X English - Wawancara Dengan Orang Asing

Windmills country is the country that has a lot of windmills to make the energy wind power. We know windmills country as Holland or Netherland.  Windmills country is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with parts in the Caribbean. The capital city in Netherland is Amsterdam.

The Netherlands is a geographically low-lying country, with about 25% of its area and 21% of its population located below sea level, and 50% of its land lying less than one meter above sea level. Significant land area has been gained through land reclamation and preserved through an elaborate system of polders and dikes. Much of the Netherlands is formed by the estuary of three important European rivers, which together with their distributaries form the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta. Most of the country is very flat. The BES islands, or Caribbean Netherlands, became part of the Netherlands proper after the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles on 10 October 2010. (www.wikipedia.com)

In Netherland, the school starts from 4 years old till 16 years old, and they have to go to school at those ages. “They must go to school at 4 years till 16 years, they have to go, it must, after that you can choose to go to school or not,” said Julia (Julia is a Dutchman, the writer met her and her husband Hans at Bogor Botanical Garden, Monday, April 18 2011). “…at Saturday and Sunday, normally…” said Julia. All students have a free day at Saturday and Sunday, but not the person in the hospital, mostly they don’t have free day at Saturday and Sunday.

In Netherland and Indonesia mostly have the same lessons. They have Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, Language, Philosophy, and so on. The students go to school at 9 o’clock in the morning till 3 o’clock in the afternoon. And also, they have break time for lunch during 1 hour at noon. “…they go from 9 o’clock till three in the afternoon, and they have 1 hour free for lunch…” said Julia.  The special cultures they have in Netherland are Mills, Water, and Wood shoes. “… we have mills, water and they always said wood shoes but they don’t wear it, but special people wear it…” said Julia.

The tourism objects in that country also the mills, water works, and small building village. “…also the mills, water works, small village which you can see the houses that built in Holland and then they are small…” said Hans, Julia’s husband. They shaking hands and kiss once another three times, but just for the people we know, not a stranger. They also have natural resources, gas, mills, and agricultural products, vegetables, and fruits.

(Paramita Nirmalawati X – 1)

Figure 2 (Elok Nastiti, Janan Shofiyah A., Julia, Hans, and Azizah F.N.Ilmi) from the left to right

Sumber : Orang Belanda @Bogor Botanical Garden

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X English - Example of Narrative Text

The Smartest Parrot

Once upon time, a man had a wonderful parrot. There was no other parrot like it. The parrot could say every word, except one word. The parrot would not say the name of the place where it was born. The name of the place was Catano.

The man felt excited having the smartest parrot but he could not understand why the parrot would not say Catano. The man tried to teach the bird to say Catano, however the bird kept not saying the word. At the first, the man was very nice to the bird but then he got very angry. “You stupid bird!” pointed the man to the parrot. “Why can’t you say the word? Say Catano! Or I will kill you” the man said angrily. Although he tried hard to teach, the parrot would not say it. Then the man got so angry and shouted to the bird over and over; “Say Catano or I’ll kill you”. The bird kept not to say the word of Catano.

One day, after he had been trying so many times to make the bird say Catano, the man really got very angry. He could not bear it. He picked the parrot and threw it into the chicken house. There were four old chickens for next dinner “You are as stupid as the chickens. Just stay with them” Said the man angrily. Then he continued to humble; “You know, I will cut the chicken for my meal. Next it will be your turn, I will eat you too, stupid parrot”. After that he left the chicken house.

The next day, the man came back to the chicken house. He opened the door and was very surprised. He could not believe what he saw at the chicken house. There were three death chickens on the floor. At the moment, the parrot was standing proudly and screaming at the last old chicken; “Say Catano or I’ll kill you”.

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Tuesday, September 21^st, 2010 at 5.15 p.m.

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X English - Example of Short Story

Paramita Nirmalawati

X – 1

English Task

Short Story

Tuesday, 25 January 2011, 5.30 pm

http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2010/08/why_dogs_chase_cats.html

Why Dogs Chase Cats?

A Virginia Folktale

Re told by

S.E. Schlosser 

Once long ago, Dog was married to Cat. They were happy together, but every night when Dog came home from work, Cat said she was too sick to make him dinner. Dog was patient with this talk for a while, but he soon got mighty tired of fixing dinner for them both after a hard day's work. After all, Cat just stayed home all day long.

One day, Dog told Cat he was going to work, but instead he hid in the cupboard and watched Cat to see if she really was sick. As soon as Cat thought Dog had left, she started playing games with Kitten. They laughed and ran about. Cat wasn't the least bit sick.

Dog jumped out of the cupboard. When Cat saw him, she stuck a marble in her cheek and told Dog she had a toothache. Dog got so mad at her, he started chasing her around and around the house.

Dogs have been chasing Cats ever since.

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X English - Example of Procedure Text

Goal    :

 How to Turn Off the Laptop on the Windows Explorer Operating System Software

Ingredients :  

 Laptop

·         Your skill

·         Knowledge about computer

Steps   :

First, close all active application programs on the desktop menu.

Then click the START button on the desktop menu, on the left down corner.

3.      And then click the turn off computer button.

4.      And then click the turn off button.

5.      Finally wait for a while, and your laptop or your computer has turned off.

Paramita Nirmalawati

X – 1

English Task (procedure text)

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X English - Example of Recount Text

My Adventure at Leang-Leang Cave

On Sunday, my parents, my best friend Novi, and I visited a cave at Maros called Leang-leang. It was my first time to visit the cave, better yet, my best friend came to visit it with me!

The cave was famous for its primitive cave wall paintings which were some hand prints and wild boar paintings. The cave and its surroundings was turned into a national park, so it was taken care of. My parents took a rest in a small hut for visitors of the park, while Novi and I adventured around the cave with a guide. We had to climb some metal stairs to get to the cave, because the cave was embedded into a small mountain. Next stop was a place where some seashells littered the ground and some were actually piled into a big mound! The guide said that these piles of seashells are called kjokkenmoddinger, or kitchen trash. The humans who lived here ate the shells and dumped the left over in their 'kitchen'. The last place was a small museum where they have skeletons of the humans who lived in the caves. The skeletons along with some roughly made jewelry and weapons were placed inside glass cases for display. The walls of the museum were adorned with photographs taken when they did an excavation there.

After a quick lunch with Novi and my parents, we decided it was time to go back home. We really had the time of our lives!

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Friday, October 1^st, 2010

09.00 p.m.

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X English - Example of Narrative Text

Monkey and Crocodile

One day a monkey wanted to cross a river. He saw a crocodile in the river, so he asked the crocodile to take him across the other side. The crocodile told the monkey to jump on its back. Then the crocodile swam down the river.

Now, the crocodile was very hungry, so when it was in the middle of the river, it stopped and said to the monkey, ”Monkey, my father is very sick. He must eat the heart of the monkey. Then he will be strong again.”

The monkey thought for a while. Then he told the crocodile to swim back to the river bank.

“What’s for?” asked the crocodile.

“Because I didn’t bring my heart with me,” said the monkey.

“I left it under the tree, near some coconuts.”

So, the crocodile turned around and swam back to the bank of the river. As soon as they reached the river bank, the monkey jumped off the crocodile’s back and climbed up to the top of a tree.

“Where is your heart?” asked the crocodile.

“You are foolish,” the monkey said to the crocodile.

“Now I am free and you have nothing.”

The monkey told the crocodile not to try to fool him again. The crocodile swam away, hungry.

Wednesday, October 20^th 2010

4.30 a.m.

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Paramita Nirmalawati

X – 1

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