MODULE 5

ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC INTERACTION

By Group 4
 Sri Sartika
Lontang

Lestari Permana

Surya Nugraha Heni Susanti Wa r d a h

Sandi

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Choose one of your
explanation text and explain
its key features!
 Do you know honey? Do you like it? Honey is golden liquid thick produced by
bees. Honey is made by using nectar of flowering plants and is saved inside the
beehive for eating during times of scarcity. Most people like honey but they do
not know how honey is produced. So, how about you? Do you know how bees
produce honey?
There are many different types of bee, but only honey bee can make honey. And
it all starts when they visit a flower. The flower that a honey bee visits must
contain nectar, otherwise it will move on. Nectar is like sugar water, and this is
what bees like. They suck it up using their tongue which is hollow like a straw,
called proboscis. The nectar that is in bees’ stomach, it’s different from their food
stomach, is turned into sucrose. Then the sucrose is turned into glucose and
H o w B e e s fructose. Some of the glucose then gets turned into an acid. By turning some of
the nectar into acid, any bacteria are killed so it doesn’t get into the honey. That
P r o d u c e
is why honey can last for years and years.
H o n e y ? After that, the honeybees go home to the hive. They move the acid from its
stomach into the honeycomb of the hive. It is still quite watery, so the clever bees
get rid of most of the water by fanning it with their wings so it’s thicker and
resembles what we know as honey. To protect their honey, the bees will seal the
honeycombs with wax.
The honey stored then waited to be harvested by the beekeeper or it is kept as
the food for the bees when winter comes.

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 Key Features Details
Social Function To explain the stages of how honey bees make honey.
Generic Structure
• Title How Bees Produce Honey?
• General Statement Do you know honey? Do you like it? Honey is golden liquid thick produced by bees. Honey is
made by using nectar of flowering plants and is saved inside the beehive for eating during times
of scarcity.
• Series of sequenced There are many different types of bee, but only honey bee can make honey. And it all starts when
statement they visit a flower…(paragraph 1)
After that, the honeybees go home to the hive. They move the acid from its stomach into the
honeycomb of the hive. It is still quite watery, so the clever bees get rid of most of the water by
fanning it with their wings so it’s thicker and resembles what we know as honey. To protect their
honey, the bees will seal the honeycombs with wax. (paragraph 2)
• Conclusion The honey stored then waited to be harvested by the beekeeper or it is kept as the food for the
bees when winter comes.
• Diagram There is diagram
Language Features
• vocabulary General nouns (honey, bee); technical language(proboscis, sucrose, fructose)
• grammar Action verbs (starts, make); Present tense (like, do not know); passive (is made, is turned into);
Temporal connective (when); Causal connectives (so)

K E Y F E AT U R E S
Choose one of your diagrams then write 3
sentences:
a. Passive
b. Active
c. Verb Phrase
d. Noun Phrase
 Once the nectar is
gathered, the bees
go back to their The bees fan their wings
hives. to dehydrate the nectar. It
is then transformed into
thicker liquid called honey.
STAGE 2
STAGE 3 STAGE 4
STAGE 1 STAGE 5
The bees move the nectar
into the honeycomb, yet it
The bees visit the is still watery with light
Bees seal the
flowers and suck the consistency.
honeycomb with wax
nectar. The nectar is
stored in bees’ stomach.
HOW BEES PRODUCE to protect the honey.

HONEY

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Three sentences of …

Passive Verb Phrase

1. The nectar is stored in bees’ stomach. 1. The nectar is stored in bees’ stomach
2. Once the nectar is gathered, the bees go back home. 2. The bees fan their wings to dehydrate the nectar
3. It is then transformed into thicker liquid called honey. 3. Bees seal the honeycomb with wax to protect the
honey.

Active Noun Phrase

1. The bees visit the flowers and suck the nectar.
2. The bees move the nectar into the honeycomb,…
3. The bees dehydrate the nectar by fanning their wings
over the nectar
1. Once the nectar is gathered, the bees go back to their
hives.
2. It is then transformed into thicker liquid called honey.
3. Bees seal the honeycomb with wax to protect the
honey.

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THANK YOU!