An English perspective

1. A Crash Course by Aldyansyah, SS An English perspective

2. Do you speak English? Do you need English? Why? What are your problems in learning English? Did you ever experience an embarrassing moment when you tried to communicate in English? How do you learn English? What is the best way to learn English effectively? What are the advantages of understanding English? Glossary: Experience: pengalaman, Embarrassing: memalukan, Advantage: keuntungan Let’s have a chit-chat

3. Why English? international language compulsory requirements sign of literacy source of knowledge media language career booster ticket to international communities English—overview

4. ENGLISH Needs: Vocabulary Grammar COOKING Needs: Ingredients Recipes English – the perspective

5. get yourself a good dictionary relate your learning with your interests learn with contexts use your emotions use it! Vocabulary Tips

6. tête-à-tête (n) Dictionary: an informal private conversation between two people, especially friends e.g. We must have a tête-à-tête sometime. Interest: I often have a tête-à-tête about politics with my buddy at a coffee shop. Context: Call your friend on the phone and ask him/her to go out to have a tête-à-tête. Emotion: persuade your friend eagerly to have a tête-à-tête with you You have USEdIT! Glossary: Persuade: bujuk, Eagerly: dengansemangat Give it a try

7. start with simple sentences: Subject + Verb a sentence must have a Verb don’t translate but transform paraphrase ask yourself: when? – Tenses Do your homework – memorize use it Grammar hints

8. Verb : actions e.g. work, study, think, feel, consider, smile, succeed, agree, like, etc. you succeed in your job Noun : things e.g. eye, job, education, feeling, success, agreement, luck, etc. you have success in your job Adjective : characteristics e.g. clear, beautiful, inspiring, rich, successful, lucky, punctual, etc. you are successful in your job Adverb : modifiers e.g. clearly, well, fast, only, often, hardly, all, fortunately, never, etc. you do your job successfully Word classes; the bottom line

9. Classify the words Eat smoke breakfast agree Smile work is book Will walk have only Think fire target imagination Full stress successful happy Hot punctual usually loudly Late party present likely Reasonable glad like fast Give it a try!

10. Only 2 kinds of sentences: Verbal e.g. I work Nonverbal/nominal e.g. I am a worker Absolute rule: A sentence MUST have a VERB The absolute grammar rule

11. Tenses refer to the time or condition of a sentence There are 16 tenses in English grammar Tenses; the bottom line

12. Tenses; the bottom line

13. The presence of a verb is compulsory in a sentence. It also signalizes the condition or the time (tenses) of an English sentence by its forms Verb forms: VERBS

14. what do you do everyday? What did you do yesterday? What will you do tomorrow? What would you do if you had all the money in the world? What are you doing now? What were you doing at 1 yesterday? What will you be doing at 1 tomorrow? What have you done today? What had you done before you came here? Let’s speak!

16. Feel happy to make mistake!