Explanation Text

What is the definition of explanation text?

• A text which present information about something.

• A text which tells processes of something related to natural, social, scientific and cultural phenomena.

• A text that elaborates the writer's idea about the phenomenon surrounding.

• A text explains or helps us how to make or use something.

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

The generic structure of explanation text is .......

• general statement, explanation, closing

• orientation, complication, resolution

• identification, description

• orientation, series of events, re-orientation

In what paragraph does the explanation text begin?

• General statement paragraph

• Series of paragraph that tell hows and whys

• Concluding paragraph

• Orientation paragraph

One of the generic structures of explanation text that states the phenomenon issues which are to be explained.

• Salutation.

• General statement.

• Conclusion.

• Sequenced explanation.

One of the generic structures of explanation text that contains a series of steps which explain the phenomena.

• Salutation.

• General statement.

• Conclusion.

• Sequenced Explanation.

Based on the type process they describe, explanation texts can be categorized into two types, those are... (choose 2 answers)

• Process Explanation

• Sequential Explanation

• Cause and Effect Explanation

• How and Why Explanation

Explanation texts are written in...

• present tense

• past perfect tense

• past tense

• future tense

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

• True

• False

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

• It is a text about how and why something happens

• It is a text about facts

• It is a text uses simple present tense

• It is a text uses simple past tense