I am Not Well (Reading & Listening) : MTs Al-Falah Jatinangor

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I am Not Well (Reading & Listening)

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Kompetensi

Basic Competency and Indicators

Basic Competency:

Listening:

To respond the meaning from transactional conversation (to get things done) and simple interpersonal conversation accurately, fluently and acceptably for interacting with environment involving expressions of: requesting, giving, refusing an offering, refusing a thing, disobeying a fact, asking and giving an opinion.

Indicator:Answer the questions related to the dialogue consisting of expressions of: offering, requesting, giving and refusing an offering.

Basic Competency:

Reading:
To respond the meaning and the simple rhetorical essay accurately, fluently and acceptably related to the environment in the form of descriptive and recount.

Indicators:

Identify the main ideas, factual information and specific information.
Identify the meaning of a word, a phrase or a sentence.
Identify the generic structures of the ‘Descriptive’ text.

Materi

Pendahuluan

Hello everybody! Welcome to join with our English program. Well, you will study listening and reading. In this program, you should do the following activities. First, you learn the materials. Second is exercise. Here you are going to listen to the dialogue. The title is ‘I am not well’. Then you answer the questions while listening. This listening activity aims to exercise your listening ability. Then the next step of your activity is reading. You must read a ‘Descriptive’ text. Through the reading activity, you will learn the main ideas of each paragraph and get specific information. By the end of this activity, you must be able to understand all of the materials so that you can do the test perfectly.

Building Knowledge of Field (BKOF)

Building Knowledge of Field (BKOF)

Before you do the listening activity, answer the following questions by clicking ( v ) on the correct choice in the box provided!

Study the following modal auxiliaries as your basic knowledge before you go further to the listening activity!

1. May means boleh or mungkin.
It is used to express permission or possibility.
Examples of permission:

(a) A : You may go home, Ahmad.

B : Thank you, sir.

(b) A : May I go home, mum?

B : Sure.

Examples of possibility:

(a) A : You may be sick, Ria.

B : Yes, sir. I feel fever.

(b) A : Where is Anita?

B : She may be late, sir. She lives far from school.

2. Can means dapat or boleh. It is used to express ability/capability or permission.
Examples of ability:

(a) A : Can you speak English, Vivie?

B : Yes, sir. I speak it a little.

(b) A : Can you swim, John?

B : Yes, I can.

Examples of permission:

(a) A : Can I go to the toilet, please?

B : Certainly.

(b) A : Can I bring your bag, please?

B : Yes, thank you.

3. Must means harus or pasti. It is used to express strong obligation or conclusion.
Examples of strong obligation:

(a) A : You must study hard. You will have an exam next week.

B : Thank you, you remind me.

(b) A : You are sick now. You must go to the doctor.

B : Yes, I will.

Examples of conclusion:

(a) A : You got 10 for your English test. You must master all of the materials, right?

B : Yes, I have studied all of the materials since the first day of this semester.

4. Could is the past form of ‘can’. It means dapat or boleh. It is also used to express ability or permission.
Examples of ability:

(a) A : Could you do the math test yesterday?

B : No, I couldn’t. It’s very hard.

(b) A : Could you help please?

B : Yes, with pleasure.

Examples of permission:

(a) A : Could I stay at your house for one night?

B : Of course. I’d be glad to.

5. Should means seharusnya. It is used to express advice or suggestion.
Examples:

(a) A : Dian, it is raining hard. You should use this umbrella.

B : Thank you, mum.

(b) A : You will have an exam tomorrow. You should sleep, it is already late night.

B : Yes, mum.

B : Thank you, but I will go to the doctor first.

6. Might is the past form of May. It means mungkin or boleh. It is also used to express possibility or permission.
Examples of possibility:

(a) A : Jack is late. He might be trapped the traffic jam.

B : I think so.

(b) A : You did an English test quickly. It might be easy for you, right?

B : Yes, it is.

Examples of permission:

(a) A : Billy, I might not go home soon because I do not finish my work.

B : That’s right. You have to finish it first.

a. Genre (text type): Description

b. The social function: to describe a particular person, place or thing.

c. Generic Structure (Structural Text):

§ Identification: identifies phenomenon to be described.

§ Description: describes parts, qualities, characteristics.

d. Significant Lexicogrammatical features (Grammar):

§ Focus on specific participants.

§ Use of Simple Present Tense.

Simple Present tense:
Pattern: S + be (am, is, are) + Complement

Examples:

(1) A : Are you all right today?

B : Yes, I am. I feel well.

(2) A : Is Father sick now?

B : No, he isn’t. He works at the office

(3) A : Is Mirna at the hospital?

B : Yes, she is. She has diarrhea.

Simple Present tense:
Pattern: S + V1 + O

Examples:

(1) A : Does your mother work at hospital?

B : No, she doesn’t. She works at the office.

(2) A : Do you feel dizzy?

B : Yes, I do. I feel dizzy.

(3) A : Do they get dengue fever?

B : Yes, they do. They are hospitalized at the hospital.

Reading for the gist (the main idea) and the information:

The general idea is the topic of the text which is discussed generally for the whole paragraph.

The topic sentence of a paragraph contains the main idea.
The main idea can be in the first sentence of a paragraph or in the last sentence of a paragraph, or somewhere in the middle of a paragraph or stated explicitly.

The specific information is the information which is stated implicitly in the text.

The detailed information is the information which is given in detail to support the main idea in the text.

Hurt in a finger

Hurt in a finger

In this section of the activity, you will hear a dialogue twice. The dialogue will not be printed in your task so you must listen carefully what the speakers say. After you hear the dialogue then answer the following questions by typing (v) in the box as your correct answer.