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LESSON
WithTeacher Rinda
WELCOME,
STUDENTS
 DEFINITION OF
BIOGRAPHY
A biography is simply an account or detailed description about the life
of a person. It entails basic facts, such as
childhood, education, career, relationships, family, and death. . Unlike
a resume or profile, a
biography provides a life story of a subject, highlighting different
aspects of his of her life. A person who writes
biographies, is called as a “biograph
SOCIAL FUNCTION

BIOGRAPHY
Function : to give information about someone’s
life so we can get inspiration from his/her life
story then,to educate people
 THE GENERIC STRUCTURE

REORIENTATIO
ORIENTATION
is the opening paragraph, tells
EVENT (CLOSING)
the readera about background
information of the person.
The part of events or events it consist of conclusion or a
such as, full name, date of birth,
address experienced by the person comment of the writer
LANGUAGE FEATURES
focus on spesific person
use of simple past tense just focus to tell a person biography
e.g : moved, was / were

Use of action verb

Temporary sequence and temporal
e.g : moved, run, ate
conjunction
e.g : when
 CHARACTERIST
IC
• biography is not written by subject and always written in
the thirs person
• based on research
• describe the person’s surrounding (5W + 1H)
• use language vivid to narrate event
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 Bung hatta is one of “the proflamators” of Indonesian
Independence. Born with full name Mohammad Hatta on 2 12
August 1902 at Fort fe Kock. West Sumatra dutch east indies, and
bung hatta played important roles in indonesian strive for
independence. He is well-educated person that strive not with
physical power but used intelligent instead.
After the independence day of indonesia, mohammad hatta
became the first vice president of the country and became prime
minister later on. He continued to build the country with his efforts
and thoughts.
Bung hatta died at the age 77 on 14 march 1980 at jakarta,
indonesia. he was buried at tanah kusir public cemetery at jakarta.
honor his name and soekamo as the independence proclamators,
indonesia's biggest airport at cengkareng is named soekamo-hatta.