Explanation Text

Explanation Text : Penjelasan + Contoh UPDATE - Belajar Bahasa Inggris pada kesempatan kali ini akan membahas mengenai Explanation Text. Pastinya teman-teman sudah akrab benar dengan namanya Explanation atau penjelasan. Karena dalam dunia pendidikan yang namanya penjelasan atau Explanation banyak kita jumpai. Penjelasan-penjelasan tersbut merupakan salah satu contoh dari Explanation Text. Untuk itu  sengaja penulis rampungkan penjelasan dan contoh Explanation Text. Semoga bermanfaat. Check this out!!!

A. Pengertian Explanation Text

Explanation Text adalah sebuah teks yang berisi tentang proses-proses yang berhubungan dengan fenomena-fenomena alam, soisal, ilmu pengetahuan, budaya dan lainnya. Sebuah Explanation text biasanya berasal dari pertanyaan penulis terkait ‘why’ dan ‘how’ terhadap suatu fenomena yang ada.

B. Tujuan Kebahasaan Explanation Text

Tujuan kebahasaan dari Explanation text adalah untuk menerangkan proses-proses yang terjadi dalam pembentukan atau kegiatan yang terkait dengan fenomena-fenomena alam, sosial, ilmu pengetahuan, budaya, dan lainnya yang bertujuan menjelaskan.

C. Struktur Kebahasaan Explanation Text

Terdapat tiga bagian dalam struktur kebahasaan Explanation Text, yaitu:

1. A general statement
Dalam general statement berisi tentang penjelasan umum tentang fenomena yang akan dibahas, bisa berupa pengenalan fenomena tersebut atau penjelasannya.

2. A squenced of explanation
A squenced of explanation berisi tentang penjelasan proses mengapa fenomena tersebut bisa terjadi atau tercipta. A squenced of explanation berupa jawaban dari pertanyaan ‘why’ dan ‘how’ penulis ketika membuat sebuah Explanation text. Dalam squenced of explanation bisa terdiri lebih dari satu paragrap.

3. Closing
Sebenarnya closing itu tidak tercantum dalam generic structure dari Explanation text, tetapi kebanyakan orang beranggapan bahwa paragrap terakhir dari sebuah Explanation text adalah closing, padahal itu merupakan bagian dari squenced of explantaion yang berisi tentang langkah akhir yang dijelaskan pada bagian squenced of explanation.

D. Ciri Kebahasaan Explanation Text

Dalam sebuah explanation text, terdapat ciri-ciri kebahasaan seperti di bawah ini, yaitu:
•    Menggunakan simpel present tense
•    Mengguankan abstract noun (kata benda yang nampak)
•    Mengguanakan Passive voice
•    Menggunakan Action verbs

E. Contoh Explanation Text

Untuk menambah pemahaman anda mengenai penjelasan Explanation Text di atas, penulis sertakan juga contoh explanation text dengan terjemahannya berikut ini:

 Frog metamorphosis

Toads and frogs are amphibians animals most known people in Indonesia. Children usually love frogs and toads because of the funny, often jumping up and down, never bite and are not harmful. and how the frog metamorphosis.Frogs lay up to 4,000 eggs at one time!.Tadpoles hatch from the eggs .During metamorphosis the tadpole will develop back legs first, then front legs.  Around 6 weeks of life the mouth starts to widen.  Sometime around 10 weeks the froglet’s, as it is now called, eyes start to bulge out and the tail begins to shrink and eventually disappear.  When the lungs finish developing the froglet makes it’s way onto the land and, Ta-da! It’s a frog!

 frogs are amphibians which have unique developmental metamorphosis. so we have to maintain habitat


Question For This Explanation
 1.What the first phase of the Frog Metamorphosis ?

A.Egg
B.Frog
C.TadPoles
D.Froglets
E.Larva

2.How many eggs which produced by frogs ?
A.7000
B.5000
C.1000
D.6000
E.4000


3.Why Children usually love frogs and toads?
A.because frogs dangerous
B.because frogs revolting
C.because frogs  famous animal
D. because frogs  funny
E.because frogs good to eat

Marijuana is a dry, shredded green/brown mix of flowers, stems, seeds, and leaves of the hemp plant, Cannabis sativa. It usually is smoked as a cigarette or in a pipe. Marijuana smoke has a strong and distinctive, usually sweet-and-sour odor. There are countless street terms for marijuana including pot, herb, weed, grass, widow, ganja, and hash.
Long-term marijuana use leads to an addiction. The short-term effect of marijuana addiction can include problems with memory and learning, difficulty in thinking and problem solving, loss of coordination and increased heart rate. Smoking marijuana increases the possibility of developing cancer of the head or neck. Marijuana use also has the potential to promote cancer of the lungs and other parts of the respiratory tract because it contains irritants and carcinogens. In fact, marijuana smoke contains 50 to 70 per cent more carcinogenic hydrocarbons than does tobacco smoke. Depression, anxiety and personality disturbance have been associated with marijuana addiction. Students who smoke marijuana get lower grades and are less likely to graduate from high school, compared with their non-smoking friends.
6. What is the text about?
a. Marijuana smokers
b. Bad effects of marijuana
c. The pros and cons of marijuana
d. Smoking marijuana
e. What marijuana looks like
7. Smoking marijuana has the following effects, except ….
a. Causing difficulty in thinking and problem solving
b. Increasing the possibility of head cancer
c. Promoting cancer of the lungs
d. Decreasing the heart rate
e. Causing loss of coordination
8. Why can marijuana use promote cancer of lungs and other part of respiratory tract?
a. It contains irritants and carcinogens
b. It has a strong and distinctive odor
c. It is usually smoked in cigarettes
d. It has smoke like tobacco
e. It leads to addiction

How Do Birds Fly?
Birds have a body “designed” for flight. Their bones are light, with space full of air, body tapered. They have powerful muscles to move their wings, and a breastbone like a ship’s prow to cut through the air! Their wings are specially shaped, and, like the tail, have feather of many shapes and textures, according to their job. Bird’s flight can be ‘gliding’ or ‘beating’. In the gliding flight, the bird slides through the air, wings stretched out, quite still, carried by currents of air. In ‘beating’ flight, the bird moves its wings like oars, using its tail like a rudder to change direction.
Most birds take off almost vertically from land or water, body straight and wings beating quickly. Once in the air, it leans its body forward and the wings bet more slowly. For landing, the movements are reversed-straightening it body and beating its wings quickly before landing.
14. The bird’s bones are ….
a. Solid and strong
b. Light and brittle
c. Solid, with spaces full of air, body tapered
d. Light, with spaces full of air, body tapered
e. Light and spherical
15. “Their wings specially shaped, and, like the tail, have feathers of many shapes and …”
(Paragraph 2) The word ‘shapes’ means ….
a. Forms d. parts
b. Characteristics e. appearance
c. Ships
16. In ‘beating’ flight, a bird uses its tail to….
a. Slide through the air
b. Straighten its body before landing
c. Change direction
d. Make the body straight
e. Make its body carried by currents of air