Narrative Text
Fox and A Cat
One day, a cat and a fox were having a conversation. The fox, who was a conceited creature, boasted
how clever she was. “Why, I know at least a hundred tricks to get away from our mutual enemies,
the dogs,” she said.
“I know only one trick to get away from dogs,” said the cat. “You should teach me some of yours!”.
“Well, maybe someday, when I have the time, I may teach you a few of the simpler ones”, replied
the fox airily.
Just then they heard the barking of a pack of dogs in the distance. The barking grew louder and
louder – the dogs were coming in their direction! At once the cat ran to the nearest tree and climbed
into its branches, well out of reach of any dog. “This is the trick I told you about, the only one I
know”, said the cat. “Which one of your hundred tricks are you going to use?”.
The fox sat silently under the tree, wondering which trick she should use. Before she could make up
her mind, the dogs arrived. They fell upon the fox and tore her to pieces.
Moral: A single plan that works is better than a hundred doubtful plans.
Descriptive Text
My Family
My family has four members: those are I, my sister, and parents of course.
My mother is 59 years old. Her name’s Mahdalena. She’s thin-faced and she has short black-haired,
with several grey hairs. And her black eyes are beautiful. She is still slim because she always tries to
stay in shape. Her hobby is cooking, so she always prepare some delicious cook for us.
My father, Muhammad Taufik, is 6 years younger than my mother. He is 53. In spite of his age he’s
still black-haired, with several grey hairs. He has bright black eyes and kinda brownish. He is quite
tall, but a bit shorter than me. He’s very hard-working. Besides that he is an entrepreneur. His
cooking and his meals are always very tasty as well as my mothers.
Finally, my sister Dea. She is 19. She is also black-haired and brownish-eyed. She has long wavy hair
and kinda chubby. She is definitely shorter than me. She is rather introverted. But she is very
sensible, smart and co-operative. Right now she is studying Goverment Accounting in the same
university with me.
Persuasive Text
The Great Mobile Phone Debate
Should children use mobiles?
Many children now possess a mobile phone and they are fast becoming the latest fashion item.
Children continue to use mobiles despite the obvious risk to their health. Mobile phones emit a
dosage of radiation, which is harmful to the user and cause severe brain damage.
Mobiles are useful, however. They enable parents to maintain contact with their children whenever
they need to. There are also obvious benefits to their use in emergency situations.
The recent rise in crimes associated with mobiles is a worrying trend: many of our children are under
threat of violence merely by the possession of a phone.
Parents should think carefully before purchasing a mobile phone for their child.
Argumentative Text
The most considerable aspect of a job is the salary. Do you agree or disagree with the following
statement?
Introduction: Everybody often thinks that the most significant aspect of their job is only the money
they earn. Despite other’s people opinion, I cannot agree with this point of view, because money is
not the first thing we need. There are many things much more considerable than dollars, euros etc.
Paragraph with the main reason 1: From the very beginning I want to remember, that the most
valuable in your job is to derive pleasure from work. If you want to be really happy, than money
shouldn’t be number one in your life. At work we spent a lot of our time and it is very significant to
like what you are doing. You cannot earn all money in the world, but every day you can get up and
smiling, looking forward to start a new day at your favorite job. For example, you hate cooking, but
you can have a well-paid job in a very expensive restaurant. At the same time you are fond of
writing, and you also have an opportunity to write for one newspaper, which is not very popular
now. Only you can make the right choice. But I am absolutely sure, that money from work which you
hate won't make you happy! That is why your inner satisfaction is more important than your salary.
Paragraph with the main reason 2: Secondly, if you continue doing what you like it will give you a lot
of motives to be better and, of course, you will have your career growth. No doubts that there is an
interrelation between your love to your job and its results. It is scientifically proved that those who
do favorite jobs have bigger results. Today you can be an ordinary journalist in the loyal newspaper,
but in a year or so you can be the main editor, than you may create your own magazine or a
newspaper or become a famous writer. Everything depends on you, but if you like your job you will
be interested to become better than others. And of course your salary will become higher.
Conclusion: To sum it up I just want to remember, that the most important aspect of your job is your
love to your job, because it makes you satisfied, motivated and later well-paid worker.
The influence of the internet
Technology development goes along with the development of the world. Currently the technology is
growing very rapidly, especially the development internet. Almost all of areas of the world such as
industry, business, education, entertainment, etc. use the Internet as media to help their works.
Internet has a variety of functions such as communication functions, data exchange, source of media
information and much more. One of the functions which used by internet user the most is internet
as source of media information. By using internet, they can get information quickly and easily.
Nevertheless, the ease of information that can be obtained from the internet gives a positive and
negative impact for users of the Internet itself. Here are the positive and negative impacts posed by
the Internet that can be perceived by the consumer.
There are so many positive impacts which can be felt by internet users such as: Internet users can
get the information easily and quickly. By simply entering a keyword in the search engines, they will
get what they are looking for. Internet users can also view location that wanted to see and very far
without going to the location. This function can be obtained by using features such as Google earth.
Moreover, Internet can be used by employers as media promotion. They can introduce their
products for free and easily on the internet. Internet users especially students also can get so many
references from books and material which is available on internet for free. There are so many sites
that provide a wide range of references such as scientific journals, Wikipedia and many more. And
the last, internet users can find out about the world and interact with all of the world’s population
using social media such as Facebook, twitter and others.
Besides having a positive impact, the Internet also has some negative impact for its users such as:
the freedom of information that can be obtained on the internet can be abused by its user. They use
internet to open the forbidden sites such as pornography, gambling and others. These sites are
accessible to people of all of ages whenever and wherever. Internet also can be used by people who
are not responsible for hacking into secret archives in cyberspace. Commonly the perpetrators of
these crimes are called hackers. They can even disrupt a country just by using the Internet.
In addition, Internet also can make most of students lazy to think about their task given by teacher
because almost all of lessons they can get on the internet. Internet also decreases the role of library
in real life. Library which is used as a place to read and find information is no longer used. Today
students prefer using internet by accessing online media or references that they can get on the
internet.
From the short discussion above, we can conclude that internet has a positive and negative side that
could impact its users. Therefore, by seeing the impacts caused by the Internet, users have to be
smart in using the Internet. We do not abuse the wealth and freedom of information contained in
the internet technology to do something negative.
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Pengaruh perkembangan internet
Perkembangan technology berjalan seiring dengan perkembangan dunia. Saat ini teknologi sudah
berkembang dengan sangat pesat terutama perkembangan dunia internet. Hampir seluruh bidang di
dunia ini seperti industry, bisnis, pendidikan, hiburan, dll. menggunakan Internet sebagai media
untuk membantu pekerjaan mereka. Internet memiliki berbagai macam fungsi seperti fungsi
komunikasi, pertukaran data, media pencari informasi dan masih banyak lagi. Salah satu fungsi
internet yang paling banyak digunakan oleh penggunanya adalah internet sebagai sumber informasi.
Dengan internet mereka bisa mendapatkan informasi dengan cepat dan mudah. Kemudahan
informasi yang bisa diperoleh dari internet ini memberikan dampak positif maupun negatif bagi
pengguna internet itu sendiri. Berikut adalah dampak positif dan negative yang ditimbulkan oleh
internet yang dapat dirasakan oleh para penggunannya.
Ada banyak dampak positif yang bisa dirasakan oleh pengguna internet antara laian: pengguna
internet bisa mendapatkan informasi dengan cepat dan mudah. Dengan hanya memasukan kata
kunci pada mesin pencari, mereka akan mendapatkan apa yang mereka cari dengan cepat. Pengguna
internet juga dapat melihat lokasi yang diinginkan dan sangat jauh tanpa pergi ke lokasinya. Hal ini
bisa didapatkan dengan menggunakan fitur google seperti Google earth.
Terlebih lagi internet bisa dimanfaatkan oleh para pengusaha sebagai media promosi. Mereka bisa
memperkenalkan produk-produk mereka dengan mudah dan gratis di internet. Pengguna internet
khusunya pelajar juga bisa mendapatkan referensi-referensi dari buku ataupun materi yang tersedia
secara gratis di internet. Banyak situs-situs yang menyediakan berbagai macam referensi seperti
jurnal-jurnal ilmiah, Wikipedia dan masih banyak lagi. Dan yang terakhir pengguna internet bisa
mengetahui tentang dunia dan berinteraksi dengan semua penduduk dunia dengan menggunakan
media-media sosial seperti facebook, twitter dan lain-lain.
Selain memiliki dampak positif, Internet juga memiliki beberapa dampak negative bagi penggunanya
yaitu: kebebasan informasi yang bisa didapatkan di internet bisa disalahgunakan. Mereka bisa
membuka situs-situs terlarang seperti pornografi, perjudian dan lain-lain. Situs-situs ini dapat
diakses oleh semua orang dari berbagai usia kapanpun dan dimanapun. Selain itu internet juga bisa
digunakan oleh orang-orang yang tidak bertanggung jawab untuk melakukan penyusupan ke dalam
arsip-arsip rahasia di dunia maya. Biasanya pelaku kejahatan ini disebut hacker. Mereka bahkan bisa
mengacaukan sebuah Negara hanya dengan mengunakan internet.
Internet juga bisa membuat sebagian pelajar malas untuk memikirkan tugas yang diberikan oleh
guru karena hampir semua bahan pelajaran bisa mereka dapatkan dengan mudah di internet.
Internet juga menggeser peran perpustakaan di kehidupan nyata. Perpustakaan yang merupakan
tempat membaca dan mencari informasi sudah tidak lagi digunakan. Para pelajar saat ini lebih
memilih media online ataupun referensi-referensi yang bisa mereka dapatkan di internet.
Dari diskusi di atas, dapat kita simpulkan bahwa internet memiliki sisi positive dan sisi negative yang
bisa berdampak pada penggunanya. Oleh karena itu, dengan melihat dampak-dampak yang
ditimbulkan oleh internet, pengguna harus lebih cerdas dalam memanfaatkan Internet, jangan
menyalahgunakan kekayaan dan kebebasan informasi yang terdapat dalam teknologi internet untuk
berbuat sesuatu yang negative.
Indonesian Education Now
Education is a form of factor which can reflect how’s the country looks like,
Development or developing? Indonesia is the developing country. We are not a poor
country like others countries in the Africa continent. Based on the fact, The education
which as the main factor to build the great generation
Education is the strongest way to be survive, as the key to assesses of someone’s
successes. On the scope of the state, education is the main instrument in the formation of
future generation. The success of a country depends on the quality of Human Resources
Indonesia, with one of the ideals contained in the preamble of the 1945 Constitution, as
like paragraph 4 “the intellectual life of the nation“ as the promise of independence. And
the only exeptions to reach that goal is a knowledge.
But in 2010 there are 1.080.000 student quited their study because of the high cost
education. There prefer to not study and work to make a money rto survve their life. This
is a bad situation if Indonesia wants to be developed country, We must get the better
education first.
The Infrastructure being the second problems that Indonesia have in education sector.
This is so pity by seeing the region in the east of Indonesia that students there cannot go
to school comfortably and they get only a broken facility in their school, like roof, floor,
and also chair and board the school have.
The third is when looking the uneven distribution education in every region in
Indonesia. Not all the city can have the equals education. Means in the small village and
compare to big cities is totally different in all the aspect.
So this is the homework of government to solve the problemor case in education sector
in purpose to get better place in Indonesia especially Education.
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Pendidikan Indonesia Saat Ini
Pendidikan merupakan bentuk dari pandangan bagaimana keadaan di suatu Negara saat
ini. Hal ini menjadi factor penting seperti apa yang terjadi, Apakah maju atau sedang
berkembang? Indonesia adalah Negara berkembang. Kita ini kaya dan juga tidak miskin
seperti Negara di benua Afrika. Dan faktanya pendidikan adalah factor utama untuk
membangun generasi yang lebih baik.
Pendidikan adalah jalan penting dalam berkembang, sebagai kunci [enting kesuksesan
seseoramg. Atau pendidikan merupakan instrument utama dalam pembentukan
generasi masa depan. Kesuksesan suatu Negara bergantung dari kualitas sumber daya
manusianya.
Indonesia, seperti yang tercantum di UUD 1945, di paragraph ke 4 “………mencerdaskan
kehidupan bangsa,……” itu artinya adalah suatu bentuk janji Negara untuk mencapai itu.
Tetapi tahun 2010 ada 1.080.000 siswa yang outus sekolah karena tidak mampu untuk
membiayai sekolah. Mereka lebih memilih untuk tidak belajar dan lebih ingin bekerja
mencari uang dalam bertahan hidup. Ini adalah situasi yang tidak baik jika Indonesia
ingin menjadi Negara maju, Kita harus mendapatkan pendidikan yang lebih baik.
Infrastruktur menjadi permasalahan kedua yang Indonesia miliki di sector pendidikan.
Ini sanagt memprihatinkan ketika melihat daerah-daerah di Indonesia timur yang
siswanya sulit untuk pergi kesekolah dan mereka juga hanay mendapatkan fasilitas
sekolah yang kurang memadai seperti atap bocor, lantai juga, dan kursi serta papan tulis
yang rusak.
Pemerataan pendidikan pun yang menjadi permasalahan ketiga ini tidak ada di semua
daerah. Tidak semua kota mendapatkan pendidikan yang sama. Berarti ketika kita
membandingkan di desa terpencil dengan di kota besar sangatalah jauh.
Jadi Inilah tugas pemerintah untuk menyelesaikan masalaha yang ada di sector
pendidikan sehingga Indonesia memiliki pendidikan yang lebih baik.