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    The document explains the process of erosion through a three-part structure: stating the phenomenon being explained, providing the sequence of events through the use of present tense verbs and arrows, and concluding with a summary. Key language features include technical nouns to provide topic information, adverbial phrases indicating where and when actions occur, and time connectives to order events and show cause and effect relationships. The example given describes different causes of erosion when land is cleared and how it damages the land surface and river systems over time.

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    The document explains the process of erosion through a three-part structure: stating the phenomenon being explained, providing the sequence of events through the use of present tense verbs and arrows, and concluding with a summary. Key language features include technical nouns to provide topic information, adverbial phrases indicating where and when actions occur, and time connectives to order events and show cause and effect relationships. The example given describes different causes of erosion when land is cleared and how it damages the land surface and river systems over time.

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    Explanations

    Purpose: to explain what happens and how or why it happens. They can be in the form of: essays, technical manuals, diagrams, flow charts, labelled displays.

    General structure
    - how they are set out

    Language features
    - the kinds of words you might see

    statement of phenomenon - title tells what the diagram explains

    technical nouns - give topic information

    explanation sequence - shows what happens in order using arrows

    adverbial phrases - tell where action verbs in present tense - show what happens all the time

    P/ELC 43119

    S3

    Learning Materials Productions

    Explanations
    Purpose: to explain what happens and how or why it happens. They can be in the form of: essays, technical manuals, diagrams, flow charts, labelled displays.

    General structure
    - how they are set out

    Language features
    - the kinds of words you might see

    Erosion
    statement of phenomenon - says what will be explained explanation sequence - says what happens in order

    Erosion is when rocks and soil are washed away. Erosion can have different causes. It can start when people clear land for houses or farmland. When we cut down forest and dont leave any undergrowth, the land is bare. When heavy rain falls on cleared land, the fragile topsoil quickly washes away from the badly damaged surface into river and gullies. When this happens, rivers may silt up and go very shallow. The wind mostly only damages sandy places without trees and vegetation, for example, in the desert or at beaches. Another way erosion starts is by animal activity. Both feral animals and native animals cause erosion. For example wombats burrows are often in river banks, which makes the river banks weak and easy to wash away. Rabbit burrows cause creeks to erode their banks easily in a similar fashion. Sheep and cattle tracks also erode hillsides very easily. On the land, we cannot grow anything till the topsoil is replaced either by people or by nature. Until then, the erosion cycle keeps on going.

    action verbs in the present tense - show that it happens all the time

    noun groups - give detailed information adverbial clauses - tell when and how things happen verbs - show cause and effect

    concluding statement

    technical terms - build up topic information

    time connectives - order events

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