Explanation is text type which explains how something works.

1. Advanced Learning English 3

2. Home
Discuss the following questions
in a group of four.
Introduction
Social Function
Generic
Structure
Language
Features
Summary
Exercises
1. Look at the pictures (next slides) and
discuss the natural phenomena.
2. Decide which phenomenon belongs
to natural and man-made.
3. How are they happened?
4. What should people do about those
phenomena?

7. Explanation Text
To explain the process involved in the
formation
and
working
of
the
natural, social, scientific and cultural
phenomena.

8. Explanation Text
1. General statement to position the reader.
2. A sequenced explanation of why or how
something occurs.
3. Closing.

9. Explanation Text
Significant Lexicogrammatical
Features
1. Focus on generic, non-human participants.
2. Use mainly material and relational processes.
3. Use mainly temporal and casual circumstances
and conjunctions.
4. Some use passive voice to get the theme right.

10. Summary
Explanation Text
Explanation text is to process or to say 'why' and 'how' of the
forming of the phenomena.
Generic Structure
• General statement
• Sequenced explanation
• Closing
Language Features
• Featuring generic participant: sun, rain, etc.
• Using chronological connection; to begin with, next, etc.
• Using Passive Voice pattern.
• Using Simple Present Tense.

11. Watch this video of natural
phenomenon: Aurora Borealis.

12. Photosynthesis
Photosynthesis occurs in green plants; to be specific it occurs
in green leaves. The word photosynthesis means putting
together with light. Green plants use energy from light to
combine carbon dioxide and water to make sugar and other
chemical compounds which is needed by the consumer.
Animals and men are their consumers.
The light is absorbed by a green pigment called
chlorophyll of the leaves. Each food-making cell in a leaf
contains chlorophyll in small bodies called chloroplasts. In
chloroplasts, light energy causes water to be drawn from the
soil, to split into hydrogen and oxygen.

13. sunlight
Carbon
Dioxide
Oxygen
Glucose
Water
Afterwards, the hydrogen combines with carbon dioxide from
the air, forming a simple sugar. Oxygen from the water
molecules is given off in the process. From the sugar—together
with nitrogen, sulphur, and phosphorus from the soil—green
plants can make starch, fat, protein, vitamins and other complex
compounds which are valuable for human life.
Adapted from The World Book Encyclopedia, 1996

14. Discuss the following sentences,
decide whether they are True or False.
1. T – F
2. T – F
3. T – F
4. T – F
5. T – F
6. T – F
Photosynthesis is a process that occurs in green plants.
Green plants use energy from light to make sugar.
In chlorophyll, light energy causes water drawn from the
soil to split into hydrogen and oxygen.
The word photosynthesis means processing together
with light.
The product of photosynthesis is oxygen.
Carbon dioxide and hydrogen come from green plants.

15. Answer these questions.
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5.
What is the purpose of the text?
What is the main idea of first paragraph?
What is the main idea of second paragraph?
Mention the organization of the text above?
What is the genre of the text?
Open the book Advanced Learning English 3,
pages 16–18. Do the exercises of Tasks 3 to 6.

16. Open the book Advanced Learning English 3,
page 32, Task 11.
Choose one phenomenon, and then write
a short explanation text about it.

17. Use Glass Whenever Possible
Storing your food in glass is an eco-friendly
and healthier alternative to plastic. Plastics
contain harmful chemicals which leach into
our bodies, our water supplies, and the soil.
There are huge islands of plastic floating
around both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, composed
of plastics, chemical sludge, and other
debris has grown to be twice the size of
Texas!
Source http://shesdaily.blogspot.com

18. Watch the little things;
a small leak will sink a great ship.
~Benjamin Franklin~

20. Slide 1
www.ms.wikipedia.org
Slide 2
www. cahayamuslimah.com
Slide 3
www.edelweistretno.wordpress.com
Slide 4
www.flickr.com
Slide 5
www.zuhrybgt.blogspot.com
Slide 6
www.nyebur.com
Slide 7
www.kertassketsawordpres.com
Slide 11
www.twinkle-sky.com
Slide 12 & 13
www.pei-pusat.org
Slide 14
www.shutterstock.com
Slide 16
www.fotothing.com/sweetoes
Slide 17
www. outblush.com
Slide 18
www.foto-hamburg.com
Slide 20
Publisher’s documentation

21. Created by:
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Nana Suryana
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