CHARACTERISTIC, SAMPLE SPOOF AND EXPLANATION

GENRE SOCIAL FUNCTION

GENERIC STRUCTURE

SIGNIFICANT LEXIGOGRAMMATICAL FEATURES

REPORT

To retell events, strange or funny ones based on true or imaginary experience in order to amuse people ,and typically ended with a twist-unexpected ending.

Introduction Event 1Event 2Twist

Focus on people,and animate or inanimate objects.Use of Action verbs: run,drinkUse of simple past tense Use of temporal sequence of time and place.

SPOOF

Penguin In The Park

Once a man was walking in a park when he came across a penguin.

Orientation: introduces the setting of the story

He took him to a policeman and said, ‘ I have just found this penguin.What should I do?’ The policeman replied, ‘ take him to the zoo’.

Event 1: the first event takes place

The next day the policeman saw the same man in the same park andthe man was still carrying the penguin with him. The policeman wasrather surprised and walked up to the man and asked, ‘Why are you

still carrying that penguin about? Didn’t you take it to the zoo? ‘ ‘ I certainly did,’ replied the man.

Event 2: the second event takes place

and it was a great idea because he really enjoyed it, so today I’m taking him to the movies!

(Note that the ‘twist’ in this particular text is related to thecircumstances of place the penguin is taken to and to the man’s

misinterpretation of the policeman’s unspoken reason for taking the penguin to the zoo).

Twist: unexpected ending of the story (funny or surprising)

GENRE SOCIAL FUNCTION GENERIC STRUCTURE SIGNIFICANT LEXIGOGRAMMATICAL FEATURES

EXPLANATION To explain the processes involved in the formation orworkings of natural or sociocultural phenomena.

A general statement to position the reader.A sequenced explanation of why or how somethingoccurs.

Focus on generic, non-human Participants.Use mainly of Material and Relational Processes.Use mainly of temporal and causalCircumstances and Conjunctions.Some use of Passive voice to get Theme right

EXPLANATION

The water cycle — technically known as the hydrologic cycle or hydrological cycle — is the continuous circulation of water within the Earth's hydrosphere, and is driven by solar radiation.

General statement of introduction:introduce the topic or the phenomenon to be explained

This includes the atmosphere, land, surface water and groundwater. As water moves through the cycle, it changes state between liquid, solid, and gas phases. Water moves from compartment to compartment, such as from river to ocean, by the physical processes of evaporation, precipitation, infiltration, runoff, and subsurface flow.[

series of logical steps: the phenomenon is explained in a logical manner