Reading Activity

1. Where does she live? She lives in Thessaloniki

2. Who does she live with? She lives with her sister Dimitra and brother, Costa.
3. What is the good or bad about each place? Compare two places they live in
=> Her flat in Thessaloniki is small. Maria and her sister should share a room. Compare to
her family’s house in the mountains near Askos has large room. She has own TV and
bathroom without have to share with her sister. The room is nice and quiet, so that she can
do whatever she wants.
4. Why does Maria love her bedroom in her family house? It’s because her room is nice
quiet. She can relax, listen to music, read and do whatever she wants.
DESCRIPTIVE
TEXT
 Definition of Descriptive Text
■ According to Anderson and Anderson (2003:26), descriptive text
describes particular person, place, or things. It means that descriptive text
is designed specially about a person, a place, or things.
■ according to Pardiyono (2007:33), descriptive text gives descriptions
from the living or non-living things to the reader.
 Generic Structure

■ Identification: (contains about the introduction of a person, place, animal

or object will be described.)
■ Description: contains a description of something such as animal, things,
place or person by describing its features, forms, colors, or anything
related to what the writer describe.
 Language Feature
■ Specific participant : has a certain object, is not common and unique
(only one). for example: Bandengan beach, my house, Borobudur temple,
uncle Jo etc.
■ The use of the adjective (an adjective) to clarify the noun, for example: a
beautiful beach, a handsome man, the famous place in Jepara, etc.
■ The use of simple present tense: The sentence pattern used is simple
present because it tells the fact of the object described.
■ I have dream about my favorite house. My dream house is located in the village. Why I
choose it because I like to see the view of rice field with the mountain and the river. I want
to see and live in the natural environment around me. I also think about air and water
pollution, in my dream house I can find green and fresh water. It is very different if we live
in the big city which has high air and water pollution. So we can’t find peace in that place.
■ Although my dream house is in the village, it doesn’t mean that my rooms, my furniture
and my garden are not modern. I want to have 5 rooms in my dream house. One room is
living room and kitchen. 2 rooms are for my children and me. I like to be simple person so
the bathroom located in the corner of my house, and the last room is for relaxing and
refreshing my mind. The last room must direct to the rice field, so that I can see the nice
view of it. The last room can be my garden which has beautiful flower and small pond. To
make access to the other place I want to add the modern facilities in my dream house’s
such as vehicle and internet access. Beside that my rooms’ furniture are television, phone,
internet access and air conditioner. It can make my feeling feel modern although I live in
the village.
■ My house have minimalist colour like grey, red, white, black, dark blue, brown, and others.
 The colour of the roof is brown of course. My bedroom wall is using wallpaper. My living
 room wall colours is light brown. 
■ I hope this will be come true. I want to live here with my family.