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Exercise 1

Read the text below and answer the questions!

A Day Visit to Yogyakarta

Last week, I went to Yogyakarta with my family. My father drove the car. My mother sat beside
him. My sister and I sat in the back seats.

We woke up early in the morning. My father prepared the car in the garage while mother was
preparing food for breakfast and some snacks for us. My sister and I packed some clothes. After
everything got ready and we had our breakfast, we left the house at six o'clock.

It was about nine A.M. We arrived at Yogyakarta. First of all we visited our uncle. We stayed
there for an hour. Then we went to Parangtritis beach. We got there at eleven o'clock. There were
a lot of tourists because it was holiday. I saw many foreign visitors too. My parents watched us
playing with sand in the beach. We did not swim and take a bath since the wave was rough. After
having lunch, we went on our picnic to the museum and Malioboro shopping centre.

We drove back to Semarang at 7 o'clock and arrived home at ten. We were tired but happy.

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Guiding quetions
1. When did the event happen?
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2. Who are the characters in the story?
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3. Could you mention adverbial of time, at least three adverbial of time in the story?
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 4. Could you mention the verbs, at least five verbs in the story?
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5. What can you conclude from the verbs used in the story?
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Exercise 2

Read the text below and answer the questions!

Wonderful Adventures in My life

I remembered the time when I was in Elementary School. That time was happy time to me. It
was because in Elementary school, I did many activities which were very enjoying. For the
example, in holiday, I and my family went to central java. There, I could meet my other families
like grandmothers, grand fathers, cousins, and many others.

Besides I could meet my other families, I also could visit traditional house there for the example
I visited Keraton Yogyakarta. In that Keraton, I saw many instruments from central java like
flute, tambourine, drum, gung, and other music instruments. I also saw many pictures of the
leader from the first until the new one. From those pictures gave knowledge for me about who
people that ever led Keraton Yogyakarta.

Then, when I visited Keraton Yogyakarta, I also saw many tourists who visited that place. One
of them was from England and she introduced herself to me. Her name was Angela. She was
beautiful by having blond hair, and she had blue eyes. We gave our phone number each other. I
got a new friend.

After visiting that Keraton, I and my family backed to my grandma’s house. Then, I and my
family at evening continued to visit Bringharjo market. Bringharjo market was a traditional
market which was every famous in central java. The first impression when I looked that market.
It was so beautiful, even though it was very crowded. In that market, I walked together with my
family. I saw many people who offered their goods. For the example they offered to the visitors
liked clothes, pants, sandals, shoes, bags, skirts and others. Then one thing that made me
interested in seeing their goods that everything in batik motif and in the cheap price. Then I and
my family chose to buy clothes, bags, in batik motif. Besides those things were for me and my
family themselves, they were also given for my neighbors in village. Then, after that, I and my
family chose to go my grandma’s house, because it was over night. I and my family decided to
take rest first, before continuing the adventure the next day in Jati Jajar cave.

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Guiding questions
1. When did the event happen?
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2. Who are the characters in the story?
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3. Mention the conjuctions that you find in the story?
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4. How does the story end?
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5. Find seven verb 2 and find the verb 1!
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Exercise 3
Please make an personal recount text based on your memorable moment in your
life!