Simple Past Tense

Students, to know better about Recount Text, recalling Simple Past Test is a good start. Why? As Recount tells us something happens in the past. So, let's go...


Look at this sentence.

They went to Tambi Tea Plantation.
   S      P         adverb of place

We start to analyze the sentence is from the predicate. 
The predicate of the sentence above is went.

RECOUNT - DIALOGUE

Read the dialog below. Then answer the questions.


                                                          THE CURLY GEORGE

CG : Where did you go on the weekend?

D   : I went to Tambi Tea Plantation, a small village in Dieng.

CG : Did you go alone?

D   : No. I went with my aunt and uncle.

CG : What did you do there?

D   : Well, we spent two nights there in a luxurious bungalow inside theplantation.

CG : And then what?

D   : Uhm… we ate “Mie Ongklok” you know.It’s a traditional food from Wonosobo.

        The next morning we visited the tea plantation and watched how tea leaves were processed.

CG : Wow, your weekend sounded great!

D   : Indeed, we had a lovely time there because the weather was cool and the scenery was beautiful.

This dialog could be seen in this link

Answer the questions with your own words.

1. Who went to Tambi Tea Plantation?

2. What did they do there?

3. Did they eat “Mie Ongklok”?

4. Where did they visit the next morning?

5. Was the weekend great? Tell us why?

Find out the verbs in the text above and write them in your exercise book.

1.   ...........................................................     6.   .....................................................
2.   ...........................................................     7.   ......................................................
3.   ...........................................................     8.   .....................................................

4.   ...........................................................     9.   .....................................................
5.   ...........................................................     10.   .....................................................

Introduction, greeting and leave-taking

You can use greeting to open a conversation and use leave-taking for closing.

1.Formal Greeting

2.Informal Greeting

3.Initial Greeting

4.Responding to Initial Greeting

5.Pre-closing

6.Closing/Leave-taking

1.Formal Greeting 

§Good morning (until about lunch time, or before 12 a.m.). 

§Good afternoon (12 – 6). 

§Good evening (until about 9 p.m.). 

§Good morning, Sir. 

Note: Do not use “Good Day”, except in Australia.  

2.Informal Greeting 

§Hi, Lizzy! 

§Morning, Jim. 

§Hello.

 3.    Initial Greeting 

§How are you? 

§How’s it going?

§How are you doing? 

§How’s life? 

4.     Responding to Initial Greeting 

§Very well, thank you and how are you? 

§I’m good/OK/alright. 

§Very well, thank you. 

§Not too bad, thanks. 

§Fine, thanks. 

§Excellent.

 5.    Pre-closing 

§Ok then … 

§I’ve got to go now. 

§So, I’ll see you next week. 

§I think I’d better be going now. 

§Well, it’s time for me to leave. 

§I think it’s already late at night. 

§I must be going home.

6.    Closing/leave-taking 

§Goodbye (formal/informal) 

§Bye-bye; Bye; Bye now; See you. Take care. 

§See you later---Fine 

§See you soon---OK 

§See you tonight---All right 

§Good night (after 8 p.m. or retiring to bed)  

Note: 

§Do not use “Good evening” for leave-taking, use “Good night”. 

§Goodbye John, and all the best (to someone who’s leaving for a long time). 

§Goodbye Peter, and good luck (to someone who’s leaving for a long time).

 

This expressions could be seen here.

 

 See also this video. 

 

 

introduction

Pak Gunadi, Bu Ely dan Bu Lisa (mountain view school principal)

                                                                                                                            
 What's up students. This is the first meeting. So I want to introduce myself and to give you little about the summary of our English materials for students of grade X.
       First of all, I would like to introduce myself. My name's Mohamad Wigunadi. I am your new English teacher. I'll company you learning English for a year, perhaps.
       Our English materials for the first semester are divided into three parts. They are transactional dialogs, short function text, and genre or text types.
       Students, this is the outline of our material which we study for this semester. For further discussions, we would meet you for the next session.

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