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1: Lembar Kerja Belajar Mandiri

Judul Modul Modul 3. English for Social

Communication
Judul Kegiatan Belajar (KB) 1. Exploring Descriptive Text 1
Person & animals
2. Exploring Descriptive Text 2
Things & places
3. Exploring Report Text 1
Classifying report &
compositional report
4. Exploring Report Text 2
Comparative report &
historical report.
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1 Garis besar materi yang 1. Descriptive text is a text that explains
dipelajari what a person, place, or thing is like,
often providing a visual experience
through the use of adjectives and adverbs
Social Function
 To give information about a
particular entity by describing its
features, history, and special
characteristics.
 To give information about things
by describing physical
attributes,behaviors, uses, etc.
Generic Structure of descriptive text :
 Identification
Identifies phenomenon to be
Described.
 Description
Describes or explains
personality,
qualities, or characteristics.
language features
Language features commonly used in
descriptive text:
 The use of simple present tense
 Specific participant (object)
 The use of simple present tense
 Action verb: verbs that show an
activity for example, run, sleep,
walk, cut etc
2. Descriptive text is a text that explains
what a person, place, or thing is like,
often providing a visual experience
through the use of adjectives and adverbs
Social Function
 To give information about a
particular entity by describing its
features, history, and special
 characteristics.
 To give information about things
by describing physical attributes,
behaviors, uses, etc.
Generic Structure
A descriptive text is made up of
identification or general statement
and description element.
Identification introduces and
identifies specific
objects (a person, thing, place,
animal, or event) intended to be
described.
Description describes the intended
objects using descriptive details or
information about the objects’
characteristics, appearances,
personality,
habits, or qualities (Derewianka,
2004; Gerot & Wignell, 1994;
Knapp
and Watkins, 2005, p. 149)

3. What is a report text? Report text is a text

which presents information about
something
Social Function
There are different types of report texts.
classifying report (To organise and
describe a field or topic into a class and
subclass hierarchy) and compositional
report(To organise and describe a field or
topic according to its part (a part or
whole part)

4. The report texts that we learn in Learning

Activity (LA) 4 deal with comparative
report and historical report.
In this Learning Activity 4, the report
texts are
called comparative report (To identify the
similarities and differences between two
or more classes or things) and historical
report (To give information about the way
things were in relation to a particular
historical period or site.)
Generic Structure
On the basis of content, Comparative reports are
typically structured as
follows:
 General Statement :
It introduces entities to be compared
 Description:
It contains the systematic analysis of similarities
 and differences
On the other hand, Historical reports are typically
structured as follows:
 General Statement
It Identifies historical period or site
And it defines and locates in time and place
 Description
 Features or characteristics
 Activities
 Behaviours
 Artefacts
 Historical significance

2 Daftar materi yang sulit 1. Report text

dipahami di modul ini
3 Daftar materi yang sering 1. Comparative report
mengalami miskonsepsi