Devinition of Descriiptive text

A descriptive text is a text which lists the characteristics of something (Ahmad, Zahrowi, 2009).

Descriptive text is a kind of text with a purpose to give information (Mursyid, M. PW, 2011).

Descriptive text is a text which illustrates people, something, or a place. It is aimed to describe something specificly (Masruri, M, 2010).  

The Generic Structure of Descriptive Text

 The generic structure of descriptive text

1. Identification
    It is a part of paragraph which introduces or identifies the character.
2. Description
    It is a part of paragraph which describes the character.
    (Masruri, M. 2010)

The generic structure of descriptive text consists of identification and description.
Identification: Identifies phenomenon to be described.
Description: Describes parts, qualities, characteristics, etc.

                                                    (Jenny Hammond in Mursyid, M. PW, 2011)

The Example of Descriptive Text

Bongo the Orangutan

Identification

There is an orangutan in the Bandung Zoo. People call her Bongo. She comes from a dense forest on the island of Kalimantan.

Description

She has physical features similar to human. Bongo has brownish fur and walks with two feet. Bongo is almost as big as human. She is a mammal that means she gives birth to her children and breast feeds them.

(Masruri, M. 2010)

Vocabulary list

dense: tebal, lebat

features: ciri-ciri

brownish: berwarna kecoketat-cokelatan

fur: bulu binatang

mammal: binatang menyusui

birth: kelahiran

breast feed: menyusui

Pronouns

Subject	Object	preposition	Possessive		-self	be
			Adjectives	Pronouns
I	me	(for)me	my	mine	myself	am/was
you	you	(to)you	your	yours	yourself	are/were
he	him	(by)him	his	his	himself	is/was
she	her	(at)her	her	hers	herself	is/was
it	it	(in)it	its	its	itself	is/was
we	us	(for)us	our	ours	ourselves	are/were
you	you	(by)you	your	yours	yourselves	are/were
they	them	(for)them	their	theirs	themselves	are/were

(Nuryanto. F, 1990)

The Language Features of Descriptive Text

Descriptive often uses 'be' and 'have'.
Tense which is often used is Simple Present Tense. However, some times it uses Past tense if the thing to be described doesn't exist anymore. (Mursyid, M. PW, 2011)

The formula of present tense
Positif    : S + V1 (s/es)
Negatif    : S + DO/DOES + NOT + V1
Tanya    : DO/DOES + S + V1

Positif    : S + be + adj/adv
Negatif    : S + be + NOT + adj/adv
Tanya    : be + S + adj/adv

Making Descriptive Text

Answer the question.

1. What is the name of the animal in the picture?

2. Where does he lives?

3. What is the color of his fur?

4. What does he eats?

5. How many legs does he have?

6. How are his teeth?

7. How is his claw?

Assignment

Tugas 1
Based on the answers, please make a descriptive text about the picture.

Tugas 2
Please choose your own picture and please make a descriptive text based on your picture.