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Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 9mins
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.
What is the purpose of explanation text?
To describe something.
To entertain the reader.
To persuade the reader.
To describe how and why a phenomenon happen.
Which one is not the generic structures of explanation text?
Sequenced Explanation.
Salutation.
Conclusion
General Statement.
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.
What is the general statement of the text?
Mount Merapi erupted on October 2010.
Mount Krakatau erupted in 1883.
How volcano eruption occurs.
What is a volcano?
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?
Explanation texts are written in...
Simple present tense.
Simple past tense.
Simple future tense.
Past continuous tense.
One of the generic structures of explanation text that contains a series of steps which explain the phenomena.
Salutation.
General statement.
Conclusion.
Sequenced Explanation.
One of the generic structures of explanation text that states the phenomenon issues which are to be explained.
Salutation.
General statement.
Conclusion.
Sequenced explanation.
Earthquake is one of the most destroying natural disasters. Unluckily it often happens in several regions. Recently a horrible earthquake has shaken West Sumatra. It has brought great damages. Why did it occur? Do you know how earthquake happens?
What is the general statement of the text?
What is the earthquake?
The earthquake happens in West Sumatra.
How earthquake happens.
There are many natural disaster in the world.
The female seahorse .... her eggs into the male's pouch.
What is the right answer below?
Lays.
Laid.
Laying.
Laided.
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
Seismic, seismograph, magma and volcanic ash are the example of ___________.
Adverb of time
Action verb
Conjunction
Technical terms
______ is not the generic structure of explanation text.
Hypothesis
General statement about the event or thing
Explanation sequence
Conclusion
Weather is the physical condition of the atmosphere at a particular time.
Explanation Sequence
Conclusion
Orientation
General statement
True or False. Explanation text tells the reader how to do something.
True
False
In what paragraph does the explanation text begin?
General statement paragraph
Series of paragraph that tell hows and whys
Concluding paragraph
Orientation paragraph
Which one is not the title of explanation text?
How is chocolate is made?
Reasons for New South Wales being chosen for the colony
How does rain happen?
How to make chocolate?
Explanation texts are written in...
present tense
past perfect tense
past tense
future tense
What type of text is an explanation text?
Fiction
Non-fiction
True or False. The general statement gives the audience a brief introduction to the event/thing
True
False
