SMA Bahasa Inggris: Pertanyaan, Jawaban, Latihan Soal & Pembahasan

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Frying-pan Chicken

lngredients:

• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 2 skinless chicken thighs
• 200 g potatoes, cut into chunks
• 2 carrots, thickly sliced
• 1 parsnip, thickly sliced
• 2 teaspoons wholegrain f'1:'Ustard .
• 1 small glass chicken s.toek' .. ·
• Salt and pepper to taste

Methods:

1. Heat the oil in a large frying pan (which has a lid), add the chicken and fry until golden. Tum over and try tor a further 2 minutes. Remove the pan, add the vegetables and fry over-a fairly high heat until they start to colour.
2. Return the chicken to the pan and season with salt and pepper,
3. Add the mustard and stock, and bring to the boil.
4. Reduce the heat, cover the pan, and simmer gently tor 25-30 minutes or until the chicken is cooked through, and the vegetables are tender.
5. Add a splash of water if the sauce starts. to become dry.
6. Remove from the stove. The trying-pan chicken is ready to serve.

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First of all, used paper is taken to a recycling plant. Then it  is separated into types and grades. After that, the paper is washed 13) ____ soapy water to remove inks, plastic film, staples, and glue. Then the paper is put into a large holder 14) ____  it is mixed with water to create "slurry". By adding different materials to the slurry, different paper products can be created, such as cardboard, newsprints or office paper.The slurry is spread using large rollers into large thin sheets. Then the paper 15) ____ to dry, and then it is rolled up ready to.be cut and sent back to the shops.

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Every year many people get injured when using lawn mowers. Lawn mowers can be dangerous even when used properly. Follow these tips to avoid injuries. 

• Know the equipment. Read the owner's manual. Become familiar with all the safety features, and don't disconnect any of them. Keep all nuts and bolts properly tightened. Never pull a walking mower.

• Check the lawn before mowing and wear proper clothing. Pick up any rocks or debris. Heavy shoes and long pants are the best protection from flying debris. If you're using a reel mower, don't wear loose clothing.

• Protect your hearing. Doing yard work can get pretty noisy. In addition to the lawn mower, high-decibel noise comes from trimmers, edgers, and blowers. Use earplugs or earmuff-type hearing protection.

• Keep pets and children away from the lawn as you mow. Don't let children operate a lawn mower unless they're strong enough, responsible, and understand all the operating and safety features. Even then, supervise them. Never give a young child a ride on a ride-on mower. Sudden stops, flying objects, or an excited child can spell disaster. ·

• Be careful when fueling. Stop the mower and let the engine cool for 10 minutes before fueling. Never fill the tank with the mower on the lawn. Avoid spills by using a gas can with an adequate pouring spout.
  Clean up spills immediately and put the used rags in a covered metal can. Gasoline-soaked rags are a fire hazard.

• Turn off the mower. Never leave the mower running' unattended, or work on a motor that is running. Turn off the power when .you cross non-grass areas.

• Be careful on hills. Steep slopes are always dangerous because a mower can flip over or go out of control. Plant a ground cover other than turf in these areas. On gentle slopes, mow across the slope, not up and down. Use a walk-behind mower.

Taken from: https://www.dummies.com/home-gardeh/lawn-care/mowing-your-lawn:the-right·way/

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Every year many people get injured when using lawn mowers. Lawn mowers can be dangerous even when used properly. Follow these tips to avoid injuries. 

• Know the equipment. Read the owner's manual. Become familiar with all the safety features, and don't disconnect any of them. Keep all nuts and bolts properly tightened. Never pull a walking mower.

• Check the lawn before mowing and wear proper clothing. Pick up any rocks or debris. Heavy shoes and long pants are the best protection from flying debris. If you're using a reel mower, don't wear loose clothing.

• Protect your hearing. Doing yard work can get pretty noisy. In addition to the lawn mower, high-decibel noise comes from trimmers, edgers, and blowers. Use earplugs or earmuff-type hearing protection.

• Keep pets and children away from the lawn as you mow. Don't let children operate a lawn mower unless they're strong enough, responsible, and understand all the operating and safety features. Even then, supervise them. Never give a young child a ride on a ride-on mower. Sudden stops, flying objects, or an excited child can spell disaster. ·

• Be careful when fueling. Stop the mower and let the engine cool for 10 minutes before fueling. Never fill the tank with the mower on the lawn. Avoid spills by using a gas can with an adequate pouring spout.
  Clean up spills immediately and put the used rags in a covered metal can. Gasoline-soaked rags are a fire hazard.

• Turn off the mower. Never leave the mower running' unattended, or work on a motor that is running. Turn off the power when .you cross non-grass areas.

• Be careful on hills. Steep slopes are always dangerous because a mower can flip over or go out of control. Plant a ground cover other than turf in these areas. On gentle slopes, mow across the slope, not up and down. Use a walk-behind mower.

Taken from: https://www.dummies.com/home-gardeh/lawn-care/mowing-your-lawn:the-right·way/

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What should we do before we mow lawn with a lawn mower?

How to Breed Goldfish

Materials needed

• A male and female goldfish
• A tank at least 59 to 70 gallons of capacity, with proper filtration system and 21°C of temperature
• Protein-rich pellets and live foods ·

Methods:

1. Put a male and female fish in the tank. Feed them with protein-rich pellets and live foods to ensure health. Wait-until they look ready to breed (usually after they turn one year old). The male usually grows white spots on the fins, and the color becomes richer. The female becomes fatter and rounder than usual. TM male may also act more excitedly around the female.
2. When these signs appear, move the female to a separate tank. The tank can be 10 to 20 gallons of capacity, with the same setup as the main tank. The temperature must range between 20 and 23 degrees Celsius. Add some underwater, plants and spawning mop, which will become the place for the female to lay her eggs.
3. Once you see the eggs, move the female back to the original aquarium because goldfish lay numerous eggs on the plants or spawning mop, and sometimes they eat their own eggs. If you see dark-colored eggs, you can remove them. Dark eggs have a low chance of hatching, so you can increase the spawning success rate by keeping the light-colored eggs.
4. When the eggs finally hatch, you will see the fry staying at the bottom of the tank. They eat the yolks from their egg sacs as the first nutrition sources, so you don't need to feed them immediately.
5. Start feeding the little fish with special foods for fry. You can also create protein mix by mixing a piece of boiled egg yolk with some water from the spawn tank. Shake it well until the water becomes murky and add several drops of it to the spawn tank.
6. Once the little ones grow into big, healthy fish, introduce them to the main aqoarium. you can also buy a new aquarium for the new batch, especially if you want to have a goldfish business.

Source: https://fish-hobbyist.com/

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How to Grow Chillies from Seeds

Materials needed:

• Chillies seeds
• A seed tray or 10-cm pots
• Compost
• A plastic sheet or polythene

Steps:

1. Start your seeds off indoors. They need plenty of warmth to germinate.
2. Fill a seed tray or some 10-cm pots with moist seed compost and flatten down.
3. Sow a few seeds on top and cover with a fine sprinkling of compost.
4. Use a plastic sheet or polythene to cover your seed trays and pop them on a sunny windowsill.
5. Wait for 7-10 days for germination, after which you can move your seedlings to a warm, sunny windowsill.
6. Keep the compost evenly moist but take care not to let it get soaking wet.
7. When your chilli seedlings are big enough to handle without breaking, gently transplant them from seed trays into individual pots.

Taken from: https://www.thompson-morgan.com/how-to-grow-chilli-peppers

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The following are words and instructions related to how to play online games. Match the instructions with the words!

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How to Make Banana Muffins

Ingredients

•  cups all-purpose flour
•  1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
•   tsp salt
• 3 large bananas, mashed
•  cup white sugar
• 1 egg
•  cup butter, melted

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F (1 75°C). Coat muffin pans with non-stick spray, or use paper liners. Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt: Set aside.
2. Combine bananas, sugar, ·egg, and ·melted butter in a large bowl. Fold in flour mixture, and mix until smooth. Scoop into muffin pans.
3. Bake in preheated oven. Bake mini muffins for 10 to 15 minutes, and large muffihs for 25 to 30 minutes. Muffins will spring back when lightly tapped.

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Before you cook, what should you do to the bananas and the butter? ____

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Here are some tips to prevent all these common errors that you might have been committing while baking your cakes. These tips are related to the use of technology in the kitchen, such as oven, microwave, and mixer.

1. Make sure your ingredients are at room temperature.

The temperature of your ingredients is a very important factor effecting your cakes. Make sure all your, ingredients including eggs, milk, and butter are at room temperature. It is important to take out all your ingredients out of the fridge ahead of time. In case you forget to do that, you can microwave your butter for 10 seconds and place your eggs in a bowl of warm water for 10 minutes. This very simple step will insure that your mixture emulsifies properly. The only exception is cream, which should be at refrigerated temperature when used for baking.

2. Prepare your pans well

Letting your cake stick to your pan is the worst thing you can do to your cake. There is rio sorrow more sorrowful than breaking a perfect, fluffy, and .moist cake because it stuck to the tin. Always butter/oil your pan using a pastry brush. Make sure no comer is left unbuttered. Dust your tin with flour tapping out the excess flour (dust with cocoa powder in case of chocolate cakes). To be on the safer side, line your prepared pan with parchment paper. If you follow these three very basic steps, there is no way your cake is going to stick to the pan.

3. Mix it right.

This step is a key to make a perfect cake. Mix really well while mixing your, wet ingredients (especially) while creaming blltter·or oil with sugar). This helps in incorporating air into the batter, resulting in a light and fluffy cake. But be careful to not over mix when you are incorporating your dry ingredients with your wet ingredients. Always fold in your dry ingredients into your wet ingredients and mix only until well Incorporated. Not mixing vigorously, however, doesn't mean leaving flour pockets in the batter.

4. Don't let your batter rest on the. kitchen counter.

Once the cake batter is ready put it straight into your preheated oven. The raising agents start working ,as soon as it comes in contact with the wet ingredients . . Letting your batter sit on the kitchen slab after it has been prepared will prevent your cake from rising perfectly.

5. Position your pans correctly and keep the oven door closed.

It is important to place your tin light in the middle of your baking tray and slide·that tray io the middle rack. This ensures even baking of your cake. Rotate your pans half way through the baking time. And that is only when you open your oven door (besides finally opening it to take out your cake). You should know that every time you open your oven door, you stop the baking process. Doing this is likely.to result in the cake collapsing. So, you need to wait until the cake is properly set before taking a peek.

6. Be patient.

After taking out your cake from the oven, be patient and let it cool 'completely. Handling a hot cake increases the chances of breaking it, since a hot cake is very delicate. Let the cake cool in the pan for at least 15 minute& before demolding it. After demolding it, let it rest on your cooling rack for another 10 minutes.

Keeping these 6 basic tips in mind while baking your cakes will definitely change your baking experience.
 

Taken from: https://bakewitflshivesh.com/6-easy-tips-baking-perfect-cakes/

 

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