This document provides information about report text structure and features. It defines a report text as presenting factual information about phenomena through systematic observation and analysis. A report text has a general classification that identifies the topic and a description section that describes parts, qualities, habits, or uses. Key lexicogrammatical features of report texts are the use of generic participants, action verbs, linking verbs, simple present tense, adjectives, and descriptive language. An example report text on kangaroos is provided that follows the typical structure of classification then description of physical characteristics and behavior.

1. JORDAN GULTOM
XI. MIPA.10

2. LEARNING GOALS
Identify the main idea of a particular paragraph in the
Report text.
Find specific, explicit and implicit information in the Report
text.
Determine the reference words of the sentence in Report
text.
Identify generic structure and language features of the Report
text.
Produce Report text.
At the end of learning, students are able to :

3. WHAT IS REPORT TEXT ?
• The first point we should be aware of is the general
definition and the classification of each subject
that we intend to write in the form of reported
text. But , do not forget that a report text is
different from a descriptive text. Descriptive text
has a function to give an explanation about a
specific subject.

4. DEFINITON
• Report Text is one of the 13 types of English text (Types of Text) which
presents information about something like nature, animals, plants,
humans work and social phenomenon as it is. The information
presented in the Report Text is the result of systematic observation and
analysis.
• Report Text is one of the 13 types of English text (Types of Text) which
presents information about something like nature, animals, plants,
humans work and social phenomenon as it is. The information
presented in the Report Text is the result of systematic observation and
analysis.
SOCIAL FUNCTION

5. RETORIKA
• Identification
• Definition  Tell one object
• Classification  Tell two object or more
• Description
• Physic
• Food
• Behavior
• Special Feature

8. A kangaroo is an animal found only in Australia,
although it has a smaller relative, called a wallaby, which
lives on the Australian island of Tasmania and also in New
Guinea.
Kangaroos eat grass and plants. They have short
front legs, but very long and very strong back legs and a
tail. These are used for sitting up and for jumping.
Kangaroos have been known to make forward jumps of
over eight meters, and leap across fences more than
three meters high. They can also run at speeds of over 45
kilometers per hour.
The largest kangaroos are the Great Grey Kangaroo
and the Red Kangaroo. Adult grow to a length of 1.60
meters and weight 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 : Kangaroo

10. GENERIC STRUCTURE OF REPORT TEXT
A kangaroo is an animal found only in Australia, although it
has a smaller relative, called a wallaby, which lives on the
Australian island of Tasmania and also in New Guinea.
Kangaroos usually eat grass and plants. They have short
front legs, but very long and very strong back legs and a tail. These
are used for sitting up and for jumping. Kangaroos have been
known to make forward jumps of over eight meters, and leap
across fences more than three meters high. They can also run at
speeds of over 45 kilometers per hour.
The largest kangaroos are the Great Grey Kangaroo and the
Red Kangaroo. Adult grow to a length of 1.60 meters 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.
General
Classification
Description
Language Features : Use of general nouns
Use of relating verbs
Some use of action verbs when describing behavior
Use of timeless present tense to indicate usualness
Use of technical terms

11. NOTE
• The text KANGAROO is a report text
• A report text is used to provide factual information and to classify and
describe the phenomena of our world. We use it when we talk about a
whole class of things.
• The generic structure of report text consist of two main things.
1. General classification: tells what the phenomenon under discussion is.
2. Description: tells what the phenomenon under discussion like in terms of:
a. Parts ( and their function )
b. Qualities
c. Habits or behavior, if living: uses, if non-natural

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The lexicogrammatical features of report text
1. Focus on generic participants ( a whole class of things ).
2. Use of action verbs, especially when describing behavior.
3. Use of linking verb ( is , are , have , belongs to )
4. Use of simple presents tense
5. Use of adjectives
6. Descriptive language: factual and precise.
a) what they look like ( color , shape , size , etc )
b) what they have ( body parts , component, etc )
c) What they do ( habits , behaviors , funtion , uses , etc )

13. THANK YOU VERY MUCH
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