SPEAKING SKILL

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

Descriptive text is a text which says what a person or a thing is like.

The purpose is to describe and reveal a particular person, place, or thing.

The Generic Structure of Descriptive Text

Identification:  identifying the phenomenon to be described.

Description: describing the phenomenon in parts, qualities, or/and characteristics.

The Language Feature of Descriptive Text

Using attributive and identifying process.

Using adjective and classifiers in nominal group.

Using simple present tense.

Teacher            : Good morning students. How are you today?

Students           : Good morning mam. I am fine, thank you. How about you?

Teacher            : I am fine too, thank you. Students, before we star our lesson today. Let’s make a game.   Do you like a game?

Students           : Yes, mam. So, what is the instruction?

Teacher            : Alright. The instruction is I will show a picture to you, then you have to guess about the picture and describe it. Have you got it?

Students            : Yes, Mam.

Teacher             : Look at the picture. What is her name?

Jhony                : Er. I’m not sure. Is she Lindsay Lohan?

Teacher             : No. Anybody knows?

Alya                  : She is Mandy Moore. She is from United States.

Teacher             : Yes, that’s great. What does she look like, Alya?

Alya                  : She has long, curly, brown hair and light skin.

Teacher             : Yes, one hundred for alya.

Now, I will divide you into small group, one group consists of 4 students. Each students should describe the pictures which is given by me, then share it in front of the class orally.

For Example:

Becky, 22 years old

She is Becky. She is 22 years old. She has an oval face, long, curly, blonde hair. She has got brown eyes.

 

                                 

Exercise !

 Jhon, 17 years old

Suzy, 23 years old

 Grace, 20 Years old.

 

 

References:

http://www.google.co.id/imgres?q=mandy+moore&hl=id&biw=1024&bih=415&gbv=2&tbm=isch&tbnid=p6CiCEu65SyqPM:&imgrefurl=http://www.fanpop.com/spots/mandy-moore/images/7743904/title/mandy-moore&docid=zUaY1QQ0qBb4sM&imgurl=http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/7700000/Mandy-Moore-mandy-moore-7743904-1024-768.jpg&w=1024&h=768&ei=1-3pTpTeCIHRrQfykoHhCA&zoom=1

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=736

http://understandingtext.blogspot.com/2008/02/what-is-descriptive-text.html