DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

DESCRIBING

FAMOUS PLACES

School : SMK DARUL ULUM

Subject : English

Class/Term : X / I

School Year : 2020/2021

Teacher

M. MUSTAQIM,S. Pd

Understanding descriptive text

Descriptive Text is a type of text in English that clearly describes

the properties attached to something, be it humans, animals, plants

or inanimate objects or places. The purpose of this text is to provide

clear information about the object being depicted to the reader.

Pengertian descriptive text

Descriptive Text adalah salah satu jenis text dalam Bahasa Inggris yang

menggambarkan dengan jelas sifat-sifat yang melekat pada sesuatu, baik itu

manusia, hewan, tumbuhan mau pun benda mati. Tujuan dari teks ini adalah

memberikan informasi dengan jelas mengenai objek yang digambarkan kepada

pembaca.

Ciri-ciri Descriptive Text•Menggunakan Simple Present Tense

•Menggunakan banyak kata sifat ( adjective).•Menggunakan kata kerja penghubung (relating verb)

Characteristics of Descriptive Text

• Using the Simple Present Tense

• Using many adjectives.

• Using an relating verb

Generic Structure of Descriptive TextDescriptive text has rules about its structure. Here is a descriptive text of the generic structure:

1.Identification

This part, located in the first paragraph, the gesture is to identify an object that you want to

describe. Identification serves to introduce to readers about the object that we will explain,

before we say about the object in more detail in the next paragraph.

2. Description

This section, located in the second paragraph and so on, contains the properties inherent in

something that you introduced in the first paragraph.

Struktur Generik Teks DeskriptifDescriptive Text mempunyai aturan tersendiri mengenai strukturnya. Berikut ini adalah generic structure descriptive

text:

1. Identifikasi

Bagian ini, terletak pada paragraf pertama, tujuannya adalah untuk mengidentifikasi suatu objek yang ingin

dideskripsikan. Indentification berfungsi untuk memperkenalkan kepada pembaca tentang objek yang akan kita

jelaskan, sebelum kita memberitahu tentang lebih rinci mengenai objek tersebut pada paragraf selanjutnya.

2. Deskripsi

Bagian ini, terletak pada paragraf kedua dan seterusnya, berisi tentang sifat-sifat yang melekat pada sesuatu yang

sudah kamu kenalkan pada pembaca pada paragraf pertama.

https://youtu.be/AF3pSxPXcuw

Toba Lake is one of the most popular destinations

in Indonesia, especially in Medan, North Sumatra. Toba

Lake is the largest volcanic lake in Indonesia, even in

the Southeast Asia. Which make it more special is

taken from the Samosir Island, an Island that settled in

the middle of the lake.

TOBA LAKE

First Paragraph is an Identification

Lake Toba is an area of 1,707 km², we can say that this is 1,000 km² bigger than

Singapore. It formed by a gigantic volcanic eruption some 70,000 years ago, it is probably

the largest resurgent caldera on Earth. Pulau Samosir or Samosir Island, The island in the

middle, was joined to the caldera wall by a narrow isthmus, which was cut through to

enable boats to pass; a road bridge crosses the cutting. Samosir island is the cultural

centre of the Batak tribe, the indigenous from North Sumatra.

By the eruption of a super volcano (Mount Toba) was estimated to have caused

mass death and extinction of several species of living creatures. The eruption of Mount

Toba has led to changes in the earth’s weather and the start into the ice age that affects

the world civilization.

Lake Toba is actually more like a sea than a lake considering its size. Therefore, the

Lake placed as the largest lake in Southeast Asia and the second largest in the world after

Lake Victoria in Africa. Lake Toba is also includes the deepest lake in the world, which is

approximately 450 meters.

paragraphs two through four are Description Texts

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