KINDS OF QUESTIONS AFTER READING TEXT TYPES

When you are learning English in junior high school, it mean that you have to study text types. There are three major kinds of text in English which students should learn. They are 1) interpersonal, 2) transactional conversations, and, 3) short functional texts, and essays. After reading the three kinds of text (1) interpersonal, 2) transactional conversations, and, 3) short functional texts, and essays), student will be given a job to answer some questions. Mostly, the questions can be simplified into some categories. They are:

1. TOPIC OF THE TEXT. What is topic? topic is a noun phrase which shows what is the text about. Topic is the subject of the text.

2. MAIN IDEA. What is main idea? Main idea is the most important idea of a paragraph. A main idea is commonly written in the first sentence of a paragraph.

3. DETAILED INFORMATION. It is frequently asked the detail information about an event that happens in the text.

4. CERTAIN INFORMATION. Some specific information inside the text is often asked following the text.

5. IMPLIED INFORMATION. It is not stated clearly in the text but we can get the points through some clues given in the text.

6. REFERENCE. It can be anaphoric (merujuk kembali pd sesuatu yg telah disebutkan sebelumnya dalam wacana (yg disebut anteseden) dengan substitusi, misalnya dalam kalimat: Pak Karta rumahnya terbakar, kata nya menunjuk kpd Pak Karta) or cataphoric reference (pengacuan pd sesuatu yg disebut di belakang, misalnya pada kalimat: Dengan gayanya yang khas, ia mulai bicara, mengacu pada ia).

7. WORD/PHRASE/SENTENCE MEANING. Understanding text need a lot of vocabularies. Building English vocabulary is the key. without it, it is difficult to answer the question about word meaning, synonym, antonym etc.

8. THE PURPOSE OF THE TEXT. Each text types has special communicative purpose or social function.

9. MORAL VALUE. It is often asked by the test writer.

Those are typical questions should be answered by students who learn English in high schools. Of course, the question sentences will vary from one to another.