REPORT TEXT

Definition of a Report Text

A report text is a type of document written by someone or group of people to announce the result of an
investigation or announce something to the proper authorities. The information given in a report text is very
general information.
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Social Function of a Report Text
The purpose of a report text is to present information about something generally. It generally describes the
way things are with reference to arrange of natural, manmade and social phenomenon in our environment,
such as: mammals, the planets, rocks, plants, countries of region, cultures, transportations, and so on .

The General Characteristics of a Report Text

The characteristics of a report text can be seen from its generic structures and linguistic features. Those
characteristics will be explained below.

A. Generic structures
Title
A title of a report text indicates the topic of the text and it is a very general thing.
General Classification
A general classification is a part that state classification of general aspect of things, such as: animals, public
places, plants, etc. It will be discussed in general.
Description
This part gives describing of the things which will be discussed in detail, in terms of: parts (and their
function), qualities, habits and behavior.

B. Linguistic features
Focus on generic participant.
A report text always introduces group or general aspect and focus on general nouns, such as: Platypus,
Bees, etc.
A report text uses relating verb and action verb, for example:
Relating verb : Reptiles are scalyanimal,etc.
Action verb : Birds fly in the sky, etc.
A report text uses of simple present tense, for example: Platypus lives in streams, male platypus does not
need any burrow, etc
The language used in a report text is a scientific language, for example: water contains oxygen and
hydrogen, etc.
A report text uses Conditionals and logical connectives, such as: but, in other hand, etc.

Differences between Report Text and Descriptive Text

Some text types are quite difficult to differ. Such a report and a descriptive text have the similarities in the
social function and generic structure. However, if they are analyzed carefully, the slight difference between
the two text types will reveal.
The purposes of the two texts are to give the live description of the object/participant. Both of a report and a
descriptive text try to show rather than tell the reader about the factual condition of the object. Readers by
themselves will catch the impressive point of the object through that showing writing style. What makes
different, between report and descriptive text is the scope of the written object. If we talk about, e.g.:
bicycle, it belongs to a report text. It will talk about bicycle in general in terms of its parts, physical strength,
and function for certain people or other general characters of bike. In the other hand, descriptive text will
convey more focus, for example "my bicycle" with its specific characters, such as: color, length, wheel style,
etc.
In short, a report text describes the way of certain things and frequently refer to phenomenon of nature,
animal and scientific object. Mostly, a report is written after getting careful observation. This scientific and
technical sense makes clearer difference from descriptive text. The way of descriptive text in showing thing
is based on the objective fact of the thing. It describes the specific thing simply as the thing is.
Venice
Venice is a city in northern Italy. It is the capital of region Veneto. Together with Padua, the city is
included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area. Venice has been known as the Queen of the Adriatic,
City of Water, City of Bridges, and The City of Light. The city stretches across 117 small islands in the
marshy Venetian Lagoon along the Adriatic Sea in northeast Italy.
Venice is world-famous for its canals. It is built on an archipelago of 117 islands formed by about 150
canals in a shallow lagoon. The islands on which the city is built are connected by about 400 bridges. In the
old center, the canals serve the function of roads, and every form of transport is on water or on foot.
You can ride gondola there. It is the classical Venetian boat which nowadays is mostly used for tourists, or
for weddings, funerals, or other ceremonies. Now, most Venetians travel by motorized waterbuses
(vaporetti) which ply regular routes along the major canals and between the citys islands. The city also
has many private boats. The only gondolas still in common use by Venetians are the traghetti, foot
passenger ferries crossing the Grand Canal at certain points without bridges.
You can see the amusing citys landmarks such as Piazza San Marco, Palazzo Contarini del
Bovolo, Saint Marks Cathedral or villas of the Veneto. The villas of the Veneto, rural residences for nobles
during the Republic, are one of the most interesting aspects of Venetian countryside. They are surrounded
by elegant gardens, suitable for fashionable parties of high society. The city is also well known for its
beautiful and romantic view, especially at night.

Cats

Cats also called the domestic cat or house cat (with its scientific name: Felis silvestris catus or Felis catus) is a type of
carnivorous mammal of the family Felidae. The word "cat" generally refers to a "cat" that has been tamed, but can also
refer to the "big cats" such as lions and tigers.

Cats are considered as "perfect carnivore" with teeth and particular digestive tract. The first premolar and molar teeth
form a pair of fangs on each side of the mouth that works effectively as a pair of scissors to tear the meat. Although
these features also exist in the Canidae or dog, but these traits are better developed in cats. Unlike other carnivores,
cats eat almost non vegetable substance. Bears and dogs sometimes eat berries, roots, or honey as a supplement,
while cats only eat meat, usually freshly killed prey. In captivity, cats can not adapt to a vegetarian diet because they
can not synthesize all the amino acids they need from plant material; it is in contrast with domesticated dogs, which
commonly are fed a mixture of meat and vegetables and sometimes it can adapt to a completely vegetarian meal.

Cats have mingled with human life since at least 6000 BC, from the skeleton of the cat found on the island of Cyprus.
The ancient Egyptians of 3500 BC have used cats to keep away the rats or other rodents from the barn where the
crops were saved.Currently, the cat is one of the most popular pet in the world. Cats that his lines are recorded
officially as a cat breeds or pure breed are Persian, Siamese, Manx, and the sphinx. These kinds of cat are usually
bred in official captivity animal. The number of purebred cat is only 1% of all cats in the world; the rest is a cat with
mixed ancestry such as wild cats or domestic cats.

Mobile Phone

A mobile phone (also known as a wireless phone, or cellular telephone) is a very small portable radio telephone.

The mobile phone can be used to communicate over long distances without wires. It works by communicating with a
nearby base station (also called a "cell site") which connects it to the main phone network. As the mobile phone moves
around, if the mobile phone gets too far away from the cell it is connected to, that cell sends a message to another cell
to tell the new cell to take over the call. This is called a "hand off," and the call continues with the new cell the phone is
connected to. The hand-off is done so well and carefully that the user will usually never even know that the call was
transferred to another cell.

As mobile phones became more popular, they began to cost less money, and more people could afford them. Monthly
plans became available for rates as low as US$30 or US$40 a month. Cell phones have become so cheap to own that
they have mostly replaced pay phones and phone booths except for urban areas with many people.

Laptop

Laptop, often called a notebook, is a portable personal computer with a clamshell form factor, suitable for mobile use.
Although originally there was a distinction between laptops and notebooks, the former being bigger and heavier than
the latter, as of 2014, there is often no longer any difference. Laptops are commonly used in a variety of settings, such
as at work, in education, and for personal multimedia.

A laptop combines the components, inputs, outputs and capabilities of a desktop computer, including the display
screen, speakers, a keyboard, and pointing devices (such as a touchpad or trackpad) into a single unit. Most 2016-era
laptops also have integrated webcams and built-in microphones. The device can be powered either from a
rechargeable battery or by mains electricity from an AC adapter. Laptops are diverse devices and specialised kinds,
such as rugged notebooks for use in construction or convertible computers, have been optimized for specific uses.
The hardware specifications, such as the processor speed and memory capacity significantly vary between different
types, makes, and models.
 Flags

A flag is a piece of fabric (most often rectangular or quadrilateral) with a distinctive design that is used as a symbol, as
a signaling device, or as decoration. The term flag is also used to refer to the graphic design employed, and flags have
since evolved into a general tool for rudimentary signalling and identification, especially in environments where
communication is similarly challenging (such as the maritime environment where semaphore is used).

National flags are potent patriotic symbols with varied wide-ranging interpretations. Flags are also used in messaging,
advertising, or for other decorative purposes. The study of flags is known as vexillology, from the Latin word vexillum,
meaning flag or banner.

Otter

Otter is a common name for a carnivorous mammal in the subfamily Lutrinae. The 13 extant otter species are all
semiaquatic, aquatic or marine, with diets based on fish and invertebrates. Lutrinae is a branch of the weasel family
Mustelidae, which also includes badgers, honey badgers, martens, minks, polecats, weasels and wolverines.
The word otter derives from the Old English word otor or oter. This, and cognate words in other Indo-European
languages, ultimately stem from the Proto-Indo-European language root *wdr, which also gave rise to the English
word "water".

An otter's den is called a Holt or Couch. Male otters are called dogs or boars, females are called bitches or sows, and
their offspring are called pups.The collective nouns for otters are bevy, family, lodge, romp (being descriptive of their
often playful nature) or, when in water, raft.

Country

A country is a region that is identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent
sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or
a geographic region associated with sets of previously independent or differently associated people with distinct
political characteristics. Regardless of the physical geography, in the modern internationally accepted legal definition
as defined by the League of Nations in 1937 and reaffirmed by the United Nations in 1945, a resident of a country is
subject to the independent exercise of legal jurisdiction.

Sometimes the word countries is used to refer both to sovereign states and to other political entities, while other times
it refers only to states. For example, the CIA World Factbook uses the word in its "Country name" field to refer to "a
wide variety of dependencies, areas of special sovereignty, uninhabited islands, and other entities in addition to the
traditional countries or independent states".

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town, with a
population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village
is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however,
transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly
over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement.

Although many patterns of village life have existed, the typical village was small, consisting of perhaps 5 to 30 families.
Homes were situated together for sociability and defence, and land surrounding the living quarters was farmed.

Mouse-Deer

Mouse-deer, are small ungulates that make up the family Tragulidae, the only members of the infraorder Tragulina.
They are found mostly in forests in South and Southeast Asia, with a single species in the rainforests of Central and
West Africa.

Mouse-deer have primitive features, closer to non-ruminants such as pigs. All species in the family lack of horns, but
both sexes have elongated canine teeth. These are especially prominent in males, where they project out on either
side of the lower jaw, and are used in fights. Their legs are short and thin, which make them lack in agility, but also
helps them maintain a smaller profile to aid in running through the dense foliage of their environments.

They are solitary or live in pairs. The young are weaned at three months of age, and reach sexual maturity between
five and 10 months. Parental care is relatively limited. Although they lack the types of scent glands found in most other
ruminants, they do have a chin gland for marking each other as mates or antagonists, and, in the case of the water
chevrotain, anal and preputial glands for marking territory. Their territories are relatively small, on the order of 1324
hectares (3259 acres), but neighbors generally ignore each other, rather than compete aggressively.
 Dates

Botanically, dates are the fruits which grow on the palm tree belonging to the family of Arecaceae, in the genus:
Phoenix, and scientifically named as Phoenix dactylifera. The tree is believed to originate in the lands on the banks of
Nile and Euphrates Rivers of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Date palm is now grown extensively for its edible fruits
under warmer climates across all the continents.

The date fruit is a "drupe", in which its outer fleshy part (exocarp and mesocarp) surrounds the seed inside. The fruit is
oval to cylindrical in shape, 37 cms long, and 23 cms diameter, and ripe dates range from golden-yellow, amber,
bright-red to deep-brown depending on the cultivar type.

There are many varieties of date palm cultivated. Amir Hajj, Saidy, 'Khadrawy' and 'Medjool' are some of the
important varieties popular for their rich taste, flavor, and superior quality. Wonderfully delicious, dates are one of the
most popular fruits packed with an impressive list of essential nutrients, vitamins, and minerals that are required for
normal growth.

Drone

A drone is an unmanned aircraft. The term drone, more widely used by the public, refers to the resemblance of dumb-
looking navigation and loud-and-regular motor sounds to the male bee. Drone is also known as an unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV), as an unmanned aircraft system (UAS), or by several other names.

The flight of UAVs may operate with various degrees of autonomy: either under remote control by a human operator,
or fully autonomously, by computers. A UAV uses aerodynamic forces to provide vehicle lift and can fly autonomously
or be piloted remotely. It can also be expendable or recoverable, and can carry a lethal or nonlethal payload."

Dolphin
Dolphins are very intelligent animals and they are benign to humans. This water mammals are able to fascinate
us in many different ways. These mammals live in a group. They have been known to help humans in a variety
of circumstances including rescue and fishing.

There are 36 species of dolphins that have been found. 32 species are dolphins the sea is already well known by
the people and 4 species are river dolphins. Its very interesting to see and learn about the dolphin species

Dolphins can be very entertaining. They can jump out of the water. Some of them can jump up to 30 feet in the
air. The dolphins are grayish blue and his skin is very sensitive to human touch and other objects.

Although the dolphins have 100 teeth, they dont use their teeth to eat. They use it to get fish then they swallow
the fish. They can consume fish up to 15 kg per day. They always gather in a group to hunt fish

Lion
Lion lives in prairie, bushes, and open forests of Saharan, Africa. Lion is the second biggest feline on the planet.
Its size is marginally littler than tiger. Be that as it may, they are nearly related and have fundamentally the same
body. Lion is unique in relation to other enormous felines. They are extremely amiable creatures. They live in
gatherings. There are around 30 lions in a gathering comprising of three guys, twelve females, and whatever
remains of their kids. The quantity of gathering individuals is dictated by the accessibility of nourishment and
water.

They thunder one another to track their spot. Male and female lions have a capable thunder that can be heard up
to 8 km. Male and female lion have an altogether different part in the gathering. Male lions invest their energy to
keep their domain and their youngsters. They keep up their limits. While female lions or lioness is the primary
seeker bunch. They are littler and more spry than male lions. Anyway, they cooperate in getting their prey.

They generally chase around evening time. Their prey are gazelle, bison, zebra, rhinos, hippos, wild pig,
crocodile, youthful elephants, and giraffe. At the same time, in some cases they likewise eat the littler prey, for
example, rodents, flying creatures, rabbits, reptiles, and turtles.

In the wake of getting their prey, all the lions in the gathering impart their prey. However, there is a pecking
request. The male lions take the first claim, trailed by lionesses, and the latter is their kids.
Snakes
Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from
legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote
vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than
their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads with their highly mobile jaws.
To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other
instead of side by side, and most have only one functional lung. Some species retain a pelvic girdle with a pair of
vestigial claws on either side of the cloaca.

Living snakes are found on every continent except Antarctica, and on most smaller land masses; exceptions
include some large islands, such as Ireland and New Zealand, and many small islands of the Atlantic and central
Pacific. Additionally, sea snakes are widespread throughout the Indian and Pacific Oceans. More than 20
families are currently recognized, comprising about 500 genera and about 3,400 species. They range in size
from the tiny, 10 cm-long thread snake to the reticulated python of up to 6.95 meters (22.8 ft) in length. The fossil
species Titanoboa cerrejonensis was 13 meters (43 ft) long. Snakes are thought to have evolved from either
burrowing or aquatic lizards, perhaps during the Jurassic period, with the earliest known fossils dating to
between 143 and 167 Ma ago.The diversity of modern snakes appeared during the Paleocene period (c 66 to 56
Ma ago). The oldest preserved descriptions of snakes can be found in the Brooklyn Papyrus

Donkey
The donkey or ass (Equus africanus asinus), is a domesticated member of the horse family, Equidae. The wild
ancestor of the donkey is the African wild ass, E. africanus. The donkey has been used as a working animal for
at least 5000 years. There are more than 40 million donkeys in the world, mostly in underdeveloped countries,
where they are used principally as draught or pack animals. Working donkeys are often associated with those
living at or below subsistence levels. Small numbers of donkeys are kept for breeding or as pets in developed
countries.

A male donkey or ass is called a jack, a female a jenny or jennet; a young donkey is a foal. Jack donkeys are
often used to mate with female horses to produce mules the biological reciprocal of a mule, from a stallion
and jenny as its parents instead, is called a hinny.

Asses were first domesticated around 3000 BC, probably in Egypt or Mesopotamia, and have spread around the
world. They continue to fill important roles in many places today. While domesticated species are increasing in
numbers, the African wild ass and another relative, the onager, are endangered. As beasts of burden and
companions, asses and donkeys have worked together with humans for millennia.