LK 1: Lembar Kerja Belajar Mandiri – Modul 3

Judul Modul ENGLISH FOR SOCIAL COMMUNICATION

Judul Kegiatan Belajar 1. Exploring Descriptive Text 1; Person and animals
(KB) 2. Exploring Descriptive Text 2; Things and Place
3. Exploring Report Text 1; Classifying Report and
Compositional Report
4. Exploring Report Text 2; Comparative report and Historical
Report

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1 Daftar peta konsep Learning Activity 1
(istilah dan definisi) 1. The Descriptive Text is a meaningful text that describes
di modul ini particular person or animals.
2. Social function to give :
a. Information about a particular entity by describing its
features, history, and special characteristics.
b. Information about things by describing physical
attributes, behaviors, uses, etc.

3. The generic structure of this text consists of :

a. Identification or general statements.
b. Descriptions: The parts of a text describe the object.

4. Language Features
Focus on specific participants as the main character;
1. Use present tense as dominant tenses;
2. Use linking verbs or relational process frequently (is,
are, has, have, belongs to) in order to classify and
describe appearance or qualities and parts or functions of
phenomena;
3. Use action verbs or material process and behavioural
process in giving additional description regarding action
and behaviour done by the participants in text;
4. Use mental verb or mental process when describing
feelings;
5. Use nominal group frequently to describe;
6. Use adjective and adverbs to add information to nouns
and add information to verbs to provide more detailed
description about the topic;
7. Use adverbial phrases to add more information about
manner, place, or time and sometimes realized
inembedded clause which functions as circumstances

Learning Activity 2
Descriptive Text:The Descriptive Text is a meaningful text that
describes particular objects in relation to things and places.

Social function to give information about a particular entity

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(features, history, special characteristic) and about things
(physical,behaviors,uses)

The purpose is to describe represent or reveal an object, either

abstract or concrete. And give a visual picture of a thing and
place

Generic Structure
1. Identification : Identifies phenomenon to be described
2. Description : Describe parts, equalities or characteristics

Language Features
- Specific participant
- The use of the adjective
- simple present tense
- Action verb
- using passive voice
- using noun phrase
- using technical terms
- using general and abstract noun.
- using conjunction of time and cause-effect

Learning Activity 3
Report Text; Report text is a text which presents information
about something, as it is. Details in this text are scientific details
that include the description of object, both physical and non
physical, from scientific facts about the object.
Report Text is included in the Descriptive Text which has the
aim of providing information to readers about the object of this
text itself. Although the Report Text and Description Text are
almost the same, they are actually two two different texts.
Report Text tends to lead to scientific factual text and is more
general than Description Text so that there is no subjective
opinion from the author.

Social fuction
There are different types of the report texts.
1. Classifying Report : To organize and describe a field or
topic into a class and subclass hierarchy

2. Compositional Report : To Organise and describe a

field or topic according to its part ( a part or whole part )
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Generic structure
1. Opening general statement/general classification
2. Facts about various aspects of the subject

Language features of report text :

1. Observe and identify the use of words, phrases,
sentences, and technical terms which are mostly found
in the text.
2. Noun and noun phrases are used rather than personal
pronoun.
3. Most reports are written in the present tense
4. Use some passive voice
5. some reports use technical or scientific terms
6. Use some passive voice
7. Linking verbs are used, eg.is, are, has, have, belong to,
to give coherence
8. Descriptive language is used that is factual rather than
imaginative eg. Color, shape, size, body parts, habits,
behaviors, funtions, uses.

Learning Activity 4
1. Definition
a. Comparative Report is useful for monitoring
developmental changes, situational differences, and treatment
efficacy. It enables a clear comparison between different tests of
a specific patient and to track his performance at different times
or conditions.

b. Historical Report is returns all issues from a specified time

period that also match the selected assignment, status, and
priority criteria.
This topic happened in the past, then the paragraph structure
should be composed in the past tenses. Which can be past tense,
past continuous tense, or past perfect tense.

2. Social Function
a. Comparative Report to identify the similarities and
differences between two or more classes or things
b. Historical Report to give information about the way things
were in relation to a particular historical period or site.
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3. Generic Structure
a. Comparative Report
 General Statement. It introduces entities tobe compared
 Description. It contain the systematic analysis of
similarities and differences

b. Historical Report
 General Statement. It identifies historical period or site.
And it defines and locates in time and place
 Descriptions : features or characteristics, activities,
behaviours, artefacts, historical significance.

4. Language Features
1. Genaeralised Participants are initially rpresented in
simple noun groups (E.g: Stars and Planets in text 1)
2. Relating verb that link an entity with its attributes
3. Timeless present tense ( with the exception of an
historical report)
4. Attitudinal vocabulary is unusual as the emphasis is on
facts rather on options

2 Daftar materi yang Learning Activity 1

sulit dipahami di Language Features
modul ini
Learning Activity 2
lexicogrammatical features

Learning Activity 3
Differentiate classifying and compositional in report text

Learning Activity 4
-Language Features

3 Daftar materi yang Learning Activity 1

sering mengalami Linking verb, Adjective,Mental verb
miskonsepsi Learning Activity 2
Function and the purpose of the descriptive text

Learning Activity 3
The unit of Language forming text

Learning Activity 4
-to analyse the contextual differences and similarities between a
number of report text in regard
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PETA KONSEP / MINDMAP MODUL 3
LEARNING ACTIVITY 1 AND 2
PETA KONSEP / MINDMAP MODUL 3
LEARNING ACTIVITY 3 AND 4