REPORT TEXT

REPORT TEXT

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CUT RENNY AWANNA, S.Ag

SMA NEGERI 3 PUTRA BANGSA LHOKSUKON

DEFINITION

Report is a text which presents information about something, as it is. It is as a result of systematic observation and analyses.

SOCIAL FUNCTION

“Social function of report text is to present information about something generally to the reader.”

Some of example of report genre is information about living things (reptile, mammals, etc), information about cultural phenomena, information about technology, information about health service, and so on. Here is one of the examples of report text about city.

GENERIC STRUCTURE

General Classification

berisi pernyataan umum tentang subject yang dibicarakan atau dibahas.

Description

merupakan bagian yang memberikan gambaran secara detail mengenai subject yang dibahas pada bagian general classification.

LANGUAGE FEATURE

Report genre is focus on generic participants or a group of things such as the heart, the body, the lung, the computer, the printer, etc. Report text mainly use of simple present tense (unless extinct). There is no temporal sequence in report text. The writer usually use of “being” and “having” clauses.

Rabbits are four-legged herbivorous mammals with long ears, a divided upper lip and two powerful back legs which make them a good hopper. At first, they were called coneys. The name “Rabbit” was first used to address the young coneys until the 18th century when the word “Rabbit” became more popular in the society. The new born rabbits are naked and blind, this helpless condition is the reason why rabbits live in a secure dens underground. Rabbits can only be found in several parts of the world, and of all that are divided into eight different genera, they are: Genus Pentalagus, Genus Bunolagus, Genus Nesolagus, Genus Romerolagus, Genus Brachylagus, Genus Sylvilagus, Genus Oryctolagus and Genus Poelagus.

All rabbits has a typical short tail. Their average body size are 20 to 50 cm long and the average weight around half to 2 kg. It is recorded that adult rabbit has 3 years lifespan in their natural habitat, but it is also believed that they can live longer if they are under human care. Just like human, they sleep for about 8 hours in their underground burrows. They have a wide variety of color, start from white, brown, black and grey, but most of them have a combination of some colors. Rabbits communicate to each other by performing various body position and also by making a few sounds.

Venice, a City of Water

Venice is a city in northern Italy. It is the capital of region Veneto. Together with Padua, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area. Venice has been known as the “Queen of the Adriatic”, “City of Water”, “City of Bridges”, and “The City of Light”. The city stretches across 117 islands in the marshy Venetian Lagoon along the Adriatic Sea in northeast Italy.

Venice is world-famous for its canals. It is built on an archipelago of 117 islands formed by about 150 canals in a shallow lagoon. The islands on which the city is built are connected by about 400 bridges. In the old center, the canals serve the function of roads, and every form of transport is on water or on foot.

You can ride gondola there. It is the classical Venetian boat which nowadays is mostly used for tourists, or for weddings, funerals, or ceremonies. Now, most Venetians travel by motorized waterbuses (“vaporetti”) which ply regular routes along the major canals and between the city‟s islands. The city also has many private boats. The only gondolas still in common use by Venetians are the traghetti, foot passenger ferries crossing the Grand Canal at certain points without bridges.

You can see the amusing city‟s landmarks such as Piazza San Marco, Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo, Saint Mark‟s Cathedral or villas of the Veneto. The villas of the Veneto, rural residences for nobles during the Republic, are one of the most interesting aspects of Venetian countryside. They are surrounded by elegant gardens, suitable for fashionable parties of high society. The city is also well known for its beautiful and romantic view, especially at night.

QUIZZ

Multiple Choice

A factual information text is?

• Report Text

• Narrative Text

• Descriptive Text

• Procedure Text

Multiple Choice

A cactus (plural: cacti) is any member of the plant family Cactaceae, native to the Americas. They are often used as ornamental plants, but some are also crop plants. Cacti are grown for protection of property from wild animals, as well as malty other uses.

Cacti are unusual and distinctive plants, which are adapted to extremely hot environments, showing a wide range of anatomical and physiological features which conserve water.

Cacti come in a wide range of shapes and sizes. Many cactus species are night blooming, as they are pollinated by nocturnal insects or small animals, principally moths and bats. Cacti range in size from small and globular to tall and columnar.

The underlined word in "Many cactus species are night blooming, as ..." is closest in meaning to ....

• Performing

• Flowering

• Increasing

• Creating

Multiple Choice

Ant is an insect. There are more than 12.000 species of ants all over the world. An ant is tiny insect but it can lift 20 boles Its own body weight.

There are three kinds of ants in a colony, the queen, the female workers don't have wings. The queen is the only ant that can lay eggs. The male ants' job Is to male with future queen ants and they do not live long afterward. Once the queen grows to adulthood, she spends the rest of her life laying eggs. A colony may have a queen or many queens depend on the species.

Ant colony has soldiers that protect the queen, defend the colony, gather food, and attack the enemy colonies. If they are able to defeat their enemy, they will take away their eggs. When these eggs hatch, the next ants will become slaves.

How do the soldier ants treat defeated enemy?

• They will take away their eggs

• They mate the future queen ants

• They ask them to leave the colony

• They attacked the enemy soldier till dead

Multiple Choice

Ostrich is a large flightless bird native to Africa. It is distinctive in its appearance with a long neck and legs. It has the ability to run at maximum speed of about 70 km/h, the top land speed of any bird. The Ostrich is the largest living species of bird and lays the largest egg of any hying bird. The diet of the Ostrich mainly consist of plant, though it also eats insects. It lives in nomadic groups which consist of five to fifty birds. When threatened, the Ostrich will either hide itself by lying flat against the ground or run away. Moreover, it can attack the enemy with a kick from its Powerful legs.

Ostriches become sexually mature when they are 2 to 4 years old. Females mature about six months earlier than males. The mating begins in March or April and ends before September.

What is the main idea of the second paragraph?

• Ostrich is a large flightless bird native to Africa

• The Ostrich is the largest living species of bird

• Mature Ostrich mates in March to September

• The female Ostrich mature about six months earlier than males

Multiple Choice

Jellyfish are not really fish. They are invertebrate animals. This means that unlike fish or people, they have no backbones. In fact, they have no bones at all.

Jellyfish have stomachs and mouths, but no heads. They have nervous systems for sensing the world around them, but no brains. They are made almost entirely of water, which is why you can look through them.

Some jellyfish can glow in darkness by making their own light. The light is made by a chemical reaction inside the jellyfish. Scientists believe jellyfish glow for several reasons. For example, they may glow to scare away predators or to attract animals they like to eat.

Most jellyfish live in salt water, apart from a few types that live in fresh water. Jellyfish are found in oceans and seas all over the world. They live in warm, tropical seas and in icy waters near the North and South poles.

Based on the text, we know that ....

• They belong to invertebrate animals

• They have heads like other animals

• Their brain helps them find the food

• They cannot live in fresh water

Multiple Choice

Butterflies are a type of insect with large and often colorful wings. They start out as eggs. They lay their eggs on leaves. The eggs hatch into caterpillars with tabular body. The caterpillar eats leaves, beds, or flowers of plants.

When a caterpillar is full sized, it goes into another stage called chrysalis. Caterpillars attach themselves to something solid before becoming a chrysalis. The caterpillar inside the chrysalis changes into a butterfly. Some butterflies make the change in one week. Some others take years to change.

When the change is complete, the adult butterfly splits the chrysalis. The insect unfolds its wings and pumps blood and air into then. It spreads out the wings until they become dry and harder. The beautiful butterfly then flies to get nectar from flowers. Most butterflies live only for one or two weeks.

 Where does a caterpillar change into a butterfly?

• On the flower

• On the leaves

• Inside the chrysalis

• Inside the nectar

Multiple Choice

Jasmine is a native flower to some tropical areas in South Asia, Africa and Australia. In India, some varieties of Jasmine are used for religious purposes.

The flower can grow up to 3 meters high and 2 meters wide. It releases its fragrance mostly after the sun sets especially nearing the full moon. Therefore, it is often associated with soothing night- time moods.

The planting of Jasmine is started by putting some cuttings in 3 inch posts within 4 weeks. After the roots grow, they are put into 6 inch pots. The soil in the pots should be kept moist but possible for the water to go through it for optimum growth.

There are some important advantages of Jasmine. In medication, this flower is often used for soothing headaches, stimulating brain, and restoring balance. Its extract is also widely used in the making of perfume.

 What is the main idea of the last paragraph?

• Jasmine is grown worldwide

• Jasmine has various benefits

• . Jasmine can cause headache

• There are some varieties of Jasmine

Multiple Choice

Dinosaurs were a type of lizards. They lived from about 230 million to about 65 million years ago. In 1842, Sir Richard Owen created the word dinosaur. It came from Greek words deinos, meaning “terrible” and sauros, meaning “lizard”. Dinosaurs lived on earth for about 140 million years.

During the dinosaurian era, the days were short. The sun was not as hot as it is today. On earth there was only one big continent and one big ocean. The name of the continent was pangea (all lands) and the name of the ocean was panthallassa (all seas).

There were many kinds of dinosaurs. Some of them were very big and some others were small. Some dinosaurs ate leaves and some others ate meat. Some dinosaurs could fly.

What happened to dinosaurs? Dinosaurs became extinct because there was a large comet hitting the earth. The comet caused fire and it killed the trees. Dinosaurs could not eat because there were no trees on earth and finally they died and became extinct.

what is the main idea of paragraph 3?

• There were many kinds of dinosaurs

• Some dinosaurs could fly in the sky

• Many dinosaurs were small in form

• Dinosaurs ate leaves and meat

Multiple Choice

The largest meat-eating animal in the world is the brown bear that lives in Alaska. “Brownie”, as this bear is called, will always keep away from people. But, be careful if it is wounded with a gun or the mother bear and her cubs are shocked. Some hunters claim the brown bear can outfight a tiger.

A grown brownie may be up to nine feet tall. It may weigh over 1,600 pounds. But home when the brown bear is born, it weighs less than one pound. If you grew at the same rate, you would weigh almost 10,000 pounds when you were fully grown!

What does the text mostly tell about?

• Strong hunters

• Fighting tigers

• Alaska people

• Brown bears

Multiple Choice

The sugar glider is a marsupial, just like the many other Australian animals – the kangaroo, the koala and the wombat for instance. The sugar glider is a possum – very similar to the tupai in Indonesia. It basically lives in trees. It eats leaves and fruit. However, the Australian sugar glider has a very special skill. It can jump from tree to tree like a tupai but it can also `sort of fly’ as well. In fact, it glides or terbang layang in Bahasa Indonesia. When it jumps from one tree to another it spreads its four legs out wide; and its extra skin also spreads out and functions like a parachute.

1. What does the text tell us about?…

• The kanggoro

• The koala

• The sugar glider

• Australian animals