Learn about It!

In this series, we are going to talk about a form. To improve your skill in listening, you have better to practice it a lot. By doing brainstorming and note-taking during listening task you could develop ideas. You are expected to note-taking during the talk. There are some points that should be written on your note during a listening task such as

• 1.    What ………..
• 2.    Who ………..
• 3.    Where ………
• 4.    Why …….
• 5.    When ……..

 To practice your listening skill, let’s watch this clip.

Video 1

The ability to predict and previewing is really important in many listening tasks. Try to find keywords to predict what they talk about are and preview the pattern or the class of the words to determine the suit answer for your listening test.

Could you identify the keywords?

CHILD CARE CENTER, ENROL

Try to answers these questions!

1.    What is the topic?
2.    Who are the speakers?
3.    Where are they talking?
4.    Why are they talking?
5.    When are they talking?

The above form is ENROLMENT FORM, if you wonder about this topic you may ask some questions related to this one.

Your questions might relate with definition, kinds of form, several elements of form, and the advantages.

What the form is, let’s watch this clip and try to fulfill the missing words!

Video 2

1. Identifying the form

Look at the pictures below

Withdrawal form

 Enrolment Form

 Deposit Slip Form

 Purchase Order Form

Room Reservation Form

From the two pictures, we can see the differences between the forms based on the functions. They are:

1. Deposit Slip: to save some money into a bank account

2. Reservation Form: to reserve or to book a place for an event

3. Purchase Order: to purchase some goods

4. Withdrawal Slip: to withdraw some money from the bank account

5. Enrollment form: to make someone become an official member of a course, collage, or group.

2. Filling out Some Forms

in filling out the forms, students should pay attention to the important information, such as personal identities, name, and signature

3. Classifying the Elements of Forms

a. The elements of a deposit form are:

• date
• account number
• name of account holder
• account type
• amount of money
• depositor's signature
• teller's signature

b. The elements of the registrations form are:

• Full name of the participants
• Place and date of birth
• Address
• Phone Number
• School / grade

 4. Characteristic of form

• Less to write (people only write what is instructed in the space provided. Generally, space is limited)
• Clear instructions about information to be supplied
• Uniformity (For a special purpose, each person will fill in a similar form)
• Information can be re-examined later (Usually, we can find a space for one's signature in a form. It is important to evaluate the accuracy of the information provided)
• Simpler tasks (Forms enable people to collect and distribute data easily

Asking about and Stating Intention

Objectives

Through this section, you will learn:

• be able to understand how to ask about and state intentions
• use ‘would like’ and ‘would rather’

Based on the knowledge and skill you have learned, you expected to

·         be able to express gratitude because you have an opportunity to study English

·         be able to act politely, be honest, kind, disciplined, and responsible in relationship with other people

Learn about it!

In this series, we are going to talk about the present progressive tense. To improve your skill in listening, you have better to practice it a lot. By doing brainstorming and note-taking during listening task you could develop ideas.

 How to use this expression, let’s watch this clip.

Video 1

To make clear, read the scripts of the video below!

Debbie	:	What do you do with old people? What do you say to them?
Jess	:	"Hello" is a good way to start.
Joel	:	Old people like music. And I play the guitar.
Jess	:	You are joking?
Joel	:	No, I do. Honestly.
Jess	:	I know you play the guitar, Joel. But do old people want to listen to you?
Pete	:	My grandma likes people reading to her.
Debbie	:	Do we really have to do this?
Joel	:	Here, do you think? Perhaps?
Pete	:	Ha, ha. Very funny. Over here, Debbie! Come on!
Debbie	:	What do they do all day?
	:	Every day? I dunno. But right now... they're playing cards... Reading the paper...
Jess	:	Sleeping!
Mary	:	Hello, all of you. Welcome to Sunny Bank. My name is Mary Lewis. I'm the manager here. Everyone is really looking forward to meeting you!

“To be continued”

           

What do you think about the community award scheme 'visiting old people'?

What are you going to do if you are visiting old people during community service?

Let’s focus on this clip!

Debbie say

Every day? I dunno. But right now... they're playing cards... Reading the paper...

They’re playing cards

They are playing cards

It uses contraction ‘they are’ become ‘they’re’ the others are

…reading the paper…

or

They’re reading the paper

The above sentence is present progressive tense. It is used to describe the activity happening right now. It uses present participle (ing form of the verb).

In English there are 4 kinds of verbs such as

1.    Infinitive : Play

2.    Past verb: Played

3.    Past Participle: Played

4.    Present Participle: Playing

Now let see these sentences

1.    I am going home now

2.    I am going to go back next week or I am going back next week

the first sentence is to express the activity happening right now and the second sentence is the expression of intention (to do something in the future) How to express the intention, look at the folowing clip

Debbie	:	Hi, I'm Debbie.
Lily	:	Nice to meet you, Debbie. My name's Lily. Sit down. Would you like some juice?
Debbie	:	Oh, er, yeah...
Lily	:	Excuse me. Mary. Can I have some juice for my guest?
Debbie	:	Thanks.
Lily	:	Now, tell me about yourself.
Debbie	:	Like what? I'm not very interesting really.
Lily	:	Nonsense. What's that bracelet you're wearing? That's pretty.
Debbie	:	This? Do you like it?
Lily	:	Yes. It's lovely. Do you like clothes and fashion?
Debbie	:	Yeah. Lots!
Lily	:	How nice! So do I!
Pete	:	It's interesting talking to old people. But it's hard work.
Debbie	:	I'm going back next week.
Joel	:	What! But you're the one that...
Debbie	:	I know. But Lily's quite cool. When she was younger she was a fashion designer. I think I quite like the Community Award after all!

“To be continued”

The following are the expression of asking and stating Intention

Based on the above table we can make some expression of intention such as

·         I'm going back next week.

·         I would like to go back next week

·         I will go back next week

·         I am going to go back next week

here are presented the uses of 'be going to' and 'will.'

BE + GOING TO + VERB base	WILL+ VERB base
When we have already decided or we intend to do something in the future we are going to study together	For things that we decide to do now She will finish her work right away
When there are definite signs that something is going to happen Please bring the umbrella, I just felt a drop and is going to rain soon	When we think or believe something about the future Please bring the umbrella, it is cloudy and will rain
When something is about to happen watch out! The branch is going to fall	To make an offer, a promise or a threat I hope you will join the competition

To make clear and fluent, try to practice it a lot, doing a role play would improve your skill, you can practice the below dialogue.

Keypoints

When stating an Intention we use the simple future form, the patterns are

1.    BE + GOING TO + VERB base

2.    WILL + VERB base

We use the following adverbs of time in simple future tense such as

·         tomorrow

·         next …

·         soon

·         immediately

·         right away

·         this afternoon

·         tonight, etc.

Joint Classroom 'Click Here!'

PENDAHULUAN

As a student, sometimes you don’t want to do school activities alone. Sometimes, you can’t do some things only by yourself. You want to do them with your friends or have to do things with your friends. Can you mention those activities?

PEMBELAJARAN

SUB MATERI 1 OFFERING SOMETHING

Objectives

Understanding transactional and interpersonal dialogues in the form of offering something
1. Able to identify the expression of offering something
2. Able to identify the use of the expressions in offering something to others
3. Able to identify the use of formal and informal expression in offering something in a certain context

Learn about it!

In this series we are going to talk about Offering something. To improve your skill in listening, you have better to practice it a lot. By doing brainstorming and note taking during listening task you could developing ideas.

 How to offering help to someone, let’s watch this clip.

Here are the scripts of conversation above.

Debbie	:	Oh, no!
Pete	:	What? What's the matter?
Debbie	:	I've forgotten to get a projector.
	:	I promised to show some photos of my fashion project to Lilyand some of her friends at Sunny Bank this afternoon. I've got them on this memory stick but I need a projector.
	:	I was going to borrow one from our neighbour.
Pete	:	What about a computer?
Debbie	:	A computer screen's too small for them to see properly.
	:	Oh, I'm so stupid. JOEL: I'll get you a projector.
Debbie	:	How? I need it now.
Joel	:	Meet me in the entrance hall in... five minutes.

What was Debbies’ problems?

What for Debbie need a projector?

If you are as Joel what did you say to Debbie for helping her?

You might say “Let me help you to get a projector”

This expression is offering help to others. If you wonder about this expression let’s read the others examples and it’s explanation.

Read the following dialogue!

The above dialogue is the example of the use of expressions in offering something. The dialogue reveals that Irma did not finish her homework yet. She also had to return Lany’s book and doing her homework at the same time. Her best friend, Sandy, offered a help that he would give the book to Lany. Sandy said “Do you want me to give it to her?”. This is one of the expressions of offering something. Offering something means willingness or intention of doing something to someone else. The following are some expressions and responses of offering something.

Do you understand?

Those expressions are divided into 2 types; based on the context or situation. They are formal and informal expression. The talk on the left side is informal and the talk on the right side is formal. We use a formal expression when we talk to someone older than us, for example: parents, teacher, uncle, aunt, etc. Formal expression shows that we do respect the person we talk to. We use informal expression when we talk to someone who has the same age/level with us, for instance: friends, someone younger than you, etc. The following is the table showing formal and informal expression.

Example:
Shinta saw Mr Budi brought many books. Mr Budi seemed could not handle them. So, what should Shinta say to Mr Budi?

Answer:
Shinta : Would you like me to bring your books, Sir?
Mr Budi : Oh, thank you Shinta.

The bold sentence implies that Shinta offered a help to Mr Budi bringing his books.

SUB MATERI 2 HOW TO  RESPON OFFERS

Objectives

Responding to formal and informal meaning of daily-conversation-written texts in an accurate and fluent way.

Learn about it!

Today, we are going to learn about How to respond offers. To improve your skill in listening, you have better to practice it a lot. By doing brainstorming and note taking during listening task you could developing ideas.

 let’s watch this video.

Here are the scripts of conversation above.

Joel	:	Here. I need to get it back to the I.T room before school finishes.
	:	How long will you be?
Debbie	:	About an hour?
Joel	:	That's cool.
Debbie	:	Joel, does anyone know that I've got this?
Joel	:	I do.
Debbie	:	OK. Thanks.

In this situation, Joel offers help to Debbie, He can use this expression “Let me help you to get a projector” Debbie might say “Of course, It really important to me” or “You’re very kind”

In daily conversation you will face situations where someone offers you some help, or food, or invite you to visit their house or to go to some events like a concert or movie. When someone offers you assistance and you need or want to accept, remember to thank them. If their assistance makes them sacrifice a significant amount of time, energy and other resources, ask them if you can return the favor. This is a polite way to return somebody’s good effort for you.

Read the following illustration to make it clearer.

       Take for an example, a situation when you are ill and your friend offers to take you to the doctor. This friend arranges a transportation for you, accompany you in consulting with the doctor, get you the medicine and take you home. What your friend did to you, of course consumed her/ his time, cost and energy. In return, you can offer to accompany her/ him when she/ he needs you. If the assistance makes someone have to pay some money, compensate him or her. For example, if you accept a ride from a friend, offer him or her to spare the gas cost.

How to say it?

       There are various expressions that you can use to accept an offer. When talking to older people or to strangers, you will need to use formal sentences. However, when speaking to close friends you can use more casual way.
Here are examples of how to accept an offer formally:

Thank you for your offer. I would be delighted to.
Thank you. I would love to.
Yes, thank you. That would be great/ wonderful.

Do you know? Sometimes contractions make formal phrases sounds more casual but still polite:

Thanks for your offer. I’d be delighted to.
Thanks. I’d love to.
Yes, thanks. That’d be great/ wonderful.

Let's think!

Read and study these following situations.

Situation 1: a conversation between a taxi driver and a client
Driver: Shall I carry your suitcase?
Ms. Anna: Yes please. That would be very kind of you.

Situation 2 : a conversation between colleagues
Mr. Dean: Would you like me to print the report?
Mr. Hans: If you wouldn't mind. Or If you could.

Situation 3 : a conversation between friends
Hanna : Good morning, Ajeng. Coffee?
Ajeng : Oh, great! I’d love one.

       When someone offers you assistance and you do not need or want it, decline politely and be firm when necessary. In western culture, it is not offensive to politely decline offered assistance. Just say to them that you “get it” or you “want to try it on your own.” If someone offers you food and you do not want it, you can just say “No, but thanks for offering.”

Here are some examples on declining an offer:
No thank you.
No, but thanks for offering.

The following examples are for specific situations:

Declining assistance
It's OK, I can do it.
Don't worry, I'll do it.

Declining foods
I'm really full. Thanks anyway.
Looks delicious, but I'll have to pass.

Here are some more examples:

Situation 1: a conversation between a waiter and a consumer in a restaurant
Waiter : Would you like another piece of cake?
Mr. Brown : Yes please, that would be nice.

Situation 2: a conversation between friends
Mia : Do you want some strawberries?
Tanya : I am good. Thanks.

       When someone says, “I am good.” It means that she or he does not need an offer. Accepting and declining offers politely may depend on what you are asked.

Do you understand?

The following are example of offering question. You can learn what to say if you accept or decline the offer

Example 1
Question
Do you need a ride?
Positive response
Yes, please.
Yes, I’d love to.
Sure. That’s very kind of you.
Negative response
I am okay. Thank you.
I'd better not.
No, but thanks for offering.

Example 2
Question
Would you like to go to a music festival?
Positive response
Sounds good.
Sure. I'd love to.
Yeah. Good idea.
Negative response
No, I'd rather not.
I'm sorry, but I can't.

Example 3
Question
How about some more French fries?
Positive response
All right. Thanks.
Sure. Thanks.
Don't mind if I do.
Negative response
No, thanks.
I'm really full. Thanks anyway.
Looks delicious, but I'll have to pass.

Example 4
Question
How about going to the movie this weekend?
Positive response
Great. What time?
Sounds like fun.
All right. When and where?
Negative response
Sorry. I'm busy this weekend.
I don't think I can.
How about some other time?

RANGKUMAN

1.	Offering something is the expression showing readiness and intention to help or to do something for someone else.
2.	The expressions of offering something are classified into two groups, namely formal and informal expression.
3.	The formal expression is used when you offer something to someone older than you. While informal expression is used when you offer something to someone younger than or the same level as you.