The document provides information about reports and their structure. It explains that a report gives general information about a topic and then provides more specific details. It notes that a report starts with general information and moves to particulars like physical description, habitat, diet, and breeding system. It also outlines the generic structure of a report, including the title, general statement/identification, and description.

1. WHAT AN AMAZING WORLD!
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2. You Should Know
You have just listened to a report on an animal. A report
gives you information about something (animals,
natural phenomena, plants, etc.). A report starts from
general information to details, such as physical
description, habitat, diet, and breeding system. The
subject of a report is not specific but general. Learn
more about this kind of text.

3. About the text
The first paragraph of an information report on pages
126 and 127 introduces us to the orangutans and gives
us some general information.
The general information is
called the identification or
general statement.
And the rest is called
description.

4. About the text
The Generic Structure
of a Report:
Title
General
Statement/Identification
Description
Tells the reader
what the
information is about
Classifies and names
the classes

5. Do you still remember action verbs?
When you can picture the “doing” actions
physically or mentally, we can call the verbs
action verbs.
Find action verbs in the text about
orangutans on pages 126–127.

6. Read the explanation.
Like adjectives, adverbs have a comparison and a
superlative form. You use them for comparing the
way people/animals do things.
You use more to make the comparative form of an
adverb and the most to make the superlative form.
A bike goes swiftly.
The deer runs more swiftly.
The cheetah runs the most
swiftly.

7. Read the explanation.
With adverbs that don’t end with –ly, you add –er
and –est to form the comparative and
superlative.
A bike goes fast.
A car goes faster.
A plane goes the fastest.

8. You Should Know
Tense Active Passive
Simple Present
am
are
is
• Students often
borrow library
books.
• Adi conducts the
orchestra.
• Library books are
often borrowed by
students.
• The orchestra is
conducted by Adi.
Present
Continuous
am
are
is
• Hunters are
killing
orangutans.
• The waves are
washing away
the sandcastle.
• Orangutans are being
killed by hunters.
• The sandcastle is
being washed away
by the waves.
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9. You Should Know
Tense Active Passive
Present Perfect
has
have
• Philip Cocu has
scored five goals.
• The workers have
painted the house.
• Five goals have been
scored by Philip Cocu.
• The house has been
painted by the
workers.
Simple Future
(with Modals)
will
shall
can
must
• The nurse will look
after killing him.
• The students must
return the books
on time.
• He will be looked
after by the nurse.
• The books must be
returned on time.
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