MENENTUKAN MAIN IDEA DARI SEBUAH PARAGRAF

Posted by : Unknown Thursday, 6 October 2016

MENENTUKAN MAIN IDEA DARI SEBUAH PARAGRAF

Berbeda dengan gambaran umum. Main idea adalah inti dari suatu paragraf. Main idea dari beberapa paragraf bisa digabung dan membentuk gambaran umum.

Possible Questions:

1. The second paragraph talks about.....

2. What is the main idea of the second paragraph?

3. What does the second paragraph talk about?

4. What is the topic of the 3^rd paragraph?

5. The main idea of the first paragraph is ......

6. What does the first paragraph discuss about?

Trik menjawab.

Ide pokok hampir selalu terletak di awal kalimat(kalimat pertama) atau kalimat kedua. Ide pokok terdiri dari berbagai kalimat penjelas.

Contoh:

Mery is a dentist. She is so beautiful. She has fair skin, pointed nose and cute smile. Many boys loves her very much.

Ide pokoknya adalah : Merry is beautiful dentist.

Cara menjawab bagi yang tidak mengerti arti:

1. Bacalah soal terlebih dahulu cari paragraf yang mau dicari main ideanya.

Example: What is the main idea of paragraph 2? (Artinya kita harus fokus ke paragraf ke dua)

2. Lihat pilihan jawaban (a) dan cari letaknya apakah ada di paragraf yang dimaksud yaitu paragraf kedua apa tidak kalau memang ada di paragraf yang dimaksud lihat posisi kalimat pilihan jawab (a) terletak di kalimat berapa?

STEVE IRVIN

Steve Irvin was known around the world as an expert crocodile hunter. He has a great ability at hunting crocodiles because he had practiced a lot. Irvin was born in 1962. He grew up with wildlife all around him at his parents’ reptile park in Queensland, Australia. He took over direction of the park in 1991, naming it the Australian Zoo. With his wife, Terri Raines, from United States, he created Tv show “The Crocodile Hunter” in 1992, which became an instant hit on American cable television. Irvin and his wife were soon regulars of TV’s worldwide.

On September 4, 2006, Irvin was sadly killed. He was stung by a stingray during a diving expedition on the Great Barrier Reef, where he was filming a documentary. He left behind a wife and two children, Bindi and Robert. Bindi, his daughter, has starred in her own show “Bindi the Jungle Girl” and says she wants to follow her father’s footsteps.

What is the main idea of the second paragraph?

a. Bindi has starred in her own show = Letakknya di paragraf 2 kal. 4

b. Bindi wants to follow her father footsteps = Letakknya di paragraf 2 kal. 4

c. Irvin was sadly killed in a job accident. = Letakknya di paragraf 2 kal. 1

d. Irvin left behindd a wife and two children = Letakknya di paragraf 2 kal. 3

3. Setelah mengetahui letaknya dari semua kalimat di pilihan jawaban a, b , c dan d. Cari mana yang terletak di paragraf yang dimaksud yang berada di posisi kalimat 1. Jadi jawaban dari pertanyaan diatas adalah jawaban (c).