CAPTION TEXT - KELAS XII

What is caption text?

• it is a text that help us how to make or use something

• it is a brief text to complete a picture or illustration

• it is a long text to describe past events

• it is a story text with complication or problematic

The following are the characteristics of caption text, except...

• clearly identifies the subject of the picture, without detailing the obvious

• Using simple present tense

• provides context for the picture

• Use imperative sentence

What is the aim of the text?

• To make readers understand about love

• To inform readers that music can make love to everyone

• To inform that music can bring love

• To make readers what to know about music

Endangered Giant Panda. Giant pandas are one of the biggest animals, found in the mountains of central China in dense bamboo and coniferous forests at altitudes of 5.000 to 10.000 feet. Now, giant pandas are listed as endangered species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act in 1984 because their habitats have been annihilated in several regions. These international and domestic regulations prohibit the use and international trade of the species for commercial purpose

What regulation does the government have to preserve the animal?

• Destroying all forests in China

• Reporting the activities and health of the giant panda

• Feeding giant pandas with meat and fish

• Forbiding anyone to use and trade them for money

Which caption is suitable for the picture?

• Books are the bearers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature is dumb, science is paralyzed, thinking and speculation come to a standstill. Books are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.

• Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakes.

• education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is not a preposition for life; education is life itself.

• An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.