MEETING 3 "ORANGE JUICE"

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Follow the instruction and enjoy!

Direction: Use either the simple present tense or the simple past tense of the verbs in parentheses.
1. I can't afford that ring. It (cost)              too much.
2. I (own, not)                 an umbrella. I (wear)                 a waterproof hat on rainy days.
3. She (buy)                a book last night.
4. Do your father and mother (stay)               in a hotel?
5. The cafe (open)                at 7 in the morning.
6. Did you (send)                me a message?
7. He (be)                a diligent student.
8. I (eat)                    some delicious foods in this restaurant last night.
9. My friend and I (learn)                  English at the English Shop every day.
10. We (give)                  her a doll for her birthday.

After reading the material about simple present tense and simple past tense, do the questions above but don't open the notes and the answer key to measure your abilities and understanding, OK!

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Answer Key

1. costs
2. don't own, wear
3. bought
4. stay
5. opens
6. sent
7. was
8. ate
9. learn
10. gave


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MEETING 2 "SIMPLE PAST TENSE"

The next material is Simple Past Tense! Enjoy! ❤

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Simple past tense, sometimes called preterite, is used to talk about events that were completed in the past before now. A simple past is the basic form of past tense in English. Events can occur not long ago or long ago, and the duration of the event is not important.

EXAMPLES

• John Cabot sailed to America in 1498.

• My father was edited last year.

• He lived in Fiji in 1976.

• We crossed the Channel yesterday.

You always use simple past when saying when something happens. So, this tense is related to certain past time expressions.

frequency: often, sometimes, always

- I sometimes walked home at lunchtime.

- I often brought my lunch to school.

specific or clear time: last week, when I was a child, yesterday, six weeks ago

- We saw a good movie last week.

- Yesterday, I arrived in Geneva.

- She finished her work at seven o'clock

- I went to the theater last night

unspecified or unclear time: the other day, ages ago, a long time ago

- People lived in caves a long time ago.

- She played the piano when she was a child.

Be careful: Simple past in English might look tense in your language, but the meaning might be different.

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NOTES FOR POSITIVE, NEGATIVE FORM, AND QUESTIONS 

POSITIVE

The positive form of the simple past tense is very simple.

• I was in Japan last year
• She had a headache yesterday.
• We did our homework last night.

NEGATIVE AND QUESTIONS

For simple past negative forms and questions from "to do" as ordinary verbs, use the auxiliary "did". Example: We didn't do our homework last night.

The negative form of "have" in simple past is usually formed using the auxiliary "did", but sometimes only by adding notes or abbreviations (contraction) "n't".

The question form of "have" in simple past usually uses the auxiliary "did".

EXAMPLES

• They weren't in Rio last summer.
• We didn't have any money.
• Were they in Iceland last January?
• Did you have a bicycle when you were young?
• Did you do much climbing in Switzerland?

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You have passed two materials: Simple Present Tense and Simple Past Tense. Prepare yourself to face "The Orange Juice" next meeting! ❤

MEETING 1 "SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE"

Hello! See me again, guys!
In this post I will discuss about one of the basic tense that you should know. What is that? Yes, simple present tense.

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The simple present tense is one of several forms of present tense in English. This tense is used to describe habits, unchanging situations, general truths, and fixed schedules. Simple present tense is very easy to form. Just use the basic words of the verb: (I take, you take, we take, they take). The third-person singular uses the -s at the end of the base words. (he takes, she takes).

SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE USED:

• To show habits, general truths, repeated actions or unchanging situations, emotions, and expectations: I smoke (habit); I work in London (unchanging situation); London is a large city (general truth)
• To give instructions or directions: You walk for two hundred meters, then you turn left.
• To state a fixed schedule in the present and future: Your exam starts at 9:00.
• To declare a future time after conjunction: after, when, before, as soon as, until: He'll give it to you when you come next Saturday.

Be Careful! Simple Present is not used to state actions or events that are happening right now.

EXAMPLES:

• For habits: He drinks tea at breakfast.
• For repeat actions or incidents: We take the bus every morning.
• For general truth: Water freezes zero degrees.
• For instructions or directions: Open the package and pour the contents into hot water.
• For fixed schedule: His mother arrives tomorrow.
• Together with future tense patterns: He will see you before he leaves.

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NOTES ABOUT SIMPLE PRESENT, THIRD SINGLE PERSON:

• For third-person singles, the verb always ends with -s: he wants, she needs, he gives, she thinks.
• Negative forms and questions using DOES (= auxiliary form 'DO' for third people) + infinitive of verbs. He wants ice cream. Does he want strawberry? He does not want vanilla.
• Verbs that end with -y: Third-person forms change -y to -ies: fly -> flies, cry -> cries Exception: If there are vowels before -y: play -> plays, pray -> prays
• Add -es to verbs that end with: -ss, -x, -sh, -ch: he passes, she catches, he fixes, it pushes

EXAMPLES:

• He goes to school every morning.
• She understands English.
• It mixes the sand and the water.

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MATERIALS ABOUT GRAMMAR

Hi, guys! Welcome back to my blog! 
Previously, we had discussed 4 types of media, recommended websites for learning tenses, and also analyzed a paper with critical questions.

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Many people say that learning grammar is difficult. However, it cannot be denied. Therefore, I will provide some basic material about grammar, namely conditional sentences from type 0 to type 3, passive voice, gerund, infinitive, and conjunction.

Here it is the link of the material ⇓

https://prezi.com/p/_8lnvm5pedww/mindmap-grammar/


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ANALYZE A PAPER USING CRITICAL QUESTIONS

Hi, my beloved readers!

Come back again with me. On this opportunity, englishgrammarbylarasati.blogspot.com will discuss some questions to analyze a paper. Before we start, it is better to read the paper first. 
Here it is the link of the paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v10i4.4717

After read the paper, let's start to analyze it with the 5 critical questions below  ⇩

To sum up, technology becomes the main role in the learning process in Malaysia and Indonesia maybe can imitate it to develop Indonesian learning techniques. That's all the discussion about the paper. See you in the next post, guys! 💟