LEARNING TASK M4 LA 2: CAPTIONS
Task
1
In the appendix there are 20
captions which you will read carefully and analyze.
The first task is to group the
captions according to the formats.
1. First,
you will read to understand the captions below. Make sure that you know the
meaning of every word and every part of each news report.
2. Then,
you will copy each of them into the table.
3. Finally,
you will group them according to the visible format.
Some have been done
for you as examples.
Captions
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Headlines
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Captions
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1
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badminton
Persistent Kevin, Marcus claim 2nd All England title
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Winning duo:
Indonesia’s Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo (left)
and Marcus Fernaldi Gideon pose on the podium with their tophies after
beating Denmark’s Mathias Boe and Carsten Mogensen during the men’s doubles
final at the All England Open Badminton Championships in Birmingham, England,
on Sunday.
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2
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Collaboration key to achieving goal in human rights
fight
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Celebrating rights: Missing Persons and Victims of Violance (Kontras) forum members (left to
right) Franz Magnis Suseno, Bambang Widodo Umar, Marzuki Darusman, Yati
Andriyani, Albert Hasibuan and HS Dillon talk to reporters in Kontras’ office
in Central Jakarta on Monday. The group shared their views about the state of
human rights in the country.
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3
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lifestyle
Handbag aficianados navigate taxes, fakes to dress in
style
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Love for bags: People browse discounted bags at
a shopping mall in Jakarta.
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4
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wage
Tennis great Navratilova slams BBC over Wimboldon pay
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Martina Navratilova John McEnroe
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Different
Types of Captions
The next step is to put the
captions with a similar format together. Some have been done for you as examples.
Group 1:
Caption 1, 2, 3
Captions
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Headlines
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Captions
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1
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badminton
Persistent Kevin, Marcus claim 2nd All England title
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Winning duo:
Indonesia’s Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo (left)
and Marcus Fernaldi Gideon pose on the podium with their tophies after
beating Denmark’s Mathias Boe and Carsten Mogensen during the men’s doubles
final at the All England Open Badminton Championships in Birmingham, England,
on Sunday.
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2
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Collaboration key to achieving goal in human rights
fight
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Celebrating rights: Missing Persons and Victims of Violance (Kontras) forum members (left to
right) Franz Magnis Suseno, Bambang Widodo Umar, Marzuki Darusman, Yati
Andriyani, Albert Hasibuan and HS Dillon talk to reporters in Kontras’ office
in Central Jakarta on Monday. The group shared their views about the state of
human rights in the country.
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3
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lifestyle
Handbag aficianados navigate taxes, fakes to dress in
style
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Love for bags: People browse discounted bags at
a shopping mall in Jakarta.
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Group 2:
Caption 13, 14
Captions
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Headlines
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Captions
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13
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Crisis Talk
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Deposit Insurance Corporation (LPS) chief commissioner Halim Alamsyah (left) poses with speakers Seung Kon-oh
from the Korea Deposit Insurance Corporation (second left), former chairman of the Indonesia Bank Restructuring
Agency, Glenn Yusuf (second right),
and distinguished fellow of Asia Global Institute, the University of Hong
Kong, Andrew Sheng, after a seminar entitled “20 Years of Asian Financial
Crisis: Strengthening Infrastructure for Financial Crisis Resolution” in
Jakarta on Wednesday.
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14
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Blood pressure
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A staff member of the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) arranges blood bags on
a shelf in Jakarta on Thursday. Blood donations tend to drop during Ramadhan,
leaving the PMI able to provide only between 250 and 300 bags of blood a day
compared to 1,500 to 2000 bags on normal days.
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Group 3:
Caption 4
Captions
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Headlines
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Captions
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4
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wage
Tennis great Navratilova slams BBC over Wimboldon pay
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Martina Navratilova
John McEnroe
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Task
2
Now, you will analyze the social functions of
the captions, by identifying the focus, the context, and the relationship with
their respective headlines.
To do this, you need to answer the following
questions:
1.
What/Who is the highlight of each
caption?
2.
How is the picture contextualized?.
3.
How does the caption relate to the
headlines?
Caption 1 has been analyzed for you as an example.
Study the example carefully, and then analyze all the other captions.
Question 1:
1.
What/Who is the highlight of each
caption?
The bolded words “winning duo” helps you to know who
or what your attention needs to be focused on. The picture shows Kevin and
Marcus holding their trophies with happy smiles. This is what the picture
highlights: Kevin and Marcus, winning the All England title again.
The Highlight: Kevin and Marcus, winning the All England title.
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Caption
1
badminton
Persistent Kevin, Marcus claim 2nd All England title
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(The Jakarta Post,
Tuesday, March 20, 2018, p. 1)
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Winning duo: Indonesia’s Kevin Sanjaya
Sukamuljo (left) and Marcus Fernaldi
Gideon pose on the podium with their tophies after beating Denmark’s Mathias
Boe and Carsten Mogensen during the men’s doubles final at the All England
Open Badminton Championships in Birmingham, England, on Sunday.
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Question 2:
1.
How is the picture contextualized?
A picture can be contextualized by explicit
statements of the circumstances surrounding the the event.
The Context of the picture
The
circumstances surrounding the event:
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on the podium
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with their tophies
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after beating Denmark’s Mathias Boe
and Carsten Mogensen
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during the men’s doubles final at the
All England Open Badminton Championships
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in Birmingham, England,
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on Sunday
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Question 3:
2.
How does the caption relate to the
headlines?
The Relation to the Headline
The headline
is “Persistent Kevin, Marcus claim 2nd All England title”. The word ‘winning’
in the caption is closely associated with the word ‘persistent’; ‘duo’ refers
to Kevin and Marcus.
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Task
3
Now, you will analyze the text structures of
the captions. Some have been done for you as an examples. Study them carefully.
Then, analyze the text structures of the other captions.
The Structure of the Captions in Group 1
Group 1:
Caption 1, 2, 3
1
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What about
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Winning duo:
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Who/What
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Indonesia’s Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo (left) and Marcus Fernaldi Gideon
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DO
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pose
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Where
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on the podium
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With what
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with their tophies
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When
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after beating Denmark’s Mathias Boe and Carsten
Mogensen
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When
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during the men’s doubles final
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When
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at the All England Open Badminton Championships
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Where
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in Birmingham, England,
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When
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on Sunday.
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Group 2:
Caption 13, 14
13
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Who/What
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Deposit Insurance Corporation (LPS)
chief commissioner Halim Alamsyah (left)
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DO
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poses
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Who/What
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with speakers Seung Kon-oh from the
Korea Deposit Insurance Corporation (second
left), former chairman of the Indonesia Bank Restructuring Agency, Glenn
Yusuf (second right), and
distinguished fellow of Asia Global Institute, the University of Hong Kong,
Andrew Sheng,
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When
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after a seminar entitled “20 Years of
Asian Financial Crisis: Strengthening Infrastructure for Financial Crisis
Resolution”
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Where
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in Jakarta
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When
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on Wednesday.
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Group 3:
Caption 4
4
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Who/What
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Martina Navratilova
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Who/What
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John McEnroe
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Task
4
Now, you will analyse the lexicogrammatical features
of the captions.
1) The
main part of most captions is one or two grammatically complete sentences, consisting of
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the Subject (Who/What?)
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the Verb
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the Object/Complement (Who/What?)
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Prepositional Phrases of Time (When?)
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Prepositional Phrases of Place
(Where?)
2) The
Verb
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the first sentence is usually in the Simple Present Tense, in the Active voice: pose, talk, browse, holds, poses, sign, celebrates, sign, stands,
loot, supply, is, photographs, comes, poses, arranges, can’t command.
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the second sentence is usually in the Simple PastTense: shared, was, was.
3) Prepositional phrases to
state the place,
time, and other circumstances
Example: Caption 1
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on the
podium, with their
trophies, after beating Denmark’s
Mathias Boe and Carsten Mogensen, during
the men’s doubles final, at the
All England Open Badminton Championships, in Birmingham,
England, on Sunday.
4) Bold characters to state the headline, mostly in Noun Phrases or Present
Participles.
Example:
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Winning
duo:
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Celebrating
rights:
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Dear
Instructor,
I
am sorry for not being able to do Learning Task M 4 LA 2 especially task 1 –
4 because I cannot find 20 captions in the appendix.
Thank you
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Task 5
WRITING CAPTIONS
Get five pictures that you have taken
yourselves or that you know very well as to the people and the things captured
there the time, and the place associated with the highlighted. Use the
questions for the social functions and the tables of analysis as a guide to writing
a caption. Make sure that your sentences are grammatically correct.
NO
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PICTURE
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CAPTION
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1
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The Minister of Home Affairs, Tjahjo Kumolo,
collaborated with the Minister of Administrative Reform and Bureaucratic
Reform, Syafruddin, and the Head of the State Personnel Agency, Bima Haria
Wibisana, signed a Joint Decree at Grand Sahid Jaya Hotel, Jalan Jenderal
Sudirman, Central Jakarta, Thursday, 13th September 2018.
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2
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President Director of the Implementing Agency of Lake
Toba Authority, Arie Prasetyo, (far left) and Executive Director of BI's
Money Management Department, Suhadi (center) in a discussion
"Dissemination of Monetary Policy, Strengthening External Economic
Balance and Tourism Development Strategy at Bank Indonesia Representative
Office, North Sumatra , Thursday, September 13 2018.
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3
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Source: writer's doc.
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SMP
Negeri 1 Sidamanik got 1st place in the junior high school parade competition at the 73rd
Indonesian Independence Day celebration at Sarimatondang Sidamanik Field. The
teacher, Apriyanti Damanik together with the leaders of students’ parade received the trophy from the Sidamanik sub-district head.
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4
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Source:
Whatsapp Group - School
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A fire broke out at a house of a resident, Juli Sidauruk (Pak Sara) on Jalan Suka Mulia, Sarimatondang Village, Sidamanik Subdistrict, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 at around 09.30 WIB due to electrical short circuit. The fire was extinguished at around 10:30 a.m. with the help of the surrounding residents. The family members were safe but the house was gutted by fire.
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5
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Deputy Regent of Simalungun, Amran Sinaga, welcomed the
return of 177 pilgrims from Simalungun Regency at the Asy-Syuhada Mosque
Korem 022 PT, Jalan Asahan, Siantar District, Wednesday, September 12 2018.
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