Chapter 2
Tujuan Pembelajaran:
Setelah mempelajari Bab 2, siswa diharapkan mampu:
- Mengidentifikasi fungsi sosial, struktur teks, dan unsur kebahasaan pada ungkapan memberi ucapan selamat dan pujian bersayap serta responnya.
- Merespon ucapan selamat dan pujian bersayap dengan menggunakan struktur teks dan unsur bahasa yang tepat sesuai dengan tujuan dan konteks penggunaan.
- Memberikan ucapan selamat dan pujian bersayap dengan menggunakan struktur teks dan unsur bahasa yang tepat sesuai dengan tujuan dan konteks penggunaan.
WARMER
Describing and Guessing
Do this game in groups. Your teacher will tell you how to play this guessing game. You have to guess what words that your teacher has described.
For example:
‘A person who serves passengers in a flight.’ He/She is a ‘flight attendant.’
After you know how to play the game, your teacher will ask you to make groups of three to play the game. The group who can guess more words will be the winner.
VOCABULARY BUILDER
Write down the English words for the following Indonesian words. Compare your work to your classmate’s.
Listen to your teacher reading these words. Repeat after him/her.
Task 1:
Read text 1 carefully. Pay attention to the expressions used to congratulate people (in this case, Alif). Pay attention also
to the responses.
Text 1
After a long struggle and hard work, Alif is finally appointed as the director of a national company where he works. Many of his friends who work at the same company congratulate him.
Samuel : Alif, congratulations. You deserved it, Man.
Alif : Thank you very much. This is because you always help me.
Sinta : I am very happy for you, Alif. Now, that you are the director of the company, I believe the company will develop even
faster.
Alif : (replies with a happy tone) Thank you. I cannot forget your collaboration with me, and I will still need your help.
Other friends shake his hands and congratulate him too.
Deni : That’s wonderful, Alif.
Alif : Oh, thanks.
Santi : Good for you. Good luck.
Alif : Thank you very much.
Bejo : Well done.
Alif : Thank you for saying so.
Ivan : That was great. You must be very proud of your achievement.
Alif : Thanks. I’m glad you think so. But I still have to learn a lot. His staff also congratulate him.
Eny : Please accept my warmest congratulations, Sir.
Alif : It’s very kind of you to say so. Thank you.
Bintari : I must congratulate you on your success.
Alif : Thank you very much for saying so.
They all celebrate Alif’s success by having lunch together in a simple food stall next to their office. Every body is happy.
Task 2:
Answer the following questions.
1. Why do all of those people congratulate Alif?
2. What expressions do they use to congratulate Alif?
3. How does Alif respond to their congratulating expressions?
4. What is the social purpose of congratulating people?
5. When do we congratulate people?
6. What are the expressions commonly used to congratulate people?
Task 3:
Read the dialog silently. Pay attention to the expression used to congratulate people. Discuss the meaning with your classmate. After that read aloud the dialog in pairs. One of you become Cita, the other becomes Ditto. Then, discuss the answer to the questions.
Text 2
Cita has won the first winner of the story telling competition in her school. Her best friend congratulated her.
Ditto : Cita, congratulations for being the first winner of the school story telling competition! Excellent. You really did
it well.
Cita : Thanks, Ditto.
Ditto : I heard that you will be the representative of our school in the story telling competition of our regency. Is it true?
Cita : Yes, you’re right.
Ditto : I hope you will win as well in the next competition.
Cita : I hope so. But I’m nervous.
Ditto : Don’t worry, you’re a very good story teller. Good luck.
Cita : Thanks. I’ll do my best. Wish me luck.
Task 4
Answer the following questions:
1. What good news about Dita does Ditto know?
2. What does Ditto say to Dita related to the news?
3. What do the expressions mean?
4. What is Ditto’s purpose of saying that to Dita?
5. How does Dita respond to what Ditto says?
6. When do you think you will say ‘congratulations’ to other people?
Task 5:
Complete the following table with the expressions of congratulations and the responses you find in the preceding dialogs. The first row is done for you
In congratulating, people may make more than one move, for example, “Congratulations! You deserved it, Man.” Similarly,
in responding to congratulating expressions, people do not only make one move, like “Thank you very much.” Usually they also say something else such as “This is because you’re always with me”.
