DESCRIPTIVE TEXT DESCRIBING FAMOUS PLACES IN THE WORLD
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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.
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