The assignments

I. Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the verb ‘to be’

Ex: Anto ______________a councilman

Answer: Anto is a councilman

1. Mr. Arman __is____fifty years old

2. He ___are_ a member of a board of trustees of PT Maju Bersama
3. There __is_ altogether 30 members on the board of trustees of the enterprise
4. PT.Maju Bersama __are__ a private enterprise exporting handicrafts to foreign countries
5. Indonesian handicrafts _are__ popular abroad
6. The lawyers on the board of trustees _are__ responsible for the legal aspects of building the
firm
7. The two lawyers __are_ Mr.Birman and Ms.Caila
8. Mr.Danu __was__ from Bandung and Mrs.Elis __was__ from Padang
9. Three years ago they _were_ with the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Indonesia
10. By that time the corruption by public servants _was__ quite common
11. Their duty __are__to see that every public servant did his or her job honestyly
12. At that time, the Ministry of justice building _was_on Jalan Melayu
13. Now the office building ___is_ on Jalan Merak
14. Both lawyers __are__ very happy now because they _was_working for a private enterprise
15. Their salary ___are_relatively higher than the salaries of the government employees
II. Change the following sentences to questions with the questions word given in the brackets
Ex. he was at school yesterday (where)
Answer: where was he yesterday?
1. There are 250 ethnic groups in Indonesia (how many)
how many Ethnic groups there are in Indonesia
2. These different ethnic group are Banjar, Kutai, Bugis, Sunda, Aceh, Minang, Gayo, etc (what)
What the differenr Ethnic groups in Indonesia
3. The Minang are people who live on the west coast of the Sumatra (who)
who are minang people?
4. Many of the Minang are businessmen in the big cities of Indonesia (where)
where most Minang people become entrepreneurs/businessmen
5. They were alreay business people even during the Dutch Colonial rule (when)
when they are already a business people
6. In the colonial period, the adat law was the law for the native Indonesians (when)
7. The English equivalent of adat law was native law (what)
8. Some Dutch lawyers translation of the term was primitive law (what)
9. This translation was regarded as strange by many experts (how)
10. An English language equivalent was difficult to find (which)
11. Today the word adat is used in English or Dutch because there is no appropriate equivalent in
either language (why)
12. In many law books written in Dutch or English, adat law is simply adat law (where)
13. Adat law is dominant in many aspects of Indonesian life (where)
14. Almost every Indonesian is loyal to the adat law in marriage (what)
15. Dadang is consistent with the adat law, because he is member of the Sundanese etehnic group
(why)
III.