1. English for Junior High School Class 8
My favorite Animals and Plants
By : Qurrata A’yun

2. Speaking Skills In this section, you will learn how to:
Use the expressions for asking, giving, and rejecting a help;
Use the expressions for admitting and denying a fact;
Retell a descriptive text.
After learning the lesson in this section, you are expected to be able to:
Practice how to ask, give, respond and reject help;
Practice how to admit and deny a fact;
Practice how to retell a descriptive text.

3. Complete the dialogue with suitable adjectives provided in the box
Complete the dialogue with suitable adjectives provided in the box. Then practice with your friend.
Dialogue Andi : What does a giraffe look like? Dika : Hmm. It’s ___ with ___ spots and it’s very ___ you know. Andi : How about its legs? Dika : The legs are very ___ and ___. Andi : What does a Rafflesia look like? Dika : Let me see, it’s a very ___ flower. The colors are ___ and ___. Andi : Anything else? Dika : Yeah, the smell. It smells pretty ___.

4. Black
Bad
Big
Pale Brown
Red
Strong
Tall
Long
Yellow

5. Answer the following questions orally.
Your friend wants you to describe your pet. How do you describe it?
Your friend doesn’t know about the jasmine flower. She wants you to describe it. How do you describe it?
What do you usually say to describe things?

6. Role play Act the following dialogue with your friend.
Rudy : Hi, Dedy. How are you today? Dedy : Hi, Rudy. Fine, and a bit excited. Rudy : Are you? Excited about what? Dedy : Well, my pet cat has had kittens. They’re cute, small, and very adorable. Oh you should have seen them. Rudy : Sure, I’d love to!

7. To ask for someone’s help, you could use these expressions:
Speech Act
To ask for someone’s help, you could use these
expressions:
• Can you help me, ...?
• Please, help me.
• Can you do me a favour, please?
• Would you be so kind as to ...?
To give help to someone, you could use these
• Let me give you a hand.
• Here, I’ll do it for you.
• May I help you with ..., Sir/Ma’am?
To reject someone’s help, you could use these
• No, it’s not necessary.
• Thank you for offering, but ....
To admit a fact, you could use these expressions:
• Yes, I admit it.
• Yes, I did ....
• Yes, it’s true.
To deny a fact, you could use these expressions:
• I’m not lying, Dad. (actually you lie).
• No, I didn’t say that. (actually you said it).
• The flower smells good. (actually the flower smells bad)
Informal
Formal (to older people or a stranger)
Informal
Formal (to older people or a stranger)

8. Go outside the classroom and find some animals or plants
Go outside the classroom and find some animals or plants. Make descriptions about them. Then, read them in front of the class.

9. Reading Skills In this section, you will learn how to:
Read a descriptive text;
Read a short functional text in the form of sign.
After learning the lesson in this section, you are expected to be able to:
Read and understand a descriptive text correctly;
Read and understand a short functional text in the form of sign.

10. Read the text carefully
The Sea Eagle There is an eagle nesting on the tree top near my grand-parent’s house in Pangandaran. It was a sea eagle. The color of its feathers is light brown. It has a strong and sharp yellowish beak. Its claws are very sharp. It hunts for fish in the sea but sometimes it hunts chickens and small birds. Eagles have many sizes, shapes, and colors, but the sea eagle is easy to recognize because it has a strong a streamlined, sharp beak and a stream-line body. Its forelimbs (or arms) serve as wings. This means that they are of little use for anything except flying. It walks on two legs and has a very flexible neck and strong beak to handle foods, to care for its feathers, and for many other jobs that non-flying animals do with paws, claws, or hands on their forelimbs.
Introduction
Description

11. Characteristics of Descriptive Text
A descriptive text is a text that describes the features of someone, something, or a certain place.
Introduction is the part of the paragraph that introduces the character.
Example : Paragraph 1 in Sea Eagle text.
Description is the part of the paragraph that describes the character.
Example : The color of its feathers is light brown. It has a strong and sharp yellowish beak.

12. Answer the following questions based on the text
What do you know about eagles?
Why is the sea eagle easy to recognize?
What do you think of its flying? Is it easy or hard to do?
What do the forelimbs of an sea eagle do?
What are the sea eagle’s neck and beak like?

13. Writing Skills In this section, you will learn how to:
Write a descriptive text;
Write a short functional text.
After learning the lesson in this section, you are expected to be able to:
Write a descriptive text correctly;
Write a short functional text correctly.

14. Language Function
Asking and offering for help
Can you help me to get ...?
Would you like me to help you?
Describing the physical features
The flowers are red and smell good
The cat is very cute and cuddly. It has white and black fur
Genre of text: Descriptive
Social function : To describe a particular person, place, or thing.

15. Generic structure :
Identification : Identifies phenomenon to be described
Description : Identifies phenomenon to be described
Spot is a regular house cat. He is quite fat, very fluffy, and adorable.
He has orange fur with white and black spots....
Grammar:
Simple Present Tense
Example:
The bird flies easily.
I like peacocks very much.
Comparative Degree
A sun flower is not as big as a Rafflesia.
An eagle is different from a condor.