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Generic Structure of Texts

NARRATIVE Purpose: To amuse/entertain the readers and to tell a story Generic Structure: 1. Orientation 2. Complication 3. Resolution 4. Reorientation Dominant Language Features: 1. Using Past Tense 2. Using action verb 3. Chronologically arranged RECOUNT Purpose: To retell something that happened in the past and to tell a series of past event Generic Structure: 1. Orientation 2. Event(s) 3. Reorientation Dominant Language Features: 1. Using Past Tense 2. Using action verb 3. Using adjectives DESCRIPTIVE Purpose: To describe a particular person, place or thing in detail. Dominant Generic Structure: 1. Identification 2. Description Language Features: 1. Using Simple Present Tense 2. Using action verb 3. Using adverb 4. Using special technical terms REPORT Purpose : To presents information about something, as it is. Generic Structure: 1. General classification 2. Description Dominant Language Feature: 1. Introducing group or gene...

Direct/Indirect Speech

Dalam pelajaran Bahasa Indonesia, Direct/Indirect adalah suatu kalimat langsung (Direct) atau tidak langsung (Indirect) dalam sebuah pembicaraan. Untuk lebih jelasnya, berikut contoh kalimatnya. ·          Statement DIRECT INDIRECT Simple Present Simple Past S + V 1 + Obj S + V 2 + Obj e.g. Direct               : Ron said, “My father is sleepy.” Indirect            : Ron said that his father was sleepy. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECT INDIRECT Present Continuous Past Continuous S + to be + V-ing+ Obj S + to be 2 (was/were) + V-ing + Obj e.g. Direct    ...