Welcome to Learning Activity 1

In Learning Activity 1, we will be learning report texts on jobs.

Report text on jobs are usually posted on job serach websites. These
texts are made available to public to inform readers/viewers about
the name of profession, the tasks they have to do to perform the
job, requirements or qualifications to fit the postion, and the benefits
people will get if they choose career on a particular job.
In this activity, you will also learn how to analyze some report texts
on jobs and construct report texts to do with jobs. First, you will be
exposed to some examples of report texts on jobs . From the
examples, you will analyze the elements that make up report texts
on jobs and see how different structures are employed to meet
certain purposes from the texts. You will also learn the language to
describe jobs and work places to help you construct the report texts.
Finally, you will gradually be guided to write report texts to do with
jobs.
Below is the outline of the learning outcomes in Learning Activity 1.

Learning Outcome
In Learning Activity 1 you will learn the following competencies:

Attitude

To uphold and apply religous values, moral values, ethical

values, personal and social values (honesty, discipline,
accountability, independence), care and respect for differences
and diversity, tolerance, peace, collaboration, and nationalism.

Knowledge
 To analyse the social functions, text structures, and
lexicogrammatical features of report texts in regard to the
contexts of situation.

Skills
1. To read report texts meaingfully.

2. To compare the social functions of report texts.

3. To compare the text structure of report texts.

4. To compare the lexicogrammatical features of report texts.

5. To construct some report texts related to jobs.

Unit Learning Outcomes

1. To read a number of report texts meaningfully.

2. To compare the social functions of a number of report texts

regarding the context of situation, the target readers, the points
of interests or importance.

3. To compare the structure of each of the report texts, including

general classification summarized in the first paragraph, and
detail descriptions in the following paragraphs.

4. To compare the lexicogrammatical features of report texts by

determining the choice of words and expressions, the use of
direct and indirect sentences, the tenses, the fonts, the
punctuation marks, etc.
5. To construct report text on jobs according to their context of
situation, social function, text structure, and lexico-grammatical
features.

Learning Materials
Learning materials in this activity will be divided into two main sections;
Key Features of The Text and Meaning Making Task. Study them
carefully and do each of the tasks that follows.
Key Features of Report Texts
Report Texts
Social Function
To describe the way things are, with a reference of 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 terms of:

o Parts (and their functions)

o Qualities

o Habits or behaviours, 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

(Gerot, L., & Wignell, P. (1994). Making sense of functional

grammar.

Meaning Making Tasks

This section is divided into two parts. The first part, Getting to
Know Report Texts, includes a number of Tasks in which you will
be guided to analyse (1) the social functions, (2) the text
structures, and (3) the lexicogrammatical features of report
texts from three different contexts of situation. The second part,
Constructing Report Texts. In this part you will write some
report texts to address the social functions, the text structures,
and the lexicogrammatical features.