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| Spoof Text: The Boss And The Trainee |
| 2012-02-07 10:21:00 |
Reading a funny story is interesting. Surely it will make us laugh. Relating to funny story, students of high school are very familiar with the text with unpredictable ending. This an unpredictable plot in the end of the story is called twist. The text which a twist end it, then we categorize as a spoof text. Let's read the following short spoof text which I find in superlaugh.The Boss and The TraineeA Man joined a big Multi National Company as a trainee. On his first day he dialed the pantry and shouted into the phone, "Get me a coffee quickly!"The voice from the other side responded, "You fool you've dialed the wrong extension! Do you know who you're talking to, dumbo?"No", replied the trainee."It's the Managing Director of the company, you fool!" The man shouted back, "And do you know who YOU are talking to, you fool?""No", replied the Managing Director. "Thats Good!", replied the trainee and put down the phone!...
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| Typical Questions Following Text Types |
| 2012-02-06 09:52:00 |
Learning English in high school is designed through text types based. Student is presented several kind of text which is commonly used in their daily life. The texts then are followed by some questions. They are generalized into some categories.1. Main idea or main topic. Such questions refer to the general thing of the content. Sometime they go to the title of the text. Common question which ask the main idea or topic can be some things like:Which of the following is the most suitable title…?What is the suitable topic of the passage?The text mainly tells us about.......2. Specific information. What is meant by such specific information? This question ask the specific and detail information included in the text. This specific information can be a name, place, date, year, etc3.Implied information. This typical question need the skill to read between the lines as it is not stated clearly in the text3. Meaning of the word. It can be synonym, antonym, and word reference4. Kind of the te...
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| Spoof Text: Abu Ali Counts his Donkeys |
| 2012-02-01 08:51:00 |
Spoof text is quite entertaining as well as educating. I find a very funny story of Abu Ali and his new donkey. It is a folktale from the Middle East. This story, which I think, can be labelled as spoof text is appropriate for children. Here is the story...One day Abu Ali went to the fair, and bought nine donkeys. He rode home on one of them the rest of the donkeys followed behind.After a while Abu Ali said to himself, “I must make sure all my donkeys are here.” And he turned round to count them.“One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Oh! Where’s number nine?” Abu Ali criedHe jumped down from his donkey. He looked behind the rocks and behind the trees. But there was no donkey to be seen.“I’ll count them again,” Abu Ali said. “One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Oh, he must have come back.”So Abu Ali climbed back on to the donkey and trotted away.After a while he counted his donkeys again. He counted only eight! Once more he looked behind...
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| Recount Text: Lovely Party |
| 2012-01-25 06:50:00 |
Recount text is majorly written in past tense mode. As it tells the story of of certain experience, it must be written in simple past tense, past continuous tense or past perfect tense. Recount text is very similar to narrative text. But recount text does not explore any complication among the participants, rather it recounts the event per event which happened in the last time. Take a look at the following example of recount text about love starts at the partyLove Story Started Again at the Lovely PartyIt was Friday again, the day for famous parties at Wellington High School. Students were dancing in the garden and everyone was enjoying the pleasure of being away from boring lessons.When Sarah came to the party, the music had already started. Tim suddenly noticed Sarah and felt shocked. He had been looking for her for 2 years. They met each other at a holiday camp in 1999, but mysteriously Sarah disappeared after a while. He had been thinking about her since then. At the party, Sarah...
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| Narrative Text: Love Story of Antony and Cleopatra |
| 2012-01-16 04:08:00 |
Mark Antony became one of the three rulers of the Roman Empire, together with Octavius Caesar and Lepidus, and was responsible for the eastern part of the empire. He fell in love with Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt.As his wife had just died Antony married Octavius’ sister, Octavia, in an attempt to heal the rift between the two emperors. When Cleopatra heard about Antony’s marriage she flew into a jealous rage as she knew that Antony did not love Octavia. Antony went to Athens when war broke out between Caesar and Pompey, Antony sent Octavia back to Rome and he returned to Egypt.Caesar was very angry with Antony’s behaviour and he declared war on both Antony and Cleopatra. When the Romans arrived, Antony was offered a choice of how to fight. He chose to fight on sea. The Egyptian navy was inadequate. When Cleopatra’s navy turned and fled, Antony followed them. Caesar defeated him.Antony got news that Cleopatra was dead. Antony was devastated and decided to kill himself. He woun...
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| Text Based Approach for Learning English in High School |
| 2012-01-05 21:53:00 |
It's time to go to school again. After getting the holiday, day off in learning text genres, it's time to learn several kinds of text again.Learning English for high school is designed with the concept of text-based approach. There are several kinds of text which are learnt by students of high school. The texts are learnt as the functional language for students' daily communication. Of course, learning English in high school does not forget to learn some grammar and structure, tenses, vocabularies, etc. However, these elements of English is not taught separately.The texts which should be learnt by students of high school cover four fields of functional language. They are:1. Procedural text. It includes procedure and explanation texts2. Informational text. It has four varieties. They are descriptive text, report, news item, and review3. Story text. This story text covers narrative text, spoof, and recount4. Persuasive text. It includes analytical exposition, hortatory exposition, and d...
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| Example of Discussion Text "The Advantages and Disadvantages of Homeschooling" |
| 2011-11-24 07:09:00 |
Homeschooling is an alternative way to educate our kids beside sending them to public school. Homeschooling is becoming more popular every day. There are about two million children currently learning at home. However it has some advantages and disadvantages.Parents choose homeschooling to educate their kids because they believe that homeschooling can be a personalized schedule. Home schooling allows parents and children to work out a schedule that will best work for the child.Another advantage is flexibility in time and curriculum. By home schooling parents can set the curriculum around vacation, illnesses, and other surprise eventOn the other hand, homeschooling can spoil parents' time. Homeschooling needs a lot of time in preparation and delivery. Parents have to research topics, prepare the lessons, set up the projects and field the trips.So, when thinking about putting children through home school, we should make sure that we understand all of the criteria involved in the home e...
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| Example of Discussion Text "The Advantage and Disadvantage of the Internet" |
| 2011-11-23 06:58:00 |
Computer, tablet, mobile phone, and other devices connected to Internet have been the most outstanding innovation in the history of mankind. As with every single innovation, internet has its own advantages and disadvantages.The target of internet has always been the communication. By the advent of computer's Internet, our earth has reduced and has attained the form of a global village. Now we can communicate in a fraction of second with a person who is sitting in the other parts of the world. Today for better communication, we can avail the facilities of e-mail; we can chat for hours with our loved ones. There are plenty messenger services in offering. With help of such services, it has become very easy to establish a kind of global friendship.However, Internet also has disadvantageous sides. One of them is the wide spread of unsuitable content for kids. It is a very serious issue and related to children's healthy mental life. There are thousands of such inappropriate contents on the ...
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| After High School; an Example of Discussion Text |
| 2011-11-21 11:26:00 |
Going to college or getting a job right after graduating high school is the common choices of teens will likely face. Some likely choose to continue studying at college or university but the others try to find job. Here are the reasons.Why is it so important for student to continue on to post-secondary education; university or college? The reason is that post-secondary education will allow them to get the skills and tools that they will need to help them prepare for a good career. It has been said that the more education they have the more careers will be open for them to choose from. Employers today will tend to be more open to a person with the more education.However some of them choose to get job right after high school. They believe that education is critical but college is not. In fact, there are numerous careers, such as in healthcare, technology, operations, transportation, and the building trades, that do not require a four-year degree from college or university. Furthermore...
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| Example of Discussion Text "School Uniform" |
| 2011-11-20 07:39:00 |
What is discussion text? Discussion is a text which presents a problematic discourse. This problem will be discussed from different points of view. This kind of text is commonly found in philosophical, historic, and social text. Read the following example of discussion text!The Pros and Cons of School UniformSchool uniforms are dress codes that are determined by the teaching institutions and students has to follow the designed code obediently everyday. Many people believe that school uniforms should be applied but the others don't.Uniforms have various advantages for both the family and the child. A united school apparel can relief a financial stress of the backs of many families. As kids tend to compete and imitate each other, the race of following new trends in fashion or, providing different attire for every school day is considered a financial burden, not every family can afford it.Additionally, a uniform creates a sense of equality between all pupils. Young kids tend to judge oth...
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