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Menganalisis fungsi sosial, struktur teks, dan unsur
kebahasaan dari teks
news item
berbentuk berita
sederhana dari koran/radio/TV, sesuai dengan
konteks penggunaannya.
Menangkap makna dalam teks berita sederhana dari
koran/radio/TV.
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4.4
Tujuan Pembelajaran:
Setelah mempelajari Bab 6, siswa diharapkan mampu
melakukan hal-hal sebagai berikut:
Chapter 6
Online School
Registration
Source: cdn2.dubaiairports.ae
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C. PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE
D. READING COMPREHENSION
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dissatisfaction :
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enrollment :
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registration :
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turn down :
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reject :
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Task:
Listen and repeat after your teacher.
Listen to your teacher reading these words. Repeat after him/
her.
Task 1:
Read the text.
Read the following text taken from a newspaper. Pay
attention to the underlined words.
Source:
freepik.com
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Parents upset, disappointed with online school registration
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Headlines | Sat, July 05, 2014, 9:25 AM
Hundreds of parents thronged the Jakarta Education Agency’s
of
fi
ce in Kuningan, South Jakarta, to report problems with the online
school registration system on Friday.
During their visit to the agency’s of
fi
ce, the parents expressed their
dissatisfaction with the online system, which according to them was
disorganized and made it dif
fi
cult for them to register their children for
enrollment in public schools.
Riki Setyanto, one of the parents, said that he had registered his
daughter for enrollment at state vocational high school SMKN 47
Jakarta, but she then got rejected due to the minimum height policy
applied by the state-run school.
However, he added, his daughter was also turned down after she
registered at a different school because her name was still listed for
SMKN 47 Jakarta.
“First, my daughter was rejected because of her height, and now
due to technical issues, she can’t register at any school. I just want to
get her into a good school,” he said, adding that he hoped the agency
could solve the problems as soon as possible.
Nuraisyah Paransa, another parent, also said that she was unable
to register her son at any state-run high school due to similar technical
problems.
She said that her son was initially accepted at East Jakarta public
school through public admission phase. However, he did not re-
register with that school as he wanted to shoot for a better state-run
school through the local admission phase.
“But the second school rejected him because he had been
accepted through the public admission phase. Since my son did not
re-register at the
fi
rst school, now he isn’t registered anywhere,” she
said.
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The online registration system has been applied in the capital
since 2004. No such problems occurred with the previous registration
system.
This year’s student admission system has three phases: public
admission, where students vie for seats with other students throughout
the country; local admission, where students compete with others
in the same province; and third admission, where students who did
not get accepted during
fi
rst and second admission resubmit their
applications.
Lasro Marbun, head of the Jakarta Education Agency, said that
anyone who did not re-register in the public admission phase and was
unable to register during local admission or third admission, could
register their children at private schools.
“They can then transfer them to a public school in the second
semester,” he said on Thursday as quoted by kompas.com.
However, Rida Afrida, who wanted to register her son at state
junior high school SMP 194, did not agree with that idea. According to
her, a lot of people have chosen public schools over private schools
for
fi
nancial reasons.
“I cannot pay for a private school, if he thinks that is a good
alternative for us, he should just give us the money to pay for those
schools,” she said.
Meanwhile, acting Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama said
that the parents should be patient and not panic.
“We had no problems last year. The process might be a little
complicated, but there’s no reason to panic,” the acting governor told
reporters at City Hall.
(idb/dwa)
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Task 2:
Write and ask questions about the news.
When reading the text, what questions come up in your
mind? If you don’t have any, then try to ask questions that the
answers of which are the ones underlined in the text. Write
the questions in the space below. Then, work in pairs and ask
your friends the questions you have written.
Task 3:
Do the comprehension questions.
Answer the following questions by referring to the text from the
newspaper above. Compare your answer with your friends’.
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E. TEXT STRUCTURE
Main event
Who was involved?
When did it happen?
1.
What is the main problem faced by the parents?
2.
Why did the parents feel disappointed with the online
system?
3.
Who was rejected from school due to his/her height?
4.
What happened to Nuraisyah Paransa’s son?
5.
Mention some technical problems in the registration
using the online system.
6.
What makes the online system problematic this year?
7.
Why do people prefer public schools to private
schools?
8.
If you were one of the parents, what would you do to
deal with the problems in the online system?
9.
What do you think about the acting governor’s
response to the parents’ protests?
10.
If you were the acting governor, how would you respond
to the parents’ concerns?
Task:
Complete the table
Now, let’s understand the text structure. Fill in the blanks by
referring to the text.
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Source of news
Statement from the
head of the Jakarta
Education Agency
Statement of one
of the parents
Statement from the
governor
F. GRAMMAR REVIEW
Task 1:
What's the grammar?
Now, let’s focus on grammar. Pay attention to the news
headline. What can you learn from that?
Task 2:
Is it Direct or Indirect?
Direct and indirect sentences appear in the text above.
Complete the blank spaces in the following column with
direct and indirect sentences.
Share your opinions about the headline "Parents
upset, disappointed with online school registration".
Source:
freepik.com
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“First my daughter was
rejected because of her
height, and now due to
technical issues, she can’t
register at any school. I just
want to get her into a good
school,” he said.
Nuraisyah Paransa, another
parent, also said that she was
unable to register her son at
any state-run high school due to
similar technical problems.
“But the second school
rejected him because it
said that he had been
accepted through the
public admission phase.
Since my son did not re-
register at the
fi
rst school,
now he isn’t registered
anywhere,” Aisyah said.
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Riki Setyanto, one of the parents,
said that he had registered his
daughter for enrollment at state
vocational high school SMKN 47
Jakarta, but she then got rejected
due to the minimum height policy
applied by the state-run school.
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Lasro Marbun, head of the
Jakarta Education Agency,
said that anyone who did
not re-register in the public
admission phase and
was unable to register during
local admission or third
admission, could register their
children at private schools.
“They can then transfer
them to a public school
in the second semester,”
Lasro Marbun said on
Thursday as quoted by
kompas.com.
“I cannot pay for a private
school, if he thinks that is
a good alternative for us,
he should just give us the
money to pay for those
schools,” Rida said.
“We had no problems last
year. The process might
be a little complicated, but
there’s no reason to panic,”
the governor told reporters
at City Hall.
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I.REFLECTION
1. Do you know the purpose of a news item?
2. Do you know how information in a news item is
structured?
3. Do you know how to tell news to your friend?
4. Do you know how to use direct and indirect
speech?
At the end of this chapter, ask yourself the following questions
to know your learning progress.
If your answer is "no" to one of
these questions, see your teacher and
discuss with him/her on how to make
you understand and be able to write
or talk about yourself better.