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Flood
Flood is an overflow of water that soaks or covers land.
Floods are the most frequent type of natural disaster worldwide. It can be
caused by several things, naturally and form the effect of human behavior. The
most common cause is because of the over capacity of the body of water, e.g.
river or lake. As a result some of the water flows outside of the body of
water. It can also occur in rivers, when the strength of the river is so high
that it flows right out of the river channel. A flood from sea may be caused by
a heavy storm, a high tide, a tsunami, or a combination the three.
Soil and vegetation absorbs most of the surface water,
floods happen when there are lack of trees and the soil alone cannot absorb all
the water. The water then runs off the land in quantities that cannot be
carried in stream channels or kept in natural ponds or man-made reservoirs. A
flood can also be caused by blocked sewage pipes and waterways, such as the
Jakarta flood.
There are several types of flood. Periodic floods occur
naturally on many rivers, forming an area known as the flood plain. These river
floods usually result from heavy rain, sometimes combined with melting snow,
which causes the rivers to overflow their banks. A flood that rises and falls
rapidly with little or no advance warning is called a flash flood.
Narrative Text
Beauty and the Beast
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This is the example of Narrative.
Beauty and the Beast
Once upon a time, there was a girl named Beauty. She lived
with her father and sisters in a small village.
Beauty was a beautiful girl. She was very nice and
hardworking. She always helped her father in the farm.
One day, her father set out for the city. He saw an old
castle and went in. He walked around the castle. He picked a rose from garden
for Beauty. Suddenly, an angry Beast appeared. He wanted to kill him unless
Beauty was brought to him.
Beauty went to see the Beast and had to stay at the castle.
She felt scared, lonely and sad. But the Beast treated her well. Soon, She
began to like him.
One day, her father was sick. Beauty went home to see her
father. One night, she had a dream that the Beast was sick.
Beauty hurried back and saw the Beast dying. She began to
cry. Tears felt onto the Beast. Suddenly, the Beast changed into handsome
prince.
Finally, they got married and lived happily for ever after.
Descriptive Text
Borobudur Temple
Borobudur is Hindu – Budhist temple. It was build in the
nineth century under Sailendra dynasty of ancient Mataram kingdom. Borobudur is
located in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia.
Borobudur is well-known all over the world. Its construction
is influenced by the Gupta architecture of India. The temple is constructed on
a hill 46 m high and consist of eight step like stone terrace. The first five
terrace are square and surrounded by walls adorned with Budist sculpture in
bas-relief. The upper three are circular.
Each of them is with a circle of bell shape-stupa. The
entire adifice is crowned by a large stupa at the centre at the centre of the
top circle. The way to the summit extends through some 4.8 km of passage and
starways. The design of borobudur which symbolizes the structure of universe
influences temples at Angkor, Cambodia.
Borobudur temple which is rededicated as an Indonesian
monument in 1983 is a valuable treasure for Indonesian people.
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How to cook Instant Noodle
When you want to cook instant noodle, you will need these
things:
Instant noodle
Water
A bowl
Firstly, heat the water of 400 cc until boiled and add the
noodle after that. Meanwhile the noodle is cooked, mixed the chili powder, the
oil and the seasoning into a bowl. Pour the cooked noodle into the bowl.
Deliciouse noodle is ready to eat.
News Item Text
Winning Award for Airport Toilet
Surabaya's Juanda International Airport has won the Culture
and Tourism Ministry's 2009 toilet award, beating out 2007 winner Denpasar's
Ngurah Rai Airport, which now drops to fourth. Indonesia's main gateway,
Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, just outside Jakarta, moves up from
fourth in 2007 to second, in the biennial "Sapta Pesona Clean Public
Toilet Award".
The award was first handed out in 2007, and has so far
involved only international airports. Acting Culture and Tourism Minister
Muhammad Nuh said he expected the award in future to also cover public toilets
at tourist sites across the country.
"Granting the award to those running public toilets at
tourist sites is expected to improve the quality of products and services,
particularly in term of cleanliness . as part of efforts to enhance the image
of national culture," Nuh said during the award presentation ceremony.
Taken from: www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/10/10/l
Spoof Text
Horseman In The Sky
Carter Druse was born in Virginia. He was a southerner. When
the United States was divided by a terrible civil war, Carter decided to join
the Union Army of the north.
He told his father about his decision to join the north
army. His father looked deep into his son's eyes. "Carter, No matter what
happens, be sure you always do what you think is your duty."
One sunny afternoon, Carter was sent to guard. It was his
duty to be sure that no enemy soldier spied on. Suddenly, he saw a man on
horseback standing on the huge rocky cliff. He held a gun in his right hand,
and the horse's reins in the other. Unavoidably, Carter pointed his gun. Carter
was calm as he pulled the trigger.
Soon after firing his gun, Carter was joined by a Union
sergeant.
"Did you fire?" The sergeant whispered.
"Yes."
"At what?" The sergeant continued.
"A horse"
"Was there anyone on the horse?" The sergeant
asked again.
"Yes."
"Who? " The sergeant kept asking.
"My father."
Explanation Text
Tsunami
The term of “tsunami” comes from the Japanese which means harbour
(“tsu”) and wave (“nami”). A tsunamigk is a series of waves generated when
water in a lake or the sea is rapidly displaced on a massive scale.
A tsunami can be generated when the sea floor abruptly
deforms and vertically displaces the overlying water. Such large vertical
movements of the earth’s crust can occur at plate boundaries.
Subduction of earthquakes are particularly effective in
generating tsunamis, and occur where denser oceanic plates slip under
continental plates.
As the displaced water mass moves under the influence of
gravity to regain its equilibrium, it radiates across the ocean like ripples on
a pond.
Tsunami always bring great damage. Most of the damage is
caused by the huge mass of water behind the initial wave front, as the height
of the sea keeps rising fast and floods powerfully into the coastal area.
Example of Anecdote Text
Snake in the Bathroom
How would you like to find a snake in you bath?
We had just moved into a new house, which had been empty for
so long that everything was in a terrible mess. Anna and I decided that we
would clean the bath first, so we set to, and turned on the tap.
Suddenly to my horror, a snake’s head appeared in the plug
hole. Then out slithered the rest of his long thin body. He twisted and turned
on the slippery bottom of the bath, spitting and hissing at us.
For an instant I stood there quite paralyzed. Then I yelled
for my husband, who luckily came running and killed the snake with the handle
of a broom.
Anna, who was only three at the time, was quite interested
in the whole business. Indeed I had to pull her out of the way or she’d
probably have lean over the bath to get a better look.
We found out later that it was a black mamba, a poisonous
kind of snake. It had obviously been fast asleep, curled up at the bottom of
the nice warm water-pipe. It must have had an awful shock when the cold water
came trickling down! But nothing to the shock I got! Ever since then I’ve
always put the plug in firmly before running the bath water.
EXAMPLE OF REVIEW TEXT
Title
: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Production year : 2011
Country
: Rest of the world
Runtime
: 130 mins
Directors
: David Yates Cast: - Alan Rickman - Billy Nighy - Daniel
Radcliffe - Emma Thompson
Emma Watson -
Gary Oldman - Helena Bonham Carter - Maggie Smith - Michael
Gambon - Ralph
Fiennes -
Rupert Grint Details : 2011, Rest of the world, Cert 12A,
130 mins, Dir: David Yates With: Alan Rickman,
Billy Nighy, Daniel
Radcliffe, Emma Thompson, Emma Watson, Gary Oldman, Helena
Bonham Carter, Maggie
Smith, Michael Gambon, Ralph Fiennes,
Rupert Grint Summary:
Harry, Ron, and Hermione go back to Hogwarts to find and
destroy Voldemort's final horcruxes "It all ends," says the poster
slogan. A potentially grim statement of the obvious, of course, yet the Potter
saga could hardly have ended on a better note. With one miraculous flourish of
its wand, the franchise has restored the essential magic to the Potter legend –
which had been starting to sag and drift in recent movies – zapping us all with
a cracking final chapter, which looks far superior to CS Lewis's The Last
Battle or JRR Tolkien's The Return of the King. It's dramatically satisfying,
spectacular and terrifically exciting, easily justifying the decision to split
the last book into two. Here is where the Harry Potter series gets its groove
back, with a final confrontation between Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) and our
young hero, and with the sensational revelation of Harry's destiny, which
Dumbledore had been keeping secret from him. When stout-hearted young Neville
Longbottom (a scene-stealer from Matthew Lewis) steps forward to denounce the
dark lord in the final courtyard scene, I was on the edge of my seat. And when,
in that final "coda", the middle-age Harry Potter gently hugs his
little boy before sending him off for his first term at Hogwarts – well, what
can I say? I think I must have had something in my eye. The colossal achievement
of this series really is something to wonder at. The Harry Potter movies showed
us their characters growing older in real time: unlike Just William or Bart
Simpson, Daniel Radcliffe's Harry was going to grow up like a normal person and
never before has any film – or any book – brought home to me how terribly brief
childhood is. The Potter movies weren't just an adaptation of a series of
books, but a living, evolving collaborative phenomenon between page and screen.
The first movie, Philosopher's Stone, came out in 2001, when JK Rowling was
working on the fifth book, Order of the Phoenix, and when no one – perhaps not
even the author herself – knew precisely how it was going to end. The movies
developed just behind the books, and it's surely impossible to read them
without being influenced by the films. This is most true for Robbie Coltrane's
endlessly lovable, definitive performance as Hagrid. In this final episode,
Harry (Radcliffe), Hermione (Emma Watson) and Ron (Rupert Grint) continue their
battle to find and destroy the "horcruxes" that the sinister
Voldemort needs so he can stay alive for all eternity: these are objects in
which the fragments of souls are trapped and whose vital, spiritual force
Voldemort, that hateful parasite, can siphon off for his own ends. Harry and
his friends track down these horcruxes, but the last one is a puzzle. As the
forces of good assemble at Hogwarts for the final showdown with Voldemort and
his hordes, Harry knows only that the most vital horcrux is actually in the
castle, very close at hand. There are some superb set-piece scenes – and now
the plot has so much more zing, these scenes have a power that comparable
moments in earlier movies did not have. When Harry, Ron and Hermione insinuate
themselves into Gringotts Bank to steal the sword of Gryffindor, the effect is
bizarre, surreal and macabre: drawing on the influence of Lewis Carroll and
Terry Gilliam. It is a great moment when Severus Snape, played with
magnificently adenoidal disdain by Alan Rickman, is attacked by Voldemort's
snake Nagini, and we witness this only from behind a frosted glass screen – a
nice touch from director David Yates. London-dwelling Potter fans will, as
before, be intrigued to see how the ornate St Pancras railway station is used
to represent King's Cross, from where the Hogwarts train traditionally departs.
Millions of tourists are undoubtedly convinced that this building is, in fact,
King's Cross. It may be forced simply to change its name. We get passionate,
but somehow touchingly innocent screen kisses between Harry and Ginny (Bonnie
Wright) and, of course, between Ron and Hermione. In the midst of the battle,
Neville declares that he is going to find Luna (Evanna Lynch) for a snog:
"I'm mad about her! About time I told her, since we're both probably going
to be dead by dawn!" But these love stories are always subordinate to the
all-important battle between good and evil. The crucial moment of the film is
where, I admit, I have a quibble: it is gripping and even moving when Harry
realises what his destiny is, and sets out to fulfil it. Yet the exact
rationale for his ultimate survival may be a little obscure, and perhaps even
Potter-diehards may suspect that in the film there is a touch of having your
cake and eating it. Well, no matter. This is such an entertaining, beguiling,
charming and exciting picture. It reminded me of the thrill I felt on seeing
the very first one, 10 years ago. And Radcliffe's Harry Potter has emerged as a
complex, confident, vulnerable, courageous character – most likable, sadly, at
the point where we must leave him for ever. Wait. I've got that darn thing in
my eye again...
Hortatory Exposition Text
1.The Importance of Speaking English
English nowadays has an important role in our daily life. It
is the massive means of communication. Is there a strong argument which says
that English will not give any benefit?
Learning to speak English well may be the best way to
improve our life. It seems all the people in the world have agreed to use
English to talk to each other. About 1,500,000,000 people in the world speak
English. While another 1,000,000,000 are still learning English.
If we can communicate in English, we can contact people from
all over the world. We can talk about our ideas and opinions on Internet discussion
groups. We can chat with other interesting people to learn about their life and
culture.
If we can communicate in English, we can travel more easily.
English is spoken in more than 100 countries. If we lost, we can ask directions
or ask for help. Who knows, English will save our life somewhere someday.
That is why we should make every effort possible to find
somebody to speak with. Where can we find people who can speak English with us?
We can find them at school, shopping mall, tourist destination, etc
Above all, don't be afraid to speak English. We must try to
speak, even if we make mistakes. We cannot learn without mistakes. So, speak
English as much as possible!
ANALYTICAL
EXPOSITION TEXT
Laptop as Students'
Friend
Conventionally, students need book, pen, eraser, drawing
book, ruler and such other stuff. Additionally, in this multimedia era,
students need more to reach their progressive development. Students need mobile
keyboards to record every presented subject easily. Of course it will need more
cost but it will deserve for its function.
First, modern schools tend to apply fast transferring
knowledge because the school needs to catch the target of curriculum. Every
subject will tend to be given in demonstrative method. Consequently students
need extra media cover the subject. Since there is a laptop on every students'
desk, this method will help student to get better understanding.
Secondly, finding an appropriate laptop is not difficult as
it was. Recently there is an online shop which provides comprehensive
information. The best is that the shop has service of online shopping. The
students just need to brows that online shop, decide which computer or laptop
they need, then complete the transaction. After that the laptop will be
delivered to the students' houses. That is really easy and save time and money.
From all of that, having mobile computer is absolutely
useful for students who want to catch the best result for their study. Buying
laptop online is advisable because it will cut the price. This online way is
recommended since online shop also provide several laptop types. Students just
need to decide which type they really need.
DISCUSSION
TEXT
Giving Children Homework; Pro and Con
There are a lot of discussion as to whether children should
be given homework or not. Is it enough for children having time to study at
school or needing additional time in home for study after school time?
Some people claim that children do enough work in school
already. They also argue that children have their hobbies which they want to do
after school, such as sport or music. A further point they make is that a lot
of homeworks are pointless and does not help the children learn at all.
However, there are also strong arguments against this point
of view. Parents and teachers argue that it is important to find out whether
children can work on their own without the support from the teacher. They say
that the evening is a good time for children to sit down and think about what
they have learned in school.
Furthermore they claim that the school day is too short to
get anything done. It makes sense to send home tasks like independent reading
or further writing task which do not need the teacher support.
I think, on balance, that some homework is good idea but
that should only given at the weekend when children have more time.
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