BAHASA INGGRIS KELAS 7

Recount Unforgetable Experience

Kompetensi

STANDARD OF COMPETENCY :         

      Communicating in oral and written texts, using proper language fluently

      and accurately in the interactional discourse and/ or monologue,

      especially in the passages of  recount.

BASIC COMPETENCY :

       Expressing the nuance of meaning, using the correct rhetorical steps

      in the written texts of recount , and using simple written languages.            

WRITING

Achievement Indicator :

          Writing texts of recount using correct rhetorical steps and acceptable  text structure.

Materi

Generic Structure

Unforgettable Experience

            In 2003 we, the first grade students, made a five-day living in Kalirejo, a transmigration area in South Lampung. We were 212 students all together. We left Jakarta for Lampung at midnight and our trip was about six hours. Arriving there, we were warm welcomed. After a little talking, we were taken to our respective hosts. Every host accommodated four to five students. The transmigrants lead a very simple life. Most of their houses are made of wood or bamboo and only some are made of bricks.

            Living there, all of us helped the transmigrants plow and fertilize the soil, harvest cassava, rice, corn or other crops, or washed and fed the cattle. At home, most girls produced cassava crisps, cassava cake and fried corn. Though dirty, we were very happy to help them since the works were new and even strange for us. It is unusual for them to stay till night. They go to bed at about 8 p.m. Because of us, they were willing to chat until we asked them to sleep or they trained us to play gamelan music.

One morning, our courageous friend climbed up a ten meter  coconut tree to pick coconuts. Unfortunately, just reaching about five  meter, he trembled. He couldn’t continue his climbing. We we all laughed at him. But the situation changed. Looking down, his face grew  pale and said nothing. We were afraid of him falling down. Then we  encouraged him to climb down inch by inch. He followed our advice. It  took ten minutes for him to reach the ground. Stepping on the ground, he  said, “ I won’t do such a fool again.” Commented the host, “You’re really a citizen, boy”.             The last day of living, we gather together with the hosts in front of  the sub-district office to say goodbye. Shaking hands, both the students  and the hosts couldn’t bear to cry. We felt as if we had been a real big  family.

  

  

Languages Features

 EXPLANATION

• We use Past Simple Tense to talk about :
  • Finished states and actions in the past.

i.e. : - I saw my best friend in the street yesterday.

        - My parents met him in 1970.                             

• Repeated actions in the past

i.e. : - I took the same bus to go to school everyday.

        - She always went swimming on Monday.                                     

• The pattern  :

Positive          : S + V2

Negative         : S + did + not + V1

Interrogative  : Did + S + V1  ?

• Adverb of Time :

Yesterday

Last month

Two days ago

In November 1997, etc.

Sentence connectors is a connection between a sentence with other sentence

Finally  :	It can be used to suggest that one has been waiting for a long time for something.
At first	It can be used to introduce the situation which happens before other situations.
When   :	It can be used to introduce the longer ‘background’ situation, which started before the shorter event, and perhaps went on after it.
However :	It can be used to mean ‘in what ever way’, ‘no matter how’.
Thus     :	it can be used as a logical consequence.

Writing a Recount

VI. Write a recount based on the following pictures below. Use your own words to create your recount.

• A recount tells the reader what happened. They retell a past event.
• e.g. a visit to a farm two months ago
• It begins by telling the reader who was involved, what happened, where this event took place and when it happened. This is called the orientation.
• The sequence of events is then described in some sort of order,
• e.g. time
• There may be a re-orientation at the end which summarizes the event.

Writing recounts :

• When writing recounts you should :
• Focus on individual person i. e. use the word “I” or “we”
• Use words which indicate when (e.g. after breakfast) and where the events took place. (e.g. at school)
• Write the past tense e.g. had, visited, went.

Use action words e.g. helped, climbed. This was a very long day but I enjoyed it at

REFERENCE

1. Th : M. Sudarwati and Eudia Grace, 2005. Look Ahead, an English Course for Senior High School student year X. : Jakarta, Erlangga.
2. F. A Soeprapto and Mariana Darwis, 2004. Linked to the World, English for Senior High School  grade X : Jakarta, Yudhistira.
3. Marcella Frank, 1972, Modern English. New Jersey : Prentice Hall Inc.
4. Margaret Bonner. 1994. Step to Writing. Longman
5. Michael Swan.1980. Practical English Usage, Oxford.

Latihan

Arranging

Matching

Comprehension Questions

Language features

Name the underlined words based on the terms of language features, by typing the letter in front of the following words into the box given below the text.

A. SPECIFIC PARTICIPANT

B. ACTION VERB

C. LINKING VERB

D. ADVERB OF TIME

E. SAYING VERB

F. PAST TENSE

G. SEQUENCE CONNECTOR

H. ADVERB OF PLACE

Today (1) was a very good day for me. I had been looking for a new job for quite a while. I (2) listed my name at a few employment agencies and was given information about several positions, but I wasn’t (3) interested in any of these jobs. Last week (4) I filled out an application form (5) for a new company in town and arranged (6) for a personal interview. Several men were (7) interviewed for this job, and I didn’t know if I would get it.This morning (8) someone from the company called up (9) and asked to see me at two o’ clock (10). When (11) I came into his office (12), he told me that I was hired. I’ll begin working on Monday. I know I’ll like this job. I’ll be paid very well and my work will be extremely interesting.

IV. Read the following passage and identify the language features. Determine the SPECIFIC PARTICIPANT, ACTION VERB, LINKING VERB, PAST TENSE, SEQUENCE CONNECTOR, ADVERB OF TIME, ADVERB OF PLACE, SAYING VERB, by typing them.

I was (1) feeling so happy, I decided to cancel all my appointments for the rest of the day, and I went right home to tell my wife the good news. But before (2) I could say anything to her, she told (3) me what a bad day she was having. None of the lights in the house (4) were working. She had telephoned many electricians, but they all said (5) they were too busy. Finally (6) one agreed to come and she had been waiting him almost all day.

When (7) I was able to get her to stop talking about her troubles and listen to me. I told her about the new job and we made plans to go out for dinner and then go to the movies and perhaps go somewhere else after that. We made up our minds to forget about the electrician and decided to celebrate until down. Then (8) we wouldn’t need any lights, anyway.

      

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Completing paragraph

  

Arranging sentences

Arranging paragraph

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BAHASA INGGRIS KELAS 7

Procedure How To Make Fried Noodles

Kompetensi

Kompetensi Dasar:

1. MembacaMemahami berbagai makna dan langkah-langkah pengembangan retorika dalam teks tertulis terutama yang berbentukprocedure.

2. MenulisMengungkapkan berbagai makna dengan langkah-langkah pengembangan retorika yang benar dalam teks tertulis terutama yang berbentuk procedure.

Setelah mempelajari program ini siswa dapat:

1. Mengidentifikasi makna gagasan dalam wacana: makna kata, frasa atau kalimat, gagasan pokok, informasi faktual, informasi rinci.
2. Menggunakan dengan tepat: verb bentuk I, kalimat perintah, kata-kata yang terkait dengan tema, ejaan dan tanda baca.
3. Menggunakan piranti kohesi (discourse markers) untuk menyatakan sequence.
4. Menggunakan berbagai sub keterampilan dalam membaca.
5. Menulis teks procedure.
6. Menggunakan struktur yang berterima dalam teks procedure.

Materi

Pendahuluan

Lots of people like fried noodles. They are very delicious and easy to prepare. Do you know how to prepare them? If so, do you  know how to share it with other people? Stay in this program for more information.

Procedural Texts show you how to do things, step by step. In these texts you will find instructions or directions on how to cook your favorite dishes, to make a creative toy or handicraft, to operate an equipment, etcetera.

The following show you the samples of procedural texts.

- Reading - Text I
- Reading - Text II

Reading I

Study this text.

HOW TO MAKE FRIED NOODLES

           Fried noodles are easy to make. All you need are 350 g of flat egg noodles, 45 ml vegetable oil, 225 g of mushrooms, 200 g of chicken strips, 25 g of chopped garlic, 100 g of bean sprouts and 15 ml of soy sauce.

           First I cook the noodles in boiling water and drain it. Then I pour the oil into a hot sauce pan and add the strips of chicken. After that I put the mushrooms in. Next I add the garlic and the bean sprouts and fry it for 3 minutes. Then I add the noodles and the soy sauce and stir it. 

           When it’s cooked, I take it out and put it in a large plate. Finally I decorate my fried noodles with slices of cucumber and tomatoes.                

(Adapted  from Functional English, Tony Rogers, Widya Utama, 2004.)

Do you understand the text?
Are ready to answer questions about it?

LATIHAN I

Reading II

Read this text carefully.

          Some people like taking pictures and have lots of photo collections. They usually put the pictures in an album. Sometimes, they also put the pictures in frames. In this way, they can put their pictures on the wall or on their desks for decoration. Do you also have a collection of photographs? Do you want to put your pictures in frames too? Why don’t you make your own frames for the photos? It is very simple to make your own photo frame.
          There are five things you need to make this photo frame. They are a styrofoam, some origami paper, a photograph, a glue stick and somevarnish. These materials are easy to get. Maybe they are even found in your surroundings.
          These are the steps to make a photo fish frame. First, draw a fish on the styrofoam tray. The fish should be a little smaller than the photograph you want to frame. Then, cut the origami paper into small pieces. Next, glue the pieces of origami paper to the tray and to the fish cut-out. This fish cut-out will serve as the frame’s stand. After that varnish the frame and the fish and let them dry. Then glue the fish to the back of the frame and use it to hold the frame. Finally attach your picture to the back of the frame with sellotape. And your photo fish frame is ready.               

(Adapted from Pelajaran Bahasa Inggris Kelas VII, Depdiknas,
Dikdasmen, Direktorat Pendidikan Lanjutan Pertama, 2004.)

LATIHAN I 
Choose a, b, c, or d as the correct answer for each number.

LATIHAN II
I. Answer the following questions based on the text. Type your answers in the space provided.

II. The following are procedures to make a photo fish frame but they are not in the correct order. Put them in the correct order. Type numbers 1 until 6 in the space provided.

Writing

        HOW TO COOK RICE

Cooking rice is easy especially if you use a rice cooker to do it. First put some rice in a bowl. Then wash it in running water. Next put it in the pan. After that put some water into the pan. Then put the pan into the rice cooker.  Finally plug the cord in and switch the button on. Wait for about 30 minutes until the cooking is done. You will notice it from the light. When the light turns to yellow, your rice is ready to serve.

Writing a procedural text is not difficult. Still, you need to know several things to be able to do it as follow:

- Giving Instruction
- Sequence
- Vocabulary

Writing : Giving Instructions

When you give instructions to other people, it means that you tell them to do something. Also, when someone gives you an instruction, it means he wants you to do something for him.

Study these sentences.

1. Open the door.
2. Draw a fish on a Styrofoam tray.
3. Cut the paper into small pieces.
4. Put some rice in a bowl.
5. Plug the cord in and switch the button on.

Pay attention to the underlined words. Are they nouns, adjectives or verbs? That’s right. They are VERBS- in the first form (verb I). All sentences above start with verb I. They are instructions. They tell people to do something. These instructions are called Imperatives. Imperatives are often used to show procedures.

Pay attention to these sentences:

1. Don’t close the window.
2. Don’t come late.
3. Don’t boil the noodles too long.
4. Don’t put too much water into the pan.

All the sentences above start with Don’t + Verb I. We use Don’t + Verb I if we want to tell others NOT TO DO SOMETHING. The sentences above are also imperative sentences but they are in the negative form.

We can make our instructions sound nicer or more polite by adding words like please, can, could, will or would. Compare the sentences on the left with the ones on the right.

 

Do you notice the differences?
That’s right. The sentences on the right are more polite than the only sentence on the left. The instructions sound even nicer with the word could or would.

LATIHAN

So, what do you think? It’s easy to give instructions, isn’t it? Well, let’s find out. Below is a list of situations (Column A). Match the situation with the appropriate instruction (Column B). Type the letter (a-f) in the space provided.

Writing : Sequence

Read these sentences. They are from the text.

1. First put some rice in a bowl.
2. Then wash it in running water.
3. Next put it in the pan.
4. After that put some water in the pan.
5. Finally plug the cord in.

The underlined words are used to show order of actions. They are called discourse markers to show sequence (piranti kohesi untuk menunjukkan urutan).
Do you know other words to show sequence? Let’s see whether you can identify them.

Study the words in the box. Click the word if you think you can use it to show sequence.

Writing : Vocabulary

  
LATIHAN

Simulasi

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Bahasa Inggris Kelas 7

Bahasa Inggris Kelas 7