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Explanation Text about
Natural Phenomena
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: narrative, spoof, and hortatory exposition.
Learn
about it!
You will learn more
about the explanation text, especially the ones related with natural phenomena
in this lesson. Moreover, you will learn to comprehend the messages conveyed in
the text.
EXPLANATION TEXT ABOUT NATURAL PHENOMENA
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.
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.
Here are some common
elaborations in an explanation text:
- Sequential
explanation: This
describes the stages of an event such as the sequence from cocoon to
butterfly.
- Causal
explanation: This
describes what causes the change from one stage to the next such as why
earthquakes occur.
- Theoretical
explanation: This
describes the possible phenomena behind a natural or created process.
Keypoints
As shown above, an
explanation text, particularly the ones that explain natural phenomena, is the
kind of text that tells the reader about the reasons and the process of
something natural happening. The generic structure is the same as other kinds
of explanation text, which are general statements, sequenced explanation, and
also closing.
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.
- Apakah yang kamu telah pelajari pada bagian ini?
- Apa yang menarik pada sesi ini?
- Apa kendala yang kamu alami?
- Apa yang kamu lakukan untuk mengatasi kendala tersebut?
Informasi lainnya yang terkait dapat diakses pada tautan berikut ini