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PREFACE
English for SMK Book 1, which is designed based on the basic competencies
determined by Pusat Kurikulum 2005, is written to meet with the need of
sources for teaching and learning English in vocational schools.
This book, which may require about 148 hours, is intended for the first level
(novice) of vocational school students to improve their oral as well as written
performance. This book aims:
1. to practice and develop the four language skills
2. to develop the knowledge, skill, and understanding required by students
to become professional employees or entrepreneurs.
3. to meet students’ need to communicate in English accurately, fluently,
appropriately, and confidently in many useful situations in the work places
as well as in society.
English for SMK Book1, contains:
1. a wide variety of listening activities which are intended to develop the
listening skill, including listening for gist, listening for details, and inferring
meaning from context.
2. a wide range of creative activities of speaking, starting from guided, semi
guided to free dialogs.
3. various tasks of reading for specific information from short passages,
schedules, pictures, maps and so on as well as reading comprehension.
4. a variety of different writing practice activities, such as: completion,
jumbled sentences or paragraphs, matching, and guided sentences and
paragraphs.
5. grammar exercises dealing with related functional and communicative
needs.
This book consists of 6 units and each unit is divided into sections. In each
section, there are a lot of pair work, group work, and whole class activities
which provide more personal practice of the new learning points and increase
the opportunity for individual student practice.
The writers realize that this book is not perfect, therefore constructive criticism
and suggestions are very welcome.
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