(Person & animal) Let’s talk a bit about this person What is descriptive text? • descriptive text is a meaningful text that describes particular person or animals. It is about sensory experience, how something looks, sounds, shapes.Mostly it is about visual experience, but description also deals with other kinds of perception Social Function of descriptive text: To give information about a particular entity by describing its features, history, and special characteristics.
To give information about things by describing physical
attributes,behaviors, uses, etc Generic Structure of descriptive text Identification or general statements. It introduces or identifies specific object (a person and animal). Descriptions: The parts of a text describe the object characteristics appeareances, personality, habits or qualities (Derewianka, 2004; Buttet.al., 2000; Gerot & Wignell, 1994; Knapp and Watkins, 2005, p.149; Emilia & Christie, 2013) Language Features of descriptive text • Focus on specific participants as the main character; • Use present tense as dominant tenses; • Use linking verbs or relational process frequently (is, are, has, have,belongs to) in order to classify and describe appearance or qualities and parts or functions of phenomena; • Use action verbs or material process and behavioural process in giving additional description regarding action and behaviour done by the participants in text • Use mental verb or mental process when describing feelings; • Use nominal group frequently to describe; • Use adjective and adverbs to add information to nouns and add information to verbs to provide more detailed description about the topic; • Use adverbial phrases to add more information about manner, place,or time and sometimes realized inembedded clause which functions as circumstances Kind / s he? he Friendly o i s - Wh - Name Creative - e Identity - Ag Personalities His hobby is singing -Face - Heig He likes practicing yoga - H ht Hobby/ air what does Body - he like? - E Appearance yes - nos - Skin Habits He likes eating healthy food e
He often wears white T-shirt
Lets write Anjasmara is the senior Indonesian actor. He was born in Blitar, East Java on 13 November 1975. He is a good actor. He Identity is a Yoga instructor. He is a good husband and also a good father for all his children. Anjasmara has tall body, his height is about 1,75 meters. He has white and clear skin. He has beautiful dark brown eyes, Appearance sharp nose and straight hair. His face is perfect and look so handsome. He has muscular body. Anjasmara is friendly to his fans. He so kind and helful. As a father he is really personalities kind compassionate man. He always work hard for the best possible result. Anjasmara loves modelling, acting and Hobby practicing yoga.