Report Text

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Report is a text which presents information about something, as it is. It is as a result of systematic observation and analysis

Report Text adalah teks yang mendeskripsikan sesuatu atau benda-benda secara umum, contohnya berbagai benda atau fenomena alam, buatan dan sosial yang ada atau terjadi di lingkungan kita. Teks report mengupas suatu hasil pengamatan, penelaahan, penelitian, observasi, atau study tentang benda atau binatang, orang atau tempat. 

Report Text hampir sama dengan Descriptive Text yang membedakan adalah objek yang diceritakan berbentuk jamak, sedangkan objek yang diceritakan pada Descriptive Text berbentuk tunggal.

Generic Structure Report Text:

1. General classification (Klasifikasi umum) : pengantar tentang sesuatu atau fenomena yangakandibahas.
2. Description (Deskripsi) : menerangkan sesuatu atau fenomena yang dibahas, meliputibagian-bagian,kualitasdanperilaku.

Ciri-ciri Report Text:

1.Menggunakan pola kalimat Simple Present Tense
2.Menggunakan kata benda umum (general nouns)
3.Menggunakan kata kerja yang saling berhubungan (relating verbs)
4. Terdiri dari sebuah objek ditambah objek tentang alam lainnya.

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Contoh Report Text:

Sea-horses

Sea-horses are strange-looking sea creatures with heads like horses. They are actually fish. They make their homes in warm, shallow waters, where they live amongst sea plants.

            Just like a fish, a seahorse has a skeleton, gills, and fins. Unlike other fish, however, it does not have scales. Its body is covered with bony plates of ‘armour’. This heavy ‘armour’ makes it hard for the seahorse to swim. It spends much of its time resting among the sea plants. It uses its prehensile tail to anchor itself to plants. When microscopic sea animals swim by, the seahorse quickly sucks them up with its long snout.

            The eyes of seahorse do not look straight ahead like ours. A seahorse can look left with one eye and look right with the other. This means it can look out for enemies with one eye and search for food with the other.

            Seahorses are clever at camouflaging themselves. They come in many colors. They can be brown, red, yellow, black, grey, or white. They also change their color in the blink of an eye. This makes it hard for enemies like birds and crabs to see them.

Sapphires

Sapphire is the non-red variety of corundum, the second hardest natural mineral known to mankind. The red variety of corundum is ruby all other colors are called sapphire, even pink.

Sapphires are well known among the general public as being blue, but can be nearly any color, even colorless. White (or colorless but massive) sapphire would more properly be called corundum. The blue color is by far the most popular color for sapphire but orange-pink, golden, white, and even black have generated much interest in the gem trade. Oriented crystal inclusions cause a six-pointed-star light effect (called asterism) to form the popular Star Sapphire. 

Many of the finest watches have crystal faces made of colorless artificial sapphire - these are extremely durable and scratch resistant.

One interesting bit of trivia - sapphire is aluminum oxide, and aluminum is a highly reactive metal. Any freshly exposed surface of aluminum is quickly oxidized to corundum (sapphire), so it can be said that your lawn chair (or screen door, or any other aluminum object) is coated with sapphire.

Gorillas

Gorillas are the largest of all the primates. A male gorilla can be 180 centimeters tall and can weigh 200 kilograms.  Gorillas are very strong but they do not often fight. In fact they are peaceful animals. Gorillas live in small family groups of about 15.  In a group there is one strong, older male, some young males, and a few females with their babies. They move slowly around a large area of jungle eating leaves and bushes.

            In some ways gorillas are very like humans. When they are happy, they laugh and wave their arms. When they are angry, they beat their chests. When they are sad, they cry. But they cry quietly, without any tears. Unfortunately, people hunt and kill gorillas. They also cut down and burn their trees. There are now only about 10,000 gorillas left in the world.

Platypus
Many people call platypus duckbill because this animal has a bill like duckbill. Platypus is a native Tasmania and southern and eastern Australia.

Platypus has a flat tail and webbed feet. Its body length is 30 to 45 cm and covered with a thick, and woolly layer of fur. Its bill is detecting prey and stirring up mud. Platypus’ eyes and head are small. It has no ears but has ability to sense sound and light.

Platypus lives in streams, rivers, and lakes. Female platypus usually dig burrows in the streams or river banks. The burrows are blocked with soil to protect it from intruders and flooding. In the other hand, male platypus does not need any burrow to stay.