EXPLANATION TEXT

EXPLANATION

Explanation is a text to tell us why something happened or how something works or make something easier to understand about the phenomena, sociocultural phenomena etc.

Social Function

To explain the processes involved in the formation or working of natural or socio cultural phenomena!

Text Structure

A general statement to position the reader

A sequence explanation of why or how something occurs

Significant Lexicogrammatical Features

Focus on generic, non – human participants

Use mainly of Material and Relational Process

Use mainly of temporal and causal Circumstances and conjunctions

Use of simple present tense

Some use of passive voice to get them right.

Example :

GLOBAL WARMING

Global warming is an increase in the temperature of the earth’s surface and are the result of the green house effect. The green house effect is a term to define trapped carbon dioxide which causes the earth to the heat. Then, the global warming will much more and the climate on the earth will continue to be hotter. You certainly feel that the current temperatures on earth are so hot during the day. Then, we all must be thinking that there is a problem with the climate change where everything becomes unpredictable. The season that occurs in our earth cannot be predicted anymore as happened a few years ago. You need to know that those irregularities are caused by global warming.

In detail, the global warming caused by human activity. Today, there are so many factories are built. It means that they are going to produce carbon dioxide as their waste. When they are built more and more, then the more carbon dioxide is produced. Meanwhile, plant is the only element that can absorb the carbon dioxide and then convert it into oxygen. However, the plants that are on the earth continue to decrease due to illegal logging, forest fires, and the diversion of forest as a place of human lodging area. All of those makes the number of plants continue to decrease and are not able to absorb all the carbon dioxide maximally. As a result, carbon dioxide trapped in the earth and makes our earth becomes hotter. One of the visible effects of global warming is the polar ice continues to melt so they can flood the coast line in the entire world.

There are various things you can do to combat the global warming. First, planting at least one tree on your yard . When one home has one tree, then from 1000 homes, there will be 1000 trees. It was almost the same as a large forest area. Then, the tree that you plant in the yard, can make your home comfortable and cool. Therefore, soon after you are read this article, then plant any tree in front of your house and do not cut down the trees carelessly.

Second, you are advised to reduce the use of private vehicles. Of course you know that vehicles produce carbon dioxide. A growing number of private vehicles, makes the carbon dioxide is produced much more than before. Meanwhile, carbon dioxide is the main cause of global warming. It requires us to use public transport instead of private vehicles so that the number of private vehicles using can be reduced. Third, you should use a home ventilation rather than air conditioning. When you use the air conditioning, then there will be a CFC gas and it makes global warming intensity increases. Use the adequate ventilation, then planting a few trees in your yard, so it will make your house cooler.