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Reading For General Communication: Explanation Text

An explanation text is used to explain natural, social, scientific, and cultural phenomena. It generally includes a general statement introducing the topic followed by a sequenced explanation in several steps. The explanation uses present tense and passive voice. For example, an explanation text about butterfly metamorphosis would state in its general statement that butterflies go through four stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. It then explains each stage in sequence, describing how the caterpillar hatches from the egg and molts several times as it grows, before forming a pupa and eventually emerging as an adult butterfly.

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Reading For General Communication: Explanation Text

An explanation text is used to explain natural, social, scientific, and cultural phenomena. It generally includes a general statement introducing the topic followed by a sequenced explanation in several steps. The explanation uses present tense and passive voice. For example, an explanation text about butterfly metamorphosis would state in its general statement that butterflies go through four stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. It then explains each stage in sequence, describing how the caterpillar hatches from the egg and molts several times as it grows, before forming a pupa and eventually emerging as an adult butterfly.

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Reading for

General
Communication

Explanation Text
Definition

An explanation text is a text telling process relating to forming natural, social,


scientific, and cultural phenomena.
Generic Structure & Language
Feature
Generic Structure:
General Statement
stating the phenomenon/issues to be explained
Sequenced of Explanation
a series of steps which explain the phenomena

Language Feature:
Use Present Tense
Use Passive Voice
Present Tense

– Simple Present Tense


Simple present tense is used for telling a natural phenomenon, fact, habit, and time
table/schedule. The following is the structure of a simple present tense:

Subject + Verb 1 + Complement


Example: Marina and Diana go to campus every morning.
Note 1: if the subject is singular (she, he, it), add –s/-es after Verb 1
Example: Marina goes to campus every morning.
Note 2: if the sentence does not have any Verb, use to be (are, am, is).
Example: Marina is a student of Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia.
Present Tense

– Present Continuous Tense

Present continuous tense is used to tell what a person is doing/the process that is occurring
(menyatakan apa yang sedang berlangsung). The following is the structure of present
continuous tense:

Subject + to be + Verb+ing + Complement


Example: Marina and Diana are reading a book about Physical Fitness.
Note:
Am for I ; Are for You, We, They, & Plural Subject (Subjek Jamak/Lebih dari 1) ; Is for She, He,
It & Singular Subject (Subjek Singular/Satu)
Example of an Explanation Text

Butterfly Metamorphosis
General To grow into an adult, butterflies go through 4 stages: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Depending on the
Statement type of butterfly, the life cycle of a butterfly may take anywhere from one month to a whole year. A
butterfly starts life as a very small, round, oval or cylindrical egg. The egg hatches and the young one called
larvae or caterpillar comes out of the egg. The caterpillar first feeds on the egg shell from which it is born.
It then starts feeding on the leaves and starts to grow. Its exoskeleton (skin) does not stretch or grow, so it
grows by “molting” (sheding the outgrown skin) several times while it grows. As soon as a caterpillar is
Sequenced of done growing and it has reached its full length/weight, it forms itself into a pupa, also known as a chrysalis.
Explanation The pupa remains motionless in the chrysalis. In the chrysalis, the pupa undergoes a series of changes.
After about 15 days, a beautiful adult butterfly emerges out of the chrysalis. When the butterfly comes
out, it’s wings are small and wet, then the butterfly pumps fluids into them to make them strong and to
expand. After a few hours, the wings become strong enough and the butterfly is able to fly.
Reference

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