Text Types In English

Text types in English
There two types of category of text types which students must be competent in using-Literary text types and factual text types. Every text type has structural and languagefeatures. An outline is provided below:
Text Type | Purpose | Structural Features | Language Features |
Narrative | To entertain, amuse or instruct | Orientation complication series of events coda |Noun groups to describe characters and settings time words     Action verbs |
Report | To classify and/or describe | General statement Description | Technical language, simple present tense,Generalised Terms |
Recount | To retell a  series of events | Orientation sequence of events | Descriptive language, past tense, Time words to connect events, Words which tell us where, when, with whom,how |

Procedure | To instruct someone how to do something | Goal material or equipment steps | Verbs usually at the beginning of each instruction Words or groups of words which tell us how,when, where, with whom  |
Explanation | To explain how or why something occurs | Phenomenon identification Explanation sequence | Technical language Use of words such as because, as a result, toestablish cause and effect sequences |
Exposition | To persuade by arguing one side of an issue | Thesis        Arguments Reinforcement of thesis | Words that qualify, eg usually, probably Words thatlink arguments eg firstly, on the other hand |
Response |  to respond to an artistic work | Context of artistic work          Description of artistic work Judgement | Words which express judgements Descriptive language |

Tom y yo
mi mejor amigo en la escuela primaria fue tom. cuando nos conocimos,
él tenía seis años y yo también estábamos en la misma clase en la escuela.
nos sentamosjuntos y siempre jugábamos juntos en el descanso.
su familia vivía cerca de mi familia, así que nos veíamos después de
la escuela la mayoría de los días. en el verano, nos fuimos a nadar en el
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