The Old Woman and The Sparrow Once upon a time, there lived a
kind hearted man and his wife. One morning, his wife found a poor
little sparrow. She took it gently and fed it. To show its
gratitude, the sparrow stayed with them and sang every morning. But
there was an ill-tempered old woman who didn't like the sparrow.
She cut the sparrow's tongue. That's why the bird flew away to its
previous nest.nowing that their sparrow flew away, the kind man and
his wife looked for the sparrow. They walked a long way, crossed
the bridges, climbed the mountains and passed the woods.!t last,
they could find the sparrow's nest. The sparrow welcomed them and
provided a feast for them. Before they went home, the sparrow
brought two baskets" one was large and looked heavy,and the other
one was small and light. The sparrow asked them to choose only one.
They chose the small and that was the best choice. There were many
rolls of silk and piles of gold in it.Being #ealous, the
ill-tempered old woman did the same thing as the kind man and his
wife did. She chose the big basket which actually contained wasps
and venomous crawlers, such as scorpions, centipedes, and other
horrible creatures. $inally, aaathey stung and bit her to death.
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Legend of Candy Cane ! candy maker in &ndiana wanted to make a
candy that would be a witness, so he made the 'hristmas 'andy 'ane.
(e incorporated several symbols for the birth, ministry, and death
of )esus 'hrist.(e began with a stick of pure white, hard candy.
*hite to symboli+e the ,irgin Birth and the sinless nature of
)esus, and hard to symboli+e the Solid -ock, the foundation of the
church, and firmness of the promises of .od.The candy maker made
the candy in the form of a /)/ to represent the precious name of
)esus, who came to earth as our Savior. &t also represents the
staff of the /.ood Shepherd/ with which (e reaches down into the
ditches of the world to lift out the fallen lambs who, like all
sheep, have gone astray.Thinking that the candy was somewhat plain,
the candy maker stained it with red stripes. (e used the tree small
stripes to show the stripes of the scourging )esus received by
which we are healed. The large red stripe was for the blood shed by
)esus on the 'ross so that we could have the promise of eternal
life, if only we put our faith and trust in (im. 0nfortunately, the
candy became known as a 'andy 'ane - a meaningless decoration seen
at 'hristmas time. But the meaning is still there for those who
/have eyes to see and ears to hear/. Narrative Text in English :
Jantr and !enr)!1T0- and 2enur were twins. )antur was a boy and
2enur was a girl and they had different personalities. )antur was
la+y, he got angry easily. (e always said bad words when he was
angry. (owever, 2enur was a very kind, diligent, patient and always
helped their parents. She always reminded her brother to behave
well.32enur4 *here are you5 &6m hungry4 .ive me some food47
said )antur. 3Be patient )antur &6m still cooking, the food is
not ready yet. *hy don't you help me mop the floor5 $ather and
mother will be home soon,7 said 2enur. 3!rrrgggh4 *hat took you so
long5 &6m hungry, you are so slow47 said )anur. !nd he said bad
words to 2enur.2enur was very sad. She cried. *hen their parents
went home, 2enur told them about )antur6s bad behavior. (er father
then advised him. (owever, )antur did not want to listen to him. (e
ignored him, and it was getting worse.)antur asked his parents and
his sister to leave the house. They were very sad. They never
thought that )antur would ask them to leave the house. !fter his
parents and his sister left her house, )antur lived alone. !t first
he felt very happy because no one disturbed him. (e could do
anything he wanted. (e even spent his parents6 money for bad
things. *hen all the money was gone, he sold his parents animals,
cows, goats, cocks and hens.2eanwhile, 2enur and her parents lived
in another place. *hen they left home, they did not bring anything.
Because they worked very hard, they could build a new home and they
had new animals.They were rich.(ow about )antur5 Soon all his
parents6 wealth was gone. )antur was la+y, he did not want to work.
(e wanted to have much money in an easy way. So he sold the last
wealth, it was the house. !fter )antur sold the house, again, he
spent the money foolishly. &t was not surprising that )antur
became poor again.(e did not have any money and he did not have a
house. (is body was very thin. (e suffered skin disease, his skin
was full of black dots.)antur did not have a way to go, he #ust
walked and walked. $inally, he arrived at his parents6 house. 2enur
was in front of the house sweeping the floor. !t first, they did
not recogni+e each other. 2enur thought that )antur was a
beggar.3!re you hungry5 (ere, & have some food,7 said 2enur.
)antur was happy. (e was so hungry that he did not recogni+e his
sister. (owever 2enur knew him. 3)antur5 &s that you brother5
$ather, mother, )antur is here447 screamed 2enur. 3)antur my son,
what happened to you57 said his mother. )antur was surprised.
32other, is that really you5 $ather, mother, and 2enur4 8lease
forgive me. & was punished by .od. & suffer an illness,
&6m poor, and & don6t have a house to live.& have done
bad things to you all. & promise & will be good,7 promised
)antur.The family now reunited. They have already forgiven )antur
and ama+ingly )antur was cured. !nd as he promised, )antur became a
very good man. "ather EyesOnce in a city, there was a skinny young
boy who loved football with all his heart. 8ractice after practice,
he eagerly gave everything he had. But being half the si+e of the
other boys, he got absolutely nowhere. !t all the games, this
hopeful athlete sat on the bench and hardly ever played. This
teenager lived alone with his father, and the two of them had a
very special relationship.9ven though the son was always on the
bench, his father was always in the stands cheering. (e never
missed a game. This young man was still the smallest of the class
when he entered high school. But his father continued to encourage
him but also made it very clear that he did not haveto play
football if he didn't want to. But the young man loved football and
decided to hang in there. (e was determined to try his best at
every practice, and perhaps he'd get to play when he became a
senior.!ll through high school he never missed a practice nor a
game but remained a bench-warmer all four years. (is faithful
father was always in the stands, always with words of encouragement
for him.*hen the young man went to college, he decided to try out
for the football team as a /walk-on./ 9veryone was sure he could
never make the cut, but he did. The coach admitted that he kept him
on the roster because he always puts his heart and soul to every
practice, and at the same time, provided the other members with the
spirit and hustle they badly needed.The news that he had survived
the cut thrilled him so much that he rushed to the nearest phone
and called his father. (is father shared his e:citement and was
sent season tickets for all the college games. This persistent
young athlete never missed practice during his four years at
college, but he never got to play in a game.&t was the end of
his senior football season, and as he trotted onto the practice
field shortly beforethe big playoff game, the coach met him with a
telegram. The young man read the telegram and he became deathly
silent.Swallowing hard, he mumbled to the coach, /2y father died
this morning. &s it all right if & miss practice today5/
The coach put his arm gently around his shoulder and said, /Take
the rest of the week off, son. !nd don't even plan to come back to
the game on Saturday./Saturday arrived, and the game was not going
well. &n the third ;uarter, when the team was ten points
behind, a silent young man ;uietly slipped into the empty locker
room and put on his football gear. !s he ran onto the sidelines,
the coach and his players were astounded to see their faithful
teammate back so soon. /'oach, please let me play. &'ve #ust
got to play today,/ said the young man. The coach pretended not to
hear him. There was no way he wanted is worst player inthis close
playoff game.But the young man persisted, and finally feeling sorry
for the kid, the coach gave in. /!ll right,/ he said. /whose idea
it was in the first place?. /&'ve #ust the thing,/ cried the
baker. /& use it to stir my cakes at 'hristmas
time.......&'ve such a lotto make4/ So straight away he ran to
his shop to fetch the giant spoon. The man who owned the hot-air
balloon started getting things ready. The little boy >whose idea
it was in the first place?, was going up in the basket to give the
2oon the medicine. By the time darkness fell and the 2oon appeared
in the sky, everything was ready. B.F meters? long and BHH pounds
>LG kg?omodo has gray scaly skin, a pointed snout, powerful
limbs and a muscular tail. They use their keen sense of smell to
locate decaying animal remains from several miles away. They also
hunt other li+ards as well as large mammals and are sometimes
cannibalistic.The omodo dragon's teeth are almost completely
covered by its gums. *hen it feeds, the gums bleed, creating an
ideal culture for virulent bacteria. The bacteria that live in the
omodo dragon's saliva causes septicemia, or blood poisoning, in its
victims. ! dragon will bite its prey, then follow it until the
animal is too weak to carry on.This li+ard species is threatened by
hunting, loss of prey species and habitat loss.report text# example
of report text3man $ody Energy(uman body is actually a living
machine and is like all other machines. This living machine needs
fuel to supply it with energy. The fuel is provided by the food
which we eat. (owever do we know how much we need to stay
healthy5The energy value of food is usually measured in calories. !
calorie is the amount of heat which isre;uired to raise the
temperature of G kg of water by G degree '. The number of calories
which people need per day varies. &t depends on the activity
which the people are involved in. $or e:ample" people will need
more calories for standing than for sitting, people need more for
running than for walking, etc.The energy which is provided by food
is in the form of three kinds of chemical substances. They are
carbohydrate, protein and fat. 'arbohydrate provides K.K calories
per gram >calAgm? of energy, protein D.H calAgm and fat K.H
calAgm. 9ach food contains different proportion of these
substances.These three chemical substances are all important for
body staying healthy.'hat is 5econt( !e"nition of Recount5econt is
a text which retells events or experiences in the past. +ts prpose
is either to inform or to entertain the adience. There is no
complication among the participants and that di#erentiates from
narrativeGeneric Structure of Recount1. Orientation3 +ntrodcing the
participants, place and time2. Events3 Aescri"ing series of event
that happened in the past4. 5eorientation3 +t is optional. Stating
personal comment of the writer to the storyLanguage Feature of
RecountN +ntrodcing personal participant% +, my grop, etcN 6sing
chronological connection% then, !rst, etcN 6sing lin$ing ver"% was,
were, saw, heard, etcN 6sing action ver"% loo$, go, change, etcN
6sing simple past tense'e&ont Text'hildren =ay'sOn 'hildren's
=ay in GLLL, a technology company treated more than BHH
underprivileged children to a 'high-tech' e:perience. They were
given training on information technology.The company wanted to
provide opportunities for these children to learn more about the
&nternet and the latest technology. They wanted to help the
less fortunate in the community. The children had an en#oyable and
educational e:perience that day. They were e:posed to the new
technology for the first time and they were very interested. The
company hoped to conduct many more such training sessions for these
children. They fell that the skills the children had would be
useful to them when they grew up.The company was very active in
caring for the less fortunate. They even put aside one day a
yearfor their employees to do volunteer work to help the needy.
They also donated money to many charitable organisations. 2any
people had benefited from their efforts. 2any also praised the
company for being so generous towards the needy.Contoh 'exont
TextBomb in BaliThe bomb, in the resort of uta, destroyed the Sari
'lub and a crowded nightspot. 2any people have fallen victims to
this blast. 2any of them were foreign tourists, especially from
!ustralia. They were burner beyond recognition. Some tourist who
were at the scene of the blast said there were two e:plosions
around the nightclub. One bomb had e:ploded outside 8addy6s Bar
before aBar bomb hit the Sari 'lub which was located some meters
away. (undred were in#ured in the e:plosion and about BBH
!ustralians remain unaccounted for. The 0.. $oreign Secretary, )ack
Straw, said that CC Britons were among those killed in the Bali
attack. The !ustralian 8rimer 2inister, )ohn (oward, called its
borders, saying it had been a problem for a long time.Eists of
missing people have been posted in Bali and official said that it
could take days to identity all the victims, some of whom were
trapped in the Sari 'lub by a wall of flames. ! notice board at the
hospital in Bali includes a section called 30nknown &dentity7
and detailed liston victims such as @ 3