7th Graders: Descriptive Text (Part One)

 Assalamualaikum, dear 7^th graders? …

How’s life today? … . wish you all fine👩.

Let’s start our activity today with saying Bismillahirrohmanirrohim.

Today’s session is DESCRIPTIVE TEXT. Check it out👇!

Let me ask you dears …. Do you have an idol in your life? Is it your Mama? Your father? Or your best friend?

Can you describe him/ her? Is she/ he tall or short? Slim or big? What about his/ her personality? Is she kind or friendly man?

Nha… the description of his/ her physical appearance or personality which we describe in can be called as Descriptive Text.

Okay dears…Let’s learn the definition, generic structure, purpose and the language features of Descriptive Text.

1.      Definition of Descriptive Text

Descriptive text is a text which describe what a person or a thing is like. The description is about sensory experience (look, sound, taste) but mostly about visual appearance (sight sensory).

Teks descriptive adalah teks yang menceritakan tentang bagaimana seseorang atau sebuah benda seperti kelihatannya. Teks ini melibatkan semua indera baik penglihatan, suara, dan rasa namun kebanyakan adalah penglihatan.

2.      Purpose of Descriptive Text

The social function of this text is describing a particular person, place or thing in specific.

Fungsi teks descriptive adalah menggambarkan seseorang, tempat, benda secara rinci.

3.      Generic structure of Descriptive Text

There are three parts of this text, they are:

a.       Identification

This part tells introduction of person, place, animal, or object will be described.

Pada bagian ini penulis akan mengenalkan tokoh, tempat, hewan, objek yang akan didescripsikan.

b.      Description

This part contains about a description of something such as animal, things, place or person by describing its features: forms, colors, or anytjig related to what the writer describe.

Pada bagian ini berisi penggambaran hal-hal tentang orang, tempat, hewan, atau objek yang dideskripsikan berdasarkan cirri-ciri fisik: bentuk, warna, atau hal yang berkaitan dengan deskripsi si penulis. 

4.      Language feature of Descriptive Text

-          Introducing specific participant

Specific participant merujuk tokoh secara specific, misalnya tokoh yang akan dideskripsikan secara rinci adalah my mother.

-          Using adjective (kata sifat)

Adjective disini misalnya big, small, slim, short, etc.

-          using of action verbs

Action verbs digunakan jika menggambarkan aktivitas,

misalnya: Poppy sleeps on the sofa everyday.

-          Using simple present tense.

Poppy eats carrot every morning. (eat- Verb1).

Well dears... that's all for today's chap. The video below taken from Ezy mandarin you tube and decribes a mama for us. I'm sure you'll aggre with the description about A Mama in the video. 

We'll see you later on the next part, Okay!