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Profesional - Modul 3

This document provides an overview of 4 learning activities covering descriptive and report text types: 1. The first activity explores descriptive text about people and animals, including definitions, social functions, generic structure, and language features. 2. The second activity covers descriptive text about things and places. 3. The third introduces classifying and compositional report texts, their social functions and generic structures. 4. The fourth discusses comparative and historical report texts, defining them and their generic structures and language features.

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Profesional - Modul 3

This document provides an overview of 4 learning activities covering descriptive and report text types: 1. The first activity explores descriptive text about people and animals, including definitions, social functions, generic structure, and language features. 2. The second activity covers descriptive text about things and places. 3. The third introduces classifying and compositional report texts, their social functions and generic structures. 4. The fourth discusses comparative and historical report texts, defining them and their generic structures and language features.

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1: LEMBAR KERJA BELAJAR MANDIRI_MODUL 3

ENGLISH FOR SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS


By : Dra. Titi Wahyukti, M.Pd

Judul Modul English For Social Comunications


Judul Kegiatan Belajar (KB) 1. Exploring Descriptive Text 1
(Person and Animal)
2. Exploring Descriptive Text 2
(Things and places)
3. Exploring Report Text 1
(Classifying Report and
Compositional Report)
4. Exploring Report Text 2 (
Comparative Report and
Historical Report )
No Butir Refleksi Respon/Jawaban
1 Garis besar 1. LEARNING ACTIVITY 1 : EXPLORING DESCRIPTIVE
materi yang TEXT 1 (Person and Animal)
dipelajari
Definition of descriptive text
Descriptive Text is a text that explains about what a person or an
animal is like.
Social Function
 To give information about a particular entity by describing its
features, history, and special characteristics.
 To give information about things by describing physical
attributes, behaviors, uses, etc.
Generic Structure
 Identification or general statements. It introduces or identifies
specific object (a person and animal).
 Descriptions: The parts of a text describe the object
characteristics, appeareances, personality, habits or qualities
Language Features
1. Focus on specific participants as the main character;
2. Use present tense as dominant tenses;
3. Use linking verbs or relational process frequently
4. Use action verbs or material process and behavioural process in
giving
additional description regarding action and behaviour done by
the participants in text;
5. Use mental verb or mental process when describing feelings;
6. Use nominal group frequently to describe;
7. Use adjective and adverbs
8. Use adverbial phrases
LEARNING ACTIVITY 2 : EXPLORING DESCRIPTIVE
TEXT 2 (Things and Places)

1. The Definition
The Descriptive Text is a meaningful text that describes and
reveals particular thing or place.
2. The Social Functions of the text:
 To give information about a particular entity (features,
history, special characteristic)
 To give information about things by describing physical
attributes, behaviors, uses, etc.
3. Generic Structure
1. Identification: Identifies phenomenon to be described
2. Description : Describe parts, equalities or characteristics
4. Language Features
- Specific participant
- The use of the adjective
- The use of the simple present tense
- Using action verb
- using passive voice
- using noun phrase
- using technical terms
- using general and abstract noun.
- using conjunction of time and cause-effect

LEARNING ACTIVITY 3 : EXPORING REPORT TEXT 1


(Classifying Report and Compositional Report)

1. Report text is a text which present information about


something based on the result of systematic observation and
analyses
2. The social function :
a. Classifying report : to organize and describe a field or
topic into a class and subclass hierarchy
b. Compositional report : to organize and describe a field or
topic according to its part ( a part or a whole part )
3. The generic stucture of report text are :
a. Opening general statement/general classification:
indicate a particular aspect of the topic
b. Facts about various aspects of the subject ( description)
: the facts are grouped into topic areas,each marked by a
topic sentence to indicate the particular aspect of the
subject being dealt with
4. Language features of report text are :
a. Use simple present : telling about fact
b. Use action verb : shows the action / activity
c. Use noun and noun phrase
d. Use linking verb : to classify and describe and parts or
function of certain object.

LEARNING ACTIVITY 4 : EXPORING REPORT TEXT 2 (


Comparative Report and Historical Report )

The definition:
The texts are concerned with general categories of things rather
than events and happenings and with informing about technical
and scientific topics.
The purpose of the text is to organize and describe a field or topic
into a class and subclass hierarchy. It can also be used to organize
and describe a field or topic according to its part (a part or whole
part).
Comparative report
It is to identify the similarities and differences between two or
more classes or things
Generic Structure:
 General Statement (It introduces entities to be compared)
 Description: (It contains the systematic analysis of similarities
and differences)
Historical report
It is to give information about the way things were in relation to a
particular historical period or site.
Generic Structure:
 General Statement (It Identifies historical period or site and it
defines and locates in time and place)
 Description (Features or characteristics, activities, behaviors,
artifacts, historical significance)
Language Features
 Generalized participants are initially represented in simple
noun groups (e.g.: Stars and Planets in text 1)
 Relating verbs that link an entity with its attributes
 Timeless present tense (with the exception of an historical
report)
 Attitudinal vocabulary is unusual as the emphasis is on facts
rather on opinions

2 Daftar materi 1. Why the descriptive should be separated, as well as the report?
yang sulit
dipahami di
modul ini
3 Daftar materi 1. It is quite confusing sometimes between the report and the
yang sering descriptive
mengalami
miskonsepsi

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