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Explanation

Text
How or Why
1. What is an
explanation text?

Explanation text is a text that talks about

● how things work or are formed or made

● why things happen


How things work Why things happen
• How does Tsunami
happen?
• Why was Eiffel Tower
• How is ice-cream made? Built?

• How does water cycle • Why do we pay tax?


work?
• Why is Summer
• How is the life cycle of Daylight Longer than
butterflies? Winter Daylight
• How is chocolate made?
2. Social function

The social function of explanation text is to explain how


something works or why something occurs
3. Generic Structure
Sequenced
explanation
General
statement states a series
of logical steps
is used to explaining how
introduce the or why
topic of something
explanation. occurs.
05
Examples of
explanation text
How is chocolate made?
Have we wondered how we get chocolate from? Well this time we will enter the amazing world
of chocolate so we can understand exactly how chocolate is made.
Chocolate is taken from a tree called cacao tree. This tree grows in equatorial regions, especially
in place such as South America, Africa, and Indonesia. The cacao tree produces a fruit about the size
of a small pine apple. In side the fruits are the tree's seeds. They are also known as coco beans.
Next, the beans are fermented for about a week, dried in the sun. After that they are shipped to
the chocolate makers. The chocolate makers work by roasting the beans to bring out the flavour.
The beans from different places have different qualities and flavour. So they are often sorted and
blended to produce a distinctive mix.
The next process is winnowing. The roasted beans are winnowed to remove the meat nib of the
cacao beans from the shell. Then the nibs are blended. The blended nibs are ground to make liquid.
The liquid is called chocolate liquor. It tastes bitter.
All seeds contain amount of fat and cacao beans are not different. However, cacao beans are half
fats. They are pure bitter chocolates.
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The life cycle of a Monarch butterfly:
Did you know that a butterfly begins life as a caterpillar? Butterflies are
insects which go through a complete life cycle made up of four stages. This
includes egg, larva, pupa and the adult stage.

Egg stage
First, a female monarch butterfly lays a small, round egg on a suitable leaf. This
is important because once the egg hatches the leaf will provide all the food.
Then, after around four days the egg hatches and a larva also known as a
caterpillar emerges.

Larva stage:
Then in the larva stage, the small caterpillar gets straight to work and begins
eating the leaf around it. For around 2 weeks the caterpillar eats and eats and
sheds its skins four times in this stage as a result of it becoming larger.

Pupa stage:
After that, when the caterpillar is two weeks old it will find a place to create
its chrysalis and shed its skin one last time. This is usually on the underside of a
leaf. This is known as the pupa stage and lasts for 8 to 10 days. Inside the
chrysalis, the caterpillar is developing wings to transform into a beautiful
butterfly.

Adult stage:
Finally, once the 10 days have been completed the butterfly slowly emerges
from the chrysalis and it begins to create a straw out of its proboscis. It then
sucks the nectar through the straw. The blood pumps through the body of the Week 3: Explanation text - Rutherford House School
butterfly and into the developing wings therefore causing them to fully expand
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in a few minutes. The transformation of a butterfly is then complete.
IELTS Writing task 1 - Diagram
The diagram below shows the manufacturing
process for making sugar from sugar cane.

Summarise the information by selecting and


reporting the main features, and make
comparisons where relevant.

Write at least 150 words


IELTS Writing task 1 - Diagram

The diagram below shows the


manufacturing process for making sugar
from sugar cane.

Summarise the information by selecting and


reporting the main features, and make
comparisons where relevant.
The diagram given provides information about how sugar is manufactured
from sugar cane. Introduction

Overall, there are four stages in the process of making sugar, namely
farming, crushing, purifying, and drying. Overview
Body Paragraph 1
Firstly, sugar canes are grown in the field and it takes 12-18 months to be able to
be harvested, which can be done manually or mechanically. Manual labor involves
farmers removing the leaves before cutting the canes, while if harvested using a
machine, it will directly cut the canes without taking away the leaves.
Sugar canes are then taken into a factory to be crushed in a mill so as to extract the
juice, which is later on purified using a limestone filter to get rid of unwanted
substances. The refined juice is next heated in an evaporator to remove water, which
then turns the juice into syrup. What is next is that the syrup is put into a centrifuge to
separate sugar crystals from syrup. Finally, the crystals are taken out to be dried and
cooled to be sugar product. Body Paragraph 2
The diagram given provides information about how sugar is manufactured from
sugar cane.
Overall, there are four stages in the process of making sugar, namely farming,
crushing, purifying, and drying.
Firstly, sugar canes are grown in the field and it takes 12-18 months to be able to be
harvested, which can be done manually or mechanically. Manual labor involves
farmers removing the leaves before cutting the canes, while if harvested using a
machine, it will directly cut the canes without taking away the leaves.
Sugar canes are then taken into a factory to be crushed in a mill so as to extract the
juice, which is later on purified using a limestone filter to get rid of unwanted
substances. The refined juice is next heated in an evaporator to remove water,
which then turns the juice into syrup. What is next is that the syrup is put into a
centrifuge to separate sugar crystals from syrup. Finally, the crystals are taken out to
be dried and cooled to be sugar product.
English practical test
● You are required to work on the groups of three.
● You are asked to summarize the information by selecting and
reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
● Write at least 150 words.
● Every member should take part.
● You are strictly not allowed to copy-paste. If so, you can’t get higher
than 70.
● Write it neatly on a piece of paper and submit it by May 20
The diagram illustrates how
bees produce honey.

Summarise the information


by selecting and reporting
the main features, and
make comparisons where
relevant.

Write at least 150 words


The diagram below shows
the recycling process of
aluminium cans.

Summarise the information


by selecting and reporting
the main features, and
make comparisons where
relevant.

Write at least 150 words


The diagram below shows
the process for recycling
plastic bottles.

Summarise the information


by selecting and reporting
the main features, and
make comparisons where
relevant.

Write at least 150 words

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