W. Materials
5. The Characteristics of Descriptive text
Descriptive text is a kind of text with a purpose to give information. The
context of this text is the description of particular thing, animal, person, place, or others. For examples, the person or place we know well.
It differs from report text which describe thing, animal, person, place or others in general.
Generic Structure
Identification: Identifying the thing that will be described introduction to the characters of the text.
Description: describing the characteristic features of the subject e.g. physical appearance, significant attribute, etc.
Language features
- Describe about a particular thing, not in general.
- Use simple present tense.
- Use to be: is, am, are and havehas.
- Use adjective in describing the thing. For example: strong, beautiful,
large, huge, etc. -
Use noun phrase. For example: black male dog, a sweet young lady, a beautiful scenery, etc.
- Sometimes uses figurative language kata perumpamaan. For
example: as white as snow, as black as night sky, as soft as silk, etc.
6. Text
My Lovely Bedroom
Hi, my name is Asa. I want to tell you about my bedroom. My bedroom is my favourite room in the house. It is like a palace for me. My bedroom is
not too large, but, it is very comfortable and nice. My room has a big window. It also has green walls. I put posters of my favourite singers on the
wall. My bed is right next to my desk. I usually do my homework at on that desk. On top of the desk there is a shelf for my books. I also put a tape
player beside my desk. I usually play the music on when I feel bored or while I do my homework. It is the best place for me to do anything. I really
love my bedroom.
X. Method Technique: Genre-based approach
Y. Teaching and Learning Activities
6. Opening Activities
a. Teacher greets the students. b. Teacher asks one of the students to lead the prayer
c. Teacher checks the students’ attendance.
7. Main Activities
i. Building Knowledge of the Field
5 The teacher reviews the previous materials by giving questions to the students.
6 The teacher gives vocabulary building related to the things in the living room.
7 The students are asked to repeat after the teacher. 8
The students play the “Whisper Challenge” activity based on the vocabularies given by the teacher.
j. Modelling of the Text
3 The teacher gives an explanation about part of speech on a descriptive text.
4 The teacher gives the students an example of descriptive text entitled “My Living Room”.
5 The students are asked to identify the part of speech that can be found on the text based on its group.
6 The teacher distributes the word cards to the students. 7 The students work in pairs to do the word grouping activity.
8 The teacher and the students discuss the part of speech that can be found on the text.
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