Report Text 2 for Grade 9 Semester 1

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Text 1

Tasmanian Devil

Australia has many interesting animals. The first animal is Tasmanian Devil. Have you heard this animal before? It only lives on the Australian island state of Tasmania.

The Tasmanian Devil is a marsupial like the kangaroo. This means the mother has a pocket or a pouch where she carries her babies. The Tasmanian Devil is mostly black but sometimes it has some white fur on its chest. It has short legs and a long tail. It looks a little like a very small bear. The largest male can be about 30 centimeters high and can weigh up to 12 kilograms. That’s about the same size as a small dog. But the females are usually smaller. The Tasmanian Devil is a nocturnal animal. That means it likes night time. It sleeps in the day and gets up at night to look for food to eat. In the daytime, it will sleep under a fallen tree or in long grass.

The Tasmanian Devil was given this name by the first European people who went to Tasmania. They called it because they were afraid of it. They were afraid because it makes a terrible sound and it is horrible to watch it eating. The Tasmanian Devil has a strong mouth and very sharp teeth. It eats a lot of meat. It will eat small animals like rabbit, birds, and reptiles such as lizards. It will even eat dead cows and sheep if it can’t find any.

Text 2

What is Rubberwood?

Rubberwood is the standard common name for the timber of Hevea Brasiliensis. Rubberwood (also called Parawood in Thailand) is one of the more durable lumbers (wood) used in the manufacturing of today’s home furnishings. Rubberwood has very little shrinkage, making it one of the more stable construction materials available for furniture manufacturing. Rubberwood has very little tendency to warp or crack.

Like maple, rubberwood is a sap producing species. In the case of maple, it is sap; in the case of rubberwood, it is latex. Rubberwood produces all the latex used in the world for all rubber based products.

There is one more important feature of rubberwood that is very important in today’s world. Rubberwood is the most ecologically friendly lumber used in today’s furniture industry. After the economic life of the rubber tree, which is generally 26 – 30 years, the latex yields become extremely low and the planters then fell the rubber trees and plant new ones. So, unlike other woods that are cut down for the sole purpose of producing furniture, rubberwood is used only after it completes its latex producing cycle and dies. This wood is therefore eco-friendly in the sense that we are now using what was going as waste.

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Descriptive and Report for Grade 9 Semester 1

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Text 1

The International Circus School

The International Circus School is located in Beijing, China. The special school for circus is very popular and teaches students from countries around the world

The school has a lot of training gyms and modern dormitory for foreign students and there is a large cafeteria where the students have their food and drink. It also has a laundry. Older students can wash their clothes there.

The students' ages range from seven to thirty five years old. They are both boys and girls. Most of their parents are mostly circus performers too. The students study from Monday to Friday. On the weekends, the school often organizes tours around the town to perform the students' skill and practice their performance.

Text 2

The Elephant

An elephant is the largest and strongest of all animals. It is a strange looking animal with its legs, huge sides and backs, large hanging ears, a small tail, little eyes, long white tusks and above all, elephant has a long nose, the trunk.

The trunk is the elephant's peculiar feature. This trunk has various uses. The elephant draws up water by its trunk and squirt the water all over its body like a shower bath. The elephant's trunk also grabs leaves and puts them into its mouth. In fact, the trunk serves the elephant as long arm and hand. An elephant looks very clumsy and heavy, yet an elephant can move very quickly.

The elephant is very strong and intelligent animal. Its intelligence combined with its great strength makes an elephant a very useful servant to man. Elephant can be trained to serve in various ways such as carry heavy loads, hunt for tigers and even fight. An elephant is really a smart animal.

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Facebook

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Facebook

Facebook is a social networking service launched in February 2004, owned and operated by Facebook Inc. As of September 2012, Facebook has over one billion active users, more than half of them using Facebook on a mobile device. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notification when they update their profile.

Users can create profiles with photos, lists of personal interest, contact information, and other personal information. Users can communicate with friends and other users through private or public message and a chat feature. They can also create and join interest group and "like pages".

Facebook has affected the social life and activity of people in various ways. With its availability on many mobile devices, Facebook allows users to continuously stay in touch with friends, relatives and other acquaintances wherever they are in the world, as long as there is access to the internet. It can also unite people with common interests and/or beliefs through groups and other pages, and has been known to reunite lost family members and friends.

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Microscope

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Microscope

Microscope (from the Greek: micros, "small", and skopedia, "to look" or "to see" is an instrument used to see objects that are too small to the naked eyes. The science of investigating small objects using such instrument is called microscopy. Microscopic means invisible to the eye unless aided by a microscope.

There are many types of microscope. The most common and first to be invented is the optical microscope which uses light to image sample. Other major types of microscopes are the electron microscope and the various types of scanning probe microscope. The first microscope to be developed was the optical microscope although the original inventor is not easy to identify. An early microscope was made in 1590 in Middelburg, Netherlands. Two eyeglass makers variously given credit were Hans Lippershey and Zacharias Jansenn.

It was not until the 1660s and 1970s that the microscope was used extensively for research in Italy, Holland, and England. Marcelo Malpigi in Italy began the analysis of biological structures beginning with the lungs. The greatest contribution came from Antoiy Van Leeuwenhoek who discovered red blood cells and helped popularize microscopy as technique.

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Rubberwood

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What is Rubberwood? 

Rubberwood is the standard common name for the timber of Hevea Brasiliensis. Rubberwood (also called Parawood in Thailand) is one of the more durable lumbers (wood) used in the manufacturing of today’s home furnishings. Rubberwood has very little shrinkage, making it one of the more stable construction materials available for furniture manufacturing. Rubberwood has very little tendency to warp or crack.

Like maple, rubberwood is a sap producing species. In the case of maple, it is sap; in the case of rubberwood, it is latex. Rubberwood produces all the latex used in the world for all rubber based products.

There is one more important feature of rubberwood that is very important in today’s world. Rubberwood is the most ecologically friendly lumber used in today’s furniture industry. After the economic life of the rubber tree, which is generally 26 – 30 years, the latex yields become extremely low and the planters then fell the rubber trees and plant new ones. So, unlike other woods that are cut down for the sole purpose of producing furniture, rubberwood is used only after it completes its latex producing cycle and dies. This wood is therefore eco-friendly in the sense that we are now using what was going as waste.

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Natural Resources

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Natural Resources

The materials which are supplied by the earth, which is by nature, are called natural resources. They which can be used again are called renewable natural resources. Other natural resources can be used only once. They are called non-renewable natural resources.

Some areas of the earth have been supplied with a lot of certain natural resources. Others have few natural resources or perhaps none at all. Japan, for example, import sand iron from Indonesia, because this country does not have enough iron for its industry. If a country has few natural resources, it will have to import materials from other countries.

Among our natural resources are fuels, such as coal and oil. Precious minerals, such as gold and silver are natural resource too. Cooper is natural resources. The mineral we used come from the inside of the earth. Gold, silver, and cooper are minerals. The salt we use to flavor our food is natural resources. Our food, too, for example rice, is supplied by nature.

The important parts of the earth's surface provide many of natural resources. For example, we get our water from lakes and stream. Water is natural resources. We get wood from our forest. Wood is natural resource.

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Dolphin

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Dolphin

Dolphins are sea mammals. They have to breathe air or they will die. They are members of the Delphinidae family.

Dolphins have smooth skin. Only baby dolphins are born with a few bristly hairs on their snouts. Their hairs soon fall out. They have big tails and fin on the top of their backs to keep the dolphin from rolling over. The female dolphins have a thick layer of fat under their skin to keep them warm when they dive very deep. The dolphins' front fins are called flippers. They use them to turn left and right. Dolphins grow from 2 to 3 meters long and weight up to 75 kilograms.

Dolphins hunt together in a group. A group of dolphins is called a pod. They eat fish, shrimps, and small squids. They live in salt waste oceans.

Dolphins can hold their breath for six minutes. When dolphins fear or see a ship close by, they go near and follow it from distance. Dolphins can leap out of the water and do somersaults. Sometimes they invent their own tricks and stunts after watching other dolphins perform.

Dolphins are very friendly to people and have never harmed anyone. They are very playful animals.

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Report Text (Concept - Example)

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Explanation

Social Function	To describe the way things are, with reference to a range of natural, man-made and social phenomena in our environment.
Generic Structure	General Classification: tells what the phenomenon under discussion is. Description: tells what the phenomenon under discussion is like in term of (1) parts, (2) qualities, (3) habits or behaviors, if living; uses, if non-natural.
Significant Lexicogrammatical Features	Focus on Generic Participants. Use of Relational Processes to state what is and that which it is. Use of Simple Present Tense (unless extinct) No temporal sequence.

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Kangaroo

A kangaroo is an animal found only in Australia, although it has a smaller relative, called wallaby, which lives on the Australian island of Tasmania and also in New Guinea.

Kangaroos eat grass and plants. They have short front legs, but very long, and very strong back legs and a tail. These are used for sitting up and for jumping. Kangaroos have been known to make forward jumps of over eight meters, and leap across fences more than three meters high. They can also run at speeds of over 45 kilometers per hour.

The largest kangaroos are the Great Grey Kangaroo and the Red Kangaroo. Adult grow to a length of 1.60 meters and weigh over 90 kilos.

Kangaroos are marsupials. This means that the female kangaroo has an external pouch on the front pf her body. A baby kangaroo is very tiny when it is born, and it crawls at once into this pouch where it spends its first five months of life.

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Rubberwood

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What is Rubberwood? 

Rubberwood is the standard common name for the timber of Hevea Brasiliensis. Rubberwood (also called Parawood in Thailand) is one of the more durable lumbers (wood) used in the manufacturing of today’s home furnishings. Rubberwood has very little shrinkage, making it one of the more stable construction materials available for furniture manufacturing. Rubberwood has very little tendency to warp or crack.

Like maple, rubberwood is a sap producing species. In the case of maple, it is sap; in the case of rubberwood, it is latex. Rubberwood produces all the latex used in the world for all rubber based products.

There is one more important feature of rubberwood that is very important in today’s world. Rubberwood is the most ecologically friendly lumber used in today’s furniture industry. After the economic life of the rubber tree, which is generally 26 – 30 years, the latex yields become extremely low and the planters then fell the rubber trees and plant new ones. So, unlike other woods that are cut down for the sole purpose of producing furniture, rubberwood is used only after it completes its latex producing cycle and dies. This wood is therefore eco-friendly in the sense that we are now using what was going as waste.

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Fireflies

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Fireflies

Fireflies are just name. They are actually very cool insects. And they are not even flies, they are beetles. They have a way of sending out light signals every now and then. If you see them at night on a tree, you might think it is a brightly lit Christmas tree. This is the kind of light these fireflies produce.

Fireflies have transparent abdomen. There are cells of crystals or chemical substances inside it which get broken down by enzymes. Some energy is released in the form of light. However, the light they send out does not have heat. The light is cold.

The fireflies send out light signals at fixed intervals. And the purpose behind it is to attract beetles for mating. But one firefly's signal is different from another, depending on its sex and the type of family it belongs to. If a firefly sends a signal at a fixed interval but gets a response either too soon or too late, it will ignore the signal. It is like a perfect dance sequence. If you are faster or slower than your partner, the dance fails.

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