Writing III1st Class : August 31, 2014

Arif Nuryawan

Universitas Terbuka Korea Selatan

arifnury@yahoo.com

Tutor Introduction• Arif Nuryawan (Arif)

• Graduate Student at Kyungpook National University, Daegu

• Major Wood and Paper Science

• Personal Contact :

Skype : Arif Nuryawan

Email : arifnury@yahoo.com

Course Introduction

• Text book : Writing 3, Rahmat Budiman, Universitas Terbuka 2011

• Tutorial module consists of 9 parts but will be cover in 8 classes.• Class 1 : Descriptive Paragraph

• Class 2 : Personal Letters

• Class 3 : Business Letters

• Class 4 : Basic Essays

• Class 5 : Narrative 1

• Class 6 : Narrative 2 & Comparative

• Class 7 : Cause and Effect

• Class 8 : Argumentative

• Tutorial method: Online (Justin TV or Ustream) and In class

• Grading Components• Task 1, Task 2, and Task 3

• Participation

• Final Exam

• Course material can be found at Portal UT Korea

Module 1 Descriptive Paragraph

• Focus on learning how to describe people and places by using your five senses and applying them to writing.

• Source for your practice :http:www.vskol.educ.Goteborg.se/a/englar/write/interdesc/html_adapted

• After learning this unit you are expected to be able to:

• Describe people’s character and apprearances

• Write assumption about people

• Describe place

Unit 1 - People’s Characters and Appearances

WRITING : Describing People’s Characters and Appearances

• Describing people is often occurs but no need to write long descriptions

• The informal description is founded in personal letters

• Model for Describing People’s Characters and Appearances: See Page 1.2

GRAMMAR: Rules for the use of present and past tenses

• Simple Present to express repeated or permanent events: past, present, and future. Eg. It rains almost everyday in Bogor.

• Present Progressive to express temporary events just now, or just around now. Eg. It is raining again. to express something that has already arranged to do. Eg. I am leaving tomorrow at 9 by train

• (Simple) Present Perfect to express events repeated up to now. Eg. I have often thought about working abroad to express past events that are still ‘news’. Eg. Do you know that Samantha has got married?

• Present Perfect Progressive to express events repeated or continuing up to now, up to few moments ago. Eg. I have been playing football.

• Simple Past to express events that happened one or more times in the past, no connection with now. Eg. She gave me some money yesterday.

• Past Progressive to express events continuing around a particular time in the past. Eg. Yesterday, when I met Lisa, she was watering her roses.

• (Simple) Past Perfect to express ‘second’, earlier past. Eg. Last night, before I left my house, I had locked the doors.

• Past Perfect Progressive to express events repeated or continuing ‘up to then’. Eg. Marry was very tired because she had been travelling all day.

Refreshment

•Lets do Activity 1, 2 and 3

Unit 2 – Assumption about People

• Ever guessed someone’s personality? Maybe based on his/her appearance and behavior?

• Unit 2 concerns with assuming people’s personality, social background, and taste of certain things.

• Model for Assumption about People:See Page 1.12

WRITING : Writing Assumption about People

GRAMMAR: Question Tags

GRAMMAR: Question Tags

Intonation of question tag

The meaning of a question tag depends on the intonation

Our voice goes down you are asking a question; but you are only inviting the listener to agree with you.

Our voice goes up , so it is a REAL question.

Another Example:

Unit 3 - Places

Describe then draw

image

Appeal all

senses

Select the

details

WRITING : Describing Place

How to present sharp, focused pictures?

From : Writing Brief Edition by Elizabeth Cowan_adapted

Model for Describing Place:See Page 1.22

GRAMMAR: Passives

Exercise

• Activity 1 page 1.13, do with your friend. Pick no. 1) 3) 5) 7)

• Activity 4 page 1.17, from 1) – 10)

• Language in use: Analyzing grammatical errors, page 1.25