Ilmu Komunikasi

Perkuliahan 6

BAHASA INGGRIS
Do you watch, listen to, or read the news?
What is hot in it now?
What makes you think so?
But / price of
Price / steel /
copper / fall /
get / > /
slight
expensive /
too

Prices /
increase

Price / oil /
rise /
significant
We / sh_ / x
/ assume /
we / have /
plenty / We / sh_ /
money lower / we /
import

We / sh_ / reduce /
we / consumption

We / sh_ / x / rely
/ we / natural /
resources
 As a consequence,
prices / commodity /
skyrocket

Electricity /
tariff / go / up /
steady

…thing / x / climb, X.
Ma’am? …thing/
rise /
sharp
 As a consequence, we /
ou_ / t_ / avoid / excessive
/ use / air conditioner
We / ou_ / t_ /
start / energy /
conservation /
program

When / we / sh_ / kick / We / sh_

off / program, Ma’am? / begin /
right /
away
 What? We / , it / true. But /
stock / price / go we / production
/ down? / improve /
marked

And / we /
We / export / finance /
decrease / position /
slow stay / same
 We / h_ / b_ / , you / right.
buy / they / back But / we / sh_ /
/ immediate also / pay / we /
debt

And / we /
We / h_ / b_ / sh_ / x/
save / we / forget / we /
cash / reserve employee /
salary
Is this also happening in Indonesia now?
What can we do to prevent it from happening?

What have we just learnt?

DESCRIBING TRENDS
The price of copper is falling slightly.
oil rising significantly.
steel getting more expensive.
The prices are increasing markedly.
decreasing gradually.

The tariff of electricity is going up steadily.

The tax is skyrocketing dramatically.
The service fee is plummeting suddenly.
constantly.

Positive Trends Negative Trends Neutral Trends

go up go down stabilize
increase decrease level
climb fall stay the same
get more get less
improve drop
skyrocket plummet
plunge
GIVING ADVICE
We should reduce our consumption.
lower our import.
We should not rely on our natural resources.
We shouldn’t assume we have plenty of money.

We ought to start our energy conservation program.

avoid excessive use of air conditioner.

We had better save our cash reserve.

buy our stock back.

1. S + should/shouldn’t + V1
2. S + ought to + V1
3. S + had better + V1
EXERCISE 1

Please write down five things that you think

are trending in Indonesia and the world now.
EXERCISE 2

Please give advice to what you think are

trending in Indonesia and the world now.