What is Explanation Text?

1.    A text that explains how or why things happen is called ... text.

• description

• report

• explanation

• procedure

2. What is the definition of explanation text?

• A text which present information about something.

• A text which tells processes of something related to natural, social, scientific and cultural phenomena.

• A text that elaborates the writer's idea about the phenomenon surrounding.

• A text explains or helps us how to make or use something.

3. What is the purpose of explanation text?

• to explain the steps in doing something

• to explain certain appearance of thing

• to explain how or why things happen

• to explain someone life

4. The generic structure of explanation text is ....

• orientation - complication - resolution - reorientation

• aim - materials - steps

• identification - description

• general statement - sequences of explanation - closing

5. In what paragraph does the explanation text begin?

• General statement paragraph

• Sequenced Explanation paragraph

• Orientation paragraph

• Closing paragraph

6. One of the generic structures of explanation text that contains a series of steps which explain the phenomena.

• Identification.

• General statement.

• Conclusion.

• Sequenced Explanation.

7. Which one of the following titles is suitable for explanation text?

• Butterfly Metamorphosis

• My cat

• Indonesian Independence day

• Rain forest

Do you know what a volcano is? I guess you all know volcano is a mountain with magma inside it. Most volcanoes are formed on land, but there are volcanoes that are on the ocean floor. In Indonesia, there is Mount Merapi and Mount Krakatau. Mount Merapi erupted on October 2010 and Mount Krakatau erupted in 1883. The eruptions were really massive and destructive. Do you want to know how is the volcano erupting? Well, let me explain to you.

8. The sentence that becomes the general statement of the paragraph is ….

• Mount Merapi erupted on October 2010.

• Mount Krakatau erupted in 1883.

• How volcano eruption occurs.

• What is a volcano?

9. Which one is not the general statement of explanation text?

• How rainbow happen?

• Why Indonesia is very multicultural?

• Why there are different kinds of people with various personalities?

• How to make noodle?

10. The words "evaporate, condensation, magma and volcanic ash" are the example of ... in explanation text.

• Adverbs of time

• Action verbs

• Conjunctions

• Technical terms