A.

When I was teenager, it was a sweet memory that I can never forget. I realize it when I was
in Junior High School. I moved to town because there was no Junior High School in my village.
There I met new friends from various places/ we had many differences background, but had the
same feeling being new students.
After introducing one another, we exchanged our experiences about what we had been
through in our hometown. I told them that I used to ride a buffalo while playing a flute in the
farmland. They were surprised to know that I was the son of a a farmer.
One of a student told that he was happy to go to a favorite school in town, but felt sad to
leave his friends. The other felt so, but had difficulty to go there because there was no
transportation. He was always picked by his father.
I , myself had an unforgettable experience that I never told to my friends in the beginning of
the study. The first time I came in my classroom, I was so afraid to be a city student that I
couldn’t help sweating all day.

1. Look the underlined words then translate in Indonesian language and find the synonyms!
- Teenager = remaja, pemuda (youth,young man, youngster, fellow)
- Realize = menyadari, sadar, memahami (be aware, appreciate, wise up,
recognize)
- Various = berbagai, beberapa aneka (sundry, some, several, few, different)
- Exchanged = ditukar, bertukar, menukar, menukarkan (switch, trade, change,
change over, swap, replace)
- Hometown = kampung halaman, kota kediaman (origin, birthplace, mother
country, the old country, homeland, fatherland, roots, state of origin)
- Picked = dijemput (gather, hoist, take up, elevate, rear, grasp, uplift)
- Unforgettable = tidak terlupakan (impossible to forget, indelible, never to be
forgotten)
- Sweating = berkeringat (perspire, swelter, be sweaty)
2. What we have done after introducing ourselves!
After introducing, share some relevant information about ourselves, and then tell
more about yourselve, and finally we can give the “conversation ball” back to other
person. A simple question like “what about you, what do you do?”

B.
Children love cartoons, and they can sit for hours watching them. For this reason, Sunday
morning television offers cartoons program another. However, given the age of the viewing
audience, these programs communicate a disturbing message, they suggest that the world is one big
battlefield with war face which is the primary activity of humans and aliens a like. In cartoon after

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cartoon, animated character shoots, boom and blow one another up. The message is that war face is
fun, without any serious or damaging effects. And that message is further reinforced by the
commercials interruptions which are designed to sell everything from play thanks to toy grenades.

1. Find the main idea of paragraph above?

The main idea oh the paragraph is The Children love cartoons, and they can sit for
hours watching them
2. Explain the definition of main idea and supporting idea?
 The main idea of paragraph is the author’s massage about the topic. It is often
expressed directly or it can be implied
 A paragraph cantain facts, statements, examples-specifics which gude us to a full
understanding of the main idea

3. Who are love cartoons very much?

Who love cartoons very much is The Children
4. How many times do they can sit for watching television?
They can sit for hours watching them

C.
The princess Who Loved to Sing

Princess Isabel loved to sing very much. She sang anytime and anywhere. When she was
singing, everyone must be quiet. If not, she would punish them.
One day an old beggar asked her some money while she was singing. Princess Isabel was
very angry, but the beggar was angry too. The old beggar was actually a witch. She cursed
Isabel, “From now on, you cannot sing!”
Fortunately, there was a fairy. She was a good one. She said, “You can sing again after you
do a good thing to someone else.”
From then on, Isabel was always good to everybody. She wanted her voice back. However, it
never came back. So, she traveled from one city to another to do good things.
One day, when she took a rest in a forest after her long journey, she saw a thin little boy. The
boy was hungry. Without thinking of herself, Isabel gave her only sandwich. Suddenly, she sang.
The beautiful voice was back.
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 Say whether each of the following statament is True (T) or False (F)
1. At first Isabel was a selfish girl T F
2. The old beggar asked for some food T F

D.
BATIK
Indonesia is very famous for its batik. Everywhere you go, you see people wearing batik
shirts and dresses. Indonesia also likes to use it for table-clothes and curtains. Batik has many uses
in several occasions in Indonesia.
A man uses batik for different reason in Eddy Subagio. Eddy is a famous batik artist from
Palembang. Today he lives in Yogyakarta. People from all over the world come to see and buy
Eddy’s batik paintings. American peoples like his paintings very much. They say that they cannot
find such a good batik painting anywhere in America.
Eddy expresses the cultures of Indonesia on his paintings. He describes the life of
countryside. When he paints, he remembers the blue sky and the sun decorating such beautiful
scenery. Eddy expresses the scenery with birds and people.

1. What is Eddy Subagio?

a famous batik artist from Palembang
2. Where does he express the kind of Indonesian culture?
Eddy expresses the cultures of Indonesia on his paintings
3. Where is he from?
He is from Palembang and today he lives in Yogyakarta
4. Why do American people like his batik’s painting?
Because they say that they cannot find such a good batik painting anywhere in America.
And also because Eddy expresses the cultures of Indonesia on his paintings. He describes
the life of countryside. When he paints, he remembers the blue sky and the sun decorating
such beautiful scenery. Eddy expresses the scenery with birds and people. Thats make his
batik’s paintings unique.

B. Sentence Study
1. I wondered if I should sacrifice boots and clothes and try to swim ashore, but decided not to.
How the boy decided to swim?
He should sacrifice his boots and clothes to swim
2. Minah was thirty years old. She was the middle aged women, one who had borne six children and
buried three.
How many children are alive?
There are 3 (three) children are still alive
3. I fired once into the white under part of the plane and was aware of another gun going into action
near me.
Who are shot the plane?
Who shot the plane was me (The Writer)

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C. Main Idea and Supporting Idea
1. Find the main idea and supporting idea in the paragraph below:

Two weeks ago, the most modern trade center in Jambi was damaged by fire. The fire took place at
the time when a lot of people were there. Even though the fire brigade had worked to extinguish the
fire, still there were a lot of victims. There were 140 peoples injured and 40 of them were still
hospitalized and 42 peoples passed away. The police worked hard to investigate the cause of the
fire.

Yellow = main idea

Blue = supporting idea