Understanding Explanation Texts

What is the definition of explanation text? It is a text ….

• that explains or helps us how to make or use something

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

• which present information about something

• that elaborates the writer's idea about the phenomenon surrounding

• which tells the past events in sequence

What is the social function of explanation text? It is ….

• to entertain the readers

• to describe something

• to persuade the readers

• to describe how and why a phenomenon happen

• to tell the readers how to make or to do something

The generic structure of explanation text is ….

• Orientation, series of events, reorientation

• General statement, explanation, closing

• Identification, description

• Orientation, complication, resolution

• Thesis, argument, recommendation

In what paragraph does the explanation text begin?

• Orientation paragraph

• Series of paragraph that tell how and why

• Concluding paragraph

• General statement paragraph

• Reorientation paragraph

One of the generic structures of explanation text that states the phenomenon issues which are to be explained is ….

• sequenced explanation

• general statement

• salutation

• conclusion

• argument

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

• Salutation

• General statement

• Sequenced explanation

• Conclusion

• Thesis

Based on the type process they describe, explanation texts can be categorized into two types, those are ....

• How and Why explanation

• Sequential Explanation

• Process Explanation

• Cause and Effect Explanation

• Pros and contras Explanation

Explanation texts are written in ....

• Present Tense

• Future Tense

• Past Perfect Tense

• Past Tense

• Present Perfect Tense

Which one of the title below that tells about explanation text?

• Jakarta The Metropolitan City

• The Legend of Majapahit

• My Holiday in Bali

• How Tsunami Occurs

• How to use copy-machine

Which of the following can be explained in explanation text?

• My hometown, Yogyakarta

• How virus corona spread

• Story of Tangkuban Perahu

• Biography of Adam Smith

• The Dove and the ant