Page 11 - Bahasa Inggris SMA Kelas XII

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Summary Assess Yourself
1. Modal verbs are used auxiliary verbs that express ideas like ability, permission and asking for
assistance. Many modal verbs have more than one meaning. They are always followed by the simple Put a tick (√) on the columns based on your learning achievement.
form of a verb. A. How well can you comprehend this lesson?
a. To ask questions in a very polite way, use: B. Which one describes you?
Would/Could you (please) + simple verb + …? I am a/an
Self Reflection
b. To ask questions in a polite but more casual way, say: Novice Apprentice Practitioner Expert
Will/Can you (please) + simple verb + …? 1. Listening
2. Pronunciation
c. We do not use the word may in a polite question when you is the subject.
d The word please makes the request more polite and less direct. 3. Speaking
4. Language Function
Possible answers to the modal request
5. Prefix
Positive Informally Negative
6. Reading
Yes. Sure. No.
7. Grammar
Yes, certainly. Okay. Sorry.
8. Writing
Certainly. Uh-huh. (means yes) No, I’m sorry. I can’t.

Yes, of course. Sorry, I can’t. I’m busy now.
Competency Test Minimum Competency Assessment
A. Choose the best answers.
Read the text and the questions that go with it carefully. Then, do the exercise.
1. Could you tell me to get to the town 4. Excuse me! is the post office, please?
square, please? A. How D. Where Technology Creates the Need for New Rules
A. where D. how can I B. What E. Which
B. where is E. how do I C. When SCIENCE has a way of getting ahead of law and ethics. That happened dramatically in 1945 on the
C. how 5. Could you tell me to get to the destructive side of life with the atomic bomb and is now happening on life's creative side with techniques
2. Would you mind me some directions, History Museum, please? to overcome human infertility.
please? A. how D. where Most of us rejoiced with the Brown family in England when Lousie, the first test-tube baby, was
A. helping D. explaining B. what E. Which born. And we have marvelled at other firsts –most recently the birth of healthy babies that had once
B. telling E. showing C. when been embryos frozen to await the proper moment of implantation in the mother-to-be.
C. giving 6. Can you tell me where , please? It is about two such frozen embryos in Australia that a storm of legal and ethical questions has
3. Walk three blocks and turn right . A. is the bank arisen. The embryos were destined to be implanted in Elsa Rios, wife of Mario Rios. A previous embryo
implant had been unsuccessful, and the Rioses wanted to have another chance at becoming parents. But
A. into a large store B. the bank before they had a second chance to try, the Rioses perished in an airplane crash.
B. in the corner C. the bank is
C. at the traffic light D. there a bank What was the Australian hospital to do with the frozen embryos? Could they be implanted in someone
D. around the office E. is bank else? There were numerous volunteers. Were the embryos somehow entitled to the Rioses' substantial
E. at the dead end estate? Or should the embryos be destroyed? The Rioses, understandably, had made no provision for
the embryos' future.
The Australians set up a commission to study the matter. Last week, the commission made its report.
The embryos should be thawed, the panel said, because donation of embryos to someone else would
English Project require the consent of the “producers”, and no such consent had been given. The panel also held that
the embryos in their present state had no life or rights and thus could be destroyed.
Imagine that there will be some visitors coming to your school for the first time. Draw a map
of your school. Then, compose an essay. Write a set of directions that would enable the visitors
to find room in which your class. Read your paragraphs aloud to the class or in groups and
compare your directions. Review
For evaluation, as you read your set of instructions aloud, perform the instructions in front of
the class precisely as prescribed. Choose the best answers.
1. Persuading someone means . 4. are less likely to be persuaded.
A. give reasons for or against something A. value-involved and outcome-involved partici-
B. capable of causing someone to believe that pants
something is true or real B. value-involved and impression-involved par-
C. prove or try to prove by giving reasons ticipants
D. Persuaded by argument or proof C. impression-involved and outcome-involved
E. being able to change someone’s ideas, participants
opinions, or beliefs D. outcome-involved and value-involved partici-
pants
2. In a discussion, participants who are highly E. outcome-involved and impression-involved
Help you to comprehend involved are . participants
A. more persuaded by a large number of
arguments
and reflect on the B. more persuaded by strong arguments 5. Below is a characteristic of valid deductive
arguments, EXCEPT
.
learning in the lesson C. more persuaded by a weak and strong A. The conclusion must be no true if the
arguments promises are not true
D. Both A and B B. the conclusion must be true if the promises
E. Both A and C are true
C. the premises must be true in order for
3. Walk three blocks and turn right . conclusion to be true
A. around the shop D. the argument must be persuasive
B. in the corner E. the argument must be valid
C. at the traffic light
D. into a large building
E. away the traffic light
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