SMART ENGLISH EDUCATION : I AM PROUD OF INDONESIA

I AM PROUD OF INDONESIA

BY BENNY

Good morning everybody, my dear students.

I am really happy and proud of you all, I hope you are in good condition today, just being healthy and out of any diseases or virus.

Well students, in this moment we will learn about "I am proud of Indonesia". As you know that it is a kind of Descriptive text, do you know what it is?

Descriptive text is a kind of text which explains or describes about a certain or particular person, thing, animal, plant and other living things specifically.

It has two parts of generic structures,

1. Identification, It identifies about what it is, where it is, name of it and it is usually in the first paragraph.

2. Description, It tells about the thing we want to describe completely. It is started in paragraph two until the last of the paragraph.

My dear students,

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It is the example of the text of "I am proud of Indonesia"

Indonesia is a big country. It is between two continents, Asia and Australia, and between two oceans, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. It is the largest archipelago in the world. There are more than seventeen thousand islands in Indonesia.

We have a lot of islands. The big ones are Papua, Kalimantan, Sumatra, Sulawesi, and Java. Of the five islands, Java is the smallest, but it is the most populated one. We can find people from around Indonesia in Java.

Indonesia is on the equator. It is a tropical country. The sun shines brightly every day, so it is mostly hot. It has two seasons, the rainy season, and the dry season.

There are many seas in Indonesia, the Java Sea, the Bali Sea, the Arafuru Sea, the Banda Sea, the Timor Sea, and many others. We also have many straits, like the Sunda Strait, between Java and Sumatra, the Lombok Strait between Bali and Lombok, and many others.

Indonesia also has many mountains. Many of them are still active and can erupt any time. We call them volcanoes, like Sinabung and Marapi in Sumatra, Merapi in Java, dan Lokon in South Sulawesi. When they erupt they bring out very hot lava from inside the earth.

The land is very fertile. Farmers grow many kinds of vegetables and fruits. They also grow coconuts. Indonesian people eat a lot of vegetables like spinach, carrots, long beans, egg plants, cabbages, cucumbers, tomatos, onions, garlic, chillies, kangkung and many others.

We also grow many kinds of fruit. We call them local fruits, like guavas, bananas, rambutans, durians, mangoosteens, soursops, papayas, pineapples, and salak. Some people call it a snake fruit. They are all very nice, sweet, and juicy. We eat them fresh. We also make delicious juice of them. We also dry many kinds of fruit to make crackers.

Indonesia is also rich with spices, like pepper, corriander, ginger, clove, cinnamon, tumeric, galanga, lemon grass, bay leave, and so on. We use them to cook very spicy Indonesian foods. People also make nice healthy drinks from them. They are useful for our health.

Many kinds of fish, big and small, live in the Indonesian seas. Most of us eat fish with our meals. We also eat shrimp and different kinds of shellfish. But we don’t eat big fish, like dolphins and sharks. We protect them.We also protect our turtles.

Indonesia also raise different kinds of animals for their meat, like cows, goats, pigs. We get beef from the cow, mutton from the goat, and pork from the pig. Some ethnic groups even eat horse meat. Our milk is usually from cows. Of course we also have chickens. They give us meat and eggs.