EXPLANATION EXPLAINED

Explaining how and why things happen is the social function of the text. The statement below is the fit title for an Explanation text, except...

• How Rainbow Formed

• The Metamorphosis of Butterfly

• The Water Cycle

• How to create a paperbag from used materials.

Which one of the tittle is explanation text?

• Jakarta the metropolitan city

• How tsunami occurs

• My holiday in Bali

• The legend of Majapahit

Rainbow occurs because of the refraction of light. The sunlight that shines in between the rain drops is refracted by the rain drops. This process separates the white light of the sunlight into a spectrum of different colors.

The spectrum of colors are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Or what we often memorize as the abbreviation "ROY G BIV / mejikuhibiniu.” Then the colors reflect in the back drops of rain, resulting the light which looks arched and becomes the rainbow.

The word "occurs" in the first sentence means ......

• produces

• appears

• happens

• creates

The snowfall is always exciting, isn’t it? In the snowfall you can crunch through the snow, make a snowman and play snowballs with your brother. Have you ever wondered how snow is made, though?

Snow occurs when water vapors in the air freeze before they can turn into water. This happens when the temperature in the clouds is very cold. Snowflakes are made up of crystals of ice that have formed around bits of dirt in the air. The snowflakes start out very small and grow. Each snowflake is different and might contain up to 200 crystals.

"...the air freeze before they can turn into water." (Paragraph 2). The underlined word refers to...

• snowfall

• water vapors

• clouds

• snowflakes

The language features of Explanation Text are.. ( Choose 2 answers)

• using simple present tense

• using simple past tense

• using action verbs

• using present continuous tense

what is the picture telling about?

• how the tree grows

• how the photosynthesis happens

• how the tree releases the carbon dioxide

• how the plant receives the oxygen

Human body is made up of countless millions of cells. Food is needed to built up new cells and replace the worn out cells. However, the food that we take must be changed into substances that can be carried in the blood to the places where they are needed. This process is called digestion.

The first digestive process takes place in the mouth. The food we eat is broken up into small pieces by the action of teeth, mixed with saliva, a juice secreted by glands in the mouth. Saliva contains digestive juice which moisten the food, so it can be swallowed easily.

From the mouth, food passes through the esophagus (the food passage) into the stomach. Here, the food is mixed with the juices secreted by the cells in the stomach for several hours. Then the food enters the small intestine. All the time the muscular walls of the intestine are squeezing, mixing and moving the food onwards.

In a few hours, the food changes into acids. These are soon absorbed by the villi (microscopic branch projections from the intestine walls) and passed into the bloodstream.

• What is the text about?

• The digestive system

• The digestive juice

• The method of the digestive system

• The process of intestine work

• The food substances

Human body is made up of countless millions of cells. Food is needed to built up new cells and replace the worn out cells. However, the food that we take must be changed into substances that can be carried in the blood to the places where they are needed. This process is called digestion.

The first digestive process takes place in the mouth. The food we eat is broken up into small pieces by the action of teeth, mixed with saliva, a juice secreted by glands in the mouth. Saliva contains digestive juice which moisten the food, so it can be swallowed easily.

From the mouth, food passes through the esophagus (the food passage) into the stomach. Here, the food is mixed with the juices secreted by the cells in the stomach for several hours. Then the food enters the small intestine. All the time the muscular walls of the intestine are squeezing, mixing and moving the food onwards.

In a few hours, the food changes into acids. These are soon absorbed by the villi (microscopic branch projections from the intestine walls) and passed into the bloodstream.

• From the text above, we imply that ….

• a good process of digestive system will help our body becoming healthier.

• no one concerned with the process of digestive system for their health.

• the digestive system is needed if we are eating the food instantly.

• every body must conduct the processes of digestive system well.

• the better we digest the food we eat, the healthier we will be.

Human body is made up of countless millions of cells. Food is needed to built up new cells and replace the worn out cells. However, the food that we take must be changed into substances that can be carried in the blood to the places where they are needed. This process is called digestion.

The first digestive process takes place in the mouth. The food we eat is broken up into small pieces by the action of teeth, mixed with saliva, a juice secreted by glands in the mouth. Saliva contains digestive juice which moisten the food, so it can be swallowed easily.

From the mouth, food passes through the esophagus (the food passage) into the stomach. Here, the food is mixed with the juices secreted by the cells in the stomach for several hours. Then the food enters the small intestine. All the time the muscular walls of the intestine are squeezing, mixing and moving the food onwards.

In a few hours, the food changes into acids. These are soon absorbed by the villi (microscopic branch projections from the intestine walls) and passed into the bloodstream.

• “Human body is made up of countless millions of cells.” (Paragraph 1) The phrase “made up” means ….

• arranged

• produced

• managed

• constructed

• completed

1. Landslide

2. Typhoon

3. Storm

4. Metamorphosis

5. Photosynthesis

The process that belong to natural phenomena is...

• 1, 2, 3

• 1, 3, 4

• 2, 4, 5

• 1, 4, 5

• 2, 3, 5