• understand the structure of review texts;
In general, A review is an evaluation of a publication, such as a movie (a movie review), video game, musical composition (music review of a composition or recording), book (book review); a piece of hardware like a car, home appliance, or computer; or an event or performance, such as a live music concert,a play, musical theater show or dance show.
In a correlation of a text type, review is a type of text which expresses a critic and an appreciation to an art work. Review text can analyse a description, research, opinion, comparative opinion or suggestion. It means that the way of its explanation is similar to what description, report, explanation, exposition,or discussion text does when its content reveals a creation or invention.
Social function of review is to criticise an art work, event for a public audience.
Generic structure :In a correlation of a text type, review is a type of text which expresses a critic and an appreciation to an art work. Review text can analyse a description, research, opinion, comparative opinion or suggestion. It means that the way of its explanation is similar to what description, report, explanation, exposition,or discussion text does when its content reveals a creation or invention.
Social function of review is to criticise an art work, event for a public audience.
- Orientation : places the work in its general and particular context, often by comparing it with others of its kind or thorough an analog with a non–art object or event.
- Interpretive Recount : Summarise the plot and/or providers an account of how the reviewed rendition of the work came into being.
- Evaluation : Provides an evaluation of the work and/or its performance or production; is usually recursive.
- Particular participant: focusing on a specific participant.
- Perspective adjective : using adjective(s) expressing attitude or evaluation. eg, good, bad, wonderful, etc.
- Long and complex sentence: using complex and compound sentences
- Using metaphorical expression: eg; pingponged, etc.
Text 1
Reviewed by Rodman Philbrick
Reviewed by Rodman Philbrick
I’ve never been to Alabama, but novelist Harper Lee made me feel as if I had been there in the long, hot summer of 1935, when a lawyer named Atticus Finch decided to defend an innocent black man accused of a horrible crime. The story of how the whole town reacted to the trial is told by the lawyer’s daughter, Scout, who remembers exactly what it was like to be eight years old in 1935, in Maycomb, Alabama.
Scout is the reason I loved this book, because her voice rings so clear and true. Not only does she make me see the things she sees, she makes me feel the things she feels. There’s a lot more going on than just the trial, and Scout tells you all about it.
A man called Boo Radley lives next door. Very few people have ever seen Boo, and Scout and her friends have a lot of fun telling scary stories about him. The mystery about Boo Radley is just one of the reasons you want to keep turning the pages to find out what happens in To Kill a Mockingbird.
To Kill a Mockingbird is filled with interesting characters like Dill, and Scout makes them all seem just as real as the people in your own hometown. Here’s how Scout describes Miss Caroline, who wore a red–striped dress: “She looked and smelled like a peppermint drop.”
The larger theme of the story is about racial intolerance, but Scout never tries to make it a “lesson,” it’s simply part of the world she describes. That’s why To Kill a Mockingbird rings true, and why it all seems so real.
Even though the story took place many years ago, you get the idea that parts of it could happen today, in any town where people distrust and fear each other’s differences.
In a just world an innocent man should be found not guilty. But if you want to know what this particular jury finally decides and what happens to Scout and Jem and Dill and Boo Radley and the rest of the people who live and breathe in To Kill a Mockingbird, you’ll have to read the book..
Scout is the reason I loved this book, because her voice rings so clear and true. Not only does she make me see the things she sees, she makes me feel the things she feels. There’s a lot more going on than just the trial, and Scout tells you all about it.
A man called Boo Radley lives next door. Very few people have ever seen Boo, and Scout and her friends have a lot of fun telling scary stories about him. The mystery about Boo Radley is just one of the reasons you want to keep turning the pages to find out what happens in To Kill a Mockingbird.
To Kill a Mockingbird is filled with interesting characters like Dill, and Scout makes them all seem just as real as the people in your own hometown. Here’s how Scout describes Miss Caroline, who wore a red–striped dress: “She looked and smelled like a peppermint drop.”
The larger theme of the story is about racial intolerance, but Scout never tries to make it a “lesson,” it’s simply part of the world she describes. That’s why To Kill a Mockingbird rings true, and why it all seems so real.
Even though the story took place many years ago, you get the idea that parts of it could happen today, in any town where people distrust and fear each other’s differences.
In a just world an innocent man should be found not guilty. But if you want to know what this particular jury finally decides and what happens to Scout and Jem and Dill and Boo Radley and the rest of the people who live and breathe in To Kill a Mockingbird, you’ll have to read the book..
Text 2
The Notebook
Nicholas Sparks ( Warner Books Romance ISBN: 0446605239 )The Notebook
When author Nicholas Sparks sat down to write The Notebook, a tender love story inspired by the enduring relationship of his wife Cathy's grandparents, he wanted his readers to walk away with a renewed spirit of hope. "I'll never forget watching those two people flirt," he recalls. "I mean, you don't see that very often. They’d been married 67 years, and yet they still loved each other. I wanted to write a book about that kind of love. I wanted people to know that unconditional love does exist."
So Sparks created The Notebook, the simple story of Noah Calhoun, a soft spoken North Carolina outdoorsman who carried his love for the willowy Allie Nelson with him long after their youthful romance had ended. He paralleled Noah's silent passions with Allie's haunting thoughts—feelings she could not escape even after she became engaged to another man. He asked his readers to consider what it might mean if these relatively happy, middle-aged people found their destinies once again overlapped.
He presented a question all but universal in appeal: What would happen if two people were given a second chance at the love of a lifetime? Sparks deftly answers that question. But it's the inspiration drawn from his real life grandparents that makes The Notebook more than just a novel of flames reignited. The novel opens and closes with an elderly Noah Calhoun reading aloud from his personal journals and "notebooks." And as he shares the delicate details, the good with the bad, it's clear he is as enchanted with Allie in old age as he was on the day they met. "And that’s the legacy of The Notebook," according to Nicholas Sparks. "When love is real, it doesn't matter what turns the road takes. When love is real, the joys and possibilities are endless." — Reviewed by Kelly Milner Halls
So Sparks created The Notebook, the simple story of Noah Calhoun, a soft spoken North Carolina outdoorsman who carried his love for the willowy Allie Nelson with him long after their youthful romance had ended. He paralleled Noah's silent passions with Allie's haunting thoughts—feelings she could not escape even after she became engaged to another man. He asked his readers to consider what it might mean if these relatively happy, middle-aged people found their destinies once again overlapped.
He presented a question all but universal in appeal: What would happen if two people were given a second chance at the love of a lifetime? Sparks deftly answers that question. But it's the inspiration drawn from his real life grandparents that makes The Notebook more than just a novel of flames reignited. The novel opens and closes with an elderly Noah Calhoun reading aloud from his personal journals and "notebooks." And as he shares the delicate details, the good with the bad, it's clear he is as enchanted with Allie in old age as he was on the day they met. "And that’s the legacy of The Notebook," according to Nicholas Sparks. "When love is real, it doesn't matter what turns the road takes. When love is real, the joys and possibilities are endless." — Reviewed by Kelly Milner Halls
Text 3
Jurrasic Park: The Lost World
A reviewer from Indonesia :Jurrasic Park: The Lost World
Good morning to all the fans of science-fiction movies. Welcome back with me, Putri Made Lestari, in an adventure program, Science-fiction review. Do you still remember the story of Jurassic Park I? Great! I absolutely love Jurassic Park and all the science fiction movies will always please the fans, including me. The Lost World is Jurassic Park Part II, which is still about an island populated with real dinosaurs. Released in 1997.
This science-fiction adventure is the sequel to the box-office hit Jurassic Park (1993), in which a scientist built a dinosaur theme park on a remote island. Although those dinosaurs were destroyed, there were still some left on another island. Dr. Sarah Harding, played by Julianne Moore, and Dr. Ian Malcolm, played by Jeff Goldblum, travel to the island to observe the dinosaurs and try to prevent Roland Tembo who is played by Pete Postlethwaite from rounding the beasts up and taking them to a theme park in the United States. The weather turns bad, the dinosaurs become violent, and one of the angry beasts makes its way to Los Angeles, California. It’s very amazing, isn’t it?
Okay audience, with me this morning is Mr.Steven Spielberg, the director of the Jurassic Park. Good morning and welcome to Indonesia. I’d be glad to have your view on Jurassic Park. Steven Spielberg: To be perfectly frank, this is not a science fiction, it’s science eventually. This movie, however, wants you to learn one thing: you decide you can control nature, and from that moment on you’re in deep trouble because you can’t do it. You can make a boat, but you can’t make the ocean. You can make an aeroplane, but you can’t make the air. Your powers are much less than your dreams would have you believe.
The reviewer from Indonesia: Wow, Jurassic Park really deserves the highest praise. Thanks for joining with Mr. Steven Spielberg and me. See you tomorrow on the same program. Bye.
This science-fiction adventure is the sequel to the box-office hit Jurassic Park (1993), in which a scientist built a dinosaur theme park on a remote island. Although those dinosaurs were destroyed, there were still some left on another island. Dr. Sarah Harding, played by Julianne Moore, and Dr. Ian Malcolm, played by Jeff Goldblum, travel to the island to observe the dinosaurs and try to prevent Roland Tembo who is played by Pete Postlethwaite from rounding the beasts up and taking them to a theme park in the United States. The weather turns bad, the dinosaurs become violent, and one of the angry beasts makes its way to Los Angeles, California. It’s very amazing, isn’t it?
Okay audience, with me this morning is Mr.Steven Spielberg, the director of the Jurassic Park. Good morning and welcome to Indonesia. I’d be glad to have your view on Jurassic Park. Steven Spielberg: To be perfectly frank, this is not a science fiction, it’s science eventually. This movie, however, wants you to learn one thing: you decide you can control nature, and from that moment on you’re in deep trouble because you can’t do it. You can make a boat, but you can’t make the ocean. You can make an aeroplane, but you can’t make the air. Your powers are much less than your dreams would have you believe.
The reviewer from Indonesia: Wow, Jurassic Park really deserves the highest praise. Thanks for joining with Mr. Steven Spielberg and me. See you tomorrow on the same program. Bye.
