Materi Descriptive Text

Materi Bimbel hari ini adalah Descriptive Text, yuk simak materinya dan selamat belajar!

1. Definition:

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

 

2. Purpose:

to describe a particular place or thing.

3. Text Organization:

a)  Identification (mention the special participant)

b)  Description (mention the part, quality, and characteristics of the subject being described)

4. Language Features:

-  Using adjectives and compound adjectives (e.g.: a five hundred seated football stadium)

-  Using linking verbs / relating verbs (e.g.: the temple consists of five terraces)

-  Using simple present tense (e.g.: the hotel provides 450 rooms and large swimming pool)

-  Using degree of comparison (e.g.: the weather in Jakarta is hotter than Bandung)

5.  Descriptive Text:

The Borobudur Temple

Identification:

Borobudur is a Hindhu-Buddist temple built in the 9th century under the Syailendra dynasty of Java. It is located near Magelang, on the island of Java, Indonesia.

Description:

Abandoned in the 11th century and partially excavated by archaeologists in the early 20th century, Borobudur temple is well-known all over the world.

Influenced by Gupta architecture of India, the temple is constructed on a hill 46 m. (150 ft) high and consists of eight-step like stone terraces, one on top of the other.

The first five terraces are square and surrounded by walls adorned with Buddist sculpture in bas-relief; the upper three are circular, each with a circle of a bell-shaped stupas (Buddist shrines).

The entire edifice is crowned by a large stupa at the center of the top circle. The way to the summit extends through some 4.8 km of passages and stairways.

The design of Borobudur, a temple-mountain symbolizing the structure of the universe, is similar to the temples built at Angkor, Cambodia.

The Borobudur temple, rededicated as an Indonesian national monument in 1983, is a valuable treasure for Indonesian people.

6.  Find Out:
1)  What was the text talking about?

2)  What is the purpose of the writer in the text?

3)  When was Borobudur temple built?

4)  What makes Borobudur temple so well-known?

5)  What specific parts does Borobudur have?

6)  Does the text use adjectives? Mention some of them!

7)  Is the text written in simple present tense? why?