Talking About Self

TALKING ABOUT SELF

 
A. Greeting Someone

Examples in dialogue:
Dialogue 1
Ranti meets her teacher, MrBakri at the post office.
Ranti : Good afternoon, Sir.
MrBakri : Good afternoon. You are ….
Ranti : Ranti, Sir. My name is Ranti. How are you?
MrBakri : I am fine, thank you. And how about you?
Ranti : I am fine, too.
MrBakri : Well, Ranti. I have to go now. Pleased to meet you.
Ranti : Pleased to meet you, too, Sir.

B. Parting Someone

Examples in dialogue:
Dialogue 2
Andi : Good morning. My name is Andi.
Denias : Good morning Andi. I’m Denias.
Andi :Denias, this is Adib. We were classmates the Junior High School.
Denias : Hi, Adib. How do you do?
Adib : How do you do.
Andi : By the way, did you join pencaksilat extracurricular activity in the Junior High School?
Denias : Yes, I did.
Andi : Oh, that’s great. Adib and I have never joined it before.
Adib : We hope you can help us.
Denias : Sure.
Andi : Okay, see you this afternoon.
Adib : See you Denias.
Denias :See you.

C. Introducing Yourself and Introducing Someone

Example in dialogue:
Stacey: I don’t think we’ve met. I’m Stacey. (hold out hand to shake)
Carl: Hi Stacey. I’m Carl.
Stacey: Hi Carl. So, how do you know Jane?
Carl: Oh, Jane and I used to work together at a coffee shop.
Stacey: Oh, you mean when you were working in Japan?
Carl: That’s right. And how do you know her?
Stacey: Actually, Jane is my cousin. Our moms are sisters.
Carl: No way! You two don’t look anything alike.

D.   Genre: Recount Texts

• Social function : to retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining
• Generic structure

– Orientation : provides the setting and introduces participants
– Events : tell what happened, in what sequence
– Re-orientation : optional-closure of events

• The Characteristics of Recount Text:
• Using the simple past tense, past continuous tense, past perfect tense, and past perfect continuous tense.
• Using the conjunctions, such as: then, before, after, etc.