Part 2
Constructing Biography Texts
Task 1
Think of a
famous living person. Answer the following questions about the person.
Task 1: Pre writing
Task 1: Pre writing
1. What is
the person’s name and
where is he/she from?
Joko
Widodo, byname Jokowi is from Surakarta, Central Java.
2. What things did he/she do to become famous?
He is a businessman, politician,
government official who served as mayor of Surakarta in 2005, as governor of
Jakarta in 2012 and as president of Indonesia in 2014.
3. How long has he/she been famous?
He has been famous since he ran in
the mayoral race in Surakarta in 2005.
4. Have you seen him/her on television or in real life?
Yes, I have seen him many times on
television.
5. What is he/she like?
He is a humble person who always
goes to the field which is called blusukkan and speaks in a polite way. He is
an optimistic leader who believes that Indonesia can be better year by year if
the people work hard together to make the good change for the country.
6. What does he/she do now?
He is the president of Indonesia
7. Why is
this person important to you?
He is an important person to me and
to my country because he is the leader of our country that we believe he has
anticorruption platform in his governance.
Task 2: Sentence building
Rewrite the sentences from Task 1. Consider using significant grammatical features (Simple past tense, temporal sequenceand temporal conjunction, Specific participants, Action verbs, Third person) as you may need to write longer sentences andadd extra information. Make sure you put the sentences chronologically.
JOKO WIDODO
Joko Widodo, byname Jokowi is an
Indonesian politician who is the seventh and the current president of
Indonesia. He was elected in July 2014. He was previously the Mayor of
Surakarta from 2005 to 2012, and the Governor of Jakarta from 2012 to 2014.
Jokowi was born in June 21st, 1961 in Surakarta, Central Java. He
was raised in Surakarta with his family. His father was a wood seller who plied
his trade in the city’s streets, and throughout much of Jokowi’s childhood, he
and his family lived illegally built shacks near the city’s flood-prone Solo
River. Later, when he entered politics, his populist appeal was rooted in part
to those humble beginnings.
Jokowi applied
himself at school and won admittance to Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta,
from which he graduated in 1985 with a degree in forestry engineering. For
several years later, he worked for a state-owned pulp mill in the Aceh region of
northern Sumatra,
and he later established his own furniture factory in Surakarta. By 2002 he had
become a highly successful furniture exporter, with showrooms on several
continents, as well as chairman of a local branch of the country’s influential
furniture manufacturers’ association.
In 2005,
Jokowi, as a member of the Indonesian
Democratic Party of Struggle (Partai Demokrasi
Indonesia-Perjuangan), won election as mayor of Surakarta. He was extraordinarily
effective in reducing crime and attracting foreign tourists to the city. His
habit of making spontaneous visits to poor neighborhoods and his refusal to
accept a salary for his public service contributed to his reputation for
humility and honesty. In 2010 Jokowi was reelected mayor there with more
than 90 percent of the vote. He was later ranked as the third best mayor in the
world by the international City Mayors Foundation.
A member of the Indonesian Democratic Party of
Struggle (PDI-P), he was its candidate for the 2012 Jakarta gubernatorial election, alongside Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (often known as Ahok) as his running
mate. They took office in October 2012 and reinvigorated Jakarta politics, with
publicized blusukan visits for improving the city's
bureaucracy and reducing corruption in the process. He introduced programs to
improve quality of life in the city, including universal health-care, dredging
the city's main river to reduce flooding, and inaugurating construction of the
city's subway system.
In 2014 president election, Jokowi was elected as president and Jusuf Kalla
as the vice president. As he entered the presidency, he identified clamping-down
on corruption as among his top priorities and as a necessary step to attract
more foreign direct
investment to the country. He pushed a nine-point plan for Indonesia called Nawacita, a Sanskrit term for nine
priorities for the country namely returning the state to its task of protecting
all citizens and providing safe environment; developing clean, effective,
trusted, and democratic governance; developing Indonesia’s rural areas;
reforming law enforcement agencies; improving quality of life; increasing
productivity and competitiveness; promoting economic independence by developing
domestic strategic sectors; overhauling the character of the nation; and
strengthening the spirit of “unity in diversity” and social reform.
Checking your writing
Elements
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Orientation
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Events
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Reorientation
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Simple past tense
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Temporal sequence and
temporal conjunction
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Specific participants
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Action verbs
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Third person
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Sentences
in chronological order
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