REPORT TEXT

Peta Konsep

a. Pengertian

Jika seseorang menyampaikan informasi tentang sesuatu, apa adanya, sebagai hasil pengamatan sistematis atau analisis baik secara lisan maupun tertulis (teks), maka teks ini disebut report text. Yang dideskripsikan dapat meliputi gejala alam seperti badai (storm), lingkungan (whales), benda buatan manusia (television, laptop, radio), atau gejala-gejala sosial.

b. Tujuan (Communicative Purpose)

Menyampaikan/menggambarkan sesuatu apa adanya sebagai hasil pengamatan sistematis atau analitis (To describe the way things are, with reference to arrange or natural, manmade and social phenomena in our environment).

c. Struktur Teks (Generic Structure)

Supaya tujuan komunikatifnya tercapai dan apa yang disampaikan mudah dipahami, ada struktur teks/ generic structure dalam report, yaitu:

• Pernyataan umum yang menerangkan subjek laporan, keterangan, dan klasikasinya (general classification)
• Deskripsi (description)

d. Language Feature (Ciri Kebahasaan)

Sedangkan ciri kebahasaan:

• general nouns, seperti ‘Reptiles in Comodo Island.
• relating verbs untuk menjelaskan ciri, misalnya reptiles are scaly animals (ciri ini berlaku untuk semua reptilia).
• action verbs dalam mejelaskan perilaku, misalnya lizards cannot fily.
• present tense untuk menyatakan suatu yang umum, misalnya Komodo dragons usually weight more than 160 kg.
• istilah teknis, misalnya water contains oxygen and hydrogen.
• paragraf dengan topic sentence untuk menyusun sejumlah informasi.

CONTOH SOAL:

SOAL UN

The following text is for questions 1-2

The walrus is a sea-mammal and its scientific name is Odobenidae rosmarus. The Walrus is the largest sea-lion and has a thick and clumsy body. It has grey or brown skin and a thick layer of blubber, which is fat. A male walrus called a bull, a female is called a cow and a baby is a calf. It has two ivory tusks and its feet are flattened into flippers. It has big whiskers on its upper lip. The male walrus can weight up to 1,200 kilograms and the female can weigh up to 800 kilograms. An adult male may grow as long as 3.6 metres and the female can grow as long as 2.5 metres.

Walruses live in the Arctic seas of North America, Europe and Asia. They migrate in the spring and autumn, following food and the pack ice which recedes at that time.

The walrus mainly eats deep dwelling invertebrates like clams, snails, crabs and shrimps, but first they use their big whisker to feel around for the food. Then they blow the food loose so they can get to it. They need it to move or they can’t get it because of their big tusks.

Walruses don’t stay underwater all the time and spend much of the time resting on ice floes. They use their tusks, which grow to about 60 centimetres long for the female and 120 centimetres long for the male, to pull themselves out of the water and onto the ice. The males also use their tusks to flight with other males in order to earn the right to mate.

The walrus mates in February and March, but the foetus doesn’t begin to grow until later in June. Calves weight about 38-63 kilograms. When they are babbies, they have a lot of hair but when they grow up, the hair falls out and they only have a little bit around the upper lip.

1. We know from paragraph 4 that…

1. The female’s tusk is 180 cm
2. The female’s tusk is a half of male’s
3. The male’s tusk is a half of female’s
4. The male’s tusk is shorter than female’s
5. The female’s tusk is longer than male’s

2. it has two ivory tusks and its feet are flat-tened into flippers” (Paragraph 1)

The underlined word is closest in meaning to…

1. Lifted
2. Dropped
3. Reshaped
4. Relieved
5. Bent