 PENGERTIAN BIOGRAPHY TEXT

 PENJELASAN BIOGRAPHY TEXT

 CHARACTERISTICS OF BIOGRAPHY
 GENERIC STRUCTURE
 GRAMMAR AND LANGUAGE FEATURES
 CONTOH BIOGRAFI BAHASA INGGRIS
Pengertian Biography Text

Biografi adalah kisah atau keterangan tentang kehidupan seseorang.

Sebuah biografi lebih kompleks daripada sekadar daftar riwayat hidup dan
data-data pekerjaan seseorang, biografi juga bercerita tentang perasaan
yang terlibat dalam mengalami kejadian-kejadian tersebut. Teks
biografi disusun oleh orang lain, bukan oleh diri sendiri..

Biography text is a detailed description or account of a person’s life and

written by someone else, it is nonfiction text.
PENJELASAN BIOGRAPHY TEXT
The Function of Biography
To know a person’s story about his/her life outside of any
accomplishments this person may be known. Untuk mengetahui
kisah seseorang tentang kehidupannya di luar pencapaian apa pun,
orang ini mungkin dikenal. To give much information easily and
educate the readers. Untuk memberikan banyak informasi dengan
mudah dan mendidik para pembaca
CHARACTERISTICS OF BIOGRAPHY
 Biography is not written by subject and always written in the third person.
Teks biografi tidak dibuat oleh orang yang sedang diceritakan riwayat
hidupnya, tetapi diceritakan oleh oranglain dalam sudut pandang orang
ketiga.
 Based on research. Teks tersebut dibuat berdasarkan fakta pengalaman
hidup suatu tokoh berisi mengenai kisah atau cerita suatu tokoh dalam
mengarungi kehidupannya, entah itu berupa kelebihan, masalah atau
kekurangan yang ditulis oleh orang lain sehingga patut menjadi teladan.
 Describes the person’s surroundings (where, when and how the person
lived). Menceritakan secara detail tentang informasi tokoh yang
diceritakan yang meliputi W/H Question (What, Where, When, Why, How)
GENERIC STRUCTURE
Orientation (Introduction)
It is the opening paragraph, gives the readers the background information of the person.
Biasanya berisi tentang biodata yang dinarasikan seperti nama lengkap, tempat dan tanggal lahir. Beberapa
informasi umum juga dapat disajikan pada bagian ini sebagai pengenalan tokoh.
Events
In events, should be in chronological order.
Tahap ini adalah bagian kejadian atau peristiwa yang dialami oleh tokoh. Berisi penjelasan suatu cerita baik
itu berupa pemecahan masalah, proses berkarir, dan berbagai peristiwa yang pernah dialami oleh tokoh
hingga mengantarkannya pada sebuah kesuksesan.
Re-Orientation (Closing)
It consists of a conclusion or comment or the writer. Tell about the achievement or the contribution of the
person. Pada penutup, bagian ini berisi tentang pandangan penulis kepada tokoh yang dikisahkan.
Reorentasi ini bersifat pilihan yang berarti penulis bisa memberikan pandangan pribadinya tentang tokoh
yang diceritakan atau penulis tidak memberikan pandangan pribadinya terhadap tokoh yang diceritakan
adalah bukan perkara yang penting
GRAMMAR AND LANGUAGE FEATURES
Simple Past Tense
Simple Past Tense adalah menu utama dalam membuat Teks Biografi. Sebuah bentuk
sederhana kejadian yang terjadi di masa lampau. Menggunakan bentuk kata kerja kedua
(verb 2).
Temporal Sequence and Temporal Conjunction.
Sebagai penghubung antara satu kalimat dengan kalimat lain dalam urutan waktu.
Temporal Sequence (urutan waktu)
Temporal Conjunction (konjungsi temporal)
Focus on Specific participants
Use of Action verbs.
Menjelaskan sesuatu hal yang secara aktif dilakukan oleh tokoh dengan menggunakan
beberapa kata kerja dalam bentuk V2 atau Past Form
Types of Biography
 Short Biography (focuses only on highlights of a person’s life)
 Long Biography (about life and times of someone in a lot more detail)
CONTOH BIOGRAFI BAHASA INGGRIS

B.J. Habibie
Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie is the third President of Indonesia. He was born on June 25, 1936 in
Pare-Pare, South Sulawesi. He is the fourth of eight children in his family. His parents are Alwi Abdul Jalil
Habibie and RA. Tuti Marini Puspowardojo. He spent his childhood in Pare-Pare. Since he was a kid, he
has shown his integrity and persistent behaviour. At school, Habibie whose hobbies are riding horse and
reading book is famous for his intelligence.
Habibie’s father passed away due to heart attack when he was in elementary school. After that, his
mother sold their vehicle and house and then moved to Bandung. As a single parent, Habibie’s mother
worked hard to afford her life with her children.
In 1954, after Habibie graduated from senior high school in Bandung, he continued his study to
Bandung Institute of Technology. He did not finish his study at ITB because at the same time he got a
scholarship from The Ministry of education and Culture of Indonesia to study in Germany. He remembered
that Bung Karno had ever said about the importance of plane development for Indonesia, and then he
decided to take aerospace engineering with aeroplane construction specialty at Rhein Westfalen Aachen
Technische Hochschule (RWTH), an institute of technology in Germany.
 Habibie studied hard to be success since he remembered how hard his mother worked for his life. Even, Habibie
spent his time in holiday to earn extra money for buying books. When holiday ended, he did not do anything except
studying. In 1960, he graduated with great score, almost perfect (9.5). With his education background, he applied at an
industry company of train, named Firma Talbot.
After that, he continued his doctoral degree at Technische Hochschule Die Facultaet Fuer Maschinenwesen
Aachean. In 1962, he got married with Hasri Ainun. She was a doctor and she followed his husband to Germany. Habibie
and Ainun has two sons. They are Ilham Akbar dan Thareq Kemal. At that time, life got harder. He had to go to work in
the early morning because he walked to the office to save more money. He went home in the evening and studied. He
finished his doctoral degree in 1965 with perfect score (10)
In his life, Habibie has got many achievements and awards from Indonesia and other International institution.
Before he fulfilled a call from President Soeharto and went back to Indonesia, he had worked at a leading aeroplane
industry, MBB Gmbh, Germany. In Indonesia, Habibie had been the minister of Research and Technology for 20 years
and led 10 governmental company of strategic industry. He was elected by society representative assembly as the Vice
President of Indonesia. When the crisis happened in 1998 and President Soeharto was insisted to step down from his
position, Habibie was assigned to replace President Soeharto to be the third President of Indonesia.
In 2012, the life of Habibie and how he met Ainun were filmed and got high rates for the inspirational story.
Hasri Ainun passed away on May 22, 2010 in Ludwig Maximilians Universitat hospital, Klinikum, Muenchen, Germany.
She suffered a cancer for a long time however she never told her husband, Habibie. It was known that she had cancer
when she collapsed and had to be hospitalized. For Habibie, Ainun is everything. She is a great partner of life who had
accompanied him to go through good and bad times in life.