The Planets

Universe consists of planets. A planet is a body in space that revolves around a star. There are nine planets in our
solar system, and these nine planets travel around the sun. The names of the planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars,
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.

Planets travel in orbits around the stars. All of the planets of the solar system revolve in elliptical orbits. In other
words, their orbits are like large, flat circles. The time that it takes a planet to make one revolution around the sun is
called a year.

The Greeks were the first people to recognize and gives name to some of the planets. Tile word planet comes from
a Greek word meaning wanderer if a person wanders, this means that he goes from one place to another and does not
have a home. The Greeks thought that planets “wandered” in the sky. However, modern scientists can predict the
movement of the planets very accurately.

9wh Question :

1. What is a planet?
2. How many planet in our solar system?
3. What the planet do?
4. Where do the planet travel in orbit?
5. How are the planet’s orbit look like?
6. Who were the first people that recognize some of the planet?
7. What is the meaning of word “planet”?
8. What is “their” (in paragraph 2, 3rd sentence) refers to?

Yes/No Question :

1. Does universe consist of planet?

2. Do planet travel in orbit around the stars?
3. Were the Greeks the first people that recognize some of the planets?
4. Did the Greeks think that planets wandered in the sky?
5. Can modern scientists predict movement of the planets very accurately?
1. Definition and Purpose

 A report text is a type of document written by someone or group of people to announce the result of an investigation or
announce something to the proper authorities. The information given in a report text is very general
information.Generic Structure.
 The purpose of a report text is to present information about something generally. It generally describes the way things
are with reference to arrange of natural, manmade and social phenomenon in our environment

2. Generic Structure

• Title
A title of a report text indicates the topic of the text and it is a very general thing.
• General Classification
A general classification is a part that state classification of general aspect of things, such as: animals, public places, plants, etc.
It will be discussed in general.
• Description
This part gives describing of the things which will be discussed in detail, in terms of: parts (and their function), qualities, habits
and behavior.

3. The Characteristics / Language Feature of Explanation Text:

1. Focus on generic participant.
A report text always introduces group or general aspect and focus on general nouns, such as: ‘Platypus’, ‘Bees’, etc.
2. A report text uses relating verb and action verb, for example:
Relating verb : Reptiles are scalyanimal,etc.
Action verb : Birds fly in the sky, etc.
3. A report text uses of simple present tense, for example: Platypus lives in streams, male platypus does not need any burrow,
etc
4. The language used in a report text is a scientific language, for example: water contains oxygen and hydrogen, etc.
5. A report text uses Conditionals and logical connectives, such as: but, in other hand, etc.
6. Using simple present tense.