What is an iceberg?

1. What is an iceberg?

2. WHAT IS AN ICEBERG? An iceberg is a great piece of ice floating in the sea.‘Berg’ is the Germanword for ‘mountain.’ In thecoldest parts of the earth, around the North and SouthPoles, land and sea are both covered by layers of ice,more than 300 metres deep at the centre. Tongues of ice, called glaciers, stretch out into the open sea.The sea water melts the bottom parts of these glaciers, thenthe top part moves into the water with a great noise. Thegreat piece of ice sinks for a short time under the surface,then it rises again, and floats away as a new iceberg. Someicebergs are many miles long, and travel for thousands ofmiles and several years before they finally melt. The partof an iceberg which can be seen above the water is onlyabout one-ninth of the total size. The rest is hidden under the waves. One of the world’s worst disasters at sea was in 1912 when the liner ‘Titanic’ hit an iceberg and sank on her first journey, killing hundreds of passengers .

3. Questions 1. What is an iceberg? 2. What is ‘berg’? 3. What is ‘glaciers’? 4. Where is most part of an iceberg? 5. How does the writer describe the North and South Poles? 6. What is ‘liner’? 7. What happened to the Titanic? 8. Why did the author write about iceberg? 9. How is an iceberg formed? 10. Describe how an iceberg looks in your own words.

4. Report Text Report text is a text which describes things in general. It is not to do with “Laporan” in Bahasa Indonesia. It’s a little bit different from descriptive text that you learn in grade 2 which describe specific thing.

5. Let’s say that we have two texts: “Computer” and “My Own Computer”.

6. Generic Structure: • Identification; Introduce the topic of the report, such as: the class or the subclass • Description; facts about parts; shape/form, qualities, habits and or behaviors of the subject matter introduced in identification.

7. Frogs are uniqe creatures. They are small animals with cold blood and smooth skin that live in or near water. Biologists group them into amphibian. Frogs multiply by laying eggs. There are a large number of eggs in a hatchery. The eggs hatch out baby frogs called tadpoles. Tadpoles live in water and breath with gills. They also have tails that enable them to swim easily. They also have four legs. However, firstly they simply have two back legs whereas the front legs appear later. Meanwhile, the tail is gradually getting shorter. It is totally lost when the tadpoles grow older and become frogs. Frogs live in two worlds, land and water. Therefore, they have two respiratory organs. In water, they breath with skin. However, they breath with lungs when they are on land. Although they live on land they keep their body wet by jumping into water once a while. Frogs usually move forward by jumping. It is because they have longer back legs. However, it does not mean that they cannot walk normally like any other four-legged animal.