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RECOUNT TEXT (BIOGRAPHY)

1. Identitas
a. Mata Pelajaran : Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris C (Lintas Minat)
b. Semester :1
c. Kompetensi Dasar :

3.5. Membedakan fungsi sosial, struktur teks, dan unsur kebahasaan beberapa teks recount
lisan dan tulis dalam bentuk biografi dengan memberi dan meminta informasi terkait
tokoh terkenal, sesuai dengan konteks penggunaannya
4.5. Teks recount dalam bentuk biografi
4.5.1. Menangkap makna secara kontekstual terkait fungsi sosial, struktur teks, dan unsur
kebahasaan teks recount lisan dan tulis, dalam bentuk biografi terkait tokoh terkenal
4.5.2. Menyusun teks recount lisan dan tulis, dalam bentuk biografi, terkait tokoh terkenal,
dengan memperhatikan fungsi sosial, struktur teks, dan unsur kebahasaan, secara benar
dan sesuai konteks

d. Indikator Pencapaian Kompetensi

3.5.1. membedakan fungsi sosial teks recount lisan dan tulis dalam bentuk biografi dengan
memberi dan meminta informasi terkait tokoh terkenal.
3.5.2. membedakan struktur teks recount lisan dan tulis dalam bentuk biografi dengan memberi
dan meminta informasi terkait tokoh terkenal.
3.5.3. membedakan unsur kebahasaan teks recount lisan dan tulis dalam bentuk biografi dengan
memberi dan meminta informasi terkait tokoh terkenal.
4.5.1. menangkap makna teks recount lisan dan tulis dalam bentuk biografi dengan memberi dan
meminta informasi terkait tokoh terkenal.
4.5.2. menyusun teks recount lisan dan tulis dalam bentuk biografi dengan memberi dan
meminta informasi terkait tokoh terkenal.

e. Materi Pokok : Recount Text (Biography)

f. Alokasi Waktu : 9 Jam Pelajaran
g. Tujuan Pembelajaran :

Melalui diskusi, tanya jawab, penugasan, presentasi dan analisis, peserta didik dapat menyusun
teks recount lisan dan tulis dalam bentuk biografi dengan memberi dan meminta informasi
terkait tokoh terkenal., dengan memperhatikan fungsi sosial, struktur teks, dan unsur
kebahasaan yang benar dan sesuai konteks, sehingga peserta didik dapat meneladani,
membanggakan, bertindak teratur, teliti, disiplin, kerjasama, dan bertanggung jawab dalam
komunikasi dengan orang lain, serta dapat mengembangkan kemampuan berpikir kritis,
komunikasi, kolaborasi, kreativitas (4C).

h. Peta Konsep :

RECOUNT TEXT Struktur Kalimat

Fungsi Sosial

Unsur Kebahasaan

i. Kegiatan Pembelajaran:

He was a great inventor

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Match the people with the information given below.

Choose from: Marie Curie; Marilyn Monroe; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; John Lennon; Cleopatra; Princess
Diana; William Shakespeare; Mahatma Gandhi

This person was born in 1940 in Liverpool, England. He/She was a member of a
group and then a solo singer. He/She got married twice and his/her partner was
Japanese. He/She was shot outside his/her home at the age of 40.

This person was born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. He/She wrote a lot
of plays and was thought to be the best English writer in history. He/She died at the
age of 52 in 1616.

This person was born in 69 BC in Egypt. He/She married his/her ten-year-old

brother/sister. He/She loved cats. He/She killed him/herself in 30 BC by allowing a
poisonous snake to biter him/her.

This person was born in 1867 in Warsaw, Poland. He/She discovered radioactivity
and radium. He/She married a famous scientist in 1895. He/She won the Nobel Prize
twice. He/She died in 1934 of leukaemia.

This person was born in 1926 in Los Angeles, US. He/She was a movie star and
made 29 films in 16 years. He/She was married four times and died in 1962 from an
overdose of drugs.

This person was born in 1869 in Porbandar, India. He/She was a non-violent leader
of his/her country. He/She got married at the age of 13 and had 4 children. He/She
died in 1948 in New Delhi.

This person was born in 1961 in Norfolk, England. He/She did a lot of charity work.
He/She had two children and separated from his/her partner in 1992. He/She died in
a car accident in Paris at the age of 36.

This person ws born in 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. He/She was a composer and
musician and started composing when he/she was just five years old. He/She was
married but had no children. He/She died in 1791.

Let’s listen
Listen to the narrator telling about Steve Jobs and answer the questions.

1. When was Steve Jobs born? c. at a summer club

a. 24th February 1955
b. 24th January 1925 4. He wasn't interested in arts and history.
c. 4th January 1925 a. True
d. 4th February 1955 b. False

2. His family was originally from Los Altos, 5. The Apple II wasn't successful.
California. a. True
a. True b. False
b. False
6. Apple fired Steve Jobs.
a. True
b. False
3. Steve met Stephen Wozniak ...
a. at the Hewlett-Packard company 7. He co-founded Pixar in...
b. at high school a. 1986

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b. 1946 c. Fawkes Magazine

c. 1976 d. Front Magazine

9. When did Steve Jobs die?

8. Who named Apple the most valuable company in a. 6h October 2011
the world? b. 3rd October 2011
a. Fox Magazine c. 5th October 2011
b. Forbes Magazine

Let’s study
Read and learn the following text.

The Early Life of Marie Curie

Marie Curie (Maria Sklodowska) was a Polish-born French physicist.

Orientation:
She was born on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw. She was the youngest of
The main character is
five children. Her mother passed away due to tuberculosis when she was
introduced
11. Then, she was brought up by her father, Ladislas. Like her father,
she had interest in math and physics.
She was an outstanding student in secondary school. In spite of her Events:
intelligent, she could attend University of Warsaw because it was only for
men. Therefore, she attended Warsaw’s “floating university”, an informal
and secret higher education institution. That’s the reason why she and Curie’s life story
her sister, Bronya, dreamed of studying for a formal degree abroad.
However, they did not have any money for that. Then, she made a deal
with her sister. Curie would support Bronya’s education. She would Education
reciprocate after completing her studies.
For about five years, Curie worked as a tutor and a governess while
she was studying. At that time, she read a lot of physics, chemistry and Work
math books. Finally, she had an opportunity to realize her dream. She
registered herself at Sorbonne in Paris. She was very serious about
learning in Paris. She dedicated most her time studying. She did not care Curie’s personality
about her health. She had to survive in Paris with a little money, so
buttered bread and tea were her only diet. That’s the reason why her
health sometimes suffered.
Curie had a master’s degree in physics and mathematics. In the
1890s, she was assigned to carry out a study on different types of steel
and their magnetic qualities. To do so, Curie did her experiments in
Relationship
Pierre Curie’s laboratory. Then, she married Pierre Curie. They became
scientific dynamic duo.

Answer the following questions:

1. What is the text mainly about?

2. What is the purpose of the text?
3. What did Marie Curie do?
4. What was the relationship between Marie Curie and her sister?
5. What can you infer from Curie’s personality?

Read the text and complete the table below.

The main Curie’s life story
character Education Work Curie’s personality Relationship
Marie Curie
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The language The use of simple

The use of pronouns The use of to be Writer’s opinion
features past tense

Biography is a life story of a person written by someone else. There are more than basic facts, such as
education, work, relationships, and death. It contains subject’s life story, highlighting various aspects of
his or her life, including intimate details of experience, and may include an analysis of the subject’s
personality. So, biography is nonfiction.
It uses the pronouns: he, she, him, her, hers throughout the text. The tense used in the text is simple
past tense.

Text Structure:
 Orientation
It is the opening paragraph, gives the readers the background information of the
person.
 Events
It presents a series of events, usually told in chronological order. Here the writer
might refer to a certain time on line.
 Reorientation
It consists of a type of conclusion with a comment on the contributions this person
has made or a summary and evaluation of the person’s achievement.

Social Function:
 To know a person’s story life.
 To give information and educate the readers.

Exercises
A. Read the text and answer the questions

ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE’S BIOGRAPHY

1. Highlight the time markers and put the paragraphs back in the right order. (Write the
numbers in the boxes)

He moved to London in 1891. Conan Doyle continued writing but he was soon
fed up with Sherlock Holmes.

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In 1885, he married Louisa Hawkins, who suffered from tuberculosis and died on July 1906. Then
he married Jean Elizabeth Leckie. He had five children.

From 1878 to 1881 he went to the University of Edinburg to study medicine. While studying, he
also began writing short stories; his first published story appeared in Chambers’s Edinburg Journal
before he was 20. After his term at university, he served as a ship’s doctor on a voyage to the West
African coast.

On 7 July 1930, Conan Doyle died of heart attack in England.

So, in 1893, he decided to “kill” Holmes down a waterfall in the story, The Final Problem. However,
the readers protested and Conan Doyle finally brought the character back.

His first significant work was A Study in Scarlet, which was published in 1886 and where Sherlock
Holmes first appeared.

Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859, in Edinburg. He grew up in a large family since he
had 9 brothers and sisters.

Holmes returned in The Adventure of the Empty House in 1903.

2. Read the biography again and complete the grid.

Name

Date and place of birth

Nationality

Number of brothers/sisters

First job

Marriage(s)

Children
Heroes (name and other
information)
Titles of two famous stories

Travels

Date and place of death

Cause of death

B. Read the text and then discuss the questions that follow.

Sanusi Pane

Sanusi Pane was born on November 14, 1905, in Muara Sipongi,

Tapanuli. He attended primary school in Sibolga and middle school in
Padang and Batavia. During his studies in Jakarta, he published his first
poem, “Tanah Air” (Homeland) in Jong Soematra magazine. He finished
secondary school in 1922. Then he attended Gunung Sari Teacher’s College
until 1025. Upon his graduation, he became a teacher in the college for
several years and studied law.

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In 1029, he went to India to study Indian culture. He returned from India in 1930 and became a
teacher and an editor in Timboel magazine. In 1933, he worked for a new literary magazine, Poejangga
Baroe. In 1934, he was fired as a teacher because of his membership in Indonesia National Party.
After that, Pane was active in literature. First, he worked for Kebangoenan, a Chinese-owned
magazine, in 1936-1941, together with Mohammad Yamin. In 13 December 1937, he founded a news
agency, Antara, together with Armijn, Adam Malik and Sumanang. From 1941 to 1942, he worked for the
state-owned publisher, Balai Pustaka, as an editor of the magazine Indonesia.
After the Japanese invasion of the East Indies, Pane led the Central Cultural Office. He died on January
2, 1968 in Jakarta.

1. Complete the timeline based on the text.

Year Events

1905

1922

1925

1929

1930

1933

1936-1941

1937

1941-1942

1968

2. Complete the information about Sanusi Pane.

a. Pane’s life story:
 Education:

 Work :

 Personality:

 Relationship:

b. Pane’s family background:

The culture he lived in:

c. Pane’s career:

C. Write complete sentences with the following information.

Ayrton Sena

- Date of birth: March 21, 1960

- Place of birth: Brazil
- Date of death: May 1st, 1994
- Circumstance of death: (be) tragically killed in a high-speed crash at the St
Morino Grand Prix in Italy on at the age of 34
- Job: a Brazilian racing driver

1. Use the simple past tense and fill in the gaps with the following verbs:
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Be (5X) – do not – w in (X2) – have – last – say – live (X2) – enjoy –

start (X2) – create – give – want – meet

Ayrton da Silva Senna ………… the fastest man in auto racing. He ………… the World Championship
in 1988, 1990  1991, and he ………… more than thirty-five Grand Prix races.
He ………… an older sister and a younger brother. His parents ………… in a large house north of
São Paulo,  Senna ………… in Monaco, in Europe.
He ………… to drive cars at the age of 4 but he …………... his Formula One career in 1984, at the
age of 24.
Senna ………… like to talk about his private life. His marriage in the early 1980s ………… only a
year. He …………:
“To be married to a Formula One driver is an impossible lifestyle for a wife. But I will get married
again.”
, he ………… to marry Adriane Yamin but she ………… only 15  they ………… in 1985, and her
mother was very strict.
His passion ………… to fly model planes. He also ………… jet-skiing on water and flying with his
father.
, Senna ………… a millionaire but he ………… also a very generous man: he ………… millions of his
personal fortune to help poor children and he ………… an organization to help Brazilian children (today,
this organization is called “Instituto Ayrton Senna”).

2. Add a link word each time you see the following symbol  :
and – then – to conclude – but – when

Let’s write
Write a biography about Jane Austen the most famous novelist in English literature. The information in the time
line below will help you.

JANE AUSTEN

16th Dec.1775 Born South of England

1787 - 1783 Started writing/short stories poems/plays
1795 First novel ‘Sense and Sensibility’
1796 and 1797 Completed novel ‘Pride and Prejudice’/ot published
1801 Family moved to Bath / town South of England / she didn’t go
1805 to 1809 Lived in different town
1809 ‘Sense and Sensibility’ appeared / was a success
Two years later ‘Pride and Prejudice’ / the king of England liked the story
41 years old Became ill
July 18 , 1817
th
Year of death