Hortatory

SOCIAL FUNCTION
To persuade the reader or listener by presenting arguments that something should
or should not be the case

 GENERIC STRUCTURE
1. Thesis
2. Argument(s)
3. Recommendation(s)

SIGNIFICANT LEXICOGRAMMATICAL FEATURES

1. Focus on generic human and non-human participants, except for
speaker or writer referring to self
2. Use of compound and complex sentence
3. Use of present tense
4. Use of emotive words (e.g.; worried, alarmed)
5. Use words that qualify statements (e.g.: usual, probably)
6. Use of internal conjunction to stage (link) argument/reasoning
through causal conjunction or nominalization (e.g.: firstly,
however, therefore)
7. Use of mental processes: to state what writer thinks or feels about
issue
8. Use of material processes: to state what happens
9. Use of relational processes: to state what is or should be
10. Use of subjective opinions using pronouns I and we
11. Use of modals
Read the text and answer the questions!

Kids Watching TV
Is it important to know what your kids are watching? Of course yes.
Television can expose things you have tried to protect them from, especially
violence, pornography, consumerism, etc.
A study demonstrated that spending too much time on watching TV
during the day or at bedtime often causes bedtime disruption, stress, and short
sleep duration.
Another research found that there is a significant relationship between
the amount of time spent for watching television during adolescence and early
adulthood, and the possibility of being aggressive.
Meanwhile, many studies have identified a relationship between kids
who watch TV a lot and being inactive and overweight.
Considering some facts mentioned above, protect your children with the
following tips:
1. Limit television viewing to 1-2 hours each day.
2. Do not allow your children to have a TV set in their bedrooms.
3. Review the rating TV shows that your children watch.
4. Watch television with you children and discuss what is happening in the show.

1. Too much TV watching can possibly lead to ….

A. frustration D. overweight
B. low achievement E. laziness
C. hyperactivity

2. We know from the text that….

A. too much watching TV causes stress
B. being aggressive can happen to children
C. adult can get overweight
D. parents will protect their children
E. short of sleep duration cause overweight

3. The word disruption in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to

A. improvement D. restoration
B. eruption E. allocation
C. interference

4. What is the writer’s intention in writing the text?

5. What does the writer’s recommendation(s) to the readers for the issue
above?