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English Exam

 Yo Hai! How are  you? I'm taking my exam this week and I was told to make a video about answering some questions. So if you want to know about the video, I'll put the link here. Check it out ;) questions and answers: 3.        What topics can be for opinions? Answer: anything can be given an opinion 5.        What do you know about short functional text? Answer: Short Functional Text has particular meaning and purpose and can be used in daily life. 7.        When you visit a school, what kinds of short functional text do you find? Answer: Memos, announcement, labels, cautions, and notices 9.        What is a descriptive text? Answer: Descriptive text is a text that contains descriptions of a certain something. 11.    How do you like Semarang? (3 sentences) Answer: In the morning when it's cold outside, the historical places, and that the roads are ...

Explanation Text

  Yo Hai! We meet again! Today's lesson is about explanation text, let's get into it! Definition: Explanation Text is a text that explains about how something could happen. Generic structure:  1. General Statement 2. Explanation 3. Conclusion Language Features: 1. Focusing generic participant 2. Using present tense 3. Using chronological connectors 4. Using passive voice Here's the example of an explanation text about flood: Floods are a very common disaster in densely populated cities. Floods are very common in Indonesia, hitting the city of Jakarta and often claiming many lives. So do you know how the flood process happened? Consider the following explanation. When rain falls on the surface of the earth, the process of natural flooding begins. In addition, rainwater seeps through the ground and flows to low places. Evaporation then takes place and water comes out of the surface.  Naturally occurring floods can be devastating to people when floods hit their homes, as the...

News Item

Yo Hai! Today we're going to learn about News Item. What's news item? Idk either, that's why we're going to learn about it now! Definition News item is a text which informs readers about events of the day. The events are considered newsworthy or important. It means if there is an important event that should be known by many people. Purpose The purpose of news item is to inform the readers about newsworthy or important events of the day. Generic Structure: 1. Main event Is a paragraph that contains the summary of the event. 2. Background Event Background to the events that occurred. Contains 5W+1H. 3. Source Contains the opinions of experts or witnesses. Can also be comments from another person/party involved. My teacher also gave me an assignment to work. 1. Headline: Highly Anticipated Coldplay Concert Sparks Ticket War, Frauds, and Homophobic Debate in Indonesia 2. Main event: The November concert in Gelora Bung Karno (GBK) Stadium will mark the first time the band Co...

Congratulation Card

  Yo Hai! This time I'll tell you something about congratulation cards, check it out. Definition Congratulation Card is a way to congratulate the achievements or something good that happen to your close person. Purpose The purpose is to give the congratulations and wishes from the writer to the recipient of the card. Examples of Congratulation Card: It can be anything from congratulate for your friend's birthday to giving best wishes for your grandparent's retirement from work, it also can be a card to congratulate on your sibling's wedding or your coworker's newborn.

Procedure Text

 Yo Hai! Todays lesson is about procedure text, let's start it! Definition Procedure text is a text that is designed to describe how something is achieved through a sequence of actions or step. It explains how people perform different processes in a sequence of steps. It uses how to operate or use a product or tools, to make something new step by step completely. Purpose The purpose of procedure text is to tell how to do something. General Structure 1. Goal: explains the goal of the text 2. Materials: describes the tools or materials/ingredients needed 3. Steps: the actions that must be taken/done Language Characteristic 1. Using simple past tense 2. Using imperative sentences 3. Using connective sentences 4. Using adverb

Learning Short Functional Text

Yo Hai! We meet again! let's just start learning. Definition Short Functional Text is a short text that has particular meaning and purpose, and can be used in our daily life. It may be in the form of prohibition, invitation, greeting cards, short messages, shopping list, notice, announcement, etc. Purpose Short functional texts are types of informational texts to help the readers understand the information quickly. Types of Short Functional Texts 1. Announcement An announcement is a statement addressed to public to provide information that something has happened or is going to happen. This type of SFT is commonly found in the public place or media, respectively, such as school, a newspaper, magazine, a window of a shop, a city park, etc. - Structures: opening, content, closing. 2. Advertisement Typical information used to persuade audience to do something or to take some action. This type of SFT usually contains the name of a product or service and the explanation of how the produc...

About asking and Giving Opinion

 Yo Hai! This time we're going to learn about asking and giving opinions Definition Asking an opinion is the way for someone to ask for another peoples opinion about something, and giving opinion is when someones giving opinions about something. Purpose The purpose of asking and giving opinion is that we can know about what another persons think about something. Expressions Asking for Opinion (formal): - Have you got any comments on  …? - Could you tell me your opinion about ..? - What is your view on …? Asking for Opinions (informal): - I need your opinion about … - What is your opinion? - How about ..? Giving Opinions (formal): - I personally consider … - My own view of the matter is… - In my personal opinion … Giving Opinions (informal): - I think that… - As far as I know - In my opinion, ...

Recount Text

Yo Hai! We meet again! We have already learned about Recount Text, let me remind about it. Definition Recount Text is a text that tells the reader about events or experiences from the past. Purpose The purpose of a recount is to list and describe past experiences by retelling events in the order in which they happened. Generic Structure 1. Orientation: Gives the readers about the background information needed to understand the story. 2. Events: Series of events in a chronological sequence 3. Re-Orientation: Personal comment about the event or what happened in the end Language Features 1. Using simple past tense, post continous tense, past perfect tense, and past perfect continous tense. 2. Using temporal sequences 3. Focus on specific participant 4. Using action verb Types of Recount 1. Personal Recount Text about  the writer's recolections of a particular event or experiences. 2. Factual Recount To inform the readers about particular events just like newspaper reports. 3. Imaginat...

Tenses Lesson

Yo Hai! This time we're going to learn about tenses. Not just 2 or 3 tenses, but all 16 types of tenses Present Tenses a. Simple Present Tense (subject + verb (s/es for third person)) Is a verb tense that talks about what happens habitually or continually. b. Present Continuous Tense (subject + is/am/are + present participle) Used to describe an action happening now, or an ongoing action, also can be used to talk about something that will happen in the future. c. Present Perfect Tense (subject + has/have + past participle) Is used to emphasize the duration of an action that occured in a time period before now. d. Present Perfect Continuous Tense (subject + have been + present participle + time reference) Is used for actions that have been going on since the past and end up until the present, also can be used to refer to actions that are still in progress, but still haven't been finished. Past Tenses a. Simple Past Tense (subject + V2) Is used to describe actions that occured in...