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Understanding Report Texts

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 Objectives
Learning Competency:
In this lesson you are going to learn
about structure and language features
in report texts so that you are be able
to understand the meaning of the text
correctly.
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 Learn about it !

In our daily activities, sometimes we

hear our friends reporting something
to us. How to understand it? In the
end of the lesson we are expected to
be able to understand report text.
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 Report text is used to
describe something in
Report text general. The social function
or purpose of this text is to
tell information about things,
animals or people in general.

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 1.General Classification
This part gives brief
information about the topic of
report text. It gives the
definition of the subject.
A report usually
consists of two parts:
2. Description
This part gives facts about
the topic of the report. It
describes the features of the
subject.
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 The language features of report text

1.Using general nouns, e.g. Penguins are aquatic animal

2.Using relating verb for describing the characteristics, e.g.
They can swim from 6 to 12 km/hour even until 27
km/hour.
3.Using present tense to state something in general truth or
scientific fact, e.g. They live in Antarctic or South Pole.

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 Do you understand?
For further information study the example below:

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Laptop
• A laptop is a computer which is easy to carry around. Its user can fold the laptop along its hinge for carrying.
The laptop was created mainly for this particular reason. Computer parts were scaled to smaller size so this
could happen.
• The first laptop was invented in 1979 by British Designer Bill Moggridge. In 1982, two computer designers
from Microsoft, Kazuhiko Nishi and Bill Gates, started their discussion concerning a new portable computer.
The main thing about the computer was a new LCD technology. A year later the company launched its TRS-80
Model 100, which was a computer that looked pretty much like the laptops we know today.
• The development of laptops continued with various upgrades and additional functions added. Laptops have a
lot of advantages like:
- People can carry them anywhere, whether office or home.
- They can be used in a smaller space than an ordinary personal computer.
  At the same time portable computers have several negative points like:
- Price is higher
- Computer thefts became easier.
- While used in the car they can cause car accidents.
- They break more easily than desktop computers.

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 Let’s have fun !

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