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 Understanding Report Texts

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 Objectives
Learning Competency:
In this lesson you are going to learn
about structure and language features
in report texts so that you are be able
to understand the meaning of the text
correctly.
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 Learn about it !

In our daily activities, sometimes we

hear our friends reporting something
to us. How to understand it? In the
end of the lesson we are expected to
be able to understand report text.
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 Report text is used to
describe something in
Report text general. The social function
or purpose of this text is to
tell information about things,
animals or people in general.

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 1.General Classification
This part gives brief
information about the topic of
report text. It gives the
definition of the subject.
A report usually
consists of two parts:
2. Description
This part gives facts about
the topic of the report. It
describes the features of the
subject.
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 The language features of report text

1.Using general nouns, e.g. Penguins are aquatic animal

2.Using relating verb for describing the characteristics, e.g.
They can swim from 6 to 12 km/hour even until 27
km/hour.
3.Using present tense to state something in general truth or
scientific fact (Simple Present Tense (S + V1 es/s… or S
+ is am, are + Complement)), e.g. They live in Antarctic
or South Pole.
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 Do you understand?
For further information study the example below:

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 Let’s have fun !

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