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Explanation Text
Objectives
Basic Competence: Responding to the meanings and rhetorical ways
in an essay by using an accurate, fluent, and acceptable writing style in daily
social contexts in forms of explanation text.
Learn
about it!
You will learn more about the explanation text, especially the
ones related to natural phenomena in this lesson. Moreover, you will learn to
comprehend the messages conveyed in the text.
As you have probably learned
earlier, an explanation text is a kind of text that aims to describe how
something happens or why it is made. An explanation text actually is
almost the same as procedure text, but there are essential differences between
those two. For starters, the purpose of those kinds of text: the
explanation text tends to explain, while the procedure text is intended to show
the way of how to make something.
Moreover, an explanation text provides you the information about
some issues that are interesting or important for people to know about. In
general, the aim of an explanation text is to explain how something forms or
why that happens; it explains the sequence, cause, or theoretical understanding
of a phenomenon or an event. Thus, the text will cover the answer of
"how" or "why" relating to the topic being discussed. An
explanation text is organized with the generic structure of a general statement
and a sequence of explanations, alongside the closing.
There are diverse topics that an explanation text can cover. Usually, it covers
the topics related to science, phenomena, and also social, for instance about
why certain social phenomena happen, how to conduct an experiment, or how
natural phenomena occur.
The term of “tsunami” comes
from the Japanese which means harbour ("tsu") and wave
("nami"). A tsunamigk is a series of waves generated when water in a
lake or the sea is rapidly displaced on a massive scale.
A tsunami can be generated
when the sea floor abruptly deforms and vertically displaces the overlying
water. Such large vertical movements of the earth's crust can occur at plate
boundaries.
Subduction of earthquakes
are particularly effective in generating tsunamis, and occur where denser
oceanic plates slip under continental plates.
As the displaced water mass
moves under the influence of gravity to regain its equilibrium, it radiates
across the ocean like ripples on a pond.
Tsunami always bring great
damage. Most of the damage is caused by the huge mass of water behind the
initial wave front, as the height of the sea keeps rising fast and floods
powerfully into the coastal area.
(simplified from www.panda.org)
The sun seems to rise in the
morning, crosses the sky during the day and sets at night. However the sun does
not actually move around the earth. Earth's turning on its axis makes it look
as if the sun is moves.
The earth makes a complete
turn on its axis for 24 hours. It is called as rotation. It causes day and
night. The earth also moves around the sun. It takes 365 days or a year. This
process is called revolution. The revolution process causes the changes of the
season
In the summer, the amount of
daylight that we get is more than we get in winter. This is not because as much
people think we are closer to the sun but because of the tilt of the earth.
The earth is actually closer
to the sun in winter than it is in summer but you would be forgiven for
thinking that this can not be true after looking out of your window on a cold
and frosty morning.
It seems strange that as the
earth get closer to the sun during its orbit than the amount of daylight that
we get decrease. But that is the case. It is the tilt of the earth that
determines the amount of daylight that we get and so the length of time that for
us the sun is above the horizon.
(Taken from: www.ictteachers.co.uk)
Keypoints
What is the Explanation?
1.
Definition
and purposes of Explanation
Explanation
is a text which tells processes relating to the forming of natural, social,
scientific and cultural phenomena. Explanation text is to say 'why' and 'how'
of the forming of the phenomena. It is often found in science, geography and
history textbooks.
2.
Generic
structure of Explanation
·
General
statement; stating the phenomenon issues which are to be explained.
·
Sequenced
explanation; stating a series of steps that explain the phenomena.
3.
Language
Feature
·
Featuring
generic participant; sun, rain, etc
·
Using
chronological connection; to begin with, next, etc
·
Using
passive voice pattern
·
Using
simple present tense
Jawablah pertanyaan-pertanyaan berikut dengan jujur dan bertanggungjawab!
| No. | Pertanyaan | Jawaban | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01. | Saya mengetahui arti kata-kata pada pada teks di atas |
Ya | Tidak |
| 02. | Saya bisa mengucapkan kata-kata sesuai dengan audio/video yang disajikan |
Ya | Tidak |
| 03. | Saya bisa memperagakan percakapan dengan membaca teks yang tersedia |
Ya | Tidak |
| 04. | Saya bisa memperagakan percakapan dengan sedikit membaca teks |
Ya | Tidak |
| 05. | Saya bisa memperagakan tanpa membaca teks |
Ya | Tidak |
| 06. | Saya bisa memperagakan tanpa membaca teks disertai dengan variasi baru atau pengembangan teks |
Ya | Tidak |
| 07. | Saya bisa membuat karya video terkait dengan percakapan yang diperagakan |
Ya | Tidak |
| 08. | Saya bisa membuat video dan telah disosialisasikan pada sosial media yang saya miliki |
Ya | Tidak |
Bila ada jawaban "Tidak", maka segera lakukan review pembelajaran, terutama pada bagian yang masih "Tidak".
Bila semua jawaban "Ya", maka Anda dapat melanjutkan ke pembelajaran berikutnya.
Buatlah jurnal harian untuk membantumu dalam mempercepat proses pembelajaran dengan menjawab soal evaluasi diri berikut ini.
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