Materi Bahasa Inggris Kelas 10 – Which One is Your Best Getaway?

TANJUNG PUTING NATIONAL PARK

Tanjung Puting National Park is an internationally famous ecotourism destination, which is located in the southwest of Central Kalimantan peninsula. Visitors from foreign countries come to this park because of its amazing nature. This is called a park, but unlike any park that you have seen in your city, this is a jungle! It is a real jungle, which is home to the most interesting animal in the world: orangutans. Though the park is home to many animals, seeing orangutans is usually the visitors’ main reason to visit the park. Orangutans, which literally mean the man of the forest, are the largest arboreal animal on the planet. Most of their lives are spent in trees where orangutans

travel from branch to branch by climbing or swinging with their long arms.

To see orangutans, we should go to Camp Leakey, which is located in the heart of Tanjung Puting National Park. Camp Leakey is a rehabilitation place for ex-captive orang utans and also a preservation site. It is also a famous center for research about orangutans which has been conducted by the famous primatologist Dr. Birute Galdikas since 1971. Here visitors can see daily feedings to orangutans at jungle platforms as part of the rehabilitation process to their natural habitat. This event gives them opportunity to see orangutans up close. To reach the place, we should take a boat down Sekonyer river. The boat is popularly called perahu klotok which is a boathouse that can accommodate four people. The trip by the boat to Camp Leakey takes three days and two nights. You sleep, cook, and eat in that klotok, night and day during your journey into the jungle. The traveling in the boat offers an unforgettable experience. In daylight, on your way to Camp Leakey, you can see trees filled with proboscis monkeys, monkeys that have enormous snout which can only be found in Kalimantan. The monkeys anxiously await klotok arrivals. A troop of 30 light-brown monkeys may plunge from branches 10 meters or higher into the river and cross directly in front of the boat. These monkeys know that the boat’s engine noise and the threat of its propeller scare crocodiles, which find these chubby monkeys delicious. At night, you can enjoy the clear sky and the amazingly bright stars as the only lights for the

night. With such exotic nature, no wonder many tourists from foreign countries who love ecotourism frequently visit Tanjung Puting National Park. What about you? 

Answer the following questions briefly.

1. Based on the text, can you guess what ecotourism is? Give some examples of other ecotourism destinations.

2. As one of ecotourism destinations, what does Tanjung Puting National Park offer to tourists?

3. How is the park different from the parks in cities?

4. How is Camp Leakey related to Tanjung Puting National Park?

5. What does the word ex-captive tell you about the orangutans in Camp Leakey, which is a rehabilitation site for orangutans?

6. How can people reach Camp Leakey?

7. What is special about the means of transportation to Camp Leakey.

8. What can tourists enjoy during their trip to Camp Leakey?

9. What do you think is the most interesting scene in Tanjung

Puting National Park?

10. How important is the research by Dr. Birute Galdikas?

11. What is the author’s purpose in writing this text?

12. How is each paragraph related to each other?

13. What is the most dominant tense used in this text?

Tourists probably bring food and snacks in paper or plastic packages when they visit Tanjung Puting National Park. What should they do with the wastes? If you were also a tourist, what would you do?

Rearrange the place of the main ideas in the right column to match it with the purpose of each paragraph. 

A descriptive text describes a particular object like a place, thing, or person. What is the author’s purpose in writing a description? The author wants to describe the particular object by describing its or his/her specific features to help readers visualize what a person, an animal, a park, or a thing is like.

How is a descriptive text constructed? It starts with an opening paragraph. In the paragraph there is a topic sentence that introduces the object going to be described. A series of paragraphs follow the opening to describe the parts or the features or the specific characteristics of the subject.