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where he was going. As it was my first day in the hotel my question seemed very impudent to him whereas in Indonesia it would be quite common.
Another experience happened when I was driving a car without having a driving license and without knowing how to drive well either. When a car came from the
opposite direction I turned too much to the left to avoid it and hit a cyclist going in the same direction. He fell with his bike on the side of the road. His cycle was
damage and his trousers were torn. I stopped the car to apologize because I was the one to
blame for the accident and thanked God there was no policeman around, otherwise I would be in some trouble. The young man I had hit stood up with the
hands on the hips and elbows bent outwards looking threateningly in my direction
and I already imagined myself being beaten up by him when….what do you know? – no sooner he recognized me than he completely changed his attitude, by hundreds and
eighty degrees, as we would say in Indonesian. Smiling sheepishly he asked: “Is it
you Pak Gondo? Where are you going?” He turned out to be one of the numerous students I used to teach at that time. “Well, I never, this must be the acme of
Javanese politeness Someone hit you with a car and damaged your bike and trousers”, I thought to myself, “and you asked him
where he was going”
summarized from: Soegondo. 1994. HUMOUR AND FACTS Recollection of A Retired English Teacher. Yogyakarta:
Gajah Mada University Press. Second Revised Edition
2. Complete the following Generic Structure of “How are you?” or “Where are you going?”
Title Abstract
Orientation
1. When
2. Where
Crisis
Incident
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Coda
3. Find the meaning of these words
Expecting
Factual
Interchangeable
Impudent
Blame
Otherwise
Outwards
Sheepishly
25 UNIT 6
GREAT WOMEN
BUILDING KNOWLEDGE OF THE FIELD
1. Read this following biography carefully
MOTHER TERESA
Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 27, 1910. Her family was of Albanian descent. At the age of twelve, she felt strongly the call
of God. She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ. At the age of eighteen she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish
community of nuns with missions in India. After a few months training in Dublin she was sent to India, where on May 24, 1931, she took her initial vows as a nun. From 1931 to
1948 Mother Teresa taught at St. Marys High School in Calcutta, but the suffering and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent walls made such a deep impression on her that
in 1948 she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent school and devote herself to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta.
Although she had no funds, she depended on Divine Providence, and started an open-air school for slum children. Soon she was joined by voluntary helpers, and financial support
was also forthcoming. This made it possible for her to extend the scope of her work.
On October 7, 1950, Mother Teresa received permission from the Holy See to start her own order, The Missionaries of
Charity, whose primary task was to love and care for those persons nobody was prepared to look after. In 1965 the Society
became an International Religious Family by a decree of Pope Paul VI.
Today the order comprises Active and Contemplative branches of Sisters and Brothers in many countries. In 1963
both the Contemplative branch of the Sisters and the Active branch of the Brothers was founded. In 1979 the Contemplative
branch of the Brothers was added, and in 1984 the Priest branch was established.
The Society of Missionaries has spread all over the world, including the former Soviet Union and Eastern European
countries. They provide effective help to the poorest of the poor in a number of countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and they undertake
relief work in the wake of natural catastrophes such as floods, epidemics, and famine, and for refugees. The order also has houses in North America, Europe and Australia,
where they take care of the shut-ins, alcoholics, homeless, and AIDS sufferers. The Missionaries of Charity throughout the world are aided and assisted by Co-Workers
who became an official International Association on March 29, 1969. By the 1990s there were over one million Co-Workers in more than 40 countries. Along with the Co-Workers,
the lay Missionaries of Charity try to follow Mother Teresas spirit and charisma in their families.
Mother Teresas work has been recognized and acclaimed throughout the world and she has received a number of awards and distinctions, including the Pope John XXIII Peace
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Purpose
to describe something through its classification.
Text Structure General classification : describing general fact of the objectsubject.
Description : describing the habits, behavior, traits, parts,
qualities, characteristics, etc. Significant Grammatical Features
☺
Focus on specific participants.
☺
Use attributive and identify processes.
☺
Frequent use classifiers in nominal groups.
☺
Use simple present tense.
Prize 1971 and the Nehru Prize for her promotion of international peace and understanding 1972. She also received the Balzan Prize 1979 and the Templeton and
Magsaysay awards. From Nobel Lectures, Peace 1971-1980, Editor-in-Charge Tore Frängsmyr, Editor Irwin
Abrams, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1997.
taken from: www.nobel-prize.com
2. Complete the following Generic Structure of the Biography of “Mother Teresa” Title
General Classification
Description 1.
2. 3.
4. 5.
6. 7.
3. What was Mother Teresa fighting for? 4. How Mother Teresa struggled for the poor and suffers? Why?
5. Find the meaning of these words
Nun Descent
Glimpsed Convent
Slums Divine Providence
Forthcoming Contemplative
Catastrophe Famine
Shuts-ins Distinction
IT’S ALL ABOUT DESCRIPTION TEXT
