Recount Text: Going to a Department Store & My Trip in Greece

Level: English for Junior Junior High School
Grade 8 Semester 2
24-hours online learning

In this part of the test, the students are trained to understand recount text. There are two recount texts in this part, the first entitled Going to a Department Store and another one is My Trip in Greece. There are ten questions about those passages which are in the form of multiple choices. The students have to get at least 80 to pass.

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Facebook

Level: English for Junior and Senior High School
24-hours online learning

Facebook

Facebook is a social networking service launched in February 2004, owned and operated by Facebook Inc. As of September 2012, Facebook has over one billion active users, more than half of them using Facebook on a mobile device. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notification when they update their profile.

Users can create profiles with photos, lists of personal interest, contact information, and other personal information. Users can communicate with friends and other users through private or public message and a chat feature. They can also create and join interest group and "like pages".

Facebook has affected the social life and activity of people in various ways. With its availability on many mobile devices, Facebook allows users to continuously stay in touch with friends, relatives and other acquaintances wherever they are in the world, as long as there is access to the internet. It can also unite people with common interests and/or beliefs through groups and other pages, and has been known to reunite lost family members and friends.

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Stage 1 - UN Games for SMP

Level: English for Junior High School
24-hours online learning.

UN Game is essentially the same as Simulation test or Tryout, which is specialized for the students of junior high school and is designed to measure the students' readiness to take English National Exam. However, the students must complete a series of stages from the lowest stage to the highest one. The content of this test is arranged in accordance with the passing standard determined by the department of education and culture of Indonesia.

The test consists of 25 questions in which some materials, such as Caution, Invitation, Short Message, Advertisement, Letter, and Procedure Text, are tested. All the questions are in the form of multiple choice and the students must complete this test for 45 minutes. The passing grade of this test is 8.00. If the students achieve the target score, they will be able to take the higher stage.

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A Cruel King

Level: English for Junior High School
24-hours online learning

A Cruel King

Once upon a time there was a cruel king. Everyone was afraid of him. The people were very poor, because the king took all their money. One day the king's soldiers brought a poor man to the palace. The man didn't have any money and so he couldn't pay his taxes. "If you don't pay immediately, I'll kill you," said the king. "I can't pay," said the poor man, "because I haven't got any money." "Then you must die!" said the king. "GO"

The man fell to the floor." "Please let me go, Your Majesty," he said. "If you don't kill me, I'll teach your horse to talk." The king had a wonderful white horse, and he was very proud of it. He smiled. "All right, he said, you can have one year. If you teach the horse to talk, I'll give you gold and silver. But if you don't, I'll kill you. "GO"

Two soldiers took the man to the horse's stable. "You're stupid," said one of the two soldiers. "You can't teach a horse to talk. It's impossible. At the end of the year, the king will kill you." "Ah," said the man, "I'm not stupid. Before the end of the year four things might happen. The king might die. I might die. The horse might die ... or ... the horse might talk!"

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Microscope

Level: English for Junior and Senior High School
24-hours online learning

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Microscope

Microscope (from the Greek: micros, "small", and skopedia, "to look" or "to see" is an instrument used to see objects that are too small to the naked eyes. The science of investigating small objects using such instrument is called microscopy. Microscopic means invisible to the eye unless aided by a microscope.

There are many types of microscope. The most common and first to be invented is the optical microscope which uses light to image sample. Other major types of microscopes are the electron microscope and the various types of scanning probe microscope. The first microscope to be developed was the optical microscope although the original inventor is not easy to identify. An early microscope was made in 1590 in Middelburg, Netherlands. Two eyeglass makers variously given credit were Hans Lippershey and Zacharias Jansenn.

It was not until the 1660s and 1970s that the microscope was used extensively for research in Italy, Holland, and England. Marcelo Malpigi in Italy began the analysis of biological structures beginning with the lungs. The greatest contribution came from Antoiy Van Leeuwenhoek who discovered red blood cells and helped popularize microscopy as technique.

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Short Functional Text - Grade VIII - Remedial 1

Level: English for Junior High School
24-hours online learning

 Text 1 (Invitation)

Text 2 (Invitation)

Text 3 (Greeting Card - Condolence)

Text 4 (Greeting Card - Condolence)

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Short Functional Text - Grade IX - Remedial 1

Level: English for Junior High School
24-hours online learning

Text 1 (Email)

Email

From: MichaelRobby@yahoo.com
To: Jason@yahoo.com
Subject: Schedule for Year End Tour
Date: Mon, 19 September 2014, 07:25

Dear Jason,

Due to the year-end tour for nine grade students, I would like you to arrange the schedule for the trip. Please contact people related, such as tourist destination, hotel, bus and also the participants.

I hope to receive your report before the end of this month. I'm looking forward to hearing from you. Thanks.

Text 2 (Announcement)

Announcement

As you may know, a new state law taking effect on January 1 requires that employers provide a smoke-free workplace for their employees. In compliance with this law, after the first month of the year smoking will be prohibited at Doe Industries except during break time in designated smoking areas. We are sorry for the inconvenience that causes our employees who smoke, but we believe this will promote a cleaner and healthier working environment for everyone. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation as this new policy is implemented.

Text 3 (Announcement)

INTERNATIONAL SUMMER CAMP

To learn French,

practice sports and meet campers

from around the world in the Quebec Wilderness

10% off for Indian students

Visit our website

http://ekocamp.com

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Procedure Text - Remedial 1

Level: English for Junior High School

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Text 1

How to Reduce Global Warming

If you feel that every day goes hotter and hotter, it is possibly the effect of global warming. Global warming is the raising of the Earth temperature temporary because of some factors. Here are some steps you can do to reduce global warming.

1. Plant tree. Trees suck up CO2 and make clean air. The roots prevent the landslide.
2. Save electricity. Turn off the electricity and other devices when not in use. Electric comes from the fossil which produces CO2 emission.
3. Use paper efficiently. Paper comes from trees. More paper you use more trees to cut.
4. Bike to school. Bike is green transportation which does not result gas and pollution
5. Throw rubbish into bin. Stay green by keeping the environment clean. It is better to sort the rubbish into organic and inorganic bin
6. Bring your own mineral bottle.It helps to reduce the plastic garbage. It takes 10 – 20 years to decompose plastic.
7. Bring your own bag. Go shopping with your cloth tote bag is better to reduce plastic bag.

Text 2

How to Wash Clothes Using Washing Machine

The following steps tell us how to wash clothes using a washing machine. First, separate the colored clothes from the others. Then, put them in the washing machine, turn the machine on, set it to the wash selection and pour the detergent powder in. Next, wait for the tub to fill with water. After the washing process has finished, let the clothes drain through the drain hose. After that, set the knob of the wash timer again to rinse for three minutes. Do this twice for a good rinsing. Finally, move the wet clothes into the spin compartment, set the knob and wait until the spin process shuts off. Now, you are ready to dry up the clothes on line.

Text 3

Precaution for Moving the LCD TV

1. When carrying the TV, be sure to remove the plug from the wall outlet, disconnect the aerial cable and audio/video cable, any steady ties and mounting screw. A fire and electric shock may result if the power cord is damaged. 
2. When carrying the TV, at least two people are needed. Be sure to carry it up right. 

Never carry the TV with the screen facing up or down.

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Flora and Fauna

Level: English for Junior High School
24-hours online learning

Descriptive Text on Fauna 

Salsa - Elephant

This is Salsa. Salsa is an Indian elephant, but now it lives in the National Zoo in Washington D.C.

Salsa is young. It is 20 years old. It weighs up to 2500 kg and 2.1 m high at the shoulder. It may consume up to 200 kg of grass a day. It is fond of banana plants, gingers, and leaves of various plants.

Salsa doesn’t have sweat glands so it likes to cool off by rolling in a pond in the zoo. The mud that dries on its skin protects it from the sun. Salsa also likes taking a bath. It makes her fresh and relaxed. Mike, the zookeeper, helps Salsa take a bath. Mike does it every day. He also feeds and talks to Salsa. Salsa likes this guy very much.

Descriptive Text on Flora

Giant Sequoia - the Ancient Tree in Danger

Just like its name, Giant Sequoia is indeed big. Its height can reach 66 meters. It can have a truck as wide as eight meters at the base. The biggest tree today is 83 meters in height and 12.1 meters in diameter.

Giant Sequoia is also a very ancient tree. This tree, for instance, is about 5100 years old. Ecologist says the tree can live that long because of its resistance to climate, disease or insects.

But recently, their species are in danger. Fire attacked the Giant Sequoia national monument last month. Millions of firefighters struggled to put up the fire.

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Rubberwood

Level: English for Junior and Senior High School
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What is Rubberwood? 

Rubberwood is the standard common name for the timber of Hevea Brasiliensis. Rubberwood (also called Parawood in Thailand) is one of the more durable lumbers (wood) used in the manufacturing of today’s home furnishings. Rubberwood has very little shrinkage, making it one of the more stable construction materials available for furniture manufacturing. Rubberwood has very little tendency to warp or crack.

Like maple, rubberwood is a sap producing species. In the case of maple, it is sap; in the case of rubberwood, it is latex. Rubberwood produces all the latex used in the world for all rubber based products.

There is one more important feature of rubberwood that is very important in today’s world. Rubberwood is the most ecologically friendly lumber used in today’s furniture industry. After the economic life of the rubber tree, which is generally 26 – 30 years, the latex yields become extremely low and the planters then fell the rubber trees and plant new ones. So, unlike other woods that are cut down for the sole purpose of producing furniture, rubberwood is used only after it completes its latex producing cycle and dies. This wood is therefore eco-friendly in the sense that we are now using what was going as waste.

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