UNIQUE FRIEND AT WORK
Uniqueness sometimes creates
different point of view between friends, and that is happening in me to my
unique friend, Indah. Her complete name is Indah Lestari. Because I want to be
closer with her, I call her Kak Ri. I have an excuse to call her ‘Kak’. It is
because she is five years older than me. She is married , and she has two sons.
She is a real matured woman. I can say that she is unique because she reacts
differently toward problems.
We work in the same company. In
our office, she never thinks big about problems that she is facing. As an example
when her boss gets angry to her, she just smiles and says “am I available to
work again, boss?” When she has problems at home with her family, especially
her husband, she never shows it off. If she does not like someone in the office
or even next to her cubicle, she will never show that to anybody. She is always
happy either when she has more money or when she is running out of it. Hardly
ever does she say empty chats. She only speaks what she needs to speak.
Out of office, she does
contrarily. She really loves to share. She becomes ‘the real she’ when we hang
around either in office hour or on holiday. She often loves things that people
do not like. She loves black and pale colors when other women do not. She
prefers to be out of beauty when other women prefer to be beautiful. She thinks
it is better when people know her deeper, not only from her outlook. She never
hurts her mother even once. She never complains to her husband and always
speaks politely to him. She often says to me that life is not all about what we
want to do. Sometimes, we cannot do what we want to do, but we need to do what
people want us to do, for we get what we want. I learn a lot about life from
her. Yes, she is unique, and I love her
uniqueness.
I.
Do silent reading and understand the context of
the paragraph
II.
Answer some questions below.
1. What
is unique about Kak Ri?
2. How
does the writer know her?
3. Do
you think Kak Ri has double character?
4. Why
do you think so?
5. If
you have a friend like Kak Ri, which do you like from her?
III.
Read out loud and say what is special about the
story.
IV.
Underline some verbs that you can see in the
paragraph.
V.
List some adjectives that are in the paragraph.
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VI.
Find a pair to ask and answer these questions in
vise versa.
a. What
good character do you think that Kak Ri has?
b. Are
you the same like her?
c. Which
is different between you and Kak Ri?
d. If
your boss gets angry, will you do the same like Kak Ri?
e. Do
you complain to things that bothers you? If yes, why do you complain?
f.
Are you unique? If yes, what is your uniqueness?
VII. There
are adjectives and verbs below. Circle the adjectives you determine,
square the verbs and underline double functioned words (adjective and verb).
awe enlarge smoothen
Beauty wash
understand smooth ease permit large deepen
exaggerate kind loyal sharpen clear
washable
famous open clarified awesome
VIII.
Make a paragraph based on these orders.
1. Say
what kind of person you are.
2. Are
you good enough according to people.
3. Who
says that you are good
4. What
is good about you
5. What
should you do to make you better in your environment and more functional to people
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