Bahan Ajar Bahasa Inggris

Materi Pembelajaran Bahasa Inggris kelas VIII

Standar Kompetensi: Memahami makna teks tulis fungsional dan esei pendek sederhana 
                               berbentuk descriptive dan recount yang berkaitan dengan
                               lingkungan sekitar.

Kompetensi dasar:  Merespon makna dan langkah retorika  dalam esei pendek sederhana 
                            secara akurat, lancar dan berterima untuk berinteraksi dengan 
                            lingkungan sekitar dalam teks berbentuk descriptive dan recount.

Indikator: 

• menemukan tujuan komunikatif teks
• menentukan gambaran umum
• menentukan informasi tersurat/tersirat
• menentukan rujukan kata
• menentukan makna kata

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

What is descriptive?

Descriptive text is a kind of text that describe the characteristic of :

• a person
• an animal
• a place
• thing
• etc

The purpose

To describe a particular person, animal, place or thing.

Generic Structure

It mainly consists of two main parts:

• Identification

        This part introduces where and who the subject being described.

• Description

        Supporting paragraph which describes in detail, so the reader can 'see' and 'feel'

        the subject.

        For example: the qualities, appearances, uses, habits, etc.

Grammatical Features

• Adjectives                                                                                              (small,big, beautiful, ugly, clever, soft, hard, thick, thin......etc)
• Pronouns                                                                                                        (He, She, It, They, We, I, You, him, her, them, us, me)
• Verbs
• Present tense                                                                                         (sometimes it uses past tense if the things to be described doesn't exist anymore)
• Adverbs
• Noun Phrase                                                                                                       (very thick fur, a beautiful young lady)

BAHAN AJAR

Activity 1

     Question and answer

• look at the picture!
• do you know what is it?
• have you ever seen this before?
• have you ever gone there?

 

National Monument

Activity 2

Read the following text!

          The National Monument (Monumen nasional) is a 132-m tower in the center of Merdeka square, Central Jakarta. it symbolizes the fight for Indonesia's independence. The monument consists of a 117.7 m obelisk on a 45 m square platform at a height of 17 m.

          The towering monument symbolizes the philosophy of lingga and yoni. Lingga resembles a pestle (alu) and yoni resembles a mortar (lesung), two importants items in Indonesian agricultural tradition. 

          The construction began in 1961 under the direction of President Soekarno and the monument was opened to the public in 1975. It is topped by a flame covered with gold foil. The monument and museum are open daily from 08.00 a.m. - 03.00 p.m. throughout the week, except for the last Monday of the month, when the museum is closed.