101 4. Your brother, Joko, has a new computer store. Congratulate him. 5. Your classmate, Anto, has just won the first winner of physic Olympic at Athena, Greece. Activity 5 You just received a card from the Woodward family announcing their new born baby. You can’t visit the baby soon to the family so you send a letter showing your congratulation. Use the clues and the form given. Picture 5.2. Baby announcement card Source : www.lazypie.com...Boy-announcement-3.jpg Clues: 1. Say thank for the news about the new born baby. 2. Give your congratulation on the new born baby. 3. Give your hope that the mother and the baby are both well. 4. Give your pray that the baby will give happiness to the family. 5. Inform the family that you will visit the baby someday. 6. Ask the family to give more information about the new baby if they had time. Form Jalan Literari 80 Jaten Karanganyar Surakarta Dear ………., Two days ago, ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. I and my family send our ……………………………………………………………………………………………………. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Please write …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Yours August West
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4. Your brother, Joko, has a new computer store. Congratulate him.
5. Your classmate, Anto, has just won the first winner of physic Olympic at Athena, Greece.
Activity 5
You just received a card from the Woodward family announcing their new born baby. You can’t
visit the baby soon to the family so you send a letter showing your congratulation. Use the clues
and the form given.
Picture 5.2. Baby announcement card
Source : www.lazypie.com...Boy-announcement-3.jpg
Clues:
1. Say thank for the news about the new born baby.
2. Give your congratulation on the new born baby.
3. Give your hope that the mother and the baby are both well.
4. Give your pray that the baby will give happiness to the family.
5. Inform the family that you will visit the baby someday.
6. Ask the family to give more information about the new baby if they had time.
Form
Jalan Literari 80
Jaten Karanganyar Surakarta
Dear ……….,
Two days ago, ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
I and my family send our …………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Listen to your teacher reading the text and fill in the blanks.
Picture 5.8. Dhini Aminarti
Source: www.pikiran-rakyat.com
Do you know this (1) ________ girl? Of course you are. Her (2) _________ is everywhere.
On magazines, newspapers and (3) _______________ on TVs as “sinetron” player.
You might think this girl is (4) ___________, soft-spoken, and composed. Na-ah, you’re so
of wrong! Dhini (5) ____________ that she’ s actually a talkative kind of girl, full of (6) _________
but kind-hearted and friendly. Dhini’s true personality won’t show when she’s in the company of a
(7) ____________ or in an unfamiliar place. And another thing, she’s a perfectionist!. This 173-cm-
tall and slim girl I say that she’s always a perfectionist when it comes to her (8) ___________, job,
thoughts, and future. She (9) ___________ planning everything well and making an effort to (10)
__________ her targets.
(Edited from : Cool ‘n Smart, Vol.3.No.24. 2004)
Questions:
1. What is Dhini Aminarti?
2. What does she look like?
3. How are her personalities?
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4. Is she a perfectionist girl? How do you know?
5. What is the speaker’s purpose in this spoken text?
Activity 14
Read the text and answer the questions. Pay attention to the text structure and the language
features.
Name
Profession
Compound
adjective
Noun
Phrases
adjectives
Linking
Verbs
(Simplified and edited from: C’ n S magazine, Volume 1 No. 1 2004.)
Questions:
1. What is the text about?
2. Where does she work ?
3. What is her profession?
4. How is her face?
5. How is her figure?
6. How is her hair?
7. What is her complexion?
8. Mention her positive and negative traits.
Sarah Meirizka Hardiany Sechan is one of the
famous VJs on MTV. She was born in Bandung, May
9 1974. She starts her career as a model, hosting
television programs, radio announcer on Hardrock FM
and the last is Video Jockey (or popularly shortened
to VJ) on MTV.
You can see her pretty face almost everyday on
your TV screen. This small sized girl (“just 1.59 m and
44 kg”) is the VJ of such MTV programs as MTV
Asia, MTV Land, MTV Ampuh and MTV Getar Cinta.
She also takes turns with several other hosts on
programs such as MTV Screen, MTV Most Wanted,
etc. The brown-skinned girl has straight, short black
hair, a small nose and a rather small ears. Her oval
face makes her cheeks look like a plump when she
laughs or smiles.
And that’s Sarah Sechan. Behind her cheerful
and jocular face, there is a persistent and charming
personality. As VJ, she is energetic and creative. She
always gets well with the others. The open-minded
girl always open to every suggestion to make her
show more interesting, especially from the MTV
creative team where she works at. As a human being,
she can’t avoid negative feeling. Sarah sometimes
can’t help looking sulky and short-tempered when
everything is not as what she planned. And above all,
Sarah Sechan is someone who loves her work and
her family.
Description:
Personality
Description:
Physical
features
Identification
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Activity 15
Read the Notice. Answer the questions.
(Modified from : Soal Ujian Nasional SMP/ MTs Tahun Pelajaran 2003/2004 C2)
Questions:
1. What is Jacques Sandier ?
2. What is the notice about?
3. What was he accused for?
4. How does he look like?
5. What is his negative trait?
6. Find the identification and the description.
7. Find the compound adjective.
8. Find the qualitative adjectives.
WANTED
DEAD OR ALIVE
One pirate by the name of Jacques SandierAlso known as “BaldHead”
Appearance : Big, about 100 kgTall, about 1,9 mUsually dressed in red clothes and boots.
Striking Features : A clean-saved chin, plaited and tied with coloured ribbons.
Sometimes fuses are hidden under his hat and they burnand give out smoke.
Reputation : Irritable and trigger-happyBad Habit : Uses foul language all the time.His crime : Robbery on high seas
Murder
Beware! This man is armed and dangerous.REWARD – £1000 from the King’s treasury
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C. Joint construction of text.
Activity 16
Work in group of three or four. Suppose your school is going to choose a student organization
chairperson. You support one of the candidates. Make a campaign pamphlet or flyer about the
candidate. Support it with his/her photo.
Look at the example below.
(Picture source: Sepkita Jessica, Computer files at LPMP Jateng)
D. Independent construction of text
Activity 17
Put a picture of your family members or a person that you know well. Put it on your workbook.
Give a detail description about him/her or them.
(Photo source: Family album)
JESSICA FOR CHAIRPERSON
Choose Jessica guys!, our best friend our best candidate. Jessica isthe most popular girl in our girl, for her brain, beauty and bless andher organizing skills.
Choose Jessica guys!, The humble girl has an easy going personality,friendly and sociable. She is the smartest among us but she never triesto force her opinions on other people.
Choose Jessica guys!, for the best of us.
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Step 2 (Written)Reading and writing
A. Building knowledge of field
Activity 1
Look at the pictures.
Read and understand the paragraphs
Match each picture with the correct description.
Picture 1 Picture 2
Picture 3 Picture 4
a. Mount Rushmore, in South Dakota, is a memorial to four great Americans. It has the largest
figures of any statue in the world. The head of George Washington is as high as a five-story
building. The other heads are Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.
b. Mount Everest, in the Himalaya range on the frontier of Tibet and Nepal, is the highest mountain
in the world. The lofty, snow-covered peak rises about 5 1/2 miles (8.9 kilometers) above sea
level.
c. Italians gather in Pisa in June 2001 to celebrate the completion of renovations of the Leaning
Tower, which had been closed since 1990. Engineers stabilized the foundation and partially
straightened the tower's famous lean.
d. Scenic limestone hills near the city of Guilin in southern China are among the most unusual
features of China's vast countryside. Only Russia and Canada have more land than China.
(Photo Source and description taken from: World Book 2005)
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Activity 2
Reading for comprehension.Read the following text about Taj Mahal. Then answer the questions.
Taj Mahal is one of the most beautiful and costly tombs in the
world. The Indian ruler Shah Jahan ordered it built in memory
of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal, who died in 1629. The
tomb stands at Agra in northern India. About 20,000 workers
built it between about 1630 and 1650.
According to tradition, the Taj Mahal was designed by a Turkish architect. It is made of white
marble and rests on a platform of red sandstone. At each corner of the platform stands a slender
minaret (prayer tower). Each tower is 133 feet (40.5 meters) high. The building itself is 186 feet
(56.7 meters) square. A dome covers the center of the building. It is 70 feet (21.3 meters) in
diameter and 120 feet (36.6 meters) high. Passages from the Muslim holy book, the Qur'an,
decorate the outside along with inlaid floral patterns. A central room contains two cenotaphs
(monuments). Visitors can see the monuments through a carved alabaster screen. The bodies of
Shah Jahan and his wife lie in a vault below. The tomb stands in a garden.
(Source : World Book 2005)
Questions
1. In what country is Taj mahal located?
2. Who built it?
3. Why did The king build Taj Mahal ?
4. How tall is the dome of the Taj Mahal?
5. How is the building decorated?
6. What is the purpose of the writer in this text?
Grammar Focus1. Simple Present Tense
Activity 3
Let’s study “ the simple present tense”
Pay attention to the following sentences!
1. Mount Rushmore, in South Dakota, is a memorial to four great Americans.
2. Scenic limestone hills near the city of Guilin in southern China are among the most unusual
features of China's vast countryside.
3. The lofty, snow-covered peak rises about 5 1/2 miles (8.9 kilometers) above sea level.
4. Italians gather in Pisa in June 2001 to celebrate the completion of renovations of the
Leaning Tower
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When you want to describe a thing , a place or a person, you use the simple present tense. In the
simple present tense, you use is, am or are (to be) and present verb or verb-s/-es. Study the
following pattern.
Pattern
a. Verb pattern(+) S + V1(-s/-es)(-) S + do/does not V1(?) Do/does + S + V1 ?
b. To be pattern(+) S + is/am/are + adjectives/adverbs/nouns(-) S + is/am/are not + adjectives/adverbs/nouns(?) Is/Am/Are + S + adjectives/adverbs/nouns ?
Activity 4
Put the verbs in the bracket into the correct form.
Great Wall of China
Great Wall of China (1).…….(be) the lngest structure ever built. Its total length-including
loops and branches-is about 4,500 miles (7,240 kilometers), and it was erected entirely by hand.
The main line (2) ……………..(stretch) about 2,500 miles (4,020 kilometers) across northern
China. The eastern end of the main line is at Shanhaiguan, a town near Qinhuangdao on the coast
of the Bo Gulf. In the west, the main line ends in the Lop Nur region of the Xinjiang province.
Description. Parts of the Great Wall have crumbled through the years. However, much of it
(3)…………(remain), and some sections have been restored. One of the most visited sections of
the Great Wall, on Mount Badaling, near Beijing, (4)…………..(rise) to about 35 feet (11 meters)
high. This section (5) …………….(be) about 25 feet (7.6 meters) wide at its base and nearly 20
feet (6 meters) at the top. Watchtowers stand about 100 to 200 yards (91 to 180 meters) apart
along the wall. The towers, about 40 feet (12 meters) high, once served as lookout posts.
In the east, the wall (6) …………(wind) through the mountainous Mongolian Border
Uplands. This part of the wall (7) ………..(have) a foundation of granite blocks. It (8) ……….(have)
sides of stone or brick, and the inside of the wall is filled with earth. The top is paved with bricks set
in mortar. The bricks form a road that was used by the workers who built the wall and by the
soldiers who defended it.
Farther west, the Great Wall (9) ……………..(run) through hilly areas and along the borders
of deserts. Stone and brick were scarce in these hilly and desert areas, and so the workers used
earth to build this section of the wall. They moistened the earth and pounded it to make it solid.
(Adapted from : World Book 2005)
2. Relating verbs
Activity 5
Let’s study “ the relating verbs”
Pay attention to the following sentences!
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3. Degrees of comparison
Activity 8
Let’s study “ the degrees of comparison”
Pay attention to the following sentences!
1. The head of George Washington is as high as a five-story building.
2. Mount Rushmore, in South Dakota, is a memorial to four great Americans. It has the
largest figures of any statue in the world.
3. Scenic limestone hills near the city of Guilin in southern China are among the most
unusual features of China's vast countryside.
4. Mount Everest, in the Himalaya range on the frontier of Tibet and Nepal, is the highest
Example: My new clothes is almost the same prize as two of your old ones.
Surakarta is the same size as Pekalongan
My car is almost the same colour as yours.
Comparative Adjectives
Using suffix –er .It is used for one syllableadjectives .
Using suffix -erIt is used for two-syllablesadjectives , ended with ,-ow, -y, -er
Initiated with “more”It is used for two or moresyllables adjectives
HardFastNiceTallBigSmallWide
HarderFasterNicerTallerBiggerSmallerWider
CleverNarrowHeavyBusy
ClevererNarrowerHeavierbusier
InterestingExpensiveBeautifulWonderfulhandsome
More interestingMore expensiveMore beautifulMore wonderfulMore handsome
Superlative Adjectives
Pattern: the –est .It is used for one syllable adjectives
Initiated with “ the most”It is used for two or more syllables adjectives
ClearNiceFastHardquick
The clearestThe nicestThe fastestThe hardestThe quickest
InterestingExpensiveBeautifulWonderfulhandsome
The most interestingThe most expensiveThe most beautifulThe most wonderfulThe most handsome
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Mount Rushmore, in South Dakota, is a memorial to four great Americans. It has the largestfigures of any statue in the world. The head of George Washington is as high as a five-storybuilding. The other heads are Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.
The bold typed words are called “relating verbs”. Relating verbs involve states of being and
having. They are used to identify something (identifying) or to assign a quality to something
(attributive). Study these words.
Identifying Attributive
be
add up to
act as
become
be taken
call
contain
cause
comprise
define
equal
express
form
give
include
imply
indicate
mean
occupy
own
provide
resemble
realize
represent
stand for
spell
signify
symbolize
span
take up
be
appear
become
belong to
cost
concern
end up
feel
get
go
grow
has
hear
keep
look
last
need
require
remain
seem
see
smell
sound
stay
turn
turn out
weigh
Examples :
The date tree grows taller and taller
The Jakarta was built in 1700’s
The school yard looks clean
I smell something burning.
Activity 6
Fill in the blank with the suitable relating verbs from the box above.
1. My town _________ a big city now. It grew from a little village to a big city.
2. My little brother ____________taller and taller now.
3. The little boy scout __________tired. He walks in tottery
4. The rose flowers _________ fragrant
5. The orchids ____________ red and white.
6. The tape recorder __________ produced in 2005.
7. The tea ____________ bitter.
8. The old widow _________lonely
Activity 7
Fill in the blank spaces in the text with suitable relating verbs
The People of Nepal
Most people of Nepal (1) ________ farmers. They live in stone or timber houses with
thatched or slab roofing. They (2) _________ rice, which is their main crop, maize, barley, potatoes
and vegetables. Sheep (3) _______ their main source of meat. Cows are kept to produce milk.
Goats are also used for milk. Donkeys, mules, and dzose are used to carry goods. Nepal (4)
_________ an isolated country so hardly any modernizing has occurred. They (5) _______ few
facilities and mainly live on their intensive subsistence agriculture.
