DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

A.       DESCRIPTIVE

1.             The Definition 

        Descriptive text is a text which says what a person or a thing is like.

2.             Purpose of Descriptive Text
Its purpose is to describe and reveal a particular person, place, or thing.

3.             The Generic Structure of Descriptive Text
Descriptive text has structure as below:

a.     Identification       : identifying the phenomenon to be described.

b.   Description        : describing the phenomenon in parts, qualities, or/and   characteristics.

NOTE.

PARTS OF BODY

 

Describing Physical Features

Activity 1

Find the meaning and identify the words below into their categories by filling the table.

pretty, young, dark, small, tall, attractive, short, flabby, fair, old, charming, cute, teenage, of average height, fat, slender, cool, sexy, stocky, plain, middle-aged, plump, ugly, stocky, elderly, muscular, big, diminutive, bent, slight, older/younger than his/her age, homely

Looks	Age	Complexion	Build/Figure	Height

Activity 2

Please read aloud both the words and their meanings after your teacher. Check the pronunciation together.

Activity 3

Please describe the person below!

Yonghwa CNBLUE

Seohyun SNSD

Exercise

Please match the attitude and the explanation below!

 

No.	Attitude		Explanation
1.	A patient person ...	a.	Does not tell the truth
2.	A confident person ...	b.	Always does his/her homework
3.	A cheerful person ...	c.	Keep everything for himself/herself
4.	A dishonest person ...	d.	Talks about the same thing again and again
5.	A generous person ...	e.	Likes to help people
6.	A diligent person ...	f.	Doesn’t get angry easily
7.	A punctual person ...	g.	Has a positive feeling about himself/herself
8.	An introvert person ...	h.	Likes to share what he/she has with others
9	A helpful person ...	i.	Never comes to school or meetings late
10.	A boring person ...	j.	Is easy to smile or laugh

READING

My Black Peci

I have some head covers. They are head, cap, had, and peci. I like my peci very much. Do you know what peci is? I am going to tell you now.

There are some terms or names for this kind of head cover. My father calls it "songkok" but some of my friends call it "kopiah". I myself prefer to call this head cove "peci".

Peci can produce in various colours. They may be sold in green, yellow, and brown color. I do not like bright color. So I bought my peci in dark color. It is black.

My peci is number 5 in size. It has 6 cm in height. My black peci is made of a stiffened, black velvet-like fabric and fold flat. So it is truly dark, truly black. My black peci has the shape of a truncated cone with embroidered felt in its sides.

I always wear my black peci every day. Just like people in Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, the southern Philippine and southern Thailand, I also wear the black peci in formal situations such as wedding feasts, funerals, and festive occasions.

Recently I have known why this black head cover is named peci. The word of "peci" might be derived from the Dutch word "petje" which has meaning of "small hat"

Questions!

1.      What is peci?

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2.      How many colors do the peci produce?

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3.      What is the writer’s father call of peci?

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4.      Which is color of peci the writer has?

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5.      What is the writer’s size of peci?

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6.      Why does the writer choose black color for his peci?

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7.      When does the writer usually wear his peci?

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8.      What are the materials used to make writer’s peci?

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9.      Where is the Peci’s name come from?

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10.   What is the meaning of Peci in Dutch?

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Text

The Moon

  

Moon is the earth's satellite which we often see in the night. The Moon is the one place in our solar system where humans have visited. For the first time on July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin landed the Lunar Module of Apollo 11 on the surface of the Moon. Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the Moon. However do you know what descriptive facts about the Moon are?

The moon rises in the east and sets in the west. It moves toward the east in our sky by about 12 degrees each day. The Moon is about 384,400 kilometers from Earth. The Moon has a diameter of 2,000 miles which is like to 3,476 kilometers.

The surface of the Moon has many things, such as craters, lava plains, mountains, and valleys. Scientists believe the craters were formed around 3.5 to 4.5 billion years ago by meteors hitting the moon's surface. The Moon does not have atmosphere, wind and weather that is why the footprints left there on the Moon by the Apollo astronauts will remain there for millions of years.

The Moon is not a light source. It means that Moon does not make its own light. It reflects light from the sun. All of us can see the Moon especially in the night because light from the Sun bounces off it back to the Earth. If the Sun wasn't there, we cannot see the Moon.

The moon influences many of the tides in the oceans. This is because of the gravity force between the Earth and Moon. At full Moon and new Moon, the Sun, Earth and Moon are lined up, producing the higher than normal tides. When the Moon is at first or last quarter, it forms smaller neap tides.

Questions!

1.      What is moon?

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2.      When did the astronaut land in the moon?

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3.      Who are the astronauts?

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4.      How far the distance from the earth into the moon?

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5.      Is the moon has a surface?

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6.      What are craters made by?

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7.      What are the things that the moon doesn’t have?

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8.      When do the craters form?

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9.      Why the moon doesn’t have its own light?

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10.   Why the moon influences many of the tides in the oceans?

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