DESCRIPTIVE TEXT & ADJECTIVES Group 1 Ahmad Arya Azizah Agusanni Efa putri S M Hilmi Natasya Agustien Syabilla Aditya G Zahra Syafira DEFINITION OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT Descriptive Text is a text which says what a person or a thing is like. Its purpose is to describe and reveal a particular person, place, or thing. Description is about sensory experience—how something looks, sounds, tastes. Mostly it is about visual experience, but description also deals with other kinds of perception. (Kane, 2000:352 GENERIC STRUCTURE OF DESCRIPTION TEXT 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 decribing its features, forms, colors, or anything related to what the writer describe. PURPOSE OF DESCRIPTION TEXT – To describe person, thing or place in specific – To describe a particular person, thing or place. LANGUAGE FEATURES OF DESCRIPTION TEXT – 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. – Action verb: verbs that show an activity (for example, run, sleep, walk, cut etc. EXAMPLE OF DESCRIPTION TEXT Way Kambas National Park Way Kambas National Park is a national park for elephant sanctuary located in Lampung precisely in the Labuhan Ratu sub district, East Lampung, Indonesia. Way Kambas National Park, established in 1985, is the first school for elephant in Indonesia. In the beginning of its establishment, Way Kambas National Park was named the Elephant Training Center / Pusat Latihan Gajah (PLG), but the last few years this name was changed into Elephant Conservation Center / Pusat Konservasi Gajah (PKG), which is expected to become a center for elephant conservation in taming, training, breeding and conserving elephants. Until now, this PKG has trained for about 300 elephants which have been deployed to all over the country. In Way Kambas National Park, there are some endangered animals such as Sumatran Rhinos, Sumatran elephant, Sumatran tiger, Mentok Rimba, and Buaya sepit. There are also so some plants which are mostly found there such as Api-api, Pidada, Nipah, and Pandan. On the marshy coasts of Way Kambas National Park is often found various species of birds, such as, Lesser Adjutant, Pheasant Blue, Kuau Raja, Pependang Timur, and some other birds. TIPS TO WRITE DESCRIPTIVE TEXT : 1. Make sure to choose a meaningful person, place, or thing. 2. Introduce the person, place, or thing you are describing. 3. Engage your reader’s sense of sight. 4. Describe smells and tastes if you can. 5. Describe how the moment or item feels. 6. Describe how your subject sounds. 7. Make unique observation. 8. Include some figurative language. 9. Wrap it up. DEFINITION OF ADJECTIVE An adjective describes a noun or a pronoun. Nouns are words that name a place, a person, a thing, or an idea. An adjective is a word that gives more information about the noun that goes with it. It is a part of speech. Adjectives An adjective answers: What kind? Which one? How many? Example : Happy dog Tired boy Seven girl COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES • http://britishcourse.com/descripti ve-text-definition-generic- structures-purposes-language- features.php.