MODUL 3 LEARNING ACTIVITY 3

Part 1 Getting information from the text

Task 1a. Fill in the story elements of “Abraham Lincoln“in the following table.

Orientation Events Reorientation

Abraham Lincoln The country was Lincoln was elected president for a
was born in 1809 in having problems second term. He was not against
Kentucky (USA). regarding the anybody and wanted everybody to
He worked on the practice of live in peace. He made sincere efforts
farm of his father. slavery to heal the people's wounds caused
by the war. In 1862, Lincoln declared
that from then onwards all slaves
would be free. This made him very
He wanted to popular among the people. Lincoln
solve the
was assassinated in 1865.
problem of
slavery

Finally a civil
war broke out
between the
northern and
southern states

Task 1b. Answer these questions.

1. What do you know more about Abraham Lincoln after reading the text?
- He was a great president of USA who brings the equality between the white
and the black.
2. What made him one of the famous presidents of USA?
- He declared to abolish the slavery
3. How did he solve the problem of unity?
- By declaring that a nation can not exist half free and half slave
4. Why did he declare no slaves are allowed?
- Because he thought that slavery brings gap among human which is created by
the same way
5. Which part of the text do you think important for education?
- The part that in which every single man has an equal right
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Task 2a. Fill in the story elements of “Maria Montessori“in the following table.

Orientation Events Reorientation

Maria Montessori was
an Italian physician,
educator, and innovator,
acclaimed for her
educational method that
builds on the way
children naturally learn
Maria’s early medical As a public figure, Maria also
practice focused on campaigned vigorously on
psychiatry. She also behalf of women’s rights
developed an interest in
education, attending classes
on pedagogy and immersing
herself in educational theory.

Maria Montessori was
born on August 31, 1870,
in the provincial town of
Chiaravalle, Italy.
As a public figure, Maria also
campaigned vigorously on
behalf of women’s rights.
She wrote and spoke
frequently on the need for
greater opportunities for
women, and was recognized
in Italy and beyond as a
leading feminist voice.
At war’s end she returned
to Europe, spending her
final years in Amsterdam.
She died peacefully, in a
friend’s garden, on May 6,
1952.

Task 2b. .Answer these questions.

1. What do the bolded words in the text mean?

2. What moral value can you draw from the text?
- Struggling for a better world in term of education, equality and a freedom of
expreession
3. How did Maria manage the struggle in difficult times?
- She was forced to live in exile for the remainder of the war
4. How did she end her life?
- At war’s end she returned to Europe, spending her final years in Amsterdam. She
died peacefully, in a friend’s garden, on May 6, 1952.
6. Why do you think Maria’s story beneficial for education?
- Since she deserves to be remember, she did an important good deed theory and
thought in education. She was a sterling student, confident, ambitious, and
unwilling to be limited by traditional expectations for women.
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Task 3a. Fill in the story elements of “Mark Zuckerberg “in the following table.

Orientation Events Reorientation

Born on May 14, 1984, in Zuckerberg developed an interest Zuckerberg made two major
White Plains, New York, in computers at an early age life changes in May 2012.
Mark Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook had its initial public
the social-networking website offering, which raised $16
Facebook out of his college billion, making it the biggest
dorm room internet IPO in history.

Zuckerberg and his friends

created a site that allowed users
to create their own profiles,
upload photos, and communicate
with other users
Private data user information
from approximately 87 million
Facebook profiles without the
social network alerting its
owners. The resulting outcry
seemed to shake investors'
confidence in Facebook, its
shares dropping by 15 percent
after the news became public.

Task 3b. Answer these questions.

1. How did Mark develop facebook?

- Zuckerberg and his friends created a site that allowed users to create their own
profiles, upload photos, and communicate with other users. The group ran the site—
first called The Facebook—out of a dorm room at Harvard until June 2004.
2. What do people like about using facebook?
- The site allowed users to create their own profiles, upload photos, and communicate
with other users.
3. What do you want to suggest for Mark?
- Just provide more protection especially for private data user
4. How did Mark manage the problem of the use of private information by a firm?
- He explains how the company was taking steps to limit third-party developers' access to
user information, and said he would be happy to testify before Congress. On Sunday,
March 25, Facebook took out full-page ads in seven British and three American
newpapers, penned in the form of a personal apology from Zuckerberg.
5. Following what Mark has done, what idea do you have for this digital era?
- Facebook provide user to share the data easily, that may causes some problem about
what data is most appropriate for certain user or certain age, so that using facebook
wisely is very advisable..

Part 2 Constructing Biography Texts

Task 1: Pre writing
Think of a famous living person. Answer the following questions about this person:

1. What is the person’s name and where is he/she from?

He is Anies Baswedan, He is from West Java

2. What things did he/she do to become famous?

- His famous breakthrough is when he founded Gerakan Indonesia Mengajar, a
teaching movement where he sends and trains youth to teach in outskirt or remote
areas in Indonesia and he also received many achievements.

3. How long has he/she been famous?

- I think he has been famous for quite long time, since 2007
.
4. Have you seen him/her on television or in real life?
- No, I havent seen him in real life. I have watched him on TV though.

6. What is he/she like?

He is an intellectual person

7. What does he/she do now?

- He is a Governor of Jakarta

8. Why is this person important to you?

- He inspires many youths and i feel inspired by him also. Gerakan Indonesia
Mengajar is the movement tha i admire him because he contibutes by iniating this
amazing movement.
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Anies Baswedan Biography

Anies Baswedan, was born on May 7, 1969 in Kuningan, a small town in West Java.
He is recognized as a prominent academic, due to his active involvement in pedagogic affairs.
Since he was a child childhood, Anies Baswedan has been familiar with the world of
organization and leadership. When he was 12 years old, Anies formed a group of young
people between the ages of 7 and 15 in his homwtown called .The club was named
‘Kelabang’, this group often held various sports and arts activities

After graduating from high school, Anies then continued his studies at Gajah Mada
University at the Faculty of Economics. During his studies at Gadjah Mada University
(UGM) (1989-1995), Anies Baswedan was active in the student movement such as the HMI
(Islamic Student Association). He also became Chairman of the UGM Student Senate. While
becoming a UGM student, Anies received a Japan Airlines Foundation scholarship in Asian
Studies at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan

On May 15, 2007, Anies Baswedan was appointed as a rector of the University of
Paramadina. At that time Anies was only 38 years old and became the youngest rector in
Indonesia.F oreign Policy Magazine includes Anies in the list of 100 World Public
Intellectuals. In 2008, he initiated the Scholarship Program at Paramadina University named
Paramadina Fellowship.

Anies’ most notable innovation is Gerakan Indonesia Mengajar, or the Teaching

Indonesia Movement, a program that gathers youths to contribute to national education. The
Teaching Indonesia Movement recruits, trains and sends young graduates to teach in remote
regions in Indonesia.

He is also earned a Political Science doctorate from Northern Illinois University in

2005, a Master of Public Policy from the University of Maryland's School of Public
Policy and a Business Management degree from Yogyakarta's Gadjah Mada University. In
July 2010, Jordan's Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre listed him among its worldwide
500 Most Influential Muslims. In November 2010, Turkey's PASIAD awarded Anies with the
PASIAN Education Award for his education development efforts in the rural areas of
Indonesia.
Adapted from Oxford University Press Headway Plus PREINTERMEDIATE Writing
Guide 2011-12

Checking your writing

Elements yes no

orientation √
events √

reorientation √
Simple past tense √

Temporal sequence and √

temporal conjunction
Specific participants √
Action verbs √
Third person √

Sentences √
in chronological order