COVID-19 AND HOW TO PROTECT OURSELVES FORM IT

       Hello everybody👦👧.How is life😇? Fine👌 and healthy💪? Great👍. In this section, we are going to talk  about COVID-19 and how to protect ourselves from it.

                                                                      



Your activities are:

1. Read an article about COVID-19
2. Watch three videos about COVID-19
3. Do the quiz and submit it.

I hope you will enjoy learning it😊
💗💙💚💛💜💗💙💚💛💜💗💙. 

A. What is Covid-19?

       Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).The disease was first identified in 2019 in Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei province, and has since spread globally, resulting in the ongoing 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic.

       Common symptoms include fever, cough, and shortness of breath. Other symptoms may include muscle pain, sputum production, diarrhea, sore throat, loss of smell, and abdominal pain. While the majority of cases result in mild symptoms, some progress to pneumonia and multi-organ failure.

        As of March 28, 2020, the overall rate of deaths per number of diagnosed cases is 4.6 percent; ranging from 0.2 percent to 15 percent according to age groupand other health problems.

        The virus is mainly spread during close contact and via respiratory droplets produced when people cough or sneeze. Respiratory droplets may be produced during breathing but the virus is not generally airborne. People may also contract COVID-19 by touching a contaminated surface and then their face.

       It is most contagious when people are symptomatic, although spread may be possible before symptoms appear. The virus can survive on surfaces up to 72 hours. Time from exposure to onset of symptoms is generally between two and fourteen days, with an average of five days. The standard method of diagnosis is by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR) from a nasopharyngeal swab. The infection can also be diagnosed from a combination of symptoms, risk factors and a chest CT scan showing features of pneumonia.

     Recommended measures to prevent infection include frequent hand washing, social distancing (maintaining physical distance from others, especially from those with symptoms), covering coughs and sneezes with a tissue or inner elbow, and keeping unwashed hands away from the face. The use of masks is recommended by some national health authorities for those who suspect they have the virus and their caregivers, but not for the general public, although simple cloth masks may be used by those who desire them.

    There is no vaccine or specific antiviral treatment for COVID-19. Management involves treatment of symptoms, supportive care, isolation, and experimental measures.

   The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) on 30 January 2020 and a pandemic on 11 March 2020. 

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019 accessed on 31 March 2020

Do you understand the explanation about COVID-19 above? If you want to read the translation in Indonesian language, you can click  here.

B. Videos about COVID-19.

• If you want to know more about COVID-19, you can watch the video by clicking  here.
• You can also watch the following video to get more understanding about COVID-19.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSkEwdzGbCA

• Finally, you can watch the following video to know the steps  to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c_UJwLq8PI

C. QUIZ 
      Now, it's your turn to do a quiz. Click HERE to do the quiz. 

CHAPTER VII FOR THE SEVENTH GRADERS

Hello, guys. 👦👧✋How is everything? 😇
I hope you are always in the best condition. 👌💪Amen.
In this section, we are going to learn Descriptive Text.
I hope, you will enjoy learning it. 😊

CHAPTER VII DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

A. DEFINITION

Descriptive text is a text to describe a particular/specific  person, animal, and thing. (=Teks deskriptif adalah teks untuk menggambarkan orang, binatang, dan benda tertentu)

B. GENERIC STRUCTURE (STRUKTUR TEKS)

1. 1. Identification (=Identifikasi/pengenalan)
2. 2. Description (=Deskripsi/ Gambaran)
3.     a. Appearance (=Penampilan)
4. b. Behavior/Personality (=Sifat)
5. c. Habits (=Kebiasaan)
6. d. Special/unique features (=Ciri-Ciri Khusus)
7. e. Conclusion/opinion (=Kesimpulan)

     Keterangan:
     Poin nomor 2 dipilih yang bisa digunakan. 

C. LANGUAGE FEATURES (CIRI-CIRI KEBAHASAAN)

1. The use of specific nouns (kata benda tertentu) such as my teacher, Mrs. Dewi, Budi’s cat, etc.
2. The use of the Simple Present Tense. 
3. The use of adjectives (kata sifat) for describing such as beautiful, cute, strong, etc.
4. The use of detailed noun phrase (=Frase benda yg rinci), e.g. She is a sweet young lady.

D. MODEL OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

                         

                      My Diva

Agnes Monica is a famous pop singer. Most people in Indonesia know her.

She certainly looks like an angel. She is tall, slim and beautiful. Her hair is black. She always wears fashionable clothes.

Her personality is as good as her voice. She is confident. She is also generous. She gives a lot of money to charity. 

Her hobby is unique. She keeps a dog as a pet. She does not like cooking.

She is really the Indonesian diva.  

You can also read my old post about descriptive text here.

Now, compose your own descriptive text about your idol. 

CHAPTER VI FOR THE SEVENTH GRADERS

Hello, my dearest students 👦👧,
How is everything? I hope you're always fine 💪😎,
In this section, we're going to talk about the materials in Chapter VI:  The Function of Persons 🙅, Animals 🐔, and Things📘👜.  

Hopefully, after learning this materials, you are  able to ask and give information about the function of persons, animals, and things.

A. Asking and Giving Information about Someone's Profession

Read the following conversation.
















From the conversation above, we know that we can use the following expressions to ask about someone's professions:
1. What does your father's do?
2. What is your mother's job?
3. What is your father's profession.

Now, please compose a dialog about someone's profession and his/her activities. If you need some vocabularies about profession, you can click here


B. Asking and Giving Information about Animals and Their Abilities

Read the following dialog.

Now, compose a dialog about certain animal. You can talk about  its name,  its habitat, and what it can do. You can learn the vocabularies related to it by clicking here.

CHAPTER V FOR THE SEVENTH GRADERS

Dear my seventh grade students👦👧 , How are you today😇?

I hope you are always in a good health and always keep in spirit💪.

In this section, we are going to talk about the materials in Chapter V. I hope you will be happy learning it😊

A.  Asking and Giving Information about Someone

B.  Asking and Giving Information about Certain Animal

      Now, please compose a dialogue about asking and giving information about someone or certain animal (choose one).  Before doing it, you can learn the vocabularies here