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M. Arif Maulana
Presence 19
Definition
To describe the way things are, with
reference to arrange on natural,
manmade, and social phenomena in our
environment
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Generic Structure
General Clasification ; Stating classification of
general aspect of thing; animal, public place,
plant, etc which will be discussed in general
Description : tells what the phenomenon
under discussion ; in terms of parts,
qualities, habits or behaviors
Conclusion : its usualy a conclunsion
comment, or evaluation
Language Feature
– Use of general nouns, eg hunting dogs, rather than particular nouns, eg our
dog;
– Use of relating verbs to describe features, eg Molecules are tiny particles;
– Some use of action verbs when describing behaviour, eg Emus cannot fly;
– Use of timeless present tense to indicate usualness, eg Tropical cyclones
always begin over the sea;
– Use of technical terms, eg Isobars are lines drawn on a weather map;
– Use of paragraphs with topic sentences to organise bundles of information;
repeated naming of the topic as the beginning focus of the clause.
Action Verbs
ex ; fish swimming in the
sea
Their body formed a curve in the middle which make it looks chubby, and
it is similar to the other species of carp fish. They have three pairs of fin
located on the bottom of their body and a long fin on top of their body.
Their tail is flat and it is spread vertically. Their eyes are located on each
side of the head. Their mouth is wide with thick lips around it. They can
form an o-shape when they open their mouth.
Their skin are covered with large and colorful scales. Some of them have
more than two color on their body such as white scales with black and
orange spots or white scales with black and red spots. They can grow up
to the size of 80 cm with the maximum weight of 14 kg. It is recorded that
they can live up to 20 years
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