A DILIGENT STUDENT

This boy is Bayu. He is an Elementary student. He is very diligent. He is living in the

village with his parents. His school is very far from his house. He is going to school by a bicycle.
It is big and very old. His teacher, Mrs. Maryam likes him. He is also very helpful to all his
friends.

One Monday morning, Bayu is coming late at school. The school is holding a flag
ceremony and the school gate is closed. Bayu is standing in front of the gate and is giving respect
to the flag rising. He is doing it like all of his friends in the school yard. When the flag ceremony
is over, Mrs. Maryam is opening the gate. Bayu says sorry for being late to his teacher. Mrs.
Maryam asks Bayu to come into the classroom.

Village : desa parents : orang tua far : jauh like : suka/menyukai/seperti over : selesai

Helpful : suka menolong late : terlambat flag ceremony : upacara bendera rising : berkibar

Gate : pintu gerbang respect : penghormatan ask : bertanya/meminta say : berkata

1. Who is the boy? ……………………………………………………………………..

2. What is he? ………………………………………………………………………….
3. Is Bayu living near his school? ……………………………………………………..
4. Where is he living? …………………………………………………………………
5. How is he going to school? …………………………………………………………
6. Why is Bayu going to school by a bicycle? ………………………………………..
7. How is his bicycle? ………………………………………………………………...
8. Is Bayu helpful to his friends? …………………………………………………….
9. How is Bayu coming at school one Monday morning? ……………………………
10. What is he doing in front of the gate? ……………………………………………
11. Who is his teacher? ………………………………………………………………
12. Is his teacher angry with Bayu? …………………………………………………

GREET THE NICE

MORNING BECAUSE IT
WILL FRESH OUR MIND
 A TRADITIONAL CAKE SELLER

Mrs. Dasimah is a cake seller. She is hard working. She is selling traditional cake. The
cake is very delicious. Mrs. Dasimah is carrying a wooden tray. It is big. There are three kinds of
traditional cakes. They are lupis, chenil and klepon. Mrs. Dasimah is selling her cakes around her
neighborhood. The people like the cakes. They think they are healthy and cheap.

Mrs. Dasimah is selling the traditional cakes in morning. Now she is serving her
customer. She is sitting at the side of the road. She is grating the coconut on her wooden tray.
Her customer is not patient to eat the traditional cake. He is sitting at the side of the road. Mrs.
Dasimah is very happy. She is going home now. Her cakes are over.

Seller : pejual hardworking : rajin bekerja wooden tray : dulang/talam kayu around : sekeling
healthy : sehat cheap : murah serving : melayani side : pinggir road : jalan
customer : pelanggan patient : sabar grating : memarut over : habis

1. What is Mrs. Dasimah? …………………………………………………………………………

2. How is she? …………………………………………………………………………………….

3. What is Mrs. Dasimah selling? ………………………………………………………………..

4. What is she carrying? ………………………………………………………………………….

5. How many kinds of cakes is Mrs. Dasimah selling? ………………………………………….

6. What are the traditional cakes? ……………………………………………………………….

7. Where is she selling her cakes? ……………………………………………………………….

8. How is the cake? ………………………………………………………………………………

9. What do the people think of the cakes? ………………………………………………………

10. What is Mrs. Dasimah grating? …………………………………………………………….

 Playing Marbles

Tomy and his friends, Doni, Alan and Fredi are in the yard. They are
holiday. They are playing marbles in the yard. The yard is clean and it is
very nice to play in it. Tomy and his friend are bringing marbles. Tomy’s
marbles are yellow. Doni’s marbles are red and Fredi’s marbles are green.
They are very happy. After they are playing marbles, they are going home.

Answer the questions correctly!

1. Who are the boys? ……………………………………………………………………….

2. Are the boys at school? …………………………………………………………………

3. Where are they? ……………………………………………………………………………

4. Are the boys singing in the garden? ………………………………………………..

5. What are they doing? …………………………………………………………………….

6. How is the yard? ……………………………………………………………………………

7. What are Tomy and his friends bringing? …………………………………………

8. What color are Doni’s marbles? ……………………………………………………….

9. Are Tomy’s marbles yellow? ……………………………………………………………

10. What are they doing after playing marbles? …………………………………...

Gardening

Mr. Hutomo is a gardener. He is in the garden. It is his garden. It is

clean and big. Mr. Hutomo is gardening. He is growing the flowers in his
garden. The flowers are very beautiful. They are roses, jasmines and sun
flowers. They are red, white and yellow. His daughter, Anita is helping him.
She is watering the flowers. Mr. Hutomo and Anita are very diligent.

Answer the questions correctly!

1. What is Mr. Hutomo? …………………………………………………………………………………..

2. Is Mr. Hutomo a teacher? ……………………………………………………………………………

3. Where is he? ……………………………………………………………………………………………..

4. How is the garden? ……………………………………………………………………………………

5. What is Mr. Hutomo doing? ………………………………………………………………………..

6. What is he growing? ………………………………………………………………………………….

7. What are the flowers? ………………………………………………………………………………..

8. How are the flowers? …………………………………………………………………………………

9. What color are the flowers? ………………………………………………………………………..

10. Who is Mr. Hutomo’s daughter? ………………………………………………………………..

 Swimming

Today is Sunday. Intan, Fatmala, Lastri and Windy are holiday.

They are going to the swimming pool. They are going there by bicycles.
It is far from their house. Intan and Fatmala are bringing food and
drink. They are putting them in a picnic basket. After they are arriving in
the pool, they are swimming. The water is clean and cool. Intan and
Lastri are very clever. They are swimming very fast. After swimming,
they are eating their food and drinking water.

Answer the questions correctly!

1. Who are the girls? …………………………………………………………………………………………….

2. Are they going to school? ………………………………………………………………………………….

3. Where are they going? ……………………………………………………………………………………..

4. How are they going to the swimming pool? ……………………………………………………….

5. Why are they going to the swimming pool by bicycles? ……………………………………..

6. Who is bringing food and drink? ………………………………………………………………………

7. Where are the food and drink? ………………………………………………………………………..

8. How is the water in the pool? ………………………………………………………………………….

9. Who is very clever? ………………………………………………………………………………………..

10. How are they swimming? ……………………………………………………………………………..

Picnic
Today is a semester holiday. Jane and her friends, Sonia and Vella
are having a picnic. They are going to the mountain. They are going there
by motorcycle. Jane is bringing a camera. She is taking picture of the
mountain and valley. They are very beautiful. The air is cool and the trees
are green. The birds are flying in the sky and some are singing on the tree.

Answer the questions correctly!

1. Who are Jane’s friends? …………………………………………………………………………………

2. What are they having? ………………………………………………………………………………….

3. Why are they having a picnic? ………………………………………………………………………

4. Where are they going? ……………………………………………………………………………….

5. How are Jane and her friends going to the mountain? ……………………………………

6. What is Jane bringing? ………………………………………………………………………………..

7. Is Jane taking pictures? ………………………………………………………………………………

8. How are the pictures? …………………………………………………………………………………

9. How is the air? …………………………………………………………………………………………..

 Driving Sheep

Hasan is a sheep boy. He has ten sheep. They are white. They are
fat. Now, Hasan is driving his sheep to the field. There is a lot of grass in
the field. It is green. All the sheep are eating the green grass. They are
not running. Hasan is sitting under a tree. He is resting and looking at his
sheep. He is eating two bananas and drinking water. At four o’clock
Hasan is going home with his sheep. The sheep are walking behind him.

Answer the questions correctly!

1. What is Hasan? …………………………………………………………………………………………….

2. How many sheep does Hasan have? ………………………………………………………………

3. What color are the sheep? ……………………………………………………………………………

4. How are Hasan’s sheep? ………………………………………………………………………………

5. Where is Hasan driving his sheep? ………………………………………………………………..

6. Why is Hasan driving his sheep to the field? ………………………………………………….

7. What are the sheep doing in the field? ………………………………………………………….

8. Where is Hasan sitting? ……………………………………………………………………………….

9. What is Hasan eating? …………………………………………………………………………………

10. What time is Hasan going home? ……………………………………………………………….

In The Restaurant

Helen and Paula are hungry. They are going to the restaurant to
have dinner. They are going there by a motorcycle. It is rather far. The
restaurant is Damai Restaurant. It is big and clean. Now Helen and Paula
are in the restaurant. They are sitting at table four. They are waiting for a
waitress to order food and drink.

The waitress is Miss. Santana. She is kind and beautiful. She is

coming to Helen and Paula. She is bringing a menu. Helen is ordering
Fried rice and iced tea and Paula is ordering fried chicken – rice and
orange juice. They are cheap.

Answer the questions correctly!

1. Where are Helen and Paula going? ………………………………………………………………………

2. Why are they going there? …………………………………………………………………………………

3. How are Helen and Paula going to the restaurant? ……………………………………………….

4. How is the restaurant? ……………………………………………………………………………………….

5. Where are Helen and Paula sitting? ……………………………………………………………………

6. Who are they waiting for? ……………………………………………………………………………

7. Who is the waitress? …………………………………………………………………………………..

8. How is she? ………………………………………………………………………………………………

9. What is Helen eating? ………………………………………………………………………………..

10. What is Paula eating? ………………………………………………………………………………

A Fisherman

Mr. Hanson is a fisherman. He has a boat. It is his boat. It is big and

good. It is blue. Mr. Hanson looks for fish in the sea every day. He goes to
the sea in the afternoon and he goes home in the morning. He carries a lot
of fish in the baskets. When his boat is at the port, he sells his fish to the
fishmongers there. He gets a lot of money. He gives it to his wife to buy
the daily needs and to send his children to school.

Answer the questions correctly based on the above text!

1. What is Mr. Hanson? ………………………………………………………………………………….

2. What does he look for every day? ……………………………………………………………….

3. How does he look for fish? …………………………………………………………………………

4. How is his boat? ……………………………………………………………………………………….

5. When does Mr. Hanson go to look for fish? …………………………………………………

6. Does he go home in the afternoon? ……………………………………………………………

7. What does he carry from the sea? ………………………………………………………………

8. Where does Mr. Hanson sell his fish? ………………………………………………………….

9. What does he get after selling the fish? ………………………………………………………

10. Who buys his fish? ……………………………………………………………………………………

11. Does Mr. Hanson have any children? …………………………………………………………

12. Does Mr. Hanson send his children to school? ……………………………………………

13. Who does Mr. Hanson give his money to? …………………………………………………

14. What does his wife do with the money? ……………………………………………………

15. He has a boat. The word he refers to ………………………………………………………

16. It is blue. The word it refers to ………………………………………………………………..

17. He sells his fish to the fishmongers there. The word there refers to …………….

DO AND MAKE SOMETHING

GOOD IN YOUR LIFE AS LONG
AS YOU HAVE CHANCE TO DO IT
 A Postman

That man is Mr. Rahmad. He is a postman. He is working in a post office. He is

very diligent and kind to everybody. He goes to his office by a motorcycle at 06.30
every morning. Mr.Rahmad is bringing some letters in a bag of motorcycle. His
motorcycle is orange. He is going to the people’s houses to send their letters.

At two o’clock, Mr. Rahmad is going home. He is tired and hungry. His wife
prepares lunch in dining room. Mr. Rahmad and his family are having lunch together.
After having lunch, Mr. Rahmad is taking a nap in the bedroom.

Answer these questions correctly based on the text above!

1. What is Mr. Rahmad? ………………………………………………………………………………….

2. How is he? …………………………………………………………………………………………………

3. Where is he working? …………………………………………………………………………………

4. How does Mr. Rahmad go to his office? ……………………………………………………….

5. What colour is his motorcycle? ……………………………………………………………………

6. What is Mr. Rahmad bringing? …………………………………………………………………….

7. Where is he going with the letters? ……………………………………………………………..

8. What time is Mr. Rahmad going home? ……………………………………………………….

9. How is he at two o’clock? …………………………………………………………………………..

10. What does his wife do at home? ……………………………………………………………….

11. Where is Mr. Rahmad having lunch? ………………………………………………………….

12. With who is he having lunch? …………………………………………………………………..

13. What is he doing after having lunch? ………………………………………………………..

14. Is he working after having lunch? …………………………………………………………….

15. Is he sleeping in his bedroom? ………………………………………………………………..

Mrs. Yani is a food seller. She has a food stall in front of her
house. It is big and clean. She has ten waitress and two waiters. They
work to write the customers’ orders and serve them. Mrs. Yani also
has ten chefs cooking some food in the kitchen. They work diligently.
The waitress, waiters and chefs like to work in Mrs. Yani’s food stall
because she is kind and they get good salary.

1. What is Mrs. Yani? …………………………………………………………………………………….

2. What does she have? ………………………………………………………………………………..

3. How is her food stall? ……………………………………………………………………………….

4. How many waitress and waiters does Mrs. Yani have? ………………………………..
 An Ice Boy

Allan was an ice boy. He lived in a village with his parents. They were poor. They
worked for a rich person. Looking at their parents’ condition, Allan had to work to help
them. He worked part-time. He sold ice after school or on holidays. When he got money
from selling ice, he gave it to his mother. She was glad that Allan was a good boy.

Allan was never ashamed to his friends when he met them. He kept on selling
his ice. He just thought how to get money to help his parents. He never felt jealous
with his friends who had much time to play. Allan began selling his at one o’clock and
he came home at four or five o’clock in the afternoon.

Allan strolled in a narrow road but had crowded houses. He offered his ice to
the children or people by using his big bell. He rang it loudly to attract the children’s
interest. The children had known Allan’s bell well. When Allan rang it, the children ran
out of their house noisily like a market. Allan felt very happy because all his ice were
over and he got much money. He gave some of the money to the ice maker and some
to his mother.

One day, Allan got a bad day. He sold his ice in the same place. He sat in a
narrow road. He rang his bell so loudly while waiting for the children. Suddenly an old
man got out of his house holding his swollen cheek and spoke unclearly throwing
broken bricks to him. Looking at the old man angrily, Allan took the ice thermos running
fast and fell down. All of his ice spread on the road and they were dirty. Looking at the
situation quiet, the old man took all the ice and ate them.

Answer these questions correctly based on the text above!

1. What was Allan? ……………………………………………………………………………………………….

2. How were his parents? ……………………………………………………………………………………..

3. How did their parents get the money? ……………………………………………………………….

4. What did Allan do after knowing his parents’ condition? ………………………………………

5. What did Allan do in order that he got money? …………………………………………………..

6. When did he sell the ice? ………………………………………………………………………………….

7. What did he do with the money he got? …………………………………………………………….

8. How was his mother? ……………………………………………………………………………………….

9. How was Allan when he sold ice? ……………………………………………………………………….

10. How did he sell his ice? ……………………………………………………………………………………

11. What happened to the children when Allan rang his bell? …………………………………..

12. How much money did Allan give his mother? …………………………………………………….

13. Why did he give her some? …………………………………………………………………………….

14. What happened to Allan when he rang his bell loudly? ……………………………………..

15. Why did the old man get angry with Allan? ……………………………………………………..

16. How was the old man? ………………………………………………………………………………….

 In The Garden

Today is Sunday. Mr. Damais does not go to his office. He goes to his garden. It
is behind his house. His garden has a lot of flowers. They are colorful. They are very
beautiful. They are roses, orchids, jasmines and sun flowers. Mr. Damais likes
gardening. He waters the flowers every day. His son, Alan helps him in the garden. He
sweeps the garden. It is clean. Mr. Damais is very happy and he gives Alan some
money.

Answer these questions correctly based on the text!

1. Does Mr. Damais go to his office? …………………………………………………………..

2. Why does he not go to his office? …………………………………………………………..

3. Where does he go? ……………………………………………………………………………….

4. Where is the garden? ……………………………………………………………………………

5. What does the garden have? …………………………………………………………………

6. How are the flowers? ……………………………………………………………………………

7. Are the flowers beautiful? ……………………………………………………………………..

8. What are the flowers? …………………………………………………………………………..

9. What does Mr. Damais do in the garden? ……………………………………………….

10. Who helps him in garden? …………………………………………………………………..

11. What does Alan do? ……………………………………………………………………………

12. Does Mr. Damais like gardening? ………………………………………………………..

13. What does Mr. Damais do after Alan helps him? …………………………………..

14. When does Mr. Damais water the flowers? …………………………………………..

15. Does he water them every month? ………………………………………………………