Todays topic : Descriptive text.

1. Finding the specific information from descriptive texts;

a. The definition and purpose of descriptive texts
Descriptive text is a text which says what a person or a thing is like. Its purpose
is to describe and reveal a particular person, place, or thing.

2. Identifies the structure of descriptive texts;

a. The Generic Structure of Descriptive Text

Descriptive text has structure as below:
Identification; identifying the phenomenon to be described.
Description; describing the phenomenon in parts, qualities, or/and
characteristics.

b. The Generic Structure of Descriptive Text

Descriptive text has structure as below:
Identification; identifying the phenomenon to be described.
Description; describing the phenomenon in parts, qualities, or/and
characteristics.

c. The Language Feature of Descriptive Text

Using attributive and identifying process.
Using adjective and classifiers in nominal group.
Using simple present tense
 Read and understand the descriptive texts above.

MacQuarie University

Macquarie University is one of the largest universities in Australia.

Identification
This year, in 2004, it celebrates its 40thanniversary.

The university is located at the North Ryde Greenbelt, Sydney,

where the New South Wales government sets aside 135 hectares
for the institution. In 1964, Macquarie area was a rural retreat on
the city fringe, but today the campus and its surroundings have
evolved beyond recognition. The North Ryde District has grown
into a district of intensive occupation anchored by a vibrant and
growing university. Blessed with a fortunate location and room to
breathe; Macquarie can be proud of that careful planning that
retains and enrich the universitys most attractive natural features.
A pleasing balance between buildings and plating is evident
across the campus. This emphasis on the importance of
landscape has created images of Macquarie as a place that
members of the university are most likely to pleasurably recollect.
One of the highlights of the landscape is the Mars Creek zone. It
comprises landscaped creek sides and valley floor, a grass

Description
amphitheatre, and artificial lake surrounded by rocks and
pebbles, native plants and eucalypts.

Today, a railway station is under construction. In three years1 time,

Macquarie will be the only university in Australia with a railway
station on site. Macquarie is poised to be the most readily
accessible in Sydney region by rail and motorway, yet retaining its
beautiful site.
Individual work!

Please read this short descriptive text The Borobudur Temple and
answer the questions from the text bellow carefully!

The Borobudur Temple

Borobudur is Hindu Buddhist temple. It was built in the ninth century under
Sailendra dynasty of ancient Mataram kingdom. Borobudur is located in Magelang,
Central Java, Indonesia.

Borobudur is well-known all over the world. Its construction is influenced by the
Gupta architecture of India. The temple is constructed on a hill 46 m high and consists
of eight steps like stone terrace. The first five terraces are square and surrounded by
walls adorned with Buddhist sculpture in bas-relief. The upper three are circular. Each
of them is with a circle of bell shape-stupa. The entire edifice is crowned by a large
stupa at the centre at the centre of the top circle. The way to the summit extends
through some 4.8 km of passage and stairways. The design of borobudur which
symbolizes the structure of universe influences temples at Angkor, Cambodia.

Borobudur temple which is rededicated as an Indonesian monument in 1983 is a

valuable treasure for Indonesian people.

Answer these questions by following the text above!

1. What is Borobudur?
2. Where is Borobudur located?
3. What is Buddhist?
4. When was the Borobudur built?
5. Borobudur is well-known all over the world. (In second paragraph)
What is the meaning of the sentence above?
6. How to construct the Borobudur Temple?
7. Its construction is influenced by the Gupta architecture of India.
What Its from the text above refers to?
8. The temple is constructed on a hill
What kind of tenses that used of the sentence in no.8?
9. In what paragraph do you find identification?
10. In what paragraph do you find description?