Thursday, June 24, 2010

Video 2: Punishment

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

GENERIC STRUCTURE

Descriptive texts senang

  • Identification: introduces something or someone that will be described
  • Description: describes special characteristics of something or someone

Narrative texts

  • Orientation : prodives the setting and introduce participants
  • Complication : problems
  • Resolution : usually gives solution for the complication / problems

Recount texts

  • Orientation : prodives the setting and introduce participants
  • Event(s) : tell what happened, in what sequence
  • Reorientation : optional - closure of events

Friday, June 18, 2010

A RECOUNT TEXT

Jimmy started painting when he was three years old. When he was five, he was already very good at it. He painted many beautiful and interesting pictures. People paid a lot of money for them. They said,” This boy’s going to sell these pictures for a lot of money.”
Jimmy’s pictures were different from other people’s because he never painted on all of the paper. He painted on half of it, and the other half was always empty.
“ That’s very clever,” everybody said. “ Nobody else does that!”
One day somebody bought one of Jimmy’s pictures. Then said to him, “ Please tell me this, Jimmy. Why do you paint on the bottom half on your pictures, but not on the top half?”
“ Because I’m small,” Jimmy said, “ and my brushes don’t reach very high. “


Activity 1 : Choose whether these statements are TRUE or FALSE

1. When Jimmy was five years old, he started painting.
2. The boy will sell the pictures because he wants to get a lot
of money.
3. The pictures he made were beautiful and interesting.
4. Jimmy’s pictures were the same as other people.
5. Nobody bought his beautiful pictures.
6. The buyer asked Jimmy to tell about the pictures.


Activity 2 : Discuss and answer the following questions in group.

What did Jimmy paint?
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When did he start painting?
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Did he also paint in a piece of paper?
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What is the main idea of paragraph 1?
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What did he say at the end?
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“ Then said to him “. What does the word “him” refer to?
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Where did he paint the pictures?
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Which one is the Orientation of the text above?
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What’s the text above called?
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Video 1: Cheating in exam

Friday, May 28, 2010

NARRATIVE TEXTS (Exercises)

Complete the following stories with words given.

Story 1:

Long long time ago, in Girah village, there lived an old woman. Her name was Calonarang. She was a very …1…… woman. She had magical power. She had a …2…….. Her name was Ratna Manggali. She was very beautiful.Yet, nobody wanted to …3……. her because they were afraid of he rmother.

People ……4….. to talk about Ratna Manggali. Calonarang did not like people talking about her daughter. She ……5….. her very much. When she heard people talking about her daughter, she got ……6…. She cursed the village. People got ill and …7……..
  • angry - marry

  • began - died

  • powerful - daughter

  • loved


    Story 2 :

    One beautiful morning Kancil ……1……. to fish in a certain river. On the way he met his friend, Swine, who stopped him for a ……2……. When Swine heard that Kancil wanted to go ……3…….., he asked whether he could join him. Kancil did not object,as Swine promised to ……4…… him with the work. The two of them went on together and soon they met Tiger and Elephant. When they heard that Kancil and Swine ……5……. Going to the river, they decided to go along, too. And so the four animals went together to the ……6….. to fish.

  • were * help

  • river * fishing

  • decided * chat


    Story 3:

    Many many years ago, there was a ……1……… in the New Territories. The restaurant ………2…… was a good man. He was always kind and helpful to his customer. His restaurant was very bright and ……3……… But although he and his wife ……4…….. hard day and night, his business was still not very ………5…….
    “Why do so few people come to eat at my restaurant?” he asked one of his friends. “Your ……6……… is not very well cooked,” his friend replied.


  • successful * owner

  • food * worked

  • restaurant * clean



A DESCRIPTIVE TEXT (Exercises)

A. READING
Read the text carefully.

This is Mr. Hadi’s house. It has a living room, a dining room, two bedrooms, a bathroom, a kitchen, and a garage. There are six chairs and a dining table in the dining room. The dining room is between the living room and the kitchen. There are four armchairs, a table, a room divider, a sofa and a TV set in the living room. In each bedroom you can find a wardrobe and a bed. There is a bucket in the bathroom. In the kitchen there are many kitchen utensils. And Mr. Hadi’s car is in the garage.

Choose the correct answer based on the text.
1. Mr. Hadi has ….
a. a garden
b. a storage
c. a park
d. a house

2. How many rooms does Mr. Hadi have?
a. 4 rooms
b. 5 rooms
c. 6 rooms
d. 7 rooms

3. Where is the kitchen located?
a. behind the bathroom
b. in front of the garage
c. beside the dining room
d. between the dining room and the living room

4. These what Mr. Hadi has in the living room, except ….
a. a sofa
b. a table
c. a wardrobe
d. armchais

5. How many beds does Mr. Hadi have?
a. one
b. two
c. three
d. four

6. What is the suitable title of the text?
a. Mr. Hadi’s house
b. Mr. Hadi’s rooms
c. Mr. Hadi's garage
d. Mr. Hadi's dining room

7. Mr. Hadi usually takes a nap in the ….
a. living room
b. bedroom
c. bathroom
d. dining room

8. “It has a living room ….”
What does the word “It” refer to?
a. Mr. Hadi’ car
b. Mr. Hadi’ garage
c. Mr. Hadi's garden
d. Mr. Hadi's house

9. Here are the kitchen utensils except ….
a. a stove
b. a grater
c. a frying pan
d. a toothbrush

10. Mr. Hadi likes to sit on the …. Because it is soft.
a. a mat
b. a sofa
c. a table
d. a cupboard

B. WRITING

Arrange the jumble sentences into a good composition

* Mother cooks some food in the kitchen everyday.
* This is my mother’s kitchen.
* Mother puts the stove on the corner.
* It is a small kitchen, but there are many kitchen utensils there.
* There is a frying pan on the stove. It is full of oil.
* There are cups, plates and saucer in it. There is also a table beside the cupboard.
* There is also a cupboard next to the window’s kitchen.
* There are some cakes and two glasses of milk on the table.

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