Text 1: Platypus Many people call platypus duckbill because this animal has a bill like duckbill.

Platypus is a native Tasmania and southern and eastern Australia. Platypus has a flat tail and webbed feet. Its body length is 30 to 45 cm and cov ered with a thick, and woolly layer of fur. Its bill is detecting prey and stirr ing up mud. Platypus eyes and head are small. It has no ears but has ability to s ense sound and light. Platypus lives in streams, rivers, and lakes. Female platypus usually dig burrow s in the streams or river banks. The burrows are blocked with soil to protect it from intruders and flooding. In the other hand, male platypus does not need any burrow to stay. Text 2: Komodo Dragon Do you know what is the largest lizard? This lizard is called komodo. It lives i n the scrub and woodland of a few Indonesian islands. Komodo dragon is the world s heaviest lizard, weighing 150 pounds or more. The lar gest Komodo ever measured was more than 10 feet (3 meters) long and weighed 366 pounds (166 kg) but the average size of komodo in the wild is about 8 feet (2.5 meters) long and 200 pounds (91 kg). Komodo has gray scaly skin, a pointed snout, powerful limbs and a muscular tail. They use their keen sense of smell to locate decaying animal remains from sever al miles away. They also hunt other lizards as well as large mammals and are som etimes cannibalistic. The Komodo dragon s teeth are almost completely covered by its gums. When it feeds , the gums bleed, creating an ideal culture for virulent bacteria. The bacteria that live in the Komodo dragon s saliva causes septicemia, or blood poisoning, in its victims. A dragon will bite its prey, then follow it until the animal is too weak to carry on. This lizard species is threatened by hunting, loss of prey species and habitat l oss. Text 3: What is a tornado? Tornadoes are known as one of the most damaging disasters. A tornado is a very p owerful column of winds which spirals around a center of low atmospheric pressur e. A tornado will look like a large black funnel which hangs down from a storm c loud.

The name tornado derives from the Latin tonare . It means to thunder. While the Spanis developed the word into tornear which means to turn or twist . This is why a tornado is sometimes called twister or cyclone. The winds inside a twister can spin around at speeds up to 500 miles an hour, bu t it usually travels at roughly 300 miles an hour. This speed twisting makes a t ornado the most dangerous storm. The average tornado has a diameter of about 200 to 300 yards. The smaller tornad oes are known as satellite tornadoes. These small offspring, about 50 yards acro ss, can be very fierce and do lots of damage. The forming of a tornado can be very quick. Sometimes it can form in a minute or less. A tornado can travel across the ground at high speeds, then it can sudden

ly vanish. Most tornadoes last less than twenty minutes and travel less than 15 miles. However, the super storms sometimes travel over 100 miles before they are exhausted. Penjelasan teks report di atas Ketiga teks di atas dapat disebut report text karena ketiganya memiliki persamaan. Bagian awal dari ketiga teks tersebut menjelaskan klasifikasi dari hal yang dij elaskan. Dalam teks pertama, disebutkan bahwa Platypus termasuk binatang asli Tas mania dan Australia selatan serta timur. Dalam teks kedua, dijelaskan bahwa Komo do termasuk kadal raksasa. Begitu pula dalam teks ketiga, tornado dikenal sebaga i bencana yang paling menghaancurkan. Persamaan berikutnya, setelah bagian awal yang merupakan penjelasan klasifikasi da ri hal yang dilaporkan, teks report mengupas berbagai aspek dari hal yang dilapo rkan. Misalnya, ciri-cirinya, habitatnya, makanannya, cara perkembangbiakannya, penampilannya, dan keterangan lain yang merupakan hasil pengamatan dan analisis menyeluruh. Apa perbedaan teks report dengan deskriptif? Secara sekilas, memang kedua teks t ersebut hampir sama. Tujuannya pun sama-sama mendeskripsikan sesuatu. Namun, tek s report lebih mendeskripsikan sesuatu secara mendetail dilihat dari berbagai as pek, bukan hanya ciri-ciri atau penampilannya saja. Sementara teks deskriptif me njabarkan penampilan dan ciri-ciri dari hal yang dibahas agar pembaca seolah-ola h melihat objek deskripsi tersebut. Teks report mendeskripsikan sesuatu secara a lami dari hasil observasi yang akurat dan teliti, serta biasanya mengandung bany ak istilah teknis atau ilmiah. Di sisi lain, teks deskriptif menjelaskan sesuatu dengan apa adanya, seperti kelihatannya. Text organization / generic structure of the text Sistematika penulisan atau susunan paragraf pada teks report adalah sebagai beri kut: General classification; yaitu paragraf atau kalimat-kalimat yang menyatakan klasifikasi dan gambaran umum dari hal (benda) yang dilaporkan; Description; yaitu deskripsi menyeluruh dalam berbagai aspek mengenai objek yang dilaporkan. Deskripsi ini dapat berisi bagian-bagian, ciri-ciri, kebiasaan, kegunaan, reproduksi, tempat/habitat, dan informasi lainnya. Ciri-ciri kebahasaan / language features Menggunakan simple present tense; Memperkenalkan kelompok (klasifikasi) dari hal yang dilaporkan; Menggunakan kata sambung yang logis. Contoh teks report yang lain Text 4: Earthquake Earthquake often happens around us. It brings great damages. Earthquake is hard to be predicted and that makes lot victims. Actually there are three kinds of earthquake. This kinds of earthquake are commo nly base on the factor and geological area where the earthquakes happen. These t hree kinds of earthquake are tectonic, volcanic and explosion. Tectonic earthquakes is most common one. This kind of earthquake happens while e arth s crust rocks break because of the geological strength created by moving of t he earth s plates.

Volcanic earthquakes happen exactly with volcanic activity. Volcanic earthquakes are when the volcano produces acidic lava, which drys quickly, when it drys qui ckly it blocks the top of the volcano. This make no more magma can escape. Press ure starts to build up and eventually the acidic lava can no longer stand the pr essure. So the volcano is free to explode, the pressure is released so fast that an earthquake is caused. A volcanic earthquake is usually kept within 10-20 mil es of the volcano. Explosion earthquakes are the result of the collapse earthquakes that are small earthquakes occurring in underground mines and caverns. Text 5: Elephant An elephant is the largest and strongest of all animals. It is a strange looking animal which it has thick legs, huge sides and backs, large hanging ears, a sma ll tail, little eyes, long white tusks and above all, elephant has a long nose, the trunk. An elephant is commonly seen in a zoo, it has hard found in it natura l habitat. The trunk is the elephant s peculiar feature. This trunk has various usages. The e lephant draws up water by its trunk and can squirt the water all over its body l ike a shower bath. The elephant s trunk also lift leaves and put them into its mou th. In fact, the trunk serves the elephant as long arm and hand. An elephant loo ks very clumsy and heavy and yet an elephant can move very quickly. The elephant is very intelligent animal. Its intelligence combined with its grea t strength makes an elephant a very useful servant to man. Elephant can be train ed to serve in various ways such as carry heavy loads, hunt for tigers and even fight. An elephant is really a smart animal. Text 6: Mangrove Trees A mangrove is a tropical marine tree. Mangroves have special aerial roots and sa lt-filtering tap roots which enable them to thrive in brackish water. Brackish w ater is salty but not as salty as sea water. Mangrove trees are commonly planted and found in coastal areas. Mangroves can serve as walls of protection for natu ral disaster in coastal area like tsunami. According to BBC News, healthy mangro ve forests had helped save lives in the Asia disaster tsunami and people tended to respect these natural barriers even more, especially after the tsunami. There are several species of mangrove tree found all over the world. Some prefer more salinity, while others like to be very-close to a large fresh water source such as river. Some prefer areas that are sheltered from waves. Some species ha ve their roots covered with sea water every day during high tide. Other species grow on dry land but are still part of the ecosystem. The Times of India reporte d that rare species of mangrove had been found and was also known as the looking -glass tree, probably because the leaves are silver-coated. Mangroves need to keep their trunk and leave above the surface of the water. Yet they also need to be firmly attached to the ground so they are not moved by wav es. Any part of root that appears above the water flows oxygen to the plant under wa ter surface. as the soil begin to build up, these roots procedure additional roo ts that become embedded in the soil.