Basic competence

4.6.1 Menangkap makna secara kontekstual terkait fungsi sosial, struktur teks, dan unsur
kebahasaan teks pembahasan ilmiah (discussion) lisan dan tulis, terkait isu kontroversial dan
aktual

4.6.2 Menyusun pembahasan ilmiah (discussion) lisan dan tulis, terkait isu kontroversial dan
aktual, dengan memperhatikan fungsi sosial, struktur teks, dan unsur kebahasaan, secara benar
dan sesuai konteks

Read the following discussion text carefully to answer the questions orally.

TELEVISION

The government has just published a report which suggest that television is partly
responsible for the serious increase in crime over the last ten years. The exposure of violence or
pornography harmfully effects on children.

Many people who are alive today know what it is like to live in a world without television.
Television as we know is only about forty years old. Yet it is so much a part of our lives that it
seems as if it had always existed. Some people think that the years before the invention of
television were a better time. They claim that families talked more and did more things together.
More books were read. People used their imaginations more fully. People got more outdoor
exercises.

But others disagree. They claim that television is a powerful educational tool. It informs us
of what is going on in the world, from a famine in Africa to a local politics and fashion. It helps
us understand how people live, work, and struggle.

In 1961, Newton Minow, a government official, called prime-time schedules “ a vast wasteland
”. Television is credited with being a great teacher, but it is also blamed for the poor reading and
writing skills of our population. Television gets praised for helping us understand the people of
the world. But it has been accused of helping to destroy family life. Television keeps us informed
about the political issues of the day.
 Experts will probably continue to argue about television’s value. But everyone agrees that it
is one of the most significant inventions of the twentieth century.

1. What is the purpose of the text?

2. Why is television not good for children?

3. Why many people agree with the existence of television?

4. What are the benefits of watching television?

5. Retell the text with your own words!

Scoring rubric

Aspects Score of 4 Score of 3 Score of 2 Score of 1

Pronunciation The There is a Difficult to It is almost

pronunciation problem in understand always wrong in
can be pronunciation so because there are pronunciation so
understood even that the listener problems in the it is
with certain must be very pronunciation incomprehensible
accents focused and and frequency
sometimes cause often
misunderstandings

Grammar There are almost There were some There are many The grammar is
no grammatical grammatical grammatical so bad and very
errors errors but they did errors that affect difficult to
not affect the meaning understand
meaning

Vocabulary Sometimes the Frequent use of Using the wrong The vocabulary
pronunciation is inaccurate vocabulary so it is very limited
incorrect and vocabulary can't be
requires further
 Aspects Score of 4 Score of 3 Score of 2 Score of 1

explanation due understood.

to inappropriate
vocabulary

Fluency Clear, very few Not too clear Often doubt and Often stop and be
encountered because of stop because of quiet
difficulties language language
difficulties limitations

Comprehension The entire Most of the It is difficult to It cannot be

contents can be contents can be follow and many understood even
understood even understood even repetitions in the form of a
though there are though there are a brief
occasional number of
repetitions in repetitions
certain parts

No Aspect which are Scored Score

1. Pronunciation

2. Grammar

3. Vocabulary

4. Fluency

5. Comprehension

Total = students’ score × 5

Maximum= 20×5= 100