Definition, Social Function, Language Features, Types of Caption

Meaningful Words

1. “Looking at a picture without a caption is like watching TV with the sound turned off.” Robert J. Courtemanche , CJE

2. A photograph is worth a thousand words. This message can be problematic because the viewers may come up with a thousand different messages. Therefore it is important to write strong photo captions so that the intended message comes through

3. BASIC COMPETENCE 3.3 Membedakan fungsi sosial, struktur teks, dan unsur kebahasaan beberapa teks khusus dalam bentuk teks caption, dengan memberi dan meminta informasi terkait gambar /foto/tabel/grafik/ bagan, sesuai dengan konteks penggunaannya 4.3 Teks penyerta gambar (caption) Menangkap makna secara kontekstual terkait fungsi sosial, struktur teks, dan unsur kebahasaan teks khusus dalam bentuk caption terkait gambar/foto/tabel/grafik/bagan Menyusun teks khusus dalam bentuk teks caption terkait gambar/foto/tabel/grafik/bagan, dengan memperhatikan fungsi sosial, struktur teks, dan unsur kebahasaan, secara benar dan sesuai konteks

4. LEARNING OBJECTIVES Students will: - Examine a picture for details. - Create captions appropriate for a picture. - Know what information they need in order to create a caption. - Write more captions appropriate for other pictures.

5. WE CAN FIND CAPTIONS FROM … Newspapers Magazine Internet Books TV Most print material t ha t has picture

6. LANGUAGE FEATURES OF CAPTION Exclamation 01 Question 02 Adjective Phrase 03 Prepositional Phrase 04