Narrative Text

My Experience at English Course

English course in East Java was my dream after I was failed in the final examination of senior high school in 2006. I thought that I did not have any choice. I should go there. My desire to get English was higher and higher. I also needed to separate from my friends in my home because if I was still with them, I would never be able to study. Therefore, I decided to go there as soon as possible. On 11^th of May 2007, I went there with one of my classmates, Nanang Kosim, by ship. It took us three days to get there. After we got there, we directly looked for a boarding house. Fortunately, we got one.

Procedure Text

How to Make Ongol-Ongol?

Have you ever heard ‘Ongol-ongol’? For you who the first time hear it you will not say it is a cake but in fact it is a cake. I often taste it. It is quite delicious. My mother likes to make it. I do not know why it is called Ongol-ongol. Every time I ask her, she says it was your grandmother’s favorite cake. ‘She likes to cook it for me when I was child’, my mother said. Therefore, this cake comes from my grandmother.

Analytical Exposition

Money

Money is not an odd thing in our mind. We can find it surrounding us easily even it belongs to other people. All people in this world really rely on it.

Present Continuous Tense

The Present continuous Tense is used to express an activity that is in progress (is occurring, is happening) right now. The event is in progress at the time the speaker is saying the sentence.

Simple Present Tense

Look at the paragraph below!

Risky’s Daily Activity

Risky usually gets up at 4 o’clock in the morning. Then, she cleans my room and takes a bath. She puts on her clothes and prays. She helps her parents before she has breakfast in the dinning room, and she never forgets to wash her hands before having breakfast.

After breakfast at about 6 o’clock, she goes to school. She goes to school by motorcycle because her school is far from her house. She arrives at school at about 6.15. After school, she usually has lunch and takes a nap.

In the afternoon, she does her homework and sometimes watches TV. In the evening, she stays at home with her parents and studies her lessons. Then, she goes to bed at about 09.30 pm.

The paragraph above uses simple present to tell about Risky’s activity. How do we know that?

Tenses

When we talk about tense, we also talk about verb. Therefore, if you want to learn about the tense easily, you have to understand about the verb first. Because tense is a changing of the verb. The verb can be ‘base form/V1, past simple/V2, past participle/V3, and present participle/V-ing. To make you easier to understand the verb, please read part of speech in the previous posting. Look at the examples below!