UH Passive voice & Explanation text

The purpose of explanation text is

• To descibe how or why a certain phenomenon happens or occurs

• To persuade the readers to look at an issue from the writer's perspective

• To describe a particular object, person or place.

• To amuse the readers

• To criticize a work of art even for public audience

The structure of explanation text, as follow_________

• A title or introduction

• A sequence of explanation

• A conclusion

• An orientation

• A description

Rini : Can I borrow your laptop?

Dino : I'm sorry, it _______________

• repairs

• repaired

• is repairing

• is to repair

• is being repaired

The tenses in language features of explanation text uses ________

Have you ever wondered how you brain receives a message that makes us feel hungry? Hunger has nothing to do with an empty stomach, as most people believe.

Hunger begins when certain nutritive materials are missing in the blood. When the blood vessels lack these materials, a message is sent to a part of the brain that is called the ‘hunger center’ . This hunger center works like a brake on the stomach and intestine. As long as the blood has sufficient food, the hunger center slows up the action of the stomach and intestine. When the food is missing from the blood, the hunger center makes the stomach and intestine more active. That is why a hungry person often hears his stomach rumbling.

Adopted from: Nn, Tell Me Why?, London, Chancellor Press, 2011.

What is the purpose of the text?

• to describe a stomach

• to explain why we get hungry

• to explain the human digestion process

• to tell us how the brain receives a signal from the body

• to inform of the body parts that influence hunger

Have you ever wondered how you brain receives a message that makes us feel hungry? Hunger has nothing to do with an empty stomach, as most people believe.

Hunger begins when certain nutritive materials are missing in the blood. When the blood vessels lack these materials, a message is sent to a part of the brain that is called the ‘hunger center’ . This hunger center works like a brake on the stomach and intestine. As long as the blood has sufficient food, the hunger center slows up the action of the stomach and intestine. When the food is missing from the blood, the hunger center makes the stomach and intestine more active. That is why a hungry person often hears his stomach rumbling.

Adopted from: Nn, Tell Me Why?, London, Chancellor Press, 2011.

From the text we can conclude that ___________

• The brain acts as the center hunger

• The stomach is more active when it is full

• We feel hungry when the food is in the blood

• The stomach rumbles as a signal that it is full

• Sufficient food in the blood increases the intestine’s work

Have you ever wondered how you brain receives a message that makes us feel hungry? Hunger has nothing to do with an empty stomach, as most people believe.

Hunger begins when certain nutritive materials are missing in the blood. When the blood vessels lack these materials, a message is sent to a part of the brain that is called the ‘hunger center’ . This hunger center works like a brake on the stomach and intestine. As long as the blood has sufficient food, the hunger center slows up the action of the stomach and intestine. When the food is missing from the blood, the hunger center makes the stomach and intestine more active. That is why a hungry person often hears his stomach rumbling.

Adopted from: Nn, Tell Me Why?, London, Chancellor Press, 2011.

“As long as the blood has sufficient food, …. “ (Paragraph 2)

What is the synonym of ‘sufficient’?

• lowly

• normal

• deficient

• adequate

• excessive

The picture is not here anymore, it must have _________

• being taken away

• taken away

• been taken away

• been taking away

• took away

The passive of " The students will do the test " is___________

An atoll starts with an undersea volcanic eruption in the warm tropics, which builds a mid-ocean island. Coral then begins to build an encircling reef around the island, just below the water’s surface.

Over millions of years the volcano erodes and sinks, while the encircling coral reef continues to rise ever higher. The constant buffeting of the waves eventually breaks the reef, making channels that link the central water, called a lagoon, with the ocean.

Adopted from: National Geographic, Answer Book 10,000 fast fact about Our World, Washington DC, National geographic, 2015.

What is the topic of the text?

• What an atoll is

• How an atoll is formed

• How an island appears

• Why coral reefs rise higher

• How volcanic eruptions occurs