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Purpose
to describe something through its classification.
Text Structure General classification : describing general fact of the objectsubject.
Description : describing the habits, behavior, traits, parts,
qualities, characteristics, etc. Significant Grammatical Features
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Focus on specific participants.
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Use attributive and identify processes.
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Frequent use classifiers in nominal groups.
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Use simple present tense.
Prize 1971 and the Nehru Prize for her promotion of international peace and understanding 1972. She also received the Balzan Prize 1979 and the Templeton and
Magsaysay awards. From Nobel Lectures, Peace 1971-1980, Editor-in-Charge Tore Frängsmyr, Editor Irwin
Abrams, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1997.
taken from: www.nobel-prize.com
2. Complete the following Generic Structure of the Biography of “Mother Teresa” Title
General Classification
Description 1.
2. 3.
4. 5.
6. 7.
3. What was Mother Teresa fighting for? 4. How Mother Teresa struggled for the poor and suffers? Why?
5. Find the meaning of these words
Nun Descent
Glimpsed Convent
Slums Divine Providence
Forthcoming Contemplative
Catastrophe Famine
Shuts-ins Distinction
IT’S ALL ABOUT DESCRIPTION TEXT
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MODELLING OF THE TEXT
DESCRIBING NOUNS – ORDER OF ADJEVTIVES
1. Construct the jumbled sentences below in a good order of a paragraph
My Mother
a. The small, straight nose is the same model I was born with. b. Her face is a bit more oval than mine, but the softly waving
brown hair around it is identical. c. The young woman in the picture has a face that resembles
my own in many ways. d. My mother’s mouth is closed, yet there is just the slightest
hint of smile on her full lips. e. Her eye brows are plucked into thin lines, which are like
two pencil strokes added to highlight those fine and luminous eyes. f.
The most haunting features in the photo, however, are my mother’s eyes. g. They are duplicates of my own large, dark brown ones.
h. I know that she had smiled, she would have shown the same wide grin and down curving “smile lines” that appear in my own snapshots.
Write down your answers here:
The young woman in the picture has a face that resembles my own in many ways .
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determiner opinion fact
noun size
age shape
color origin
material purpose
A the
beautiful Small
old rectangular
yellow German
wooden dining
Car table
An ugly
big new
stripped red
Irish woolen
warming sweater
A pair of clean
small new
black American
leather running
shoes
