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This document contains a summary of a descriptive text. It defines descriptive text as a text that describes a person, place, or object. The purpose is to describe and reveal the subject. The generic structure includes an identification section and a description section. Language features include using specific participants, adjectives, present tense verbs, action verbs, attribute verbs, and adverbs. An example descriptive text is then provided that describes a favorite history teacher.

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Summary Descriptive Text

This document contains a summary of a descriptive text. It defines descriptive text as a text that describes a person, place, or object. The purpose is to describe and reveal the subject. The generic structure includes an identification section and a description section. Language features include using specific participants, adjectives, present tense verbs, action verbs, attribute verbs, and adverbs. An example descriptive text is then provided that describes a favorite history teacher.

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Name : Dyah Ayu Lestari Ginting (21018012)

Class : K1-21 English Education


Lecturer : Dr. Yetti Zainil, M.A.
Subject : Intermediate Reading
Topic : Descriptive Text

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

1.1. Definition of Descriptive Text


Descriptive text is a text which says what a person or a thing is like. According to
(Schacter, 2019) descriptive text describes a person, place, or thing in a way that enables the
reader to visualize it. So, it can be said that descriptive text is a text that explains about
whether a person or an object is like, whether its form, properties, or amount.
1.2. Purpose of Descriptive Text
The purpose of descriptive text is to describe and reveal a particular person, place, or
thing. The other purpose of the text is to describe a particular person, thing, or place.

1.3. Generic Structure of Descriptive Text


The generic structure of descriptive text is:
 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.

1.4. Language Features of Descriptive Text


 Using specific participant : has a certain object, is not common and unique (only one).
for example: Bandengan beach, my house, Borobudur temple, uncle Jim
 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.
 Using action verb: verbs that show an activity (for example, run, sleep, walk, cut etc….)
 Using attribute verb like be (am, is, are).
 Using adverbs such as extremely high, definetly past, etc.
1.5. Example of Descriptive Text

My Favorite Teacher
My favorite teacher is my history teacher, and he is by far the best teacher that I have
ever had. He has the ability to make a subject that many students find incredibly boring come
to life through his enthusiasm and passion for history, and his love of being a teacher.
Attending his lessons is something we look forward to, not dread, like we do with most other
lessons.
It’s ever so funny to watch him get excited about something, which happens in every
lesson. It’s easy to know that he’s getting excited because he begins bouncing up and down
slightly in a way that no other sixty-something year old would ever managed without looking
completely ridiculous. He has this dark (with more and more grey streaks these days), springy
hair that lines the edge of his growing bald patch, and the hair bounces up and down with him
like thousands of tiny little springs. Then, he takes on his whole new persona, often going
into role and becoming the character or figure he is talking about, doing the voices, the
actions, and parading up and down the room gesticulating wildly, but all the while there’s a
gentle ‘bounce, bounce, bounce’, as though the springs are not just on his head but on the
soles of his shoes too.
A teacher that doesn’t take himself too seriously always will be a big hit with
teenagers, although he’s not afraid to impose his authority if he has to. I’ve only ever heard
him properly shout once (although thankfully it wasn’t it me), but it isn’t an experience that I
would like to repeat. When he lost it, the room suddenly became more silent than I’d ever
known it to be before. We all sat slightly paralyzed, not even anting to breathe too loudly,
because hearing such a jovial and jolly little man lose his temper was a huge shock. It
certainly had the right kind of impact though, because he’s never needed to shout since.
It is actually this teacher that I have to thank for my love of history. In his lessons,
history does not mean copying out of textbooks and writing pages and pages of notes. History
is alive; history is something tangible, that you can see, hear and feel, and we can live it
through dressing up and acting out scenes or taking trips to important places of historical
interest. And although he’s getting on in years and may not be teaching for much longer, he
will have an important place in history for many of his students, because there has never been
a teacher able to bring a subject to life in quite the same way he does.

References

Schacter, Jon. 2019. The Master Teacher Series Descriptive Writing. [Accessed at May, 18 th
2022. descriptive_writing_sample.pdf (teachingdoctors.com)
Descriptive Text; Definition, Generic Structures, Purposes, Language Features – BRITISH Course
Descriptive Text Grade 7.pdf (talentaschool.sch.id)

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