GAMBARAN UMUM ISI BACAAN

A. GAMBARAN UMUM
1. Ciri khas pertanyaan:
a. What is the text about ?
b. What does the text mostly tell you about ?
c. What does the above text tells you about ?
d. The text above tells you about ………

2. Petunjuk menentukan jawaban soal

Gambaran umum isi bacaan berbicara tentang suatu teks itu
membahas tentang apa atau topic teks.

Misal ada sebuah teks terdiri atas paragraph-paragraf dengan

bahan pembicaraan sebagai berikut:
Contoh 1
Par 1: bookcase
Par 2: chest
Par 3: table
Par 4: chair
Par 5: bed
Pertanyaan : What is the text about?
Jawaban : …….

Contoh 2
Par 1: angry
Par 2: sad
Par 3: nervous
Par 4: proud
Par 5: happy
Pertanyaan : What is the text about?
Jawaban : …….
 Contoh 3
Par 1 : knife
Par 2 : fork
Par 3 : spoon
Par 4 : plate
Par 5 : glass
Par 6 : chopsticks
Pertanyaan : What is the text about?
Jawaban : …….

Contoh 4
Par 1 : roof
Par 2 : house
Par 3 : wall
Par 4 : window
Par 5 : stairs
Par 6 : door
Pertanyaan : What is the text about?
Jawaban : ………….

3. Cek pemahaman anda

a. What does the following text tell you about?

The killer whale (also known as the orca) is not truly a whale. It
is the largest member of the dolphin family.

It is called a killer whale only because it has a huge appetite.

Killer whales eat up to 300 pounds (136 kilograms) of food in
just one day!

A killer whale can grow to be 32 feet (9.8 meters) long and

weigh more than 12.100 pounds (5.500 kilograms)
 b. Read the text and answer the question.

There are about 20,000 species, or kinds of bees. Bees live

everywhere in the world except on high mountains, in the Arctic
and Antarctic, and on some small islands in the ocean.

Some bees are as small as 0.08 inch (2 millimeters). Some bees

are as big as 1.6 inches (4 centimeters). Bees come in many
colors—black, gray, yellow, red, green, or blue. Most bees live
alone. They are called solitary bees. Some bees live in groups
called colonies. They are social bees.

Question:
What does the text mostly tell you about?

B. Latihan gambaran umum isi bacaan.

Read the texts and answer the questions given.

Text 1
What does the following text tell you about?

There are thousands of asteroids, and they come in all sizes. The

biggest asteroid ever found is called Ceres. Ceres is more than 600 miles
(1,000 kilometers) wide. Astronomers have found about 200 asteroids that
are more than 60 miles (100 kilometers) across. All the other asteroids are
much smaller. Some are only a few feet wide.
Astronomers wonder if once there were just a few big asteroids.
The big asteroids may have crashed into each other. The crashes would
have broken them into smaller pieces, making all the asteroids we see
today.
Some asteroids are round. Some asteroids are long and bumpy.
Some asteroids even have tiny moons going around them.

Text 2
What does the following text tell you about?

It is 150 million kilometers away and the big “star” among the celestial
bodies - our sun.

Unlike the Earth and the other planets, the Sun generates energy within
itself and thus shines with its own light, making it the only genuine star in
our solar system.

The surface temperature of the Sun – 5500 0C – would be inconceivably

destructive on Earth, but life here would be impossible without the light
and heat the sun exudes. But this abundance of energy can also play
havoc with day-to-day life on Earth: sun storms can tie up air traffic and
cause power supplies to break down.

Text 3
What does the following text tell you about?

Killer bees are across between African honey bees and

European honey bees, the main kind of honey bee in the United
States. Researchers brought African bees to South America.
The bees escaped in the 1970s and mated with European
honey bees. The killer bees they produced will attack in
swarms. They will sting and kill large animals and people.

Killer bees spread north into Central America and the southern

United States. Beekeepers worry that the killer bees could harm
their honey bees and threaten the important work that honey
bees do.

What is the text about?

Text 4
What does the following text tell you about?

This is Cassa. He is the male chimpanzee that tended quiet and

loner. Cassa could be recognized by seeing the color of his
silvery hair, slender body and non symmetrical mouth.

This one is Campo, a female chimpanzee. She is the wife of

Cassa and mother of Monica. Campo is friendly enough with
humankind. Don’t extend the hands to Campo because she will
extend her hands too. That means she is asking for food.
Campo could be recognized from her thin arms hair, with the
scar on left ears under the left eyes and nostrils.

As the day increases the two of them will not easily be found
because they hide on the tamarind tree. Try to find them
beyond the tree.

Text 5
What does the text tell you about?

Adult jellyfish are shaped like an open umbrella or a bell.

Tentacles dangle down from the edges of a jellyfish’s body. At
the center of a jellyfish’s body, where it is widest, is the mouth.
The ends of the tentacles have stinging cells on them, which
jellyfish use to paralyze and catch their prey. The sting from a
jellyfish can be very painful. Some jellyfish, such as the sea
wasp, have powerful enough stings to kill people.

(Jellyfish’s bell-shaped bodies)