Explanation Text part 1, 2, 3

 


Part 1

Definition
Explanation text is a piece of non-fiction writing explaining an action process or event in a detailed but simple way. It features numbered points, time connectives, pictures, diagrams, labels and captions to help the receiver understand the process of what’s being delivered.

What are the Key Features of an Explanation Text?

  • Explanation text is typically written in the present tense with formal to-the-point language that doesn’t deviate from the topic.
  • It uses separate text with headings and subheadings to make the explanation text simple and easy to understand.
  • Add pictures and diagrams with labels for visual learners.
  • Any technical vocabulary used should fit into a glossary at the end to help with jargon.
  • Numbered points that explain something step-by-step.

Purpose of Explanation Text

  • Explanation is a text which tells processes relating to forming of natural, social, scientific, and cultural phenomena.
  • To explain how or why something happens.

Language Features of Explanation Text

In an explanation text, there are linguistic features as below :
  • Using simple present tense
  • Using abstract noun (no visible noun)
  • Using Passive voice
  • Using Action verbs
  • Containing explanation of the process ..

What’s the difference between an information text and an explanation text?

  • Instructional text is sequencing an event, action or process by telling someone what to do. See above for an example.
  • Explanation text describes something non-fiction, it typically explains 'why' we do something as well as the full process.

Example of Explanation Text

How Chocolate is Made

Have we wondered how we get chocolate from? Well this time we will enter the amazing world of chocolate so we can understand exactly we are eating.

Chocolate starts a tree called cacao tree. This tree grows in equatorial regions, especially in place such as South America, Africa, and Indonesia. The cacao tree produces a fruit about the size of a small pine apple. In side the fruits are the tree’s seeds. They are also known as coco beans.

Next, the beans are fermented for about a week, dried in the sun. After that they are shipped to the chocolate maker. The chocolate maker starts processing by roasting the beans to bring out the flavour. Different beans from different places have different qualities and flavour. So they are often shorted and blended to produce a distinctive mix.

The next process is winnowing. The roasted beans are winnowed to remove the meat nib of the cacao bean from its shell. Then the nibs are blended. The blended nibs are grounded to make it liquid. The liquid is called chocolate liquor. It tastes bitter.

All seeds contain some amount of fat and cacao beans are not different. However, cacao beans are half fat, which is why they ground nibs from liquid. It is pure bitter chocolate.

Exercise D-E page 11-15



Exercise part D & E (page 11-15)


1. The following things can be recycled, EXCEPT......

A. Precious metals
B. Broken glass
C. Old newspapers
D. Plastic spoons
E. Fresh vegetables and fruits
Answer : E. Fresh vegetables and fruits. 

2. Which of the following is NOT the benefit of recycling?

A. It costs much money for the process of recycling 
B. It costs less to make new products
C. It requires less energy
D. It can reduce pollution 
E. It reduces the demand for high-pollution alternatives
Answer : E. It reduces the demand for high pollution alternatives. 

3. What is the third step of recycling paper products?

A Collect and search for contaminants such as plastic bags and aluminium
foil.
B. Mix the paper with hot water in a blender which turns it into pulp. 
C. Screen and filter the pulp to remove smaller contaminants.
D. Put the pulp to a large vat to separate the ink from the paper fibres.
E. Mix the pulp with new wood fibres to be made into paper again.
Answer : C. Screen and filter the pulp to remove smaller contaminants. 

4. We can make use of the ink after being separated from the paper fibres by doing the followings, EXCEPT......
A. Skim it off
B. Dry it
C. Reuse as ink 
D. Burn as boiler fuel
E. Mix it with the pulp
Answer : E. Mix it with the pulp. 




5. What is the text about? 
A. The digestive system
B. The digestive juice
C. The method of the digestive system
D. The process of intestine work
E. The food substances
Answer : A. The digestive system. 

6. How can we swallow the food easily? A. The food changes into acids absorbed by the villi.
B. The food must be digested first through the process.
C. The food is directly swallowed through esophagus into the stomach.
D. The food is mixed with the juices secreted by the cells in the stomach. E. The food we take must be changed into substances carried in the blood the places.

Answer : B. The food must be digested first through the process.

7. From the text above, we imply that......

A. a good process of digestive system will help our body becoming healthier. 
B. no one concerned with the process of digestive system for their health.
C. the digestive system is needed if we are eating the food instantly.
D. every body must conduct the processes of digestive system well. 
E. the better we digest the food we eat, the healthier we will be.

Answer : A. a good process of digestive system will help our body becoming healthier. 

8. Human body is made up of countless millions of cells. (Paragraph 1)) The phrase made up means.....
A Produced
B. Managed
C. Arranged
D. Completed.
E. Constructed
Answer : E. Constructed. 

9. The text is about.....
A. the cacao tree
B. the cacao beans 
C. the raw chocolate
D. the making of chocolate
E. the flavour of chocolate
Answer : D. The making of chocolate.

10. The third paragraph focuses on....
A. the process of producing chocolate B. how to produce the cocoa flavour
C. where chocolate comes from
D. the chocolate liquor
E. the cacao fruit
Answer : A. The process of producing chocolate.

11. so they are often sorted and blended to produce... (Paragraph 3.) The word sorted has the closest meaning to....
A. Arranged
B. Combined
C. Separated
D. Distributed
E. Organized
Asnwer : C. Separated. 

12. How does the chocolate maker start to make chocolate? 
A. By fermenting the beans.
B. By roasting the beans.
C. By blending the beans.
D. By sorting the beans.
E. By drying the beans
Answer : By roasting. 

13. What step after the hydrogen combines with carbon dioxide from the air...
A Photosynthesis provides the chemical energy that is needed to produced these compounds.
B. Water drawn form the soil to split into hydrogen and oxygen.
C. Food-making process that occurs in green plants.
D. Phosporus from the soil-green plants can make starch, fat, protein, vitamins, and other complex compounds essential for life.
E. Oxygen from the water molecules is given off in the process.

Answer : E. Oxygen from the water molecules is given off in the process.


14. What are photosynthesis need....
A Water, light, oxygen, worm 
B. Soil, chlorophyll, sun, human
C. Bug, air, oxigen, food
D. Light, Carbon dioxide, humus
E Candle, vitamins, hydrogen

Answer : D. Light, Carbon dioxide, humus

15. What the product of photosynthesis....
A. Sugar 
B. Food and 02
C. Root
D. Food 
E Branch

Answer : B. Food and 02.



Example Question Explanation Text

Recycling is a collection, processing, and reuse of materials that would otherwise be thrown away. Materials ranging from precious metals to broken glass, from old newspapers to plastic spoons, can be recycled. The recycling process reclaims the original material and uses it in new products.
In general, using recycled materials to make new products costs less and requires less energy than using new materials. Recycling can also reduce pollution, either by reducing the demand for high-pollution alternatives or by minimizing the amount of pollution produced during the manufacturing process.
Paper products that can be recycled include cardboard containers, wrapping paper, and office paper. The most commonly recycled paper product is newsprint. In newspaper recycling, old newspapers are collected and searched for contaminants such as plastic bags and aluminum foil. The paper goes to a processing plant where it is mixed with hot water and turned into pulp in a machine that works much like a big kitchen blender. The pulp is screened and filtered to remove smaller contaminants. The pulp then goes to a large vat where the ink separates from the paper fibers and fl oats to the surface. The ink is skimmed off, dried and reused as ink or burned as boiler fuel. The cleaned pulp is mixed with new wood fibers to be made into paper again.
Experts estimate the average office worker generates about 5 kg of wastepaper per month. Every ton of paper that is recycled saves about 1.4 cu m (about 50 cu ft) of landfill space. One ton of recycled paper saves 17 pulpwood trees (trees used to produce paper).

1. The following things can be recycled, EXCEPT….
A. Precious metals
B. Broken glass
C. Old newspapers
D. Plastic spoons
E. Fresh vegetables and fruits

2. Which of the following is NOT the benefit of recycling?
A. It costs much money for the process of recycling
B. It costs less to make new products
C. It requires less energy
D. It can reduce pollution
E. It reduces the demand for high-pollution alternatives

3. What is the third step of recycling paper products?
A. Collect and search for contaminants such as plastic bags and aluminium foil
B. Mix the paper with hot water in a blender which turns it into pulp
C. Screen and filter the pulp to remove smaller contaminants
D. Put the pulp to a large vat to separate the ink from the paper fibres
E. Mix the pulp with new wood fibres to be made into paper again

4. We can make use of the ink after being separated from the paper fibres by doing the followings, EXCEPT….
A. Skim it off
B. Dry it
C. Reuse as ink
D. Burn as boiler fuel
E. Mix it with the pulp

Human body is made up of countless millions of cells. Food is needed to built up new cells and replace the worn out cells. However, the food that we take must be changed into substances that can be carried in the blood to the places where they are needed. This process is called digestion.
The first digestive process takes place in the mouth. The food we eat is broken up into small pieces by the action of teeth, mixed with saliva, a juice secreted by glands in the mouth. Saliva contains digestive juice which moisten the food, so it can be swallowed easily.
From the mouth, food passes through the esophagus (the food passage) into the stomach. Here, the food is mixed with the juices secreted by the cells in the stomach for several hours. Then the food enters the small intestine. All the time the muscular walls of the intestine are squeezing, mixing and moving the food onwards.
In a few hours, the food changes into acids. These are soon absorbed by the villi (microscopic branch projections from the intestine walls) and passed into the bloodstream.

5. What is the text about?
A. The digestive system
B. The digestive juice
C. The method of the digestive system
D. The process of intestine work
E. The food substances

Part 2

PART D PAGE 19
To better understand the correct use of the passive voice, let's try

do the following practice questions. Choose the right passive voice form!



1. Mommy cleans the room every day.

A. The room was clean by mommy every day
B. The room is clean by mommy every day
C. The room is cleaned by mommy every day
D. Mommy is cleaned the room every day
E. The room was being cleaned by mommy every day
Answer: C.


2. My uncle fixed the toy yesterday. The passive voice of the sentence is ….

A. My uncle was fixed the toy yesterday
B. The toy was fixed by my uncle yesterday
C. The toy was fix by my uncle yesterday
D. My uncle was being fixed the toy yesterday
E. The toy had been fixed by my uncle yesterday
Answer: B.


3. Joe has taken a Mandarin course.

A. Joe has been taken a Mandarin course
B. A Mandarin course taken by Joe
C. A Mandarin course has been taken by Joe
D. Mandarin courses have taken by Joe
E. Mandarin course will be taken by Joe
Answer: C.


4. In the 1920’s, this TV ….

A. is manufactured
B. was manufactured
C. will be manufactured
D. is going to manufactured
E. would manufacture 
Answer: B.


5. She … to my wedding party.

A. are invited
B. have been invited
C. has been invited
D. invited
E. has invited
Answer: C.


6. Her first novel … tomorrow morning.

A. is launched
B. was launched
C. will be launched
D. has launched
E. have launched
Answer: C.



PART E PAGE 20 




ANSWER : 

1.First Paragraph is General Statement
2.Second Paragraph is Sequenced Explanation
3. Third Paragraph is Sequenced Explanation
4. Fourth Paragraph is Closing

Part 3

CONCLUSION 

An explanation text is a text that describes an action or event. 
The Structue : 
- General Statement. 
- Event. 
- Interpretation. 

The Linguistic :
- Passive sentence.                         
- Non Human Participation.         
- Use scientific terms. 
- Use material verb,
- Use conjunctions of time. 
- Based on true or actual.   
                           
How to make an explanation you should find a topic, make sure your topis is real not hoax. And, use passive sentence, and then put in the draft and edit, this is to make your explanation text perfect before your publish. 

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