CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
English as a foreign language consists of four skills namely: writing, listening, reading, and speaking. These four skills are usually considered as integrated system because they support each other. To most people, speaking is the most difficult part in learning a foreign language because it is usage sense involves the manifestation either of the phonological system or the grammatical system of the language.
Learner are often hesitate to speak because they are afraid of pronouncing the words correctly or they feel really shy about talking in front of the other because they don’t know how to speak correctly. For example if they want to give some advice for their friend, they must know the rule or the correct phrase for giving advice. It also works when we expressing surprise, we must know how to express our surprise feeling with correct way, word and phrase. Expressing surprise is really important. Feeling surprise always happen in our dailylife whatever it’s on purpose or spontaneous. So how we can express the feeling of surprise if we don’t know the correct words and phrase to expressing surprise. Because of that reason, the writer make a thesis with title “Expressing Surprise” to help the learner for expressing surprise correctly.
B. Problem Statement
Based on the background, the writer formulates problem statement as follow :
1. What is the meaning of expressing surprise?
2. What words or phrases are we using to expressing surprise?
C. Objective of the Thesis
Based on the question above, the objective of this research is to improve learner’s speaking ability especially to expressing surprise correctly.
CHAPTER TWO
EXPRESSING SURPRISE
A. What is Surprise?
Surprise is a brief emotional state experienced as the result of an unexpected significant event. Surprise can have any valence; that is, it can be neutral, pleasant, or unpleasant. If a person experiences a very powerful or long lasting surprise it may be considered shock.
e.g:
- Really?
- Doesn’t he?
- No!
Spontaneous, involuntary surprise is often expressed for only a fraction of a second. It may be followed immediately by the emotion of fear, joy or confusion. The intensity of the surprise is associated with how much the jaw drops, but the mouth may not open at all in some cases. The raising of the eyebrows, at least momentarily, is the most distinctive and predictable sign of surprise.
Surprise is expressed in the face by the following features:
· Eyebrows that are raised so they become curved and high.
· Stretched skin below the eyebrows.
· Horizontal wrinkles across the forehead.
· Open eyelids: the upper lid is raised and the lower lid is drawn down, often exposing the white sclera above and below the iris.
· Dropped jaw so that the lips and teeth are parted, with no tension around the mouth.
B. Surprise with Interjection
Most of words or phrases which is we used on expressing surprise are use interjection. Interjection is a big name for a little word. Interjections are short exclamations like Oh!, Um or Ah! They have no real grammatical value but we use them quite often, usually more in speaking than in writing. When interjections are inserted into a sentence, they have no grammatical connection to the sentence. An interjection is sometimes followed by an exclamation mark
(!) when written. For example:
- "Ah! I've won!"
- "Dear me! That's a surprise!"
- "John had a very bad accident last night."
“No!”
C. Interrogative surprise
Native speaker of English often use short interrogative in speech as a way to express attention, interest, or surprise.
Formula: an auxilliary/modal verb + pronoun
For example:
- “The party was terrible.”
“was it?”
“Yes, I had a horrible time! There was no music!”
- “Gina had a nice vacation.”
“did she?”
“Yes, she went to the Bali Island.”
We can use Really? as an easiest word to express interrogative surprise.
For example:
- “Her husband doesn’t smoke.”
“Really?”
Really? expresses surprise quite easily. Was it?, did she?, etc will take a bit more voice and facial expression to bring them up to that same level of surprise.
However, it is not wrong if you switch the formula to create more surprise, such us it was?, she did?. This is comes close to equaling Really? with the same amount of effort. When they’re all said properly, they all mean the same thing.
Negative replies to affirmative sentences can show emphasis when someone agrees with you.
For example:
- “It was a great performance.”
“Wasn’t it? Renee’s voice was superb.”
- “She’s gained some weight.”
“Hasn’t she? She must be eating better.”
D. Interest surprise
We sometimes express surprise as to interest with something. How strange!, How interesting! or That’s strange!, That’s interesting! are also used to express surprise or interest.
For example:
- “I always have a heartburn when I get up in the morning.”
“That’s strange!”
- “Did you know that birds can travel 10,000 miles on the winter?”
“That’s interesting!”
Or you can just say, “Interesting”, “Odd”, “Strange”, or “Funny”.
For example:
- “He likes to keep wild animals.”
“Odd”
E. Surprising of Amazement
We also can express surprise when heard an amazing news which surprised and amazed us. For that situation native speakers usually use “Fantastic”, “It’s great”, “It’s terrific”, or Wonderful!”.
For example:
- “What do you thing about my performance?”
“Fantastic.”
- “Did you know that adam air’s plane had crashed last night?”
“It’s terrific”
F. Surprising Fact
We sometimes get surprising fact from someone that can make us really surprise and even don’t believe it. When you got a surprising fact, you can say “Did you see that?”, “Do you know what?”, “Believe it or not?”, or “Can you believe this?”. And you can respond to the surprising fact using “Really?”, “Are you joking?”, “Oh?”, or “Where? Show me”.
For example:
- “Just now, our neighbours had been caught for having many illegal drugs. Did you see that?”
“Where? Show me.”
- “Believe it or not? you must pay Rp 350,000 to watch the Linkin Park concert”
“Are you joking? I’m broke this month.”
G. Expressing Surprise Strongly
“My God” and “Good God” are very strong expressions and should not be used casually. It is very offensive to many people, especially religious ones.
For Example:
- “My God, did you look at that poor child?”
H. Asking Surprise Feeling
When we want to know if that person really feel surprise after see or hear surprising news or fact from us, we must to ask them. To asking surprise feeling we can use “Are you surprise?”, “Does that surprise you?”, “You don’t seems so surprised”, “Can you believe it?”, or “Isn’t incredible?”.
For example:
- “Are you surprise that you just got the first prize?”
- “Your father just got prize to go Haj. Does that surprise you?”
- “Your daughter always get the best score in entire school. “Isn’t incredible?”
I. Expressing Surprise on Formal and informal situation
To expressing surprise we must to know to who we are talking to. For example, when we are talking to elder people, we must speak more formally than when we speak with our friends.
On the formal situations, we can use words or phrases below:
- “Well, that’s very surprising!”
- “My goodness!”
- “It’s very surprising!”
- “I’m really surprise.”
- “Is that true?”
For example:
- “Do you know that I’ve won football match last night?”
“It’s that true?”
- “Do you surprise that Agiel won the gaming competition yesterday?”
“Well, that’s very surprising!”
Then for among friends or in informal situations you can just say the words and phrases below:
- “No!”
- “Huh? What?”
- “Fancy that!”
- “Crazy!”
- “Are you serious?”
For example:
- “I am pregnant!”
“No, you’re joking.”
- “I’m gonna take that risk!”
“Crazy!”
J. Intonation
Whatever we speak or everytime we speak with someone we always use intonation whatever it’s raising or falling intonation. To express surprise we always use raise intonation.
For example:
- “No, you’re joking.”
- “Is that true?”
- “That’s surprising!”
CHAPTER THREE
CLOSING
A. Conclusion
Surprise is a brief emotional state experienced as the result of an unexpected significant event. Surprise can have any valence; that is, it can be neutral, pleasant, or unpleasant.
There are some of kind of form to expressing surprise, such as:
- Interjection surprise
- Interrogative surprise
- Interest surprise
- Surprising of amazement
When we want to know if that person really feel surprise after see or hear surprising news or fact from us, we must to ask them. To asking surprise feeling we can use “Are you surprise?”, “Does that surprise you?”, “You don’t seems so surprised”, “Can you believe it?”, or “Isn’t incredible?”.
We can express surprise on formal way (to the elder) like “It’s that true?”, “My goodness!”, “That’s surprising!” or on informal way (to friends) like “No!”, “Are you serious?”, “Crazy!”.
To express our feeling of surprise we usually use raise intonation to show that we’ve really surprise with what we hear or see.
B. Advices
After we experienced our speaking assignment to make a thesis, we have some advices as follow:
1. For learner. To improve our ability in speaking, we must always train ourselves more and read some references.
2. For next assignment. Before we’re being given a assignment, I thing that the lecturer should give us a specific explanation about our assignment.
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