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11. Understanding the meaning of 11. Understanding the meaning of short functional text and essays in short functional text and essays in the form of, the form of, narrative, narrative, descriptivedescriptive and and News itemNews item in in daily life contexts and accessing daily life contexts and accessing knowledge.knowledge.
BASIC COMPETENCY
11.2 Responding the meaning in short fumctional text and essay in the form of narrative, descriptive, and News Item that use written language, accurately, fluently and acceptable in daily life contexts
Core MaterialsCore Materials• Reading text• Kind of text : News Item ( taken from
Jakarta Post Newspaper )• Text Organization• Communicative Purpose• Language Features• Topic and Main Idea• Information from the text
(implicit/explicit reading )
Read the following News !
Title ← Supreme Court rejects
Dicky’s appeal
Newsworthy JAKARTA: The Supreme Court has upheld
Event ← the 2006 graft conviction of Dicky Iskandar Di Nata,the
former president director of PT Brocolin International
Dicky was found guilty by the South Jakarta
Background Distric Court of misusing Rp 1.9 trillion in funds from
Event ← Bank BNI, which he claimed was a “grant from an
Israeli investor”.
The court sentenced him to 20 years in prison
“We have rejected Dicky’s appeal. Therefore, he
must serve his 20- years prison and pay a fine 0f
Source ← Rp 500 million ( US $ 55,000),” presiding justice Artidjo
Alkostar was quoted by Detic.com news portal as saying
Thursday- JP
TEXT ORGANIZATION/ GENRIC STRUCTURE
1. Newsworthy event (tell the event in a summary form )2. Back ground events (elaborate what happened, tell what
caused the incident)3. Sources (comments by participants, witnesses,
authorities and experts involved in the event )
Language features 1. Information on the use of headline
the use of action verbs (misuse, hit, etc )
2. The use of saying verbs ( claimed, quoted, said etc )
3. The use of passive sentences
( presiding justice Artidjo Alkostar was quoted by
Detik.com )
4. The use of adverbs in passive sentences
(Dicky was found guilty by the South Jakarta District
Court )
Answer the questions based on the text !
1. What is the main idea of paragraph 1 ? 2. What is the main idea of the last
paragraph ? 3. Why was Dicky sentenced 20 years in
prison ? 4. How much money must Dicky pay a fine ? 5. What does the word ‘we’ par 4 refers
to ?
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