Tenses

Dari pelajaran 1-39 , kita sudah belajar tentang bagaimana unsur-unsur dalam kalimat dalam pola S-P-O-K. Dan diharapkan anda sudah bisa membuat kalimat-kalimat sederhana dengan pola tersebut , waalaupun belum sempurna , tetapi coba gunakan pengetahuan yang ada semaksimal mungkin.

Salah satu unsur penting dalam penguasaan Bahasa Inggris adalh penguasaan tenses.

TENSES dalam Bahasa Inggris selalu berhubungan dengan waktu.

Dalam bahasa Indonesia tidak terjadi perubahan dalam kalimat walaupun terjadi perubahan waktu. Jadi inti dari belajar tenses adalah mempelajari perubahan-perubahan yang terjadi di kalimat karena WAKTU yang berbeda.

Contoh :

Saya belajar Bahasa Inggris SETIAP HARI

Saya belajar Bahasa Inggris SEKARANG

Saya belajar Bahasa Inggris DUA TAHUN YANG LALU

Saya akan belajar Bahasa Inggris TAHUN DEPAN

Anda lihat , Kalimat pokok yaitu SAYA BELAJAR BAHASA INGGRIS , tidak mengalami perubahan bentuk walaupun dimaksudkan untuk waktu yang berbeda.

Dalam bahasa Inggris ketika tanda waktu berubah maka bentuk kalimat juga akan mengalami perubahan pada salah satu unsurnya.

Itulah yang dipelajari dalam TENSES....

Renungkan hal ini....ketika ada belajar TENSES , maka anda sedang belajar merubah SALAH SATU unsur kalimat , sesuai tanda waktunya.

itulah tenses..... kita akan lanjutkan di pelajaran berikutnya.

Reading

The Princess and the Pea

Once upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess; but she would have to be a real princess. He travelled all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted. There were princesses enough, but it was difficult to find out whether they were real ones. There was always something about them that was not as it should be. So he came home again and was sad, for he would have liked very much to have a real princess.

One evening a terrible storm came on; there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents. Suddenly a knocking was heard at the city gate, and the old king went to open it.

It was a princess standing out there in front of the gate. But, good gracious! what a sight the rain and the wind had made her look. The water ran down from her hair and clothes; it ran down into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels. And yet she said that she was a real princess.

Well, we'll soon find that out, thought the old queen. But she said nothing, went into the bed-room, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and laid a pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty eider-down beds on top of the mattresses.

On this the princess had to lie all night. In the morning she was asked how she had slept.

"Oh, very badly!" said she. "I have scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard, so that I am black and blue all over my body. It's horrible!"

Now they knew that she was a real princess because she had felt the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty eider-down beds.

Nobody but a real princess could be as sensitive as that.

So the prince took her for his wife, for now he knew that he had a real princess; and the pea was put in the museum, where it may still be seen, if no one has stolen it.

There, that is a true story.

Coba baca cerita di atas sedikitnya 20 kali, jangan pedulikan artinya dulu , tapi paksakan untuk membacanya berkali-kali, dan lihat tingkat kesulitan yang makin lama makin menurun ketika anda sudah membacanya lebih dari 20 kali. Setelah itu garis bawahi kata-kata yang belum anda mengerti , dan coba untuk mencarinya di KAMUS.

Selanjutnya baca lagi sampai anda mengerti maksud cerita di atas