READING SUMMARY OF INTENSIVE COURSE

LALU JOHAN PERDANA

E1D019119 /D/I

UNIVERSITY OF MATARAM

2019

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MODULE 8 (page 74-75)

The text tells us about 9 interested things in the world

Number 1. The world’s driest desert, In most of the Aracama Desert in northern Chile, it rain
regularly, between two and four times a century. But in parts of the desert, it has never rained so
far. Number 2, The Yellow River, it carries millions of tons of yellow sand from the deserts of
Central China, which give the river a yellowish colour. Number 3, a place where the water is
saltier than others. The Dead Sea is not really a sea, but a lake. The hot desert sun evaporates the
water as quickly as it flows in, leaving salt and other minerals. As a result, the Dead Sea is seven
times saltier than the sea. Number 4, The Black Sea, it centainly is not black!. The name
probably comes from the black clouds which can cause storms in the area.

Number 5, the country with the most extreme climate. Two of the hottest and coldest
temperatures ever recorded were in the same country Argentina. A temperature of 49˚C was
recorded in the town of Rivadavia on 11th December 1905 and -33˚C in Sarmiento in june 1907,
that’s a difference of 82˚C. Number 6, the world’s longest mountain range. In South America,
the Andes stretch more than 7,000 km from Lake Maracaibo in the north to Tierra del Fuego in
the south, the whole length of the continent and a distance greater than New York to London.

Number 7, the country with the world’s longest coastine. Canada has the world’s longest
coastline just over 240,000 km. as a single line, the coastline would go round the Earth six
times!. Number 8, a place who have 150 canals but no cars and roads. In the city of Venice in the
north-east of Italy, no cars are allowed into this historic city. The only way to get around is on
foot, by boat or water taxi. It’s famous for its historic palaces, churches and art galleries. And
number 9, Greenland, is more white than green(85% is permanently covered in snow and ice).
One idea is that the first people who arrived there saw it in spring, that’s why they gave the name
Greenland.

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MODULE 9 (page 81)

The text tells us about the Bowler family who applied to 1900 house, a reality TV show which
took a typical family back a hundred years to see how people lived in the days before the
internet, computer games and even electricity.

The Bowler family spent three months in a London home without a telephone, fridge,
computers, radio, TV fast food or central heating. TV cameras recorded their day. The Bowlers
wore clothes from 1900. Ate only food which was available in England at that time, and cooked
their meals on a single stove which also gave them their hot water.

Paul Bowler still went to work everday(dressed in nineteenth-century uniform) and the
children went to school as normal. They changed their clothes on the way to and from school and
their classmates did not know about their unusual home life.

MODULE 14 (page 127)

The text tells us about a swiss man was amazed to see an extra £100,000 in his bank account
one day. He started spending the money immediately, organizing expensive parties for his
friends and buying things he’d never been able to afford before.

When the bank noticed mistake, the money actually belonged to a much rich man with the
same name, he had already spent £85,000. A court ruled that the money wasn’t his, and that he
would have to repay the full amount.

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MODULE 15 (page 132)

The text tells us about The story of a song , started from John Lennon was born in Liverpool,
England in 1940. Then in 1957 he met Paul McCartney and began writing songs together. They
later formed The Beatles(name of his group band) became one of the most succesfull groups in
pop history during the 1960. And finally, in 2004/5 a musical show about John Lennon’s life -
imagine- opened in New York. Twelve actors played the part of Lennon from his earliest year to
his death. The dream of imagine lives on.

MODULE 15 (page 136)

The text tells us about Hero, the new planet. They are very confident that human beings will be
able to live there as it has plenty of water, light and oxygen, and the temperature and air are all
very similar to those on earth. They have done tests and know that plant can grow there. They
have not found any alien life there, though they cannot be sure it doesn’t exist.