Report Text

REPORT TEXT

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The purpose of report texts is to describe the way things are such as a man-made thing, animals, and plants.

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The text organization of report texts is as follows. a. General Classification (Introducing the topic of the report text such as the class or sub-class) b. Identification (Giving the shape/ form, parts, behavior, habitat, way of survival)

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The language features of report texts are as follows. a. The use general nouns (e.g.: lions, komodos, tornados, orchids, etc) b. The use of relating verbs (e.g.: is, are, has) c. The use of present tenses (e.g.: Lions are called the king of beasts.) d. The use of behavioral verbs (e.g.: Lions hunt smaller animals and feed on them.) e. The use of technical terms (e.g.: When the lion is young, the hair of his mane is yellow. When he is old, the hair is sometimes black.)