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?