Explanation Text (Social Phenomenon)

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How to Build Confidence?

Self-confidence is one of very important parts of humanity. Someone with self-confidence generally likes themselves and thinks positively about their future. A person who lacks of self-confidence, however, tend to be pessimistic and is less likely to feel that they can achieve their goals in life. The good news is that self-confidence is something you can build! So, how to build your self-confidence?

First of all, you need to identify your negative thoughts because your negative thoughts will always whisper like this: "I can't do that," "Many people say that I will not succeed", "no one understands my efforts." These pessimistic thoughts will hold you back from achieving high self-esteem and greater self-confidence.

After identifying your negative thoughts, you must turn them to positive thoughts. You must be more energized to prove that all of those pessimistic thoughts are incorrect. This may be started by having the positive affirmations to overcome those negative perspectives, such as "I am going to try it," "I can be successful if I work at it," or "people will listen to me." You must try to repeat these sentences over and over to burn your spirits.

Next, you should refuse negative thoughts to occur more often than positive thoughts. Your positive thoughts should be given more “brain space” than your negative thoughts. The more you counter your negative self-thinking with positivity, the better confidence you will have.

In conclusion, as your confidence grows day by day, you must eliminate reminders of your negativity that can make you feel bad about yourself again. Always boost all of your positivity to achieve your dreams! Negativities might be reminders from the past and let the positivity become the flashlight to lighten up your map of dreams. This will go a long way in building your self-confidence up.

1.To explain how to build confidence’ is………… of the text.

• Social function

• Generic structure

• Language features

• Sequence

• Conclusion

2. What is the generic structure of the text?

• A. Conclusion – Explanations (Sequences) – Opening statement

• B. Explanations (Sequences) – Opening statement –Conclusion

• C. Opening statement – Explanations (Sequences) – Conclusion

• D. Explanations (Sequences) – Conclusion – Opening Statement

• E. Conclusion – Opening statement – Explanation (Sequences)

3. After identifying your negative thoughts, you must turn them to positive thoughts. The underlined sentence is the beginning of the ……… sequence.

• A. First

• B. Second

• C. Third

• D. First and Second

• E. Second and Third

4. What should you do first to improve your self-confident?

• you need to identify your negative thought

• you must eliminate reminders of your negativity that can make you feel bad about yourself again

5. What does the text say about negativity?

• Negativity can make you feel bad about yourself

• Negativity can make our self be optimistic

6. Good students are praised by the teacher.

• active

• passive

7.They are great parents.

• active

• passive

8.Change into passive voice

The girl waters flowers every week

• Flowers is watered by her every week

• Flowers are watered by her every week

• Flowers are waters by her every week

9.Change into passive voice

She does her homework

• Her homework are did by her

• Her homework is done by her

• She homework is done by her

10.Change into passive voice.

We learn math every thursday

• Math is learned by us every thursday

• Math is learning by us every thursday

• We is learn by it every thursday