Water form a Tap
Levels 11/12 Blue/Green
Key learning Area Science and Social Studies
Theme Water Supply
Text Type Exposition
Text Form Technical Writing
Genre Non-fiction
Purpose To explain how or why something occurs
Text Structure
Identifying Statement: Tells what is to be explained (Pages 2–3)
Explanation Sequence: Explains a series of events or cause and effect (Pages 4–15)
Concluding Statement: Draws all the information together (Page 16)
Language Features
-- Common nouns (e.g. water, pipes, lakes)
-- Pronouns (e.g. We, ourselves)
-- Adjectives (e.g. big, small, clean)
-- Present tense verbs (e.g. drink, goes, falls)