DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

DEFINITION
Descriptive text is a text that describes a person, a
place, or thing.
Look at the picture! Try to describe the picture!
THE AIM OF STUDYING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

 In order to be able to describe a person, a place, or

things in our daily life.

 At last, the students are sopposed to make a

descriptive text.
 EXAMPLE
Descriptive Text About Monas National Monument
The National Monument (Indonesian: Monumen Nasional, popularly
abbreviated as Monas) is a 132 m (433ft) tower in the centre of Merdeka
Square, symbolizing the fight for Indonesia. It was built to memorialize the
struggle for Indonesian independence.
The monument consists of a 117.7 m obelisk on a 45m square platform
and at a height of 17 m. Towering monument represents the philosophy of
Lingga and Yoni. Resembles a phallus, or pestle and Yoni resembles mortar,
two important things in the tradition of Indonesian agriculture.

QUESTION???
 Structure of the text
 Identification (introduces the subject of the description)
 Description (give the detail of the characteristic feature of the subject. It may be
the parts, the quantities, the size, the habbit, the physical appearance and so on)
 Conclusion.

Language features:
 Simple Present Tense (S+V1+ ... atau S+Ves)

 Use noun (the water, the raod, a cat, some children,...)

 Use adjective ( cozy, nice, clean, dirty,...)

 Use active verb (hold, wear, use, walk,... )

Task!

Try to make a descriptive text

about any tourism object in
Gunungkidul.
(3 paragraphs)