Minggu, 21 Februari 2010

READING (ANALYZE CHARACTER)

Analyze Character
We cold also analyze character by realizing the different traits the person as personality wise, like if the character is soft spoken wise, mean to certain people, prajudies, etc.

The Structure of Analyze Character:
  1. Plot: story has a certain arrangement of event whichare taken to have relation to one other. This is arrangement of event to some end-for instance to create significane, raise the level of generality, extend or complicate the meaning.
  2. Character: character in a work of story are generally designed to open up or explore certain aspects of human experience. Character often depict particular traits of human nature; they may represent only one or two traits. A greedy old man who has forgotten how to care about other, for instance, or they may represent very complex conflicts, values, and emotions.
  3. Setting: stories requires a setting; this as in poetry may vary from concrete to the general. Often settingwill have particular culturally coded significance.
  4. Theme: especial idea which is used base in writting down story mostly letter than implicit.
  5. Point of View: interpreted as a position of author to events in story. There is point of view of first person singular and there is third person singular.
  6. Language Style: way to typically in laying open feeling or mind through language in the form of oral or article.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

I'm Ditinia Utami. I was born on 20 march 1995. I'm 15th years old. I'm christian. I live at jambu st number 3 in Palangka Raya city, Central Borneo. My father name is Edi Supratman. His job is police. My mother name is Tince Saloh. Her job is civil servant. I have one sister. She is Anugrah Natalia. She is ten years old. I love my family. My hobbies are reading story, watching TV, On line, shopping, traveling, dancing, singing. I'm student in SMAN 2 Palangka Raya.

GREETING

Definition
Greeting is customary or ritualy set words of phrases use to introduce one self or to greet someone. Greeting can be expressed both audibly and physically and often involve a combination of the two. Greeting are often, but not always used a conversation.
Greeting Card is a piece paper (ussually is decorated with picture) and applied to give congratulation for someone.

How to you introduce your self:
  • Hi, I'm Tami
  • My name is Nanat
  • Hello, I'm Diaz
  • Let me introduce my self. I'm Yuanita
  • Good morning, Sir. I'm Rachel, your new secretary.
How do you introduce other people:
  • I would like to introduce Eric
  • I would like you to meet Nico
  • Please let me introduce the keynote speaker for this occasion, Ms. Rebecca Coogan.
  • Jelita, I'd like you to meet my cousin Vina. Vina, meet my best friend Jelita.
  • Dad, please meet meet my english teacher Mr. Erwanto. Mr. Erwanto please meet my father Edi.
  • Godman, this is Jenny. Jenny this is Godman
Informal Greeting:
  • Hello, (use person's name). How are you?
  • Hi, (use person's name). How are you doing?
Formal Greeting:
  • Good morning (use person's name). How are you?
  • Good afternoon (use person's name). How are you?
  • Good evening (use person's name). How are you?
Note:
  • Good morning: midnight until 12 noon.
  • Good afternoon: 12 noon until 6 p.m.
  • Good evening: 6 p.m. until midnight.
Example:
Informal Introductions

Udin: Ross, this is Harry my friend from Medan.
Ross: Hello, Harry. Nice to meet you.
Harry: Hello, Ross. Nice to meet you too.

Formal Introductions
Lia: Nanda, allow me to introduce you to my Auntie Kate from Australia.
Nanda: I'm very pleased to meet you Auntie Kate.
Auntie Kate: I'm very pleased to meet you too, Nanda.

PRESENT TENSE

Definition
Simple Present is used:
  • to express habits, general truth, repeated action or unchanging situations, emotions, and wishes.
  • to giving instructions or directions
  • to express fixed arrangement
Example:
1. I smoke (habits)
2. I work in London (unchanging)
3. London is a large city (general truth)
4. You walk for two hundred meter, then you turn left (giving instruction)
5. Your exam start at 9 a.m. (fixed arrangement)


The Pattern:
A. Verbal Sentences
(+) S + Verb I + Complement
(-) S + don't/doesn't + Verb I + Complement
(?) Do/does + S + Verb I + Complement


Example:
(+) I like mango
(-) I don't like mango
(?) Do you like mango?

B. Non Verbal Sentences
(+) S + to be + noun/adjective/adverb
(-) S + to be + not + noun/adjective/adverb
(?) to be + S + noun/adjective/adverb


Adverb of Time:
  • Always
  • Every
  • Seldom
  • Often
  • Ussually
  • Sometimes




PAST TENSE

Definition
Simple Past is used for describing acts that have already been concluded and whose exact time of occurrence is known. Furthermore, simple past is used for retelling succesive events. That is why it is commonly used in story telling. Simple past is a kind of tense which is used to descrive an event or action that happened already in a certaintime in the past. Simple past is formed for regular verbs by adding -ed to the root of the words.

The Pattern:
(+) S + Verb II + complement
(-) S + did + not + Verb II + complement
(?) Was/were + S + Verb I + complement

Example:
1. (+) He walked to the stone.
(-) He didn't walked to the stone
(?) Did he walk to the stone?

2. (+) I went to Tangkiling yesterday.
(-) I didn't go to Tangkiling yesterday.
(?) Did you go to Tangkiling yesterday?

3. (+) They studied english last week.
(-) They didn't studied english last week.
(?) Did they study english last week?

Definition
Past Continous Tense is a kind of tense that is used to describe an event or an action which was happening in a certain time in the past.

The Pattern:
(+) S + was/were + verb -ing + complement
(-) S + was/were + not + verb -ing + complement
(?) Was/were + S + verb -ing + complement

Example:
(+) He was writting a letter last night.
(-) He wasn't writting a letter last night.
(?) Were you writting a letter last night?




PROCEDURE TEXT

DEFINITION
Procedure Text is design to describe ow something is achieved trough a sequence of steps or to help use to do a make something. They can be a set of instructions or directions.

The Generic Structure:

  • Goal: the final to purpose of doing the instructions.
  • Materials: ingredients, utensils, equipment to do the instructions.
  • Steps: a set of instructions to achieve the final purpose
Languege Features:
  • Use simple present
  • Use imperative sentences (stir, hold up, etc.)
  • Use temporal conjuction (first, next, finally)
Example:
How To Make a Sandwich
(Goal/Aim)

Materials:
  • a slice of bread
  • peanut butter
  • a banana
  • honey
Steps:
  1. Take two slices of bread
  2. Spread peanut butter
  3. Cut up two banana into small slices and put them on one of the slices
  4. Pour some honey over the banana
  5. Put the other slice of bread on top

Selasa, 02 Februari 2010

Narative Text

Definition
Narative Text is like mythes and legends, short stories are narative because they are concerned with talking about the events. Other example of naratives writting are novels, cartoons, strips, and picture books.

Language feature:
  • Use of direct and indirect speech
  • Use pronoun
  • Use simple past tense
  • Use noun phrases
  • Use adjective
Structure of the text:
  1. Orientation: set the scene and introducesthe participans. Its consist of a setting, characther, and a plot.
  2. Complication: a crisis a rises (what was the problem?).
  3. Resulotion: the crisis is resolved, for better of for worse.