English business language - softskill

Name : Randy Muwardani
NPM : 16116062
class : 4ka07

Exercise 1.12
Questions :

1.I enjoy eating out instead of cooking at home. Living in Seattle, you have a
choice of many different kinds of restaurants. My favorite restaurant is a
Japanese one near my home. It is small and very popular, so you usually have
to wait for a table.

2. If a person wants to learn to play a musical instrument well, you will have to
develop self-discipline. The serious music student, for example, must be
willing to give up watching two or three hours of television a day, and,
instead, spend your time practicing.

3. During the past year or two, the price of food has risen sharply. Every time I
go to the market, i can see increases in several items. Not so long ago, your
twenty dollars bought quite a few bags of groceries, but now I can carry
twenty dollars’ worth of food home in one bag.

4. I received a camera for a graduation present last year. It worked fine at first,
but after a few months, i could tell that something was wrong with it. The
pictures were so blurry that you couldn’t recognize the people in them. The
repairperson at the camera shop wanted too much money to repair it, so I
stopped using it. i would be wasting my money to buy film for that
lemon.

5. My brother likes his job as a lifeguard at the beach. You don’t have to wear a
coat and tie to work, and you are out in the fresh air all day. A lifeguard has an
important job. You don’t just watch pretty girls; you are responsible for the
lives of all those people who come to enjoy the ocean.

Answer :

1.I enjoy eating out instead of cooking at home. Living in Seattle, I have a
choice of many different kinds of restaurants. My favorite restaurant is a
Japanese one near my home. It is small and very popular, so I usually have
to wait for a table

2. If a person wants to learn to play a musical instrument well, he or she will have to
develop self-discipline. The serious music student, for example, must be
willing to give up watching two or three hours of television a day, and,
instead, spend his or her time practicing.

3. During the past year or two, the price of food has risen sharply. Every time I
go to the market, I can see increases in several items. Not so long ago, your
twenty dollars bought quite a few bags of groceries, but now I can carry
twenty dollars’ worth of food home in one bag.

4.I received a camera for a graduation present last year. It worked fine at first,
but after a few months, i could tell that something was wrong with it. The
pictures were so blurry that you couldn’t recognize the people in them. The
repairperson at the camera shop wanted too much money to repair it, so I
stopped using it. i would be wasting my money to buy film for that
lemon.

5. My brother likes his job as a lifeguard at the beach. he don’t have to wear a
coat and tie to work, and he are out in the fresh air all day. A lifeguard has an
important job. he don’t just watch pretty girls; he is responsible for the
lives of all those people who come to enjoy the ocean

Exercise 2.16
Questions

1. Last Tuesday night I went to the library because I had a test in history on
Wednesday morning. It is too noisy at home to study. My brother is playing
the stereo, my mother was vacuuming, and my little sister and her friend are
chasing each other around the house. How am I supposed to concentrate with
all that commotion?

2. My friend Greg loves peanut butter. Every morning he spread peanut butter
on his toast or waffles. He snacked on peanut butter cups at school, and, of
course, he ate peanut butter sandwiches for lunch every day. Nowadays he
bakes his own peanut butter cookies because his mother had refused to make
them anymore. Greg was a hopeless case; he even covers a slice of chocolate
cake with peanut butter.

3. My wife and I bought a golden retriever puppy last year. We made the
mistake on the first few nights of allowing the puppy to sleep on a rug by our
bed because he misses his brothers and sisters. Later when we made a bed for
him in the laundry room, he howls and scratches on the door for several hours
every night. After a while the neighbors call on the telephone to complain
about the noise. We thought that he will never give up. The puppy finally
learned to sleep by himself, and the neighbors start speaking to us again..

Answers:
1. Last Tuesday night I went to the library because I had a test in history on
Wednesday morning. It was too noisy at home to study. My brother was playing
the stereo, my mother was vacuuming, and my little sister and her friend were
chased each other around the house. How am I supposed to concentrate with
all that commotion?

2.My friend Greg loves peanut butter. Every morning he spread peanut butter
on his toast or waffles. He snaked on peanut butter cups at school, and, of
course, he eat peanut butter sandwiches for lunch every day. Nowadays he
baking his own peanut butter cookies because his mother has refused to make
them anymore. Greg is a hopeless case; he even covers a slice of chocolate
cake with peanut butter.

3. My wife and I bought a golden retriever puppy last year. We made the
mistake on the first few nights of allowing the puppy to sleep on a rug by our
bed because he misses his brothers and sisters. Later when we made a bed for
him in the laundry room, he howls and scratches on the door for several hours
every night. After a while the neighbors called on the telephone to complain
about the noise. We thought that he would never gave up. The puppy finally
learned to sleep by himself, and the neighbors start speaking to us again.