REPORT TEXT: NATURAL PHENOMENA

Report Text: Natural Phenomena

How many times do you see sunset?
How many times do you get wet because of being caught in the rain?
How many times do you capture rainbow on the sky?
You may see and experience those beautiful natural phenomena for many times, perhaps. But, have you ever questioned yourself how sunset, rainbow, rain, or other phenomena occur? By discovering the answer of such questions, we will come in amazement. How wonderful our world and this nature is!

Learn about it!

Try it!

Rainbow
Rainbow is an optical phenomena. It is made of droplets of water when sunlight appears in the angle of sky opposing the sun. When the light enters water droplets, the different spectrum of colors bend at separate angles. That is the reflection, refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets which create the spectrum of light. Besides rain, rainbow can also be caused by many forms of airborne water, such as spray, mist, and airborne dew. A rainbow is not an object. We cannot physically approach it. However, we can see it when we stay in the right angle.

Well, after reading the text, we know the process of how the rainbow, one of natural phenomena, happens. It is the result of light reflection, refraction, and dispersion in water droplets. The text above is an example of a report text; a text where we can find explanations of many things, including natural phenomena.

So, what is a report text?

Report text is a text presenting information of something, supported by facts resulted from analysis and observation. The purpose of the text is to inform the reader about something.

What is the generic structure of the text?

A report text consists of general information and bundles of specific information. General information is a part that delivers the general description of the theme. Meanwhile, bundles of specific information consist of specific descriptions of the theme. Here is the example of a report text identification.

Then, what are the characteristics of a report text?

• describing general things
• using present tense
• using general nouns such as the dolphin instead of her dolphin

Keypoints

So, when you read a report text, you will get more knowledge about many things including natural phenomena. Besides that, when you are about to write an explanation of something, you should consider the structure of report text.

From this section you have learnt about a report text. There are some points you need to remember.

• Purpose of a report text : to inform the reader about something
• Generic structure of a report text general information: a part which delivers the general description of the theme bundles of specific information: specific descriptions of the theme.
• Characteristics of a report text Describing general things Using present tense Using general nouns

Developing Paragraph of Report Texts

Objectives of Study

Understanding monolog text report of spoken and written in order to access the knowledge in daily life context. After this study, Students are expected

·         Able to construct a topic sentence, supporting sentence, and developing sentence in form of spoken and written text.

·         Able to develop a paragraph writing.

Learn about It

Lets come back on study English. In this occasion, I would like to discuss about paragraph writing. Before we study it, lets we listen the meteorologist are talking about clouds.

After listen the meteorologist explains about clouds, we can focus on how the speaker contracted his explanation by developing his topic sentence. The meteorologist said “ Clouds have two effects”

Clouds have two effects is the topic sentence. Topic sentence is consist of Subject and Controlling Idea.Look at he chart below!

So, the outline of paragraph writing is

Paragraph Writing

·         Supporting sentence

o   Developing sentence

§  Provide examples

§  Back up

§  Illustrate

§  Explain

§  Clarify

·         Supporting sentence

o   Developing sentence

§  Provide examples

§  Back up

§  Illustrate

§  Explain

§  Clarify

We can state that Paragraph is group of related sentences that develop an idea. It is consisted of topic sentence, supporting sentence, and developing sentence. To make a good paragraph, try to make the clear topic and provide a details. Listen another meteorologist are talking about weather condition, it is monsoon.

Most islands have winds that change direction once a year. These winds are called monsoons. The winds carry moist air part of the year and dry air the other part. On high islands, monsoons create a wet and a dry season. This is because the mountains trap the moist air, causing rain. Low islands are usually dry because there are no mountains to catch the air.Tropical storms hit the islands yearly. Sometimes the storms bring heavy wind and rains. The storms can cause severe damage.

We will study some vocabularies which related with weather conditions such as:

Monsoon= heavy rain with strong wind in summer in the South Asia (Portuguese word)

Another words which related with weather conditions are:

Cyclone = a violent strong wind which move in circle (Greek word)

Typhoon= a violent tropical storm with strong wind (Chinese word)

Thunderstorm= storm with thunder and lightning with heavy rain

Tsunami= destructive waves cause by earthquake in the sea (Japanese Word)

Tornado=  a violent strong wind which move in circle (Spanish word)

English is always changing because it always absort  new words from other languages such as the word cyclone originally came from Greek word, Word Typhoon came from Chinese, word monsoon came from Portuguese word, word Tsunami came from Japanese word and word Tornado came from Spanish word. Not only the words which stating above but also there are tremendous English words which originally came from other languages.

To make your English sound naturally, you should practice your English a lot in terms of Pronunciation, Intonation and sentence rhythm and add your vocabularies!

Do You Understand?

Lets practice in making short paragraph writing. Topic: English word, Controlling Idea: come from other languages.

Key Points

1.      Paragraph is a group of related sentences that develop an idea.

2.      It is consisted by topic sentence, supporting sentence, and developing sentence.

3.      Many English words come from other languages such as: ‘Monsoon’, ‘tornado’, and ‘tsunami’ are words from Portuguese, Spanish, and Japanese.

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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

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