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Rabu, 23 Januari 2013

Narrative Text

N A R R A T I V E
To entertain and to deal with actual or vicarious experience in different ways. (to entertain the readers or listeners with the story).
Menghibur dan memberi amanat bagi para pembaca atau  pendengar dengan menceritakan pengalaman / peristiwa nyata atau khayal yang mengarah ke puncak masalah / krisis yang pada akhirnya menemukan permasalahan.
*Biasanya berupa fairy tales, legends, folktales, myths, fables.

*Orientation: pengenalan waktu, tempat dan tokoh.
*Complication: permasalahan yang mengarah ke krisis.
*Resolution: penyelesaian masalah.
*      Memiliki tokoh / pelaku tertentu bias nama orang atau kelompok. Ex: Cinderella, Bedouin, Balinese.
  • *      Memakai action verb (kata kerja tindakan)
  • *      Past tense (verb 2, was / were)
  • *      Memakai  temporal conjunction (kata penghubung yang menunjukkan waktu) ex: once upon a time, once, then.
  • *      Memakai saying verb (kata kerja pengungkapan) ex: said, told, answered
  • *      Memakai thinking verb (kata kerja yang mengungkapkan perasaan) ex: realized, felt, thought.

Example of Recount Text

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My Holiday in Jepara

On my last holiday, I went to Bandengan and Kartini beach in Jepara with my family for having vacation. They are my father, mother, elder sister, brother in-law and also my two little nephews. This vacation was suggested by my elder sister. She thought that it was the right time to take vacation together because at that time, her sons also had long holiday like me.
At 6 a.m we left for the first destination, Bandengan beach. It was chosen as the first destination because we wanted to enjoy the nuance in the morning and play in the water like swimming. As you know, beach at noon is really hot, so we were afraid that we could not enjoy the moment if we were there at noon. We arrived in Bandengan beach at 8 a.m. My elder nephew and his father directly went to the water to swim together, but my little nephew was afraid to join them because he could not swim. Once his father forced and guided him to swim, but he cried loudly. Thus, my elder sister and I accompanied him to play white sand while my father and mother enjoyed the nuance by walking and looking around the beach. After we felt that the weather was getting hot, we decided to end our activities and prepared to leave there. At 11 o’clock we left from Bandengan beach and went to have a lunch.
After having a lunch, we got to take a pray and then directly went to the next destination, Kartini beach. We arrived there at about 1 p.m. We chose Kartini beach because a giant turtle statue is located there and my parents really wanted to see it. While looking at the statue, they wondered how big it is. Actually, it is a building which was shaped like a giant turtle statue, so it is called as a statue not a building. In this building, there is a big aquarium, but unluckily, it was closed at that time. Therefore, we just took some pictures there. Then, the ladies likely look for some souvenirs while the men were accompanying my two nephews to take a walk there.
At 2.30 p.m. we decided to leave Kartini beach because we felt tired. After two hours on the trip, finally we arrived at home. Although I felt tired after the vacation, I was really happy because I could go for a vacation with my family.

Selasa, 22 Januari 2013

Recount Text

Purpose of the text (tujuan teks):

To retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining.
Menceritakan kembali / laporan peristiwa di masa lampau.
*sering menceritakan diary, pengalaman pribadi,kisah petualangan / perjalanan seseorang.

Generic Structure (kerangka umum):

*Orientation: pengenalan waktu, tempat dan tokoh.
*Events: rekaman peristiwa yang disampaikan secara berurutan.
*Re-orientation: pengenalan ulang yang menerangkan rentetan peristiwa/komentar pribadi.

Grammatical Features 
(Ciri Kebahasaan):
  • *      Memiliki pelaku tertentu atau Specific Participant.
  • *      Memakai Action Verb (kata kerja tindakan) misalnya went, run, walked.
  • *      Memakai time conjunctions: then, after that, when, before.
  • *      Adverb of time, adverb of place, adverb of manner; ex: last Wednesday, Surabaya, slowly.
  • Disusun sesuai dengan urutan kejadian. 

How to Make Nutritious Fried Rice


Cooking fried rice is very easy and simple, so why do not we make it by ourselves? Here, I want to share how to make nutritious fried rice. We can make it as we want like adding our favourite vegetable, slices of meatball, or sausage. The ingredients and the methods to make nutritious fried rice are as the following.

Minggu, 20 Januari 2013

Limerick, Sonnet, and Haiku


LIMERICK
The limerick, whose name comes from the town in Ireland, is a five-line joke of a poem — witty, usually involving place names and puns, and most often bawdy, sometimes unprintable. A limerick is constructed of anapests, the metrical foot consisting of two unaccented or short syllables followed by one stressed or long syllable: da-da-dum. The first two lines are three anapests, the second two are two anapests, and the last line is three, the whole poem rhymed aabba.

The Analysis of “A Game of Chess” Poem


A GAME OF CHESS (TO JOHN BRODIE)
By Gwen Harwood

Nightfall: the town’s chromatic nocturne wakes (a)
dark brilliance on the river; colours drift (b)
and tremble as enormous shadows lift (b)
Orion to his place. The heart remakes (a)
that peace torn in the blaze of day. Inside (c)
your room are music, warmth and wine, the board (d)
with chessmen set for play. The harpsichord (d)
begins a fugue; delight is multiplied. (c)

A game: the heart’s impossible ideal-- (e)
to choose among a host of paths, and know (f)
that if the kingdom crumbles one can yield (g)
and have the choice again. Abstract and real (e)
joined in their trance of thought, two players show (f)
the calm of gods above a troubled field. (g)




Analysis

·         The Rhyme Scheme:
The rhyme scheme of “A Game of Chess” is abbacddc efgefg (consist of eight lines and six lines).
·         The Kind of Sonnet:
This poem belongs to Petrarchan sonnet because it consists of eight lines on the first stanza and six lines on the second stanza with different rhymes. Then, from the rhymes scheme, we can identify that it is such kind of Petrarchan sonnet’s rhyme, so it is clearly belongs to Petrarchan sonnet. 

Prefixes

Root
Part of Speech
Prefix
Word
Part of Speech
The Meaning
school
face
history
dawn
noun
noun,verb
noun
noun,verb

pre-
preschool
preface
prehistory
predawn
noun
noun,verb
noun
noun,adj
taman kanak-kanak
kata pengantar
prasejarah
dini hari
Faith
city
library
island
state
noun
noun
noun
noun
noun
inter-
interfaith
intercity
interlibrary
interisland
interstate
adjective
adjective
adjective
adjective
adjective
antar kepercayaan
antarkota
antarperpustakaan
antarpulau
antarnegara bagian
logue
lingual
chrome
tone
rail
noun
noun
noun
noun,verb
noun,verb
mono-
monologue
monolingual
monochrome
monotone
monorail
noun
noun
noun
noun
noun
bicara sendiri
satu bahasa
satu warna
nada yg datar/sama
rel tunggal
true
happy
fair
adjective
adjective
adj, adv, noun
un-
untrue
unhappy
unfair
adjective
adjective
adj, adv, noun
tidak benar/salah
tidak senang
tidak adil
aggression
dairy
count
finite
profit
noun
noun,adj
verb,noun
adjective
noun,verb
non-
non-agression
non-dairy
non-count
nonfinite
nonprofit
noun
adjective
adjective
adjective
adjective
gencatan senjata
tanpa susu
tidak dapat dihitung
tdk menunjukkan tenses
tdk mencari keuntungan
group
fuel
fill
form
examine
noun, verb
noun,verb
verb,noun
noun,verb
verb

re-
regroup
refuel
refill
reform
reexamine
verb
verb
verb,noun
verb
verb
menyusun kembali
menambah bensin
pengisian kembali
membentuk kembali
menguji kembali
like
honest
agree
prep,v,conj,n,adj,avd
adjective
verb
dis-
dislike
dishonest
disagree
verb,noun
adjective
verb
tidak suka
bohong
tidak setuju
understand
apply
behave
direct
spell
verb
verb
verb
adj,verb,adv
verb,noun
mis-
misunderstand
misapply
misbehave
misdirect
misspell
verb
verb
verb
verb
verb
salah memahami
menyalahgunakan
berlaku tak pantas
jurusan yang salah
salah mengeja
zero
script
normal
soil
sonic
standard
surface
par
number,verb
noun
adj,noun
noun,verb
adjective
adj,noun
noun,verb
noun
sub-

sub-zero
subscript
subnormal
subsoil
subsonic
substandard
subsurface
subpar
adjective
noun
adjective
noun
adjective
adjective
adjective
adjective
dibawah nol
tulisan dibawah garis
dibawah normal
lapisan bawah tanah
dibawah kecepatan suara
dibawah standar
dibawah permukaan
dibawah harapan
form
atlantic
figure
egress
slate
port
noun,verb
noun,adj
noun,verb
noun
noun,verb
noun,verb
trans-
transform
transatlantic
transfigure
transgress
translate
transport
verb
adjective
verb
verb
verb
noun,verb
mengubah bentuk
lintas samudra atlantik
merubah rupa
melanggar batas
mengubah (bahasa)
angkutan/mengangkut
literate
legal
legitimate
adjective
adjective
adjective
il-
illiterate
illegal
illegitimate
adj,noun
adj,noun
adjective
buta huruf
tidak sah
tidak sah/haram
relevant
reverent
religious
resolute
regular
adjective
adjective
adjective
adjective
adj,noun
ir-
irrelevant
irreverent
irreligious
irresolute
irregular
adjective
adjective
adjective
adjective
adj,noun

menyimpang
tidak sopan
tidak beragama
tidak tegas
tidak berketentuan
possible
patient
perfect
moral
pertinent
adj,noun
adj,noun
adj,verb,noun
adj,noun
adjective
im-
impossible
impatient
imperfect
immoral
impertinent
adjective
adjective
adj,noun
adjective
adjective
tidak mungkin
tidak sabar
tidak sempurna
tidak sopan,tunasusila
tidak ada hubungannya
convenient
correct
human
secure
opportune
sufficient
adjective
adj,verb
adj,noun
adj,verb
adjective
adjective


in-



inconvenient
incorrect
inhuman
insecure
inopportune
insufficient
adjective
adjective
adjective
adjective
adjective
adjective

tidak nyaman
tidak benar /salah
tidak manusiawi
tidak aman, tidak kokoh
tidak menguntungkan
tidak cukup