REPORT TEXT

Pengertian Report Text 

By: Miss Wulan

A. Ringkasan Materi 
       1. Purpose                 : to describe the general thing / person

       2. General Structure :

           a. Classification    : pengantar tentang sesuatu yang akan dibahas.
           b. Description       : menerangkan sesuatu yang akan dibahas meliputi
              • Size • Characteristics • Physical appearance • Ability • Habit • Etc
           c. Language Features
              • Present Tense : if thing/person is still alive
              • Past Tense      : if thing/person doesn’t exist anymore

B. The First Exercise Of Report Text! 
             Fish is animal that lives in water.
             Fish has fins that helps them to swim. Most fishes have slimy skins covered with scales   which are very small and can hardly be seen.
             Fish breathes through gills. These look like a comb and lie on each side of the head. Fish takes in water all the time. The water flows in through the mouth, over the gills, and out through the sides of the head. When a fish takes in water, it is not drinking but breathing, and the gills absorb oxygen from the water.
            The body of a fish is made up of the head, the trunk, and the tail fins.
            There are many different kinds of fish which have many different shapes or colors. Some fishes are long and thin, while others are flat and rounded. Most fish have bodies which are broad at the trunk region and narrow towards the head and tail.

Source: Ebtanas 2000/2001 

1. What is the function of the fins?
     a. For breathing
     b. For eathing
     c. For drinking
     d. For swimming
2. What are the difference of fish?
     a. Their lives and flood
     b. Their sizes and lengths
     c. Their shapes and color
     d. Their heads and mouths
3. These look like a comb and lie on each side of the head (paragraph 3). The underlined word refers to...
    a. Skins
    b. Fish
    c. Fins
    d. Gills
 4. What type of the text is it?
     a. Descriptive
     b. Report
     c. Procedure
     d. Recount
5. What is the “general classification” of the text?
    a. Fish is animal that lives in water
    b. Fish breathes through gills
    c. The body of a fish consists of the head, the trunk and the tail fins
     d. There are many different kinds of fish
 6. The word “hardly” (paragraph 2) has the opposite meaning as ...
    a. Very easy
    b. Very difficult
    c. Lazily
    d. Softly
7. The synonym of “shapes” (paragraph 5) is ...
    a. Kinds
    b. Forms
    c. Size
    d. Types
8. It is not drinking but “breathing” (paragraph 3). Breathing means the process of ...
    a. Absorbing the water from the air
    b. Taking CO2 from the air
    c. Absorbing O2 from the air
    d. Sending O2 out of the air
9. The antonym of “thin” is...
    a. Small
    b. Slim
    c. Short
    d. Fat
10. The antonym of narrow is ...
    a. Small
    b. Long
    c. Large
    d. Broad

The Key:
1. D                6. A
2. C                7. B
3. D                8. C
4. B                9. D
5. A               10. D