WORKSHEET_Business English_UKWMS 2021-2022 | Antaresa’s Class

Meeting 1
Subject:
 READING FILE 1: M AKING CONTACT AND NETWORKING.
 GRAMMAR: S IMPLE PRESENT – BE

Attendance List Order. Name / NIM / Management or Accountancy (C1/A/A2)

GRAMMAR NOTES
SIMPLE PRESENT T ENSE WITH (VERB) BE

A. The Form of it

Note: The last two example sentences of short form (the managers’re etc.) are only used in spoken language
– the rest of the short forms may be used in spoken and informal written English.

Try making the full sentence using the positive (+) form

1. Father’s car are black.

2. The campus
3. We are study English Language.
4. She is smart.
5. The library is place

Do you know the short forms for the negative? Try these examples:

1. They are not happy  They aren’t happy

2. He is not Japanese  He isn’t Japanese
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3. We … not Asian  We aren’t Asian

4. The Department …. not far  The Department isn’t far
5. The price and packaging … not interesting  The price and packaging aren’t interesting

Try these examples and give answers Yes and No

1. I am Indonesian  Am I Indonesian?  Yes, I am Indonesian / No, I’m not Indonesian

2. They are lonely  Are they lonely? Yes, I am lonely / No, I.m not lonely
3. The shops are busy everyday  Are The shops busy everyday  Yes, It is / No, It is not
4. The pharmacy is near here  Is The pharmacy near here?  Yes, It is / No, It is not
5. We are tailors  Are we tailors?  Yes, We are tailors / No, We are not tailors

B. Try it in a text

Fill in the blanks to talk a little about yourself! the * sign means: choose the appropriate word/form to match
your own condition.

My name Anastasya Tanjaya Setyabudi. I am a girl. I am a student at Widya Mandala Catholic University. My
friends and I, we are all students from the same faculty.

My brother is a student. He is at school either. My parents are at home. Our house is in Sorong. The family
all at home keeping safe as much as possible.

My house is far from campus. Mostly, my friend’s houses …. (+/-) far from my home. But it doesn’t matter,
we … safer to stay home and study or help our parents.

TASK for Reading File 1

After reading the article, DO the exercises as follows:

A. Exercise 3, 4, and 7
For students whose attendance order list is EVEN number do even number exercises (2,4,6 etc), and
ODD number do odd numbers (1,3,5, etc)

B. ALL students do Exercise 6

(a) Exercise no.6. Make the table in your worksheet and fill in the blanks

 (b) Exercise no.6 Find 3 more VERBS from the article and put each in the table as before