Present Simple Tense


Simple Present Tense Quiz (choose the right one)

  1. Do you (likes, be like, like) chocolate milk?
  2. He (does, do, is) not want to come to the movies.
  3. (Am, Is, Are) we too late to catch the bus?
  4. It (am, is, are) a beautiful day today.
  5. Sorry, Lisa (am, are, is) not here at the moment.
  6. (Do, Does, Am) I correct?
  7. Robert (is, do, does) not go to my school.
  8. My parents (live, lives, are live) in a 2 bedroom apartment.
  9. We (are, is, do) European.
  10. You so (feel, feels, are feel) happy today!

Present Simple Tense (I do)

I/You/We/They: do (drink, sleep, eat, study, . . .)

He/She/It: does (drinks, sleeps, eats, studies, . . .)

Example:

  • I write blog everyday.
  • You drink coffee every morning.
  • We study English once a week.
  • They go to school in the morning.
  • He goes to sport every morning.
  • She makes up her face in front of the mirror.
  • It brings bone with its teeth.
  • Do you have calculator?
  • Do they drink coffee every morning?
  • Does she have a nice car?
  • Does he go to school everyday?
  • I don't have much money.
  • He doesn't have enough food.

Personal Pronoun

Pronouns are small words that take the place of a noun. We can use a pronoun instead of a noun. Pronouns are words like: he, you, ours, themselves, some, each... If we didn't have pronouns, we would have to repeat a lot of nouns. We would have to say things like:
Do you like the president? I don't like the president. The president is too pompous.

With pronouns, we can say:
Do you like the president? I don't like him. He is too pompous.

Personal Pronouns
This summary of personal pronouns includes possessive adjectives for convenience and comparison.number person gender* pronouns possessive.
Pronouns as subject: I, You, We, They, He, she, It.
Pronouns as object: me, you, us, them, him, her, it.
Pronouns as possessive: mine, yours, ours, theirs, his, hers, its.
Pronouns as reflexive: myself, yourself, ourselves, theirselves, himself, herself, itself.
Possessive adjective: my, your, our, their, his, her, its.
Examples:
  • She give me a homework.
  • The teacher gives me homework.
  • This is my homework.
  • I did my homework by myself.




Apologizing (I am sorry)

An apology is a justification or defense of an act or idea, from the Greek apologia (απολογία). An apology can also be an expression of contrition and remorse for something done wrong.
Some expressions of apology:
  • I'm sorry.
  • I'm so sorry.
  • I'm very sorry.
  • I (d0) apologize.
  • Please, excuse me.

The responds:

  • All right.
  • It's OK.
  • No problem.
  • It doesn't matter.
  • Don't think about it.

Expressing regret

  • I'm sorry to hear that.
  • That's too bad.
  • What a shame!
  • That's a shame.
  • Oh, no!
  • What?!
  • How awful!
  • How terrible!
  • How hoorible!

Listening

Tom: Do you have chocolate ice cream?

Waiter: I'm sorry. i don't have it.

Tom: What about strawberry?

Waiter: I'm sorry. I don't have it, either.

Chan: Today we don't have the King anymore.

Lee: What do you mean?

Chan: Tha King of Pop has died yesterday.

Lee: Do you mean the Jacko?

Chan: Yes.

Lee: are you kidding?

Chan: Didn't you read and listen the news?

Lee: Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.

Expressing Thanks (class X)

Reading
Gratitude, thankfulness, or appreciation is a positive emotion or attitude in acknowledgment of a benefit that one has received or will receive. The experience of gratitude has historically been a focus of several world religions, and has been considered extensively by moral philosophers such as Adam Smith. The systematic study of gratitude within psychology only began around the year 2000, possibly because psychology has traditionally been focused more on understanding distress rather than understanding positive emotions. However, with the advent of the positive psychology movement, gratitude has become a mainstream focus of psychological research. The study of gratitude within psychology has focused on the understanding of the short term experience of the emotion of gratitude (state gratitude), individual differences in how frequently people feel gratitude (trait gratitude), and the relationship between these two aspects. (source: www.wikipedia.com)

1. Greeting


1.1 Understanding basic expressions in social interaction for life.

In this competency, there are some materials that included in it, are:

  • Greetings and leave takings.
  • Introducing yourself and others.
  • Expressing thank.
  • Apologizing/Expressing sorry.
  • Grammar: Personal Pronoun
  • Grammar: Simple Present Tense

Greeting and Leave Taking

Read the text about greeting below.

How are you?

     'Hello', 'How are you?', 'Good morning', 'Have you eaten yet?', 'Where are you going?'. These are greeting which people use in different languages when they meet each other. But what is greeting?

     A greeting is a way of being friendly to someone. It is a way of being polite. it is also a way of starting a conversation. in many languages a question is used as a greeting: 'Where are you going?', 'How is everything?'. But questions like these are not real questions. They do not require a full answer or even a true one. In English, for example, the most common greeting is a question about person's health: 'How are you?'. But we do not expect the person to tell us about their health when they repley. we do not expect them to talk about their headache or their backache, if they have one. People reply to these questions with a fixed expression such as 'Just walking around' is sufficient. It is not necessary to describe where you are actually going.

     In most languages, a greeting is usually followed by small talk. Small talk means the little things we talk about at the start of a conversation. In English-speaking countries people often make small talk about the weather; 'Nice day, isn't it?', 'Terrible weather, isn't it?'. But there is something special about small talk. It must be about something which both people have the same opinion about. The purpose of small talk is to let both people agree on something. This makes meeting people easier and more comfortable. People usually agree about the weather, so it is a safe topic for small talk. But people often disagree about religion or politics so these are not suitable topic for small talk in English. The topic for small talk also depend on where the conversation is taking place. At football games, people make small talk; 'Great game, isn't it?'. At the bus stop, people may comment about the transportation system; 'The buses are very slow these days, aren't they?'

     Greeting and small talk are an important part of conversation in any language. The way people greet each other and the things they talk about, however, may be different from one language to another. This shows that there is much more to be aware of when we learn a language than just the vocabulary and the grammar of the language. We also have to learn the social behaviour of the people who speak it.

Answer some questions about:

  1. Is it true that people use greeting when they say goodbye to each other?
  2. Is it true that learners of english should only learn grammar and vocabulary?
  3. Is it true that some languages do not have greetings?
  4. Is it true that small talk means talk of great importance to speakers in the conversation?
  5. Is it true that the purpose of of greeting is the same in all languages?

Listening

Tom: Good afternoon, Tina.

Tina: Good afternoon, TOm.

Tom: How are you today?

Tina: Fine, thank you.

The expressions and the responds:

Man: Good morning./Good afternoon./Good evening.

Woman: Good morning./Good afternoon./Godd evening.

Man: Hai./Hello.

Woman: Hai./Hello

Man: How are you?/And how are you this afternoon?

Woman: Fine, thank you./Just fine, thank you.

The expression of Leave Taking

  • Goodbye.
  • Good night.
  • See you tomorrow.
  • Nice to meet you.
  • It's been nice talking to you.

The expression of Introducing Friend

1. Tina: Tom, this is Chan.

Tom: Hi, how are you?

Chan: Fine, thanks.

2. Jane: This is my assistant, Lee.

Lury: Hello.

Lee: Nice to meet you.

3. Chan: I'd like you to meet Jacko.

Kahn: How do you do, Mr. jacko. My name is Kahn.

Jacko: How do you do. Nice to meet you.

4. Ann: Do you know Josh?/Have you met Josh?

Gina: No, I don't./No, I haven't.

Ann: Josh, this is Gina.

Josh: Hi./Hello.



Materials for Class XII

There are 7 basic competencies for class XII. For each semester it could be 3 or 4 basic competencies will be studied based on the calendar of the lesson.

Understanding monologue at certain working situation.

The materials are:

  • short talk (advertisement, report, announcement, etc)
  • antonym, synonym
  • prefixe, suffixe
  • taking note/summary
  • understanding monologue

Understanding limited conversation with native speaker.

The materials are:

  • reservation
  • future tense
  • telephone handling
  • respond to complaint
  • expressing arrangement
  • confirmation and cancellation
  • modal auxiliary
  • if clause, included wish, if only, would rather
  • interviewing

Making report.

The material is:

  • all about presentation

Understanding manual.

The materials are:

  • book of manual for electronic tools
  • antonym, synonym
  • affixe

Understanding simple business letters.

The materials are:

  • business letter
  • fax
  • memorandum
  • advertisement
  • brochure
  • form
  • questionnaire
  • antonym, synonym

Understanding documents.

The material is:

  • Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)

Writing business letter and simple report.

The materials are:

  • business letter
  • part of letter
  • job vacancy advertisement
  • application letter
  • how to write letter and report.

The Materials for Class XI

There are 7 basic competencies of English for class XI of SMK. In every semester it can be 3 or 4 basic competencies, based on the efective time schedule for studying. 

Here are the depth of the materials in each basic sompetency.

Understanding simple daily spoken personally and professionally with non native speakers.

The materials are:

  • yes-no questions
  • questions tag
  • question word (w-h question, do, does, etc)
  • hobby and interest
  • guest handling
  • gerund
  • too and enough

Make a note about simple messages whether in directly interaction or by tools.

The materials are:

  • telephone handling
  • personal pronoun
  • reported speech
  • adjective clause

Make a list of job description and educational background spoken and written.

The materials are:

  • simple present tense
  • simple past tense
  • telling people's job
  • telling people's educational background
  • curriculum vitae
  • fact and figure

Telling the past job and the next future job.

The materials are:

  • simple past tense
  • personal letter
  • past event
  • future tense
  • future plans
  • present perfect

Expressing feelings.

The materials are:

  • giving invitation
  • bargaining
  • expressing certainty
  • giving and responding to compliment
  • expressing opinion
  • agreement & disagreement
  • expressing argument
  • conjunction
  • used to
  • noun clause

Understanding simple instructions.

The materials are:

  • describing process
  • asking for and giving suggestion and advice
  • necessity and obligation
  • persuading & convincing
  • comparison
  • imperative

Making short message, instruction, and schedule well.
The materials are:

  • handling message
  • understanding message
  • spelling bee
  • punctuation
  • summary

The Materials for Class X

In the basic competency for class X (8 basic competencies) there are so many materials should be comprehended, are as follow:

Understanding basic expressions in social interaction for life.

In this competency, there are some materials that included in it, are:

  • Greetings and leave takings.
  • Introducing yourself and others.
  • Expressing thank.
  • Apologizing/Expressing sorry.
  • Grammar: Personal Pronoun
  • Grammar: Simple Present Tense

Mentioning things, people, characteristics, time, days, months, and years.
The materials that included in this competency are:

  • vocabularies about things, people, characteristic, time, days, months, year, colors, shape, size, materials, quality, amount, etc.
  • How much & how many
  • singular & plural
  • profession
  • nationality
  • adjectives
  • noun showing times
Describe things, people, characteristics, time, days, months, and years.
The materials are:
  • Present Simple Tense
  • Past Tense
  • Present Continuous Tense
  • numbers
  • adjectives
  • antonym/synonim

Producing simple spoken that feels enough for basic function.
The materials are:

  • regret and apologize expressions
  • sympathy expressions
  • expressions for expressing feeling, included the adjective (of feelings)
  • agreement & disagreement expressions
  • the expression of asking for and giving permission
  • the expression of asking for something/request
  • the expression of command
  • the expression of offering things


Explaining simply one being event.

The materials are:

  • the expression that has connection with
  • there is/are
  • present continuous tense
  • future continuous tense
  • preposition (in, at, on, etc)
  • question word (who, whom, whose, which, why, how)
  • how to express or opinions

Understanding simple memorandum, menu, transportation schedule, and road signs.

The materials are:

  • understanding memorandum
  • understanding menu (in the restaurant, hotel, supermarket, canteen, etc.)
  • understanding timetable and schedule
  • vocabularies of road signs
  • degree of comparison (fast, faster, fastest)
  • pronouns
  • reported speech

Understanding foreign words, terms, and simple sentence based on the sentence pattern.

The materials are:

  • preferences ( prefer, like better, etc)
  • if clause
  • capabilities expression
  • the expression of asking for and giving direction and location
  • preposition of place (beside, behind, etc)

Writing simple invitation.

The materials are:

  • modals (will, can, may, should)
  • invitation letter
  • all about letter of invitation
  • how to write letter well
  • parts of letter.

All of these materials are for class X (two semesters). So, each semester it could be 4 basic competencies are studied.

The references of English materials for class X are so many and varied. At last, keep any references that supported to the lessons.


Basic Competency for Class XII

Here are the basic competencies for Class XII, are as follow:

  1. Understanding monologue at certain working situation.
  2. Understanding limited conversation with native speaker.
  3. Making report.
  4. Understanding manual.
  5. Understanding simple business letters.
  6. Understanding documents.
  7. Writing business letter and simple report.

Basic Competency for Class XI

Here are the basic competencies for Class XI, are as follow:

  1. Understanding simple daily spoken personally and professionally with non native speakers.
  2. Make a note about simple messages whether in directly interaction or by tools.
  3. Make a list of job description and educational background spoken and written.
  4. Telling the past job and the next future job.
  5. Expressing feelings.
  6. Understanding simple instructions.
  7. Making short message, instruction, and schedule well.

The Basic Competency for Class X

There are some basic competencies that should be mastered by the class X of SMK, are as follow:

  1. Understanding basic expressions in social interaction for life.
  2. Mentioning things, people, characteristics, time, days, months, and years.
  3. Describe things, people, characteristics, time, days, months, and years.
  4. Producing simple spoken that feels enough for basic function.
  5. Explaining simply one being event.
  6. Understanding simple memorandum, menu, transportation schedule, and road signs.
  7. Understanding foreign words, terms, and simple sentence based on the sentence pattern.
  8. Writing simple invitation.