EXPLANATION TEXT

What is the function of explanation text?

• To entertain the reader

• To describe how and why a phenomenon happen

• To describe something

• To persuade the readers

what is Generic Structure of Explanation Text?

• General statement and Sequenced explanation

• General statement, Sequenced explanation and conclussion

• General statement and complication and closing

• General statement and Sequenced explanation and explanation

• General statement, event and Sequenced explanation

______ is not the generic structure of explanation text.

• Hypothesis

• General statement about the event or thing

• Explanation sequence

• Conclusion

True or False. Explanation text tells the reader how to do something.

• True

• False

In what paragraph does the explanation text begin?

• General statement paragraph

• Series of paragraph that tell hows and whys

• Concluding paragraph

• Orientation paragraph

Explanation texts are written in...

• present tense

• past perfect tense

• past tense

• future tense

True or False. The general statement gives the audience a brief introduction to the event/thing

• True

• False

The following statements are true about explanation text, except...

• It is a text about how something happens

• it is a text about facts

• It is a text about why something happens

• It is a text uses simple present tense

• It is a text uses simple past tense

Tsunami

Tsunami occurs when major fault under the ocean floor suddenly slips. The displaced rock pushes water above it like a giant paddle, producing powerful water waves at the ocean surface. The ocean waves spread out from the vicinity of the earthquake source and move across the ocean until they reach the coastline, where their height increases as they reach the continental shelf, the part of the earth crust that slopes, or rises, from the ocean floor up to the land.

A tsunami washes ashore with often disastrous effects such as severe flooding, loss of lives due to drowning and damage to property.

A tsunami is a very large sea wave that is generated by a disturbance along the ocean floor. This disturbance can be an earthquake, a landslide, or a volcanic eruption. A tsunami is undetectable far out in the ocean, but once it reaches shallow water, this fast traveling wave grows very large.

According to the text, Tsunami occurs because ....

• a very large sea wave that is generated by a disturbance along the ocean floor

• severe flooding, loss of lives due to drowning and damage to property

• major fault under the ocean floor suddenly slips

• once it reaches shallow water, this fast traveling wave grows very large

Tsunami

Tsunami occurs when major fault under the ocean floor suddenly slips. The displaced rock pushes water above it like a giant paddle, producing powerful water waves at the ocean surface. The ocean waves spread out from the vicinity of the earthquake source and move across the ocean until they reach the coastline, where their height increases as they reach the continental shelf, the part of the earth crust that slopes, or rises, from the ocean floor up to the land.

A tsunami washes ashore with often disastrous effects such as severe flooding, loss of lives due to drowning and damage to property.

A tsunami is a very large sea wave that is generated by a disturbance along the ocean floor. This disturbance can be an earthquake, a landslide, or a volcanic eruption. A tsunami is undetectable far out in the ocean, but once it reaches shallow water, this fast traveling wave grows very large.

What is the function of the text?

• to tell the readers the effect of Tsunami

• to explain the readers how tsunami happens

• to give information to the readers about Tsunami

• to entertain the readers about the story of Tsunami