PARTS OF A TREE

PARTS OF A TREE

BY BENNY

PARTS OF THE TREE

            Well, students. I’m going to talk about plants. I’d like to put my talk into two parts. The first part will be about trees and the second will be about flowering plants. Let’s begin with trees. A tree consists of three main parts: the crown or canopy, trunk and roots. The crown or canopy is at the top of a tree. It filters dust and other particles from the air. It consists of leaves, branches and twigs. As you all know, the leaves are the food factories of a tree. They contain chlorophyll which helps photosynthesis process and gives green color to the leaves. 

 

              Now, let’s talk about trunk, or stem. The trunk of a tree supports the crown and gives the tree its shape and strength. The trunk consists of some layers. The layers carry water and minerals up from the roots to the leaves and they carry sugar down from the leaves, branches, trunk and roots.  

             What about roots? A tree’s roots absorb water and nutrients from the soil, store sugar and hold the tree upright in the ground. Roots also have a lot of branches. Some roots can go down more than four meters! Now, look at this chart and . . . . (fade)

  Adopted from English On Sky book, Mukarto, Sujatmiko, Erlangga 2006

NOTE:
These are the vocabularies you can learn from this part!
a. plants                  = tanaman                         h. consists of = terdiri dari
b. flowering plants = tanaman bunga               i. contain       = mengandung
c. crown/ canopy    = mahkota                         j. chlorophyll = zat hijau daun
d. trunk/ stem         = batang pohon                 k. leaves         = daun
e. branches             = cabang                            l. layers          = lapisan
f. twigs                   = ranting                           m. support       = menahan
g. filters                  = menyaring                     n. absorb         = menyerab/ mengambil

Answer these questions below with the right answer briefly!

1. What is the type of the text above?
2. The purpose of this text is to . . . .
3. How many parts of the tree are there? What are they?
4. The function of the canopy is to . . . .
5. What is the function of a chlorophyll?
6. Mention thre parts of a canopy!
7. Functions of the trunk are . . . . 
8. What are the fucntions of the layers?
9. How many functions of the roots are there? Mention them please!
10. How long can the roots go down?