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Chapter 2 Let’s Dance and Sing

• Language Function
  1. Showing hesitation
     – There’s some doubt in my mind that/about …
     – I could say …
  2. Responding to hesitation
     – I’m a hundred percent certain …
     – You can be sure about …
• Genre of text: Report
  1. Social function: To report something, just the way it is. The subject includes natural things, environment, social matters, or human matters. Description of a general classi cation.
  2. Generic structure:
     –  General classi cation which includes the report’s subject, information, and its classi cation.
     – Description of the subject.
     Chinese culture played a truly signi cant role in the development of visual art in Indonesia although not as strong as the Hindu, Buddhist or Muslim in uences.
• Grammar: Gerunds
  Examples
  – Working for that lady is a pleasure.
  – He couldn’t help telling the truth.