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Summary Modul 3: Descriptive Text Is A Meaningful

This document provides a summary of Module 3 on descriptive texts in English for social communication. It discusses the definition, social functions, generic structures, and language features of two types of descriptive texts - those describing people and animals, and those describing things and places. For both text types, the goal is to use descriptions to reveal specific participants or objects. Key language features include using adjectives, present tense verbs, and noun phrases to provide detailed characterizations and classifications.

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Summary Modul 3: Descriptive Text Is A Meaningful

This document provides a summary of Module 3 on descriptive texts in English for social communication. It discusses the definition, social functions, generic structures, and language features of two types of descriptive texts - those describing people and animals, and those describing things and places. For both text types, the goal is to use descriptions to reveal specific participants or objects. Key language features include using adjectives, present tense verbs, and noun phrases to provide detailed characterizations and classifications.

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SUMMARY MODUL 3

ENGLISH FOR SOCIAL COMMUNICATION

A. LEARNING ACTIVITY 1: DESCRIPTIVE TEXT (PERSON AND ANIMAL)


1. DEFINITION
Descriptive Text is a text that explains about what a person or an animal, is
like.
2. SOCIAL FUNCTION
The social functions of descriptive text are:
 To give information about a particular entity by describing its
features, history, and special characteristics.
 To give information about things by describing physical attributes,
behaviors, uses, etc.
3. GENERIC STRUCTURES
The generic structures of descriptive text are:
 Identification or general statements. It introduces or identifies specific
object (a person and animal).
 Descriptions: The parts of a text describe the object characteristics, appearances,
personality, habits or qualities
4. LANGUAGE FEAURES
The language features of descriptive text are:
 Focus on specific participants as the main character;
 Use present tense as dominant tenses;
 Use linking verbs or relational process frequently (is, are, has, have, belongs to) in
order to classify and describe appearance or qualities and parts or functions of
phenomena;
 Use action verbs or material process and behavioral process in giving additional
description regarding action and behavior done by the participants in text;
 Use mental verb or mental process when describing feelings;
 Use nominal group frequently to describe;
 Use adjective and adverbs to add information to nouns and add information to verbs to
provide more detailed description about the topic;
 Use adverbial phrases to add more information about manner, place, or time and
sometimes realized in embedded clause which functions as circumstances

B. LEARNING ACTIVITY 2: DESCRIPTIVE TEXT (THINGS AND PLACES)


1. DEFINITION
Descriptive text is a meaningful text that describes and reveals particular thing or place
2. SOCIAL FUNCTION
The social functions of descriptive text is to describe, represent or reveal an object, either
abstract or concrete.
3. GENERIC STRUCTURES
The generic structures of descriptive text are:
 Identification or general statements. It introduces or identifies specific
object (thing and place).
 Descriptions: The parts of a text describe the object characteristics, appearances,
personality, habits or qualities
4. LANGUAGE FEAURES
The language features of descriptive text are:
 Specific participant : it has a certain object, is not common and unique (only one). for
example: Bandengan beach, my house, Borobudur temple.
 The use of the adjective (an adjective) to clarify the noun, for example: a beautiful
beach, 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.
 Action verb: verbs that show an activity (i.e, run, sleep, walk, cut etc….
 using passive voice
 using noun phrase
 using technical terms
 using general and abstract noun.
 using conjunction of time and cause-effect

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