WORKSHEET 1

CAPTION
(Teks Penyerta Gambar)

What is Caption?
Caption is the explanation for grafic, a picture (fotograph) or illustration. It can be words, pharzes
or sentences in describing the picture or illustration.

Caption gives some information of the pictures to the reader. The specific information required can
vary from one photo to the other one. But for most pictures a reader wants to know such
information as:

a. Who is that?
b. What’s going on?
c. When and where was this?
d. Why does he/she/it/they look that way?
e. How did this occur?

Language Features of Caption.

1. Use present tense, present progressive and past tense in writing.

2. Use prepositions of place, Adjective phrase, invinitive Phrase and prepositional phrase
3. Use there is  expletive constructions,
4. and writing about causes and effects

Practice 1. Look and Write. . . . .

Caption 1.

In his small cool room, Daniel from the

BBC Radio 5 live Breakfast show explains
how he finds news stories for the
programme and the importance of
checking that what he discovers is true.

1. Does the caption tell who? ..................................

2. Does the caption tell where? ..................................
3. Does the caption tell when? ..................................
4. What information can you get from the caption?
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5. What tense daes it use? ...................................................................................................................

Caption 2.
 1. Does the caption tell who? ..................................
2. Does the caption tell where? ..................................
3. Does the caption tell when? ..................................
4. What information can you get from the caption?
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Caption 3.

1. Does the caption tell who? ....................

2. Does the caption tell where? ..................................

3. Does the caption tell when? ..................................
4. What information can you get from the caption? ................................................................
5. How does the writer start the caption? ...............................................................................
Caption 3.

Figure 1: The giraffe (Giraffa

camelopardalis) is an African eve-toed
ungulate mammal, the tallest of all land-
living animal species. Males can be 4.8 to
5.5 metres tall and weigh up to 1.360
kilograms. The record-sized bull was 5.87
m tall and weighed approximately 2.000 kg.
Females are generally slightly shorter and
1. Does the caption tell weigh less than the males have.
who? ..................................
2. Does the caption tell where? ..................................
3. Does the caption tell when? ..................................
4. What information can you get from the caption? ............................................................................
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5. What tense does it use? ...................................................................

Caption 4.
 A Beatiful girl with blue hair is holding an
umbrella and walking along the beach.
She seems really enjoy the seashore that
day.

1. Does the caption tell who? ..................................

2. Does the caption tell where? ..................................
3. Does the caption tell when? ..................................
4. What information can you get from the caption? ............................................................................
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Caption 5.

To enjoy the day a young man is doing

skateboard tricks on a ramp.

1. Does the caption tell who? ..................................

2. Does the caption tell where? ..................................
3. Does the caption tell when? ..................................
4. What information can you get from the caption? ............................................................................
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5. What is the aim of the caption

5? ......................................................................................................................................................
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Caption 6

1. Does the caption tell who? ..................................

2. Does the caption tell where? ..................................
3. Does the caption tell when? ..................................
4. What information can you get from the caption? ............................................................................
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5. What is the aim of the caption

5? ......................................................................................................................................................
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Caption 7

1. Is it a caption? ..................................
2. What information can you get from the caption? ............................................................................
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3. What is the aim of the caption

7? ......................................................................................................................................................
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4. What tense does the writer use in it?
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