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Giant Glass Slipper Building Overview

The document describes The Giant Glass Slipper building in Taiwan, highlighting its unique design, dimensions, and purpose as a wedding venue. Built by local government officials, it aims to boost tourism and has received a Guinness World Record for being the largest high heel shoe-shaped structure. The text also outlines the characteristics of descriptive writing, including its social function and language features.

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Giant Glass Slipper Building Overview

The document describes The Giant Glass Slipper building in Taiwan, highlighting its unique design, dimensions, and purpose as a wedding venue. Built by local government officials, it aims to boost tourism and has received a Guinness World Record for being the largest high heel shoe-shaped structure. The text also outlines the characteristics of descriptive writing, including its social function and language features.

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DESCRIPTIVE

TEXT
Match the words in the left column with their synonyms in the right column.

1. Unique a. Mirror
2. Venue b. Happy
3. Worthy c. Notable
4. Inspired d. Special
5. Expected e. Place
6. Welcomed f. Eye-catching
7. Spectacular g. Greeted
8. Reflect h. Motivated
9. blissful. i. hoped
The Giant Glass Slipper
Building of Taiwan
CASA
TERRACOTA
THE GIANT SLIPPER BUILDING OF
TAIWAN
The Giant Glass Slipper building is a unique
building built on the costal area in Chiayi, Taiwan with a height
of 16 meters (55 feet) and a width of about 10 meters (36
feet). This shiny blue building was made of 320 tinted glass
panels and costed around US $ 686,000. it was completed on
10 January 2016 and was officially opened on 23 July 2016.
There was no special architect for the building. This
was purely the creation of the local government officials. This
building is used as a wedding venue. The slippers building
qualified for The Guinness World Records certificate as the
largest high heel shoe-shaped structure.
Inspired by the fairy tale ”Cinderella and her glass
slippers”, the purpose of building The Giant Glass Slipper is to
develop tourism in Taiwan. This building only serves couples
who are getting married. They want to make the building a
blissful romantic venue. This unique building is expected to
attract many tourists not only domestic but also from all over
the world so that it will increase the country’s income.
1. What is
Descriptive text?

a text which says what


a person or a thing is
like
2. Social
Function
It aims to describe
a person, place or
thing
3. GENERIC STRUCTURE
1. Identification
(contains about the introduction of a person, place,
animal
or object will be described.)
2. Description
contains a description of something such as
animal,
things, place or person by describing its features,
forms,
colors, or anything related to what the writer
describes.
4. Language Features
a. Specific participant : has a certain object, is not common and
unique
(only one). for example: Bandengan beach, my house,
Borobudur
temple, uncle Jim

b. The use of the adjective (an adjective) to clarify the noun, for
example: a beautiful beach, a handsome man, the famous
place in
Jepara, etc.

c. The use of simple present tense: The sentence pattern used is


simple present because it tells the fact of the object described.

d. Action verb: verbs that show an activity (for example, run,


sleep,

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