adjar.id – Teks berita dalam bahasa Inggris disebut dengan news item.
Nah, kali ini kita akan mempelajari news item dalam bentuk latihan soal.
Soal tersebut ada pada buku Bahasa Inggris kelas XII (SMA) edisi revisi 2018 Chapter 5 halaman 73, yakni Text Structure Task 2, materi "Who was Involved?".
Kita diminta untuk membaca teks dengan saksama dan mendiskusikan jawaban dari soal dengan teman sekelas.
Nah, berikut pembahasan soal tersebut yang dapat digunakan sebagai referensi.
Simak, yuk!
Task 2: Download a news item text.
Follow these steps to download a news item text from the given site.
Then, answer the given questions below based on the text and discuss the answers with your class.
1. What is the news about?
Answer: The news is about an Inspirational teenager who created an anti-bullying app when she was thirteen.
Baca Juga: Jawab Soal Bahasa Inggris Kelas XII Chapter 5, Vocabulary Builder
2. Who wrote the news?
Answer: The news was written by Naomi Greenaway For Mailoline.
3. When was the news published?
Answer: It was on 27 December 2015.
4. Who was Trisha Prabhu?
Answer: She is the creator of ReThink app. She is also a tech whizz. She devised the app when she was 13.
5. Why was she called ‘tech whiz’? What did she create?
Answer: She created sophisticated software. It is ReThink.
She called as the brainchild of tech whizz because of 15 from Illinois, who was only 13 when she devised the technology.
6. How does Rethink work? What prompt appears as a warning?
Answer: The app scans messages or posts for offensive content and creates a warning prompt such as 'Would you like to pause, review and ReThink before typing anything that may be offensive?'.
Baca Juga: Jawab Soal Bahasa Inggris Kelas XII Chapter 5, Listening Task 2
The app also creates alerts on emails and social network posts.
7. Did Trisha conduct trials to prove how the software works? What did the results show?
Answer: Yes, she did. The result was "they are provided a chance to pause, review, and ReThink their decision to post this message, kids change their minds and decide to not post a hurtful message.
8. What has inspired Trisha to develop the software?
Answer: Trisha was inspired by the issue in 2013 after learning about an 11-year-old girl from Florida that repeatedly bullied online.
9. How does the "stop, block, and tell" method work?
Answer: The method is that if teens receive an offensive message, they stop what they are doing, block the bully and tell an adult.
10. What did Trisha think about technology and responsibility among teens?
Answer: Her responses to the cyberbullying kids to teens were "As the technological revolution continues to unfold, the more kids get online and the scourge of cyberbullying continues to grow.
It’s an electronic and insidious form of verbal abuse and just like real-life bullying; victims experience depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, increased drop-out rates.
We are in the midst of the social media revolution. Kids as young as age seven or eight are getting on social media. Technology and the internet give kids great power.
Baca Juga: Jawab Soal Bahasa Inggris Kelas XII Chapter 5, Cloze News tentang Harold Pinter
But with that power comes great responsibility that the kids are not ready for yet," she said.
Nah, itulah pembahasan soal bahasa Inggris dalam materi "Who was Involved?".