NAME : GILANG DARMAWAN

CLASS : XII SOCIAL 3

ABSENT : 12

DISCUSSION TEXT

TEXT 1
The impact of globalization visibly and largely affects the politics and the economy of the
country but its effect on the mindset and the culture is noticeable gradually in the way
people think and react. Some of these good and bad points of this worldwide
phenomenon are obvious fromn some points. People favoring globalization state that there is a
worldwide market for the companies and for the customers there is a better access to

products from different countries. Also, politics is merging and decisions that are being taken are
actually beneficial to people all over the world. Cultural intermingling increases and every nation
tries to knorv lnore about the other nations’ cultural preferences. In this process. we are actually
coming across things that lve like and in the course of time adopt it. However, there are also
opponents of globalization. There is immense pressure on the employed people of developed
countries who are always under the threat of their jobs being outsourced. Globalization may lead
to loss of cultural identitv as rvestern ideas are alr.vays imposed upon the eastern thoughts.
Depend on the texts, please find out :
1. What is the topic of the passage?
“ globalization’’

2. What is the suitable title of the text?

”The impact of globalization’’

3. What’s the author main idea on paragraph 2?

“Politics is merging and decisions that are being taken are actually beneficial to people all
over the world.”

4. What is the purpose of the passage?

“To give infromation about The impact of globalization”

5. It can be concluded that …

“Globalization affects the politics and economy of a country there are several positive
and negative points, not only politics and economy, culture in a country can be affected
by globalization and can result in the loss of cultural identity”
6. How could it happen?
“because of the exchange of world views, products, thoughts, and other cultural aspects”
TEXT 2
The Graduation Standard
The implementation of the nerv graduation standard for High-School Students has evoked
people to bring different responses. Some people’s ideas are for some others againts the
rule.
Some people agree with the rule because it indicates students’ mastery of the whole material
or the competence they have ntanaged to have over the past three years. The result of the final
exam is also significant for students’ future study in the higher level.

In addition, we are far left behind by our neighboring countries that have implemented a higher
graduation gracle standarcl. If the standard is omitted. then student will get left behind even
furlher by those students fiom neighboring cottntries students.

However, some other people believe that imposing a high standard will not be etfective. The
results of the exams have proven to be unreliable. How can you asses the students’ competence
only in a couple of days. A smart student for example, may get a low grade just because he is
sick during the exam. On the other hand, an idle student may achieve the standard due to luck.
There should then be an alternative way to the national exam.

Despite working on different points of view, the government’ this matter in the hope of getting a
better s relating party are intenselY solution upon improving the Hish-School raduates’qualite.

1. What is the topic of the passage?

“Graduation”

2. What is the suitable title of the text?

“The Graduation Standard’’

3. What’s the author main idea on paragraph 2?

Some people agree with the rule because it indicates students’ mastery of the whole
material

4. What is the purpose of the passage?

“To present arguments from different point of view about the graduation standard”

5. It can be concluded that …

“Graduation standard can be good for indicates student mastery of the material they learn
and in the other hand graduation standard cannot be effective because students can get
lucky on their test and not mastering the material they learn at all”

6. How could it happen?

“Because of the implementation of The Graduation Standard regulations”
TEXT 3
There are a lot of discussions as to whether children should be given homework or not.
Some people claim that children do enough work in school already. They also argue that children
have hobbies that they want to do after school, such, as sports or music. A further point they
make is that a lot of homework is pointless and doesn’t help the child learn at all.

However, there are also strong arguments against this point of view. Parents and teachers argue
that it is important to find out whether children can work on their own

without the support from the teacher. They say that the evening is a good time for children to sit
down and think about what they have learned in school. Furthermore they claim that the school
day is too short to get anything done that needs doing and it makes sense to send home tasks like
independent reading or further writing tasks that don’t need teacher’s support.

On balance, I think that some homework is a good idea but that it should only given at the
weekend when children have more time.

Depend on the texts, please find out :

1. What is the topic of the passage?
‘’ homework’’

2. What is the suitable title of the text?

“given homework or not”

3. What’s the author main idea on paragraph 2?

“Parents and teachers argue that it is important to find out whether children can work on
their own”

4. What is the purpose of the passage?

“to present arguments from different point of view about children should be given
homework or not”

5. It can be concluded that …

“It can be concluded that some homework is a good idea but that it should only given at
the weekend when children have more time".

6. How could it happen?

“Homework can exist because parents and teachers try to determine whether the child can
do the task by himself”