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DESCRIPTIVE TEXT ( PERSON )

 Learning Outcomes
Attitude
To uphold and apply religious values, moral values, ethical values, personal and social values, in this case
being respectful to others(treating people with courtesy, politeness, and kindness), showing appreciation to
others‘ opinions and suggestions, and listening to what others have to says/writes wisely before expressing
your own viewpoints.

Knowledge
To understand the nature of descriptive text
To identify the language features (words, phrases, sentences) commonly applied to this type of writing.
To analyze the descriptive texts in regard to the text structures, by showing the evidence from the texts
(expression, sentences, paragraphs, etc) in fluent and language accurate spoken and written English

Skill
• To get detailed information of the descriptive texts with contextually social functions, text structures, and
language features
• To make inferences of the descriptive texts with contextually social functions, text structures, and
language features
• To evaluate the descriptive texts with contextually social functions, text structures, and language features
• To construct the descriptive texts with contextually social functions, text structures, and language features
Source : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgqFsUAuP24

Pre Activity
Watch and analyse the videos below about describing person in spoken
form. In your opinion what is descriptive text? Where can you find
usually such text? Do you think descriptive texts are spoken or written
forms?
Learning Material
Text 1
Read the text below!

Task 1 : Which paragraph identifies the topic of text 1?

Mention and describes the paragraphs that
explains the characteristics of the person!
 Text 2
Read the text below!

Task 2
Fill in the table with suitable information
from the text 2!

Part of text Purpose Details from the text

General Identification ……………………. ………………….
……………………. ………………….
……………………. ………………….
Description …………………….. …………………..
……………………… ……………………..
……………………... ……………………..
 Task

Task 3
Now, identify the language
features used in text 1 and
text 2 above by giving some
example from both texts!
Task 4
Watch the video below.
Compare your answer in task 3
with the explanation from the
video!
Explanation about Descriptive Text
Source : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skd_S9mZHcs
Buatlah karangan teks deskripsi dari gambar mind
mapping tersebut!
Cleoptra

Cleopatra (69-30 B.C.) is one of the most famous women of all time. A
Greek Queen of Egypt, she played a major role in the extension of the Roman
Empire. She was the brilliant and beautiful last Pharaoh of Egypt. Historically,
she became a queen of Egypt in 51 B.C. at the age of eighteen. She was a
Ptolemy, descended from one of Alexander the Great’s generals. When she
was twenty-one, Julius Caesar became her lover. Seven years later she met
Antony. The romantic tragic relationship continued until they died by suicide
in 30 B.C.
Cleopatra was legendary. She was famous not only for her breathtaking
beauty but also for her great intellect. She had brown eyes and they were
shaped like cat eyes. Her skin was in fact an olive shade, darker than
Hollywood actress Liz Taylor who portrayed her in the film ‘Cleopatra’ in
1963. She had medium dark brown hair, about to the middle of her shoulder
blades. She had a reputation as an extraordinarily sensuous woman.
Cleopatra was a woman of remarkable poise and unusual intelligence. She
was highly educated. She spoke proficiently in nine languages and also skilled
in mathematics. She is often considered to be a stunning seductress though
she was studying to be a nun. Cleopatra was a very intelligent queen and a
politician with a great charisma.
 
 Formative Test
The following text is for questions number 1-5!

MY
MOTHER
I think that my mother is a beautiful person. She is not tall but not short either, and she
has curly brown hair. Her eyes color are like honey and her color skin is light brown, and
she has a beautiful smile. Her weight is 55 kg.

She is a very kind person. She is very lovely, friendly, patient, and she loves to help people.
I love my mom, because she is a good example to me. She loves being in the Church, and
she loves singing and dancing too.

She is a very good child, wife and mother. She always takes care of her family. She likes to
clean and organize her house. She is a very organized person, and all things in the house
are in the right place. She doesn't like messes.

She always has a smile on her face. She is so sweet and lovely. She always gives me a kiss
when I am going to sleep, when I wake up or when I am going to go to some places. When
the family has a problem, she will always be with us to help us and to give us all her love.
1. What is the social function of the text above?
a. To give information about someone by describing physical attributes and behaviors
b. To entertain the readers about the story
c. To tell the readers how to make friend
d. To report someone’s behaviors

2. The language feature used in the text above is, EXCEPT

e. Present tense
f. Mental verbs
g. Adjectives
h. Past tense

3. These are the characteristics of Mother, EXCEPT

i. she has curly brown hair
j. Her eyes color are like honey
k. She is tall
l. Her color skin is light brown
4. Which of the following are not normally used in descriptive texts?
a. Adjectives
b. Adverbs
c. Step by step action to be taken by the reader
d. Comparisons to enable the reader to picture something

5. What is the reason to write descriptive text?

a. To allow the readers to grasp the writer’s idea through the reader’s sense of sight, smell, taste, sound, and touch
b. To inform the reader about technical features
c. To provide the reader with scientific details
d. To appeal to the reader’s liking for numbers

The following text is for questions number 6-8!

Peter is the youngest in our family. He is fourteen years old and four years younger than me. He has long,
straight hair, bright eyes and a friendly smile. Sometimes he is rather naughty at home, but he usually does
what he is asked to do.
Peter is interested in sports very much, and at school, he plays football and tennis. He is the best
badminton player in our family.
 
6. Which of the following statement is not true about Peter?
a. He plays football and tennis.
b. He has long and straight hair.
c. He has bright eyes.
d. He doesn’t play badminton.

7. According to the passage, we know that Peter is…

a. The writer’s elder brother.
b. The writer’s youngest brother
c. A friendly boy.
d. A naughty boy.

8. From the text, we may conclude that….

a. Peter is a welcoming person.
b. People is older that the writer.
c. Peter is not diligent at all.
d. Many people do not like Peter. My Very Best Friends
The following text is for questions number 9-10!

 
My Uncle

My Uncle Martin is my mother's elder brother. He is my favourite among my mother's

brothers. He is a very interesting man. He lives quite near us with my Aunt Angela and
my cousins Anne and Bob. I often go to his house. He is about 45 with grey hair. He is
still quite good-looking. He is tall and well-built. He has blue eyes and a strong face. He
wears glasses. He is short sighted. He takes them off when he doesn't work.  Uncle
Martin is a textile engineer. He works for a big firm in the city. He travels widely in his
job. He is an expert in solving problems with machines. At present, he is in the United
States. He is visiting the firm's customers there. He is very fond of the sea. He has a
boat at seaside. He goes there every weekend in summer to sail it. I sometimes stay
with my cousins at their house on the coast. When Uncle Martin is at home, he usually
takes us out in the boat.
9. The purpose of the text is …
      a.   to describe persons and characters
      b.   to tell a sequence of events
      c.   to entertain the readers
      d.   to persuade the readers to have many friends

10. Which statement is true according to the text?

a. Uncle Martin is a agricultural engineer
b. Uncle Martin is about 45 with grey hair and blue eyes
c. He works for a big hospital in the city
d. He has long black hair.
 KEY ANSWER
1) A 6) D
2) D 7) B
3) C 8) A
4) C 9) A
5) A 10) B