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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 6.
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.

Activity 7.
Arrange the jumbled parts of a news item text below into good order.
Text 1
1. Supriatna said the pilot ejected from the Brazilian-made Embraer EMB 314 Super Tucano
plane before it crashed, but a technician failed to do so. The pilot was found dead near a rice field
about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from his parachute, while the technician's body was recovered from
the plane's cockpit, which was buried in the rubble of the destroyed house. He said a man and a
woman living in the house died while being treated at a hospital.
2. A neighbor who witnessed the crash, Slamet, told TV One that the plane appeared to be nose-
diving out of control with smoke billowing from its tail when it crashed. Like many Indonesians,
Slamet goes by a single name.
3. MALANG, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian air force plane crashed into a house on the main
island of Java on Wednesday, killing both people on board and two people in the house, a senior
official said.
4. The plane was on a routine maintenance flight when it crashed near Abdul Rahman Saleh air
force base in Malang, a hilly town in East Java province, said air force chief Air Marshal Agus
Supriatna.

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