Komodo Dragon

KOMODO DRAGON

Komodo

Do you know what is the largest lizard? This lizard is called komodo. It lives only in Komodo Island, Indonesia.  Komodo dragon is the world’s heaviest lizard, weighing 150 pounds or more. The largest Komodo ever measured was more than 10 feet (3 meters) long and weighed 366 pounds (166 kg) but the average size of komodo in the wild is about 8 feet (2.5 meters) long and 200 pounds (91 kg).

Komodo has gray scaly skin, a pointed snout, powerful limbs and a muscular tail. They use their keen sense of smell to locate decaying animal remains from several miles away. They also hunt other lizards as well as large mammals and are sometimes cannibalistic.

The Komodo dragon’s teeth are almost completely covered by its gums. When it feeds, the gums bleed, creating an ideal culture for virulent bacteria. The bacteria that live in the Komodo dragon’s saliva causes septicemia, or blood poisoning, in its victims. A dragon will bite its prey, then follow it until the animal is too weak to carry on. There are only an estimated 1000 to 5000 living today. This lizard species is threatened by hunting, loss of prey species and habitat loss.

Re-written from: http://understandingtext.blogspot.com/2009/10/contohexample-of-report-text-in-komodo.html

VOCABULARY

1. Lizard: kadal
2. Measure: mengukur
3. Average: rata-rata
4. Wild: liar
5. Gray: abu-abu
6. Keen: tajam
7. Gums: gusi
8. Culture: budaya
9. Bite: menggigit
10. Threatened: terancam

 
GRAMMAR FLASH !

Verbal and Nominal Sentence (present tense)

Verbal sentence is sentence where the predicate is verb.

Pattern:  S + Verb 1 + complement

For example: It    lives    in Komodo Island, Indonesia.

                   s    verb1                 complemet

Nominal sentence is a sentence that has predicate not a verb, but can be an adjective, noun or adverb.

Pattern: S + to be (am/is/are) + adjective/noun/adverb
For example: Komodo dragon    is      the world’s heaviest lizard

                            s           to be              adjective

WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO DO?

• List the new words that you find in the text, then write the meaning!

• Identify the verbal and nominal on the text!

• Make a conversation with your friends using verbal and nominal sentence! 

• Answer the question based on the text!

1.   What is the largest lizard in this world?

2.   How much weight of Komodo?

3.   How long the body of Komodo?

4.   What is the food of this lizard species?

5.   Why Komodo is threatened?

6.   What is the main idea of first paragraph?

7.   What is the main idea of second paragraph?

8.   What is the main idea of third paragraph?

9.   What is the kind of the text?

10. What is the purpose of the text?