Review Features and Structures of Explanatory Texts

What is the purpose of explanatory texts?

• To inform something.

• To instruct the readers.

• To persuade the readers.

• To explain how and why something happens.

Choose the correct structure of an explanatory text.

• Title, closing, sequenced events, introduction.

• Title, sequenced events, introduction, closing.

• Title, introduction, sequenced events, closing.

• Title, introduction, closing, sequenced events.

Choose ONE option that is NOT the feature of explanatory texts.

• Present tense

• Connectives

• Action verbs

• Past tense

Which one is the correct example of action verbs?

• However

• If

• hatch

• Because

Which one is the correct example of present tense?

• was

• were

• is

• who

What type of sentence is this?

The dog ran around the block.

• Statement

• Command

• Question

• Exclamation

What type of sentence is this?

The view is amazing! I feel like in heaven!

• Exclamation

• Command

• Statement

• Question

Change this sentence to the correct one.

Tell the boy to sit down.

• Sit down,now!

• Are you sitting down?

• I am sitting on the good chair.

• What a good chair!

Change the sentence into the correct one.

Tell the teacher how old you are.

• I am ten years old.

• How old are you?

• What? You are only ten!

• Tell your age!

Change this sentence into the correct one.

Tell the girl to stop making so much noise.

• Stop making so much noise!

• Why are you making so much noise?

• The girls are so noisy.

• How disturbing!