Report

Social function           :  to describe the way things are, with reference to a range of natural, man-made  and social phenomena in our environment.

General structure       :

•  General classification   : introducing the thing that will be taked about.

• Description                   : elaborating and reporting on the subject in detail.

Example report text 

General Classification :

A kangaroo is an animal found only in Australia, althought it has a smaller relative, called a wallaby which lives on the Australia Island of Tasmania and also in New Guinea.

Desciption :

                Kangaroos eat grass and plants. They have short front legs, but very long, and very strong  back leags and a tail. These are used for sitting up and for jumping. Kangoroos have been know to make forward jump of over eight metres, and leap acrosss fences more than three metres high. They can also run at spedds of over 45 kilometres per hour.

                The largest kangaroos are the Great Grey Kangaroo and Red Kangaroo. Adult grow to a legth of 1.60 metres and weigh over 90 kilos.

                 Kangaroos are marsupials. This means that the female kangaroo has an external pouch on the front of her body. A baby kangaroo is very tiny when it is born, and it crawls at once into this pouch where it spends its first five months of life.

Report text digunakan untuk menggambarkan segala sesuatu benda atau makhluk hidup dengan mengacu pada refrensi/sumber. Biasanya berisi tentang alam.

Ket : materi diambil dari buku "Developing English Competencies Grade XI"