Explanation Text

 

Explanation text is a text that contains the process of why and how a natural, scientific, social, cultural, and other event can occur.

 Natural and social events that occur around us, always have a relationship of cause and effect.

 Through explanation text, every event that occurs around us is not only observed and felt, but also used as learning.

Characteristics of Explanation Text

 1. Its structure consists of general statements, sequence of causes and effects, and interpretation.

 2. Information contained based on facts (factual).

 3. The factual contains information that is scientific / scientific in nature, for example, such as science.

 4. It is informative and does not try to influence the reader to believe what is being discussed.

 5. Own / use sequence markers. For example the first, second, third, and so on. You can also use: first, next, last.

 

 Explanation Text Structure

 General statement: contains general statements about / about the topic that will be explained in the process of occurrence / process of existence.

 Causal sequence: contains an explanation of the process of the phenomenon presented in sequence or gradually from the very beginning to the end.

 Interpretation: contains the conclusions of the topics that have been described.

Steps to Compile Explanation Text

 1. Determine the topic of interest

 2. Design a text outline

 3. Gather references

 4. Develop text

 5. Editing text

                              lunar eclipse

A lunar eclipse occurs when part or all of the moon's cross section is covered by the earth's shadow. It happens when the earth is between the sun and the moon in the same straight line, so that sunlight cannot reach the moon because it is blocked by the earth.

 Actually, during a lunar eclipse, often the moon can still be seen. This is because there is still sunlight that is deflected towards the moon by the earth's atmosphere. And most of this deflected light has a red light spectrum. That is why during a lunar eclipse, the moon will appear dark in color, which can be copper red, orange, or brown.

When the earth's shadow covers as or the entire cross section of the moon, that is when a lunar eclipse occurs. Especially when the earth occupies a position between the sun and the moon, and is in the same straight line, which then makes the sun's rays unable to reach the moon because it is blocked by the position of the earth at that time.

Eksposition text

                             expositional Text

Expositional text is one type of paragraph development in writing where the content is written with the aim of explaining or providing meaning in a short, accurate, and concise style of writing.

Exposition Text or exposition text is divided into two, namely hortatory exposition and analytical exposition.

Hortatory Exposition

 Hortatory exposition is a type of exposition text that begins with a statement containing the problem / issue as the theme of the writing, then supported by various arguments / statements and supporting evidence that can lead the reader to the author's point of view and closes with suggestions or recommendations from the author what should have been done or happened in relation to the problem or issue presented at the outset.

 Analytical Exposition

 Slightly different from hortatory exposition, analytical exposition is a type of exposition text that begins with a statement that shows the attitude, opinion, statement or position of the author on the theme being discussed which is then supported by various arguments and closes with an affirmation or restatement of the opinion stated at the beginning.

 the function of exposition text is to convince readers or listeners that the theme raised is interesting to discuss through the opinions or arguments presented.

 Text Structure / Generic Structure

 Thesis: in the hortatory exposition this section will contain the issue or problem to be raised while in the analytical exposition this section will contain the position, opinion or attitude of the author.

 Argument: contains opinions / arguments that the author began to present. Both the hortatory exposition and the analytical exposition have the same explanation in this section.

 Reiteration: reiteration is a conclusion. The hortatory exposition will contain recommendations or suggestions from the author on the problem that is the theme of the writing, while in the analytical exposition, this section will contain a re-statement from the author

 Linguistic Elements

 Using the simple present tense

 Many use conjunctions (conjunctions) such as because of, so, therefore, the reason, and others.

 Contains arguments.

 Many use words that contain cause and effect

 Using vocabulary that can evoke the reader's emotions such as: amused, concern, innocent, monster, unreasonable etc.

                       social media influence

Nowadays, like it or not, the way people think is influenced by social media. People can get different benefits. Social media is very beneficial for business. Salespersons tend to advertise their product through social networks. They don't have to spend a lot of money to promote their product on printed ads and radio or television commercials, In social media, it is free to advertise. The only cost Is energy and time and a little money to reload your cell phone. Through Facebook, Twitter, WA, online shopping media or any other social site, you can lower your marketing cost by a significant amount.

For society, social media has also brought about important effects. Social campaigns, such as sanitation, and healthcare are effectively transformed for the whole society. Pictures, detailed information and videos might be enclosed, as part of the campaign, so people can easily follow the ideas.

In conclusion, social media is not something that people should put aside. In fact, it has a lot of benefit for the society.

Narrative Text

   * Narrative text is a type of text in English to tell a story that has a chronological sequence of events that are interconnected. The purpose of this text is to entertain the reader about a story or story.

* Types of Narrative Text

 Narrative text can be imaginary or factual. Here is an example of a genre from Narrative text:

•Fairy tale

•Mystery

 •Science fiction

 •Romance

• Horror

 •Fable

 •Myth and legend

 •History

• Slice of life

 •Personal experience

* Characteristics of Narrative Text :

 •Using action verbs in the form of past tenses.

 •Using a specific noun as a pronoun.

 •Using the Adjective to form Noun Phrase.

 •Use the Conjunction to sort events.

* Narrative Text Structure : 

• orientation

• complication

• Resolution

• Re - orientation

                The Legend of Surabaya

A long time ago, there were two animals, Sura and Baya. Sura was the name of a shark and Baya was a crocodile. They lived in a sea.

Once Sura and Baya were looking for some food. Suddenly, Baya saw a goat “Yummy, this is my lunch,” said Baya. “No way! This is my lunch. You are greedy” said Sura. Then they fought for the goat. After several hours, they were very tired.

Feeling tired of fighting, they lived in the different places. Sura lived in the water and Baya lived in the land. The border was the beach, so they would never fight again.

One day, Sura went to the land and looked for some food in the river. He was very hungry and there was not much food in the sea. Baya was very angry when he knew that Sura broke the promise. They fought again.

They both hit each other. Sura bit Baya’s tail. Baya did the same thing to Sura. He bit very hard until Sura finally gave up and went back to the sea. Baya was happy.