DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

Purpose: To describe a particular person / thing

Text Organization :
Identification: mention the name, occupation, profession and career.
Description: mention the physical features, the way he/she dresses and his/her personality.

GRAND OMEGA
Hospitality is Our Trademark

There is a new hotel in my city. It is a four star hotel. It

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is located downtown.
The hotel is not very big but the architecture is very
Linking Verbs
beautiful. It looks like a classic castle in Europe. According to
Adjectives
the brochure, it has 100 rooms, a fancy restaurant, complete
sports facilities including as swimming pool, tennis court, gym
and sauna, there are also a coffee shop and a karaoke room.
The rooms look very comfortable. It they contain a big
spring bed with big pillows, a nice sofa, a wardrobe and a
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television system with programs from all over the word. The
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bathroom is very beautiful although it is not very big. It has a The use of
attributive
bath-tub with hot and cold water, so guests can bath in it
comfortably.
The brochure says Hospitality is Our Trademark. The
staff of that hotel, from the receptionists, house keepers, and
bell boys are trained to be polite and to help guests in any way
they can.
 PROCEDURE TEXT

Purpose: To help us do a task or make something. They can be a set of instructions or directions.
Text Organization:
Goal (the final purpose of doing the intuction ).
Material ( ingredint, untensils, equipment to do the instructions ).
Steps ( a set of instructions to achieve the final purpose ).

Fried Rice
Goal How to make fried rice

350 gr long Grain Rice 1 leek

2 Tbs. Vegetable Oil 1 teaspoon Ground Coriander

Material 3 Eggs 1 teaspoon Ground Cumin

1 Onion 250 gr chicken meat
2 Green chillis 250 gr Shelled Prawns
1 Garlic clove 3 Tbs. Soya sauce

1. Beat the eggs and make into a omelette, slice into strips and
The use of
set a side. action verbs

2. Heat the oil in a wok or large frying pan.

3. Add the chopped onion, leeks, garlic and chillis. Fry until
the onion is soft.
4. Add the coriander and cumin.
Steps
5. Slice chicken into strips and add with the prawns to the
Use of
onion mixture and cook, stirring occasionally until they are imperatives

well mixed.
6. Add the rice, soya sauce and omellete strips and cook
for a further 5 minutes.
The use
7. Decorate and enjoy it. adverbial
phrases
 NEWS ITEM

Purpose:To inform readers, listeners or viewers about events of the day which are considered
newsworthy or important.
Text Organization:
Newsworthy events (tells the event in a summary from)
Background events (elaborates what happened,explains what caused the
incident)
Sources ( comments by participants,witnesses,authorities,and experts involved in
the event).

Pamekasan Student Wins Math Contest in Romania

Alyssa Diva Mustika, a student from Pamekasan Junior

News sworthy High School, East Java, won the gold medal at the International
Events Mathematics Contest held in Romania between March 22 to
29, Antara news agency reported.
Speaking to journalists, Diva said she was glad that she
had been able to win the competition, which she said had been
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very tight. Thank God I won, I will study harder, she said. sentence

Indonesia sent 10 student to the competition in

Background
Events Romania, Diva is not the first Pamekasan student to win an
International Science Competition. Oktavian Latief, a student
from SMA Negeri 1 Pamekasan won gold at the International
Physics Olympiad in 2006. Another student, Shohitul Maromi,
won the same award in 2010.
I think Diva for giving a good name to Indonesia and
Source Pamekasan on the International stage. Pamekasan Regent
Kholilurrahman said as quoted by Antara.
The use of
saying verbs
 RECOUNT TEXT

Purpose :To tell the readers what happened in the past through a sequence of event.
Text Organization:
Orientation (who,were involved in the story,when and where)
Events (tell what happened a chronological order)
Evaluation (comments of the writer/speaker about the experience)
Re-Orientation (the conclusion of the experience).

My Diary

The use of
Mother got sick today. I was very scared. I didnt know simple post tense
Orientation what to do. She looked pale. She said she had a very bad
headache.
The use of
action verbs

I made a cup of hot tea for her. I hoped it would make

her feel better. But the headache did not go away. So I called a The use of time
conjuction
Events doctor. Luckily, our family doctor was still at home.

The doctor gave her some medicine. The doctor told

mother to take the medicine and to have some rest.
The use of

Re -orientation
This afternoon, she could get up from the bed. Thank pronoun
God!
 NARRATIVE TEXT

Purpose: to amuse or entertain the readers with actual or imaginary experiences in difference ways.
Text Organization:
Orientation (who,were involved in the story, when and where)
Compication (a problem arises followes by other problems)
Resolution (solution to the problem).

Babu and the Lion

One day, there was a slave whose name was Babu. His
The use relative
master was very-very bad. You know, he often punched Babu pronoun
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and did not offer him food for days. Poor Babu ! So he escaped
The use of
into a forest and slept in a cave. simple past tense

Next morning, he heard a loud roar. In front of him ..,

at the mouth of the cave ., was very big lion. You see, Babu
Complication
was scared to death ! Kind of scary, isnt it ? But he could not
escape.

But the lion did not attack him. It was tame. There was
a large thorn in its right front foot. The lion looked at Babu. It The use of action
Resolution verbs
seemed to say something like, Please help me. Its very
painful. Babu walked bravely to the lion and pulled out the
thorn. Babu and the lion turned out to be best friends.
 EXPRESSIONS
No Name of Expression The Use / Purpose Example

1. Greetings and leave - taking To open a conversation and use leave taking for closing. Hello
2. Expressing feelings Express your feelings to someone / something. Ok, Im so happy

3. Asking if someone remembers or not Ask someone remember or not about something or somebody. I will always remember
You can use several expressions to show that you are paying
4. Asking for and showing attention Excuse me .
attentions to what is being talked about.
5. Inviting someone You can use it to invite someone to come to your party. Sure
When you hear someone is hurt or sad, express your sympathy
6. Expressing Sympathy Im sorry
with the following expressions.
7. Offering The expressions used to offering something to someone. Have some ?
You can use it to express your thanks to someone for something
8. Expressing thanks Thank you
that you have done.
9. Expressing compliments You can used it to express compliments about something. Thanks a lot
You can use to asking information expressing surprised,
10. Speech function / gambits Really
guessing, right or wrong.
11. Expressing congratulations You can use to congratulate something for somebody. Congratulation

12. Expressions used in an interview You can used the expressions to open and ask for information. Could I ask
You can use it to ask believe or not, to somebody about
13. Asking believe or not Do you believe it ?
something.
You can use it to express your surprised when you looked or
14. Expressing being surprised Surprise
heard something.