English Texts in Action is an English course book for Secondary High School students.

This
book purposes at developing student’s literacy competence in English that is the discourse
competence. To master the competence well, students need to achieve the supporting
competences: linguistic, actional, sosiocultural and strategic competence.
The activities and materials developed in this book are designed to follow two teaching
cycles, spoken and written. The teaching learning cycle puts genres as the main tool in language
learning. So, each unit will discuss one main genre and the supporting ones. Each unit covers the
four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. The listening and speaking skills are
mostly developed in spoken cycle while the reading and writing skills are mostly developed in
written cycle.
Each cycle involves four stages, Building Knowledge of the Field, Modeling of Text , Joint
Construction of Text, and Independent Construction of Text. In Building Knowledge of the Field,
students are encouraged to practice grammatical pattern related to the text type, and to build up
vocabulary related to the text type. Modeling of Text discusses the social functions, the schematic
structures and the language features in the targeted genre. In this stage, also, various texts in the
targeted genre are exposed to students so that they can learn more about the genre . The focus of
Joint Construction of Text is to give an opportunity to the students and teachers to work
collaboratively to construct certain text. The term collaborative writing has the meaning here.
Independent Construction of Text gives a chance to students to show their competence in
producing the targeted text, both orally or written, studied in the unit.
At the end of the courses students are expected to be able to get involved in
communication using English-such as carrying out interpersonal and transactional conversations;
reading, reviewing and writing various kinds of short functional texts; and accessing information
from various kinds of text types (monologs).
Communicate!

Surakarta, September 2007

Penyusun

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 Preface ______________________________________________________ iii

Contents ______________________________________________________ iv

Unit 1 I’ll tell you what happened (Recount) ______________________ 1

Unit 2 Get the morals (Narrative 1) _____________________________ 29

Unit 3 Follow the Instructions (Procedure) ______________________ 50

Unit 4 Long time ago … .(Narrative 2) ___________________________ 73

Unit 5 What a beautiful girl she is! (Descriptive) __________________ 98

Unit 6 Breaking news ! (News Item) ____________________________ 123

Listening Script ____________________________________________________ 148

Bibliography _______________________________________________________ 151

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UNIT

In this unit, you will learn how to:

1. Carry out interpersonal conversation involving :
a. expressions of introducing oneself/someone
b. expressions of greetings and leave-takings
c. expressions of offering, accepting or declining invitations
2. Tell past experiences using spoken English
3. Read personal recounts
4. Read biographical recount
5. Read historical recount
6. Read short functional texts (invitations)
7. Write short functional texts (invitations)
8. Write personal, biographical or historical recounts

Language features
9 Simple past tense
9 Past continuous tense
9 Time conjunction to tell past experiences
9 gambits

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 Step 1 (Spoken)
Listening and speaking

A. Building knowledge of field

1. Introduction, greetings and Leave-takings

Activity 1
Look at the picture.
What is going on in the picture?
Tell your friends.
Picture 1

Hello, I am Gina, Gina

Hi, I am Ian, Ian Mc
Davenport. I am fine. Thank
Galloway. How are you?
you.

Where are you from,

Gina?.. and what Well, I am from Boston and I
class are you? am in X.B. and you?

Uhm... I am from New

York. I am in X.B too. Well,
we are in the same class. Good, we can meet again.
Anyway, it’s time for me to
go home now. Good bye
Ian, See you next time

See you soon

Picture 1.1. New Students at college.

Source : www.stcloudstate.edu….image.aspimage1.

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Picture 2
3 2 1

How do you do. Nice Oh, How do you do ? Cathy, This is my

to meet you, Irene. friend Irene. She
is from Texas.

Picture 1.2. Meeting new friends

Source: www.mnfd.k-12.mns.us

Activity 2
Listen to your teacher.
Repeat after him/her.
Read the expression aloud

Introducing oneself
- Hello, I am John Mc Bright
- Hi, I am Ian Mc Knight
- My name is Edward
- Let me introduce my self. My name is Brian
- Allow me to introduce my self. I am Richard. Jack Richard

Introducing someone
- Cathy, this is Irene
- Cathy , please introduce my friend, Irene
- Cathy, meet Irene. She is my friend from ..
- May I introduce you to Irene?
- I’d like to introduce you to Irene
- Let me introduce you to Irene

Responses to an introduction
- how do you do?
- Please to meet you

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 - I am very happy to meet you
- I am delighted to meet you
- It’s pleasure to meet you
- I am very happy to meet you

Activity
Ac?i?? 33
Close your book and listen to your teacher carefully.
Repeat after him/her.
Then, open your book and perform the dialogue in pairs

Dialogue 1
New students are waiting the bell for their first lesson at school.

Ferdy : Pardon me, is this seat free?

Anggi : Of course, it 's free. please, sit down.
Ferdy : Thanks, Hello, I'm Ferdy Hasan .
Angga : Hi, my name is Angga Sukmawati. Nice to meet you, Ferdy.

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 Ferdy : I’m Glad to meet you too. Are you from Yokya?
Angga : Yes, and you?
Ferdy : I’m from Jakarta. (The school bell is ringing)
Oh, it’s time for study now. Good bye Angga, see you later
Angga : Bye Ferdy, so long.

Questions:
1. How many persons are there on the conversation?
2. Who introduces the name first?
3. What does he say?
4. What does Angga’s answer to introduce herself?
5. How did Ferdy close the conversation when he wanted to end ?

Dialogue 2
Listen to the dialogue carefully and fill in the missing word.
John : (1)____________, Bill
Bill : Good morning, John
John : (2) ____________ are you?
Bill : Fine thanks.
John : How is Carla?
Bill : She’s(3) ____________ l, thank you
John : Good-bye, Bill
Bill : (4)_______________ , John.

Questions:
1. When does the dialogue take place?
2. How is Bill?
3. How is Carla?
4. What does John say when he meets Bill to greet him?
5. What does John say when he wants to leave Bill?

Activity 4
Read and give a response to the following expressions.
1. Lina : Hello?
Anis : ………………………………………………………
2. Lina : Hi, how’s life?
Anis : ………………………………………………………
3. Lina : See you tomorrow.
Anis : ………………………………………………………
4. Lola : Good bye.
Yeni : ………………………………………………………
5. Anggi : See you later.
Ardi : ………………………………………………………

Activity 5
What would you say to someone in the following situations:
1. You meet your friend at 0.7..25 am
2. You are leaving your school at 8.00 pm
3. You are going to see him/her next day
4. He/she is going away for a long time
5. You are asking about his/her condition

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Activity 6
Make dialogues based on the following situation. Use expressions above.
1. You meet your headmaster in a shopping mall. You introduce him to your parents
You :____________________________________________________
Your parents :____________________________________________________
The headmaster :____________________________________________________
(continue by yourself)

2. You introduce your sister to your school-mate.

You :____________________________________________________
Your sister :____________________________________________________
Your schoolmate :____________________________________________________
(continue by yourself)

3. You meet your teacher at the street. You introduce her to your sister.
You : ___________________________________________________
Your sister : ___________________________________________________
The teacher : ___________________________________________________
(continue by yourself)

2. Offering, accepting and or declining an invitation

Activity 7
Look at the picture.
What is going on in the picture?
Tell your friends.
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1 2
I’m so sorry, I’ll be
Would you like to go Yes, thank you. I’d very busy on
to the theater with me be happy to go. Saturday night. I
on Saturday night? have to help my
father in his shop

Picture 1.3. Students are chatting in the schoolyard

Source: students_chatting-sba.management.dal.ca...students_chatting.jpg

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Activity 8
Listen to your teacher .
Repeat after him/her.
Read the expression aloud
Offering an invitation
ª Would you like to …
ª Could you come to…
ª Would you mind coming to….
ª I wonder if you’d like to…
ª I’d like to invite you to …
ª I’d like to ask you to come to..
ª How about going to …
ª To a good friend:
ª Can you……..
Accepting an invitation
ª Yes, I’d love to.
ª Great
ª All right
ª Sure
ª Thank you so much for inviting me
ª Yes, thank you. I’d be happy to go
ª Thank you
Declining an Invitation
ª Thanks, but I have another schedule
ª I’d like to very much, but…
ª That’s very kind of you, but….
ª Thank anyway, but…
ª I’m sorry, I’ll be very busy tonight
ª I’m afraid that’s not too good for us, what about after dinner?

Activity 9
Work in pairs.
Understanding the following situations well.
Make dialogues based on the situations, and then perform in front of the class

1. You want to watch “NAFF” concert in Bung Karno stadium .

You call your friend, Nina, to invite her to watch the concert with you.
Nina accepts your invitation.
What would you say?
How would Nina respond to it?

2. Your friend, Ali, calls you. He asks you to accompany him to go to Ragunan Zoo to make a
report about monkeys.
Unfortunately, you have an important schedule at that time.
What would Ali say?
How would you respond to it?

3. You got a mail from your old friend. He/she told you that he/she will come to your town and
he/she asked you to meet him/her at the hotel where he/she will stay.
You will be free at the time he/she comes.
What would he/she say?
How would you respond to it?