DESKRIPSI MATERI

PERTEMUAN 10:WAR AND PEACE

ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES

MATA KULIAH :BAHASA INGGRIS 1

A.INTRODUCTION

War and peace is design to help the students at this level to improve their vocabularies, understanding

about English Law and they will know certain terms about war and peace in English . The students will study how

to improve the vocabularies about the law, war, peace, people and places. The students are supposed to do

some exercises which based on the reading comprehension, put the story into the correct order, fill the gap with

the suitable words and read short story, then write down the respond to the question based on the student's

knowledge of the law in our country. The material is reading comprehension, it is about the outbreak (start of

war),a war zone, peace talk, and terrorism.

The need oriented aspects of the process of learning taken from the situation in the country.
The cultural context of Indonesia enhance oral communication because the use of the language is

forced by situation and within the Indonesian environment.

Law students can express their idea more freely when the current issues are discussed about
the law or other related topics than theme whichare out of their scope. The students can participate
more actively in some discussions in the learning process such as: some current issues in the country,
the war, peace talk terrorism or any other current issues will be discussed in the classroom. The current
issues which have been discussed will increase the students' initiative, creativity and analytical
capability
B.THE AIMS OF THE LECTURER
The aims of the materials are hoped to make the students understand about vocabularies that connect to

the war, peace and terrorism. The use of vocabularies in reading comprehension is intended to improve their

understanding about Law and order in reading comprehension. Reading comprehension will be shown to make

the students skimming and scanning the material and they will understand the use of certain vocabularies about

the law. The students will be instructed to make the sentence or simple sentence on the screen. After the learning

process the students are hoped to be able to:

To write and to answer the question which based on the reading comprehension about war and
peace.
To improve their vocabularies about war, peace people and places
To fill the gaps with the suitable word

C.MATERIAL DESCRIPTION

A.THE OUTBREAK (=START) OF WAR

Wars often start because of a conflict ( strong disagreement ) between countries or groups of people,
about territorry = land that belongs to one group or country. Look at the diagram below

Country A invades contry B (= A enters B by force and in a large numbers ) and capture ( also
takes/takes control of the city X. Soldiers from country B have to retreat = go backward:≠ to advance to
the city. A's army and air force continue to attack the city of Y=take violent action to damage it, but B's
soldier defend it = take action to protect it) successfully.

B.A WAR ZONE

The area around the city of Y is now the main war zone = the area where the fighting is
happening. Country B has asked for help from its allies = country who are friends with country
B.The allies send aids = help in the form of extra troops (= large groups of soldiers ) and
supplies (= food and other things that are needed every day, e.g. blankets and medicine) to help.
There is shelling (= firing of guns and explosives) of the city every day and hundreds of soldiers
are either killed or wounded (= injured while fighting). Many civilians (= ordinary people who
are not in the army) are killed as well as

C.PEACE TALKS

For the civillians who are still a live ≠ dead, the sitution gets worse. As winter approaches, food
supplies run out (= they are almost gone / finished ) and there is no electricity. The soldier get tired,
and both sides begin to see that neither side can win the war: they agree to meet for peace talks (=
talks to try negotiate a peace settlement / an end to the war. After some time they agree to casefire (=
a period of no fighting).

D.TERRORISM

This is violent action for political reasons. People who do this are terrorists and a common
terrorist crime is hijacking (= to take control of a bus, train, ship or plane; the people on the
board the become prisoners. The main purpose of hijacking is to use the prisoner(called
hostages ) The terrorists may agree to release the hostage (= permit the hostage to go free) if a
government agrees to give the terrorists money or release other terrorists.
EXERCISES 1

Directions : Match the word on the left with the correct definition on the right

1.Allay
2.Release
a. land controlled by a country
3.Conflict
b.stop fighting
4.Troops
c.permit to go free
5.Invade
d.injure while fighting
6.Wound
e. large groups of soldiers
7.Territory
f.friendly country
8. Casefire
g.strong disagreement
h. enter another country by force and in a large
number

EXERCISE 2
Directions:Use opposites to contradict what the speaker says in the sentence below.
Look at the example first/ gunakan lawan kata
Example:
A:Is the soldier dead?
B:No,he is still alive

1.A:Will they agree to a casefire

B:No,they will

2. A: Do you think the army will try to advance when the weather improves?
B:No,I think

3. A:D o the people still have lots of food? B:No,they are beginning to

4. A:Is the town mostly full of soldiers? B:No,they are

 5.A:Do you think they will keep the hostages for a long time?
B:No,I'm sure they will

EXERCISES 3
When we repeat an idea in a text we often try to avoid using the same
word twice. Read this text and find examples of words being used as
synonyms for previous ideas. The firs one has been done for you
(food and medicine = supplies)

There is a desperate need for food and medicine, but with town surrounded, the lorries
are unable to bring in essential supplies. We have seen ordinary people in the street
giving some of their migrations of food to the soldier who are defending them, but very
soon the troops will be just as hungry as the civilians if the situation get any worse.
Meanwhile, the center of the town is being slowly destroyed. There is almost
daily shelling ofthe buildings that still stand, and this morning we witnessed gunmen
firing al almost anyone who dared to go out into the streets, one old women was hit in
the leg and we saw at least two others who were quite badly wounded as well.
Aid agencies have appealed to the soldiers to allow them to enter the town, but
so far the general in command has even refused to let anyone in, including doctors and
nurses. Many fear it is now only a matter of days before the town is captured, and if
this happens, the army could take control of the whole region within weeks.
1. Food and medicine =supplies
2.

3.
EXERCISES 4
Directions:
Can you answer these questions with two reasons for each one ?If possible
discuss your answers with someone else.

1. Why do the terrorist take hostages?

2. Why do some governments always refuse to agree to terrorist demand?
3.What does terrorist mean?

References

1. The Jakarta post, 2015 PM EDT

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5. Yayan Mulyana, A practical English for Public Speaking, 1st Edition,2000,Kesaint Blanc
6. English vocabulary in use, pre-intermediate and intermediate