Chapter

The aim of this course is to enable:
O V E R V I E W • Reading:
ØCommunicative Students are able to find explicit and
Language Teaching
inferential information about
Approach
certain topics in the module.



ØReading:
Survey, Question, • Speaking:

Read, Recite, and Students are able to explain and to
Review (SQ3R)

report some information or the
Ø Skills: result of observation, study, etc.
• Reading
• Speaking • Writing:
• Writing
• Listening

Students are able to write report
text accurately.
Ø Grammar:
Continuous Tense
• Listening:

Students are able to listen any kind
Ø Activities:
Lecturing, of report either taken from

classroom television, radio, or the Internet.
discussion,
vocabulary
building, and • Grammar:
analysing a text. Students are able to understand the

meaning and the function of present
Ø Genre
Report Text tense, and use it correctly.



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 Getting Ready

Traffic in Malang

A. Discuss these questions.

1. Which one do you prefer, going somewhere on foot or by riding
motorbike or car?
2. Do you have a bad experience related to traffic jam?
3. Do you know how Malang was in early 2000?
4. What do you think of Malang’s traffic nowadays?


Reading Passage

Skim the article. Then give commands to the following statements.

Government Should Create New Roads in Malang City

New roads should be made in the Malang city. Cars and other
vehicles had got the top of jam, and cause a lot of road deaths and other
accidents. New roads are needed by society.

Firstly, roads in Malang city are too narrow for all vehicles. The way
of route cannot break the problem; otherwise increase new problem like
what mayor did last years. Secondly, the city is very busy. Pedestrians also
need the way to walk. Beside that the way for cycler too. They don’t have

space anymore on the road.

Thirdly, Malang city is education city due to the existence of some
universities. Every year all students come to Malang to study. They also
bring their cars, motorbikes to Malang. On the other hand, the roads are the
1. University students are the main cause of traffic jam in Malang.
same as before, there is no new road to solve the problems. The roads are
2.Colonial
The government do not do something to overcome traffic jam in Malang city.
heritage. At last, new road is a must for stabilizing all life in
Malang
City.
Ramli, 2015
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 REPORT TEXT

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Language Use

Present Continues Tense
It expresses an activity that is in progress (is occuring, is happening) at the moment
of speaking

The patterns of Present Continues Tense can be explained in the following table.
Sentence Type Pattern Time Signals
Positive Subject + is/am/are + Verb-ing + Object Now
E.g. Tino is washing the clothes now. At the present
Negative Subject + is/am/are + not + Verb-ing + Object This semester
E.g. Tino is not washing the clothes now. Right now

Interrogative/ • Yes/No Questions For the time

Is/am/are + Subject + Verb-ing + Object? being
Question
E.g. Is Tino washing the clothes now?

• Statement Questions
Who + is/am/are + Verb-ing + Object?
(For asking the subject)
E.g. Who is washing the clothes?
Question word + is/am/are + Subject +
Verb-ing?
(For asking the object)
E.g. What is Tino washing now?
Answers • Yes/No Questions
Yes, + subject + am/is/are
No, + subject + am/is/are + not
E. g. Yes, he is
No, he is not

• Statement Questions
The answer which is being asked.
E. g. Tino is washing the clothes now.

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 B. Complete these sentences with either the present simple or the present
continuous form of the verbs in the brackets.

e.g. We normally ………. (hold) our ideas in teaching conference in Jakarta, but
this year we are …… (hold) it in Malang. (Answer: hold, holding)

1. Ahmad ……(talk) to his classmates every day in class. Right now he …. (talk)
to Yoko. He ….. (talk, not) to his friend Omar right now.
2. It …..(rain) a lot in this city, but it …..(rain, not) right now. The sun
…..(shine). ……..(it, rain) a lot in your hometown?
3. Hani and Nida …..(sit) next to each other in class every day, so they often
…..(help) each other with their grammar exercises. Right now Nida
…..(help) Hani with an exercise on present verb tenses.
4. Rani …..(cook) his own dinner every evening. Right now she is in her
kitchen. She …..(cook) rice and beans. ……..(she, cook) meat for her dinner
tonight too? No, she is a vegetarian. She …….(eat, not) meat. ………(you, eat)
meat? ……..(you, be) a vegetarian?


Speak Up!

C. Observe your surroundings. Take a note of what usually people doing at
certain time and what are they doing at the time you observed. Report it
to the class.


Writing

D. Develop your note containing your observation report into report text
and show it to your teacher.

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