Explanation_text_power_point for sma.ppt

Explanation_text_power_point for sma.ppt

1. When do I use it?
To tell or explain
how things work
or why something
happens.

2. What features might I
find inside?
• Technical or scientific words
• Action verbs
• Sequencing words or connectives
• Simple present or passive forms

3. Concluding
Statement
You may want
to include
interesting
comments
about what you
have explained.
Explanation Sequence
Use time words and connectives
to describe or explain a process.
You can include diagrams or
flowcharts, which you will need
to comment on.
Introduction
Write what is going to be
explained.

4. What should I write?
Introduction
Write what is going to be
explained. It may include a
description, question or a
brief description.

5. What should I
write? Explanation Sequence
Explain how something works:
•What it is used for
•What each part does
•How the part work together
•How to use it
Explain why something happens:
•How and why it start
•What happens next, after that, finally.

6. What should I write?
Concluding Statement
You may want to include
interesting comments, a
summary, or a recommendation
about what you have explained.

7. Differences:
Explanation text
o Describe how
certain phenomenon
or event happens

o Formed in the mode
of description
Procedure text
- Describe how to make
something which is
close to our daily activity
- formed in the mode of
instruction

8. -Introduce your topic with a definition or
brief description
-Explain important points in order
-Sum up or comment
-New paragraph for each point
-Style impersonal, second or third person.

9. Why Tadpoles Change
First, the female frog lays lots of eggs so some will survive from
being eaten by fish and other animals. The eggs are smakk and
often laid inside white foam.
Next, the eggs hatch into tadpoles. Tadpoles have gills so
they can breath under water and a strong tail to help them swim.
As the tadpoles grow bigger, they start to change because
they need to become a frog. Their tail becomes smaller and they
begin growing legs. The back legs grow firs followed by the front legs.
Tadpoles also start to develop lungs because they have to
be ready to breathe on land when they become a frog.
Frogs are amphibians. Amphibians spend part of their lives
under water. Young frogs start their life in water as tadpoles.
Tadpoles may be found in billabongs, lakes, swamps or even
in puddles after heavy rain.
Scientific wordsAction verbs Sequencing words and cause and effect

10. Inside the Honey Stomach
Nectar
Water
Nectar
in cell
Wax Cap

11. 1. From where do the bees drink nectar?
The bees drink nectar from
the flower
2. How do they drink it?
Long Tongue

The bees drink nectar by
using its long tongue

12. 3. Inside the honey stomach, what does
the enzyme change nectar into?
The enzyme change nectar
into fructose and glucose
2. After the bee return to their hive, what
do they spit from their honey stomach?
Spit nectar

They spit nectar from their
honey stomach
fructose
glucose

13. 5. What happen to the nectar after the
heat evaporate the water?
It changes into honey
6. How do the bees cover the cell?
They cover the cell with a
wax cap
Water
Nectar
in cell
Wax Cap

14. Rewrite all answers and arrange them
into a paragraph by putting some
connectors!
First, bees drink nectar from flowers using their long
tongue. Their tongue helps them to reach the nectar
inside the flower.
Then, bees store the nectar in a special sac called
a honey stomach. Inside the stomach, special enzyme
changes nectar into two sugars called fructose and
glucose.
After the bees return to their hive, they spit the
nectar from its honey stomach into one of the cells.
Next, the heat in the hive evaporate water from
the nectar and it turns into honey.
Finally, the bees cover the cell with a wax cap.

15. Write general statement and concluding paragraph to
compose explanation text!
First, bees drink nectar from flowers using their long tongue.
Their tongue helps them to reach the nectar inside the flower.
Then, bees store the nectar in a special sac called a honey
stomach. Inside the stomach, special enzyme changes nectar into
two sugars called fructose and glucose.
After the bees return to their hive, they spit the nectar from its
honey stomach into one of the cells.
Next, the heat in the hive evaporate water from the nectar
and it turns into honey.
Finally, the bees cover the cell with a wax cap.
Bees are the only insects which produce food for humans.
The food the honey bee produces is unique, good tasting, beneficial
and nutricious. So, how does a bee make honey?
Thousands of worker bees can produce over 200 pounds of
honey for the colony in a year. Imagine if there are no bees on this
earth!

16. Compose explanation text based on this
diagram by using your own words!

17. Thank you