law ; out-of-date.
d. Numerals and fractions may be used as compound adjectives :
Ninety-five thirty-third
e. Numerals and nouns may be used in combination as adjectives :
Thirty-cent five-year
f. Two adjectives may be combined to name nationalities:
Anglo-Indian German-American
9. APOSTROPHE (’)
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 a. Used with ‘s’ to indicate the possessive :
 Singular noun :
The dog’s bone
Sailor’s cap
A dollar’s worth
 Singular noun ending in ‘s’
The princess’s smile
 Singular proper noun ending in ‘s’ (two possible forms) :
King Charles’s crown : King Charles’ crown
Davis’s home : Davis’ home
 Plural noun:
Students’ book
Dentists’ convention
Three dollars’ worth
 Irregular noun :
Men’s jackets
Women’s club
Children’s toys
b. Used in contracted form to indicate the omission of letters or figures :
I’m (I am) : he’s (he is/ he has)
In’77 (1977)
In the 1960’s / the 1960s

EXERCISE 2

1. Write a sentence in which a comma and coordinating conjunction are used.

2. Write a sentence that requires one or more semicolons
3. Write a sentence in which commas are used to separate words or word groups in a series.
4. Write a sentence in which a colon introduces a series.
5. Write a sentence in which a question comes at the end of the sentence.
6. Write a sentence in which has a dash in it.
7. Write a sentence in which you use as follows or the following.

10. QUOTATION MARKS (“”)

a. Double quotation marks (“……….”) enclose the actual words of a speaker or passages
quoted from a publication.
Example: The decorator wrote, “Deep colors make the walls of a room seem heavy.”
She asked, “Why did he go?”
b. Double quotation marks enclose titles of short stories, poems, songs, articles, television
programs, and other short works :
Example: “The End of the Something”
“A Very Precious Love”
c. The position of various marks of punctuation in relation to the final set of a pair of
quotation marks may be determined by the following rules:
 Commas and periods are placed inside the quotation marks.

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 Examples:
“I misplaced my notes,” she explained.
The men replied, “I have not completed the work.”
 Colons and semicolons are placed outside the quotation marks.
Example:
I selected Poe’s : “The Raven”, she preferred Coleridge’s: “Kubla Khan.”
 Question marks and exclamation point are placed inside the quotation marks when
they refer to the quotation itself.
Example:
She asked, “When did you arrive?”
“What a surprise!” the girl exclaimed.
 Question marks and exclamation points are placed outside the quotation marks
when they refer to the entire sentence in which the quotation occurs.
Example:
Who said, “A little learning is a dangerous thing”?
d. Single quotation marks (‘….’) are used to enclose a quotation within a quotation.
Example:
Mary replied, “I’m sure the teacher said,’ We may have an exam’ ”.

EXERCISE 3

Re-write and insert quotation marks wherever they are needed in the following sentences.

1. The historian wrote in the early day travel was difficult because of poor roads.
2. He said I waited at the office but the doctor did not come.
3. He will come she thought.
4. I asked has Jhon finished his work
5. Tell him to begin his story with once upon a time …… to catch their attention the writer
said wryly.
6. No they shouted.
7. They wondered what will be done
8. The lawyer asked where is the agreement
9. He exclaimed the dam has broken
10. The song flying without wings seemed to give us hope when we had very little Tom’s
father recalled.

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 Basic English 1
UNIT 4
NUMBERS AND QUANTITY
Lecturer: Rosdiana Mata, SS., M.Pd

Objectives
After completing this lesson you should be able to:
 Make statements using cardinals and ordinal numbers.
 Express simple calculation.
 Talk about quantities of countable and uncountable nouns.
A. READING SKILLS
Dialogue 1
Andrew : “Jane, can you go shopping for me, please?”
Jane : “Sure. What would you like me to buy?”
Andrew : “We’d like a kg of sugar, three pineapples, and four cans of milk.”
Jane : “Alright!”
Andrew : “How much are they altogether?.”
Jane : “one kilo of sugar costs one thousand and eight hundred rupiahs. One
pineapple is three hundred rupiahs and a can of milk is one thousand and
three hundred rupiahs.”

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Andrew : “so Rp. 1.800,- for sugar and 3 times Rp.300,- is nine hundred rupiahs for
the pineapples and 4 times Rp. 1.200,- equals four thousand and eight
hundred rupiahs for the milk.”
Jane : “yes, Sir! So there are … Rp. 1800,- plus Rp.900,- plus Rp. 4800,- is equal
to seven thousand five hundred rupiahs.”
Andrew : “OK! Here is ten thousand rupiahs”
Jane : “Do you have the exact change, Sir?”
Andrew : “How much is there?”
Jane : “Rp. 10.000,- minus Rp.7.500,- is two thousand and five hundred rupiahs”
Andrew : “How about the cost of transportation?”
Jane : “Oh. Yes. I think I just need only five hundred rupiahs for transportation.”
Andrew : “So, the change is two thousand rupiahs.”
Jane : “Yes, Sir!”
Andrew : “OK. Then. Just keep it!”

EXERCISE 1.
Questions
1. How much is a kg of sugar?
2. How much is a pineapple?
3. How many pineapples does Andrew want?
4. How much is the milk?
5. How much milk does Andrew want?
6. How much money will Jane have left?

DIALOGUE 2
A: “This building is very tall.”
B: “Yes, it is. It’s one of the tallest buildings in this town. It has 14 floors.”
A: “What is there on the fourteenth floor?”
B: “There is a restaurant.”
A: “Where is the Cineplex?”
B: “It is on the thirteenth.”
A: “And where can we go shopping?”
B: “The supermarket is on the fifth and the department store is on the sixth floor.”
A: “What about the first and second floor?”
B: “On floor 1 and 2 we can find offices and in the 3rd, we can find someone banks and small
variety shops.”
A: “Gee! So we can find almost everything in this building.”
B: “Certainly!”

EXERCISE 2.

Questions
1. How many floors does the building have?

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2. Where can we see a movie?
3. Where is the restaurant?
4. What is there on the third floor?
5. What can we find on the fifth floor?

Attention Attention

To ask about the price of something you To subtracted, you say:

say: (8-3= 5)—eight minus three is
How much is the milk? five
the sugar?
a pineapple? subtracted by
are the pineapples?
the shoes? To multiply, you say:
How much does the milk cost?
(4x4= 16)-Four times four is sixteen
the sugar?
a pineapple? Multiplied by

do the pineapples cost? To divide you say:

the shoes? (21:3= 7) twenty one divided by three

is seven.
Those questions are the same as you say:
To ask about calculation, you say:
What’s the price of the milk?
What is twenty four plus four?
What is the milk price? minus
divided by
To answer the questions above, you say: times
To answer those questions, you say:
The milk is Rp. 5.200,- per can
Twenty four plus four is ……..
minus
The sugar is Rp.5.800,- per kg
divided by
The pineapples are Rp.3000,- per times
head
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The shoes are Rp.150.000,- per
pair

To add, you say:

 (2+6 = 8) --two plus six is eight

Equals

is equal to

or two added to six is eight

B. SPEAKING SKILLS
 Ask questions about the property of a person and put the information in the boxes. For
example:

NO. Name Money Textbooks etc

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

C. LISTENING SKILLS
 Listen and repeat the words from CD Audio. (see page 7)
 Listen and tick the words you recognize in the sentences you hear:
1. a) sheep; b) ship
2. a) bean; b) bin
3. a) cheeks; b) chicks
4. a) cheap; b) chip
5. a) heel; b) hill
6. a) peel; b) pill

D. GRAMMAR SKILLS
A COUNTABLE NOUN AND UNCOUNTABLE NOUN (173)
All nouns in English are classified as either count or non-count (some people call them
countable/non-countable ). This way probably started as a way to trading lists, and is therefore
easily learned in that way.
 If you go shopping and can draw one item, that item is countable noun:
e.g: apple, orange, carrot, chair, table, bed, suit, shirt

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  However, if you draw a bottle, box or any other type of container, that item is not
countable noun.
e.g. sugar, salt, bread ; beer, vodka, water.
 All abstract nouns are considered non-countable noun.
 Name of categories are considered non-count, but the items in the categories are
considered countable:
 Money is uncountable noun; dollar, yen, peso, pound sterling are count.
 Furniture is uncountable noun; chair, bed, sofa and desk are count.
 Food is uncountable noun; apple, hamburger, steak and salad are count.
Sometimes nouns can be both countable and uncountable noun. Often when discussing the
general idea, the uncountable noun. When discussing a specific example, or member of a group,
the noun becomes countable. Look at these examples below:
Wine is not cheap (the topic is ALL)
The wines in that store are good. (the topic is the wine in that particular store)

Tea is healthy. (the general idea of herbs in water)

Teas made with ginger are beneficial for the stomach. (specific types of teas)

I like bread. (The idea of bread)

That bakery has a variety of breads. (Many types of bread)

When discussing uncountable nouns, it is common to give a counter so that the listener can
imagine a quantity of the noun.
e.g. two bottles of wine.
Three loaves of bread.
2 kilos of sugar.
When you describe countable nouns , use the adjective “many, several and a few”. When you
describe uncountable nouns, use the adjective “much, a little”. Uncountable nouns are always
considered singular. If a counter is used, the counter can be plural, but the noun remains singular.
When discussing both countable and uncountable nouns, the description “some” is
possible. Remember to check that the verb is in the correct form:
There is some sugar (uncountable nouns)
There are some people (countable nouns)

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 EXERCISE 3
Directions: look at the italicized nouns in the sentence. Write “C” above the count nouns
and “NC” above the non count nouns.
C C C NC
11. I bought some chairs, tables, and desks. In other words, I bought some furniture.
12. Ann likes to wear jewelry. Today she is wearing four rings, six bracelets, and a
necklaces.
13. We saw beautiful mountains, fields and lakes on our trip. In other words, we saw
beautiful scenery.
14. Gold and iron are metals
15. I used an iron to press my wrinkled shirt.
16. In the United States, baseballs are called the national pastime. To play it, you need a
baseball and a bat.
EXERCISE 4
Directions: change the measurement or number of things in the sentences below using :
many, some, several, a few, much, or a little. For example:
There are 100 cassettes in my house.
There are many cassettes in my house.
6. I have just Rp. 100,- here in my pocket.
7. It’s the dry season now, there is only a gallon of water there.
8. It’s only three days before my birthday.
9. Yes, I think we have three or four pens in the drawer.
10. There are about 6 students waiting for your outside.
11. She is rich. She has 1 million rupiahs in cash in her bag.
12. Don’t worry, we still have 2 kg of rice for tomorrow.
E. TONGUE TWISTER!
She sells sea shells by the sea shore
He smells like sea shells by the sea shore

LISTENING PART 1.

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 Basic English 1
UNIT 5
ASKING AND ANSWERING QUESTIONS
Lecturer: Rosdiana Mata, SS., M.Pd

Dialogue 1

Maya : Which channel is your favorite?

Tara : I like channel E-news

Maya : Why do you like it?

Tara : Well, it has many interesting programs, such as soap operas and quiz shows.

Maya : I don’t like watching soap operas. I like watching news and music programs.

Tara : What is your favorite program?

Maya : Hmm, I like both CNN and MTV.

Tara : I like MTV to. It has many good programs.

Maya : We have to be careful though. We are not supposed to watch too much TV.

Tara : You are right,

Dialogue 2

Study the following dialogue, and then take turn with your friend.

Hari and Mahmud : Good morning, sir.

Teacher : Good morning. Please, sit down both of you.

Hari and Mahmud : Thank you, sir.

Teacher : I want to talk to you both because I notice you have not been on good
terms recently. Do you have any problems?

Hari : I don’t know, sir.

Teacher : You don’t know?

Hari : I tried talking to him, but he would not respond; so at the end, I gave up.

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Teacher : Can you tell me what’s wrong then, Mahmud?

Mahmud : He’s talking about me behind my back, sir. And that’s why I don’t want to
be his friend anymore.

Teacher : Is that true, Hari?

Hari : No, who told you that?

Mahmud : Karim. He said you told him I’m dishonest and a liar.

Hari : That’s not true. I never talked behind your back, and I certainly did not
say those things to him.

Teacher : Alright, now. I think it would be better if I talked to Karim, too. You two
can go back to class now. Tell Karim to come to see me, will you, please.
I’ll call you back in later.

Hari and Mahmud : Yes, sir.

Questions

1. What does the teacher notice?

2. What does Mahmud say about Hari?
3. Who told Mahmud about Hari?
4. What does the teacher ask them to do?

Asking Questions

1. Yes / No Questions is a question that can be answered by yes or no. For example:

a. Do you like tea? Yes, I do OR No, I don’t.

b. Did Jim call? Yes, he did. OR No, he didn’t.
c. Have you met Ali? Yes, I have OR No, I haven’t.
d. Is it raining? Yes, it is OR No, it isn’t.
e. Will Rob be here Yes, he will OR No, he won’t (will no)
2. An information question is a question that asks for information by using a question word:
where, when, why, what, who and how.

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 What is the most common question. What is used as the subject of a question. It refers to
to “thing” For example: “What made you angry?” “His rudenes”.
What is also used as an object, for example: “What do you need?” “A pencil”

What is used for asking general description of qualities, asking for a physical description,
to ask questions about activities and also it may accompany a Noun. For exmple:

What is Ed like? What is the weather like?

What does Ed look like? What does her house look like?

What did you do last night? What is Mary doing?

What Countries did you visit? What color is her hair?

 Where is used to ask questions about place. For example:

Where is Monas? Monas is in Jakarta.

Where did the accident happen? The accident happened at Jl. Jambu.

 When is used to ask questions about time. For example:

When is your birthday? My birthday is on March, 10.

When did the accident happen? It happened yesterday morning.

 Why is used to ask questions about reason.

Why do you love me? Because you’re beatiful.

Why did he leave early? Because he is ill.

 Who is used to ask questions about people.

Who is your girlfriend? My girlfriend is Felicya.

Who can answer that question? I can.

 How generally asks about manner. For example:

How did you come to school? By bus.

How does he drive? Carefully.

How is used with much and money, for example:

How much money does it cost? Ten dollars

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 How many people came? Fifteen

How is a question that can mean ‘in what state of health’, for example:

How are you? I am fine.

How is your father? He is not very well.

How long asks about length of time:

How long has he been here? Two years

How often asks about frequency:

How often do you swim? Every week

How far asks about distance:

How far is it to Miami from here? 500 miles.

Exercise 1.

Speaker A: Create a yes/no question.

Speaker B: Create an information questions using where.

Example: They can stay there.

A: Can they stay there?

B: Where can they stay?

1. She stays there.

2. She is staying there.
3. She will stay there.
4. They stayed there.
5. John is there.
6. I was living there.
7. They are going to live there.
8. The students can live there.
Exercise 2. Make questions from the following sentences. The words in parentheses should be
the answer to your question.

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 1. I need (five dollars)
 How much money do you need?

2. Roberto was born (in Panama)

3. I go out to eat (at least once a week)
4. I’m waiting for (Maria).
5. (My sister) answered the phone.
6. I called (Benjamin).
7. It is (two hundred miled) to New York.

Basic English 1
UNIT 6
TELLING THE TIME, DAYS, DATES AND MONTHS
Lecturer: Rosdiana Mata, SS., M.Pd

Objectives
After completing this lesson you should be able to:
 Asking and saying the time, days, dates and month.

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 Talk about routines activity.
F. READING SKILLS
Dialogue 1
Jack : Excuse me, sir. I can’t read this timetable. When does the train 214 leave?
Man : it leaves at four-fifteen A.M
Jack : And what time does it arrive in Surabaya?
Man : Wait a minute!. Let me check! It arrives at six twenty five P.M
Jack : All right. I understand. It is easier than I thought. One more thing please. I’ll
come back on Sunday. Should I use the same timetable?
Man : If you turn that page over, you will see the times for holidays and weekends on
the other page.
Jack : “Great”. Thanks for your help.
Man : You’re welcome. Have a nice trip.

DIALOGUE 2
Attention
Rocky: Good morning!
Preposition of time. In telling about time,
Maria: Good morning! Oh, it is you, Rocky. Take a seat please
days dates and months we will use
Rocky: Thanks a lot, Maria. Are you ready to go, now?
preposition of time, but it will be differ
Maria: Yes, I’m ready to. Let’s go! from every kind of using. For example:
Rocky: Do you know what day is it today? AT: with times (at 5 o’clock). Also it can
Maria: Today is Monday. be used:
Rocky: What date is it? At night
Maria: I think it is the second of July, isn’t it?
The weekend
Rocky: I’m not sure, Maria. I just remember that my mother will celebrate her birthday this
month. The end of May
Attention
Maria: Really? What is the exact date? The beginning of June
Asking
Rocky: and saying
I think it is thethe time.
tenth of There
July. are two
ways of saying the time for example: Christmas
Maria: So, you must buy her a present now so that you have a lot time to find it.
One/ one o’clock (1.00) Easter
Rocky: I agree with you.
One fifteen/ quarter past one (1.15)
One thirty/half past one (1.30) ON: with days and dates (On Monday, on
One forty/quarter to two (1.45) 1st August). Also it can be used:

On Monday morning

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Wednesday evening

Thursday night
 IN: with long periods of time (In April, In
1993 and in summer). Also it can be
used:
In the morning
Afternoon
Evening

G. SPEAKING AND WRITING SKILLS

 Ask questions about someone daily activities, complete it with the time, date, month and
year. For example:

NO. activity time Date month year

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
 Write down public holiday in Indonesia and tell it.

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  Write your best moment in your life, family birthday and tell it into a form of paragraph.
H. LISTENING SKILLS
 Listen and repeat the words from CD Audio. (Living English Ep:3)
 Write down the time spoken by the speakers.

I. GRAMMAR SKILLS
Using modals “CAN” and “WILL”
(see the video of living English ep: 3)

Basic English 1
UNIT 7
DESCRIBING PEOPLE
Lecturer: Rosdiana Mata, SS., M.Pd

Objectives

After completing this lesson, you should be able to:

 Ask about the appearance or look of a person

 Describe a person by his/her appearance
 Describe a person by his/her personality

Dialogue 1

Helen : Have you heard about Eliza?

Farah : No, I haven’t. What about her?

Helen : She has just got a new boyfriend.

Farah : Really? What is her new boyfriend like?

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Helen : He is handsome, tall and attractive.

Farah : Is he kind?

Helen : I don’t know exactly. But I’m sure he is kind to Eliza.

Farah : I think this time Eliza is really falling in love.

Helen : Yes, she is. In fact she is very proud of him. She says so many things about him.

Farah : What does she say?

Helen : She says she likes his nose. She likes his well built body. She likes his complexion.

Farah : What is his complexion like?

Helen : It’s white or pale maybe, like a European.

Farah : I see. I think she’s got what she wanted.

Helen : Yes, she certainly has.

Dialogue 2

Officer : So, a man came to your house and committed a robbery.

Anne : Yes, Sir. He took some precious things of ours.

Officer : What does he look like? Can you describe him?

Anne : He was a big, black man with a moustache.

Officer : How tall is he?

Anne : He is much taller than me. I think he’s about 180cm high.

Officer : What about his hair?

Anne : He has short, wavy, dark hair.

Officer : All right. Was there anything special about his appearance?

Anne : His nose is hooked and he’s got a black spot in his chain.

Officer : Okay, Thank you, Mrs. Jackson for the information. I hope we can figure out who he
really is.

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Anne : Thank you.

Questions

1. What is Eliza’s new boy friend like?

2. What is his body like?

3. What does Eliza like about him?

4. Why is Eliza proud of him?

5. Where does the conversation between Anne and the officer possibly take place?

6. What is the robber like?

7. What is his height?

8. What are his special characteristics?

I. Reading Text:

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American entrepreneur who find the social networking site
Facebook.. He is a billionaire due to his 24% share of Facebook. Zuckerberg was born in White
Plains, New York on May 14, 1984 and raised in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Zuckerberg's parents
are Jewish, but he considers himself an atheist. He started programming when he was in middle
school. Early on, Zuckerberg enjoyed developing computer programs, especially communication
tools and games. Before attending Phillips Exeter Academy beginning in his junior year of high
school, he went to school at Ardsley High School. He transferred to Phillips Exeter Academy
where he immersed himself in Latin. He also built a program to help the workers in his father's
office communicate; he built a version of the game Risk, and under the company name
Intelligent Media Group, he built a music player named the Synapse Media Player that used
artificial intelligence to learn the user's listening habits, which was posted to Slashdot and
received a rating of 3 out of 5 from PC Magazine. Microsoft and AOL tried to purchase Synapse
and recruit Zuckerberg, but he decided to attend Harvard College instead, which he attended in
September 2002.

Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room on February 4, 2004.
The idea for Facebook came from his days at Phillips Exeter Academy, which, like most colleges
and prep schools, had a long-standing tradition of publishing an annual student directory with
headshot photos of students, faculty and staff known as the "Facebook". Once at college,
Zuckerberg's Facebook started off as just a "Harvard thing" until Zuckerberg decided to spread

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Facebook to other schools, enlisting the help of roommate Dustin Moskovitz. They first spread it
to Stanford, Dartmouth, Columbia, New York University, Cornell, Brown and Yale, and then to
other schools with social contacts with Harvard. Zuckerberg moved to Palo Alto, California, with
Moskovitz and some friends. They leased a small house that served as an office. Over the
summer, Zuckerberg met Peter Thiel who invested in the company. They got their first office
during the summer of 2004. According to Zuckerberg, the group planned to return to Harvard in
the fall but eventually decided to remain in California. On July 21, 2010, Zuckerberg reported on
the Facebook blog that the company reached the 500 million-user mark.

II. Vocabulary Exercise

Match the sentences with the following words in the box.

billionaire company entrepreneur office staff investment

1. A person who starts or run a businnes.

2. Person who has a thousand million dollars or a very rich person.

3. Room or building where people work.

4. A business organization.

5. Using money to buy business shares, property, etc in order to make more money.

6. All the workers employed in an organization considered as a group.

III. Reading Comprehension

Circle T if the sentence is true. Circle F if the sentence is false.

1. Mark Zuckerberg is the finder of social networking site My Space. T F

2. Now, Zuckerberg is 26 years old. T F

3. Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room. T F

4. Zuckerberg decided to work with Microsoft and AOL. T F

5. In 2010, Facebook has reached 350 million-user mark. T F

IV. Describing Someone

A. Appearance (Tampang atau Ciri fisik)

There are several forms to decribe someone’s appearance:

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Question:

What + does/do + S + look like?

- What does Dirly look like?

- What do they look like?

Other examples:

 What does she/he look like?

 What does your father look like?

 What do they look like?

Answer/ response:

1. S + have/has + ADJECTIVE + Parts of the body

S + to be + ADJECTIVE

 She has long hair, a ponted nose, thin lips, blue eyes, etc.
 He is tall, big and handsome.

 They are short.

2. S + look (s) + ADJECTIVE

 She looks tall and fat.

 They look thin

 Tanty looks beautiful.

3. S + look (s) like + Nouns

 He looks like an actor.

 They look like doctors.

 She looks like a model.

 To ask about the look of a certain part of body, you say:

 What is his complexion like?

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  What is his nose like?

 What is his body like?

 To answer those questions, you say:

 His nose is hooked or He has a hooked nose

His nose is pointed or He has a pointed nose

 His complexion is pale or He has a pale complexion

His complexion is dark or He has a dark complexion

 His body is well-built or He has a well-built body

His body is slim or He has a slim body

B. Personality

To describe personality, we may use the following sentence form :

Question:

What + to be + S + like?

Examples:

 What is Anton like?

 What is Rina like?

 What is your father like?

 What is she/he like?

 What are they like?

Answer/ Response:

S + to be + ADJ/ character

 She is calm, kind and humorous.

 My girlfriend is friendly and intelligent.

 They are diligent and smart.

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  My father is talkactive but kind.

Now find the meaning of the following words to describe the appearance of a person!

Face Build Height

Oval fat 170cm

Long thin medium height

Round slim average height

Square plump below average

Heart-shaped medium-built tall

Well-built short

Overweight

Nose Eyes Complexion

Long blue gray / pale

Straight brown sunburned / tanned

Hooked with thick eyelashes olive skinned

Broken with long eyelashes oriental brown

Thin eyebrows black white

Chin Lips

Cleft thin

Pointed full

Double wet

Hairstyle Hair colour

Long a fringe black brunette

Short swept back brown redhead

Straight in a bun red mousey

Wavy pony tail fair dark

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Curly bald blonde gray

Neat balding white

Look up your dictionary for the meaning of the words to describe the personality of a person.

Aggressive moody talkative amusing

Polite thoughtful calm reliable

Wise cheerful reserved friendly

Sociable lively sophisticated etc…

Exercise 1. Fill in the blanks with the following words.

Like tall wavy oriental look

Personality pointed sociable square balding

1. Jane’s hair is beautiful. It is long and …………………………….

2. What does your new friend look ……………………………?

3. Tony is still young, but his hair is ……………………………

4. A beautiful girl usually has a ………………….. nose.

5. Ina is famous in her village because she is …………………………..

6. John’s height is 185cm. He is very ………………………….

7. My brother and I are very different. We do not ………………… the same. He is tall, but I
am short.

8. Everybody likes Nina. She has a kind ………………………………..

9. Mike Tyson has a …………………………. face.

10. Rebecca is a true blue Aussie, but her skin is ……………………………………

Comparison and Superlatives

 For a one syllable word, we use …… er and est.

For example: tall becomes taller – tallest

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 strong becomes stronger - strongest

[Exceptions: good  better – best, bad  worse – worst]

 For words with more than two syllables, we use ……….more ….. and most ………….

For example: beautiful becomes more beautiful – most beautiful

attractive becomes more attractive - most attractive

 For a two syllable words we can use either ……..er and ………..est

more ……….. and most……………….

For example: pretty becomes prettier and prettiest

OR more pretty and most pretty

Exercise 2. Do the following exercise. Number 1 has been done for you.

1. Anny is 165cm tall. Evelyn is 170cm and Erica is 175cm.

Anny is tall. Evelyn is taller than Anny. Erica is the tallest among the three girls.

2. Andy’s pocket money is Rp.3000,- a day. While, Shinta’s and Lina’s is Rp. 4000 and
Rp.5000 respectively. Perhaps Andy’s family is rich.

Lina’s ………………………..

And Shinta’s ……………………………………..

3. There are about three boys interested in Amy, and five boys are interested in Indira and most
boys are interested in Nany.

I think Amy is ……………………………

Indira is …………………………………..

Nany is ………………………………….

4. Ali can lift an object weighing about 75kg, while Jack and Rob can lift something that weight
50kg and 60kg respectively. So, how do you compare their strengths?

5. JJ shirts cost Rp.40.000 each. Hammer shirts are worth Rp.50.000,- and Levi’s shirts are
Rp.65.000.

So, JJ shirts are ………….

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 Hammers shirts ………………………….

And Levi’s …………………………………….

Exercise 3.

Look around your friends and describe their looks and personality and put the information in the
table below. For example:

Henny is a girl with wavy and long hair. She is tallish and slim. Her face is oval-shaped with a small
pointed nose and thin lips. She’s got small black eyes with thin eyes brows.

Name Height Body Face Nose Eyes Hair personality

V. Writing

My selfish brother

My brother is very selfish. He does not want to share things with other people. For example,
when he buys a bar of chocolate, he puts in a secret place. Then, he eats it all, by himself. He
never helps anyone. He says he is busy. For example, a game of tennis or play station makes him
very busy. He does not care if something he does bothers other people. For instance, last night he
played loud rock n’ roll music until four o’clock in the morning. In conclusion, I think my
brother is selfish, and will always be selfish.

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LIKE AND DISLIKE

1. Listening

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 Listen to Jim, John, and Phil discussing sports and exercise. Try to understand the
conversation.

Jim : How good are you at sports, John?

John : Are you kidding? I’m terrible! But I love to watch sports. I go to football or
basketball games all the time. And I buy three or four different sport magazines
every week.

Jim : Wow!

Phil : Do you like sports, Jim?

Jim : Oh, yes. I like to exercise. But I don’t watch sports very much, and I never buy
sports magazines.

Phil : How much time do you spend exercising?

Jim : Well, I guess I exercise about two or three hours a day. I do aerobics three times
a week and the other day I go swimming. It makes me feel good.

Phil : That’s great.

John : And what about you, Phil?

Phil : Oh, I’m too lazy to play sports – I really hate exercising! And almost never go
to any sporting events. In my free time, I like to sit with my feet up and watch
my favourite TV shows.

1. Is John good at sports?

2. Does John like to watch sports?

3. How many times in a week does John buy sport magazines?

4. Does Jim like sports?

5. Does Phil like sports? What does he like to do in his free time?

2. Speaking

A. Answer the following questions orally.

1. What do you like to do in your spare time?

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 2. With whom do you usually do it?

3. How do you feel doing something you like? Explain your answer.

B. Read and study the following dialogue, and then answer the questions below
orally.

Hadi : How do you like music?

Asih : Oh, I like it very much, especially pop music. How about you?

Hadi : I’m not very keen on pop music. Music is not my hobby.

Asih : Then, what is your favourite hobby?

Hadi : You know I like hiking and parachuting.

Asih : Those dangerous things?

Hadi : Yes, parachuting is very enjoyable. Try it, and you will love it.

Asih : No, Thanks. I’m not an adventurous type.

Questions:

1. Who likes music, Hadi or Asih?

2. What music does she/he like best?

3. What does she/he say about it?

4. Does Hadi like music very much?

5. What is his hobby actually?

6. What does he think about it?

7. Does Asih like parachuting?

3. Reading

Jimmy lived in the country, and he loved playing in a very shallow river near his house;
but then his father got a job in a big city, and he moved there with his family. Their new house
had a garden, but the garden was very small. Jimmy wasn’t happy.

“Is there a river near here?” he asked his mother on the first morning.

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His mother answered, “No, there isn’t, but there is a beautiful park near here, Jimmy, and there’s
a pool in it. We’ll go there this afternoon.” Then Jimmy was happy.

After lunch, Jimmy and his mother went to the park. Jimmy wanted to walk near the pool, but
there was a sign in front of it. His mother read it to him: “WARNING: This pool is dangerous.
367 people have fallen into it.” Jimmy looked into the pool carefully. Then he said, “I can’t see
them”.

Answer the following questions.

1. Where did Jimmy play in the country?

2. Why wasn’t he happy in the city?
3. What did he ask his mother?
4. What did she answer?
5. What did the sign in front of the pool say?
6. What did Jimmy say when his mother read the sign to him?
4. Grammar Focus

Expressions of Like and Dislike

Like  I like ....

 I love ...

 I enjoy ...

 I’m really keen on ....

 My favourite sport is ....

 I’m very fond of ....

Dislike  I don’t like ...

 I dislike ...

 I hate ...

 I’m not very keen on ...

 I’m not very fond of ...

Example:

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- I like fried chicken. She likes apples.

- I love reading novel. Father dislike watching movie.

- They enjoy wearing blue jeans. We hate eating vegetable.

- I’m really keen on R n’ B music. He’s not very keen on pop music.

- I’m very fond of sport. I’m not very fond of sport.

Preference

Like ..... better than S + like .... + better than

Prefer .... to .... S + prefer ..... to

Would rather S + would rather .... + than

Example:

- I like rice better than bread.

- She likes singing better than dancing.

- I prefer rice to bread.

- She prefers singing to dancing.

- I would rather have rice than bread.

- She would rather sing than dance.

A. Combine the sentences below using like ..... better than and prefer .... to.

Example:

Father drinks tea. He doesn’t drink much coffee.

-Father likes tea better than coffee.

- Father prefers tea to coffee.

1. John usually drives a car. He sometimes cycles to the office.

2. I often play badminton. I rarely play football.

3. My sister cooks the dinner. She rarely washes the clothes.

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4. Wulan eats oranges. She doesn’t eat apples.

5. I seldom go to the cinema. I usually watch television.

6. They don’t like winter. They like summer.

B. Rewrite the sentences using would rather + than

Example:

He prefers milk to coffee.

-He would rather have milk than coffee.

She likes studying better than listening to music

- She would rather study than listen to the music.

1. They prefer staying at home to going out.

2. My uncle likes travelling by ship better than by plane.

3. I like studying history better than biology.

4. He prefers eating at the cafetaria to Chinesse reastaurant.

5. We like renting a car better than going by bus.

5. Writing

Write activities that you usually do. See the example.

I like sports. My favorite sport is football. I play football with my friends once a week on the
weekend. My parents allow me to play until late because I don’t have to go to school the next
day. I also like basketball. I play basketball twice a month at the sport center. If I have to choose,
I prefer playing football to playing basketball.

UNIT 9

DESCRIBING OBJECTS
Objectives

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After completing this lesson, the students should be able to:

 Describe an object by its colour;

 Describe an object by its shape;
 Describe an object by measurement;
 Describe an object by its function;
 Describe an object by its properties;
 Ask about the appearance of an object;

A. READING SKILLS

Dialogue 1

Caty : Did you see a case, Dani?

Dani : What case?

Caty : A pencil case.

Dani : There were several pencil cases here. What colour is your case?

Caty : It’s black.

Dani : How big is it?

Caty : It’s about this big, 20cm long and 5 cm wide.

Dani : And the shape?

Caty : It is shaped like a cube.

Dani : Oh yes. Somebody took it. I think it’s in the administration office now.

Caty : Ok, thank you.

Dialogue 2

Gina : I’m going to design an invitation card for my birthday.

Hani : Yes, it’s better to make it yourself than to buy it.

Gina : How big should it be?

Hani : I think it should be small about 10 cm wide.

Gina : What about the shape? Should it be rectangular in shape?

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Hani : Why don’t you make it heart-shaped? And the colour?

Gina : Make it pink then.

Hani : All right. Thank you for your suggestion.

Questions:

1. Who lost the box?

2. What is the box for?

3. What is the box like?

4. Who will design an invitation card?

5. What will the card be like?

Useful Expression

To ask about the colour of an object, you say?

 What colour is it?

What colour is your new shirt?

 What is the colour of it?

 What is the colour of your new shirt?

To answer those questions, you say:

 It is black It is white

It is red It is yellow

It is blue It is pink

It is brown It is orange

It is green It is violet

It is gray

To ask about the shape, you say:

 What shape is it? What shape is the case?

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  What is the shape of it? What is the shape of the case?

To answer the questions, you say:

 The shape is rectangular or it is rectangular in shape.

 It is triangular.

 It is circular.

 It is square.

 It is pyramidical.

 It is conical.

 It is cylindrical.

 It is cubic.

Or you can also say:

 The shape is like a rectangle

 It is shaped like a triangle.

To ask about measurement of an object, you say:

 How big is it?

wide

high

long

thick

 How much does it weight? Or you can also say:

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 What is the size of it?

the height

the width

the length

the thickness

the weight

the area

To answer those questions, you say:

 It is 150cm high or Its height is 150 cm

 It is 50 cm wide or its width is 50cm

 It is 70cm long or its length is 70cm

 It is 5cm thick or its thickness is 5cm

 It weights 50 kg or its weight 50kg

 The area of rectangle is 60 cm² (Read: sixty square centimeters)

 The area of the box is 150 cm³ (Read: A hundred and fifty cubic centimeters)

To ask about the function of an object, you say:

 What is the function of it? Or What is the function of the dictionary?

 What is it for? Or What is the dictionary for?

To answer those questions, you say:

 Its function is to hold pens

 It is for finding out the correct pronunciation of a word.

To ask about the property of an object, you say:

 What does it have? Or What does it consist of?

 What are its properties?

To answer those questions, you say:

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  It has one leg. It has two legs. It has a handle

 It consists of four legs and one seat

 It consists of a keyboard, a CPU and a monitor.

Exercise 1. Fill in the blanks with the following words.

Rectangle triangular square cubic shape rectangular

Circle cone cylindrical triangle circular

Conical pyramidal

1. Much of the books are ……… in shape.

2. You should have a safety …………………. in front of the car that breaks down.

3. The full moon is always ……………………..

4. An edible container of ice cream is usually ……………………….

5. In Indonesia it is difficult to find white sugar in …………………..

6. Pipes are always ………………….. in shape.

7. A coin is shaped like a ……………………………

8. The shape of TV screen is ……………………………

9. A blackboard usually shaped like a ………………………….

10. The letter A is …………………….. in shape.

Exercise 2. Fill in the blanks with the following words.

Size length big long high thickness

Height thick width weight wide weigh

1. My dictionary is 1050 pages …………………………………..

2. The ……………………. of the main street should be at least 12m.

3. What ………………………. shoes do you wear?

4. What is your ………………….? It is 60kg.

5. How …………………. is your refrigerator? It’s just enough for a family of tree.

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 6. My girl-friend is taller than me. Her ……………. Is 170cm.

7. How ………………………….. is the sky? Nobody knows.

8. Jl.Sudirman is not as ………………… as Jl.Merdeka.

9. The ……………………of that glass is 0,5cm.

10. The street in front of my house is more than 12m ……………………………..

B. SPEAKING SKILLS
Let’s make a conversation about describing an object by it’s color, shape, measurement,
function and properties or features. Do in pairs or a group.

C. WRITING SKILLS
please write in a piece of paper about a things around you, then describe it based on it’s color,
shape, measurement, function and properties or features.

D. GRAMMAR POINTS
THERE IS vs TO HAVE

These structures both show a relationship between the speaker and others.

“I“Ihave”
have”isisused
usedininthe
thefollowing
followingsituations:
situations:
Toemphasise
emphasiseownership
ownershipororpossession
possessionofofananobject
object
To
e.g.I Ihave
haveaadog
dog
e.g.
thedog
doghas
hasbig
bigteeth
teeth
the
Totalk
talkabout
aboutone
onespecific
specificthing,
thing,rather
ratherthan
thanananidea:
idea:
To
I Ihave
havetwo
twochildren
children
Things to remember about “have”:
To make aThings to remember
question, about “have”:
use the auxiliary verb “do”, in the appropriate form.
To make a question,
Do you use
havethe auxiliary
any brothersverb “do”, in the appropriate form.
or sisters?
Do you have any classes beforesisters?
Do you have any brothers or 10?
Do you
Does haveaany
he have car?classes before 10?
Does
Did shehe have
have a car?time?
a good
Did she have a good time?
When answering with a reduced form, remember to use the auxiliary “do”, NOT
When answering with a reduced form, remember to use the auxiliary “do”, NOT
“have”
“have” Yes, he did not Yes he had
Yes,
No, he didnot
I don’t not Yes
No, he had
I haven’t
No, I don’t not No, I haven’t
(if you answer with No, 48 I haven’t, you are making the present perfect
(if you answer with No, I haven’t, you are making the present perfect
tense rather than a simple tense)
tense rather than a simple tense)
Have also used with:
 Meals
e.g. I had lunch in Surabaya and dinner in Kupang.
I was very busy this afternoon so I didn’t have lunch.
 Time
e.g. I have time to talk to you now.
When do you have time to meet?
 Aches and pains
e.g. I have a headache.
I have pain in my back.

“There is ” usually used

1. When the subject is invisible to the listener
e.g. There is an extra set of clubs in the trunk
There is a big black spider crowling up your back.

2. To talk about general thing

e.g. There are lots of children in my family
There are many people in the store

3. When there is no obvious owner

e.g. There is lots of water in the canoe
There are many hybrid cars on the market these days
Exercise 3.
In the 4. To emphasize
following something
sentences, to the
underline the subject
listeneronce and the verb twice. Then, mark if the
e.g. There are three mistakes in the report
sentence uses the correct form: there is/are or have. If you think it is correct, mark “No Change :
There is someone waiting for you
NC”. If you think it should be changed, mark “change”, “C” and re-write it.

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 1. There are three cats in my house..
2. There are five people in my family
3. In my house there are 8 rooms.
4. There is a big party next week at the Student Centre.
5. There is much memory in my computer.
6. There is a camera on my cell-phone.
7. Canada has many mountains in the west.
8. There is a lot of smog in my Canadian cities in summer.
9. Toronto usually has nice weather in June.
10. The university has no cheap apartment near it.

UNIT 10
GIVING AND FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS
Objectives
After completing this lesson, you should be able to:

 Follow instructions
 Give simple instruction

Dialogue 1

Jenny : It’s very windy. Close the door, please Daniel.

Daniel : All right, Mom.

Jenny : Turn on the light, Daniel. It’s dark here.

Daniel : Certainly, Mom.

Jenny : Give me those glasses and put this cup on that table.

Daniel : With pleasure, Mom.

Jenny : Good boy, Daniel. And move that chair over here, please.

Daniel : Okay Mom, but please give me a break.

Jenny : Yes, Daniel. Sure.

Dialogue 2

Teacher : Take your English books, please!

Students : All right, sir.

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Teacher : Find page 21.

Students : All right, Sir.

Teacher : Now repeat after me: “Give me the dictionary”.

Students : Give me the dictionary.

Teacher : Good. Nita, stand up, please!

Nita : All right. What must I do, Sir?

Teacher : Write a sentence on the blackboard, please.

Nita : All right, Sir.

Teacher : Good, Thank you. Now, Dino, read that sentence, please.

Dino : Don’t give me the dictionary.

Teacher : Good, Thank you.

Questions

1. Why does Jenny ask Daniel to close the door?

2. Why does Jenny ask Daniel to turn on the light?

Exercise 1

Look around you. Then give positive or negative instruction to your friend. For example:

Amir, close the door, please.

1. ……………………………………………………………. whiteboard.

2. ……………………………………………………………. lamp.

3. …………………………………………………………….. window.

4. …………………………………………………………….. chair.

5. …………………………………………………………….. table.

6. …………………………………………………………….. eraser.

7. …………………………………………………………….. pencil.

8. ……………………………………………………………..

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 9. …………………………………………………………….

10. ……………………………………………………………..

Exercise 2

Try solving the problems below! For example:

What do you with a crying child?

Give him money!

Don’t put him in the locked room!

Take him to the zoo!

Give him some food!

etc.

Now do as in the example above!

1. What do you do with a sick-one month old baby?

2. What do you do with a barking dog?

3. What do you do with a car that breaks down?

4. What should I do if I go camping?

5. If I go abroad soon, what should I do?

6. What do you do with a stubborn child?

7. What do you do with a lazy student?

8. What do you do with a sick-old man?

9. What should I do to keep myself healthy?

10. If I want to go swimming what should I do?

Vocabulary

Learn the following words that are usually used to provide instructions. Find their meaning and practice
pronouncing them.

Words Meaning Words Meaning

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Turn on /off Turn down/ up

Put Chop

Close Prepare

Remove Peel

Switch on/off Enter

Add Press

Mix Keep

Stir Heat

Cut Serve

Dial Push

Exercise 3. Work in pairs and take turns giving and following the instructions below. Make sure your
partner can follow the instructions correctly.

Stand up straight! Touch your knees!

Turn around! Raise your hands!

Sit down! Put your hands on your hips!

Touch the floor! Bend over!

Open the book! Put your hands on your hair!

Close the book! Take your pen!

Touch your ear! Drop your pencil!

Useful Expressions

Below are some expressions used to give and receive instructions.

Less Polite Expressions More Polite Expressions

Turn down the volume of the radio. Turn down the volume of the radio, please.

Chop up some garlic. Could you please chop up some garlic.

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Put the plate in the microwave and press Please put the plate in the microwave and
“start”. press “start”.

Take this medicine with plenty of water. Take this medicine with plenty of water,
please.

Keep the house clean. Can you keep the house clean, please?

Do not open the refrigerator! Please do not open the refrigerator.

Don’t touch the cable! Don’t touch the cable, please.

Exercise 4. Change the following expressions into more polite expressions.

Less Polite More Polite

Turn the volume down! You are disturbing me!

Do not touch this bench. The paint is still wet.

Don’t do that!

Come here!

Close the window! It’s very windy outside.

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