English for Junior High School

Example of Descriptive Text Rafflesia Arnoldi The vast archipelago and the great number of islands has made Indonesia the home of a large variety of plant life. The Indonesian flora ranges from the tiny orchid to the giant Rafflesia plant. No wonder many botanists are curious to study these plants. The Rafflesia arnoldi is the biggest flower in the world. It is unusual because of its large size. It has a flower almost a metre in diameter and 1.40 metres in height. "Raflesia" is derived from the name of the British Governor General, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, who once governed and built the Botanical Gardens in Bogor. Though it is called Rafflesia after Raffles, the man who discovered the plant was Beccary, an Italian botanist who visited Sumatra in 1928. Rafflesia consists of two parts: the stick4ifce part which grows in the middle and the petals around, and below it. The Rafflesia plant begins to flower in Us tenth year, It blooms three or four times a year

Example of Narrative Text An Honest Boy One day Tommy was walking home from school. He saw a man coming out of a shop. The man was carrying a lot of things. He was walking toward his car. Suddenly something fell from his pocket. Tommy saw it, but the man did not. Tommy ran and picked up the thing. It was a wallet. "Sir! You dropped your wallet". Tommy called. The man stopped and turned round. "You dropped your wallet," Tommy repeated. "Here it is. It fell from your pocket when you were walking." Tommy gave him the wallet. "Oh, thank you very much," the man said. "It's all right." Tommy answered. The man opened the wallet and took out some money. "Here, this is for you," he said. Tommy refused saying "I don't want the money, I just wanted to help you." The man smiled and said, "All right, I'm not going to five you any money, but please, let me take you home." "All right," Tommy s

Example of Descriptive Text A Book We often read books to get knowledge. But books can give us pleasure, too. When we are tired we read books to help us relax. Some books can also take us to other pans of the world. By reading a book about Irian Jaya we may feel we are sitting in the jungles, not at home in our rooms. Books can be very expensive. Therefore a lot of people go to libraries to borrow the books they want. Many famous people have got their knowledge from books. A lot of them did not go to school, but read books instead.

Example of Narrative Text A Man and a Parrot A man had a parrot. It was a very beautiful bird and every day the man talked to it. "Pretty Polly," he said. "You are a pretty Polly." "Pretty Polly," the parrot said. "You are Pretty Polly." Every day the man spoke new words to the parrot "Hallo" he said, and "Goodbye." One day the parrot was not in its cage. It was flying about the room. The man came into the room and saw the parrot. "What are you doing?" he said. "What are you doing?" the parrot said. The man laughed. Then he went out to visit his friends. That evening a thief came to the house. He walked round the house and looked into the windows. There was no one at home. The thief broke open the door and entered the house. First he went into the sitting room. In the sitting room he found some bowls and vases. He put them into a sack. Then he went into the bedroom. In the bedroom he found a gold wa