HOUSE AND FAMILY

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AND ADJECTIVE ORDER

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HOME

 Bedroom
 A room used for sleeping in.
 Living room (UK also sitting room, AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH also lounge room)
 The room in a house or apartment that is used for relaxing, and entertaining guests, but not
usually for eating.
 Bathroom
 A room with a bath and/or shower and often a toilet.
 Hall
 The area just inside the main entrance of a house, apartment or other building which leads
to other rooms and usually to the stairs.
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 Utility room
 Usually just for washing machine, freezer etc.
 Shed
 A separated building from the house usually for storing garden tools.
 Loft
 Space in the roof of the house usually used only for storage.
 Attic
 Room in the roof space of a house (could be lived in.)
 Cellar
 Room below ground level without any windows used for storage.
 Basement
 Room below ground level, with windows, used for living and working.
 Landing
 Flat area at the top of a staircase.
 Hall
 Open area as you come into the house.
 Porch
 Covered area before the entrance door.
 Pantry or larder
 Large cupboard used, especially in the past, for storing food.
 Terrace or patio
 Paved area between the house and garden for sitting and eating, etc.
 Study
 A room for reading, writing, studying in.
 Balcony
 An area with a wall or bars around it that is joined to the outside wall of a building on
an upper level.
OBJECTS OF THE HOME
 ADJECTIVE ORDER
OPINION An opinion adjective explains what you think about something

SIZE A size adjective, of course, tells you how big or small something is.

AGE An age adjective tells you how young or old something or someone is.

SHAPE A shape adjective describes the shape of something

COLOUR A colour adjective, of course, describes the colour of something.

ORIGIN An origin adjective describes where something comes from.

MATERIAL A material adjective describes what something is made from.

PURPOSE A purpose adjective describes what something is used for. These

adjectives often end with “-ing”.
 SOME EXAMPLES OF
ADJECTIVE ORDER

Opinion Size Age Shape Colour Origin Material Purpose

a silly young English man

a huge round metal bowl

a small red sleeping bag

 LET’S MAKE A DESCRIPTION

 Di setiap Descriptive Text terdapat dua bagian yang menjadi ciri dari
Descriptive Text itu sendiri. Kedua bagian tersebut adalah :

 Identification : berisi tentang identifikasi hal / seorang yang akan

dideskripsikan.

 Description : berisi tentang penjelasan / penggambaran tentang hal

/ seseorang dengan menyebutkan beberapa sifatnya.
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DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

 Descriptive Text menggunakan Present Tense, misalnya: go, eat, fly, etc.
 Descriptive Text menggunakan berbagaimacam Adjectives (kata sifat) yang
bersifat Describing (mengambarkan), Numbering (Menomerkan), dan
Classifying (mengklasifikasikan), misalnya: two strong legs, sharp white fangs,
etc.
 Descriptive Text menggunakan Relating Verbs untuk memberikan
informasi tentang subjek, misalnya: my mum is realy cool, it has very thick fur,
etc.
 Descriptive Text menggunakan Thinking Verbs (kata kerja berfikir, seperti
belive, think, etc.) dan Feeling Verbs (kata kerja perasa, seperti feel)untuk
mengungkapkan pandangan pribadi penulis tentang subjek, misalnya: police
believe the suspect is armed, I think it is a clever animal, etc.

 Descriptive Text juga menggunakan Adverbs (kata keterangan) untuk

memberikan informasi tambahan mengenai perilaku atau sifat (Adjective)
yang dijelaskan, misalnya: it is extremely high, it runs definitely past, etc.