Tugas 1 M2 LA2
1. Complete these sentences about the different stages of a recount. Use the words in the box.
happened reason time when events who
a) The orientation stage of a recount orients the reader to the events in the story. It tells the reader the story is about, where it happened and when the event occurred.
b) In the record of events stage, the writer retells the events in a logical time sequence so that the reader can follow them easily.
c) In the reorientation stage, the writer rounds off the story and brings the reader back to the reason why the story is being told.
2. Read again the text entitled ‘Fishing’ above. How many events are there mentioned in the text? List them from the first to the last events.
Events | Fishing |
Record of Events | (1) I woke up earlier in the morning, and then I went to the marketplace to buy some shrimps I would use for the fishing bait. (2) After that, I went to the lake to start fishing. (3) At the lake, I looked for the best point to fish. I went to the place under a big tree at the bank of the lake. I threw my hook as far as I could, and then I waited for the fish eating my bait. (4) After about a thirty-minute waiting, I felt that a fish ate my bait, and it was true. I got a big fish. It was the first big enough fish I got in fishing. I got ten big fish and three small fish that day. I was very happy. (5) I would cook those fish at home and then I would call my friends to come to my house. We would have a small party. (6) But I was not lucky enough because on the way home, I met a beggar. He was an old poor beggar. I gave all of my fish to him and I wish he would be happy getting those fish. Perhaps, he could sell them at the market and got some money to buy some food. |
a. Who firstly made a balloon?
The Montgolfier brothers firstly did.
b. When did people fly freely by balloon for the first time? And where?
The first free balloon flight was in December, 1783. The balloon flew for 25 minutes over Paris.
c. What does ‘it’ in paragraph 1 refer to?
It refers to the first air transportation.
d. There are two words ‘they’ in paragraph 1? Do they refer to the same thing?
They refers to the same thing, that is Balloon.
e. How was the first balloon developed?
The first balloon was filled a very large paper bag with hot air. Hot air is lighter than cold air, so it goes up.
f. What does ‘Flying a balloon is not like flying a plane’ mean in paragraph 4?
It means that the balloon has no engine and therefore no power of its own. The wind directs the balloon. It goes where the wind blows although Balloon also needs pilot to control it. But, flying plane is different. The plane has many complicated feature. The plane needs run way to take off or to land but the plane is easier to control by people than balloon.
g. Why didn’t people gradually like anymore to fly by balloon?
They didn’t like to fly by balloon anymore because planes were much faster and easier to control.
h. Why do some people still like to fly by balloon today?
Because when they high up in the balloon basket, they find quiet. They have a wonderful view of the world below.
i. Why didn’t people stop flying by balloon although it was dangerous at the early days?
Because ballooning was exciting while there was no the air transportation like jet aircraft.
j. Summarize the text by making its outline.
· The first kind of air transportation was a balloon.
· The first real balloon flight was in France in 1783 made by two Frenchmen, the Montgolfier brothers
· Ballon was built by a fire under the balloon to make the air hot.
· The first free balloon flight was in December, 1783.
· Balloonists tried longer flights of ballooning was the first long flight over water.
· During the nineteenth century, ballooning became a popular sport.
4. Read each paragraph. Working in pairs, decide on the best topic. Be sure your topic is not too general or too specific. Write the topic below the paragraph.
a. Galileo Galilei was one of the first modern scientists. He was born in Pisa, Italy, 1564. At first, he studied philosophy, but later he studied mathematics and astronomy. He was interested in the way the earth and other planets move around the sun. He found out several important facts about our world. He also started a new way of working in science. Before Galileo, scientists did not do experiments. They just guessed about how something happened. Galileo was different. He did not just make guesses. He did experiments and watched to see what happened.
Topic: Galileo’s interest in science.
b. Galileo is famous for his study of how things fall. He was the first person to do experiments about this problem. Before, people thought that heavy things always fell faster than light things. He found out that this was not true. He took a heavy ball and a light ball and he dropped them both from a high place. They fell at the same speed. This meant that weight is not important. This is the law off falling bodies. It is an important law for understanding our world.
Topic: The thing made Galileo famous
c. The life of a scientist was not always easy in the 1500s. For example, Galileo got into trouble because of his scientific ideas. His ideas were not the same as the religious ideas at the time. Many religious people did not agree with him. During his whole life he had to worry about this. He even went to prison for a while. But no one could stop him from thinking. He continued to look for scientific answers to his questions about the world.
Topic: Galileo got into trouble because of his scientific ideas
5. Read this personal spoken recount by Tom Bass, a famous Australian sculptor. The recount tells us about a particular incident when Tom discovered his talent for carving. On the left, mark the stage of orientation, record of events, and reorientation.
Orientation | When I was 16 – that’d be in 1932 – my family lived in St Peters and it was a very slummy part of St Peters and it was right in the very heart of the Depression and I’d realized I was an artist when I was 8 years old. |
Record of events | … one day my younger brother who was six or seven years younger than me who used to play on the rubbish tip of the local foundry just down at the end of the street came home with two pieces of what looked like stone. It turned out that … that what he’d brought home was core-sand … that’s what they cast metal into and the way they used to do it in those days – I don’t know if they do it now – but they used to mix the sand with linseed oil and that would hold it together and then the heat of the metal would fuse it all together … and it was dark and a beautiful color and you know to all intents and purposes it looked like stone and I had an impulse to try carving this because I’d been trying to do things of all kinds but mainly drawing and things like that and we only had an old hammer with broken handle and a funny old screwdriver and you know I started with these … and I found myself having this amazing experience and actually discovering I could carve. |
reorientation | It just happened in that way. |
6. In this recount, Tom has added another stage of explanation to the basic pattern. Use a highlighter pen to mark this stage. Why do you think Tom added this stage to the basic pattern?
He added because . 7. Reread the orientation to Tom’s recount and write the words which tell you where and when the incident happened.
a. When : In 1932, when Tom was 8 years old.
b. Where : In St Peters
8. Number these events in Tom’s recount in the correct order:
a funny old screwdriver.
9. The stages of this written recount are not in the correct order. Number the stages, and discuss why the order should be in that way. Mark the orientation, record of events, and reorientation of the recount text.
Thomas and the Gorillas
Orientation | It was a hot summer day in Chicago. The Kemper family decided it was a good day to go to the Brookfield Zoo. Janet and Kevin Kemper had two children: Thomas, 3, and Sally, 6 months. Thomas loved going to the zoo. He liked watching all the animals, but he especially loved the gorillas. |
Record of events | The Kempers went straight to the gorilla exhibit. There were six adult gorillas and a three-month-old baby gorilla. In the Brookfield Zoo, the animals are not in cages. They are in large areas dug out of the ground. These areas have fences around them so the animals cannot get out and people cannot fall in. But three-year-old boys are good climbers. While the Kempers were watching the gorillas, little Sally started to cry. Kevin took her from Janet, and Janet looked in her bag for a bottle of juice. In those few seconds, Thomas climbed up the fence. A woman saw him and shouted, “Stop him!” A tall man reached up to get him, but it was too late. Thomas fell down the other side of the fence. He fell 18 feet onto the hard concrete floor. He lay very still, with blood on his head. Janet and Kevin shouted for help. People crowded around the fence, and someone ran to get a zoo worker. But before the zoo worker arrived, a gorilla went over to Thomas. It was Binti Jua, an eight-year-old mother gorilla. She had her baby gorilla on her back. With one “arm” she picked up the little boy. She carried him carefully over to a door, walking on three legs. There she put Thomas down so a zoo worker could get him. |
Reorientation | Janet and Kevin ran to the door, too. Thomas was badly hurt and had to go to the hospital, but after a few days he was better. The story was on the evening news in Chicago. Some people cheered and others cried when they heard it. But many of them thought about that mother gorilla and asked themselves, “What is she doing in a zoo? What is the difference between a gorilla and me?” |
ASSIGNMENT M2 LA2
1. Establish a personal recount plan involving your experience as a school teacher.
Being a teacher was my dream when I was a kid. Teacher is a figure that also affects my career development at this time. I am .............................. as an English teacher in .......................................... I have been teaching here since 2010.
In my profession, I have encountered many things, both joy and sorrow. What I found very impressive is when I guided my students who had limited comprehension in learning English.
First, I was a little annoyed with some of my students because they were not interested in learning English at all. They ignored it by sleeping often while studying; not completing a given assignment, sometimes was not attending classes. However, I always thought positively to them. I supposed that they were not interested in learning, but they had not felt comfortable with their learning styles.
I also consulted the principal for their behavior. The principal suggested that they had to be given special learning outside the classroom. I also accepted her advice. After going through a process that I think is quite tiring in programming, then I created an additional lesson schedule for them. In my program, I focused learning activities with fun activities. The activities were watching English movies and listening to English songs, and I thought it was very appropriate for them.
Over the course of several weeks, our activities only discussed English songs of they chose. In the activity, we sang together, tried to understand the meaning of the song by searching the lyrics, smaug it and translating it. The activity was always repeated until it had nearly 20 songs that we had completed,
Next, I ran the program in which we watched some movies with English text. In these activities, my students were asked to take down some of the sentences they thought were important to the storyline. And every single movie had been watched; I was collecting their records and analyzing the grammar in each sentence.
In the end, my students became interested in learning English because they matched the thirst for understanding their language. They feel engrossed in understanding the English language. And it has been a satisfying pleasure for me.
2. Establish a biographical recount plan about the principal who you think he/she is important for the developments of the school you are teaching at the moment.
IKHSAN AMIN
Ikhsan Amin is a great teacher who was born on June 2, 1967 in Batu Raja. He is a leader who is able to have a tremendous impact on progress in the school he leads. For nearly 6 years he had led SMA YAK Lubuklinggau.
The beginning of his career before he was appointed principal was a Geographer teacher at the school. However, by considering the quality of his ability in the managerial classes and curriculum, he was appointed by the Foundation for a replacement position because the previous school principal resigned. During 6 months he occupied the position, the achievement that he got really extraordinary. The presence of teachers in the classroom increased sharply, and school rules were actually run in accordance with its provisions.
In 2012, he was appointed fully as principal to run his role for 2 years. During these two years, he enhanced all aspects of the facilities at school. Improvement of learning facilities such as procurement of Infocus Projector in each class is equipped with audio system, extra-curricular activities facilities, such as Basketball Field, badminton, futsal. With the improvement of these facilities spur the spirit of teachers and students to excel. This is evidenced by the more creative learning activities at that time, resulting in students who excel in academic and nonacademic activities.
After making significant improvements at the facility, he gave full concentration on improving the quality of teachers in the school. Various kinds of training to improve the professionalism of teachers implemented. Such activities include intensive training in the implementation of the 2013 curriculum, teacher professional quality improvement training, and teachers' ability to use IT in the learning process.
In 2014, Ikhsan Amin continued his studies in postgraduate majoring in Management. This is done, because he wants to really maximal in running the professional principal in management. By 2016, He had finished his studies with honors. It gained a special appreciation from the foundation by extending his tenure for the next 2 years until 2018.
For 2 years, Ikhsan Amin increasingly makes the school able to answer the various demands of modern education needs without forgetting the value of religious values in learning. One of his best innovations is implementing the Quran Reading program before teaching and learning activities begin as a form of improving the quality of students in the field of religion.
At the end of the school year 2017 - 2018, Ikhsan Amin was transferred to the other school by the foundation because the Foundation wanted the same progress in another school as he had done in YAK Lubuklinggau high school.