LATIHAN EXPLANATION TEXT

What is the function of explanation text?

• To entertain the reader

• To describe how and why a phenomenon happen

• To describe something

• To persuade the readers

Tsunami

Tsunami occurs when major fault under the ocean floor suddenly slips. The displaced rock pushes water above it like a giant paddle, producing powerful water waves at the ocean surface. The ocean waves spread out from the vicinity of the earthquake source and move across the ocean until they reach the coastline, where their height increases as they reach the continental shelf, the part of the earth crust that slopes, or rises, from the ocean floor up to the land.

A tsunami washes ashore with oftendisastrous effects such as severe flooding, loss of lives due to drowning and damage to property.

A tsunami is a very large sea wave that is generated by a disturbance along the ocean floor. This disturbance can be an earthquake, a landslide, or a volcanic eruption. A tsunami is undetectable far out in the ocean, but once it reaches shallow water, this fast traveling wave grows very large.

Tsunami happened because of.....

• The displaced rock pushes water above it

• A major fault under the ocean floor slips suddenly

• The ocean waves spread out from the vicinity of the source

• The waves moves across the ocean until they reach the beach

• A tsunami is undetectable far out in the ocean

Tsunami occurs when major fault under the ocean floor suddenly slips. The displaced rock pushes water above it like a giant paddle, producing powerful water waves at the ocean surface. The ocean waves spread out from the vicinity of the earthquake source and move across the ocean until they reach the coastline, where their height increases as they reach the continental shelf, the part of the earth crust that slopes, or rises, from the ocean floor up to the land.

A tsunami washes ashore with oftendisastrous effects such as severe flooding, loss of lives due to drowning and damage to property.

A tsunami is a very large sea wave that is generated by a disturbance along the ocean floor. This disturbance can be an earthquake, a landslide, or a volcanic eruption. A tsunami is undetectable far out in the ocean, but once it reaches shallow water, this fast traveling wave grows very large

We understand from the text that tsunami ....

• Causes the movement of earth

• Forms a new shape of coastline

• Makes unfortunate event

• Rises a new coastal land

• Displaces rocks to land

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.

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

• orientation - complication - resolution - reorientation

• aim - materials - steps

• identification - description

• general statement - sequences of explanation - closing

What is the generic structure of this part?

"Tsunami"

• Sequence of Events

• Closing

• Title

• General Statement

A tsunami can be generated when the sea floor abruptly deforms and vertically displaces the overlying water. Such large vertical movements of the earth's crust can occur at plate boundaries. Subduction of earthquakes is particularly effective in generating tsunamis, and occurs where denser oceanic plates slip under continental plates.

As the displaced water mass moves under the influence of gravity to regain its equilibrium, it radiates across the ocean like ripples on a pond.

Choose the correct answer of generic structure of explanation text for this part!

• Title

• General Statement

• Closing

• Sequence of Events

What part of generic structure does this sentence show?

The term of “tsunami” comes from the Japanese which means harbour ("tsu") and wave ("nami"). A tsunami is a series of waves generated when water in a lake or the sea is rapidly displaced on a massive scale.

• Genereal Statement

• Tite

• Sequence of Events

• Closing

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

• Butterfly Metamorphosis

• My cat

• Indonesian Independence day

• Rain forest