Materi Bahasa Inggris Kelas X tentang Deskriptive Text

Descriptive text is a text which says what a person or a thing is like. Its purpose is to describe and reveal a particular person, place or thing. (Teks Deskriptif yaitu teks yang menjelaskan gambaran seseorang atau benda. Tujuannya adalah untuk menggambarkan atau mengungkapkan orang, tempat atau benda tertentu.)

Descriptive text also can be said as a text that explain about how someone or thing looks like, such as shapes, Characters, quantity, etcetera.

1. Descriptive Text has the following organization or other words the generic structure of descriptive      text:

• Identification (Pendahuluan). It is about name, location, and specific information about the place.
• Description (deskripsi) contains about quality and characteristics of the place being described. Description in Indonesia can be said as berisi ciri-ciri khusus yang dimiliki benda, tempat, atau orang yang dideskripsikan.                                                                               2. The language features (ciri-ciri) of a description text are:

      The use of Simple Present Tense

with its formula are:

-       Nominal : Subject (S) + To Be (am, is, are) + Compliment (Noun, adjective and Adverb)

Example: SMA Negeri 1 Ma’u is the best school in Ma’u Sub district.

-       Verbal : Subject (S) + Verb 1 (V1) + Compliment

Example: The students learn English at their home

      The use of opinion and fact adjectives

Examples:

-       The temple is magnificent. (opinion)

-       The temple has a rectangular shape. (fact)

      Focus in one only object

Now, let see the examples of Descriptive Text

The National Monument (or Monument Nasional) is a 132 meters tower in the center of Merdeka Square, Central Jakarta. It symbolizes the fight for Indonesia’s independence.

The monument consist of a 117,7 m obelisk on a 45 m square platform at a height of 17 m

The towering monument symbolizes the philosophy of Lingga and Yoni. Lingga resembles, rice pestle (alu) and Yoni resembles  mortar rice (lesung), two important items in Indonesian agricultural tradition. The construction began in 1961 under the direction of President Soekarno and the monument was opened to the public in 1975. It is topped by a flame covered with gold foil. The monument and museum is opened daily from 08.00 – 15.00 every day throughout the week, except for the last Monday of the month the monument is closed.

Prambanan is the largest Hindu temple compound in Central Java in Indonesia, located approximately 18 km east of Yogyakarta.

It is characterized by its tall and pointed architecture, typical of Hindu temple architecture, and by the 47 m high central building inside a large complex of individual temples. It was built around 850 CE by either Rakai Pikatan, king of the second Mataram Dynasty, or Balitung Maha Sambu, during the Sanjaya Dynasty. Not long after its construction, the temple was abandoned and began to deteriorate. Reconstruction of the compound began in 1918. The main building was completed in around 1953.