Alexander III

Alexander III

Alexander III born 10 March 1845 in St. Petersburg, died 1 November 1894 in Livadia, Crimea, reign 13 March 1881 – 1 November 1894

Heir to the throne

Alexander is the second son of Emperor Alexander II and Maria Alexandrovna.Alexander Alexandrovich was not trained for the government, so he received a military education, usual for the Grand Dukes. He did not show any special abilities, although he loved military affairs, literature and music (he played on the trumpet, cornet-a-pistone and trombone). Heir Grand Duke Alexander became after the death of his elder brother Nicholas, who died in Nice on 24 Apri 1865. 28 October , 1866 heir to the Russian throne married the bride of the late elder brother, the daughter of the Danish king Luise Sophia Frederick Dagmar, who adopted the name of Maria Feodorovna. In this marriage, Nicholas (future Emperor Nicholas II), Alexander, George, Xenia, Michael, Olga were born.

Personal qualities

Contemporaries noted that with moderate mental abilities and education, Alexander was distinguished by common sense, intuition and ingenuity. The king was not terse; He spoke French, German and English, but in society he tried to speak only Russian. In everyday life was simple, modest and unpretentious.

Illness and Death

In 1894 Alexander III became ill with terminal kidney disease (nephritis). In the fall of that year, Maria Fyodorovna's sister-in-law, Queen Olga of Greece, offered her villa of Mon Repos, on the island of Corfu, in the hope that it might improve the Tsar's condition. However, by the time that they reached Crimea, they stayed at the Maly Palace in Livadia, as Alexander was too weak to travel any further. Soon after, his health began to deteriorate more rapidly. He eventually died in the arms of his wife at Maly Palace in Livadia on the afternoon of 1 November 1894

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Reading Comprehension

Reading Comprehension

Reading Comprehension adalah kemampuan untuk membaca teks , memperoses, dan mengerti maknanya. Secara luasnya adalah pemahaman sebuah teks bacaan, Reading Comprehension ini terbagi menjadi 7, yaitu;

1.      Skimming (Membaca Cepat) adalah proses pembacaan cepat yang melibatkan penelusuran dari kalimat dan kamu tidak perlu membaca atau mengerti setiap kata tetapi mencari informasi khas dari sebuah teks dan dapat pula langsung membaca dari judul text, contoh:

“Alexander III

EMPEROR OF RUSSIA

Alexander III, Russian in full Aleksandr Aleksandrovich (born March 10 [Feb. 26, old style], 1845, St. Petersburg, Russia—died Nov. 1 [Oct. 20, O.S.], 1894, Livadiya, Crimea), emperor of Russia from 1881 to 1894, opponent of representative government, and supporter of Russian nationalism. He adopted programs, based on the concepts of Orthodoxy, autocracy, and narodnost (a belief in the Russian people), that included the Russification of national minorities in the Russian Empire as well as persecution of the non-Orthodox religious groups.”

 jadi yang disimpulkan adalah “Alexander III Emperor of Russia” karena hanya membaca judul kita dapat tau bahwa Alexander ini adalah Kaisar di Rusia tanpa membaca seluruh isi teks

2. Scanning (Mencari Secara Keseluruhan) adalah proses pembacaan secara menyeluruh seluruh teks yang dibaca, contoh:

 “I have a cat in my house, the cat is male. I like call him “Papay”. He is an adorable cat, my cat is cute. His body is fat. He has black and white fur.

 I really love to cuddle him because his fur feels soft. Every morning my mother gives a fish, sometime he usually scratches out my arm when I play with him. He is an active animal. He likes to run around the house. He likes to chase everyone in my house. When he feels tired or sleepy, he usually sleeps on the sofa in the living room or sometime under the table.

“Papay” often goes out to find for food at night. And sometime he brings a mouse on his mouth. Then he eats the mouse in the back of my house for himself.”

Dengan membaca keseluruhan text kita dapat tau mengenai deskipsi sebuah kucing peliharaan

3. Main Idea (Ide Pokok) ide pokok adalah ide atau gagasan yang menjadi pokok pengembangan paragraf , ide pokok muncul pada paragraf pertama dan paragraf akhir, contoh:

“The movie Apollo 13 was a blockbuster for the summer of 1995. It is an exciting story about space exploration. In the movie, the astronauts get in trouble while they are trying to return to Earth. People in the audience are on the edge of their seats waiting to see what happens. What makes it even more exciting is that it is a true story. “

Jadi topiknya Movie apollo 13 jadi ide pokoknya ada di kalimat utama: “ Apollo 13 was a blockbuster for the summer of 1995”

4. Detail dan Negative  Detail adalah fakta atau barang berupa pemaparan langsung dari sebuah teks atau kalimat, Negative adalah pemamparanya yang tidak langsung, contoh:

Detail: “ A Book, A Airplane, A Pencil, etc.”

Negative: “Which is the statement is true about the text above?”

5. Vocabulary (Kosa Kata) adalah merujuk suatu kata yang kita harus mengerti untuk berbicara atau berkomunikasi secara efektif, contoh:

            “or,and,but”

6. Referance (Rujukan) adalah panduan atau rujukan dalam text biasanya merujuk pada sestuatu atau memuat pertanyaan, contoh:

            “ This words ....refers to....”

7. Inference (Kesimpulan) merupakan sebuah gagasan yang tercapai pada akhir pembicaraan misalnya setelah membaca seluruh teks kita dapat tau sebuah gagasan pada suatu teks setelah membaca teks keseluruhan bisa melalui cara scanning