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Describing People in English

The document provides information about descriptive text, including its purpose and generic structure. Descriptive text aims to describe things, people, or other subjects. It generally includes an identification section introducing the topic followed by a description section detailing the topic's characteristics. Adjectives and present tense are commonly used. Examples are given for describing a person's physical traits like hair color, eye color, height, and more.

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Describing People in English

The document provides information about descriptive text, including its purpose and generic structure. Descriptive text aims to describe things, people, or other subjects. It generally includes an identification section introducing the topic followed by a description section detailing the topic's characteristics. Adjectives and present tense are commonly used. Examples are given for describing a person's physical traits like hair color, eye color, height, and more.

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Descriptive Text

Catharina Elmayantie
What is Descriptive text?

Descriptive text is a kind of text with a


purpose to give information. The context of
this kind of text is description of particular
thing, animal, person, or others.
The Generic Structure of
Descriptive Text
 Identification

Introducing where or who is the subject is being

describe.

 Description 

Describes parts, qualities, and the characteristic

of the person, place, or thing to be describe.  


Grammatical feature

 Focus on Specific Participant


 Adjective
 The Use of simple present tense
Describing person!
 Has … children/ ….Daughter(s) and …
 His/her name is  …
son(s)
 He/she…  Likes …+ ing
 Is …years old  Doesn’t like …+ing
 Is …(nationality)  What does he/she look like?
 Speaks … (language)  He/she …
 Is from….  Is tall/short
 Lives in ….  Is fat/ skinny
 Is single/married  Has long/short hair
 Has black/brown/red/blond/gray hair
Has brown/blue/green eyes.
THE KINDS OF FACE
THE KINDS OF EYES
THE KINDS OF NOSE
Daniel Jacob Radcliffe
Daniel Jacob Radcliffe

Identification
Daniel Jacob Radcliffe was born in
Fulham, London, 23 July 1989. his
nickname is Dan. He is the only child of
Alan Radcliffe and Marcia Gresham.
Dan has white skin, dark brown hair,
blue eyes, and pointed nose. His height
is about 168cm. He is a loyal, shy, down

Description
to earth and humorous person. He is
also intelligent and somewhat
mysterious. He loves football, Formula
One racing and gymnastics.
Daniel Jacob Radcliffe
Dark brown hair

Blue eyes

Pointed nose

White skin
Robert Pattinson Shahrukh Khan
To describe a person’s physical appearance, you
can use the following words

Physical Appearnce
Height Body Age Hair Face Eyes

Tall Slim Young Long Round Big


To describe a person’s physical appearance, you can use

the following words

Physical Appearnce
Height Body Age Hair Face Eyes

Tall Slim Young Long Round Big


short Thin Old Short Oval Round
Plump Teenager Bald Square Blue
Fat In 20s, straight Wrinkles Brown
Skinny 30s, 40s Curly Pale Green
muscular Middle Wavy Bearded slanting
age Black shaved
Red
brown
Complete the column below based on the text

Names Physical Appearance Characters

Daniel Radcliffe •Hair: dark brown •Loyal


•Eyes: blue •Shy
•Pointed nose •Humorous
•Height: 168cm •Intelligent
•mysterious
Emma Watson

Rupert Grint
Complete the column below based on the text
Names Physical Appearance Characters

Daniel Radcliffe •Hair: dark brown •Loyal


•Eyes: blue •Shy
•Pointed nose •Humorous
•Height: 168cm •Intelligent
•Mysterious
Emma Watson Hair: wavy brown •Generous
Eyes: brown •Friendly
Pointed nose •Determined
Height: 165 cm •Little bit stubborn

Rupert Grint Hair: Bright red •Active


Eyes: blue •Humorous
Pointed nose •Humble
Height: 180 cm

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