EXPLANATION TEXT

UKBM B.ING 3.3/4.3/6/4.1

IKA CHRISNA INDARTI,S.Pd

SMAN 1 TANJUNG PALAS
1. IDENTITAS :
a. Judul : Explanation Text
b. Sekolah : Sman 1 Tanjung Palas
c. Mata Pelajaran : Bahasa Inggris
d. Semester 5
e. Alokasi waktu : 4 X 45 menit
f. Kompetensi Dasar :

3. 4 Membedakan fungsi sosial, struktur teks, dan unsur kebahasaan

beberapa teks explanation lisan dan tulis dengan memberi
…
dan meminta informasi terkait gejala alam atau sosial yang
.. tercakup dalam mata pelajaran lain di kelas XI, sesuai dengan
konteks penggunaannya
4.4. Menangkap makna secara kontekstual terkait fungsi sosial,
struktur teks, dan unsurkebahasaan teks explanation lisan
dan tulis, terkait gejala alam atau sosial yang tercakup dalam
mata pelajaran lain di kelas XI

g. Materi : Explanation Text

h. Tujuan Pembelajaran :

Melalui diskusi, tanya jawab, penugasan, presentasi dan analisis, peserta

didik dapat membedakan, menangkap makna secara kontekstual dan menyusun
teks explanation lisan dan tulis, pendek dan sederhana berdasarkan fungsi
sosial, struktur teks, dan unsur kebahasaan terkait informasi yang layak
diberitakan, sehingga peserta didik dapat menghayati dan mengamalkan ajaran
agama yang dianutnya, mengembangkan sikap jujur, peduli, dan
bertanggungjawab, serta dapat mengembangankan kemampuan resposif
(berpikir kritis) dan proaktif (kreatif), serta mampu berkomunikasi dengan
baik

i. Materi pembelajaran :

2. CONCEPT MAPPING

TOPIC SOCIAL GENERIC

FUNCTION STRUCTURE

LANGUAGE FEATURE
3. LEARNING ACTIVITY
A. Brainstorming Acttivity
a. What kind of natural disaster happens frequently in Indonesia ?
b. What might be the cause of the disaster?
c. What might be the impact of the disaster ?
To make you more understand about the material, you need do some practices activities

B. Main Activity

Activity 1
a. Watch the video about explanation text https://youtu.be/c8YXcngtWfg
b. Do the practice below individually !
Match the pictures with the correct words provided in the box.

1. 2. 3.

4. 5. 6.

Flood Earthquake Tsunami

Landslide Eruption Avalanche

c. Based on the video that you have watched, answer the questions below
1. What does mostly text talk about?

2. What is paragraph 1 about ?

3. What do paragraph 2 and 3 discuss on?

4. What does paragraph 4 tells us about ?

5. What is the purpose of the text ?

6. What kind of tense does the text mostly use?

Activity 2
In this part you are going to enlarge your vocabulary concerning the
explanation text. Fill in the blank with the correct words provided in the box to
complete the sentence.

1. Both Earth and Mars suffer from……………………………

2. There is a………………………….. name “Old Faithfull” in Yellowstone National
Park.
3. Within minutes, the sky had darkened and a heavy……………… was lacing the town
4. A……………………… usually occurs in the spring and summer, but it is rarely
destructive
5. The acid rain last night has caused severe……………………… on the hillslide
6. An unexpected……………. of wind blew Dani’s umbrella inside out.
7. Sandra keeps her flashlights and candles handy in case of a…………….
8. A……………………… blasted great difts of snow across the lake
9. My uncle got his roof blown off in the…………………………… last week.
10. The………………….. melted when the sun came out

blizzard gust geyser rainstorm

Dust storm erosion hail blackout

gale hailstorm
 Activity 3

Practices makes perfect !

Choose the correct answer.

Text 1 for question number 1 to 3
What is photosynthesis? Photosynthesis is a food-making process that occurs in green plants. It is the
chief function of leaves. The word photosynthesis means putting together with light. Green plants use
energy from light to combine carbon dioxide and water to make sugar and other chemical compounds.
How is the light used in photosynthesis? The light used in photosynthesis is absorbed by a green
pigment called chlorophyll. Each food-making cell in a plant leaf contains chlorophyll in small bodies
called chloroplasts. In chloroplast, light energy causes water drawn formthe soil to split into hydrogen
and oxygen.
What are the steps of photosynthesis process? Let me tell you the process of photosynthesis, in a series
of complicated steps, the hydrogen combines with carbon dioxide from the air, forming a simple sugar.
Oxygen from the water molecules is given off in the process. From sugar together with nitrogen,
sulphur, and phosporus from the soil-green plants can make starch, fat, protein,vitamins, and other
complex compounds essential for life. Photosynthesis provides the chemical energy that is needed to
produced these compounds.

1. What step after the hydrogen combines with carbon dioxide from the air …
A. Photosynthesis provides the chemical energy that is needed to producedthese
compounds.
B. Food-making process that occurs in green plants
C. Phosporus from the soil-green plants can make starch, fat, protein,vitamins,
and other complex compounds essential for life.
D. Oxygen from the water molecules is given off in the process.
E. Water drawn form the soil to split into hydrogen and oxygen.

2. What are photosynthesis need ….

A. Water, light, oxygen, worm
B. Soil, chlorophyll, sun, human
C. Bug, air, oxigen, food
D. Light, Carbon dioxide, humus
E. Candle, vitamins, hydrogen

3. What the product of photosynthesis ….

A. Sugar
B. Food and O2
C. Root
D. Food
E. Branch.
Text 2 is for questions number 4 to 6

A natural disaster is a terrible accident, e.g. a great flood, a big fire or an earthquake. It usually
causes great suffering and loss of a large sum of money. The casualties are injured or died.
Some people are homeless and need medical care.
Floods occur when the water of rivers, lakes, or streams overflow their banks and pour onto the
surrounding land. Floods are caused by many different things. Often heavy rainstorms that last
for a brief can cause a flood. But not all heavy storms are followed by flooding. If the
surrounding land is flat and can absorb the water, no flooding will occur. If, however, the land is
hard and rocky, heavy rain cannot be absorbed. Where the banks are low, a river may overflow
and flood adjacent lowland.
In many part of the world flood are caused by tropical storms called hurricanes or typhoons.
They bring destructive winds of high speed, torrents of rain, and flooding. When a flood occurs,
the destruction to surrounding land can be severe. Whole villages and towns are sometimes
swept away by water pouring swiftly over the land. Railroad track blocked and uprooted from
their beds. Highways are washed away.
When a building caught fire, the firemen pitched in to help battle the blaze. Before the pumps
were invented, people formed bucket brigades to fight fires. Standing side by side, they formed a
human chain from the fire to nearby well or river. They passed buckets of water from to hand to
be poured on the flames.The damage of the fire did depend a great deal on where it happened. In
the country or a small village, only a single house might burn down. But in crowded cities, fire

4. What can possibly prevent rivers and lakes from overflowing?

A. An absorbent bed.
B. A rocky surrounding.
C. A low land.
D. A high bank
E. A high road
5. We know from the text that . . . .
A. River can sweep heavy flood
B. People can make money from flood
C. The destruction by flood is always less severe
D. Water flood is absorbed by land
E. Typhoons caused heavy flood

6. We know from the text that . . . .

A. The pump is the only tool used by fire fighters now
B. The pump helps people to fight fires more efficiently
C. Fires in big cities are always very big
D. People no longer use buckets to control fire
E. Only firemen can control fires in crowded cities
Text 3 for questions number 7 to 10

A geyser is the result of underground water under the combined conditions of high temperatures
and increased pressure beneath the surface of the earth. Since temperature rises approximately 1 F
for every sixty feet under the earth’s surface, and pressure increases with depth, the water that
seeps down in crack and fissures until it reaches very hot rock in the earth interior becomes heated
to temperature in excess of 290 F. Because of the greater pressure, the water shoots out of the
surface in the form of steam and hot water. The result is a geyser. In order to function, then a
geyser must have a source of heat, reservoir where water can be stored until the temperature rises
to an unstable point, an opening through which the hot water and steam can escape, and
underground channels for resupplying water after an eruption.
Favorable conditions for geyser exist in some regions of the world including New Zealand, Iceland,
and the Yellowstone National Park area of the United States. The most famous geyser in the world
is Old Faithfull in Yellow Park. Old Faithfull erupts almost every hour, rising to a height of 125 to
170 feet and expelling more than ten thousand gallons during each eruption

7. How geyser is produced?

A. By the rise of temperature pressure functioning hot steam.
B. From a huge tension of heated water that coming out from the earth crack.
C. From the heated temperature in earth crack that absorbing water.
D. From the temperature and absorbed water that occurs on earth surface.
E. By the hot water and temperature of hot rock that occurs on earth surface

8. Steam and hot water shoot out of the surface because of ….

A. hot rock and water
B. temperature and pressure
C. greater pressure
D. high temperature and increased pressure
E. underground temperature and increased pressure

9. Reservoir where the water can be stored will be after eruption and resupplying again …..
A. hot
B. narrow
C. open
D. empty
E. unstable

10. “… and expelling more than ten thousand gallons during each eruption.” (Paragraph 2). The
word “expelling” is closest in meaning to ….
A. heating
B. melting
C. wasting
D. supplying
E. discharging.
 Activity 4

In this part you are going to enrich your grammar concerning the explanation text
The tense that usually use in explanation text is passive voice. Read the forming of passive
voice
 Description of explanation text

Rules for changing Active voice to passive voice :

a. Identify the Subject, the Verb and the Object

b. Change the subject into Subject
c. Put the suitable helping verb or auxiliary verb. In case the helping verb is
given, use the same verb but note that the helping verb given agrees with the
Object.
d. Change the Verb into the past participle form
e. Add the preposition by
f. Change the Subject into Object

Example :
1. A letter is written by me.
2. American was discovered by Columbus
3. Macbeth was written by Shakespeare
4. The door was opened by his son
5. The new ideas were suggested by Edo
Let’s Practice
Choose the right passive voice form!
1. Mommy cleans the room every day.
A. The room was clean by mommy every day
B. The room is clean by mommy every day
C. The room is cleaned by mommy every day
D. Mommy is cleaned the room every day
E. The room was being cleaned by mommy every day

2. My uncle fixed the toy yesterday. The passive voice of the sentence is ….
A. My uncle was fixed the toy yesterday
B. The toy was fixed by my uncle yesterday
C. The toy was fix by my uncle yesterday
D. My uncle was being fixed the toy yesterday
E. The toy had been fixed by my uncle yesterday

3. Joe has taken a Mandarin course.

A. Joe has been taken a Mandarin course
B. A Mandarin course taken by Joe
C. A Mandarin course has been taken by Joe
D. Mandarin courses have taken by Joe
E. Mandarin course will be taken by Joe

4. In the 1920’s, this TV ….

A. is manufactured
B. was manufactured
C. will be manufactured
D. is going to manufactured
E. would manufacture

5. Her first novel … tomorrow morning.

A. is launched
B. was launched
C. will be launched
D. has launched
E. have launched

Change the following sentences into passive voice.

1. My dad drinks coffee every morning.

2. He repaired my motorcycle

3. The writer has written the last series of his novels.

4. A government will build a new bridge.

5. Adam is reading my favourite book.

 Activity 5

Give the generic structure of the text below by giving the name for every
paragraph in boxes given
How Do People Get Infected by COVID-19?
Generic Structure Explanation Text
From the beginning of 2020, the world has been in an
emergency status following the outbreak of an infectious
disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome 2
(SARS-CoV-2). The disease, known as Coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID-19), as of today (May 2020) has killed 247
thousand people worldwide. There are 3.5 million confirmed
cases in 210 countries and territories around the world. But
how do people get infected by COVID-19?
COVID-19 is a respiratory disease; therefore, it is mainly
transmitted through "respiratory droplets", droplets of virus-
laden mucus that are ejected when symptomatic people
sneeze or cough. To prevent these droplets from falling on
people is why it is advised for us to maintain 2-metre
distance from each other. Wearing face masks is also
important to prevent ejection the droplets and reduce the
chance of incidentally inhaling them
Transmission by contact is also a possible route of the
infection. Viral particles from the respiratory droplets land
on an object, someone touches the object, then touches their
mouth, eyes, or nose. The virus then slips into their body via
their mucous membrane, infecting the person
More studies are still being conducted to this day to learn
more about the virus, how it is spread, and how to stop it. So
far, the most effective way to cut the routes of transmission
is by maintaining physical distance and avoiding prolonged
contact
 Activity 6

Work individually.
1. Write an explanation text telling about how rainbow is formed. Don’t forget
to make a draft and include passive voices in your text.
4. CLOSING

Tabel Refleksi Diri Pemahaman Materi

No Pertanyaan Ya Tidak

1. Apakah kalian telah mampu menunjukkan tujuan

komunikasi, struktur teks, dan unsur kebahasaan dari
teks news item lisan dan tulis sesuai konteks
penggunaan.

Apakah kalian telah mampu menjelaskan isi teks

lisan dan tulis news item dengan benar dengan
memperhatikan tujuan komunikasi, struktur teks,
dan unsur kebahasaan teks explanation
sesuai konteks penggunaan

Mampukah kalian memberi informasi secara lisan dan

tulis dengan memperhatikan fungsi sosial,struktur
teks, dan unsur kebahasaan teks explanation sesuai
konteks

Dapatkah kalian menyelesaikan soal-soal berkaitan

dengan vocabulary?
Dapatkah kalian menyelesaikan soal-soal berkaitan
dengan passive voice?

Dapatkah kalian menyelesaikan soal-soal reading

comprehension berkaitan dengan explanation text?

Mampukah kalian menggunakan kosa kata tentang

teks explanation?

Mampukah kalian menemukan informasi rinci yang

tersirat dan tersurat tentang teks news item

Mampukah kalian mengubah kalimat aktif menjadi

kalimat pasif dalam konteks dengan benar.
 Jika menjawab “TIDAK” pada salah satu pertanyaan di atas, maka pelajarilah kembali
materi t dan pelajari ulang kegiatan belajar 1, 2, atau 3 yang sekiranya perlu kalian ulang
dengan bimbingan Guru atau teman sejawat. Jangan putus asa untuk mengulang
lagi!.Dan apabila kalian menjawab “YA” pada semua pertanyaan, maka lanjutkan
berikut.

Dimana posisimu?
Ukurlah diri kalian dalam menguasai materi teks explanation dalam rentang 0 –
100, tuliskan kedalam gambar awan yang tersedia.

Setelah kalian menuliskan penguasaanmu terhadap materi tersebut,

lanjutkan dengan meminta tes formatif kepada Guru kalian dengan
tujuan untuk mengukur penguasaan pengetahuan kalian tentang text
explanation , sebelum kalian melanjutkan belajar ke UKBM berikutnya

NO PAIN NO GAIN

5. References.
 Indonesia. Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan. Bahasa
Inggris /Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan.-- . Edisi Revisi
Jakarta: KementerianPendidikan dan Kebudayaan, 2017.Untuk
SMA/MA/SMK/MAK Kelas XI
 ESPS for SMA/MA Grade XI