EXPLANATION

Menjelaskan suatu kejadian/fenomena yang terjadi secara alami ataupun secara sosial.

(To describe the way things are, with reference to a range of natural, manmade and social phenomena in our environment)

BAGIAN-BAGIAN TEKS:

1. General Statement: Gambaran umum / Penjelasan umum tentang fenomena yang dibahas.
2. A Sequence of explanation: penjelasan tentang mengapa bagaimana sesuatu terjadi.

CIRI-CIRI TEKS:

1. Fokus pada sesuatu yang umum terjadi disekitar kehidupan manusia tetapi tidak fokus pada manusianya.
2. Menggunakan proses material dan relational
3. Menggunakan kata penghubung waktu dan tempat
4. Sesekali menggunakan kalimat passive (passive voice)

CONTOH:

Teks tentang bagaimana sesuatu terjadi ( How can plane fly?, How spider’s web form?, dll)

NARRATIVE

Bentuk teks yang menghibur, biasanya berbentuk cerita atau pengalaman yang dialami seseorang dalam berbagai bentuk.

(To amuse, entertain and to deal with actual or vicarious experience in different ways)

BAGIAN-BAGIAN TEKS:

1. Orientation: Setting tempat dan pengenalan tokoh
2. Evaluation: Flashback dalam menilai kejadian buruk yang terjadi
3. Complication: masalah/problem yang timbul dalam cerita
4. Resolution: Pemecahan maslah (bisa lebih baik/lebih buruk)
5. Re-orienatation: Akhir cerita

CIRI-CIRI TEKS:

1. Fokus pada kejadian tertentu atau tokoh tertentu dalam cerita
2. Menggunakan proses verbal/ behavioural.
3. Menggunakan proses relational dan mental
4. Menggunakan kata penghunung waktu, tempat
5. Menggunakan Past tense (waktu lampau)

CONTOH TEKS:

Cerita binatang (fabel), Cerita peri (Fairy tale), Legenda (legend), Kejadian berbetuk cerita, dll.

Snow White

Once upon a time there lived a little girl named Snow White. She lived with her Aunt and Uncle because her parents were dead.

One day she heard her Uncle and Aunt talking about leaving Snow White in the castle because they both wanted to go to America and they didn’t have enough money to take Snow White.

Snow White did not want her Uncle and Aunt to do this so she decided it would be best if she ran away. The next morning she ran away from home when her Aunt and Uncle were having breakfast. She ran away into the woods.

She was very tired and hungry.

Then she saw this little cottage. She knocked but no one answered so she went inside and fell asleep.

Meanwhile, the seven dwarfs were coming home from work. They went inside. There they found Snow White sleeping. Then Snow White woke up. She saw the dwarfs. The dwarfs said, what is your name? Snow White said, ’My name is Snow White’.

Doc said, ‘If you wish, you may live here with us”. Snow White said, ‘Oh could(I) ?.Thank you’. Then Snow White told the dwarfs the whole story and Snow White and the 7 dwarfs lived happily ever after.