WH-QUESTIONS

All questions start by Wh are called WH-QUESTIONS. These questions need answers based on the essence of what the "WH" brings.Wh Questions include:
When : Kapan (asking time)
Where: Kemana/ dimana (Asking place)
What : Apa (Asking things)
WHy : Kenapa/ Mengapa (asking reason)
Who : Siapa (Asking people/ subject)
Whom : Siapa (Asking people/ object)
How : Bagaimana (asking a way)
How : Berapa (asking quantity)
Which: Yang mana (asking preference)

When we know the use of Yes/ No questions in sentences,we will be able to make WH Questions for they are the combination between WH and Yes/ No questions. For example:
Yes/ No : Are you tired? (Apakah kamu lelah?)
When we want to use WH Questions we just simply put any WH we want preceding the Yes/ No we have made.
For example: Mengapa kamu lelah?
Why are you tired?
Another example Yes/ No questions using "aux" to be changed into Wh-Questions:
1. Yes/ No : Do you go to Madiun?
WH : When do you go to Madiun?

2. Modal : Will you go to Madiun?
Wh : How will you go to Madiun?

After knowing the pattern above we can draw Wh-Questions formula as follows:
WH + tobe/ aux/ modal + subject +


But there is an exception. When we ask a person as a subject, we don't need to add anything after Wh. We will use the Verb directly. The tense of the Verb depends on the time the verb happens.
For example: Simple Present Tense: Who takes my book? (siapa yang mengambil bukuku?)
Simple Past Tense : Who took my book?
Simple Future Tense : Who will take my book?
Present Perfect Tense : Who has taken my book?

When asking a person functions as an object, we need to put auxiliary after WHO or WHOM.
For example: Who did you go with yesterday? (dengan siapa kamu pergi kemarin?)
Who did you buy a cell phone for? (Untuk siapa kamu beli HP?)

Self Introduction

Introducing greeting and parting to English learners as the first step of teaching English is necessary since they are the first things we say when we meet someone else.
Therefore, it is good to know what expressions are used in greeting and parting. Look at the notes below:

Greeting:
SALAM PERJUMPAAN
*Example:
Good Morning
Good Afternoon
Good Evening
Goo day
Hello/ Hi
How are you?
What’s up?
How are you doing?
How's life?
How's everything with you?
Nice to meet you
Nice to see you

*"How do you do" is a formal greeting used in the first meeting. The answer is also how do you do. It can be combined with nice to meet you since "nice to meet you is also only used in the first meeting. Either answer "how do you do or nice to meet you" is allowed as well.
*"How are you" is a formal greeting among people we are familiar with. For the casual one, we can use some other greeting expressions such as: what's up? how are you doing? How's everything with you? How's life?. The answer can be varied. Do not only say: I'm fine, thank you, but you can also use other variation as follows: Great, good, well, pretty good, not bad, pretty well etc. Don't forget to say "thanks" then greet back the person who has greeted us.

PARTING:
Salam Perpisahan.
Good bye/ bye (selamat tinggal)
See you....(next time, later, tomorrow, Sunday, tonight etc).
Take care (jaga diri)
Keep in touch (nanti kuhubungi)
*Enjoy + Ving/ Noun (Enjoy writing, enjoy the food, enjoy the trip etc)
*Have a nice dream, have nice sleep, have nice writing etc.
*Good night

Notes:
*Enjoy + Ving/ Noun and Have...are part of hopes we can add before we leave. By using these ones the conversation can be expanded and look to be more casual, using only one of the partings would be fine thou.
*Good night and good evening are different. One is parting, another one is greeting (see the example above)but people usually make them overlap where they often use good night as a parting too. After knowing the difference, hope we can use them properly.
*Good night is also used when someone wants to go to bed too (sleep).

One more thing about greeting and parting. There is a big difference between Indonesian and English culture. In Indonesia greeting especially about the days (good morning, good afternoon, good day, good evening) are commonly used as partings too but this case cannot happen in English.

See try me to have exercise about greeting and parting.

Now, let's move to the next level...

GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTHER
When we meet someone new it is possible to know her/ him deeper by asking some personal questions: name, address, hobby,job etc. But there are some that is considered rude to be asked such as: age,status (married/ single), and salary unless he/ she is close to us or we've known each other quite well.
Here some ways to get to know someones personal information:

1. What’s your name?
My name is…
I am...

2. Where do you live?
I live on Hatta street 44 Ponorogo
I live at 44 Hatta street Ponorogo
I live in Ponorogo

3. What’s your hobby?
My hobby is singing
I like to sing/ I like singing

4. What’s your father’s name?
He is “Brandon Lee”/ My father’s name is Brandon Lee

5. What is your father?
He is a doctor

6. What is your favorite food?
My favorite food is fried rice.
I like fried rice

7. How old are you?
I am twelve years old.

8. When were you born?
I am twelve years old.

9. When were you born?
I was born on July the third 1998

9. Where do you study?/ Where do you go to school?
I study at SMP N 1 Jetis Ponorogo

10. Who is your English teacher?
My English teacher is Ms. Titin Setyorini.
Her name is Titin Setyorini.
She is Titin Setyorini.

Knowing someone identity can be gotten either by asking someone his/ her information or we directly tell information about us. It can be done by summarizing the answers of questions above.
Don't forget to greet first before starting introducing yourself.

"Hi! Let me tell you about myself"
"Hello, everyone! I'd like to introduce myself"
"Good morning, guys! Let me introduce myself"
then continue with your information:
"My name is Aulia Lee. I live on Hatta street 44 Ponorogo. I like singing. My father is Brandon Lee. He is a doctor. My favorite food is fried rice. I am twelve years old. I was born on July the third 1998...etc"

Notes: you can adjust the information yourself.
At the end you can say "that's all about me. Thank you."

Asking and Giving Information Detail

you can download my file here (just click it)

It is all about the use of to be, auxiliary, command and prohibition, my material for seventh grade students.

Hope this works for you.

INTRODUCING SOMEONE

EXPRESSIONS USED TO INTRODUCE SOMEONE

In our daily lives it is really possible to always get someone new whether we get him or her ourselves or get him or her introduced by the other.Below is some common expressions when we want to introduce someone to other person.

Have you met....before? (Sudah kenal....belum?)
Hey, I’d like you to meet… (Saya ingin memperkenalkan kamu pada....)
Please meet my friend… (Kenalkan, teman saya....)
Andy, this is Martha. (Andy, ini Martha)
Martha, this Andy. (Martha, ini Andy)

Speaking Practice 1
Carol and Amy are window shopping in a mall. Carol sees her friend, Tania there. They then have a chat. Carol introduce Tania to Amy.
Carol : Tania! I’m glad to see you here. It’s been a while.
Tania : Yeah…I miss you. How’s life?
Carol : I’m studying at SMP 1 JETIS now. What about you?
Tania : I’m studying out of town. It’s sad that we can’t be together anymore.
Carol : But, we can still keep in touch, right?
Tania : You’re right.
Carol : By the way, please meet my friend, Amy. Amy this is Tania. Tania, this is Amy.
Tania : Hello, Amy! Nice to meet you.
Amy : Nice to meet you.
Tania : Hey, you know it is nice to see you here but I’m with my sister here. I’m sure she’s waiting for me now.
Carol : No worries. We’ll go on seeing the clothes then.
Tania : Ok, see you.
Carol : Take care

Speaking Practice 2
Nancy hears a cat meowing. She wonders whose cat is that. She asks her sister Diana to take her to where the cat is. Diana takes Nancy to Denny, the owner of the cat and get introduced her sister to Denny.
Diana : Hey, what are you doing, Denny.
Denny: Hi, Girls! I’m feeding my cat. What takes you here?
Diana : My sister wants to see you your cat. Oh yeah, Denny. This is Diana, my sister.
Denny : Hi, Nancy. Nice to meet you.
Nancy : Me too. I’m sorry for disturbing you but I really like cats.
Denny: Really? Do you have some at home?
Nancy : Unfortunately not. My father does not allow me to keep one.
Diana : You know, our father is a doctor. He is afraid cats will bring some diseases at home.
Denny : Oh…I get it. Yeah…that’s right if we don’t take care of it well. But, don’t worry, Nancy. Just come here if you want to. You can play with my cat.
Nancy : Are you kidding? That would be great.
Diana : Okay, time to go. We have some home work remember, Nancy?
Nancy : Oh yeah! I’ll see you again some time.
Denny : You are welcome.
Nancy and Diana: Bye…

From the speaking practice above you can determine the greeting and parting. You also see that small talk will take place after the greeting.Small talk is an unimportant talk in order to make the meeting warmer and make us closer to the speaker we are talking to, then the we can go to the main idea of what we want to talk about.

There is something to remember about parting. Before we say goodbye it's better to give the reason why we leave. If you are about to go to school you may say: "I'm sorry, it's nice to talk to you but I have to go, my class starts at 7." Tell something related to what you are about to do as the reason of leaving, then you can say "goodbye/ see you/ take care etc."

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Simple Present Tense digunakan untuk menunjukkan kegiatan yang terjadi sehari-hari atau daily activities, kebenaran umun (general truth) dan kegitan yang terjadi berulang-ulang (regular activities).

HINTS:
Ada hal yang menjadi ciri Simple Present:
1. Pada Subject (He, she, it)kata kerja atau Verb akan ditambahkan "s" atau "es".
2. Pada subjet (They, we, I, you) kata kearja tidak mendapatkan penambahan apapun.



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