Sabtu, 01 April 2017
Announcement Text (Exercises)
Exercise-1
Read the following Announcement and answer the question below!
Read the following Announcement and answer the question below!
Announcement
English Conversation Club (ECC) is
opening registration for new members join us and improve your English!
Every Tuesday from 15.00 to 17.00 at
the English Laboratory
For registration, please contact, Ms.
Ida
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1. When do the members have meeting ?
A. In the morning.
B.
In the afternoon at three o’clock.
C. On Tuesday morning.
D. On Tuesday afternoon.
2. Where do they have the meeting ?
A. In the ECC’s meeting room.
B. At the cafetaria.
C. In the classroom.
D. At the English Lab.
3. How long does the meeting last ?
A. One and a half hours.
B. One hour.
C. One and a quarter hours.
D.
Two hours.
Exercise 2
Read the following Announcement and answer the question below!
Student Volunteers Needed!
On Saturday, December 12th, from 10 A.M.
until 4 P.M., Carverton Middle School will be holding a music festival in the
school gymnasium. The special event will feature a
variety of professional musicians and singers.
Interested students
should speak with Ms. Braxton, the music teacher. Students who would like to
help at the festival must have written permission from a parent or guardian.
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1.
What time will the festival begin?
A. 10 A.M.
B. 11 A.M.
C. 1 P.M.
D. 2 P.M.
2.
In line 3, the word feature is closest in meaning to _______.
A. look
B. keep
C. include
D. entertain
3.
What job will be done the day before the festival begins?
A. Making posters
B. Setting up the gym
C. Cleaning up the gym
D. Helping the performers
4.
Who is told to talk to Ms. Braxton?
A. Parents
B. Students
C. Teachers
D. Performers
Please answer those quizes, and post it in the comment box :-)
Descriptive Text
DESCRIPTIVE TEXT
What Is Descriptive
Text?
Descriptive
text is a kind of text with a purpose to give
information.
The context of this kind of
text
is the description of particular thing,
animal, person,
or others, for instance: our pets
or a person we know well.
The Social Function
of Descriptive Text is
to describe a particular
person, place, or thing.
Generic Structure
There
are two main parts of descriptive text:
- Identification: It identifies things, persons or objects that is
going to be described. It is the part of the paragraph that introduces the
character.
- Description: It describes the parts, qualities, and
characteristics of the object.
The Language Feature
Descriptive often uses 'be'
and 'have'. Tense which is often used is Simple Present Tense. However, sometimes
it uses Past tense if the thing to be described doesn't exist anymore.
Significant Grammatical
Features:
1.
Focus on specific participants (e.g. My Mother)
2.
Use of Simple Present Tense
3.
Use of Simple Past Tense if Extinct.
4.
Use of descriptive adjectives (e.g. strong legs)
5. Use of detailed Noun Phrase to give information (e.g. a very beautiful
lady)
6.
Use of action verbs 'Material Processes' It runs fast
7.
Use of adverbials to give additional information about behaviour (at tree house)
8.
Use of Figurative language (e.g. Ahmad is as white as chalk)
Example of Descriptive Text
Borobudur
Temple
Borobudur is Hindu - Budhist temple. It was build in
the ninth century under Sailendra dynasty of ancient Mataram kingdom. Borobudur
is located in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia.
Borobudur is
well-known all over the world. Its construction is influenced by the Gupta
architecture of India. The temple is constructed on a hill 46 m high and
consist of eight step like stone terrace. The first five terrace are square and
surrounded by walls adorned with Budhist sculpture in bas-relief. The upper
three are circular. Each of them is with a circle of bell shape-stupa. The
entire adifice is crowned by a large stupa at the centre at the centre of the
top circle. The way to the summit extends through some 4.8 km of passage and
star ways. The design of
Borobudur which symbolizes the structure of universe influences temples at Angkor,Cambodia.
Borobudur
temple which is rededicated as an Indonesian monument in 1983 is a valuable
treasure for Indonesian people.
Watch this video :-)
Identification;
identifying the phenomenon to be described in general; Borobudur temple.
Description;
describing the Borobudur temple in parts; eight terraces of Borobudur temple
and its characteristics.
Language
Feature
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Using adjective and classifiers; valuable
§
Using simple present tense; Borobudur is
well-known,The temple is constructed, etc.
Now, would you please describe one of tourism object in your town.! :-)
Now, would you please describe one of tourism object in your town.! :-)
References:
ADJECTIVES
ADJECTIVES
What is adjective?
An adjective is a word
that describes, identifies or further defines a noun or a pronoun. There are
thousands of adjectives available to describe how something feels, looks,
sounds, tastes and acts
Kinds of adjectives
There
are many kinds of adjectives. However we are going to focus on two kinds of
adjectives highly used to describe places:
a.
Demonstrative
adjectives
Demonstrative
adjectives are used to demonstrate or indicate specific things. This, that,
these and those are all demonstrative adjectives.
1.
Singular: This, That
2.
Plural: These, Those
Examples:
a.
If I hear that parrot
again, I will call the TALKI.
(That is a demonstrative adjective. It refers to a specific parrot.)
b.
Medals will only be given to those runners who complete the marathon in less than 8 hours.
(Those is a demonstrative adjective. It refers to specific people.)
b.
Descriptive
adjectives
The
descriptive adjectives can be simply defined as the type of adjectives that are
used to express the size, color, or shape of a person, a thing, an animal, or a
place. They are used to provide more information to a noun by describing or
modifying it.
A
descriptive adjective adds meaning to the noun that it modifies. This kind of
adjective describes a noun in detail by giving an attribute to that particular
word. Descriptive adjectives usually express things that are observable through
the five senses (touch, taste, sight, smell, and sound).
Examples of descriptive adjectives.
You should always
eat green leafy vegetables.
The old man asked the pretty girl
for food.
The attractive guy fell off his black horse.
These type of adjectives are used to
qualify the noun.
Color : Violet,
turquoise, orange, purple, beige.
Size : Big,
large, small, tiny, heavy, light, thin, thick, Shallow, deep.
Shape : Round,
square, oval, conical, rectangular, triangular.
Age : Old,
young, new, modern, ancient, old- fashioned, updated.
Weather : Rainy,
stormy, sunny, windy, snowy, damp, dry, icy,foggy, overcast,
Texture : Hard,
soft, rough, smooth, solid, liquid, sticky, slippery, uneven, blunt
Sound : Silent,
noisy, quiet, deafening, melodic, shrill
Appearance: beautiful,
ugly, clean, dirty, complex, difficult, easy, neat, messy
The
Order of Adjective
As
a general rule, adjectives are usually placed in this order:
Opinion | Size |
Quality | Age | Shape | Colour | Origin | Material | Type | Purpose | Noun
order
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relating to
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examples
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1
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opinion
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unusual,
lovely, beautiful
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2
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size
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big,
small, tall
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3
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physical
quality
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thin,
rough, untidy
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4
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shape
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round,
square, rectangular
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5
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age
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young,
old, youthful
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6
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colour
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blue,
red, pink
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7
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origin
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Dutch,
Japanese, Turkish
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8
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material
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metal,
wood, plastic
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9
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type
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general-purpose,
four-sided, U-shaped
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10
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purpose
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cleaning,
hammering, cooking
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Examples:
c. This
is Saint Paul´s Cathedral, a beautiful, big, ancient, baroque, English,
religious building.
d. That is Santa Marta snow mountain, an atractive,
enormous, green and white, Colombian landmark
e.
That is Venice, an
interesting, romantic, big, colorful, European, ancient city.
References:
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/adjectives/order-adjectives
http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-adjectives.html
Listening Practice- New York
New York City Guide
A. Watch the video, listen to the text
and try to fill in the gaps!
New Yorkers like to
think their (1) _________ is the center of the world. And who can blame them?
Home to over 8 million people, the city is (2) ________ and fast, and posed
with energy.
America’s biggest city
can be overwhelming for (3) _______ but you’ll find the street names make
navigation (4) __________ And those yellow cabs are a great way to get around.
Manhattan is the (5)
__________ and soul of the Big Apple. And within its neighborhoods, there’s a
distinct (6) ____________and pace. Lower Manhattan, the city’s (7) ___________
district bustles from Monday to Friday. The (8) ___________ of Time Square and
Broadway burns bright in Midtown. While dominating the Upper East End West sides
are Central Park, (9) ____________ boutiques and those (10) ___________
brown-stone homes.
Make your way down to
New York (11) ______________ and jump on a ferry to Liberty Island. Taking the
(12) ___________ of the Statue of Liberty, a gift from France, commemorating
the centennial of the Declaration of (13) _________ It’s been a peak in freedom
to immigrants arriving to New York since (14) ___________
New York is one of the
(15) ___________ hubs of the world.
Don’t miss the city’s famous art museums: The Museum of Modern Art or MoMa, the
Soloman R. Guggeinheim Museum and the (16) ___________ Museum of Art. And look to the south Bronx
and Queens, where a new wave of artists are making their (17) ____________ on the
street.
New York has always
been a thriving home for (18) ___________ Check out the beats in the Bronx, the
(19) ___________ of hip hop. Or head to Greenwich village for New York’s jazzy.
From jazz clubs to Broadway extravaganzas to the latest Chealse bars in the
city that never sleeps there are plenty of reasons to stay out late (20)
__________ into the night.
B. Answer the following questions, based on the information on the text!
1.
If you want to do some shopping
where would you go?
2.
If you are interested in arts
which museums can you visit?
3.
How can you get to Liberty Island?
4.
Why is the Statue of Liberty
important to immigrants?
5.
Where can you find street art?
6.
How about music? What kind of
music can you hear at different parts of the city?
References:
http://busyteacher.org/19561-new-york-city-travel-guide.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prNQF0s9hu0
