Listening Practice
6:51 PM | Author: Abdul Rahmad S.Pd

Good Morning Everybody?
This time, I would like to share an listening exercises. It is very important to train your listening skill especially in mastering English over all.  To all of you, you are permitted to copy this article and share to each other. Hope Usefully.   
Writer Abdar IELC
Sue Activities
Hello ……………. , this is Sue from English Online again. How are you ………? Today I'm going to tell you something about my daily activities.
I usually get up at about 6:30 and the first …….. I do is ……… on the radio. It's always ………….. to BBC radio news so I start the day with the …………. happenings and events.
My ……………. is very close by so I'm able to ……….. It takes about ten minutes to get there and it's good exercise for me as I try to walk very fast.
I usually start work at ………… and I finish about …………. We work for a large financial ………….. There are 10 people in our office -- 7 financial advisors, a …………… manager, a company trainer and ……….. and our area manager. I have a desk with a PC and a telephone. From my PC, I can …………. the Internet as well as our corporate intranet. All of our clients are private individuals who need …………. on how to …………. their money. They contact our company either via email or phone or through personal ………… to make an ……………… with one of the advisors. Then, they come to the office and we …………… a personal investment plan for them.
My job is to ………… the day to day ……………… for my area manager who has 10 offices to run. I also help develop training needs analysis for our coach and I …………. informational spreadsheets. I also take my turn at advising our clients when I am needed. I enjoy the personal contact with them as they come from all walks of …….. and are all ………..
All of our ………….. clients are handled by our head office so we do not see any of them.
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Recount Text
8:13 PM | Author: Abdul Rahmad S.Pd

The Genre of English Writing Text
"Recount Text"

Discussion:
2.   Recount text is a text that telling the reader about one story, action or activity. Its goal is to entertaining or informing the reader.

The Generic structure of recount text involves:
Orientation tells who was involved, what happened, where the events took place, and when it happened. ("Orientation" menceritakan siapa saja yang terlibat dalam cerita, apa yang terjadi, di mana tempat peristiwa terjadi, dan kapan terjadi peristiwanya) 
 Events tell what happened and in what sequence.
("Event" menceritakan apa yang terjadi (lagi) dan menceritakan urutan ceritanya)
Reorientation consists of optional-closure of events/ending.
("Reorientation" berisi penutup cerita / akhir cerita)

Language Feature of Recount
·         Introducing personal participant; I, my group, etc
·         Using chronological connection; then, first, etc
·         Using linking verb; was, were, saw, heard, etc
·         Using action verb; look, go, change, etc
·         Using simple past tense

The Examples of Recount Text
My Adolescence

I had my adolescence when I was thirteen.

It started with acne that showed up on my face. It was very annoying. It lowered my self-esteem and I was embarrassed to come out of my house and play with friends.

Fortunately, my Mum gave me a good medicine. In three weeks, the acnes started to vanish although those showed some black spots in my face.

That was my bad experience with adolescence, though there were still lots of good experience too.

My Holiday in Bali
Annisa Aulia Saharani

When I was 2nd grade of senior high school, my friends and I went to Bali. We were there for three days. I had many impressive experiences during the vacation.

First day, we visited Sanur Beach in the morning. We saw the beautiful sunrise together. It was a great scenery. Then, we checked in to the hotel. After prepared our selves, we went to Tanah Lot. We met so many other tourists there. They were not only domestic but also foreign tourists.

Second day, we enjoyed the day on Tanjung Benoa beach. We played so many water sports such as banana boat, jetsky, speedboat etc. We also went to Penyu island to see many unique animals. They were turtles, snakes, and sea birds. We were very happy. In the afternoon, we went to Kuta Beach to see the amazing sunset and enjoyed the beautiful wave.

The last day, we spent our time in Sangeh. We could enjoy the green and shady forest. There were so many monkies. They were so tame but sometimes they could be naughty. We could make a close interaction with them. After that, we went to Sukowati market for shopping. That was my lovely time. I bought some Bali T-Shirt and souvenirs.

In the evening, we had to check out from the hotel. We went back home bringing so many amazing memories of Bali.

Exercises:
1.   Please make one of recount text based on your experienced. Afterward, please move to your class and tell your story to your friends.
2.   Please mention which part that contains the orientation, events and re-orientation based on the story below.

My First Experience to Ride Motorcycle
Resdwitarini

One day, when I was ten years old, my father bought an old motorcycle. That was " Honda 75". I think it was small light object and easy to ride it. I persuaded my father to teach me to ride " Honda 75 ".

Firstly, my father refused my request and promised that he would teach me two or three years later, but I still whimpered. Finally, my father surrendered and promised to teach me.

He began to teach me riding the motorcycle around a field in my village. My father was very patient to give me some directions. I was very happy when I realized my ability to ride a motorcycle. “Yes, I can ".

One day later, when I was alone at home, I intended to try my riding ability. So, I tried bravely. All ran fluently in the beginning, but when I was going back to my home and I must pass through a narrow slippery street, I got nervous. I lost my control and I fell to the ditch.

After that, I told my father about the last accident. I imagined my father would be angry and never let me ride again. But the reality is exactly on the contrary, my father was very proud of me. He just gave me some advices and since that accident, I got my father's permission to ride motorcycle.

3.   Please translate the “My first experience to ride Motorcycle” story into Indonesian language.
4.  Please search another example of recount text on printed media such as magazine, novel, newspaper, letter, and other all. Take and glue the text on your book. After that, write the orientation, events and re-orientation on the below of the text.
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Narrative Text
7:57 PM | Author: Abdul Rahmad S.Pd
The Genre of English Writing Text
"Narrative Text"

Background:
At least, there are 10 genres of English writing text. They are:

1.      Narrative text
2.      Recount text
3.      Descriptive text
4.      Report text
5.      Review text
6.      Explanation text
7.      Discussion text
8.      Anecdote text
9.      Spoof text
10.  Exposition text
Discussion:
1.      Narrative text
Narrative text is a text which contains about story (fiction/nonfiction/tales/folktales/fables/myths/epic) and its plot consists of climax of the story (complication) then followed by the resolution.
A narrative text is a text amuse, entertain and deal with actual or vicarious experience in different ways. Narrative deal with problematic events which lead to a crisis or turning point of some kind, which in turn finds a resolution.
The narrative text short story is telling of a story or an account of a sequence of events. One of the four traditional forms of composition (along with description, exposition, and persuasion). Narration differs from exposition, which can also relate a sequence of events, in that narration need not be factual and may be written from the perspective of a character in the text.
The generic structure of a narrative text:
1. Orientation         : Sets the scene and introduces the participants.
2. Complication     : A crisis arises
3. Resolution         : The crisis is resolved, for the better or for worse.
4. Re-orientation    : A closing remark or optional.
5. Evaluation         : A stepping back to evaluate the plight

The Example of Narrative Test
Golden Egg

Long time ago a remote village, in central China was inhabited mainly with farmers and hunters. One day, a poor farmer lost his entire livestock to flood. He prayed hard to God for help or his family would die of starvation.

Few days later, an old man with long grey beard, passed by his house took pity on him. He gave him a goose and said “ I don’t have any expensive thing to give you and hope this goose will help you to ease your hardship.”

A week later to almost surprise the farmer found and egg in his yard. This was no ordinary egg. It was a golden egg. He was suddenly overcome with joy.
Thereafter, his livelihood had rapidly improved but the farmer had forgotten his earlier hardship. He became lazy, arrogant and spendthrift.

Strangely, the goose only laid one golden egg every six months. The greedy farmer lost his patient and slaughtered his goose thinking there were plenty of golden eggs inside its stomach. Though he very much regretted for his foolishness, it’s already too late.

Rabbit and Bear

     Once upon a time, there lived as neighbors, a bear and a rabbit. The rabbit is a good shot. In contrary, the bear is always clumsy ad could not use the arrow to good advantage.
      One day, the bear called over the rabbit and asked the rabbit to take his bow and arrows and came with bear to the other side of the hill. The rabbit feared to arouse the bear's anger so he could not refuse it. He consented and went with the bear and shot enough buffalo to satisfy the hungry family. Indeed he shot and killed so many that there was lots of meat left after the bear and his family had loaded themselves and packed all they could carry home.
      The bear was very gluttonous and did not want the rabbit to get any of the meat. The rabbit could not even taste the blood from the butchering as the bear would throw earth on the blood and dry it up. The poor rabbit would have to go home hungry after his hard day's work.
      The bear was the father of five children. The youngest child was very kind to the rabbit. He was very hearty eater. The mother bear always gave him an extra large piece of meat but the youngest child did not eat it. He would take it outside with him and pretended to play ball with the meat. He kicked toward the rabbit's house and when he got close to the door he would give the meat with such a great kick. The meat would fly into the rabbit's house. In this way, the poor rabbit would get his meal unknown to the papa bear.

Exercises:
1.   Please make a narrative story using by your own word. Thereafter, move to your class and tell your story to your friends.
2.   Please choose 1 picture from the picture lists that provided by your tutor. Describes the picture and make it in short story. Arrange the story lead to narrative story. Thereafter, tell your story again toward your classmate.
3.   Please re-telling the golden egg story or rabbit and bear story by your own word.
4.   Please find another example of narrative story in source such as internet, magazine, newspaper, or other all and glue the story in your English note book. Translate the story into Indonesian language. 

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