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The questions:
1. What is the source of the text?
2. What is the text about? What is the social function of the text?
3. Which one is the headline? Write it down.
4. Why do you think living in an apartment is getting popular?

5. Can you identify some regulations of living in an apartment? What are they
6. Do you find some direct and indirect sentences in the text? Write them in the table.

Direct Speech Indirect Speech

1. _________________________________ 1. _________________________________
2. ________________________________... 2. _________________________________
3. ________________________________ . 3. _________________________________

Activity 5 Complete the text with the appropriate words provided in the box.

a. said d. coast g. as well as
b. destruction e. hit h. survivors

c. flood f. triggered i. epicenter

Monday’s tsunami along the southern 1) __________________ of
Java has caused devastating losses that are still being counted.

Traumatized 2) _________________ , many camped out on the hills far
from the shore line, are living in fear that another earthquake would trigger
another wave of 3) __________________ .
The earthquake which 4). _______________ a tsunami wiped out

the beach resorts and fishing villages along the southern coast of Java. The
Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMG) 5)
________________ that the Wednesday’s earthquake measured 6.2 on
the Richter Scale.

Its 6) ______________ was 48 kilometers below the sea level. BMG
official, Weni, said the areas on the west coast of Java and Banten, 7)
________________ those in the south coast of Lampung, were at risk of
being 8) _____________ by a tsunami. However, the possibility of a

tsunami was quickly discounted by other agencies.

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English For Brighter Future, For Tenth Grade Of SMA Negeri 1 Anjongan By Ajerin Karim, S. Pd