Using Real-World Tasks to Improve Speaking Ability of Senior High School Students in Kudus

In written communication, messages are realized through sentences. And in order to make our sentences easily be understood, we should consider the order of the words that construct them. The objective of this study is to describe the thematic development of reading texts found in three English textbooks for senior high school students grade XI and the pattern applied. The method used is qualitative descriptive approach as the aim is to describe the organization and the thematic development of the text. There are 19 texts which are selected representing the genres found in each book