Toba Lake

Toba Lake

 

Sahala

               Once upon the time in Batak land lived a fisherman named Bhatara Guru Sahala. As a tough fisherman, he went out fishing every morning. One day, he caught an unusual fish in his old fishing net. It was unusual fish as the fish could talk. He was very suprised to find out that the fish could talk like human. To his more suprise, the fish asked him to set it free back to river. He could do nothing except to agree, and soon he set it free back to river.

                To his another surprising as soon as he set the fish free back to the river, it changed into a beatiful woman. She was with long black hair and big round eyes. He finally feel in love with her, and asked her to marry him. He promised to be faithful and would take care of her day and night. The woman agreed to marry him but Sahala could keep a promise not to let anyone know that she was once a fish. Sahala agreed and promised to do that. Then, they got married, lived happily and had a daughter.

     Few years later, this daughter would help bringing lunch to her father out in the fields. One day, his daughter was so hungry and she ate his father’s lunch. Unfortunately, he found out and got furious, and shouted; “You damned daughter of a fish”. The daughter ran home and asked her mother. The mother started crying, felt sad that her husband had broke his promise.
Then she told her daughter to run up the hills because a huge disaster was about to come. When her daughter left, she prayed. Soon there was a big earthquake followed by non-stop pouring rain. The whole area got flooded and became Toba Lake. She turned into a fish again and the man became the island of Samosir.

Re-written from: http://understandingtext.blogspot.com/2011/03/contoh-example-of-narrative-text-story.html

VOCABULARIES

1.      Fisherman: nelayan

2.      Fishing: memancing

3.      Unusual: tidak biasa

4.      Agree: setuju

5.      Change: berubah

6.      Ask: meminta

7.      Promise: janji

8.      Daughter: putri

9.      Disaster: bencana

10.    Lake: danau

GRAMMAR FLASH !

 Regular and Irregular Verb

Regular verb is a verb that we have to add ‘d’ or ‘ed’ when turned into Verb-2 and Verb-3.

Example:

Verb-1	Verb-2	Verb-3
help	helped	helped
open	opened	opened

Irregular verb is verb that we change all of the verb when turned into Verb-2 and Verb-3.

            Example:

Verb-1	Verb-2	Verb-3
take	took	taken
give	gave	given

WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO DO?

• List the new words that you find in the text, then write the meaning!
• With your friends,  make a drama about the story above!
• Find the regular and irregular verbs on the text above!
• Answer the question based on the text!

1.      Where is the story come from?

2.      How many characters at the story?

3.      What did Batara Guru Sahala get when fishing?

4.      Why Batara Guru Sahala was suprised?

5.      When did the fish change to be beautiful woman?

6.      What did the woman agree to marry with Batara Guru Sahala?

7.      What is happen to Batara Guru Sahala in the end of story?

8.      What is the moral value based on the text?

9.      What is kind of the story?

10.    What is the purpose of the story?

Kangaroo

Kangaroo

Kangaroo

A kangaroo is an animal found only in Australia, although it has a smaller relative, called a wallaby, which lives on the Australian island of Tasmania and also in New Guinea.

Kangaroos eat grass and plants. They have short front legs, but very long, and very strong back legs and a tail. These are used for sitting up and for jumping. Kangaroos have been known to make forward jumps of over eight metres, and leap across fences more than three metres high. They can also run at speeds of over 45 kilometres per hour.

The largest kangaroos are the Great Grey Kangaroo and the Red Kangaroo. Adult grow to a length of 1.60 metres and weigh over 90 kilos.

Kangaroos are marsupials. This means that the female kangaroo has an external pouch on the front of her body. A baby kangaroo is very tiny when it is born, and it crawls at once into this pouch where it spends its first five months of life

Source : http://www.belajarbahasainggris.us/2012/03/5-contoh-report-text.html

VOCABULARIES

1.       Relative : ukuran, relatif

2.       Tail : ekor

3.       Forward : maju

4.       Leap : melompat

5.       Fence : pagar

6.       Speed : kecepatan

7.       Marsupial : binatang berkantung

8.       Pouch : kantung

9.       Tiny : kecil

10.     Crawl : merayap

GRAMMAR FLASH !

Comperative Degrees

      1.     Positive degree (as...as)

            This kind of comparison compares two equal things.

            Example: Kangaroo is as similar as Wallaby from Papua.

     2.      Comperative degree (...-er than; more ... than)

            This kind of comparison tells the difference between two things.

            Example: Kangaroo’s front legs is shorter than back legs 

3.      Superlative degree (...est; most...) 
            This kind of comparison tells the difference between three things or more.

   Example: The largest kangaroos is the Great Grey Kangaroo.

Note:

            Using ...-er and ...est is for adjective of one-syllable words

Example:

Positive degree	Comperative degree	Superlative degree
small	smaller	smallest
big	bigger	biggest

            Using more.. than and most... is for adjective of two or more syllables words

            Example:

Positive degree	Comperative degree	Superlative degree
expensive	more expensive	most expensive
difficult	more difficult	most difficult

WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO DO?

• List the new words that you find in the text, then write the meaning!
• Find the adjective word on the text above, than make it into comperative degrees!
• Answer the question based on the text!

1.    What the text  is talking about?

2.    A similar animal with kangaroo is..

3.    What is the kangaroo’s food?

4.    The largest kangaroo is...

5.    What is the fuction of kangaroo’s pouch?

6.    Kangaroo is a special animal from..

7.    Main idea of the third paragraph is...

8.    These (underline word) at the second paragraph means..

9.    What is the synonym of the largest?

10.  What is the antonym of female?

R.A. Kartini

R.A. Kartini

R. A. Kartini

Every 21 April,  people in Indonesia commemorate the Kartini Day. It is beautiful day for the woman because we celebrate the birth of great lady R.A. Kartini. Everyone knows who Kartini is. She is our national heroine and a great lady with the bright idea.

Kartini was born on 21 April 1879  in Mayong, Jepara. Her father’s name was Rama Sosroningrat Wedana (assistant of head of regency) in Mayong. Her mother, Ma Ngasirah was a girl from Teluk Awur village in Jepara. As the daughter of a noble family, she felt luck because she got more than the ordinary people got. She got better education than other children. On 12 November 1903, she married with Adipati Djoyodiningrat, he is the head of Rembang regency. According to Javanese tradition, Kartini had to follow her husband. Then she moved to Rembang.

On 13 September 1904, she gave a birth to her son. His name was Singgih but after giving birth to a son, her condition was getting worse and she finally passed away on 17 September 1904 on her 25 years old.

Now, Kartini has gone but her spirit and dream will always be in our heart. Nowadays, Indonesian women progress is influenced by kartini's spirit stated on collection of letter “Habis Gelap Terbitlah Terang”.

Source: http://www.belajarbahasainggris.us/2012/02/contoh-teks-recount-ra-kartini.html

VOCABULARIES

1.       Commemorate : merayakan

2.       Celebrate : memperingati

3.       Heroine : pahlawan wanita

4.       Noble : mulia

5.       Luck : beruntung

6.       Ordinary : biasa

7.       Birth : melahirkan

8.       Worse : memburuk

9.       Passed away : meninggal

10.     Progress : kemajuan

 

GRAMMAR FLASH !

Recount Text

- Using recount text to tell to the reader what happen in the past time.

- The characteristic of this text are:

• Use nouns and pronouns as a personal pronoun
• Use adjectives to describe nouns
• Use conjunction and time connectives to sort the events
• Use simple past tense

- The structure of this text are:

• Orientation : introducing
• Events : the events that presented in chronological order
• Re-orientation : the summary of events

WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO DO?

• List the new words that you find in the text, then write the meaning!
• Make a conversation with your friends about R. A. Kartini!
• Answer the question based on the text!

1.       The topic of the text is..

2.       What happened on 21 April 1879?

3.       When did R. A kartini move to Rembang?

4.       The name of Kartini’ son is...

5.       How old was R. A. Kartini when she passed away?

6.       What is the writer’s purpose to the reader by this text?

7.       The main idea of the last paragraph is...

8.       The main idea of the last paragraph is...

9.       What is the synonym of lady?

10.     What is the antonym of commemorate?