Saturday, September 19, 2020

My Home Town 1

 

Teacher: Nani Kusmiyati

Writing My Home Town 1

Dear Class,

You are going to write about your Home Town. Before you start, I want to give the example how to describe your home town.

Anda akan menulis tentang Kota Asal Anda. Sebelum Anda mulai, saya ingin memberikan contoh bagaimana menggambarkan kota asal Anda.

How to talk about your hometown in English.

In the following guide, I will show you step by step how to talk about every aspect of your hometown.

Bagaimana berbicara tentang kota asal Anda dalam bahasa Inggris.

Dalam panduan berikut, saya akan menunjukkan kepada Anda langkah demi langkah bagaimana membicarakan setiap aspek dari kampung halaman Anda.

Don’t Recite Lists! (Jangan Ucapkan Daftar tersebut dibawah!)

Many students just reel off a list of phrases without putting any further thought into what they are saying.

Banyak siswa hanya menyebutkan daftar frasa tanpa memikirkan lebih jauh apa yang mereka katakan.

If you do this, the examiner or reader will probably be unimpressed. 

Jika Anda melakukan ini, penguji atau pembaca mungkin tidak akan terkesan.

I am talking about these kinds of answers:

Saya berbicara tentang jenis jawaban ini:

My hometown is modern

My hometown is famous

My hometown is beautiful

My hometown is crowded

My hometown has many people

This says nothing about your hometown at all!

And it just makes you sound like a robot reeling off recited answers! 

Ini sama sekali tidak menjelaskan tentang kampung halaman Anda!

Dan itu hanya membuat Anda terdengar seperti robot yang mengeluarkan jawaban yang telah dibacakan!

So don’t do it. Jadi jangan lakukan hal tersebut.

The examiner or a reader wants to hear more than this. If you say your hometown is modern, then describe how it is modern. Tell me about the high-rise buildings and the city skyline. If your hometown is famous, tell me why it is famous. What stories can you tell me that show me how famous your hometown is?

This is what you need to do when talking about the town or city where you grew up.

Penguji atau pembaca ingin mendengar lebih dari ini. Jika Anda mengatakan kampung halaman Anda modern, jelaskan betapa modernnya. Ceritakan tentang gedung-gedung tinggi dan cakrawala kota. Jika kampung halaman Anda terkenal, beri tahu saya mengapa itu terkenal. Cerita apa yang bisa Anda ceritakan yang menunjukkan betapa terkenalnya kampung halaman Anda?

Inilah yang perlu Anda lakukan saat membicarakan kota atau kota tempat Anda dibesarkan.

Talking about the Landmarks in your Hometown


Every town and city has at least one landmark. Do not say to me that your hometown doesn’t have any landmarks because I will not believe you. There must be at least one. So you can talk about that.

I am from England and these are the kind of landmarks you can find in English towns:

Setiap kota memiliki setidaknya satu landmark. Jangan katakan kepada saya bahwa kampung halaman Anda tidak memiliki landmark karena saya tidak akan mempercayai Anda. Setidaknya harus ada satu. Jadi Anda bisa membicarakannya.

Saya dari Inggris dan berikut adalah jenis landmark yang dapat Anda temukan di kota-kota Inggris:

Churches Gereja

A library Perpustakaan

A town hall Balai kota

A well-known pub (every English town has many pubs) Sebuah pub terkenal (setiap kota di Inggris memiliki banyak pub)

A town square Alun-alun kota

A park Sebuah taman

A statue or monument of some kind Sebuah patung atau monumen

Once you identify what these landmarks are, then you talk about them. Setelah Anda mengidentifikasi apa itu landmark, kemudian Anda bicarakan tentang landmarks tersebut.

Example :

My hometown has a very old church in the centre. I never go there but I can hear the bells ringing on a Sunday for the Sunday service. There is a cemetery next to the church which always looks a bit creepy at night.

Kampung halaman saya memiliki gereja yang sangat tua di tengahnya. Saya tidak pernah pergi ke sana tetapi saya dapat mendengar bel berbunyi pada hari Minggu untuk kebaktian Minggu. Ada kuburan di samping gereja yang selalu terlihat sedikit menyeramkan di malam hari.

We have a nice library in our town. It is in a nice old building. It’s a great place to relax and read. They have free newspapers too. 

Kami memiliki perpustakaan yang bagus di kota kami. Itu di gedung tua yang bagus. Ini tempat yang bagus untuk bersantai dan membaca. Mereka juga memiliki koran gratis.

There’s a pub called The Red Lion. It’s a pretty quiet place, I think most of the regulars are old men, always complaining about the news or talking about football.

Ada sebuah pub bernama The Red Lion. Ini adalah tempat yang cukup sepi, saya pikir sebagian besar pengunjung tetap adalah lelaki tua, selalu mengeluh tentang berita atau membicarakan tentang sepak bola.

There’s a shopping centre in the middle of my hometown. It’s kind of boring but me and my friends go there because it’s the only place for us to go on a Saturday evening. 

Ada pusat perbelanjaan di tengah-tengah kampung halaman saya. Agak membosankan tapi saya dan teman saya pergi ke sana karena itu satu-satunya tempat bagi kami untuk pergi pada Sabtu malam.

One time we went there, and they had a little show in the middle of the centre. Some local singers who sing in a choir were doing a performance. I think they were trying to raise money for a local charity.

Suatu kali kami pergi ke sana, dan mereka mengadakan pertunjukan kecil di tengah-tengah. Beberapa penyanyi lokal yang bernyanyi dalam paduan suara sedang melakukan pertunjukan. Saya pikir mereka mencoba mengumpulkan uang untuk amal lokal.

All you have to do about the landmarks in your town is make observations about it — what it looks like, where it is and who visits this place. If you have a story to tell about it that is great.

Other landmarks could be:

Yang harus Anda lakukan tentang landmark di kota Anda adalah membuat pengamatan tentang itu - seperti apa, di mana dan siapa yang mengunjungi tempat ini. Jika Anda memiliki cerita untuk diceritakan tentang itu, itu bagus.

Landmark lainnya bisa jadi:

A mosque

A temple

A shopping mall

A restaurant

A big tree

A school or university

A hill

Well class, Now do the exercise below.

Exercise 1

Spend some time thinking about the landmarks in your hometown. Write some sentences about each one, describing the landmarks in detail. If you have any interesting stories to tell about the landmarks, then write them down too. 

Luangkan waktu untuk memikirkan landmark di kota asal Anda. Tulis beberapa kalimat tentang masing-masing, gambarkan landmark secara rinci. Jika Anda memiliki cerita menarik untuk diceritakan tentang landmark, tulis juga.

Selamat Mencoba.

 

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Future Tenses: Will / Going to

Future Tenses: Will / Going to
By NANI KUSMIYATI

Assalamualaikum wr wb,..

Hi everyone, Glad to see you again, I hope you are still happy to learn English.

Before you do the tasks, please watch the video on this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTiT63K0KMo

To make you easier, I share the transcript of the video. If you don't understand I advise you to see google grandpa,...

Today we're going to talk about the future simple tense and the two main forms going to verses we'll

First, let's talk about going to.

The formula for going to is subject plus to be plus going to plus verb.

S + be going to + verb

This is used to talk about plans for the future

For example, tomorrow I am going to visit my grandma.

I is the subject, am is the form of to be, going to plus the base verb visit

Let's look at an example: he's going to travel to Costa Rica tomorrow

Here we use going to because this is a plan for the future.

Now let's talk about the will.

The formula for will is: subject + will + base verb

Will is used for decisions made at the moment

Let's look at an example

In this example, the boy is trying to decide what to wear

Hmm, what should I wear?

I know I will wear my orange shirts

Here, we use will because this is a decision made at the moment.

Will is also used to make predictions. Well, a girl goes to the fortune-teller so that she can predict her future.

The fortune-teller tells her in the future:   you will be married and have two children

Will is also used to make promises.  

Let's look at an example

In this example, the boy promises the girl: I will love you forever. Will you marry me?

The girl says, yes I will (because this is a decision that she made at the moment)

Will is also used to make offers

In this example, the girl offers to drive the boy home.

I will drive him home she says.

Now, please read and understand this theory below:

Future Tenses: Will / Going to

I will travel to Japan next year → decision

I am going to study German at school. -> a plan

Will/ Going To

The Simple Future has two different forms in English: "will" and "be going to."

Although the two forms can sometimes be used interchangeably, they often express two very different meanings as mentioned before. 

I will probably go to Italy next Summer.

I am going to fly to Italy next Saturday

Form Future Tense: Will

+ Affirmative: I will travel to Madrid in October.

? Interrogative: Will you travel by bus?

- Negative: I will not travel - won’t

Will you travel by train or by bus?

I won’t travel by bus I will probably travel by train.

Future Tense:  Uses of  Will

1- Instant decisions: Ok, I’ll see you on Friday

2- Predictions based in what we think: It will rain in the evening

3- Promises and offers: Don’t worry, I’ll go and buy some food for you

Form Future Tense: Going to

+ Affirmative: I am going to travel by plane.

? Interrogative: Are you going to travel? by plane’

- Negative: I am not going to travel by plane because I am going to fly in a hot air balloon

Future Tense: Uses of Going to
1- Future plans and intentions: I'm going to buy a new laptop computer next week

2- Predictions based on what we can see at the moment: Look at that car!  it is going to crash into the lamp post.

Future Tenses Time Expressions:
Tomorrow, next week, next month, next year,

I am going to travel to Copenhagen next year.

A. Complete the Sentences using Future Tenses “Will/ or Going to”.

1.   A : Why are you holding a piece of paper? B: I …………………….. (write) a letter to my friends back home in Texas.

2.  A: I'm about to fall asleep. I need to wake up! B: I (get)………………… you a cup of coffee. 

3.    I think he …………………. (be) the next British Prime Minister.

4.    We are so excited about our trip next month to France. We ………………………. (visit) Paris, Nice and Grenoble. 

B. Let’s put it into other practices. Now is it will or going to?


1. 
I’ve just scored another goal! We..................win this game. 
2.  I’m feeling blue. I think I .........stay at home tonight. 
3. Can you take care of the baby? No, sorry. I …………. study.
4. Oh, she …………. sneeze. 
5. Can you give me a hand? Ok. I ……wash the car.
6. I’ve put my boots on because I __________________ (wash) the car. 
7.  I _____________ (call) you when I get to the hotel. 
8. There’s someone at the door. I ___________ (go)!  
9. Have you got my keys?  Oh sorry, I _______________ (get) them now. 
10. I ____________ (call) you tomorrow, I promise! 
11. It’s really hot in here!  Oh! I ____________ (open) the window if you like. 
12. I bought this special shampoo because I _______________ (bath) the dog. 
13. How are you going to the station? Dave ___________________ ( give ) me a lift. 

Please pay attention to the explanation below:

I

am

 

 

 

going to

 

 

 

leave

 

 

 

at 8:00

He

 

is

She

It

We

 

are

You

They



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