2. Learning Goals
At the end of learning, students are able to :
Identify the main idea of a particular paragraph in the Report text.
Find specific, explicit and implicit information in the Report text.
Determine the reference words of the sentence in Report text.
Identify generic structure and language features of the Report text.
Produce Report text.
3.
4. Report Text : Kangaroo
A kangaroo is an animal found only in Australia, although it has
a smaller relative, called a wallaby, which lives on the Australian
island of Tasmania and also in New Guinea.
Kangaroos eat grass and plants. They have short front legs, but
very long and very strong back legs and a tail. These are used for
sitting up and for jumping. Kangaroos have been known to make
forward jumps of over eight meters, and leap across fences more
than three meters high. They can also run at speeds of over 45
kilometers per hour.
The largest kangaroos are the Great Grey Kangaroo and the
Red Kangaroo. Adult grow to a length of 1.60 meters and weight
over 90 kilos.
Kangaroos are marsupials. This means that the female
kangaroo has an external pouch on the front of her body. A baby
kangaroo is very tiny when it is born, and it crawls at once into this
pouch where it spends its first five months of life.
5. Report Text
Definition :
Report Text is one of the 13 types of English text (Types of Text)
which presents information about something like nature, animals,
plants, humans work and social phenomenon as it is. The
information presented in the Report Text is the result of systematic
observation and analysis.
Social Function:
To describe the way things are, with reference to a range of natural,
man-made and social phenomena in our environment
6. Generic Structure of Report Text
A kangaroo is an animal found only in Australia, although it has a
General
smaller relative, called a wallaby, which lives on the Australian island of
Classification Tasmania and also in New Guinea.
Kangaroos usually eat grass and plants. They have short front legs,
but very long and very strong back legs and a tail. These are used for
Description sitting up and for jumping. Kangaroos have been known to make forward
jumps of over eight meters, and leap across fences more than three
meters high. They can also run at speeds of over 45 kilometers per hour.
The largest kangaroos are the Great Grey Kangaroo and the Red
Kangaroo. Adult grow to a length of 1.60 meters and weigh over 90 kilos.
Kangaroos are marsupials. This means that the female kangaroo has
an external pouch on the front of her body. A baby kangaroo is very tiny
when it is born, and it crawls at once into this pouch where it spends its
first five months of life.
Language Features : Use of general nouns
Use of relating verbs
Some use of action verbs when describing behavior
Use of timeless present tense to indicate usualness
Use of technical terms
