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Classification and Explanation Text Type

This document discusses different types of text and their purposes and features. It distinguishes four main types: classification texts describe and provide information about people, animals, things or phenomena. Explanation texts explain how or why something happens by describing related items in order and explaining how they are related. Enumeration texts list items in a series. Time order texts arrange events or steps in the order they occurred or need to occur. The purpose is to classify and define different written and spoken language according to their purpose and style of writing.

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Classification and Explanation Text Type

This document discusses different types of text and their purposes and features. It distinguishes four main types: classification texts describe and provide information about people, animals, things or phenomena. Explanation texts explain how or why something happens by describing related items in order and explaining how they are related. Enumeration texts list items in a series. Time order texts arrange events or steps in the order they occurred or need to occur. The purpose is to classify and define different written and spoken language according to their purpose and style of writing.

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English 5

Objective

• Distinguish text-types according to


purpose and features: classification,
explanation, enumeration and time
order.
Text type
• It is a way of classifying and defining
different language interaction, spoken
and written. It refers to the purpose of
the text and the way it is written.
Classification Text type
•It classifies, describes, and
gives information about people,
animals, things or phenomena.
Explanation Text Type
• A factual text type that explains how or why something
happen. It begins the topic, describes items related to the
topic in the right order, explains how these items are
related to each other.
• It may have conclusion.
• This type is written in present tense.
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