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Judul Modul English for Social Communication

Judul Kegiatan Belajar (KB) 1. Exploring Descriptive text 1
2. Exploring Descriptive text 2
3. Exploring Report text 1
4. Exploring Report text 2
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1 Garis besar materi yang dipelajari 1.
Learning Activity 1

1. The Descriptive Text is a

meaningful text that describes
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;
Use present tense as dominant
tenses;

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;

Use action verbs or material process and

behavioural process in giving additional
description regarding action and behaviour
done by the participants in text;

Use mental verb or mental process when

describing feelings;
 Use nominal group frequently to describe;

Use adjective and adverbs to add

information to nouns and add information
to verbs to provide more detailed
description about the topic;

Use adverbial phrases to add more

information about manner, place, or
time and sometimes realized
inembedded clause which functions
as circumstances

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

b. Social function to give information

about a particular entity (features,
history, special characteristic) and
about things (physical,behaviors,uses)
c. The purpose is to describe represent
or reveal an object, either abstract or
concrete. And give a visual picture
of a thing and place
d. Generic Structure
- Identification :
Identifies phenomenon to
be described
- Description : Describe
parts, equalities or
characteristics
e. 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

3.
Learning Activity 3
 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.

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 )

Generic structure of this text : -

Focus is on a “thing” rather than a
sequence. Report text are often referred to
as information repots. We use the term
‘information report’ as a general term to
refer to all of different kinds of report
texts.

Language features of report text :

- Observe and identify the use

of words, phrases, sentences,
and technical terms which are
mostly found in the text.

- Noun and noun phrases are

used rather than personal
pronoun.

- Most reports are written in the

present tense
 - some reports use technical or
scientific terms

- Use some passive voice

- Linking verbs are used, eg.is,

are, has, have, belong to, to
give coherence

Descriptive language is used that is factual

rather than imaginative eg. Color, shape,
size, body parts, habits, behaviors, funtions,
uses.

4.

Learning Activity 4

Learning other kinds of report texts

dealing with Exploring report text 2
(Compartive
Report and Historical Report)

1. Definition

a. Comparative Report is useful

for monitoring developmental
changes, situational differences,
and treatment efficacy.

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.

3. Generic Structure

a. Comparative Report
- General Statement.
- Description.

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
- Genaeralised Participants are
initially rpresented in simple
noun groups
- Relating verb that link an
entity with its attributes
- Timeless present tense
Attitudinal vocabulary is unusual as the
emphasis is on facts rather on options

2 Daftar materi yang sulit dipahami 1. Learning Activity 1

di modul ini Language Features
2. Learning Activity 2
lexicogrammatical features
3. Learning Activity 3
Differentiate classifying and
compositional in report text
4. Learning Activity 4
Language Features

3 Daftar materi yang sering 1. Linking verb

mengalami miskonsepsi 2. Function and the purpose of the
descriptive text
3. The unit of Language forming text
4. analyse the contextual differences and
similarities between a number of report
text in regard