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Secara umum teks ini digunakan untuk melaporkan suatu peristiwa, kejadian atau kegiatan yang terjadi di masa lampau. Kata kerja yang digunakan biasanya menggunakan kata kerja ke dua (Verb 2).

Tujuan

Melaporkan peristiwa, pengalaman, atau kegiatan di waktu lampau dengan tujuan memberitakan atau menghibur.

Struktur Umum Teks (Generic Structure)

• Orientation (pengenalan): yaitu bagian paragraph yang memberikan informasi tentang siapa, di mana dan kapan terjadinya.
• Events (peristiwa): yaitu bagian paragraph yang memberikan informasi tentang kejadian atau kronologis suatu peristiwa yang terjadi.
• Re-orientation (penutup cerita/pengenalan ulang) yaitu bagian paragraph yang berisi rangkuman rentetan peristiwa / kegiatan yang telah diceritakan pada bagian sebelumnya dengan sebuah penutup.

Ciri kebahasaan (Language Features)

• Menggunakan Nouns dan pronouns sebagai kata ganti untuk orang, hewan atau benda yang terlibat; misalnya Andy, he, she, we, the dog, the librarians, dsb.
• Action verb atau kata kerja tindakan. Misalnya; go, bring, help, drink, dsb.
• Past tense; misalnya Rudy spoke English yesterday. They were there, dsb.
• Conjunctions and time connectives yang mengurutkan suatu peristiwa atau kegiatan; misalnya and, but, then, after that dsb.
• Adverb and adverb phrases untuk mengungkapkan tempat, waktu dan cara;misalnya tomorrow, at home, carefully, dsb.
• Adjectives untuk menerangkan nouns, misalnya beautiful, soft, black, dsb.

Referensi (Reference)

Kita biasanya menemukan teks jenis ini pada buku harian, surat pribadi tentang pengalaman penulis, pengalaman seseorang di waktu kecil, pengalaman ketika kunjungan wisata ke sebuah tempat, peristiwa sejarah, biografi tokoh terkenal, dll.

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My Adventure at Leang-Leang Cave

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On Sunday, my parents, my best friend Novi, and I visited a cave at Maros called Leang-leang. It was my first time to visit the cave, better yet, my best friend came to visit it with me!

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The cave was famous for its primitive cave wall paintings which were some hand prints and wild boar paintings. The cave and its surroundings was turned into a national park, so it was taken care of. My parents took a rest in a small hut for visitors of the park, while Novi and I adventured around the cave with a guide. We had to climb some metal stairs to get to the cave, because the cave was embedded into a small mountain. Next stop was a place where some seashells littered the ground and some were actually piled into a big mound. The guide said that these piles of seashells are called kjokkenmoddinger, or kitchen trash. The humans who lived here ate the shells and dumped the left overs in their 'kitchen'. The last place was a small museum where they have skeletons of the humans who lived in the caves. The skeletons along with some roughly made jewelry and weapons were placed inside glass cases for display. The walls of the museum were adorned with photographs taken when they did an excavation there.

Re-orientation

After a quick lunch with Novi and my parents, we decided it was time to go back home. We really had the time of our lives.