Continue the following paragraphs to form a good text. When I was on my way to school yesterday, I saw a box in a black plastic bag near the school gate. I was curious, so I observed it carefully. However, I didn't dare to open it. Then, a pedicab driver noticed me, approached me and said that I had to report it to my principal and to the police. He suspected that the box could be a bomb. I was afraid if what the pedicab driver said was true. So, I returned to school and looked for my teachers. Soon, I met one and I told him about what I found near the school gate. ____

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Soal tersebut meminta untuk melanjutkan paragraf-paragraf pada teks agar terbentukteks yang baik. Teks pada soalmerupakan recount text tentang pengalaman penulis yang menemukan plastik hitam di dekat gerbang sekolahnya. Paragraf pertama teks tersebut merupakan orientation dari teks, sedangkan paragraf kedua merupakan bagian events dari teks. Oleh karena itu, paragraf-paragraf lanjutannya harus berupa lanjutan events dan diakhiri dengan paragraf yang mewakili bagian re-orientation . Kemudian, jangan lupa untuk menggunakan karakateristik bahasa yang ditemukan pada recount text , seperti penggunaan Past Tenses , sekuens waktu (cth: " In the morning ," " On Wednesday "), kata hubung, dan action verbs . Berikut adalah contoh kelanjutan teks yang dapat dibuat. After that, the teacher called the police to inform them about suspicious plastic bag. Fifteen minutes later, several policemen came and gather around the black plastic bag. One of the policemen, whom I suspect was an expert in bombs slowly approached the plastic bag. When he carefully opened the plastic bag, it turned out to be just pieces of electronic junks someone dumped there. Everybody let out a sigh of relief when they found out that the box was harmless. That was one of the most nerve-wracking experience in my whole life even though it turned out to be nothing serious.