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A Descriptive Text Its Purpose

The document describes the structure and features of a descriptive text, which tells about a subject by describing its appearance and characteristics without including opinions. It should identify the subject, then describe it in detail through several topic sentences each about a different feature. Descriptive texts use nouns, present tense verbs, adjectives, and adverbs to objectively portray the subject.

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A Descriptive Text Its Purpose

The document describes the structure and features of a descriptive text, which tells about a subject by describing its appearance and characteristics without including opinions. It should identify the subject, then describe it in detail through several topic sentences each about a different feature. Descriptive texts use nouns, present tense verbs, adjectives, and adverbs to objectively portray the subject.

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  • Descriptive Text Overview: Provides an overview of descriptive texts, explaining their purpose and how to describe features without personal opinions.
  • Structure of Descriptive Text: Details the generic structure of descriptive texts, including identification and description parts with examples.
  • Language Features of Descriptive Text: Explains linguistic features important for descriptive texts such as noun use, adjective use, and verbs that express thoughts or feelings.
  • Example: My School: Describes a school using descriptive text elements as an example for learners.
  • Example: Celine Dion: Uses Celine Dion as a subject to demonstrate how to write a descriptive text involving a person.
  • Example: My Cat: Provides an example of using descriptive text to talk about a pet, focusing on a cat named Spot.
  • Exercise: Who Am I?: An interactive slide encouraging self-description or guessing an entity based on characteristics.
  • Animal Descriptions Exercise: Presents short descriptions of animals to practice identifying or describing based on given features.

DESCRIPTIVE TExT

A Descriptive text is a kind of text which


describes a particular persons, places , things,
or animals.
Its purpose is to tell about the subject by
Describing its features without including
Personal opinions. For examples; Describing
the building, animals, places or persons

Amin Suryati
GENERIC STUCTURE OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT
• 1. Identification : Identifying the phenomenon tobe described
 This paragraph introduces the subject of the description to the
audience
 It gives the brief details about “, who or what of the subject

• 2. Description : Describing the phenomenon in parts,


qualities, or/and characteristics
 This part consists several paragraphs
 Each paragraph usually begins with a topic sentnce
 Each paragraph should describe one feature of the subject
 All paragraphs build the detailed description of the subject
THE LANGUAGE FEATURES OF
DESCRIPTIVE TEXT
 Certain nouns, e.g teacher, house, my rabbit, etc
 Using simple present tense
 Using descriptive adjective, e.g two strong legs etc
 Using relating verbs for giving information about the subject,
e.g My mum is really cool, it has very thick fur
 Thinking and feeling verbs for expression the writer’s personal opinion
about the subject,
e.g I think It is a clever cat,etc
 Using Figurative verbs such as simili, metafor,
e.g John is white as chalk.
 Using Adverbials,e.g : fast, at the tree house, etc
TITLE My School
INDENTIFICATION My school is on Jl. Satria number 1 Taman
Sidoarjo.
It has thirty three classrooms, one Masjid, one
laboratory, one library, one headmaster room, one
teacher room, one Guidance room, one
administration room, one music room, five
DESC computer rooms, and one canteen. We always
RIPTI
ON hold a flag ceremony in our school yard. Our
school yard is so big, that’s why if we have
physical education lesson we practice at the field
in our school.
March,30th 1968 Beautiful voice, slim, tall, pointed

in Quebec Canada beautiful face and eyes, light complexion, long wavy
hair, wear necklace.

Husband (Rene Angelil)

Son (Rene Charles)

Celine Dion
Singer, song writer never graduated from senior

actress, entrepreneurhigh school or college

Pop and R & B music


 Unison (1990)
 Falling into you(1996)
 Miracle (2004)
 My heart will go on ( 2006)
CELINE DION
Celine Dion is one of the most popular singer in the world. She was
born in a small town Charlemagne in Quebec Canada. Her parents are
Canadian and Frances. Her full name is Celine Marie Claudette Dion, and
her popular name is Celine Dion.
Music had always been a part of the her family as she grew up singing
with her siblings in her parents. Dion had dreamed of being a performer.
Celine Dion is very beautiful woman. She has pointed nose and beautiful
eyes. She is also tall enough and has slim body. She has light complexion,
and her hair is blond, wavy, and long. She is so attractive. Beside she is
a famous singer that has beautiful voice , she is also a song writer,
actress, and entrepreneur. When she is on the stage she does total
expression. She has never graduates from high school or college because
of the show biz stuff. Dion’s music has been influence by genre ranging
from Pop and R&B music. Some of her popular songs are Unison
(1990), Falling into You (1996), Miracle(2004) and My heart will go on
(2006) the soundtrack of film “Titanic” that became a popular film.
Orange
white stipe

active

sleep in sofa fur thick

not like rice

like to chase like to run


My Cat

I have a pet. It is a cat and I call it Spot.


He has orange fur with white strip. I like to
cuddle him because his fur feels soft. Every
morning I give Spot milk. Spot does not like rice,
so I give him cat food. Spot is an active animal. He
likes to run around the house. He likes to chase
everyone in my house. When he feels tired or
sleepy, Spot usually sleeps on the sofa in the living
room or sometimes under the table.
It’s time to relax

• Who am I?
1. It’s about an animal. It is big. It usually
lives in a swamp. It has four legs. It’s
tail is long enough, and eats animals too.
2. It has four legs. It is cute and has soft
thick fur. It has long tail. It likes chasing
mouse. Some people like to stroke it.
3. It likes eating leaves. It has four leg and
it gives birth. It has long neck.
Describe this animal
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