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Kelas 11 (SMA / MA / SMK)
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CHAPTER 8: Explain This!
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Earthquakes
Earthquakes - being among the most deadly natural hazards - strike without any prior warning, leaving catastrophe in their wake with terrible loss of human lives as well as economicloss.
Technically, an earthquake (also known as tremor, quake or temblor) is a kind of vibration through the earth's crust. This vibration occurs as a result of powerful movement of rocks in the earth's crust. These powerful movements trigger a rapid release of energy that creates seismic waves that travel through the earth. Earthquakes are usually brief, but may repeat over a long period of time. (Earth Science. 2001)
Earthquakes are classified as large and small. Large earthquakes usually begin with slight tremors but rapidly take form of violent shocks. The vibrations from a large earthquake last for a few days known as aftershocks. Small earthquakes are usually slight tremors and do not cause much damage. Large earthquakes are known to take down buildings and cause death and injury (Richter, 1935). According to some statistics, there may be an average of 500,000 earth- quakes every year but only about 100,000 can be felt and about 100 or so can cause damage eachyear.
Earthquakes are dreaded by everyone.
Gambar .Earthquake disaster
Explanation Text
An explanation text is a non-fiction text that is used to describe how or why things happen. It usually includes a sequence of events (explaining how) and provides reasons for a process or phenomenon (why).
For example:
- Rain
- The water cycle
- Earthquakes
Types of Explanation Texts
Explanation texts are categorized according to the type of process they describe.
Sequential Explanation
Explanations that describe natural and non-natural phenomena, for example life cycles.
Cause and Effect Explanation
Explanation text that links cause and effectin explaining how and why an event occurred, for example volcanoes.
Structure of an Explanation Text
Social Function
An explanation text is used to describe how or why a certain phenomenon happens.
General Structure
- A title that identifies the topic to be explained
- An opening statement thatidentifies the process to be explained
- A clear order of paragraphs that describe how and why
- A concluding paragraph that puts all the information together
- Finally, a visual text (a labeled image)
Linguistic Features
- Focuses on general group rather than specific.
- Use of Linking words like in general, rather, for instance.
- Use of action verbs like breaks, erupts.
- Use of present tense like is, wake, are.
- Reference to people should not be given.
- Passive voice may be used.
- Use of technical terms and language relevant to the subject.
- Conjunctions should be used to make connections like and, but.
- Gives a detailed description to create a rich meaning.
Passive Voice
When emphasis is on the action (verb) and the object of a sentence rather than the subject of a sentence.
It means that
- Action is more important than the subject.
- Subject is unknown.
- Even when the subject is known, it is put at the end.
Examples
- A letter is written by me.
- America was discovered by Columbus.
- Macbeth was written by Shakespeare.
- The door was opened by his son.
- The new ideas were suggested by Edo.
Tabel .Formating of passive voice
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