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Genre has been defined as ‘‘a distinctive category of discourse of any type, spoken or written’’ that serves as ‘‘responses by speakers or writers to the demands of a social context’’. Genre has been produced in many different spheres of human activities. For example, they are present in magazines, newspapers, television, internet, and others. That is to say that a genre represents a pattern or a set of rules that a given text follows in order to communicate its message effectively to its intended audience. Taking that into consideration, check the alternative, whose statement provided may not be associated with the tenets of a potential genre-based theory or approach to the English language teaching (ELT).