Linguistic Response to the Text

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Introduction

In this learning learning activity, you will learn how to reorganize the
information by reordering events which are embedded in a text. Text sometimes a
sequence of events which are important to be understand. Therefore, it so
important to refer constantly to the texts to find out when exactly the various
events took place.

You can rearrange paragraphs by identifying discourse makers such as a result

of this, finally, then, next and outhers. You can also do that by identifying the main
ideas of each paragraph. By knowing them, you will know which paragraph comes
first and which comes next.

TES FORMATIF

The following paragraph are jumbled up.can you put them in their
chronological order so that they make sense ?

Climate

As a result of this, vegetation has also been changing. In Canada the

agricultural cropline has shifted 50 to 100 miles northward. In the some way cool-
climate trees like birches and spruce have been dying over large areas of Eastern
Canada. In Sweden the treeline has moved up the mountaints by as much as 65
feet since 1930.

For the last hundred years the climate has been growing much warmer. This
has had a number of different effects. Since the beginning of the 20th
century,glaciers have been melting very rapidly. For example, the muir Glacier
Alaska has retreated 2 miles in 10 years. Secondly, rising temperatures have been
causing the snowline to retreat on mountains all over the world. In Peru, for
example, it has risen as much as 2700 feet in 60 years.

Finally, the sea has been rising at a rapidly increasing rate, largely due, as was
mentioned above, to the melting of glaciers. In the last 18 years it has risen by
about in 6 inches, which is about four times the average rate of rise over the last
9000 years.

The distribution of wildlife has also been affected, many eroupean animals
moving northwards into Scandinavia. Since 1918, 25 news species of birds have
been-seen in Greenland, an in the united states birds have move their nests to the
north.

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Kegiatan Belajar 2
Reorganizing the Information: Using Tables

In yhisunit you will learn how to understand the main information contained in
the texts by filling in tables.

Texts are full of information. So, it is important to derive the main information
from the supporting one.all you have to do is to read the text through first in order
to get general ideas and then look for specific points in different places. The table
are only to make you easier to reorganize the text.

TES FORMATIF

Why Drivers of Pastel Cars May Break Down

By Paul Marston

Transport correspondent

BUYERS of cars lack imagination, Owners of beige, lilac, lime or

those choosing silver are pompous,
while cars in pastel shades such as
beige are probably yaking their owner
to a psychiatrist, according to a study
published today.
Psychologists employed by the
RAC analysed the colour preference of
more than a thousand drivers and
conclude that they revealed
personality traits far more clearly than
choice of clothes or type of house.
other pastelcars were found to be
much likelier to suffer from depression
than those opting for other colours.
One in five admitted to a
depressive episode during the past
three years, compared with one in 25
drivers of green or red cars, and
almost one in 40 of those favouring
black, blue or silver.
Similarly, pastel motorist were
twice as likely to consider themselves
victims of road rage. Eighty per cent
said they had been a target for
aggressive behavior in the last year,
compared with only cent of green
vehiclebuyers, 38 per cent of white,
and 40 per cent of blue or silver.
Pastel owners were among the
least satisfied with their car colour.
Barely 60 per cent said they would opt
for the same hue again, against more
than 80 per cent of those who had
backed red, silver, blue or black.
The most dissatisfied were
drivers who had piumped for white.
Less than half were inclined to do so
again, citing problems with keeping
the car clean.
Red and blue were the most
popular choices, though green and
silver were increasingly fashion-able.
Conrad King, the RACs
consultant psychologist, said:
drivers may think that they are
cocooned when behind the wheel of a
car, but in reality their choice of colour
send a clear signal to other motorists.
Read the article from the Sunday Times and complete the following table.

COLOURS OF CARS TYPE OF

PERSONALITY
BLUE
SILVER
PASTEL
WHITE

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COLOURS OF CARS TYPE OF

PERSONALITY
BLUE Lack imagination
SILVER pompous
PASTEL more easily
depressed
WHITE most disstatifed