Unit 1 Greetings and Leave Taking A. STUDENTS’ LEARNING PROGRAMS Standard Competence
: To communicate in English in novice level. (target TOEIC score: 10 – 300) Basic Competence (KD 1.1) : To understand the basic expressions in social interactions to perform the daily routines. B. LEARNING OBJECTIVES Students are able to: 1. use expressions dealing with greetings correctly. 2. use formal and informal greetings correctly. 3. use expressions dealing with parting correctly. 4. make dialogues dealing with greeting and parting correctly. 5. respond conversations dealing with greetings. 6. arrange sentences into good dialogues. 7. understand personal pronoun and possessive adjective. C. LEARNING ACTIVITIES 1. SPEAKING Activity 1 Study the following dialogues. Dialogue 1 Rudi : Indah? Indah : Hi, Rudi. Rudi : What a surprise to meet you here. How are you doing? Indah : Great. What are you doing here? Rudi : Taking my mother to the shop. Dialogue 2 John : Hi, Merry! How’s life? Merry : Hi John. Well, not bad. How about you? John : Good! Ok, sorry Merry. It’s almost eight! I have to go now. See you. Merry : Bye. Take care, John. John : Thanks. 1 Grade X. Unit 1: Greeting and Leave Taking
Activity 2 Do in pairs and practice the following conversation. Miss. Romi calls on the Colemans. She meets Mr. Coleman and his son, John.
Mr. Coleman : Good evening Miss. Romi. I’m so glad you could come. Please come in. Miss. Romi : Thank you. What a nice place you’ve got here. Hello, John. How are your exams going? John : They will start tomorrow. Miss. Romi : Well, good luck. John : Thank you. I heard that you’re going abroad next month, Miss. Romi. Miss. Romi : Yes. I’m going to Italy. John : That sounds exciting. I hope you’ll have a good trip. Miss. Romi : Thanks, I’m sure I will. (Later) Miss. Romi Mr. Coleman Miss. Romi Mr. Coleman John
: Well, I’m afraid I must leave now. You see, my sister isn’t well. : I’m sorry to hear that. Please give her our best regards. : Thank you, I certainly will, Goodbye. : Goodbye : Goodbye.
USEFUL EXPRESSIONS Formal Greetings Good morning, Mr./Mrs./Miss./Ms……. How are you? Good afternoon, Mr./Mrs./Miss./Ms……How are you? Good evening, Mr./Mrs./Miss./Ms……….How are you? Informal greetings When you have got to know somebody you may say: Hello - Hello How are you getting on? - Fine, thanks Hi, how are you doing? - Fine. How’s life? - Not too bad, thanks After not seeing someone for some time, say: Nice to see you again Really good to see you again. 2 Grade X. Unit 1: Greeting and Leave Taking
Leaving Formal or informal Goodbye. - Good bye. Good night, Mr./Mrs./Miss./Ms…… - Good night. See you later. - Good night. Less informal expressions: Cheerio. Bye-bye/Bye. See you. If you are going to meet someone again at the same day (soon): See you later. - Fine. See you soon. - O.K. See you tonight. - All right. Notes: 1. Good morning is used a few minutes after midnight until a few minutes before 12.00 (noon). 2.
Good afternoon is used a few minutes after 12:00 (noon) to a few minutes before 6:00p.m.
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Good evening is used from 6:00 p.m. to midnight.
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Hello is used in general informal greeting.
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Hi is used in very informal greeting.
Activity 1 Answer the following expressions correctly. a. How’re you getting on? i. See you soon. b. Cheerio. j. How are you? c. Hello. k. See you at the dance. d. See you tomorrow. l. Good afternoon. e. Goodbye. m. See you this evening. f. Cheers. n. See you about seven, then. g. Good night. o. How do you do? h. How do you do? p. See you later.
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Activity 2 What would you say to somebody when…? a. you are going to see him/her in the evening. b. he/she’s going away for a long time. c. you have just been introduced to him/her. d. you know well and meet him/her in the street. e. you haven’t seen him/her for a long time. f. you are leaving at 9.30 p.m.. g. you are going to see him/her the next day. h. you are leaving at 10 a.m..
Activity 3 Choose one topic and make a short conversation about greeting and leave taking. Activity 4 Use “how are you?” and a suitable greeting for the following information. Then practice in pairs. Example: It is 8 p.m. A : Good evening, Sir. How are you? B : Fine thanks. And you? A : Very well, thanks.
1. It is 2 p.m. 2. It is 9 p.m. 3. It is 7 a.m. 4. It is 11 p.m. 5. It is 5 p.m.
6. It is 10 a. m. 7. It is 10:45 p.m. 8. It is 11 a. m. 9. It is 3 p.m. 10. It is 6:00 p.m.
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GRAMMAR POINT Personal Pronoun and Possessive Adjective
Be: Present Affirmative
I
am
He She It We You They
is…….
are
Negative
I He She It We You They
Interrogative
am not
Am
is not/isn’t….
Is
are not/aren’t….
Are
I …….? he she …… ? it we you……..? they
Pronouns No.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Subjective Pronoun
I You We They He She It
Objective Pronoun
me you us them him her it
Possessive Adjective
my ….. your ….. our ……. their …… his ……. her ……. its ……..
Possessive Pronoun
mine yours ours theirs his hers its
Reflexive Pronoun
myself yourself/yourselves ourselves themselves himself herself itself
2. WRITING Activity 1 Study the following dialogues. Dialogue 1 A : Excuse me, please. Are you Mr. Baxter? B : Yes, that’s right. And this is my wife, Jill. A : Oh good. How do you do, Mrs. Baxter? Dialogue 2 C : Hello. You must be Jill. D : Yes, I am. And, this is my husband, Steve. C : Oh good. How are you? D : Fine, thanks. 5 Grade X. Unit 1: Greeting and Leave Taking
Activity 2 Fill in the blanks with the pronouns provided below the passage! One pronoun can be used more than one time. Steve Baxter is a journalist in London. ____ is a busy man. _____ job is very interesting. ____ wife is Jill Baxter. Jill is a busy woman. ___ is a teacher at a language school in London. ____ job is very interesting, too. Steve and Jill have two sons. ____ are Andrew and Billy. Steve and Jill like ____ sons very much. They are proud of them. Andrew and Billy always prepare what they need by themselves because _____ know that _____ parents are very busy.
she
he
they
her
his
their
Activity 3 Do in pairs. Classify the pronouns you use in activity 1 into subjective pronoun, objective pronoun, or possessive adjective. Activity 4 Fill in the blanks with suitable words. Lili is one of my classmates. ……….from Surabaya. I like …….very much. I have a dictionary. ………colour is blue. Sella and Selly……..twin sisters. ……….are beautiful and smart. I have two brothers. ……….Randy and Sapta. Cintya is a good student. ……..always does ……homework by ……. I have two new dictionaries. I bought ….. in Semarang two weeks ago. These pens are not mine. Are these ……? Do you make your dress ………? Mr. and Mrs. Tobing are very rich. Therefore, …..can send …. children to universities. 10. Deniar is sick. ………hospitalized at Budi Mulia Hospital. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
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EVALUATION I.
Arrange the following sentences into a good dialogue between Mr. Yanto and Rudi. The dialogue is about giving a regard. a. b. c. d. e. f.
He is in Jakarta to see my grand parents. Yes, Sir. Please remember me to your father. Where is he now? Thank you. I certainly will. Rudi, is your father’s name Mr. Romli?
II. Arrange the following sentences into a good dialogue between Tom and Mary. a. b. c. d. e.
Oh, I am sorry to hear that Fine, Thanks. And you? Hello, Mary. Not bad, but my daughter’s not well today Hi, Tom. How are you?
III. Study the following dialogue. Then, answer the questions follow. Christine George Christine George Michael George Christine Michael George Michael George
: Look, George. There’s somebody waving. I think he’s waving to you. : Oh…, that’s Michael. I haven’t seen him for years. We were in Greece together. : Well, he’s coming here. : Hello Michael. How are you? : Fine thanks. I haven’t seen you for ages. : I’d like you to meet my girl friend, Christine. Christine, this is Michael. : How do you do? George has often talked about you when he was in Greece with you. : How do you do, Christine? I’m very pleased to meet you. : Are you in a hurry, Michael? : Not really. Why? : Let’s go and have a drink somewhere and catch up old times. 7
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Questions 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Who is waving? To whom is somebody waving? Where were George and Michael together? Who introduces Christine to Michael? What does George ask Michael to do?
IV. Choose A. B. C. or D that should be corrected. 1.
Dahlia Mr. Paul
2.
Hesti Achmad
3.
: Good afternoon. Mr. Paul. How are he? A B C : Good afternoon. I’m fine, thank you. What about you? D : Hello, Ahmad. It is nice to see him again. A B C D : Hi. How are you?
Kajol
: Hi, Dirga. How is your parents? Are they fine? A B C Dirga : Yes, they are very well, thanks. D 4. Receptionist : Good afternoon, Mr. Green. Welcome on the Hotel Hyatt. A B C Mr. Green : Thank you. D 5. Anita : Are your sister fine, too? A B Titi : Yes, she is. She is busy doing her thesis right now. C D
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