LK 3: Lembar Kerja Belajar Mandiri

Judul Modul English Social Communication

Judul Kegiatan Belajar (KB) 1. Exploring Descriptive text à Person & Animals
2. Exploring Descriptive text à Things & Place
3. Exploring Report text 1 à Clasifying report & compositional report
1. Exploring report text 2 à Comparative report & historical report
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1 Daftar peta konsep (istilah dan Descriptive text (person and animal)
definisi) di modul ini 1. Definition :
Is a text that usually describing, single location, object, event,
person or place
2. Social function :
a. To give information about a particular entity by describing its
features, history, and special haracteristics.
b. To give information about things by describing physical
attributes, behaviors, uses, etc
3. Generic structure :
a. Identification or general statements. It introduces or
identifies specific object (a person and animal).
b. Descriptions: The parts of a text describe the object
characteristics, appeareances, personality, habits or
qualities
4. Language Features :
a. Focus on specific participants as the main character;
b. Use present tense as dominant tenses;
c. Use linking verbs or relational process frequently (is, are,
has, have, belongs to) in order to classify and describe
appearance or qualitiesand parts or functions of
phenomena;
d. Use action verbs or material process and behavioural
process in giving additional description regarding action
and behaviour done by the participants in text;
e. Use mental verb or mental process when describing
feelings;
f. Use nominal group frequently to describe;
g. Use adjective and adverbs to add information to nouns
and add information to verbs to provide more detailed
description about the topic;
h. Use adverbial phrases to add more information about
manner, place, or time and sometimes realized
nembedded clause which functions as circumstances

Descriptive text (thing and place) :

5. Definition :
Is a text that usually describing, single location, object, event,
person or place
6. Social function :
a. To give information about a particular entity by describing its
features, history, and special characteristics.
b. To give information about things by describing physical
attributes, behaviors, uses, etc.
7. Generic structure :
a. Identification or general statements. It introduces or
identifies specific object (a person and animal).
b. Descriptions: The parts of a text describe the object
characteristics, appeareances, personality, habits or
 qualities
8. Language Features :
a. Specific participant : it has a certain object, is not common and
unique (only one).
example: Bandengan beach, my house, Borobudur
temple.
b. The use of the adjective (an adjective) to clarify the
noun
example: a beautiful beach, the famous place in jepara,
etc.
c. The use of simple present tense: The sentence pattern
used is simple present because it tells the fact of the
object described.
d. Action verb: verbs that show an activity
(i.e, run, sleep, walk, cut etc….
e. using passive voice
f. using noun phrase
g. using technical terms
h. using general and abstract noun.
i. using conjunction of time and cause-effect
9. Kind of Descriptive text :
a. Description of person
b. Description of animal
c. Description of thing
d. Description of place

Report Text (Classifying and Compositional Reports)

1. Definition
Report texts are texts which concerned with general categories
of things rather than events and happenings and with informing
about technical and scientific topics. Because of this, they can
seldom be interpreted and constructed without knowledge of
the field and itsassociated language (Derewianka 2016, p. 160).
2. Social Function
3. Classifying Report = To organise and describe a field or topic into
a class and subclass hierarchy
4. Compositional Report = To Organise and describe a field or topic
according to its part (a part or whole part)
a. General classification
General Clasification ; Stating classification of general aspect
of thing; animal, public place, plant, etc which will be
discussed in general
b. Description
tells what the phenomenon under discussion ; in terms of
parts, qualities, habits or behaviors.
5. Language features
 Use of general nouns, eg hunting dogs, rather than
particular nouns, eg our dog;
 Use of relating verbs to describe features, eg Molecules are
tiny particles;
 Some use of action verbs when describing behaviour, eg
Emus cannot fly;
 Use of timeless present tense to indicate usualness, eg
Tropical cyclones always begin over the sea;
 Use of technical terms, eg Isobars are lines drawn on a
weather map;
  Use of paragraphs with topic sentences to organise bundles
of information; repeated naming of the topic as the
beginning focus of the clause.

Report Text (Comparative report & Historical Report)

6. Definition
Report text is a text to organise and describe a field or topic into
a class and subclass hierarchy. Moreover, it can be used to
organise and describe a field or topic according to its part (a part
or whole part)
7. Social Function
a. Comparative report = to identify the similarities and
differences between two or more classes or things.
b. Historical report = to give information about the way things
were in relation to a particular historical period or site.
8. Generic Structure
a. Comparative report are typically structured as follows:
- General statement:
It introduces entities to be compared
- Description:
It contains the systematic analysis of similarities and
differences
b. Historical report are typically structured as follows:
- General statement
It identifies historical period or site and it defines and
locates in time and place.
- Description
 Features or characteristics
 Activities
 Behaviour
 Artefacts
 Historical significance
9. Language feature
 Use of general nouns, e.g hunting dogs, rather than
particular nouns, e.g our dog;
 Use of relating verbs to describe features, e.g Molecules are
tiny particles;
 Some use of action verbs when describing behaviour, e.g
Emus cannot fly;
 Use of timeless present tense to indicate usualness, e.g
Tropical cyclones always begin over the sea;
 Use of technical terms, e.g Isobars are lines drawn on a
weather map;
 Use of paragraphs with topic sentences to organise bundles
of information; repeated naming of the topic as the
beginning focus of the clause.
2 Daftar materi yang sulit 1. Language features of Report text (Classifying, Compositional,
dipahami di modul ini Comperative and Historical report)
2. Generic Structure of Report text (Classifying, Compositional,
Comperative and Historical report)
3 Daftar materi yang sering Classifying, Compositional, Comperative and Historical report.
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