REPORT TEXT

What is communicative purpose of report text?

• to present information about something in general

• to present information about something in specific

What picture is it?

Report text is a text which presents information about something in general, as it is.

• True

• False

African elephant .......... in sub-Saharan Africa

• Live

• Living

• Lives

• Lived

Which word is more suitable to complete the following sentence?

Computer mouse got its ___________________ because it looks sort of like a mouse.

• origin

• name

• shape

• idea

• function

What is the meaning of fabrics in Bahasa Indonesia?

• pabrik

• kain

• baju

• tenun

The difference between report text and descriptive text is...

• report talks about general objects and description talks about specific one

• report and description talks about general objects

• report and description talks about specific objects

• report talks about specific objects and decription talks about general ones

Kangaroos ............ grass and plants.

• eating

• eats

• eat

• eaten

The polar bear is a bear native to the Arctic Ocean and its surrounding seas. An adult male weighs about four hundred to six hundred and eighty kilograms, while an adult female is about half that size. Although it is closely related to the brown bear, it has paws to occupy a narrow ecological niche with many bony characteristics adapted to for cold temperatures, for moving across the snow, ice, open water, and for hunting seals which make up most of its diets. Although most of polar bears are born on land, it spends most of its time at sea, hence its name meaning maritime bear and can hunt consistently only from sea ice. It spends much of the year on frozen sea.

What does the adult male bear weigh?

• a. 400 – 480 kg

• b. 400 – 680 kg

• c. 480 – 600 kg

• d. 680 – 880 kg

• e. 880 – 1500 kg

A kangaroo is an animal found only in Australia. It has a small relative called a wallaby, that lives in Tasmania and New Guinea. Kangaroos eat grass and plants. They have short front legs, long and strong back legs and a tail. These are used to sit up and jump. Kangaroos are well known for their 8-meter forward jumps and more than 3-meters high leap across fences. They can also run at the speed of over 45 kilometers per hour. The largest kangaroos are the Great Grey Kangaroos and Red Kangaroos. Adult kangaroos grow to a meter in length and 90 kilos in weight. Kangaroos are marsupials. This means that the female kangaroo has an external pouch on the front of her body. The baby kangaroo is very tiny when it was born. It right away crawls into its mother's pouch where it spends the first five months of its life.

8. What is the purpose of the text?

• To inform Kangaroo's uniqueness.

  
  

• To report the features of Kangaroo.

• To encourage Kangaroo's preservation.

• To describe how a Kangaroo looks like.

• To raise awareness of Kangaroo's special status.