Tasks (^_^)/

Task 1 (reading skill)

Read the following text and answer the questions

Tourist Boats Collide in Thailand, 42 Injured

Thailand: Forty-two passengers were injured and two were missing after two boats carrying Thai and foreign tourists collided in the popular island beach party, police said Sunday.
The speedboats were ferrying tourists to the Pha-Ngan island for a “fullmoon” party, a monthly event that attracts thousands of young, mostly western tourists.
Provincial police officer, Adipong Tapee said of the 42 travelers injured, 39 were hospitalized including four Britons, four Australians and four Singaporeans. Also among them were Irish, Norwegian, Malaysian and Thai tourists, he said.
The boats collided and overturned before midnight Saturday, throwing the passengers into the rough sea water just off the island, the website of The Nation newspaper said.

1. We know from the text that…
    a. The boat carried forty two passengers
    b. The accident happened not far from Pha-Ngan
    c. The two missing passengers were westerners
    d. The passengers were mostly foreign tourists
    e. The boats collided on the way back to Pha-Ngan island

2. What had possibly caused the accident?
    a. A careless captain
    b. Too many passengers on board
    c. There were too many boats
    d. A rough weather
    e. The boats were speeding

Task2 (reading skill)

Read the following text and answer the questions

100 million rupiah

An Indonesian businessman plans to throw 100 million rupiah (US$10,600) out of an airplane over the capital this Sunday as a publicity stunt to promote his new book.
“I want to create a rain of money in Jakarta,” author and motivator speaker Tung Desem Waringin said, “It’s a little bit crazy, but it’s marketing.”
Police spokesman Col I Ketut Untung said authorities may not allow the plan to go forward because it could draw huge crowds and cause chaos.
Ten of millions of Indonesians live on less than US$1 a day and food and aid giveaways always draw large numbers.
The 42-year-old Tung said instead of opting for regular advertising for his book, he came up with an idea that “will make people happy.”

1. ‘Giveaways’ in line 8 has the same meaning as ….
    A.Information
    B.Money
    C.Idea
    D.Charity
    E.Marketing

2. It can be inferred from the text that …..
    A.Tung Desem Waringin is crazy
    B.Many Indonesians are still poor
    C.Tung Desem Waringin’s plan is common advertising campaign
    D.Tung Desem waringin is permitted to realize his advertising plan
    E.Many Indonesians will not like Tung Desem Waringin’s plan

3. What is the main reason why the authorities might refuse Tung Desem Waringin’s plan?
    A.It is expensive
    B.It is dangerous
    C.It is difficult
    D.It is crazy
    E.It is unbelievable

Task 3 (Listening skill and speaking skill)

After watching the following video,write the information then read and record it. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skki22-BrBo

Task 4 (writing skill)

Example:

Three Die after Attending Marriage Ceremony Three residents were killed, while dozens of others were wounded after a pickup truck they were taking to attend a marriage ceremony overturned in Jingkang village, Banyumas Regency, on Sunday. The pickup was carrying 30 passengers, mostly women, when it failed to ascend a steep road on its way back from the ceremony. As a result, the passengers were squeezed. The wounded passengers were later rushed to the Ajibarang regional public hospital. Local police are investigating the cause of the accident.

After you read the example of news item text, now write a simple news item text.

(^,^)/ Good Luck ~~

News Item Text

1. Definition of News Item

News item is a text which informs readers about events of the day. The events are considered newsworthy or important.

2. Social function: To inform readers or listeners about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important.

3. Generic structure:
1. News worthy event ( tells the event in a summary form)
2. Background events ( elaborate what happened, tell what caused the incident)
3. Sources ( comments by participants, witnesses, authorities and experts involved in the event)

4. Language features:
-Information on the use of head lines.
-Use of action verbs( hit, attack)
-Use of saying verbs( said, added, claimed)
-Use of passive sentences ( Aceh was hit by Tsunami in 2004)
-Use of adverbs in passive sentences (The victims were badly injured)

5.    Examples and structures of the text

Town ‘Contaminated
Newsworthy events	Moscow – A Russian journalist has uncovered evidence of another Soviet nuclear catastrophe, which killed 10 sailors and contaminated an entire town.
Background Events	Yelena Vazrshavskya is the first journalist to speak to people who witnessed the explosion of a nuclear submarine at the naval base of shkotovo – 22 near Vladivostock.
	The accident, which occurred 13 months before the Chernobyl disaster, spread radioactive fall-out over the base and nearby town, but was covered  up by officials of the Soviet Union. Residents were told the explosion in the reactor of the Victor-class submarine during a refit had been a ‘thermal’ and not a nuclear explosion. And those involved in the clean up operation to remove more than 600 tones of contaminated material were sworn to secrecy.
Informasi Sources	A board of investigators was later to describe it as the worst accident in the history of the Soviet Navy.

Another example:

Growing Number of High School Student Smoking

A survey has found about 13 percent of first-time smokers in the country are junior high school students. It also revealed 89 percent of young female employees were smokers.

The survey was conducted in five major cities across the country, including Surakarta in Central Java.

Muhammad Syahril Mansyur, the Surakarta Health Agency’s respiratory illness division, said that the finding of the survey showed an alarming growth rate of Indonesian smokers. "This situation is a cause for concern,” he said. “It appears the country’s younger generation is uneducated about the health risks of smoking.”

The Indonesian anti-tobacco campaign has reportedly been deemed as ineffective as the government refuses to sign the international convention on tobacco control. It said that cigarette producers contributed to a large amount to state revenue and gave jobs to thousands of workers.

For more information, you can see from:

http://www.slideshare.net/gitalusiana/news-item-30210867

Or you can watch this video about news: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPqC-ZRrgYM


Sources taken from:
www.news.bbc.co.id

http://www.tolearnenglish.com/correspondants/google-results.php?q=NEWS+ITEM+TEXTS

http://panglia.blogspot.com/2012/10/teori-dan-materi-latihan-news-item-text.html

Let’s Learn About Singular and Plural

A noun names a person, place, thing, or idea.

Usually, the first page of a grammar book tells you about nouns. Nouns give names of concrete or abstract things in our lives. As babies learn "mom," "dad," or "milk" as their first word, nouns should be the first topic when you study a foreign language.
For the plural form of most nouns, add s.

bottle – bottles
cup – cups
pencil – pencils
desk – desks
sticker – stickers
window – windows

For nouns that end in ch, x, s, or s sounds, add es.

box – boxes
watch – watches
moss – mosses
bus – buses

For nouns ending in f or fe, change f to v and add es.

wolf – wolves
wife – wives
leaf – leaves
life – lives

Some nouns have different plural forms.

child – children
woman – women
man – men
mouse – mice
goose – geese

Nouns ending in vowels like y or o do not have definite rules.

baby – babies
toy – toys
kidney – kidneys
potato – potatoes
memo – memos
stereo – stereos

A few nouns have the same singular and plural forms.

sheep – sheep
deer – deer
series – series

Quiz 1
Choose the correct form of the noun in each sentence.
1) There are five (man, men) and one (woman, women).
2) I put two big (potato, potatoes) in the lunch box.
3) A few men wear (watch, watches).
4) I put a (memo, memos) on the desk.
5) There are few (bus, buses) on the road today.

  

Pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun. Pronouns can be in one of three cases: Subject, Object, or Possessive.

Example:

Do you have a guitar?

Jean is talking to me.

He gave her girlfriend a flower.

I worked myself to the bone.

Quiz 2

From the choices provided after each sentence select a word that would correctly complete the sentence. 

Among the Iroquois, everyone prepared ____________ (himself/herself, themselves) carefully for the gathering ceremonies.

According to Alvina and ____________ (he, him), this is the best math course you'll ever take.

Last week Raoul said that ____________ (we, us) first-year students don't need to register yet. 

The bus driver told me that he'd make change for you and ____________ (I, me) this time but never again.

Probably the captain doesn't expect any of ____________ (they, them) to show up on a day like this.

You can watch the video about this material and other examples here:^^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kapUWtx7TvE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JdRn2HdAx8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9VCmT_XMoM

# Sources: (^o^)/

www.grammar.ccc.commnet.edu

www.grammarbook.com