An elephant is the largest and strongest animal. It is a strange looking animal with its thick legs, huge sides and backs, large hanging ears, a small tall, little eyes, long white tusks and above all it has a long noise, the trunk.

The trunk is the elephant’s peculiar feature, and it has various uses. The elephant draws up water by its trunk and can squirt it all over its body like a shower bath. It can also lift leaves and put them into its mouth. In fact the trunk serves the elephant as a long arm and hand. An elephant looks very clumsy and heavy and yet it can move very quickly.

The elephant is a very intelligent animal. Its intelligence combined with its great strength makes it a very useful servant to man and it can be trained to serve in various ways such as carry heavy loads, hunt for tigers and even fight.

  The text tells us about...

• Useful servant

• An elephant

• The Elephant’s peculiar feature

• Strange looking animal

An elephant is the largest and strongest animal. It is a strange looking animal with its thick legs, huge sides and backs, large hanging ears, a small tall, little eyes, long white tusks and above all it has a long noise, the trunk.

The trunk is the elephant’s peculiar feature, and it has various uses. The elephant draws up water by its trunk and can squirt it all over its body like a shower bath. It can also lift leaves and put them into its mouth. In fact the trunk serves the elephant as a long arm and hand. An elephant looks very clumsy and heavy and yet it can move very quickly.

The elephant is a very intelligent animal. Its intelligence combined with its great strength makes it a very useful servant to man and it can be trained to serve in various ways such as carry heavy loads, hunt for tigers and even fight.

The most distinguishing characteristic of an elephant is...

• Its clumsiness                                   

                        

• Its large ears

• Its large body

• Its long nose

An elephant is the largest and strongest animal. It is a strange looking animal with its thick legs, huge sides and backs, large hanging ears, a small tall, little eyes, long white tusks and above all it has a long noise, the trunk.

The trunk is the elephant’s peculiar feature, and it has various uses. The elephant draws up water by its trunk and can squirt it all over its body like a shower bath. It can also lift leaves and put them into its mouth. In fact the trunk serves the elephant as a long arm and hand. An elephant looks very clumsy and heavy and yet it can move very quickly.

The elephant is a very intelligent animal. Its intelligence combined with its great strength makes it a very useful servant to man and it can be trained to serve in various ways such as carry heavy loads, hunt for tigers and even fight.

 

The elephant draws up water by its trunk and can squirt it all over its body like a shower bath (paragraph 2). The word “it” refers to...

• Elephant’s trunk

• Elephant’s body

• A shower

• A shower bath

An elephant is the largest and strongest animal. It is a strange looking animal with its thick legs, huge sides and backs, large hanging ears, a small tall, little eyes, long white tusks and above all it has a long noise, the trunk.

The trunk is the elephant’s peculiar feature, and it has various uses. The elephant draws up water by its trunk and can squirt it all over its body like a shower bath. It can also lift leaves and put them into its mouth. In fact the trunk serves the elephant as a long arm and hand. An elephant looks very clumsy and heavy and yet it can move very quickly.

The elephant is a very intelligent animal. Its intelligence combined with its great strength makes it a very useful servant to man and it can be trained to serve in various ways such as carry heavy loads, hunt for tigers and even fight.

  The trunk is the elephant’s peculiar feature….(Paragraph2). The word “peculiar” is close in meaning to ….

• Tough

• Strange

• Large

• Smooth

An elephant is the largest and strongest animal. It is a strange looking animal with its thick legs, huge sides and backs, large hanging ears, a small tall, little eyes, long white tusks and above all it has a long noise, the trunk.

The trunk is the elephant’s peculiar feature, and it has various uses. The elephant draws up water by its trunk and can squirt it all over its body like a shower bath. It can also lift leaves and put them into its mouth. In fact the trunk serves the elephant as a long arm and hand. An elephant looks very clumsy and heavy and yet it can move very quickly.

The elephant is a very intelligent animal. Its intelligence combined with its great strength makes it a very useful servant to man and it can be trained to serve in various ways such as carry heavy loads, hunt for tigers and even fight.

 

   Which of the following is NOT part of the elephant described in the first paragraph?

• It is wild

• It is heavy      

• It looks strange

• It has a trunk

An elephant is the largest and strongest animal. It is a strange looking animal with its thick legs, huge sides and backs, large hanging ears, a small tall, little eyes, long white tusks and above all it has a long noise, the trunk.

The trunk is the elephant’s peculiar feature, and it has various uses. The elephant draws up water by its trunk and can squirt it all over its body like a shower bath. It can also lift leaves and put them into its mouth. In fact the trunk serves the elephant as a long arm and hand. An elephant looks very clumsy and heavy and yet it can move very quickly.

The elephant is a very intelligent animal. Its intelligence combined with its great strength makes it a very useful servant to man and it can be trained to serve in various ways such as carry heavy loads, hunt for tigers and even fight.

The third paragraph is mainly about the fact that….

• Elephants are strong

• Elephant are very useful

• Elephant must be trained

• Elephants can lift logs

An elephant is the largest and strongest animal. It is a strange looking animal with its thick legs, huge sides and backs, large hanging ears, a small tall, little eyes, long white tusks and above all it has a long noise, the trunk.

The trunk is the elephant’s peculiar feature, and it has various uses. The elephant draws up water by its trunk and can squirt it all over its body like a shower bath. It can also lift leaves and put them into its mouth. In fact the trunk serves the elephant as a long arm and hand. An elephant looks very clumsy and heavy and yet it can move very quickly.

The elephant is a very intelligent animal. Its intelligence combined with its great strength makes it a very useful servant to man and it can be trained to serve in various ways such as carry heavy loads, hunt for tigers and even fight.

   The text above is in the form of...

• Narrative        

• Recount

• Report

1)     Once upon a time there lived a little girl named Snow White. She lived with her aunt and uncle because her parents were dead.

2)     One day she heard her uncle and her aunt talking about leaving Snow White in the castle because they both wanted to go to America and they didn’t have enough money to take Snow White.

3)     Snow White didn’t want her uncle and aunt to do this so she decided it would be best if she ran away. The next morning she ran away into the woods.

4)     She was very tired and hungry.

5)     Then she saw this little cottage. She knocked but no one answered so she went inside and fell sleepy.

6)     Meanwhile, the seven dwarfs were coming home from work. They went inside. There they found Snow White sleeping. Then Snow White woke up. She saw the dwarfs. The dwarfs said, “What is your name?” Snow White said, “My name is Snow White.”

7)      Doc said, “If you wish, you may live here with us.” Snow White said, “Oh, could I? Thank you”. Then Snow White and the seven dwarfs lived happily ever after.  (Lampiran Contoh Texts Kurikulum 2004)

How do you know that it is a Narrative?

• The story is fiction    

• It has general participant     

• It has twist in it

• It uses present Tense

1)     Once upon a time there lived a little girl named Snow White. She lived with her aunt and uncle because her parents were dead.

2)     One day she heard her uncle and her aunt talking about leaving Snow White in the castle because they both wanted to go to America and they didn’t have enough money to take Snow White.

3)     Snow White didn’t want her uncle and aunt to do this so she decided it would be best if she ran away. The next morning she ran away into the woods.

4)     She was very tired and hungry.

5)     Then she saw this little cottage. She knocked but no one answered so she went inside and fell sleepy.

6)     Meanwhile, the seven dwarfs were coming home from work. They went inside. There they found Snow White sleeping. Then Snow White woke up. She saw the dwarfs. The dwarfs said, “What is your name?” Snow White said, “My name is Snow White.”

7)      Doc said, “If you wish, you may live here with us.” Snow White said, “Oh, could I? Thank you”. Then Snow White and the seven dwarfs lived happily ever after.  (Lampiran Contoh Texts Kurikulum 2004)

What sentence is the first resolution of the text?

• One day she heard her uncle and her aunt talking about leaving Snow White in the castle

• Once upon a time there lived a little girl named Snow White

• Snow White didn’t want her uncle and aunt to do this so she decided it would be best if she ran away

• She was very tired and hungry.

1)     Once upon a time there lived a little girl named Snow White. She lived with her aunt and uncle because her parents were dead.

2)     One day she heard her uncle and her aunt talking about leaving Snow White in the castle because they both wanted to go to America and they didn’t have enough money to take Snow White.

3)     Snow White didn’t want her uncle and aunt to do this so she decided it would be best if she ran away. The next morning she ran away into the woods.

4)     She was very tired and hungry.

5)     Then she saw this little cottage. She knocked but no one answered so she went inside and fell sleepy.

6)     Meanwhile, the seven dwarfs were coming home from work. They went inside. There they found Snow White sleeping. Then Snow White woke up. She saw the dwarfs. The dwarfs said, “What is your name?” Snow White said, “My name is Snow White.”

7)      Doc said, “If you wish, you may live here with us.” Snow White said, “Oh, could I? Thank you”. Then Snow White and the seven dwarfs lived happily ever after.  (Lampiran Contoh Texts Kurikulum 2004)

What is the goal of the text ?

•   to retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining

• to amuse, entertain and to deal with actual or vicarious  experience in different ways

• to describe how something is accomplished through a sequence of action or steps