Writing III 1st Class : 2nd of March 2014

Agustien Mulyantini
agustien1808@gmail.com

Universitas Terbuka Korea Selatan

Tutor Introduction
Agustien Mulyantini (Atien) Graduate Student at Inje University, Gimhae Major Health and Science Technology Personal Contact : Skype : agustien.mulyantini Email : agustien1808@gmail.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 peoples character and apprearances Write assumption about people Describe place

Unit 1 - Peoples Characters and Appearances

WRITING : Describing Peoples 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 Peoples 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

WRITING : Writing Assumption about People

Ever guessed someones personality? Maybe based on his/her appearance

and behavior?

Unit 2 concerns with assuming peoples personality, social background, and

taste of certain things.

Model for Assumption about People:

See Page 1.12

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
WRITING : Describing Place
Describe then draw image

How to present sharp, focused pictures?

Appeal all senses

Select the details

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