EXPLANATION TEXT

What is the definition of an explanation text?

• A text that explains what a person, place, or thing is like

• A text which tell the process of natural, social, scientific, and cultural phenomena.

• A text that presents information about something in general based on research.

What is the purpose of the Explanation text?

• To analyze and evaluate some creative art works and to inform about its strengths and weaknesses.

• To present information about something generally.

• To explain the processes that occur in the formation or activity associated with natural, social, scientific, cultural phenomena.

What is the text structure of Explanation text?

• General Statement – Sequenced Explanation.

• Orientation – Complication- Resolution.

• Identification - Description.

One of the linguistic features of Explanation is the usage of Passive Sentence. Which is the correct pattern of Passive Sentence?

• Be + to infinitive

• Be + Verb 2

• Be + Verb 3

One of the linguistic features of Explanation is the usage of Simple Present Tense. Which the following sentence does NOT use Simple Present Tense?

• People in most regions in the world have seen a very rare natural phenomenon.

• The displaced rock pushes water above it like a giant paddle.

• It takes place more rapidly when the air is dry.

What does the text tell about?

• How we breathe out.

• How lungs work.

• Why lungs work.

The purpose of the text is to...

• Explain how market works.

• Describe the situation in a market.

• Inform about the difference of supply from demand.

Tsunami

A tsunami occurs when a major fault under the ocean floor suddenly slips. The displaced rock pushes water above it like a giant paddle, producing powerful water waves at the ocean surface. The ocean waves spread out from the vicinity of the earthquake source and move across the ocean until they reach the coastline, where their height increases as they reach the continental shelf, the part of the earth's crust that slopes, or rises, from the ocean floor up to the land.

A tsunami washes ashore with often disastrous effects such as severe flooding, loss of lives due to drowning, and damage to property.

A tsunami is a very large sea wave that is generated by a disturbance along the ocean floor. This disturbance can be an earthquake, a landslide, or a volcanic eruption. A tsunami is undetectable far out in the ocean, but once it reaches shallow water, this fast-traveling wave grows very large.

Tsunami happens because ...

• The displaced rock pushes water above it.

• The waves move across the ocean until they reach the beach.

• A significant fault under the ocean floor slips suddenly.

Which one of the tittle is explanation text?

• Jakarta the metropolitan city.

• How tsunami occurs.

• My holiday in Singapore

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 text above explains about ....

• Rainbow

• Sunlight

• Rain