ENGLISH IV: UNIT 1

1.5 Textos descriptivos

1.11 Reconocimiento de la estructura, características y propósito de los textos descriptivos

A descriptive text is a text that wants you to picture what is being described. For example,

A novel might want you to imagine the characters and see them in your mind.
A travel book will want you to see the country being described.

Descriptive texts usually:

- Make use of adjectives and adverbs.

- Use comparisons to help picture the scene (something is ‘like’ something else).
- Employ the reader’s five senses (how something feels, smells, looks, sounds and tastes).

See the next page to look at two examples of descriptive texts.

EXERCISE

Write a short paragraph describing something you like. Use the paragraphs above as examples.

The sea
I like it a lot because it relaxes me to swim in it, especially during the afternoon when it is a little dark
and there are not many people anymore. It is very nice to hear the noise of the birds and the waves,
apart from the fact that it has always caught everyone's attention. the animals that are inside it and
it seems very nice to be able to appreciate the fish and corals while I swim.