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Report text is a kind of text which has social function to describe the way things are, with the reference to a range of natural, man made and social phenomena in our environment.
Its generic structure are : General Classification : Tells what the phenomenon under discussion is. Description : Tells what the phenomenon under discussion is like in item of (1) part, (2) qualities, (3) habits or behaviors if living, uses, if non natural.
Focus on generic participants Use of relational process to state what is and that which it is Use of simple present tense (unless extinct) No temporal sequence
The Example
Your body needs energy produce minerals, vitamins and fibre. In order to get all of these, it is import onto have a varied and balanced diet, and to eat the right amount of food for our body burns food to the energy: the amount of energy provided by food is measured in units called calories. How many calories do you need? This depends on your weight and on what you do. When you asleep, your body uses nearly one calorie an hour for every kilogram of weight so a person who weights seventy kilos uses about 560 calories while sleeping for eight hours. More calories are needed for different activities from 100 calories an hour for reading or watching TV to 350 calories an hour for playing football. To calculate the number of calories needed per day for an everage person, first find out the person ideal weight. Then multiply the weight by 40 for a woman or 46 for a man. A 60 kilos woman may need about 2400 calories a day more if she does heavy physical work and less if she is very inactive.
1. What does our body need? And what have we to do to get all of those? 2. What do calories mean? 3. What does calories that we need depend on? And how do they influence? 4. What must we do to calculate the number of calories needed?
Focus on specific participants Use of attributive and identifying processes Frequent use of Ephitets and Classifier in nominal groups Use of simple present tense
The Example
1. Since the birds colours are so fantastic and people think that nothing else on earth has such glittering colours. 2. To attract females for mating. 3. She builds her nest of leaves in a tree which is about four to ten metres above the ground. 4. For three weeks. 5. By start to use the colourful feathers of the birds for commercial hat making.