Kumpulan Cerita Acak Bahasa Inggris Kelas XII

                     Narrative Text

Ø Purpose: To amuse/entertain the readers and to tell a story 

Ø Generic Structure:

 1. Orientation

2. Complication

3. Resolution

4. Reorientation 

Ø Dominant Language Features: 

1. Using Past Tense

2. Using action verb

3. Chronologically arranged 

Ø Example Narrative Text 

The Three Sheiks and Queen of Arabia 

Maura, who liked to be thought of as the most beautiful and powerful queen of Arabia, had many suitors. One by one she discarded them, until her list was reduced to just threes sheiks, all equally young and

handsome, rich and strong. It was very hard to decide who would be the best of them. 

         One evening, Maura disguised herself and went to the camp of the three sheiks, as they were about to have dinner, and asked them for something to eat. 

         The first gave her some leftover food; the second gave her some unappetizing camel’s tail; the third sheik, who was called Hakim, offered her some of the most tender and tasty meat. After dinner, the disguised queen left the sheiks’ camp. 

          The following day the queen invited the three sheiks to dinner at her palace. She ordered her servants to give each one exactly what they had given her the evening before. 

          Hakim, who received a plate of delicious meat, refused to eat it if the other two could not share it with him, and this act finally convinced Queen Maura that he was the man for her.

“Without question, Hakim is the most generous of you,” she announced her choice to the sheiks, “So, it is Hakim I will marry.” 

                   Discussion Text

Ø Purpose: to present information and opinions about issues in more one side of

an issue (‘For/Pros’ and ‘Against/Cons’) Ø Generic Structure: 

1. Issue

2. Arguments for and against

3. Conclusion 

Ø Dominant Language Features: 

1. Using Simple Present Tense

2. Use of relating verb/to be

3. Using thinking verb

4. Using general and abstract noun

5. Using conjunction/transition

6. Using modality 

7. Using adverb of manner 

Ø Example Discussion Text 

Hacking: Pro and Contra? 

         Do you know what a hacker is? Well, a hacker is a person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems on computers and they like to stretch the capability of the systems. And you know what, the activities they do in the computers are called ‘hacking’.

          So, what’s the problem with ‘hacking and its hackers’? Well, the problem is whether ‘hacking and its hackers’ is legal or illegal? What I mean is that people in the world have many different views about hacking and the hackers. Some of them take sides, but many object. 

            To get back to what I was saying previously, let us see the positive points of a hacker, shall we? Although in most places breaking into computer systems is considered illegal, I believe that hackers don’t do anything illegal because they only want to know and try the systems. I dare to say that a hacker likes finding the strengths and the weaknesses of a computer system. They feel proud if they can find the weaknesses. So I don’t really see the crimes in this case. In addition, these hackers sometimes help the police catch the ‘white collar criminals’, such as bank robbers, money launderers, credit card forgers. For example, in 2000, the U.S. hackers caught some Singaporean hackers who made ‘Virus Love’ to break up the programs of the U.S. National Security system. 

           Nevertheless, those who object to the good points of a hacker say that hacking is a crime. The reason is that some hackers use their brilliant skills to break into banks and other vital institutions where they can get money, destroy information, and the worst thing is they can get secret information and sell it to another country. This is a treachery. 

            Take for example, in 1994, The U.S. government broke a conspiracy of computer hackers out of Majorca, Spain. These hackers were responsible for accessing and eliminating 190,000 telephone credit card numbers over computer bulletin boards in America

and Europe. Seeing this fact, I don’t blame those who think negatively about hackers. 

           To put the whole thing in a nut shell, I personally think that hackers are not bad people with their brilliant skills. However, they could be bad because of money orientation to get the wealth. That’s just the point. 

EXPLANATION 

Ø Purpose: To explain the processes involved in the formation or working of natural or

socio-cultural phenomena. 

Ø Generic Structure: 

1. General statement

2. Explanation

3. Closing 

Ø Dominant Language Features: 

1. Using Simple Present Tense

2. Using action verbs

3. Using passive voice

4. Using noun phrase

5. Using adverbial phrase

6. Using technical terms 

7. Using general and abstract noun

8. Using conjunction of time and cause-

effect. 

Ø Example Explanation Text 

How Chocolate is Made 

            Have we wondered how we get chocolate from? Well this time we will enter the amazing world of

chocolate so we can understand exactly we are eating. 

            Chocolate starts a tree called cacao tree. This tree grows in equatorial regions, especially in place

such as South America, Africa, and Indonesia. The

cacao tree produces a fruit about the size of a small

pine apple. In side the fruits are the tree's seeds. They

are also known as coco beans. 

            Next, the beans are fermented for about a week, dried in the sun. After that they are shipped to

the chocolate maker. The chocolate maker starts by

roasting the beans to bring out the flavour. Different

beans from different places have different qualities and

flavour. So they are often shorted and blended to

produce a distinctive mix. 

              The next process is winnowing. The roasted beans are winnowed to remove the meat nib of the

cacao bean from its shell. Then the nibs are blended.

The blended nibs are ground to make it a liquid. The

liquid is called chocolate liquor. It tastes bitter. 

              All seeds contain some amount of fat and cacao beans are not different. However, cacao beans are

half fat, which is why the ground nibs from liquid. It is

pure bitter chocolate.

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