Send Me a Letter, Please

• Language Function
  1. Polite expressions to show a manner
     – May, I help you ….
     – Would you mind ….
• Genre of text: Report
  1. Social function: To report something, just the way it is. The subject includes  natural things, environment, social matters, or human matters. Description of a general classi cation.
  2. Generic structure:
     –  General classi cation which includes the report’s subject, information, and its classi cation.
     – Description of the subject.
     Chinese culture played a truly signi cant role in the development of visual art in Indonesia although not as strong as the Hindu, Buddhist or Muslim in uences….
• Grammar: The Past Perfect Tense; Special Finites ‘May’ and ‘Might’, ‘Can’ and ‘Could’
  Examples
  They had studied for six hours.
  Amrizal had slept for ten hours.
  May I talk now?
  I might forget an apointment with Mr Rusdi tomorrow.
  I can run to school.
  She believed she could  fly.

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