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H. Exercises

Activity 3. Read the dialogue below. Then answer the questions.

Nancy : Guess who he is!
Ronaldo : It looks like a famous presenter.
Nancy : That’s right. He’s so popular that he appears almost every day on TV.
Ronaldo : He is also a famous designer, is’nt he?
Nancy : Exactly! He is such a good designer that many well-known Indonesians are proud to
wear his designs.
Ronaldo : People say that his career began as an assistant designer.
Nancy : Correct. In 2004, he began his career as a fashion designer and opened a studio. He
designs exclusively cocktail dresses and evening gowns under the trade name
‘Ivan Gunawan’.
Ronaldo : That’s very true. Do you know that he is the nephew of a fashion designer named
Adji Notonegoro?
Nancy : Adji Notonegoro? He is so popular that many famous people, such as Bill Clinton
the former U.S. president, Kofi Anan, the former United Nations’ Secretary –
General, and the Sultan of Brunai and his family, wear his exclusive batik designs.
Ronaldo : You are right. If I’m not mistaken, he was born on December 31, 1981. Is he from
Jakarta?
Nancy : Well,I’m not so sure. But I do know that he is also such a talented movie actor that I
have never missed one of the films that he has acted in.
Ronaldo : Is that true? To tell the truth, I have never watched him acting in a movie.
Taken from: Pathway to English book

1. Who is Ivan Gunawan?
2. What is the relationship between Ivan Gunawan and Adji Notonegoro?
3. What’s the topic about?
4. What makes Ivan Gunawan and Adji Notonegoro famous?
5. “He’s so popular that he appears almost every day on TV”. What makes Ivan Gunawan
popular?
6. “Do you know that he is the nephew of a fashion designer named Adji Notonegoro?”
What can you infer from the question?
7. “He is also such a talented movie ac tor that I have never missed one of the films that he has
acted in”. The word ‘miss’ means ...
8. Find and Write the sentence in the dialogue above that use causal relationship “so ... that...”
9. Find and Write the sentence in the dialogue above that use causal relationship “such ...
that...”
10. What’s the social function of using the causal relationship, in the context of the dialogue
above?

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