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 Descriptive Text
Meaning? Describing Who?
Structure?
Purpose? What?

Created By : Mr. Arnold Lamadua

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 Indicators of Basic Competency
 KNOWLEDGE
 Students are able to analyze the social function of the text.
 Students are able to analyze the generic structure of the text
 Students are able to analyze the language features of descriptive text

 SKILL
 Students are able to write a short descriptive text about a person
 Students are able to present a descriptive text about a person
 Learning Objective
 Students are able to identify the social function, the generic structure and language features of descriptive
text
 Students are able to categorize the social function, the generic structure and language features of
descriptive text
 Students are able to write descriptive text about a person by giving attention to social function, text
structure, and language feature, which is credible and appropriate with the context.
 Students are able to present a descriptive text about a person
Situation:
There’s a student grade 8 tells his classmate
that he really likes his father. His father is his
idol. His classmates ask him to describe his
father. But something’s happened. He doesn’t
know how to describe about his father. Could
you please help him how to describe someone?
Could you describe someone’s appearance by
talking about their gender, height, weight, age,
hair color, or eye color?

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What is Descriptive Text?

“Descriptive text is a kind of text

that describes
something/person in
particular (details).”
The purpose of Descriptive Text

“The purpose of descriptive text is

to
describe someone/something
specifically to the readers in
particular or details.”

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 c t of
Obje ing
Writ
Descriptive Text usually tells about:
1. People around us
2. Things around us
3. Tourism Places / City / Country
4. Company Profile
5. Biography of Famous/Successful
Person

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Generic Structure of Descriptive Text

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 Identification : “It is a part of
paragraph which introduces or
identifies the character.”
 Description : “It is a part of
paragraph which describes the
character.”

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 Language Features of
Descriptive Text

• It usually uses present tense in

sentences.

• It usually uses some adjective in many

sentences.

• It usually in the first person POV and or

in the third person POV.

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EXAMPLE I like Cristiano Ronaldo, a
famous
football player of Real Madrid
●Ronaldo was born in Funchal, Madeira,
Portugal on 5 February 1985. He is handsome.
He has dark brown hair, brown eyes and has a
birthmark on the left cheek. His nose is sharp
and
his is light
skin
brown.
Ronaldo is known as a great football
CRISTIANO
RONALDO player.
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 VOCABULARY
APPEARANCE
No PERSONALITY
PHYSICALLY FASHION
1 Handsome Beautiful Hat Forgiving(Pemaaf)
2 Light Skin Dark Skin Watch Humble (rendah hati)
3 Tall Short T-Shirt Cheerful (ceria)
4 Fat Slim Short Self-Conscious(Pemalu)
5 Young Old Jacket Pious (pemalu)
6 Curly Wave glases Polite (sopan)
7 Stright Kinky Shirt Honest (jujur)
8 Balt Good Looking Belt Diligent (rajin)
9 Muscular Brown eyes Sweater/jumper Smart (pintar)
10 Wrinkles Moustache Boots Hot-Tempered
(pemarah)
 WORDS THAT DESCRIBE PHYSICAL APPEARANCE
HEIGHT short, average height, tall (He/She is …, I am…)

AGE around 15…, in his/her 20s (He/She is…, You are….)

HAIR short, long

straight, wavy, curly, a ponytail white, grey, black, dark/ light brown, blonde, fair, red
(He/She has got…., I/You/We/They have got…) bald (He is bald.) beard, moustache
(He has got a….)
FACE square, round, wide, plain ( He/She has got…., I/You/We/They have got…)

COMPLEXION light, dark ( He/She has got…., I/You/We/They have got…)

EYES green, blue, brown

beautiful, big ( He/She has got…., I/You/We/They have got…)

OTHER beautiful, pretty, handsome, cute, good-looking, young, old, overweight…(He/She is …, I am…),

CLOTHES and He/She is wearing….(a blue T-shirt and black

ACCESSORIES jeans) glasses

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Descriptive text about my best friend,
Lina.

Lina is my best friend. She is a Junior High

School student. She is in the second grade
now and she is a smart student. Her school is
on Crocodile Street. The school has twenty
classrooms and one library. It also has a wide
school yard. Lina and her friends like to play
in the school yard. It is fun to play there. She
likes English lesson very much. She thinks
English is fun and challenging.

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 LET’S PRACTICE!!
Practice 1
Questions!
1. What does Lina do?

2. Where is her school?

3. How many classroom does her school has?

4. How is her school yard?

5. What lesson does lina like?
6. What does she think about English?

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GROUP WORK
Divide the class into 3 up to five groups. Each
group consists of five students.

Make a description of your favourite singer

INDIVIDUAL WORK
1. Make a descriptive text about someone (your favorite or
beloved ones) consisting of at least five –ten sentences.

2. Determine the Generic Structure !

3. Make five sentences in Present Tense !

Upload your work to your own LMS - Quintal

BEST OF LUCK
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 Thanks!
Any questions?
You can find me at arnoldus@[Link]

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