EVENT OF THE MONTH (OCTOBER)

Name: Valerie Christabel Hariko

Class: XII IPS 1 (34)

OCTOBER

Hi guys! Today I willl explain about National Day in Indonesia and we called as an historical event too. Yes that's Sumpah Pemuda. So, let's get start it!

Explanation About Sumpah Pemuda

October 28 is celebrated as Youth Pledge Day (Sumpah Pemuda) in Indonesia every year. It is a special day and has a deep meaning for the Indonesian people.

On that day, the Indonesian nation remembers the history of unity and integrity which was summarized in the Youth Pledge. The pledge was made on October 28, 1928, Indonesian youths vowed to have one homeland, one nation, and one language: Indonesia.

Looking at the history of the Youth Pledge, we need to remember the Second Youth Congress, on October 28, 1928. The congress lasted for two days, namely on 27 and 28 October 1928 in Jakarta, which at that time was still called Batavia.

On this historic day, the participants of the Second Youth Congress agreed to formulate three promises which were later referred to as the Youth Pledge. The contents of the Youth Pledge are as follows:

Kami putra dan putri Indonesia, mengaku bertumpah darah yang satu, tanah air Indonesia.

Kami putra dan putri Indonesia, mengaku berbangsa yang satu, bangsa Indonesia.

Kami putra dan putri Indonesia, menjunjung bahasa persatuan, bahasa Indonesia.

The Youth Pledge gives an awareness that the differences of the Indonesian people can be united as Bhinneka Tunggal Ika, which means “different but still one”. In addition, the Youth Pledge also contains many positive values that can be applied in everyday life, such as patriotism, mutual cooperation, deliberation for consensus, love for the country, kinship, unity, oneness and harmony.

The Youth Pledge should be used as an inspiration for the young generation of Indonesia today, to take Indonesia to a better direction. (from various sources)

This is my Creation

I made poster about The Youth Pledge (Sumpah Pemuda). I hope you like it😊

I made another poster with a quotes by B.J Habibie. I hope it can give motivation and inspiring us a lot.

Exposition Text Part I, II, and the questions

Name: Valerie Christabel H

Class: XII IPS 1 (34)

Hi guys welcome back to my blog😉. Today we will study about exposition text. So prepare your self to study with me😊

Definition of Exposition Text

Exposition is a text that elaborates the writer‘s idea about the phenomenon surrounding. Its social function is to persuade the reader that the idea is important matter, and to analyze the topic that the thesis/opinion is correct by developing an argument to support it.

Generic Structure of Exposition Text

# Thesis: Introducing the topic and indicating the writer’s point of view. (Memperkenalkan topik dan menunjukkan sudut pandang penulis)

# Argument : Explaining the argument to support the writer’s position. The number of arguments may vary, but each argument must be supported by evidence and explanation. (Menjelaskan argumen untuk mendukung posisi penulis. Jumlah argumen mungkin berbeda, tetapi setiap argumen harus didukung oleh bukti-bukti dan penjelasan.)

# Reiteration: Restating the writer’s point of view / to strengthen the thesis. We can use the following phrase to make conclusion in reiteration : (Menyatakan kembali sudut pandang penulis / untuk memperkuat tesis.

Kita dapat menggunakan frase berikut untuk membuat kesimpulan dalam Reiteration :

From the fact above …

I personally believe …

Therefore, my conclusion is …

In conclusion …

Purpose of Exposition Text

– To convince the reader that the topics presented was an important topic to be discussed or gained attention by way of providing arguments or opinions that support the main idea or topic.

The Characteristics / Language Feature of Exposition Text

– Using relational process

– Using internal conjunction

– Using causal conjunction

– Using Simple Present Tense

– Using compound and complex sentence.

– Use word that link argument, such as firstly, secondly, and reasoning through causal conjunction, such as in addition, furthermore, however, therefore.

Exposition Text Part 1

In this part, I should make an exposition text and record while you reading the text.

Cars should be banned in the city

Cars should be banned in the city. As we all know, cars create pollution, and cause a lot of road deaths and other accidents.

Firstly, cars, as we all know, contribute to most of the pollution in the world. Cars emit a deadly gas that causes illnesses such as bronchitis, lung cancer, and ‘triggers’ of asthma. Some of these illnesses are so bad that people can die from them.

Secondly, the city is very busy. Pedestrians wander everywhere and cars commonly hit pedestrians in the city, which causes them to die. Cars today are our roads biggest killers.

Thirdly, cars are very noisy. If you live in the city, you may find it hard to sleep at night, or concentrate on your homework, and especially talk to someone.

In conclusion, cars should be banned from the city for the reasons listed.

Exposition Text Part 2

Me

Questions about Exposition Text

Analytical Text 1

There is no best way to deal with pests in agriculturE. Pesticides which are commonly used may cause many problems. I think combining different management operations is the most effective way to control pests.

Firstly, the chemicals in the pesticides may build up as residues in the environment and in the soil which absorbs the chemicals. This reduces the quality of farm product.

Secondly, pests can gradually become resistant to pesticides. This means that newer and stronger ones have to be developed.

Lastly, some pesticides affect non target plants and animals such as fish and bees. This affects the ecology and environment as well.

So, understanding of ecology of an area helps a lot in pest control. Pesticides should be chosen and applied carefully so that they don’t affect the ecological balance and environment.

Therefore, integrated pest management is a safe and more effective option to fight pest in agriculture and livestock.

1. One of the disadvantages of using chemical pesticides is …

A. killing fish and bees.

B. increasing crops productivity.

C. creating balanced ecosystem.

D. causing the pests to become inactive

E. helping reduce pollutants in the environment.

Answer : A. killing fish and bees.

2. Secondly, pests can gradually become resistant to pesticides. (paragraph 3). The word resistant in the sentence above means …

A. weak

B. fragile

C. damage

D. unaffected

E. unbalanced

Answer : D. unaffected

Analytical Text 2

I strongly believe that mobile phones are necessary. My reasons for this belief are that these phones are convenient for business people who travel a lot, and they are handy for emergencies.

To begin with, mobile phones are necessary in the case of emergencies. For instance, if you fall down a set of stairs in a building and are badly injured and can’t reach a pay phone, it is handy to have one to use. Or, if your car breaks down in the middle of the night in a strange neighbourhood, it would be dangerous to leave it in search of a public phone booth.

My other main reason is that mobile phones are convenient for business people. For example, if you are out of the state or even overseas and you have to contact a client to do some important work, it is useful to have one to use. By using a mobile phone, important information can be received. People can’t stay in an office all day waiting for their phone to ring. Some people have to go and do jobs or they will go out of business. You can even send faxes or messages and use the internet with your mobile.

In conclusion, I believe that mobile phones have now become a necessary part of every day life. Instant communication will ensure that information can be passed on with a simple press of a button. Whether this is to do with business or personal information or emergencies, it goes to show that they are necessary in the new millennium.

3. How many reasons are used to support the writer’s opinion?

A. One reason

B. Two reasons

C. Three reasons

D. Four reasons

E. Five reasons

Answer : B. Two reasons

4. Why are mobile phones very convenient for bussines people?

A. They can contact clients

B. They can do some important works

C. They can receive some important information

D. They can send some data and surf Internet

E. They can run bussines by staying in and out office

Answer : E. They can run bussines by staying in and out office

5. What is the main idea of the second parragraph?

A. The advantages cellular phones during the emergencies

B. The solution to do when your car breaks down

C. The danger to leave a mobile phone in the car

D. The differences of a mobile phone and a pay phone

E. The necessary equipments among neighbours

Answer : A. The advantages cellular phones during the emergencies

Narrative Text Part I, II, and the questions

Name: Valerie Christabel Hariko

Class: XII IPS 1 (34)

Hi guys! Welcome back to my blog😉. How are you? I hope you are always healthy and full of spirit. Today we will dicuss about narrative text.

So, let's get start it😊

 

Narrative is an imaginary story that aims to entertain the reader. Of couse, what it called imaginary story is not necessarily true because it could be just an imagination or fictious stort made by someone or a story made by a group of people that has not been proven true. Example of narrative are, Cinderella, Sangkurian, Snow White, Rabbit and Crocofile, etc. For a more detailed explanation, please read the following explanation.

Definition of Narrative Text

Narrative text is an imaginative story to entertain people (teks narasi adalah cerita imaginatif yang bertujuan menghibur orang).

Generic Structure of Narrative Text

# Orientation : It is about the opening paragraph where the characters of the story are introduced.(berisi pengenalan tokoh, tempat dan waktu terjadinya cerita (siapa atau apa, kapan dan dimana)

# Complication : Where the problems in the story developed. (Permasalahan muncul / mulai terjadi dan berkembang)

# Resolution : Where the problems in the story is solved. Masalah selesai, secara baik “happy ending” ataupun buruk “bad ending”.

# Coda / reorientation (optional) – lesson from the story.

Kadangkala susunan (generic structure) narrative text bisa berisi: Orientation, Complication, Evaluation, Resolution dan Reorientation. Meski “Evaluation” dan “Reorientation” merupakan optional; bisa ditambahkan dan bisa tidak. Evaluation berisi penilaian/evaluasi terhadap jalannya cerita atau konflik. Sedangkan Reorientation berisi penyimpulan isi akhir cerita.

Purpose of Narrative Text

The Purpose of Narrative Text is to amuse or to entertain the reader with a story.

The Characteristics/ Language Features of Narrative Text

– Past tense (killed, drunk, etc)

– Adverb of time (Once upun a time, one day, etc)

– Time conjunction (when, then, suddenly, etc)

– Specific character. The character of the story is specific, not general. (Cinderella, Snow White, Alibaba, etc)

– Action verbs. A verb that shows an action. (killed, dug, walked, etc)

– Direct speech. It is to make the story lively. (Snow White said,”My name is Snow White). The direct speech uses present tense.

Narrative Text Part I

Part 1: Write a narrative text and record the video while you read the text.

The Vampire and The Princess

Once upon a time, in a huge castle, lived a beautiful princess named Carmilla. She was the only child in the family yet she had been forced to obey her father’s rules. She was unhappy most of the time. The king had never let Carmilla leave the castle. Thus, the maid often caught Carmilla crying in the middle of the night.

One night, Carmilla was sitting in front of her window. Her pretty eyes became blurry with tears. Sally, her maid, couldn’t stand to watch the sadness. She eventually offered Carmilla to watch an opera at Classical Theater. Without hesitation, Carmilla said yes. They sneaked out from the castle at night. The guards had been told to stay quiet while waiting for Sally and Carmilla to come home.

There, Carmilla saw a mysterious handsome tall man playing violin very beautifully. She began to cry, feeling the music had shaken her every soul. Before the curtain was closed, Carmilla caught the man’s eyes. Cold and dark. She knew from that moment that she was in love.

Night after night, Camilla and Cecilion were getting closer. Everytime Cecilion finished his performance, they met behind the stage. Unfortunately, Sally was fired because one of the guards revealed the secret to the king. From then, Carmilla stopped seeing Cecilion and the king ordered her to marry a prince.

“This world is not fair!” shouted Carmilla. Every night she sat by the window, thinking about Cecilion. But, she had to face her wedding and was forced to forget Cecilion. On the night of her wedding day, she was dressed in all-white, crying silently. Suddenly, she received a letter that surprisingly fell from nowhere. She read it carefully and began to cry louder than before.

The letter told her that Cecilion was a vampire. He loved Carmilla more than anything in his life. He asked for Carmilla’s forgiveness because he had been lying to her about his true identity. He also said that vampires and humans couldn’t possibly be together.

“What on earth should I do? I love him!” asked Carmilla. She would rather die than not having a chance to live with Cecilion. Hence, she decided to end her life by slitting her wrist.

The marriage was a tragedy. A stone-cold Carmilla had already died, lying in her coffin. Cecilion knew that he had to take his only love, Carmilla. After everyone left the church, he flew away with Carmilla’s body and sucked her blood. That way made Carmilla become alive and immortal. Her eyes were red as roses, hair as white as clouds. She reborned. As a vampire.

Since Carmilla’s death, nobody in the castle nor around the village had ever seen her and Cecilion. They both seemed to have disappeared. Although everyone thought exactly they were dead, Carmilla and Cecilion actually lived together. Each night, they were hugging each other by the window. Under the moonlight, they were driven with passionate love. Without rules, without sadness. Forever.

There are my video read the text:

Narrative Text Part II

Me

Questions about Narrative Text

The following text is for question 1 to 3.

Once upon a time there lived a little girl named Snow White.  She lived with her aunt and uncle because her parents were dead.

One day she heard her uncle and aunt talking about leaving Snow White in the castle because they both wanted to go to America and they didn’t have enough money to take Snow White.

Snow White didn’t want her uncle and aunt to do that so she decided that it would be best if she ran away.  The next morning she ran away into the woods.  She was very tired and hungry.  Then she saw a little cottage.  She knocked but no one answered so she went inside and fell asleep.

Meanwhile, the seven dwarfs were coming home from work.  There they found Snow White sleeping.  Then Snow White woke up.  She saw the dwarfs.

The dwarfs said, “What is your name?”

Snow White said, “My name is Snow White.”

Then, Snow White told the dwarfs the whole story.

The dwarfs said, “If you want, you may live here with us.”

Snow White answered, “Oh, could I? Thank you.”

Finally, Snow White and the seven dwarfs lived happily ever after.

1. Why Snow White ran away to the woods?

A.  Her parents passed away

B.  Her uncle was angry with her

C.  Her uncle and aunt would go to America

D.  Snow White was happy to run away

E.  Snow White liked playing in the woods.

Answer : C.  Her uncle and aunt would go to America

2. Where did Snow White live after she ran away to the woods?

A.  She lived in the cave

B.  She lived in the lion nest

C.  She lived everywhere in the woods

D.  She lived in the dwarfs’ cottage

E.  She lived on the street

Answer : D.  She lived in the dwarfs’ cottage

3. According to the text, before she ran away into the woods, why did Snow White live with her uncle and aunt?

A.  because she loved them very much

B.  as a result of forcing attitude from them

C.  because her parents were dead

D.  because she were afraid of the dwarfs

E.  because she ran away from a monster

Answer : C.  because her parents were dead

The following text is for question 4 to 5.

Once upon a time there was a wife of a rich man fell sick, and soon she closed her eyes and departed. Everyday, Cinderella went out to her mother’s grave, and wept, and she remained pious and good .When winter came, the snow spread a white sheet over the grave, and by the time the spring sun had drawn it off again, the man had taken another wife. The woman had brought with her into the house two daughters, who were beautiful and fairy of face but vile and black of heart. Since then a bad time for the poor step-child began.

One day the King gave orders for a festival and all the beautiful young girls in the country were invited, in order that his son might choose himself a bride.When the two step-sisters heard that they were to appear among the number, they were delighted, called Cinderella and made to help them grooming, Cinderella obeyed, but wept, because she too would have liked to go with them to dance, and begged her step-mother said” you cannot go with us, you have no clothes and cannot dance.

When the step-mother and her daughters had gone away, Cinderella went to her mother’s grave and cried, Shiver and Quiver, My little tree, silver and gold throw down over me.” Suddenly a bird threw down a magnificent gold and silver dress to her,and were golden too. At the party her step-sister and the step-mother however did not recognize her, and thought she must be a foreign princess, for she looked so beautiful in the golden dress.

4. How did her step-mother treat Cinderella ?

A. she allowed go any where

B. she doesn’t her to allow

C. she allows goes every where

D. she didn’t go any where

E. she didn’t allow her go

Answer : E. she didn’t allow her go

5. Why couldn’t Cinderella go to the festival?

A. she doesn’t dance

B. she has dance

C. she didn’t dance

D. she didn’t have clothes and couldn’t dance

E. she couldn’t dance

Answer : D. she didn’t have clothes and couldn’t dance

Biography Part I, II, III, and the questions

Name: Valerie Christabel Hariko

Class: XII IPS 1 (34)

Hi guys, welcome back to my blog😉 Today we will study about Biography. I hope you can ejoy it, so let's get strart!😊

Definition of Biography

Biography text is a detailed description or account of a person’s life and written by someone else, it is nonfiction text.

Function of Biography

1. To know a person’s story about his/her life outside of any accomplishments this person may be known for.

2. To give much information easily and educate the readers.

Characteristics of Biography

# Biography is not written by subject and always written in the third person.

# Based on research.

# Describes the person’s surroundings (where, when and how the person lived).

# Use vivid language to narrate events.

Generic Structure of Biography

1. Orientation (Introduction)

It is the opening paragraph, gives the readers the background information of the person.

2. Events

In events, should be in chronological order.

3. Re-Orientation (Closing)

It consists of a conclusion or comment or the writer. Tell about the achievement or the contribution of the person.

Grammar & Language Features

1. Use Simple Past Tense

Simple Past Tense adalah menu utama dalam membuat Teks Biografi. Sebuah bentuk sederhana kejadian yang terjadi di masa lampau. Menggunakan bentuk kata kerja kedua (verb 2).

2. Temporal Sequence and Temporal Conjunction.

Sebagai penghubung antara satu kalimat dengan kalimat lain dalam urutan waktu.

# Temporal Sequence (urutan waktu)

# Temporal Conjunction (konjungsi temporal).

3. Focus on Specific participants

Use of Action verbs.

Menjelaskan sesuatu hal yang secara aktif dilakukan oleh tokoh dengan menggunakan beberapa kata kerja dalam bentuk V2 atau Past Form.

Types of Biography

# Short Biography (focuses only on highlights of a person’s life)

# Long Biography (about life and times of someone in a lot more detail)

My Video Explain About Biography

The Example of Biography

Harry Styles

Harry Edward Styles was born in Redditch, Worcestershire on 1 February 1994. He is the son of Anne Cox (née Selley) and Desmond “Des” Styles, who worked in finance. Many of his ancestors were farm laborers in Norfolk. Styles was raised in Holmes Chapel, Cheshire after his parents moved there along with his older sister, Gemma, when he was a child. He attended Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School. Styles’ parents divorced when he was seven and his mother later was remarried to Robin Twist; he died in 2017. He has an older stepbrother named Mike and a stepsister named Amy, children of Twist. As a sixteen-year-old, he worked part-time at the W. Mandeville Bakery in Holmes Chapel.

As a child, Styles loved singing, covering songs from Elvis Presley. While at Holmes Chapel Comprehensive, Styles was the lead singer for the band White Eskimo, which won a local Battle of the Bands competition. Styles has cited country singer Shania Twain as his “main influence” both musically and in fashion. He has also cited Pink Floyd, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Harry Nilsson, Freddie Mercury, and Elvis Presley as being influences. His music contains elements of soft rock, pop, folk, rock, and Britpop.

Following a suggestion from his mother, on 11 April 2010, Styles auditioned as a solo candidate for the seventh series of the British televised singing competition The X Factor, singing a rendition of Stevie Wonder’s “Isn’t She Lovely”. He failed to progress to the “Boys” category at “judges’ houses”. Four others in his age group also failed, but at the suggestion by Nicole Scherzinger, a guest judge, they were put together as an ensemble at Wembley Arena in July 2010, during the “boot camp” stage of the competition, thus qualifying for the “Groups” category. The group consisting of Styles, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, and Zayn Malik, got together for two weeks to get to know one another and practice. In 2017, Styles said he had suggested the name One Direction to his bandmates and they agreed to keep it.

For their qualifying song at “judges’ houses”, and their first song as a group, One Direction sang an acoustic version of “Torn”. Simon Cowell later commented that the performance convinced him that the group “were confident, fun, like a gang of friends, and kind of fearless as well.” Within the first four weeks of the live shows, they were Cowell’s last act in the competition. The group quickly gained popularity in the UK.

In 2016 to present, he has been busy with the solo album and acting debut. In February 2016, Styles left the group’s management company Modest Management and joined Jeffrey Azoff’s Full Stop Management. Styles launched his own record label, Erskine Records, in May and he signed a recording contract with Columbia Records as a solo artist, the same label behind One Direction, in June. Styles wrote the song “Someday” in collaboration with Meghan Trainor for Michael Bublé’s album Nobody but Me, released in October.

In March 2017, Styles announced his first solo single titled “Sign of the Times” and the song was released on 7 April, reaching number one on the UK Singles Chart. An accompanying music video for the song directed by Woodkid was also released, featuring Styles levitating and walking on water. The song was variously described by critics as pop rock and soft rock ballad with glam rock influences.

His self-titled debut album was released on 12 May 2017, whereupon it debuted at number one in several countries, including the UK, the US, and Australia. The record was heavily influenced by ’70s soft rock and was described by Variety as a “classic cocktail of psychedelia, Britpop, and balladry”. It received generally favorable reviews from critics and was included in several publications’ lists of the best albums of 2017.

Styles made his film debut in Christopher Nolan’s war film Dunkirk in July 2017, playing a British soldier named Alex who is a part of the Dunkirk evacuation in World War II. He appeared alongside actors Fionn Whitehead, Jack Lowden, Aneurin Barnard, Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance, Cillian Murphy, and Kenneth Branagh in the film.

Biography Part I

Part 1: Make biography text about famous people and record it.

PSY Gangnam Style

Gangnam Style is now famous in the wold. Do you know the man behind it? He is Park Jae-sang and known as PSY.

He was born on Desember 31 1977 at Gangnam District , Seoul, South Korea. He was grown up among bussines family members. His father is an executive chairman of manufacturing company and his mother is owner of several restaurants.

Park Jae-sang  got  his elementary education from Banpo and continued his study to Middle Schools and Sehwa High School. After graduated from high school, in 1996, Park flew to United Stated to study business administration at Boston University. He was a student there for only one semester because he dropped out of Boston University after he attended an English-language course in Summer. Leaving business administration field, he studied music at Berkley College of Music but soon he dropped out of Barklee College too.

Park Jae-sang  returned to South Korea without having university degree and pursued carrier as singer. He rleases his first album Psy from the Psycho World! in 2001. Because of the inappropriate content, he was fined by South Korean government authorities. In 2002 he had the second album Sa 2 but again he was banned. In 2006 he got his fourth album Sa Jib. At that time he won honors at Hong Kong's Mnet Asian Music Awards.

Park Jae-sang  got his big success in 2012 when he released his sixth album Psy 6. The song Gangnam Style appeared in broadcasting and newspapers outside Asia. Gangnam Style ranked first on YouTube and soon became the global superstar.

Biography Part II

Part 2: Write an inventor biography and record the video while you read the text.

Thomas Edison

Despite his extremely successful life as an inventor and businessman, Thomas Edison did not do very well at school. His school career was so unsuccessful that he ended up being homeschooled by his mother. However, Edison did always have an entrepreneurial spirit. As a youth, Edison would sell vegetables, candy, and newspapers on trains to earn money. Edison was also a keen inventor as a child, setting up his first lab in his parent's basement at the age of 10.

Edison’s interest in communications, which would later inform some of his inventions, came about in a strange way. It all started when, one day, Edison saved a child from a runaway train. This child’s father happened to be a telegraph operator and, in return for saving his child’s life, trained Edison to be a telegraph operator as well.

Thomas Edison is widely regarded as one of the greatest American inventors of all time. Throughout his life, Edison gained over 1000 patents for his inventions, the most famous of which is arguably the lightbulb. Edison was able to invent at such a rapid speed because of his large invention laboratory. This laboratory was home to a team of people that Edison had working for him. This team worked together with Edison to help develop and test his inventions.

In addition to being an inventor, Edison was also a keen businessman. For this reason, he used many of his inventions to form companies. Edison was an owner of countless companies in fields like: Automobiles, Batteries, Cement and cement products Electric light, both domestic and foreign, Mining, Office machinery and supplies, Phonographs, both domestic and foreign, Telegraphs and telephones, both domestic and foreign, and Motion pictures.

Biography Text Part III

Me

Questions About Biography

This Text for number 1-2

Kang Chol Hwan was born into a loyal family that had once lived in the large Korean community of Japan. In Kyoto, his grandfather had been supporter of Kim II Sung, North Korean’s Great Leader since 1945. In 1961 the grandfather returned with his family to North Korea and had important government post.

Within months, however, he was complaining to friends that North Korea was not the country he had expected. He was shocked to see so much poverty, which he eventually came to blame on the government’s stifl ing left for work and never returned. One morning in July 1977, when Kang was nine, his grandfather left for work and never returned.

A few weeks later, seven plain clothes security guard stormed into Kang’s house “Your grandfather betrayed the fatherland,” one of them stated” You must be punished.”

Kang’s parents and grandmother sobbed as they forced to pack their belongings into two army trucks. The family was driven off, but Kang’s mother was left behind, “spared” because her own father was regarded as a revolutationary hero. That was the last Kang ever saw her.

1. What was a reason for Kang’s grandfather never returned to Kang’s house?

A. A supporter of Kim II Sung

B. Accused of betraying North Korea

C. Regarded as a hero

D. As an important person in Korea

E. Force Kang’s family to leave their homeland

Answer : B. Accused of betraying North Korea

2. What is mainly discussed in the last paragraph?

A. The last minutes Kang gathered together with his mother

B. The day Kang ever saw his grandma and grandpa

C. The moment Kang’s father was regarded as a hero

D. The last day Kang’s parents and his grandma sobbed

E. The sad moment when Kang’s parents meet grandma

Answer : A. The last minutes Kang gathered together with his mother

This Text for number 3-5

THE SCIENTIST HELP SHEEP DIES

Keith Campbell, a prominent biologist who worked on cloning Dolly the sheep, died at 58, the University of Nottingham said Thursday. Campbell, who had worked on animal improvement and cloning since 1999, died October 5, 2012, University spokesman Tim Utton said. He did not specify the cause, only saying that Campbell had worked at the University until his death.

He began researching animal cloning at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh in 1991. In 1996 the experiments led to the birth of Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell. The sheep was named after the voluptuous singer Dolly Parton. Researchers at the time said that the sheep was created from a mammary gland cell, and that Parton offered an excellent example.

The creation of the sheep captured the public imagination and instantly became a scientific sensation. The experiments drew not only admiration but also anger from some who raised questions about the ethics of cloning. Animal rights activists were outraged, while the church of England expressed reservations. Dolly was put down in 2003 after she developed a lung disease. Campbell’s interest in cellular growth dated back to his college days studying microbiology in London.

3. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the text?

A. Campbell never felt leaving for the university

B. Campbell stopped working because of his sickness

C. Campbell focused his research dealing with humans

D. Campbell started researching animal cloning as his experiments

E. Campbell focused his research not only on the animal experiments

Answer : D. Campbell started researching animal cloning as his experiments

4. Why did the experiments not draw admiration perfectly?

A. Animal rights activists were outraged

B. The public imagination became a scientific sensation

C. Some people felt dissatisfied with the experiment results

D. Some people were angry from their question about the ethics of cloning

E. The experiments did not show the representative results of the cloning ethics

Answer : D. Some people were angry from their question about the ethics of cloning

5. Why was the sheep named after Dolly Parton?

A. The researchers admired her

B. She was a voluptuous singer

C. She was a very popular singer

D. The mammary gland cell was taken from her

E. She was the one who inspired the researchers

Answer : D. The mammary gland cell was taken from her

Descriptive Text Questions

Name: Valerie Christabel H

Class: XII IPS 1 (34)

This text for number 1-3

Victoria Caroline Beckham is an English singer-songwriter, dancer, model, actress, fashion designer and business woman. She was born on April 17, 1974, in Essex, England. She became famous in the 1990’s with the pop group “The Spice Girl”and was known as Posh Spice. In 1999, she married the Manchester United and England footballer, David Beckham. They have four children, three sons and a daughter.

After The Spice Girl split up, she pursued a solo singer career, but also started her own fashion range called dVb Style. Since this initial foray into fashion Victoria Beckham has brought out her own range of sunglasses and fragrance, entitled “Intimately Beckham”and a range of handbags and jewelry.

In addition she had written two best-selling books: one her autobiography and the other, a fashion guide.

1. What did Victoria do before being a solo singer?

A. Married to David Beckham

B. Worked as fashion designer

C. Joined The Spice Girl

D. Created fashion style

Answer: C. Joined The Spice Girl

4. We found in the text that ….

A. Victoria named her fragrance by dVb style

B. Beckham is Victoria’s autobiography

C. Beckham is Victoria’s brand for her fragrance

D. Posh Spice is the title of her new album

Answer: C. Beckham is Victoria’s brand for her fragrance

3. Based on the text, what do we know about Victoria?

A. She is an ordinary woman

B. She is a multi-talented woman

C. She designed The Spice Girls

D. She married to an ordinary person

Answer: B. She is a multi-talented woman

This text for number 4-5

Hello! My name is Boby Fudam. I come from Dundee. A town on the east coast of Scotland, but I’m a student at Durham University, in the north of England. I’m studying French and German, and I can speak the languages quite well. I also know little Spanish, so I can speak four languages. I’m enjoying the course a lot, but it’s very hard work!

I live in Durham Castle, because the Castle is part of the University, with about thirty other students. The course started two years ago, and I’m in my third year. After the course, I’m going to work in France, but I don’t know where yet.

4. Boby can speak these languages below except…

A. German

B. Spanish

C. English

D. Dutch

Answer: D. Dutch

5. What’s Boby going to do after course?

A. To get a job in France.

B. To enjoy in Germany.

C. To study in England.

D. To learn in Spanish.

Answer: A. To get a job in France.

Descriptive Text Part I, II, III

Name: Valerie Christabel Hariko

Class: XII IPS 1 (34)

Hi guys! Welcome back to my blog😉. Today, our topic is descriptive text. Don't worry guys, this topic is genuinely easy. So lets study with me😊

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT, or in terms of writing only known as “description” is one of English lessons that should be mastered not only by junior high school students but also senior high school students, college students and anyone who loves English. Because after all, descriptive material is very necessary for the increasing of our English proficiency.

Some of the most famous authors, especially fiction writers, have good skill in writing descriptive text, so that their writing is very readable and easy to understand. Therefore, if we were able to master this lesson well, we might be able to become a great writer in the future.

Furthermore, I hope this explanation and example of the descriptive text can help my friend who is still in a long journey to learn English. Do not hesitate to read the explanation of descriptive text below, the more often we read about this text we will be able to understand it more. Furthermore it would be nice if we do not only understand mere, but also we can also write descriptive text ourselves.

Definition of Descriptive Text

Descriptive Text is a text which says what a person or a thing is like. Its purpose is to describe and reveal a particular person, place, or thing.

In a broad sense, description, as explained by Kane (2000: 352), is defined like in the following sentence:

Description is about sensory experience—how something looks, sounds, tastes. Mostly it is about visual experience, but description also deals with other kinds of perception.

Thus, if we conclude it from Kane’s explanation above, the descriptive text is meaningful text that describes the experience related to the senses, such as what shape, sound, taste is. Most descriptive text is about visual experience, but in fact the experience other than the sense of sight, we can also use it to make descriptive text.

But in particular, the descriptive text is, “…… is a text which says what a person or a thing is like. Its purpose is to describe and reveal a particular person, place, or thing.”

So, it can be said that the descriptive text is a text that explains about whether a person or an object is like, whether its form, its properties, its amount and others. The purpose of the descriptive text is clear, that is to describe, represent or reveal a person or an object, either abstract or concrete.

Generic Structure of Descriptive Text

When writing descriptive text, there are some generic structures (actually not mandatory) for our writing to be true. The arrangement is:

# Identification: (contains about the introduction of a person, place, animal or object will be described.)

# Description: contains a description of something such as animal, things, place or person by describing its features, forms, colors, or anything related to what the writer describe.

Purpose of Descriptive Text

– To describe person, thing or place in specific

– To describe a particular person, thing or place.

Language Feature of Descriptive Text

– Specific participant : has a certain object, is not common and unique (only one). for example: Bandengan beach, my house, Borobudur temple, uncle Jim

– The use of the adjective (an adjective) to clarify the noun, for example: a beautiful beach, a handsome man, the famous place in jepara, etc.

– The use of simple present tense: The sentence pattern used is simple present because it tells the fact of the object described.

– Action verb: verbs that show an activity (for example, run, sleep, walk, cut etc….

My Video Explain About Descriptive Text

Descriptive Text Part 1

Part 1: make descriptive text about historical buildings.

Liberty Statue

The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World or mostly known as The Statue of Liberty is located in Liberty Island in New York Harbor, United States. This national building is symbol of freedom. It was a gift from The French to United States to celebrate the centennial of the American Declaration of Independence.

Liberty Statue is made of 3.16 inch thick of copper sheets. The appearance of the statue is believed to be representing the Roman goddess of freedom. Its right hand is holding a torch, and the left hand is holding a book with the date of the American Declaration of Independence written on it. The colour of the statue was rusty brown, but after 30 years of oxidation process, it turns into green as we can see now.

The height of the statue measured from its base is 46 meters, but when it is measured from the ground, it is 93 meters. The height of the head is 14 feet. The width of the eye is 28 inches. The length of the nose is 3 feet 9 inches. The length of the forefinger is 8 feet. The total weight of the statue is 440.000 pounds

Descriptive Text Part 2

Part 2: make descriptive text about recreation places.

Pink Beach

Pink Beach or Pantai Merah Muda is one of the beaches in Komodo island, East Nusa Tenggara. The beach is called Pink Beach because the sand beach is pink. The pink color of its beach is a mixture of white sand beach colors mixed with crushed coral, shells, calcium carbonate from marine invertebrates that are very small, and also Foraminifera, microscopic amoeba that has a red body shell.

At Pink Beach, there are so many marine organisms. No fewer than 1,000 species of fish, 260 species of coral, and 70 species of sponge can be found here. Having so much marine life, this place is a proper spot for snorkeling and diving for sea sports lovers.

Descriptive Text Part 3

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Procedure Text Questions

Name: Valerie Christabel H

Class: XII IPS 1 (34)

This text for number 1-3

A quick and easy cheese cake recipe

Yield : 6 servings
Prep. Time :5 minutes
Cook Time : 40 minutes
Total Time : 45 minutes

Ingredients:
16 ounces cream cheese, 2 packages, softened
½ cup sugar
½ teaspoon vanilla
2 large eggs
4 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 prepared Graham cracker crust

Directions:
Beat cream cheese, sugar and vanilla at medium speed until well-blended. Blend in 2 eggs. Stir in chocolate chips then pour batter into Graham cracker chust. (you may sprinkle ¼ cup mini semi sweet chocolate chips on top if you desire).
Bake at 35calcius for 40 minutes, or until certer is almost set. Cool.
For best results refrigerate for 3 hours.

1. How many persons is the cake for?
A. 2
B. 5
C. 6
D. 35
E. 2

2. The goal of the text is to tell about . . . . .
A. how to beat cream cheese
B. how to blend sugar and vanilla
C. how to bake chocolate cheese and cake
D. how make chocolate cheese cake
E. how to make mini sweet chocolate chips

3. The text is called a/an . . . . .
A. explanation
B. description
C. procedure
D. report
E. spoof

This text for number 4-5
How to Make Starfruit Punch
Ingredients
• 250 gr yellow starfruit in slices
• 100 ml water 2 spoonful of vanilla
• 8 teaspoonful of lemonade extract Procedure
• Put slices of starfruit and water in the blender. Wait until it’s soft. Skim it.
• Add syrup, lemonade extract, and soda water. Stir thoroughly.
• Pour it in the glass and put in the ice cubes.

4. What is the text about?
A. How to make starfruit punch
B. The ingredients of starfruit punch
C. How to use blender
D. How to stir thoroughly
E. How to slice starfruit

5. …..lemonade extract and soda water. Stir thoroughly. The word “stir“ means….
A. to make smooth
B. to boil
C. to cut
D. to make dry
E. to move an object in order to mix it