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MATERI PTS
Tennaya | Inggris W |
Suggestion
Suggestion introduce or propose an idea or a plan for consideration
Suggest can be in form of solution, advice, plan, and idea
Suggest can be accept or refused
Expression
Let’s go to the library
Why don’t you do your homework now?
We could eat at home today
What about eating at the new restaurant
How about going to anita’s pecel first
I suggest that we call it a day
I think you should see the teacher right now
I don’t think
You need to change your sleeping habit
Making a suggestion
Could
o We could go for a picnic to the hagia Sophia
o They could join us later
Might
o We might go to panini together
How about (more sure)
o How about not going to jogja?
What about (less sure)
o What about staying at Jakarta?
Lets, lets do that, let us,
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Agree with suggestion
Sounds good to me
I’m up for it
It’s a good idea
Let’s do that
Ok, fine
Suggest an alternative
I’d prefer = I’d rather
Would rather
Had better
We had better = we should
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After receiving a suggestion
o Express thanks, even if the suggestion is against your choice
Offer
Offer means to give something physical or abstract to someone, which
can be taken as a gift or a trade
It can be taken or refused
Shall I take you home
Do you need a help?
Would you like another piece of cake
May I give you a hand
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How about I help you with the homework
Grammar focus
Analytical exposition texts are often written in the simple present tense
Analytical exposition might also use if clause:
o If nuclear waste is not properly stored, it will be extremely
hazardous to all living things
Hortatory exposition
The text that is intended to explain the listeners or readers that
something should or should not happen or be done
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To persuade the readers or listeners that something should or should
not be the case or be done
Generic structure
o Thesis: statement or announcement of issue concern
o Arguments: reasons for concern that we lead to recommendation
o Recommendation: statement of what should or should not happen
or be done based on the given arguments
Language feature
o Using action verb
o Using linking verb
o Using modal adverb (certainly, surely)
o Using temporal connective (firstly, secondly)
o Using evaluative words (important, valuable, trustworthy)
o Using simple present tense
o The use of emotive words (worried, alarmed)
o The use of qualify statement (usual, probably)
Language feature
Abstract noun
o Name a quality or an idea. These words cannot be experienced
with the five senses, instead, these nouns symbolize abstract
concept such as charity, hatred, love, freedom, and justice.
o Concrete nouns name things that we can know by our sense
(mosquito, grass, bacon)
Simple present tense
o Used to describe habits, unchanging situation, general truths, and
fixed arrangements
o The third person singular takes an -s at the end (he takes, she
cooks)
o I snore (habit), I work in London (unchanging situation), London
is large city (general truths)
o To give instruction or direction:
You walk for two hundred meters then you turn left
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o To express fixed arrangement, present or future:
My exam starts at 08.00
o To express future time, after some conjunctions: after, when,
before, as soon as, until:
She’ll give it to you when you come next Sunday
o Notes on the simple present tense:
In the third singular the verb always end in -s:
He wants, she needs, she thinks
Negative and question form use does (verb not end in -s):
Selena wants ice cream; does she want ice cream? He
does not want chocolate
Verbs ending in -y; the third person changes the -y to -ies:
Fly=flies, cry=cries
Exception, if there is a vowel before the -y:
Play=plays, pray=prays
Add -es to verbs ending in -ss, -x, -sh, -ch:
He passes, she catches, he fixes, it pushes
Modal auxiliaries
o It is used with another verb to indicate it’s mood as can, could,
may might, must, shall, should, will, and would
Temporal connectives
o Word like first, then, last, when, during, and meanwhile, as soon
as, before
Passive voice
o The passive voice is used to show interest in the person or object
that experiences an action, rather than the person or object that
performs the action
o Sometimes it used because we do not want to express who
performed the action
o The house was built in 2004 (we are interested in the house, not
who built it)
o Appropriate form of be + past participle (v3)
When we know who perform the action
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This house was built by my father
The movie ET was directed by Spielberg
When we do not know who perform the action
He was given a book for his birthday
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