HORTATORY EXPOSITION TEXT

 What is hortatory exposition text ?

It is a text that is intended to explain which something should or should not happen or be done.

 What is social function of hortatory exposition text?

It is aimed to persuade the readers that something should or should not to be the case.

 What is Generic Structure of hortatory exposition text?

The generic structure of hortatory exposition :
1. Thesis : an explanation of issue concern
2. Arguments : reasons for concern, leading to recommendation
3. Recommendation: a statement of what ought or ought not to happen or be done based
on the given arguments ( giving suggest/need to do something)

 What is Language Feature of hortatory exposition text?

1. Using simple present tense
2. Using modals
3. Using action verbs (ask, tell, argue, implement, etc)
4. Using thinking verbs (reflect, consider, evaluate, analyze, etc).
5. Using adverbs
6. Using adjective
7. Using conjunction

COVID-19 health protocol violators should be sanctioned

COVID-19 health protocol violators should be sanctioned. As we know,

the number of people infected with the covid virus is still increasing in our Thesis
country, but some people still ignore the health protocol by not wearing mask
and keeping their distance.
Firstly, the violators will continue to ignore the health protocol suggested by
the government if they aren’t sanctioned. By being sanctioned, they will feel Argument 1
deterred and ashamed so that in the future they will obey the rules given.
Secondly, by sanctioning the violators, they will understand responsibility. Not
only does it prevent us from being infected by the virus, but adhering to health
protocols also keep others safe. We may not feel infected, but at least we prevent Argument 2
bad things by continuing to keep distance and wearing masks. That way, we will
fulfill our responsibilities to ourselves and others.
Lastly, giving sanctions to the violators will make them more aware of the danger
of COVID-19. It is said that WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic, which means Argument 3
that this virus is very dangerous, so it is best to continue to maintain health and avoid
COVID-19.
 Therefore, it is needed to be attention accurately and I recommended that the
Recommendation
health protocol violators should be sanctioned because of the reasons given above,
it can be dangerous to others.

Read the text then Analyze it !

How to prepare in facing test

How do you study when the test is coming? Do you start preparing for the test weeks or
months before the test or leave things to the last hour? If you start studying weeks or months
before the test, it is great. However, if you study all the material in the last hour or minute, it is
not good for you. This is called cramming.
Cramming is when students stay up all night until morning to study before a test or finish
an assignment. This habit can lead to negative impacts, the first being that disruptions in the
regular sleep cycle can cause temporary intellectual lapses. For most students, less sleep can
make them could not focus on the class. Additionally, cramming can leave us with memory
lapses as well.
Each person has a different sleeping schedule, so some of them often use a stimulant for
cramming. An example stimulant, and the most common, is coffee. While delicious and
beneficial, it causes many problems in the long-term such as Caffeine Intoxication Syndrome,
anxiety, panic, and headaches.
To sum up, cramming is not recommended because it disturbs a person’s sleep cycle which
causes temporary intellectual lapses, and using stimulants for cramming gives them a bad effect
on their health.
Answer these questions based on the text

1. What is the thesis of the text above ?

2. How many arguments do you find ? explain it.
3. What about the recommendation ?
4. Can you find some sentences in present tense ?

Students’ cheating
Students’ cheating is one of the biggest problems faced by teachers nowadays.
Despite the fact that teachers advise their students not to do dishonest acts during tests, some
students still do cheating. There are many kinds of cheating that students do during the test or
examination, such as looking other students’ work, put some notes under their clothes, write
notes or formulas on their desks make hand signals or go to rest rooms to get the answers from
their friends.
In my view, students who do cheating are committing a crime. It is a sort of taking something
illegally. This crime causes negative results to the students. Students who always cheat
deteriorate their mental capacity. Cheating acts also create dependence.
They weaken their self confidence. Instead of preparing for the coming test, they are busy to
organize notes on a piece of paper. If this awful habit continues, the students will lose their
opportunity to develop their intellectual and mind.
Therefore, school should consider cheating as a very serious problem. School board and
administration should go hand to overcome this matter. Honesty must be put in school’s vision.
Harsh punishment must be applied to students who commit this crime.

1.What is mainly discussed in the text?

2. What will the school do to eliminate students who commit cheating?
3. “Students who always cheat deteriorate their mental capacity.” (Paragraph 3)
The underlined word means…
4. “They weaken their self confidence.” (Paragraph 3)
What does the underlined word refer to?

Complete the text with the correct words from the box !
showing influences encourage make
watch programmes during stopped

We are writing to complain about ads on TV. There are so many ads, especially …….(1)
our favourite programmes. We think they should be …….. (2) for a number of reasons.
First, ads are nuisance. They go on for a long time and there are so many. Sometimes there
seems to be more ads than programmes.
Second, ads are bad influence on people. They try to …….. (3) people to buy unhealthy food
like beer, soft drink, candy and chips. And they ……….(4) people want things they do not really
need and can not.
Finally, the people who make ads have too much say in what programmes people …….(5). That
is because they want to put all their ads on popular programs that a lot of people watch. Some
………(6) which are not so popular get stopped because they do not attract enough ads, even
though those programmes may be someone’s favourite.
For those reasons, we think TV station should stop ………..(7) ads. They interrupt programmes.
They are bad ………..(8) on people, and they are sometimes put a stop to people’s favourite
shows. We are sick of ads, and now we mostly watch other channels.

Arrange the following paragraphs into their correct order

1. Moreover, cigar is not cheap. A good grade cigar costs hundreds of dollars, and it has to be
kept in a special room called humidor in order to maintain its freshness.
2. Probably you have seen in mpvies or reality that most gang bosses, politicians and rich
men smoke cigars just to show off their social status. Cigar smoking, however, has several
disadvantages.
3. Cigar smoking is gaining popularity in United States, Canada, and Hongkong. Particularly
in the US and Hongkong, its consumption rose more than 50 percent between 1993 and
2000, and it’s mostly facilitated by a fad among celebrities.
4. A UK study in 2003 concluded that pipe and cigar smokers had a high risk of heart disease,
stroke and even death and had the same lung cancer risk as light cigarette smokers. So, the
next time you want to try a cigar, think of the consequences before you light it up.
 5. Cigar smoke, like pipe smoke, is not traditionally in haled, and does this make it less
harmful ? No. Research indicates cigars actually produce more tar and carbon monoxide
than cigarretes, and cigar tar is more harmful. The smoke slowly and more easily dissolve
in saliva, delivering a nicotine dose even inhalation.

Read the extract below. Identify its main idea, develop it into a hortatory exposition text
The disavantages of Using Calculator
Thesis :
Argument 1st : Make us lazy
Argument 2nd : Make us not confident with our skill to calculate
Argument 3rd : Make us dependent on calculator
Recommendation :