Chapter 1.

I Argue that …
Kompetensi Dasar:
3.1. Membedakan fungsi social, struktur teks, dan unsur kebahasaan beberapa teks
eksposisi analitis lisan and tulis persuasif atau argumentative) dengan memberi
dan meminta informasi, menyampaikan pendapat/pikiran terkait isu actual,
sesuai dengan konteks.

4.1. Teks eksposisi analitis persuasive atau argumentative)

4.1.1. Menangkap makna secara kontekstual terkait fungsi sosial, struktur teks, dan
unsur kebahasaan teks eksposisi analitis lisan dan tulis (persuasif atau
argumentatif), terkait isu actual
4.1.2 Menyusun teks khusus dalam bentuk surat pribadi terkait kegiatan diri sendiri
dan orang sekitarnya, lisan dan tulis, dengan memperhatikan fungsi sosial,
struktur teks, dan unsur kebahasaan, secara benar dan sesuai konteks

Activity 1. Getting Started

Look at the pictures and discuss the questions that follow.

1. What problem does each picture show?

2. What are the causes of each problem in the above pictures?
3. What are the impacts of those problems?
4. What solutions can you offer to each problem.

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Activity 2. Listening
Listen to the arguments why laptop is student’s friend. Check (✓) the correct reasons,
and cross (x) the wrong ones.
□ Currently students need book, pen, eraser, drawing book, ruler, and such other stuff.
□ In this multimedia era, students need mobile computers to record every presented
subject easily.
□ Modern schools tend to apply fast transferring knowledge.
□ Every subject, in modern school, will tend to be given in demonstrative method.
□ Laptop on every students’ desk will help students to get better understanding.
□ An online shop provides a comprehensive coverage of school subjects.
□ The use of laptop in schools is really easy and saves time and money.
□ Having laptop is absolutely useful for students who want to catch the best result for
their study.

Activity 2. Watch and Learn

Watch the following video and answer the following questions.

1. What is the topic of his speech?

2. What is he trying to do to the audience of his speech?
3. How does the book save him?
4. Why is reading special for him?
5. What does he love about reading?
6. How does human evolve according to him?

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 7. Since he didn’t like reading, how did he get into a story when he was a kid?
8. What was his funny experience about reading?
9. From what problems did book save his life?
10. What is his conclusion at the end of his speech?

Activity 3. Reading
Match the vocabulary with the correct definition and write a–h next to the numbers 1–
8.

a. material that provides official information or evidence

or that serves as a record
1. ..... author
b. a thing that is absolutely necessary
2. ..... necessity
c. to provide (someone) with amusement or enjoyment.
3. ..... documentations

4. ..... a tale d. a writer of a book, article, or report

5. ..... essentials e. absolutely necessary; extremely important

6. ..... to entertain f. easily perceived or understood; clear, self-evident, or
apparent.
7. ..... limitless
g. a fictitious or true narrative or story, especially one that
8. ..... obvious is imaginatively recounted.

h. without end, limit, or boundary.

Activity 4.
Read the text and answer the questions that follow.

Why Books are Important for Us?

A wise man once said, “learning without book means nothing.’ In my opinion this statement
is true. Why do I say that? This is for several reasons.

Firstly, books are important because they develop the minds of people who read them. Even
if you don’t agree with what an author has done in a book, you can at least have formed
your own ideas on what would have been better. This leads to critical thinking skills. These
critical thinking skills are a necessity for the development of cultures.

Secondly, book contains so much more than just the story. They record facts. They review
history. Books are the documentations of themes that relate to everyone. You can even
learn about a period in history just looking at what books were popular and published during
that time. For instance, the classic tales of two cities by Charles dickens is set in the French
revolution era.

The last thing I’ll say is that books are essential to life because they do not only carry
knowledge, but they also entertain us. They entertain us with stories ranging from mystery

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 and drama to comedy, adventures and autobiographies. In other word, you can read book
about anything. These possibilities are limitless and that is one of the many lessons you can
learn from reading books.

Based on the reason listed above, it is obvious that books have a great influence in our
lives. Without book we may learn nothing.

1. All of the following are stated about the important thing about books, except…
A. Books don’t carry knowledge
B. Books develop the minds of people who read them
C. Books entertain us with stories.
D. Books are the documentations of themes that relate to everyone

2. The word “Limitless” in paragraph 4th is closest in meaning to…

A. Obstruction
B. Inexhaustible
C. Confine
D. Ceiling

3. What does writer suggest if we disagree to book with what an author has done in a
book?
A. To make your own book
B. To contrive your own better idea
C. To develop culture
D. To make critical book as answer

4. What idea does writer want to convey in text?

A. Books are important
B. Books have a great influence in our lives
C. Books are the documentations of themes
D. Possibilities of books are limitless

Activity 5. Reading
Read the following text and answer the questions that follow.

Controlling Children Using Computer

Computer and internet are useful as well as powerful. Information about healthy and safe
usage of computer and Internet, especially for children, should be owned by each family.
Computer connected to the Internet is powerful way to socialize with others. It can be good
but also bad effect. Recently we hear a lot of children get the advantage of social networking
sites but we often see the news about the disadvantage of it for children. Health and safety
of computer and Internet usage should continue to be campaigned.

The role of parent in assisting and directing children in using computer is very necessary.
Installation of software monitor such as key logger which has function to watch and note all
activities relating to keyboard usage is helpful but not enough to protect children from
potential harms. Children tend to hide what they have done in front of the computer to their
parent. They see that all of they have done are their privacy and no one may know.

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 We can not prevent children from using computer because it is multifunctional. However,
many parents worry about what their kids do in front of the computer; whether they are doing
homework or even just playing games, or spending all time to surf internet which is the
materials do not fit with his age. There is a tendency, especially teenagers, to become
acquainted with many strangers outside. The lack parental supervision of children’s
activities is likely to pose a potential danger to them. So parental monitor against the use of
computers needs to be done from time to time.

Read the sentences and answer 'true' if the information can be found in the text, 'false'
if the information says the opposite to the text or 'not given' if the information cannot
be found in the text.

1. All of family have owned information about health and safe usage of computer and internet.
A. True
B. False
C. Not given

2. Campaigned of health and safety of computer and Internet usage are held by government.
A. True
B. False
C. Not given

3. Privacy is seen important for the children in using computer.

A. True
B. False
C. Not given

4. Parental supervision may be harmful for children.

A. True
B. False
C. Not given

Activity 6. Reading
Read the text again. Complete the sentences below. Use no more than two words from
the passage for each answer.
1. The health and safety usage of computer should be … to make parents realize the
importance of keeping away their children form the advantages of computer.
2. Computer connected to the Internet help people … with others.
3. The activities relating to keyboard usage can be monitored by using software monitor
like ….
4. Children cannot be separated from computer because it is … .
5. Parental supervision is needed to prevent children from a potential … that may harm
them.
Activity 7. Reading
Read the following text and study the structure of text.

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Do you know?

An exposition text is also called an argument text.

What is an argument?

Here are three definitions:

1. Disagreement; a noisy quarrel;
2. A reason given to support or disprove something;
3. The use of reason to decide something or persuade someone

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Activity 8. Reading

Read the following article and write the main ideas of each paragraph in the text. One
has been done for you as an example.

Why Students should Stop Cheating

People say that corruption begins with small

practices of dishonesty in daily life. This is very
apparent in school. The pressure to pass test has
led many students to cheat during tests. This
practice should be discouraged as cheating has no
benefit for students.

First, by cheating students fail to use their own

intelligence. They might underestimate the actual
abilities due to anxiety and fear of failure. Cheating keeps students from understanding
their abilities and potentials. They might actually be able to pass the test if they study hard.

Second, cheating on other students leads to dependency. Students who don't prepare for
test well and cheat on other students will get even more anxious when others can help them.

Third, when students cheat, they are actually fooling and lying to themselves. If this
continues, they will be led into the habit of doing anything to get they want, even if it means
doing morally questionable acts. This habit is what starts corrupt practices. Cheating during
tests is a small form of corruption, but as time passes, it can lead to bigger forms.

Based on those reasons we can conclude that cheating is a bad habit that should be
discouraged in students.

Paragraph Main Idea

1 A statement that cheating gives no benefit for students.
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3
4
5

Remember!
A group of sentences or a single sentence that forms a unit makes a paragraph. It doesn't
matter whether it is long or short.

What makes a good a good paragraph?

• A paragraph has a group of sentences that support one main idea. This idea, which is
often expressed in the topic of the paragraph, determines what happens in the rest of
the paragraph.
• All of the supporting sentences in one paragraph should correspond to one main idea.
• The sentences should be coherent or follow a logical arrangement.
• Every idea in the paragraph should be elaborated clearly and supported by proof and
details. the proof and supporting details explained the paragraph's main idea.

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Example:

Smoking harms nearly every organ in the body, Topic Sentence

including the heart including the heart and blood
vessels. The chemical in tobacco smoking damage the
function of your heart and the structure and function of
your blood vessels. They cause plaque to build up in Supporting
arteries, which Harden and narrow overtime, and may sentence
lead to coronary heart diseases, which can lead to heart
attacks and even death.

Activity 9.
What is the topic sentence of each paragraph?

1. Recreational reading offers huge benefits, not only the children's cognitive
development but also to their character development. Children develop language skills
faster when they are encouraged to initially do “light reading”, such as folk tales,
magazines, comics, simplified novels and story books. Free reading in the form of
illustrated light reading materials has been proven to stimulate children's imagination
and creativity, making them in appreciative and critical, thereby encouraging them to
read advanced reading material.
2. COPD is often caused by smoking. The things secondhand smoke or someone else’s
smoke, air pollution, chemical fumes, a lot of gas or other things that bother the lungs
and airways over time can also cause COPD. Some people may have a genetic
condition that increases their chance of getting COPD.
3. Car crashes are the top killer of American teenagers. Most of the crashes result from
distracted driving – not paying attention to the road. If you're texting while driving you
are twenty-three times more likely to get into an accident than somebody who isn't.
Reaching for a cell phone when it's going off you are nine times more likely to get into
an accident then when driving normally.

Activity 10.
Now it's your turn to write your short paragraph using the topic sentences and the
supporting sentences.

1. Good roads are important for a country. Why? they are good for business because
they make fast transportation of food and merchandise possible.
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________
2. The library is one of the most important institutions. Fist knowledge is stored in the
library. Second, ______________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________

Activity 11. Writing

Write your own analytical exposition on the following topics.
• global warming is very hazardous to living things
• life would be different without electricity
• corruption should be banned in this country
• cars should be limited in towns

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 Activity 12.
Make a presentation/speech about the topic that you have chosen. Present it with a
PowerPoint presentation to make your presentation more attractive.

Reflection

Before I studied this chapter, I didn’t understand

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When I was studying this chapter, I had some difficulties:

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After studying this chapter, I think …………………………………………………….