Report Text Writing 4: Lis Supiatman, S.Pd,.M.Hum
Report Text Writing 4: Lis Supiatman, S.Pd,.M.Hum
WRITING 4
Author;
Lis Supiatman, S.Pd,.M.Hum
GROUP 3
CLASS B ENGLISH
ASAHAN UNIVERSITY
TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION PROGRAM
ENGLISH EDUCATION PROGRAM
2017
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
B. Purpose
1. To be able to understand the kind of text that is on the report text.
2. To be able to know how to create a text report in an essay.
3. To be able to know the function of making the report text
CHAPTER 2
DEFENITION
REPORT TEXT
Text Report is also almost smiliar to what is often mentioned in various books of
English at secondary level
Report Text is a text which present information about something, as it is. It is as a result of
systematic observation and analyzes.
(Pengertian Report Text adalah teks yang mendeskripsikan sesuatu atau benda-benda secara
umum, contohnya berbagai benda atau fenomena alam, buatan dan sosial yang ada atau
terjadi di lingkungan kita. )
Teks report mengupas suatu hasil pengamatan, penelaahan, penelitian, observasi, atau study
tentang benda atau binatang, orang atau tempat. Report Text hampir sama dengan Descriptive
Text yang membedakan adalah objek yang diceritakan berbentuk jamak, sedangkan objek
yang diceritakan pada Descriptive Text berbentuk tunggal.
C. Language Features:
1. Menggunakan pola kalimat Simple Present Tense
2. Menggunakan kata benda umum (general nouns)
3. Menggunakan kata kerja yang saling berhubungan (relating verbs)
4. Terdiri dari sebuah objek ditambah objek tentang alam lainnya.
Contoh Report Text :
ELEPHANT
Elephant is the largest and strongest of all animals. It is a strange looking animal which it has
thick legs, huge sides and backs, large hanging ears, a small tail, little eyes, long white tusks
and above all, elephant has a long nose, the trunk. An elephant is commonly seen in a zoo, it
is hard to find in its natural habitat. The trunk is the elephant's peculiar feature. This trunk has
various usages. The elephant draws up water by its trunk and can squirt the water all over its
body like a shower bath. The elephant's trunk also lifts leaves and put them into its mouth. In
fact, the trunk serves the elephant as long arm and hand. An elephant looks very clumsy and
heavy and yet an elephant can move very quickly. The elephant is very intelligent animal. Its
intelligence combined with its great strength makes an elephant a very useful servant to man.
Elephant can be trained to serve in various ways such as carry heavy loads, hunt for tigers
and even fight. An elephant is really a smart animal.