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A. Definition

    Report text is a text that describes something in general. Every text has a communicative purpose. Communicative purpose of report text is to present information about something in general. 

B. Generic Structure

1. General classification : Stating classification of general aspect of thing; animal, public place, plant, etc which will be discussed in general

2. Description : Describing the thing which will be discussed in detail; part per part , customs or deed for living creature and usage for materials and things

C. Language Features

• Introducing group or general aspect

• Using conditional logical connection; when, so, etc

• Using simple present tense

SONG

#definition

Understanding the social function and language features of songs to learn the words, feelings and rhymes in songs, according to the contexts.

Here are some points to learn:

1. Words in songs.

What does “a certain word” mean?

Songs are similar to poems. There are beautiful words in songs and poems. Some of the words are new for us. To help us understand the songs, we need to know the meanings of the difficult words. Looking up the dictionary will certainly help us know the meanings of the words and enrich our vocabulary.

2. Synonyms and antonyms.

Singing and reading the lyrics of songs will help up enrich vocabulary by trying to find the synonym and antonym of the difficult words. We have to check the words in the dictionary and make notes.

3. Rhymes of the songs.

Learning the rhymes of the songs will help us learning how to pronounce the words. Pronunciation is an important aspect to learn when we learn a language. If we miss pronounce words, other will not understand what we are saying.

4. The feelings of the singer.

Songs and the lyrics show how the singers feel. Songs can suggest happiness, sadness, ignorance, care, hopes, love, friendship, and others.

5. How to understand a complete song.

Read the lyrics of this song:

I Believe I Can Fly

I used to think that I could not go on

And life was nothing but an awful song

But now I know the meaning of true love

I’m leaning on the everlasting arms

If I can see it, then I can do it

If I just believe it, there’s nothing to it

I believe I can fly

I believe I can touch the sky

I think about it every night and day

Spread my wings and fly away

I believe I can soar

I see me running through that open door

I believe I can fly

I believe I can fly

I believe I can fly

See I was on the verge of breaking down

Sometimes silence can seem so loud

There are miracles in life I must achieve

But first I know it starts inside of me

Sung by R.Kelly, taken from www.metrolyrics.com

From the song, we can learn:

• Meanings of words.

We can find some words that we don’t understand by looking up a dictionary.

For example:

Soar : in the dictionary, we find the meaning: to fly, especially very high up in the sky, floating in air currents.

• Same rhymes.

For example:

Fly /flaI/ - sky /skaI/

Down /daun/ - loud /laud/

• Synonyms

Find the synonyms or the similar meanings to help us enrich our vocabulary.

For example:

Awful - terrible

Silence - quietness

• Antonyms

Find the antonyms to help us enrich our vocabulary.

For example:

Open - closed

True - false

• The feeling of the singer

If we read the complete lyrics, we will see the singer’s feeling.

The first line of the first verse, the singer used to feel that he could not go on. But, the third line of the same verse, the singer now understands true love. He believes he can do what he wants to do as long as he believes it.

The singer is grateful that now he is optimist in living his life.

Biography

Biography Definition

A biography is simply a bio that gives an account or detailed description about the life of a person. It entails basic facts such as childhood, education, career, relationships, family and death. Biography is a literary genre that portrays the experiences of all these events occurred in the life of a person mostly in a chronological order. Unlike a resume or profile, biography provides life story of a subject, highlighting different aspects of his/her life. The person or the writer, who writes biographies, is called as a biographer.

Types of Biography

There are three types of biography:

Autobiography

It tells the story of a person’s life, who writes it himself or herself. However, sometimes he/she may take guidance from a ghostwriter or collaborator.

Biography

It narrates the life story of a person written by another person or writer. It is further divided into five categories:

Popular biography

Historical biography

Literary biography

Reference biography

Fictional biography

Memoir

This is a more focused term than an autobiography or a biography. In a memoir, a writer himself/herself narrates the details of a particular event or situation occurred in his/her lifetime.

#example:

Raisa Andriana

Raisa (born Raisa Andriana, 6 June 1990 in Jakarta, Indonesia), is an Indonesian recording artist. She came to prominence with the song "Serba Salah". Before becoming a solo singer, Raisa was the vocalist of the band formed by Kevin Aprilio called Andante.

Raisa's singing talents had been seen since her earlier age. When she was 3, little Raisa often pretended to be a singer on stage.

She was the vocalist of Andante, a band founded by Kevin Aprilio. Andante was the earlier version of the band Vierra which is founded in 2008. There were five members of the band: Raisa Andriana, Widi Soediro, Raka Cyril, Satrianda Widjanarko, and Kevin Aprilio himself. Raisa got eliminated from the band because the label wanted a different concept.

Raisa was also a regular singer in cafes. She got many opportunities from being a regular cafe singer.

Raisa started gaining recognition for singing "Serba Salah" (All I Do is Wrong), and she became one of the guest stars on Java Jazz Festival 2011. After performing on the prestigious event, she started to gain popularity in Indonesian music scene. Raisa won an award in Anugerah Musik Indonesia (Indonesian Music Awards) as Best Newcomer.

Her first, self-titled album Raisa was produced and released in 2011 by Solid Records and Universal Music Indonesia. Producers of the album were three young musicians from Indonesian bands, named Asta Andoko (RAN), Ramadhan Handy (Soulvibe), and Adrianto Ario Seto (Soulvibe), supported by Nanda Oka and Asta Andoko as Executive Producers of Solid Records.

Raisa launched her second album titled Heart to Heart on November 27, 2013. Tracks from the album remained on top positions for the entire year. Upon the press conference for the launching of this album, she gave a clear statement that she's here to stay, and there surely will be a third, fourth, fifth album and so on. She also held a mini-concert for the press and 300 fans who got chosen from pre-ordering her album.

In 2014, Raisa was appointed as a guest judge for the talent show television Indonesian Idol Season 8. At first, she was a guest judge but was later appointed to replace the position. In February 2015, Walt Disney Pictures picked Raisa to sing the soundtrack "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes" of Indonesian version, titled "Mimpi Adalah Harapan Hati" for Disney's remake of Cinderella.

Raisa was collaboration with singer Afgan for soundtrack film London Love Story, titled "Percayalah" in 2015. She released her third studio album Handmade (2016) with under label Juni Records and produced the singles "Jatuh Hati" and "Kali Kedua".

In April 2016, Raisa was held concert "Handmade Showcase" which held on Ciputra Artpreneur. Previously, Raisa was took with one of e-commerce for her pre-order album and also presented in the form of Handmade' boxset. She preparing a tour in major Indonesian cities, Handmade Tour which will began on August and stopping off on September.

In June 2016, Raisa was a guest star for the Grand Final of The Voice Indonesia Season 2. She sang "Cahaya Cantik Harimu". Raisa appointed as guest star at the Peabo Bryson' Live in Concert - Celebrating 40 Years of Magic in The Hall, Senayan City and sang "Beauty and the Beast" and "A Whole New World" with him.

CONDITIONAL SENTENCES

>Conditional Sentences are also known as Conditional Clauses or If Clauses. They are used to express that the action in the main clause (without if) can only take place if a certain condition (in the clause with if) is fulfilled.

>Function

Conditional Sentences are sentences used to express supposition of an event that has not happened, or even impossible.Conditionals has several forms that represent different forms of time,in other words,the form of conditional sentence will depend on the assumed form of the event.

1.Conditional Sentence Type 1

•Often called the "real" conditional because it is used for real or possible situations. These situations take place if a certain condition is met. It is possible and also very likely that the condition will be fulfilled.

Form:

If + Simple Present, + Simple Future

>Use

Conditional Sentences Type 1 refer to the future. An action in the future will only happen if a certain condition is fulfilled by that time. We don't know for sure whether the condition actually will be fulfilled or not, but the conditions seems rather realistic – so we think it is likely to happen

If in first sentences :

if + condition, result/consequence

if + simple present, (will + bare infinitive)/imperative

If in center senteces :

result/consequence + if + condition

(will + bare infinitive)/imperative + if + simple present

>Example

1.If it is not cloudy, I will go to school soon

2.If  Yogo replies my message, I will be very happy

3.if my friend is happy, I will meet him to tell the story

4.If you do not understand, I will explain it again

5.If he studies hard, he will pass the exam easily

6.If we love our friends, they will love us too

7.if I keep silent, you will not know what I mean

8.If she is sad, she will ask you to entertain her

9.If Wahid is close, I will suggest him to be patient

10.if they are the students, he will be their teacher

11.If someone looks at you, you will be nervous

12.If you are here, I will be here too

13.Ifyou are happy, I will be happy

14.If I am patient, I will know the benefit

15.If you go to Serulingmas, you will see many animals

PASSIVE VOICE

The passive voice is used to show interest in the person or object that experiences an action rather than the person or object that performs the action. In other words, the most important thing or person becomes the subject of the sentence.

The passive voice is a grammatical construction (specifically, a "voice"). The noun or noun phrase that would be the object of an active sentence (such as Our troops defeated the enemy) appears as the subject of a sentence or clause in the passive voice (e.g. The enemy was defeated by our troops).

Typical formula :

Be + v3

PRESENT

1. Simple Present Tense

S + IS/AM/ARE + V 3

Contohnya:

I am called by the teacher

Mimy is bitten by a little dog

The house is sold by the owner.

2. Present Continuous Tense

S + AM/IS/ARE + BEING + V 3

Contohnya:

I am being called by the teacher

Mimy is being bitten by a little dog

The house is being sold by the owner.

3. Present Perfect Tense

S + HAVE/HAS + BEEN + V 3

Contohnya:

I have been called by the teacher

Mimy has been bitten by a little dog

The house has been sold by the owner.

4. Present Perfect Continuous Tense

S + HAS/HAVE + BEEN + BEING + V 3

Contohnya:

I have been being called by the teacher

Mimy has been being bitten by a little dog

The house has been being sold by the owner.

PAST

1. Simple Past Tense

S + WAS/WERE + V 3

Contohnya:

We were called by the teacher

Mimy was bitten by a little dog

The house was sold by the owner.

2. Past Continuous Tense

S + WAS/WERE + BEING + V 3

Contohnya:

We were being called by the teacher

Mimy was being bitten by a little dog

The house was being sold by the owner.

3. Past Perfect Tense

S + HAD + BEEN + V 3

Contohnya:

I had been called by the teacher

Mimy had been bitten by a little dog

The house had been sold by the owner.

4. Past Perfect Continuous Tense

S + HAD + BEEN + BEING + V 3

Contohnya:

I had been being called by the teacher

Mimy had been being bitten by a little dog

The house had been being sold by the owner.

FUTURE

1. Simple Future Tense

S + WILL + BE + V 3

Contohnya:

I will be called by the teacher

Mimy will be bitten by a little dog

The house will be sold by the owner.

2. Future Continuous Tense

S + WILL + BE + BEING + V 3

Contohnya:

I will be being called by the teacher

Mimy will be being bitten by a little dog

The house will be being sold by the owner.

3. Future Perfect Tense

S + WILL + HAVE + BEEN + V 3

Contohnya:

I will have been called by the teacher

Mimy will have been bitten by a little dog

The house will have been sold by the owner.

4. Future Perfect Continuous Tense

S + WILL + HAVE + BEEN +BEING + V 3

Contohnya:

I will have been being called by the teacher

Mimy will have been being bitten by a little dog

The house will have been being sold by the owner