LEARNING
MATERIAL
“THERE IS” AND “THERE ARE”
A. INTRODUCTION
1. Short Description
This material deals with the daily activities which
practically it requires the mastery of using “there is” and “there are”.
This material relates in daily activities to apply social functions, text structures, and linguistic elements of
spoken and written transactional interaction texts that involve the act of
giving and asking for information regarding the whereabouts of people, objects,
animals, according to the context of their use.
On top of that, this learning material will help the
students to deepen their knowledge and skill in determining
social functions, text structures, and linguistic elements related to
transactional texts giving and asking for information regarding the existence
of people, objects, animals. And also to complete the missing sentences
regarding the number of objects by paying attention to linguistic elements: “there
is” and “there are.”
2. Relevance
Based on its function, there is used to give information
regarding the singular person, object or animal. Meanwhile, there are used to
give information regarding the plural form of people, objects or animals. It
also has correlation with the using of countable and uncountable nouns. Then basically
it is going to be very useful for the students to make them to be able to apply
the sentence or the expression in real life, the students can use it to give
information regarding the existence of people, objects (things), and animals
around them. Of course, those expressions will be very helpful for them in the
effort to improve their skills in English for the next level.
3. Learning Guide
There are three specific activities to help you
achieve the goals of learning this materials namely pre-activity,
main-activity, and post-activity.
a. Pre-activity: building background knowledge
about the information regarding the things around their environments. Building
background knowledge. Since background knowledge greatly influences comprehension,
it is important to have specific concepts of countable and uncountable noun
using article a/an and using some. The students can provide themselves with
factual information such as the information of existences the things around the
classroom and check what the students know about the information of countable
and uncountable noun using article a/an and using some. The students understand
how to indicate something does not exist with using there isn’t/aren’t any.
b. Main Activity: Many activities encourage
understanding and enjoyment while you are comprehending the materials about there is and there are.
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Post-it Note: You can write notes while learning
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Observes numbers of things around the classroom.
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Identify the objects relates countable and uncountable nouns.
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Determine the functions contained in there is (singular) and there are
(plural).
c. Post-Activity: Questioning, Discussion,
Creating, and Presenting.
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Questioning: Questioning activities encourage the students to think and
respond the information and ideas regarding the existence people, objects, and
animals using there is and there are relates countable and
uncountable nouns.
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Discussion: Discussion is exchanging ideas out loud. The aim is to
freely explore ideas, to learn something new or gain a different perspective by
pooling the information or insights that more than one person can give.
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Creating: the students make five sentences using there is and there are
in spoken and written.
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Presenting: the students read their sentences in front of the class.
B. MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
1. Learning Outcome
In this
learning material, you will learn the following competencies:
a. Attitude
To uphold and
apply religious values, moral values, ethical values, personal and social
values (honesty, discipline, accountability, independence), care and respect
for differences and diversity.
b.
Knowledge
To apply social functions, text structures,
and linguistic elements of spoken and written transactional interaction texts
that involve the act of giving and asking for information regarding the existence
of people, objects, animals, according to the context of their use. And also to complete
the missing sentences regarding the number of objects by paying attention to
linguistic elements: “there is” and “there are.”
c.
Skills
After learning this material, you are expected to be able to:
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Comprehend countable and uncountable noun with article a/an/the.
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Comprehend the linguistic elements: there
is and there are.
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Compare among the use linguistic elements: there is and there are.
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Create five sentences using there is and there are in positive, negative
and interrogative form.
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Then read it in front of the class.
2. Learning Materials and Learning Activities
a. The definition
"There is and there are" are used to
say that something exists.
b.
Social Functions
Mentioning the existence of people, objects, animals. An also describing the existence
of people, objects, animals and so on.
c.
Text structure
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Starting
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Responding
(expected/unexpected)
d.
Linguistic
Elements
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Expressions
with There is/are
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Words that
amount not certain: little, few, some, many, much, a lot (of).
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Preposition
phrases: in, on, under, in front of, below, above, and others.
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Speech,
word stress, intonation, spelling, punctuation, and handwriting.
e.
Topics
The presence of people, animals, objects, in the classroom, school, home,
and surroundings that can foster the behavior contained in main/ core
competence.
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