The world around us.................
Do you often
watch the discovery channel on television or read encyclopedias and books on plants, animals,
planets, natural disasters, etc.? The
texts from those sources are usually informational reports. Do you know how to
read and write reports? You will learn those more in this part.
Pay attention the generic structure of report text!
FLOOD
(what is reported/general clasification)
Flood is an
overflow of water that soaks or covers land. Floods are the most
frequent type of natural disaster worldwide. It can be caused by
several things, naturally and form the effect of human behavior. The
most common cause is because of the over capacity of the body of
water, e.g. river or lake. As a result some of the water flows outside of the
body of water. It can also occur in rivers, when thenstrength of
the river is so high that it flows right out of the river channel. A flood from sea may be caused by
a heavy storm, a high tide,a tsunami, or
a combination the three.
(general information/description)
Soil and vegetation absorbs most of
the surface water, floods happen when
there are lack of trees and the soil alone cannot absorb all the water. The
water then runs off the land in quantities that cannot be carried in
stream channels or kept in natural ponds or man-made reservoirs. A
flood can also be caused by blocked sewage pipes and
waterways,
such as the Jakarta flood.
There are several types of flood.
Periodic floods occur naturally on many
rivers, forming an area known as the flood plain. These river floods usually
result from heavy rain, sometimes combined with melting snow,
which causes the rivers to overflow their banks. A flood that rises and falls rapidly with little
or no advance warning is called a
flash flood.
(specific information/description)
Adapted
from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood
Your Turn Now.....Identify the generic stucture of this text bellow, and do exercise on the text B!
Text A
TSUNAMI
A tsunami is a
series of huge waves that can cause great devastation and loss of life when
they strike a coast.Tsunamis are caused by an underwater earthquake, a volcanic eruption, an sub-marine rockslide, or, more
rarely, by an asteroid or meteoroid crashing into in the water from
space. Most tsunamis are caused by underwater earthquakes, but not all
underwater earthquakes cause tsunamis - an earthquake has to be over about
magnitude 6.75 on the Richter
scale for it
to cause a tsunami. About 90 percent of all tsunamis occur in the Pacific
Ocean.
Many
tsunamis could be detected before they hit land, and the loss of life could be
minimized, with the use of modern technology, including seismographs (which
detect earthquakes), computerized offshore buoys that can measure changes in
wave height, and a system of sirens on the beach to alert people of potential
Adapted from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
tsunami danger.
TEXT B
There are many
kinds of nature phenomenon, one of them is rainbow.When light and water meet in the sky, for a few moments, a
rainbow will appear. Such a beautiful sight! This phenomena of the atmosphere
appears during or immediately following local rain, when the sun is shining and
the air contains raindrops. A rainbow can best be seen with polarized
sunglasses. We cannot follow the arc of a rainbow down below the horizon,
because we cannot see those droplets in the air below the horizon. But the
higher we are above the ground, the more of the rainbow circle we would see.
Now look at the picture of the rainbow and then mention the colors!
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