EXPLANATION TEXT

KOMPETENSI DASAR
3.3 Membedakan fungsi sosial, struktur teks, dan unsur kebahasaan beberapa
teks explanation lisan dan tulis dengan memberi dan meminta informasi
terkait gejala alam atau sosial yang tercakup dalam mata pelajaran lain di
kelas XII, sesuai dengan konteks penggunaannya
4.3 Menangkap makna secara kontekstual terkait fungsi sosial, struktur teks,
dan unsur kebahasaan teks explanation lisan dan tulis, terkait gejala alam
atau sosial yang tercakup dalam mata pelajaran lain di kelas XII.

TUJUAN PEMBELAJARAN
Setelah pembelajaran berbasis project, peserta didik mampu secara bergotong-
royong dan bernalar kritis membedakan fungsi sosial, struktur teks, dan unsur
kebahasaan beberapa teks khusus dalam bentuk teks explanation, menangkap
makna secara kontekstual, dan menyusun teks khusus dalam bentuk teks
explanation terkait fenomena alam dan sosial.

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3.3.1 Menganalisis perbedaan fungsi sosial beberapa teks explanation lisan dan
tulis terkait gejala alam atau sosial.
3.3.2 Membandingkan (perbedaan/persamaan cara penulis membuka dan
menutup tulisan) dalam dua teks explanation
What is explanation
text?
Why is it important
to learn?
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Explanation Text
“The text often tells you about how
something works or why something
happens.”

Look at the pictures below!

Questions
1. What causes volcanoes?
2. How do volcanoes affect people?
3. How much damage does a volcano cause?
4. What causes earthquakes?
5. How can we protect us from earthquakes?
6. What are the similarities between these two pictures ?
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The Audio Script

A: Hello!
B: Hi!
A: I’m very glad to see you. I wasn’t sure if you were alive.
B: I’m glad to see you too.
A: That was a terrible earthquake. We are lucky to have survived.
B: That’s true
A: where were you when the earthquake began?
B: I was at school. Where were you?
A: I was at home. My house was destroyed by a flood.
B: I’m sorry to hear that.
A: It’s okay. All of my family survived.
B: That is good. I don’t know if all of my family survived.
A: Oh no! Who is missing?
B: My sister was at a friend’s house and we haven’t heard from her.
A: I hope she is okay.
B: I do to. Most of the houses in my neighbourhood were destroyed. A telephone
pole fell on my neighbour’s car.
A: Wow!
B: Many bad things happened. We didn’t have electricity for more than three
days.
A: Wow. Did you have water?
B: Our faucet was turned off but luckily, we had bottled water
A: That is fortunate. We did not have bottled water.
B: How did you survive?
A: We boiled water from the river.
B: That’s a good idea.
A: Thanks. I just hope we will be able to rebuild our city.
B: The earthquake did a lot of damage but we will be able to fix everything with
time.
 Answer the questions below!

1. What they’re talking about?

2. Where was the speaker B when the earthquake began?
3. Whose house that destroyed by flood?
4. How the speaker B got water to drink?
5. Did the speaker A have water? How did he survive?
6. What did you learn from the dialogue above?
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3.3.1 Menganalisis perbedaan fungsi sosial beberapa teks eksplanation lisan
dan tulis terkait gejala alam atau sosial
4.3.1 Menemukan informasi tertentu dalam teks explanation lisan dan tulis
terkait gejala alam atau sosial yang tercakup dalam mata pelajaran lain di
kelas XII
4.3.2 Menemukan informasi rinci dalam teks explanation lisan dan tulis
terkait gejala alam atau sosial yang tercakup dalam mata pelajaran lain di
kelas XII

Look at the video below

 Explanation Text

What is it?
Explanation Text adalah teks yang
menjelaskan bagaimana sesuatu bisa bekerja
atau mengapa sesuatu terjadi.
Teks ini digunakan untuk mengupas tentang
fenomena alam, fenomena sosial, budaya, atau
mengenai benda-benda di sekitar kita.

Is it same with procedure text?

Explanation text menjelaskan bagaimana

sesuatu bisa terjadi (to explain).
Procedure text menjelaskan tentang
bagaimana cara melakukan atau membuat
sesuatu dengan instruksi secara urut atau
bertahap (to instruct)
 Activity 1
Read the explanation
about structure of
explanation text and
the example of it
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3.3.3 Menjelaskan perbedaan berbagai struktur kalimat untuk mengungkapkan
hubungan sebab akibat.

Activity 1
Read the
explanation about
language used in
explanation text
Language Features Used
Use cause/effect relationships
Use time relationships / connectives
Present tense
Conjunctions
Passive voice
Use of nouns tends to be general rather
than specific
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Latihan 2
Read the text below and find the conjunctions and passive voice you
have learnt before!
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4.3.1 Menemukan informasi tertentu dalam teks explanation lisan dan tulis terkait gejala
alam atau sosial yang tercakup dalam mata pelajaran lain di kelas XII
4.3.2 Menemukan informasi rinci dalam teks explanation lisan dan tulis terkait gejala
alam atau sosial yang tercakup dalam mata pelajaran lain di kelas XII
4.3.3 Menarik kesimpulan dari informasi tertentu dalam teks explanation lisan dan tulis
terkait gejala alam atau sosial yang tercakup dalam mata pelajaran lain di kelas XII
4.3.4 Menceritakan kembali teks explanation lisan dan tulis yang telah dipelajari terkait
gejala alam atau sosial yang tercakup dalam mata pelajaran lain di kelas XII
4.3.5 Mengevaluasi teks explanation lisan dan tulis yang telah dipelajari terkait gejala
alam atau sosial yang tercakup dalam mata pelajaran lain di kelas XII.

1. What causes the volcano eruption?

2. Why volcanic activity relates to the zone of active seismicity?
3. What is the main idea of paragraph 2?
4. The word “it” in paragraph 3 refers to?
5. What causes the magma erupted and move out?
6. How did the main hole was formed?
7. What happened after the bursts stopped?
8. What is the purpose of the text above?
1. What is the text about?
2. When the tik tok gained large followers?
3. The word “they” in paragraph 1 refers to?
4. When human's attention has dropped into 4 seconds?
5. What is the writer suggestion in paragraph 3?
6. What we can do to improve our attention?
 After read the texts below, let's compare and sum those texts
through these questions!

1. What are the impacts of the earthquake?

2. What are the impacts of tik tok?
3. What are the similarities of two text above?
4. Do you got a positive impact from both text?
5. Do you think disaster e.g earthquake, flood always have
negative impact for environment? Why do you think so?
6. Do you think the presence of tik tok always give negative
impact for people or not? Why do you think so?
7. What did you learn from both texts above?