DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

BY
SHAIRI RAHMAN, S.PD.
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IDENTIFICATION

DESCRIPTION
PURPOSE/FUNCTION :
To describe

Generic Structure
•Indentification
•Description                        
Technical vocabularies
Museum
Opened
Daily
Resembles
Features
First floor
Second floor
Several sections
POTENTIAL PROBLEMS
 Text Type:
• What is the type of the text?
• What sort of text is that?
• The above text is a kind of ....
• The above text is ....
 Functions/Purposes :
What is the function of the text?
The purpose of the text is….
The writer wrote the text to…..
What is the writer’s intention?
The above text is written to ....
The above text is aimed at ....
POTENTIAL PROBLEMS
 Text Topic
What is the topic of the text?
What is the above text about?
In the above text, the writer talks/tells about ....
What does the text discuss?
Main Idea of Paragraph
 What is the main idea of the 1st paragraph?

Paragraph 2 talks about ....

In paragraph 3, the writer talks/tells about ....
What does the second paragraph discuss?
POTENTIAL PROBLEMS
 Text Structures ( What, where, when, who,
Why, How)
What is ...(noun)/ what do ...(verbs/action)
Where ...? (place)
When ...? (time)
Who ...? (name)
Why ...? (reasons: cause, because, due to, for)
How ...? (adverb of way: -ly, by, on foot, through)
How much ...? (price or number)
How many ...? (number)
How far ...? (distance)
POTENTIAL PROBLEMS
 Referential words (I, you, we, they, he, she, it, there,
here, this, that)
 - The underlined word refers to ...
 - The bold typed word refers to ...
 - The italicised word is meant as ....
 Synonym
 - the undelined word has similar meaning to ...
 - The underlined word has the same meaning as ...
 - The underlined word can be changed with ...
 - The synonym of the underlined word is ....
 - The underlined word is the closest in meaning to ...
POTENTIAL PROBLEMS
 Antonym
 - The underlined word has the opposite meaning to ...
 - The bold typed word has different meaning from ...
 - The antonym of the italicised word is....
 Concluding information
 - From the text we can conclude that ...
 - From the text we know that ...
 - The conclusion of paragraph 1 is ....
 - From the last paragraph it can be inferred that ....
 moral message
 Main character
 Characterization
 Cloze Text
 Arranging words into a good sentence
 Arranging sentences into paragraph
 Don’t touch!
 Chemical reaction is in progress