Read this text and
then discuss with your friends the questions that follow.
One day Sandra Dewi
fell sick in the middle of the English lesson. All the students did reading
tasks. Suddenly Sandra Dewi vomited. All other students stopped writing. Mrs.
Lidia helped her immediately. The chairman of the class sent for the school’s
doctor.
In five minutes the
doctor came. He examined her carefully. He examined her eyes. He felt her
stomach. He listened to her heart beat. He measured her blood pressure. Then
he took her temperature.
“I’m afraid she
suffers from malaria. Her temperature is very high. That is why she vomited.
She has a very bad cough, too. I’ll give her some pills for her malaria, some
tablets for her fever, and syrup for her cough. She needs a week’s rest”,
said the doctor.
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Questions:
1. What is the text
telling you about?
2. What did the
students do? What happened?
3. What was the name
of the teacher?
4. What did the
doctor do?
5. What was Sandra
Dewi suffering from?
6. What did the
doctor recommend?
7. Identify the text
structure by listing the happenings according to
these categories of: orientation, events,
and re-orientation.
Read the letter below.
Dear Grandpa and
Grandma,
Yesterday at my
school we had an International day. We had performances, food stalls,
displays, raffle ticket draw, and some of us were dressed in costumes.
We started our day
off with performances but the one I liked best was the one from fourth grade.
We played games. The performance I was in was Labamba.
Straight after our
performances we had our lunch.There were food stalls. They came from
Australia, Asia, Arab, and Greece
Everyone had a job.
These people were from sixth grade. I did my job after I had lunch. My job
was to sell International Day Books.
We had displays in
the hall. These displays were good but I didn’t get to see them. The displays
came from a lot of countries.
There was also a
Trash and Treasure stall where they sold toys. The school got these things by
asking the children to bring them in.
Although I didn’t
win anything, International Day was still fun.
Love from Sue
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Orientation
(who/where/when)
Event 1
Event 2
Event 3
Event 4
Event 5
Re-orientation
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Answer these questions
1. Why did Sue write
the letter?
2. To whom did she
write the letter?
3. What did she tell
in the letter?
4. Mention the words
that Sue uses to tell the order of events.
5. Are the verbs in
the present or in the past tense?
6. Write all the
action verbs (e.g., started, played etc,) you find in the letter.
You have also learned these.
• Recount is a text which has social function to retell
events for the purpose of informing
or
entertaining.
• When you tell about the happenings in the past, it
means that you make a recount text.
• A recount text begins with information about who,
where, and when;continues to list
the events that happened; and ends with a closure.
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Match each word in list A with its opposite in list B
A
1) beautiful
2) big
3) cheap
4) clean
5) friendly
6) interesting
7) quiet
8) dangerous
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B
. . . boring
. . . rude
. . . dirty
. . . expensive
. . . small
. . . noisy
. . . safe
. . . ugly
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A flight attendant is
giving some instructions to the passengers before the plane takes off.
Announcer : Ladies and gentlemen. Welcome aboard United
Airlines 780.
Please fasten your
seat-belts. Put your seat in the upright
position and do not
smoke. Read carefully the card on
passenger safety. You will
find this in the pocket of the seat in
front of you.
Mr. Lim : Excuse me. How do you put this seat
upright, please?
Stewardess : Press
this button. The one on the arm of your seat.
Mr. Lim : Oh,there. Thank you.
Stewardess : You’re
welcome.
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Comprehension
questions:
1. What is the
announcement about?
2. Where can you find
the card on passenger safety?
3. Who is asking the
stewardess?
4. What is the button
on the arm of the seat for?
Mary is going abroad for the first time. Her father is
giving her some instructions. Listen to your teacher reading the dialogue.
Father : Remember Mary, look after your passport.
Mary : Don’t worry, I will.
Father : Keep it in a safe place. And don’t carry
too much money with you
when you go out.
Mary : Where should I leave my money when I
go out?
Father : Leave it at the hotel desk. But get a
receipt for it. And use
your ATM card wisely. And there’s another thing.
Don’t stay out
at night. Get back by 10
o’clock every night.
Mary : Don’t worry, I will.
Father : And write to us every week.
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Comprehension
questions:
1. Where is Mary
going?
2. List things that
Mary should do.
3. List things that
Mary shouldn’t do.
4. What does her
father want her to do every week?
Fill in the blanks with the words in the box.
It was my grandpa’s birthday last Sunday. On Friday, my sister
and I went shopping at the …..(1)…... We bought a nice …..(2)…... Then, we
wrapped it in a blue paper. Blue is my grandpa’s favourite colour. On
Saturday morning, my brother and I helped my sister making
a birthday cake in the …..(3)…... It was a big and beautiful
…..(4)…... I wrote ‘Happy Birthday’ on it. After that, we put some chocolate
and a ….. (5)….. on the top of the cake. On Sunday evening, my uncle and my
aunt came to my …..(6)…... They brought several bottles of soft-drink, and
…..(7)….. for grandpa. Then, we sat together in the …..(8)…... Finally,
grandpa blew the candle and cut the cake while we were singing a ‘Happy
Birthday’ song for him. After giving each of us
a piece of cake, he opened the present. He told us that he liked
the present, and he was very …..(9)…...
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mall shirt house kitchen birthday
cake candle flowers living room happy
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