A Popular Football Player

Presented by: Iin Hermiyanto

An English Language teacher of SMP An-Nisaa’

Bintaro, Tangerang-Selatan, Banten

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Factual Description

A factual description describes a

particular person, place or things. Its

purpose is to tell about the subject by

describing its features without

including personal opinion. It

describes a specific subject rather

than a general group

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FEATURES OF TEXT • Identification This introduces who or what is

being described

• Description This is the main body, which

explores the features of the person or the object, for example the appearance, behavior, habits, qualities, uses, etc.

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FEATURES OF TEXT • Special features

The description also includes special or unique features of the person or the object

• Conclusion

This is a concluding statement which may be a fact or an opinion

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Descriptive Text

• Describing a person

• Describing a place

• Describing an object

(animal, pets, buildings etc)

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RONALDINHO

Ronaldo de Assis Moreira was

born 21 March 1980 in Porto Alegre,

he was known as Ronaldinho. He is a

Brazilian footballer who plays for Milan

and the Brazilian national team. He is

widely regarded as one of the most

gifted footballers of his generation.

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Before he moved to Milan, he

played for Paris Saint-Germain,

and FC Barcelona, with whom he

won his first Champions League

in 2006. He became a Spanish

citizen in January 2007.

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His mother is a former salesperson

who studied to become a nurse and

his father was a shipyard worker and

a footballer for a local football club.

He suffered a fatal heart attack in the

family swimming pool when

Ronaldinho was eight.

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After Ronaldinho's older brother,

Roberto, signed with Grêmio, the

family moved to a home in the more

affluent Guarujá section of Porto

Alegre, which was a gift from Grêmio

to convince Roberto to stay at the

club. Roberto's career was ultimately

cut short by injury.

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Ronaldinho's football skills began

to blossom at an early age, and he

was first given the nickname

Ronaldinho because he was the

youngest and the smallest player in

youth club matches. He developed an

interest in futsal and beach football,

which later expanded to an organized

football.

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His first experience with the media

came at the age of thirteen when he

scored all 23 goals in a 23-0 victory

against a local team. Ronaldinho was

identified as a rising star at the 1997

U-17 World Championship in Egypt,

in which he scored two goals on

penalty kicks.

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Vocabulary • skill

• team

• league

• victory

• gifted

• score

• blossom

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Vocabulary

Ronaldinho's football skills began to blossom at an early age

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skills (n) = the ability to do a job or an activity well because you have

practised it

blossom (v) = to develop and become successful

Vocabulary

He scored all 23 goals in a 23-0 victory against a local team.

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victory (n) = winning a competition

team (n) = in SPORT, a group of people who play a sport or game together against another group of players

Vocabulary

He is one of the most gifted

footballers of his generation.

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gifted (adj.) = having a natural ability or very intelligent

Vocabulary

He won his first Champions League in 2006

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league (n) = a group of teams which compete against each other in a sport.

league n

be in league with sb

not be in the same league as sb/sth

Vocabulary

He scored all 23 goals

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score (v) = to get points in a game or test

EXERCISE 1: Choose the correct answer!

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Finding main idea (menemukan gagasan utama)

1. What does the text tell us about?

A. Ronaldo de Assis Moreira

B. A Brazilian footballer

C. A popular footballer

D. Ronaldinho’s career as a footballer

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A.Ronaldo de Assis Moreira

2. “He suffered a fatal heart attack in the family…”.

The underlined word refers to Ronaldihno’s…

A. brother

B. father

C. fan

D. friend

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B. father

Rujukan kata ganti

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3. Ronaldihno got his popularity…

A. At the age of thirteen

B. At his early age

C. When he joined Milan

D. When he joined the Brazilian national team

A. At the age of thirteen

Menemukan informasi yang tersurat

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Menemukan makna kata

4. “Ronaldinho is the most gifted footballers of his generation.”

The underlined word means…

A. excited

B. talented

C. amazed

D. skilled

B. talented

Tujuan teks 5. What is the purpose of the text above?

A. To describe Ronaldinho as a popular footballer

B. To retell Ronaldihno’s past experience

C. To entertain the readers with the story of Ronaldinho

D. To inform Ronaldinho’s goals

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A. To describe Ronaldinho as a popular footballer

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EXERCISE 2: mengisi rumpang

Fill in the gap with a correct word!

Aluna Sagita Gautawa or better known as Gita Gautawa is an Indonesian singer. She was born in Jakarta, 11 August 1993. Gita is the (1)… of Lutfi Andriani and Erwin Gautawa.

• daughter

• son

• father

• sister

daughter

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She learned music since grade 2 elementary school. Before launching the self-titled album, Gita Gautawa known as a (2)… in a teenager band called “ANY Band” which is popular with the popular song "For The Best (Do not Forget Father)".

• vocal

• vocalization

• vocalizes

• vocalist

vocalist

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This song became hits in the album entitled ”Heaven of Love“ and successfully sold more than 850 thousand copies and brought Donny and Gita as the (3)…for Best Duet Category AMI Pop Awards.

• nominatives

• nominates

• nominees

• nominations

nominees

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This album achieved Platinum Awards with the sale more than 150 thousand copies in just 4 months.

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Exercise 4: QUIZ

Match the description

with the name of the

animal!

• They live in the high mountains of Central Africa. They eat leaves and fruits

• Physical description: They have fur in all parts of the body except the chest, palm and face.

• They are in danger because people hunt them for their skins.

• BELUGA WHALES MOUNTAIN GORILLAS

• SNOW LEOPARDS GIANT PANDAS

• AFRICAN ELEPHANTS

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MOUNTAIN GORILLAS

• They live in the Arctic Ocean around Canada, Alaska and Russia. They eat octopus

• Physical description: Their turn white when they get older.

• They are in danger because in the past people who lived near the ocean ate them.

2 BELUGA WHALES

• BELUGA WHALES MOUNTAIN GORILLAS

• SNOW LEOPARDS GIANT PANDAS

• AFRICAN ELEPHANTS

• They live in Africa. They eat fruits like bananas, grass and vegetables.

• Physical description: They have small eyes, small tail, big ears and they have ivory tusks. They have 25 feet tall and 13 feet long.

• They are in danger because people hunt them for the ivory tusks to make piano keys, jewellery and statues.

3 AFRICAN ELEPHANTS

• BELUGA WHALES MOUNTAIN GORILLAS

• SNOW LEOPARDS GIANT PANDAS

• AFRICAN ELEPHANTS

• They live in the forest of China.

They only eat bamboo shoots

• Physical description: Their hair is

black in all their body except in the

face, chest and around their ears.

• They are in danger because people

hunt them.

4 GIANT PANDAS

• BELUGA WHALES MOUNTAIN GORILLAS

• SNOW LEOPARDS GIANT PANDAS

• AFRICAN ELEPHANTS

• They live in the mountains of China.

• They eat smaller mammals like

hyenas.

• Physical description: they have black

and brown spots.

• They are in danger because people

hunt them for their skin.

5 SNOW LEOPARDS

• BELUGA WHALES MOUNTAIN GORILLAS

• SNOW LEOPARDS GIANT PANDAS

• AFRICAN ELEPHANTS

THANK YOU Designed and Presented by:

Iin Hermiyanto, S.Pd (The English Language Teacher for SMP An-Nisaa, Bintaro, South Tangerang – Banten)

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