DESCRIPTIVE A descriptive paragraph describes how a person/thing looks or feels.

In descriptive paragraphs, you can describe people, places, objects, or events. The main purpose is to create an image in readers minds. In short, it is a kind of painting with the words.

Example: GREGORY

Gregory is my beautiful gray Persian cat. He walks with pride and grace, performing a dance of disdain as he slowly lifts and lowers each paw with the delicacy of a ballet dancer. His pride, however, does not extend to his appearance, for he spends most of his time indoors watching television and growing fat. He enjoys TV commercials, especially those for Meow Mix and 9 Lives. His familiarity with cat food commercials has led him to reject generic brands of cat food in favor of only the most expensive brands. Gregory is as finicky about visitors as he is about what he eats, befriending some and repelling others. He may snuggle up against your ankle, begging to be petted, or he may imitate a skunk and stain your favorite trousers. Gregory does not do this to establish his territory, as many cat experts think, but to humiliate me because he is jealous of my friends. After my guests have fled, I look at the old fleabag snoozing and smiling to himself in front of the television set, and I have to forgive him for his obnoxious, but endearing, habits.

Listening: 1. What is Gregory? 2. What race is it? 3. How Gregory walks? 4. How does Gregory spend most of his time? 5. What does Gregory do to the guest it does not like?

Reading: 1. What colour is Gregory? Gray 2. What TV commercials does Gregory enjoy most? Meow Mix and 9 Lives

3. What does Gregorys owner compare its walk with? A ballet dancer 4. Does Gregory like play outdoor? No, it does not 5. Why does Gregory do bad things to the guest? Because it jealous to them 6. Does Gregory like generic brand of cat food? No, it does not 7. What does Gregory do for spend most of his time? Watching television and growing fat 8.

NARRATIVE

Narration: A story that is written to explain what, when, and who. It reveals what a reader should learn. Narration paragraphs are usually written in chronological order.

It should make a clear point: it should bring to life a moral, lesson, or idea.

While it is true a narrative is a story, there is more in the telling of the story. The narrative, or story, needs to make the reader feel involved, teach a lesson, help get an idea across, or feel emotionally about it. The narrative needs to explain who is in the story, tell what is happening, and when it happened. The topic sentence needs to be clear so the reader knows they are going to learn something from the story. The story itself is written in time, or chronological order, as the events occured.

Example: Peddling On My Own Learning how to ride a bike for the first time was a nerve racking independent moment. I was about five years old when my sister informed me that I was too old to still be riding a bike with training wheels. That was the time I decided not to depend on them anymore. Even though I had some doubt, my sister and I went outside and started to take the little wheels off my bike. After my bike went through the transformation, I was now ready for the big moment. With butterflies in my stomach, I slowly got on the bike, and with my shaky hands, I gripped the handles tightly. Meanwhile my sister was holding on to me to help keep my balance. I was so afraid the she would let go, yet I was determined to ride this bike on my own. Next with a little push from her, I started to peddle. The faster my bike went the faster my heart raced. Finally I looked back nervously and noticed that my sister let go of my bike a long time ago. I was so excited that I accomplished freedom on my bike that I forgot to peddle. The next step I remember, I was lying on the ground, yet I did not care because of the adrenaline rush. I will never forget the exhilarating moment and growing up stage of riding a bike without training wheels. My First Time In The Emergency Room I went to the Emergency Room for the first time when I was thirteen years old. It all came about when I was skateboarding in front of my grandma's house and I tried to do a trick. I almost pulled it of, but I messed it up in the end and headed to the ground with my hands down. My right wrist was twisted the wrong way in the air when I landed hard on the ground, it just broke it. At first it did not hurt at all, but when I looked down at my warped and twisted wrist , all of a sudden excruciating pain rushed through my wrist and I came unglued. Rolling around on the ground yelling and cussing in pain, my parents saw what happened and came running to my aid. My dad started moving it around saying, "it's not broken," as my mom was saying over and over again we need to go to the emergency room to get the real

diiagnosis. After about fifteen minutes of yelling and screaming, I finally got up and held my wrist as I walked to the car. The whole way to the ER the pain got worse and worse. Later I foound out the increase in pain was due to massive swelling against the broken bone. I had to sit in the waiting room for almost and hour which seemed loke forever. After waiting impatiently, I finally got into the doctor's office where I got an X-Ray and found out my wrist was truley broken. Listening: 1. What age was the writer of the first paragraph learn to ride bike without training wheels? 2. Who was help the writer of the first paragraph learn to ride bike? 3. What was the writer of the first paragraphs feel about his/her first try to ride a bike? 4. What age was the writer of the second paragraph go to the emergency room for the first time? 5. What caused the writer of the second paragraph go to the emergency room?

Reading:

NEWS ITEM Definition A news item text is a text which is grouped into the text genre of narration. The main function of narration is is telling stories or informing about events in chronological order. The order in the narration can be based of time, place and the events them selves.

Purpose News Item Text is used to inform readers about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important.

Generic Structure The main Generic Structure of News Item Text: 1. Newsworthy event(s) 2. Elaboration ( background, participant, time, place ) 3. Resource of information Example: Pamekasan student wins math contest in Romania

Alyssa Diva Mustika, a student from Pamekasan Junior High School, East Java, won the gold medal at the International Mathematics Contest held in Romania between March 22 to 29, Antara news agency reported. Speaking to journalists, Diva said she was glad that she had been able to win the competition, which she said had been very tight. Thank God I won. I will study harder, she said. Indonesia sent 10 students to the competition in Romania. Diva is not the first Pamekasan student to win an international science competition. Oktavian Latief, a student from SMA Negeri 1 Pamekasan won gold at the International Physics Olympiad in 2006. Another student, Shohibul Maromi, won the same award in 2010. I thank Diva for giving a good name to Indonesia and Pamekasan on the international stage, Pamekasan Regent Kholilurrahman said as quoted by Antara. Town Contaminated Moscow A Russian journalist has uncovered evidence of another Soviet nuclear catastrophe , which killed 10 sailors andcontaminated an entire town. Yelena Vazrshavskya is the first journalist to speak to people who witnessed the

explosion of a nuclear submarine at the naval base of shkotovo 22 near Vladivostock. The accident, which occurred 13 months before the Chernobyl disaster , spreadradioactive fall-out over the base and nearby town , but was covered up by officials of the Soviet Union. Residents were told the explosion i n the reactor of the Victor-class submarine during a refit had been a thermal and not a nuclear explosion. And those involved in the clean up operation to remove more than 600 tones of contaminated material were sworn to secrecy. A board of investigators was later to describeit as the worst accident in the history of the Soviet Navy.