PURPOSE OF THE TEXT

Purpose of the text adalah tujuan penulis menulis sebuah teks. Beberapa contoh pertanyaan tentang tujuan teks seperti berikut ini :

1. What is the purpose of the text?

2. What is the writer's intention to write the text?

3. The text was written to ....

Berikut tujuan teks berdasarkan jenis teks, baik monolog maupun functional text :

1. Descriptive text

Describe a specific or particular person, animal, place or thing.

2. Recount text

Retell the past event or experience.

3. Procedure text

Explain how to make, use, or do something through a sequence of steps.

4. Narrative text

Entertain or amuse the reader with a story to get moral value.

5. Report text

Describe the way things are about animal, plant, thing, natural phenomena or social phenomena.

6. Greeting card

Congratulate, praise, appreciate someone.

7. Announcement

Announce or inform something.

8. Advertisement

Promote or persuade

9. Invitation

Invite or request to attend.

10. Short message

Asking, thanking, reminding, apologizing.

11. Notice

Give warning, forbid, asking

12. Label

Give detail information about a product.

Berikut beberapa contoh soal tentang tujuan teks :

Dear Aisha,

Congratulations on winning the tournament. I was so sure you could make it and I'm so proud of you! You did it well!

Your old friend,

Keizha

What is the purpose of the text?

A. To make someone do something

B. To appreciate someone's success

C. To congratulate someone's birthday

D. To learn how to win a tournament

Jawaban yang benar : B

A BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION!

It's Aisha's birthday!

Please join us at a gathering of family and friends.

Saturday, July 25 th at 4 p.m.

Jalan Raja Alam 1 No.100

The purpose of the text is to ....

A. Tell about mother's birthday party

B. Ask someone to a birthday party

C. Inform someone to hold a party

D. Invite someone to come to Aisha's birthday party.

Jawaban yang benar : D

Demikian materi tentang tujuan teks. Selamat berlatih mengerjakan soal-soal tentang tujuan teks. Semoga materi ini dapat membantu meningkatkan pemahaman kalian tentang tujuan teks dalam Bahasa Inggris. See you!