Exercises

1. FARMING

Vocabulary

Match the words on the left column with their appropriate meaning in the right column!

1. Weeds a. membelah

2. To dig b. zat

3. Edge c. permukaan

4. To split d. Peralatan

5. Implement e. mesin-mesin

6. Furrow f. membor

7. Rough g. rumput liar

8. Surface h. Alur

9. Substances i. menggali

10. Machinery j. meratakan

11. To drill k. Tepi

12. to smooth l. Kasar

Reading

An agricultural appliance is an apparatus of farming. Indonesia is an agricultural country. So, many farmers in Indonesia usually use the following things for cultivating their farm. There are a hoe, a spade, a chopper an axe, a plough, a file, a pair of shears and a tractor. All of these things are very useful. What are they used for? A hoe is a tool used for the loosing the soil, uprooting weeds among growing crops, and the like. A spade is a tool for digging. A chopper is a heavy tool with a sharp edge used for chopping meat, wood and so forth. An axe is a tool used for felling trees, or splitting woods. A plough is an implement used for cutting furrows in soil and turning it up, drawn by animals or more usually a tractor. A file is a metal tool with rough surfaces used for cutting or smoothing hard substances. A pair of the shears is a large cutting leaves of the plants, grass, cloth or shearing motor-vehicle used for pulling agricultural machinery such a ploughs, drill and the like or other heavy equipment.

Questions:

1. What is the suitable title of the text above?
2. What kind of country is Indonesia?
3. How many farming apparat are mentioned are mentioned in the text above?
4. What are they?
5. What is function of the hoe, a file and a plough?

Writing

Arrange these sentences into a group paragraph

1. They used the tools by pulling
2. Later farmers trained animals to pull them.
3. Nowadays people try to make modern tools that are the best ones.
4. People learn to make hoes.
5. The first tools were called hand hoes
6. These modern tools make the farmer’s job easier than the hand hoes.

Reading

Short Message Service

Short Message Service (SMS) is the transmission of short text messages to and from a mobile phone of fax machine. Nowadays, many mobile phones are able to send SMS with more than 1.000 characters.

The main features of this service are speed, cheapness, and guarantee that your message will reach the target person, even if the person is out of radio coverage or his/her phone is turned off. Once a message is sent, it is received by a short message service center (SMSC), which then must send is to the appropriate mobile device. To do this, the SMSC find out the weather the subscribers’ device is active or inactive. If it is an inactive, the SMSC will hold the message for the period of the time. When the subscriber accesses the device, the SMSC will attempt delivery. A successful delivery is marked by the verification “message is send’ receive by the sender of SMS the SMSC will not attempt to send again.

Question:

1. Why is short message service so popular among mobile phone users?
2. When a person sends a message, first it is received by….
3. The word “subscriber” in the text means….
4. What is informed to the sender when a message is successful delivered?
5. What happens to the message, sent by a sender, if the receiver cellular telephone is inactive?

Writing

Make a funny story into a paragraph based with your experience related with mobile phone, and then read in front of the class.

Irregular Past Participles

1. Begin: We're late -- the game has already ______.

1. Begin
2. Begun
3. Began

2. Break: Shelley can't go skiing any more. She has ______ her leg.

1. Broken
2. Broke
3. Break

3. Become: In the last few years, it has ______ more and more difficult to get into college.

1. Became
2. Becume
3. Become

4. Bring: Duncan's here, and he's ______ some sandwiches!

1. Brought
2. Braught
3. Brung

5. Choose: She's getting married in a week, and she hasn't ______ her dress yet.

1. Choosen
2. Chose
3. Chosen

6. Drink: It's so hot that I've ______ five cans of Coke already this afternoon.

1. Drunk
2. Drank
3. Drunken

7. Eat: You've ______ my lunch! How dare you!

1. Eaten
2. ate
3. Aten

8. Fall: The price of oil has ______ rapidly since January.

1. Felt
2. fell
3. Fallen

9. Feel: I've never ______ so good!

1. Felt
2. Feelen
3. Fold

10. Hear: Have you ______ about the accident?

1. Heared
2. Hear
3. Heard

Tourism

Reading

Visiting Prambanan Temple

On Thursday, Darmaewan’s family decided to visit Prambanan Temple. When they came there, there were many tourists visiting that place. There was also a group of foreigners. They were fro Europe. They brought small bags with them to keep their passport. A guide explained about the temples to them.

Prambanan temples are Indonesia’s most beautiful and most imposing Hindu temples. There are many temples in the complex. But the main candies are candies dedicated to Shiva, Vishnu, and brahma. The statues of Pramnbanan are among the most beautiful ever found in Java. Bas-reliefs carved in the temples depict the stiory of King Rama, of the famous Ramayana epic.

During the evening in the dry season when the moon is full between the month of June and October, the Ramayana ballet is performed on an open stage to the west of the complex.

Question :

1. Where did they see when they came to Prambanan temple?
2. Where did they come from?
3. What is a guide
4. Why are Prambanan temples said to be the most beautiful and most imposing Hindu temple?
5. When is Ramayana ballet performed?