1. Nama : Siti Lies Atikoh
Class/NPM : 7D/031114114
Description
Reading is the process of looking at a series of written symbols and getting meaning from them. It is use our eyes to receive written
symbols (letters, punctuation marks and spaces) and it use our brain to convert them into words, sentences and paragraph that communicate
someting to readable.
Kompetesi Dasar
3.11 Menganalisis fungsi sosial, struktur teks, dan unsur kebahasaan dari text biografi pendek dan sederhana tentang tokoh terkenal, sesuai
dengan konteks penggunanya.
4.15 Menangkap makna teks biografi pendek dan sederhana tentang tokoh terkenal
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Activity Text/ Picture Video Tes/Quiz Syllabus Link:URL glossary method
3.11
4.15
Students analize
social fuction,
structue and
linguistic elements
of biografi text
Students catch the
meaning from the
biografi text
Biografi
text
Thomas
A.
Edison’s
picture
- 1. What is the
main idea from
paragraph one?
2. How old was
Edision when
began to go to
school?
3. Why was
Edison sent
back home
from his
school?
1 session Queer
Hatch
Good fortune
Invention
Secured
penniless
Cooperative
learning
2. 4. Who taught
him after the
teacher remove
him?
5. What was his
favorite
subject?
6. Where did he
make his first
experiment?
7. When did he
become a
newsboy?
8. Did he have
much money
when he
arrived in New
York City?
9. What did you
learn after
reading the
passage?
10. What is meant
by ‘good
fortune’ in this
passage?
3. THOMAS A. EDISON
When Edison was about eight years old, he was sent to school. Three month leter the teacher sent him home with a
note saying that he was too stupd to learn. Edison never had any more schooling. His mother, who was a clever and good
women taught him herself. He was always a queer boy. Once, one he was six, he was found sitting on goose eggs, trying to
hatchthem. On onother occasion he made a grand experiment in a barn and burned it down, for which he got a good
thrashing. He was always fond of chemistry. He had laboratory of 200 bottles in his home. He marked every one ‘poison’ so
that nobody would touch them.
4. At fourteen he become newsboy, selling magazines and paper on railway trains. He had a small laboratory on yhe
train. Finally, he set fire to the train, and the guard threw him out, and bottle after him. Also he boxed the boy’s ears so hard,
that he had been deaf ever since. At sixteen he became a telegraphboy in Canada, but he lost his job because of labour-
saving inventionthe boss said he was lazy. He lost three more jobs in the same way. At twenty-three he wandered to New
Work City. He arrived penniless. He cesured a job in a strok-ticket. Office at $ 60 a month. This was his first good fortune.
He was paid his large amount because he was able to repair a valuable machine which had broken down.
The following year he invented a telegraphic machine and sold it to the weatern Union Telegraph Company for $
8000. He would have glad to take $ 80 for it, as he had no ideas of the value on inventions at that time.
Answer the following question based on the text!
1. What is the main idea from paragraph one?
2. How old was Edision when began to go to school?
3. Why was Edison sent back home from his school?
4. Who taught him after the teacher remove him?
5. What was his favorite subject?
6. Where did he make his first experiment?
7. When did he become a newsboy?
8. Did he have much money when he arrived in New York City?
9. What did you learn after reading the passage?
10.What is meant by ‘good fortune’ in this passage?
