Sunday, April 19, 2020

Arwah Yang Gentayangan, Adakah? The White Lady (Mystery)

Apakah kalian percaya pada hal-hal yang ghaib, bukan takhayyul, misalnya adanya malaikat, jin, syetan, dsb? Sebagai orang yang punya agama seharusnya kita juga mengimani hal yang ghaib, termasuk percaya akan adanya hari kiamat, neraka dan surga.
Nah, kalo hantu, arwah, sundel bolong, setan, genderuwo, apakah meyakini keberadaannya? Silahkan itu pendapat pribadi, masing-masing dari diri kita. Yang jelas semua makhluk baik yang terlihat mata maupun yang tak terlihat, bahkan alam semesta beserta isinya, adalah ciptaan Allah SWT. Jadi tidak perlu takut sama hantu dan semacamnya.
Ada cerita misteri, tentang arwah gentayangan yang berwujud sesosok wanita yang menghuni suatu lokasi di daerah danau Ontario (terletak antara negara Kanada & Amerika serikat) di wilayah Amerika bagian utara. Hantu wanita itu bergentayangan mencari anaknya yang sudah meninggal (karena diperkosa oleh seorang pemuda setempat). Arwah ini akhirnya mengganggu setiap laki-laki yang berkunjung ke kawasan taman dan danau tersebut. Kebanyakan korbannya adalah kaum pria, karena si arwah memiliki dendam pada pelaku pembunuhan putrinya.
Itu adalah cerita dari The White Lady yang kebenarannya masih diragukan. Teksnya berbentuk narrative dan genre cerita misteri/ horor. Berikut isi teksnya:
The White Lady
In the early 1800s, the white lady and her daughter were supposed to have lived on the land where the Durand Eastman Park-part of the Irondequoit and Rochester-now stand. One day, the daughter disappeared. Convinced that the girl had been raped and murdered by a local farmer, the mother searched the marshy lands day after day, trying to discover where her child’s body was buried. She took with her two German shepherd dogs to aid in her search, but she never found a trace of her daughter. Finally, in her grief, the mother threw herself off a cliff into Lake Ontario and died. Her dog pined for their mistress and shortly joined her in the grave.
After death, the mother’s spirit returned to continue the search for her child. People say that on foggy nights, the White Lady rose from the small Durand Lake which faced Lake Ontario. She was accompanied by her dogs and together they roamed through the Durand Eastman Park, still searching for her missing daughter.
The White Lady was not a friendly spirit. She disliked men and often seeks vengeance against the males visiting the park on her daughter’s behalf. There had been reported of the White Lady chased, men into the lake, shook their cars, and their lived miserable until they left the park. She had never touched any females accompanying these unfortunate fellows.
Setelah membaca teks narrative diatas, bisa dilanjutkan dengan latihan soal pilihan ganda sejumlah 4 nomor (untuk pembelajaran online) [LATIHAN PILGAN]

Sunday, April 12, 2020

Catatumbo, Tahukah Kamu Apa Catatumbo Itu?

Catatumbo Lightning
Catatumbo adalah nama suatu daerah di negara Venezuela. Di kawasan ini petir atau kilat sering terjadi berkali-kali bahkan tercatat hampir ribuan kali selama durasi satu jam. Cahayanya sangat terang dan tajam, bisa dilihat dari jarak lebih kurang 400 km, wuihh keren luar biasa yah. Dari fenomena alam inilah kemudian beberapa cerita atau dongeng muncul tentang kedahsyatan Catatumbo Lightning.
Dalam bahasa Inggris fenomena alam bisa dikategorikan kedalam teks bergenre Report. Berikut contoh teks report tentang fenomena alam Catatumbo.

Report text (Natural phenomenon)
You the saying “lightning never strikes the same place twice?” forget it. On a good night, one lake in Venezuela hosts thousands of lightning strikes every hour.
The phenomenon is known variously as the Beacon of Maracaibo, Catatumbo lightning or – cue dramatic roll of thunder – the everlasting storm. That last one might be a slight exaggeration but where the Catatumbo River meets Lake Maracaibo there is an average of 260 storm days per year. Here the night sky is regularly illuminated for nine hours with thousands of flashes of naturally produced electricity.
Venezuela’s lake Maracaibo earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for “highest concentration of lightning” with 250 lightning flashes per square kilometer each year. The storm ease off in the dryer months of January and February and are most spectacular at the peak of the wet season around October. At this time of year, you can see average of 28 lightning flashes each minute.
The Catatumbo lightning is bright enough that it can be seen 400 km (250 miles) away and colonial sailors were said to use it for navigation. The force and duration of the storms have inspired many tales but eyewitness claims the lightning is multi-colored are a trick of the light.


Untuk jelasnya bisa dengan latihan soal berikut ini, klik link (untuk pembelajaran online) [Soal Latihan]