English assignment about
short functionals and short essays
Group :
1. Lilis Suryani (20)
2. Lutvy Zainnatul Kibtiya (22)
3. Rikha Lilafatu Rohmaya (31)
4. Siti Juariyah (32)
XII
Office Administration Department 2
Vocational High School 1 Pogalan
Tulungagung
Street, No.3 Telp./Fax. (0355) 791371 - 793529
Lesson
Year 2012/2013
TABLE OF
CONTECT
TITLE 1
TABLE OF CONTENT 2
A.
SHORT FUNCTION
1.
Notice 3
2.
Letter 3
a.
Formal Letter 3
b.
Informal Letter 5
3.
Greeting Card 5
4.
Labels/Symbol 7
5.
Invitation 8
6.
Advertisement 9
7.
Announcement 10
8.
Memo or Short
Message 10
9.
Manuals 11
B.
SHORT ESSAY
1.
Descriptive Text 12
2.
Procedure Text 12
3.
Report Text 13
4.
Recount Text 14
5.
Narrative Text 15
A.
SHORT
FUNCTIONAL
1.
NOTICE
a.
Definition: Notice / caution:
one is functional
text in the form of instructions for someone to do or not do something.
b.
Function:
ü
To give instruction/to instruct
people
ü
To give direction
ü
To ask people to…
ü
To advice/to suggest/to recommend
people to...
ü
To remaind people to…: To warn/to
give warning
ü To ban/to
forbid/to prohibit people to...
c.
Example:
§ Example of sentence
·
Please, waste the used tissue
into diposable bin
·
Please, turn off your handphone
before entering the mosque
·
don't use product made of
protected animals
keep off the grass
keep off the grass
·
Keep silent! Exam in progress
§ 
example
of picture
example
of picture
2. LETTER
1. Formal Letter
a. Definition: is a letter in which the writer
assesses the qualities, characteristics, and capabilities of the person being
recommended in terms of that individual’s ability to perform a particular task
or function. Recommendation letters are almost always specifically requested to
be written about someone, and are therefore addressed to a particular
requestor.
b.
Function:
to give information about qualities, characterities, capabilities of the person
or an organitation.
c.
Example:
2. Informal
Letter
a.
Definition:
is a letter in which the writer assesses of the person being recommended in
terms of that individual’s.
b.
Function:
to give information about personality of individual’s.
c.
Example:
Dear,
Lula
How are you? I’m doing good here. One week ago I
went to Batam island for business. I’m so sorry I could not came to Jakarta,
because it was only a short visit. I only stayed for one night. My colleague
picked me up at the airport. Then, we continued our journey to the hotel. It
was a very hot day. I remembered that I had five cold drinks in one hour. I
also visited Nagoya, Batam Centre and Galang island. I didn’t forget to go
shopping there. Ok, Lula. That’s enough for now. Don’t forget to write me soon.
Love,
Susan
3.
GREETING
CARD
a.
Definition: A folded card bearing a message of
greeting, congratulation, or other sentiment, usually sent or given on a
special occasion or holiday.
b. Function: A greeting card is an
illustrated card used to convey an expression of friendship or other feeling.
Greeting cards are usually given on special occasions, such as birthdays,
Lebaran day or other holidays, they are also sent to express thanks or
congratulation. Greeting cards are usually packaged with an envelope. They are
made with various styles.
c. Example:
ü Example of sentence
Happy
Birthday To You
Hope
God Bless You
Thousands
miracles may come
Dear Wanda,
Congratulation for being the winner
of English Speech contest.
Nina
Dear Sandra, our new chief of student organization.
Congratulation
and Good Luck.
I
hope you can lead by your best
Class
IXA
ü 
Example of
picture
Example of
picture
New
year card Happy
Mother’s day card
Congratulation
card Thanks
card
 |
A
new baby card Birthday
card
4.
LABELS
/ SYMBOL
a. Definition
:Label
is a complete
description of the packaged goods that contains ingredients used to make the goods, how pengggunaan,
side effects and so on.
b.
Function :
Ø
It is
a form of government protection to consumers who baru.yang form an orderly implementation
of a law or the food
and beverage obat.dalam this government requires manufacturers to attach the label / tag on its products in
accordance with the laws listed peraturn legislation
ingredients.
Ø
By attaching
the label in accordance with the regulations means manufacturers
provide information that is treated
by the consumer in order to emilih memebeli and
researching wisely.
Ø
It is a guarantee that the goods that have
been used are not harmful bia, for
megatasi this then consumers mmembiasakan myself
to read the label before you buy.
Ø For manufacturers label promotional tool used
to nd the introduction
of the goods.
c.
Example :
 |
5.
INVITATION
a.
Definition : The invitation is an
invitation-shaped leaflets or letters, which are typically used to invite people to attend a
particular event. The invitation is
something that must exist when
creating an event, so that the people who are
invited know the event will be held.
b.
Function : to invite
someone for come to the place of invitor.
c.
Example :
Ø
Example of sentence:
SAMPLE LETTER OF INVITATION MEETING
42/UM.9.8/PUM/KP/P/2.2009
42/UM.9.8/PUM/KP/P/2.2009
Dear. :
The entire General Manager and Area
In connection with the re-organization of the Unit Management and the Board of Directors because I was planning on hiding from police chase, it needs to be disseminated to all public and Area Manager. For that requested his presence at the meeting at the meeting:
Day / Date: Thursday, February 5, 2009
Time: 13:00 14:00 s.d
Venue: Hall PT. Fleeing Indonesia
material:
1. Socialization re-organization in Section Adm. general
2. Socialization quality objectives PT Flee Indonesia
3. Socialization of quality objectives. Adm. General
Such
invitation is delivered, to be attentive. Thank you.
Bandung, February 4, 2009
General Manager
Nunun Nurbaeti
Ø
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Example of picture:
6. ADVERTISMENT
a.
Definition: A public or announcement , usually
paid for , as of things for sale , needs, etc.
b. Function: It is a notice or display
that is used to persuade people to buy some products. We can find many
advertisements around us, such as in TV, internet, radio, or along the road.
There are some products which are offered in the advertisement; including
goods, services and job vacation.
c.
Example:
§
Example of sentence
Centrum
Multivitamins
Centrum
is a complete and balanced multivitamin formula with a balanced complement of
vitamin B complexes that help to unlock the energy we need, for our everyday demands.
Buy
soon for our healty.
§
Example of picture
7. ANNOUNCEMENT
a.
Definition: announcement
text is notifications addressed to the general public or specific groups that
contain information which would be required to know the target destination
announcement text.
b.
Function: to give information for
many people about something.
c. Example:
ANNOUNCEMET
To all visitor of Surabaya Plaza
Due to repair our basement and the stairs to the
second floor, we will have closed for 3 days on 20-22 November 2011. You can
visit us again on 23 November 2011.
Managing Director
ANNOUNCEMENT
To :
All teachers
Effective date :August 1st, 2009
Ref :
Teacher Uniform
Each
teacher is required to wear blue-black uniform from Monday to Thursday, and
Batik uniform for Friday.
8.
MEMO
OR SHORT MESSAGE
a. Definition :A verbal, written, or recorder communication
send to or left for a recipient who cannot be contacted directly.
b. Function
:
·
Memo
To
remembers which arguments it whas been called with and the result returned and,
if called with the same argument again, returns the result from its memory
rather than recalculating it.
·
Short Message
To
communicate from communican for recipient.
c. Example :
Example
of memo
To :Basketball Team
We plan to match
against SMP Republika, please come for intensive training. The game will be
held on Sunday, 5th June 2009, at 03.00 pm.We practice everyday
after school.
To :English Club
members,
Please gather at school at 07.30 on
Sunday,June 28, 2009 for “Bule Hunting” at Taman Mini.We will leave at 08.00.
Thank’s,
Coordinator
Example of Short Message
To : febri
Subject:
Please bring my document soon in this aftrnoon.
From : Santi
9.
MANUALS
a. Definition : A small book, such as may be carried in the hand,
or conviniently handled,a hand book,specifically, the ercive bok of the roman
Catholic Church.
b. Function
: to
know the person
on a matter
c. Example
:
B.
SHORT
ESSAYS
1. DESCRIPTIVE TEXT
a.
Definition: Text or speech that is meant to give
a verbal picture of an object, character, location, or event. Description is
considered one of the four traditional forms of composition (along with
exposition, narration, and persuasion).
b.
Social Function: To describe a particular person,
place or thing.
c.
Generic Structur:
ü
Identification: identifies the phenomenon to
be described
ü
Description: describes parts, qualities,
characteristics
d.
Significant lexicogrammatical features: Focus on specific
participants, use simple present tense.
e.
Example:
Rihanna
This posting is going to give you a short explanation about what descriptive
text is. To make it clearer, we also provide an example of descriptive text
below. Descriptive text is a text that has social function to describe a
particular thing, people, or place. It means text that is used to describe
specific thing, person, or place called descriptive text. Descriptive text has
two parts called generic structure. The generic structure of descriptive text
is identification and description. Identification is part to identify the
thing, person, or place will be described. The description is part to describe
the thing, person, or place e.g. behaviour, quality. The following is the
example of descriptive text. The descriptive text is describing famous singer
in the world, Rihanna. Rihanna Her full name is Robin Rihanna Fenty. She is a
famous singer in the world. She was born on 20 February 1988 in Saint Michael,
Barbados. Rihanna has small family. There are 5 people in her family. They are
her father, mother, and 2 siblings. Her father's name is Ronald. Her mother is
Monica Fenty. Her siblings are Rorrey and Rajad. Rihanna likes modelling. She
has ever won modelling contest, Miss Combermere. She also loves fashion style.
Her hair style changes quite often. Sometimes she performs with curly hair.
But, in another chance she appears in straight hair with different colour.
Rihanna is a very success RnB singer. She has won many awards such as Grammy
Award and American Music Award.
2. PROCEDURE TEXT
a.
Definition: is the text
to tell about how to make, how to operate, how to use, and how to do something.
b.
Social Function: To
tell about how to make, how to operate, how to use, and how to do something.
c.
Generic Sructure:
1.
Title
2.
Goal
3.
The
ingredients/equipment/materials
4.
The steps
d.
Lexicogrammatical
feature:
1.
Imperative sentence
2.
Tenses: simple present
tense
3.
Verb: V1: action verb
e.
Example:
The Procedure of Making Meatballs
Ingredients:
1 kilo of very fine minced meat
(preferably beef)
2 eggs
300 grams of tapioca-flour
4-8 cloves of garlic
1 red onion
1 teaspoon of white pepper
2 teaspoons of salt
The steps to make meatballs:
These steps are instruction on how to make meatballs, just meatball, the soup is made separately.
First of all mix garlic, red onion, salt, and white pepper in a mortar or mixer.
Second step, mix the spice-mixture with the eggs, the tapioca-flour and the minced meat.
After that, use your fingers, add a cup of water, and keep on working until the mixture feels soft and smooth.
Then, boil some water in a rather large pot, at least about 2 liters.
Next, start rolling the mixture into small meatballs.
Finally, lower the meatballs into the boiling water. When they float up to the surface the meatball are ready to serve.
3.
REPORT
TEXT
a.
Definition: Report is a text which presents
information about something, as it is. It is as a result of systematic
observation and analysis.
b.
Social Function: The purpose of the texts are to give the live-description of the
object/participant.
c.
Generic Structure:
Ø
General classification: Stating classification of general
aspect of thing; animal, public place, plant, etc which will be discussed in
general.
Ø
Description: Describing the thing which will be discussed in
detail; part per part , customs or deed for living creature and usage for
materials.
d.
Lexicogrammatical feature:
• Introducing group or general aspect.
• Using conditional logical connection; when, so, etc.
• Using simple present tense.
• Using conditional logical connection; when, so, etc.
• Using simple present tense.
e.
Example:
"Birds"
Birds are interesting flying animals. They are
vertebrates and warm blooded animals. They belong to aves class and they can be
found all over the world. Birds breath with their air pocket. Beside as
respiration organ, air pocket also can enlarge or reduce their weight when
flying or swimming. There are many kinds of birds. Earth bird has special
characteristic. They have different morphology according to their food and
their habitat. Some of them eat seeds, pollen, fish or meat. There are some
species that live in land and the others live in water. Land birds live on
their nest. Female birds have specific tasks. they lay eggs and feed their
baby, Beside that they look for foods for their baby.
4. RECOUNT TEXT
a.
Definition: The social function of Recount text is to retell
past event or something which happened in the past.
b.
Social Function:this text can be only to inform or even just
to entertain.
c.
Generic Structure:
1.
Orientation : identify a person or thing acted or got involved in the
event, including the time, a certain place, the situation, etc.
2.
Series of Events : ordered in a chronological sequence.
3.
Re-orientation : not always (optional), it contains personal comments.
d.
Lexicogrammatical
feature:
·
Uses of simple past tense
·
Uses of temporal conjuctions ( when ,after,before,next,later,then)
·
Uses of personal pronoun ( I and We )
e.
Example:
My
Adventure at Leang-Leang Cave
·
Leang-leang
Cave at Maros, South Sulawesi, Indonesia
·
On
Sunday, my parents, my best friend Sam 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!
·
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 Sam 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.
·
5
hand-prints
·
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.
·
After
a quick lunch with Sam and my parents, we decided it was time to go back home.
We really had the time of our lives!
5. NARRATIVE TEXT
a.
Definition: a story about fictional or
real events, with follows a basic standart format.
b.
Social Function: to entertain lesteners
or readers with a true experience or an imaginary one. The characteristic of
the text is marked by conflict and resolution.
c.
Generic Structure:
§
Orientation: it means
to introduce the participants or the characters of the story with the time and
place set.
§
Complication: it is such
the crisis of the story. If there is not the crisis, the story is not a
narrative text.
§
Major Complication and Minor Complication.
§ Resolution: it is the final series of the
events which happen in the story. The resolution can be good or bad.
d.
Lexicogrammatical features:
· Orientation: sees the scene
and introduces the participants.
· Evaluation: a stepping
back to evaluate the plight.
· Complication: a crisis
arises.
· Resolution: the crisis is
resolved, for better or for worse.
· Re-orientation: (optional)
· Coda: (optional)
e.
Example:
Cinderella
Once upon time there was a girl called cinderella.
She lived with her stepsisters and stepmother. They treated her badly. She had
to do all the house work.
Once day an invitation to the ball
came to the family. But, her stepsisters would not let her go. Cinderella was
sad. The stepsisters went to the ball without her.
Fortunately, the fairy goodmother
came and helped her to get the ball. At the ball, cinderella dance with the
prince. The prince fell in love with her and than married her. They lived happily
ever after.
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