DIALOGUE / CONVERSATION

Ø  Pengantar

Agar dialogue atau conversation bias berjalan lancer dan tidak menimbulkan salah paham, maka perlu diketahui terlebih dahulu macam-macam ungkapan dan cara menggunakannya dengan benar sesuai situasi yang ada. Beberapa ungkapan yang akan disajikan di bab ini antara lain greeting and leave taking, introduction, thanking/ gratitude, permission, request, possibility and impossibility, want and needs, regret and apology, sympathy, capability, chering help, invitation, giving advice certainty and uncertainty, opinion and agreement and disagreement.

Ø  Contoh-contoh berbagai ungkapan

A.      GREETING AND LEAVE TAKINGS

-          Good morning/ afternoon, etc

-          Hi, hello !

-          How are you to day ?

-          How’s life

-          Good bye, bye, see you later

-          Good night

-          Fine, well, etc

B.      INTRODUCTION

·         Self introduction

-          I’d like to introduce myself

My name is ___ / I am ___

-          Let me introduce myself

My name is ___ / I am ___

-          Allow me to introduce myself

My name is ___ / I am ___

-          My (first/ last) name is

Please call me ___

·         Introducing someone to someone else.

-          This is Mr. Smith, our new manager.

-          I want you to meet wiliam, a new student.

-          I’d like to introduce my friend, wiliam.

C.      THANKING / GRATITUDE

-          Thank you

-          Thank you very much

-          Many thank, thanks a lot

-          I am very grateful to you

-          Special thank goes to

D.      PERMISSION

·         Asking for permission

-          May I ___ ?

-          Could I ___ ?

-          Can I ___ ?

-          Is it ok if I ___ ?

-          Do you allow me to ___ ?

-          Do you mind if I ___ ?

·         Giving permission

-          Yes, please!

-          Yes go a head!

-          It’s ok, no problem, it’s all right!

-          Not at all*

*) answering the question using “do you mind if I ___ ?”

E.      REQUEST AND COMMAND

-          Could you ___ ?

-          Can you ___ ?

-          Would you mind ___ ?

-          Would you like to ___ ?

-          Sit down!

-          Come here!

-          Could you do me a favor?

F.       POSSIBILITY AND IMPOSSIBILITY

·         Possibility

-          Perhaps, maybe, it’s likely that

-          It’s possible/ probable that ___

-          There's possibility that/ there’s a good chance ___

·         Impossibility

-          There’s no chance that ___

-          Thesr’s very little chance ___

-          Impossible!/ no chance!

G.      WANTS AND NEED

-          If you want to drink a cup of coffee, want do you need?

-          I need a cup, a saucer, sugar, tea, spoon, coffee and hot water.

-          Do you want coffee or tea ?

-          Do we need to come ?

-          This machine needs mending ___

H.      APOLOGY

·         Asking for apology

-          I am sorry.

-          I am realy sorry.

-          I am terribly sorry.

-          I am extremely sorry.

-          Please for give me!

-          Sorry for ___

·         Answering apology

-          Never mind , no problem, it’s ok, it doesn’t matter

-          Forget it

I.        SYMPATHY

-          I am sorry to hear that

-          I am afraid to hear that

-          Oh poor you/ what a poor

-          That’s too bad

-          That’s bad luck

-          Please accept my hear that

-          Condolences

-          This difficult time

J.       CAPABILITY AND INCAPABILITY

·         Capability

-          I can ___

-          I am able to ___

-          I am capable of ___

·         Incapability

-          I can’t ___

-          I am unable to ___

-          I am incapable of ___

-          I don’t think I can.

K.      OFFERING HELP

-          May I help you?/ can I help you?

-          Is there any think I can do for you?

-          Any think I can do?

-          Do you need my hand?

-          Perhaps I couls assist you in some way.

L.      INVITATION

·         How to invite

-          Would you like to come to ___ ?

-          Would you mind coming to ___ ?

-          I wonder if you could come to ___ ?

-          Do you fancy coming to ___ ?

-          Do you feel like coming to ___

·         How to accept invitation

-          It sounds nice/ interesting

-          I’d love to

-          That’s great!

·         How to refuse invitation politely

-          It sounds nice/ interesting but ___

-          I’d love to but I’m afraid I can’t ___

-          Thanks for invitation but I am afraid I can’t because ___

M.     GIVING ADVICE OR SUGGESTION

-          You should ___

-          You ought to ___

-          You’d better ___

-          Is’s better for you to ___

-          Why don’t you ___ ?

N.      CERTAINTY AND UNCERTAINTY

·         Certainty

-          I am sure / certain / convinced ___

-          I bet ___ / no doubt / of course sure!

·         Uncertainty

-          I am not sure / certain ___

-          I can’t say that for certain.

-          I doubt it/ I am doubtful ___

-          It depends on ___

O.      OPINION

-          What do you think of ___ ?

-          What’s your opinion about ___ ?

-          In my opinion ____

-           Think ___/ I guess ___/ I think so!

P.       AGREEMENT AND DISAGREEMENT

·         Angreement

-          I agree ___/ I am with you.

-          That’s all right/ it’s a good idea.

-          I don’t have any objection.

·         Disagreement

-          I don’t agree whit you.

-          I have different opinion.

-          I have objection to ___

-          Objection!