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

______ is not the generic structure of explanation text.

• Hypothesis

• General statement about the event or thing

• Explanation sequence

• Conclusion

Weather is the physical condition of the atmosphere at a particular time.

• Explanation Sequence

• Conclusion

• Orientation

• General statement

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

• True

• False

Which one is not the title of explanation text?

• How is chocolate is made?

• Reasons for New South Wales being chosen for the colony

• How does rain happen?

• How to make chocolate?

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

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.

Do you know what a volcano is? I guess you all know volcano is a mountain with magma inside it. Most volcanoes are formed on land, but there are volcanoes that are on the ocean floor. In Indonesia, there is Mount Merapi and Mount Krakatau. Mount Merapi erupted on October 2010 and Mount Krakatau erupted in 1883. The eruptions were really massive and destructive. Do you want to know how is the volcano erupting? Well, let me explain to you.

What is the general statement of the text?

• Mount Merapi erupted on October 2010.

• Mount Krakatau erupted in 1883.

• How volcano eruption occurs.

• What is a volcano?

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

• Salutation.

• General statement.

• Conclusion.

• Sequenced Explanation.