Materi selanjutnya
Descriptive text
adalah teks yang mendeskripskan tentang sesuatu secara khusus bisa berupa
orang, binatang, benda ataupun tempat. (To describe something , it can be
person, animal, thing or places in particular way)
Struktur Teks Deskriptif:
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Identification
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Identifikasi
sesuatu yang akan dideskripsikan/dijelaskan.
(Orang,
binatang, benda atau tempat-tempat tertentu)
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Description
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Deskripsi
atau penjelasan objek dari segi fisik, bagian-bagian tertentu, dan
karakteristiknya atau kebiasaannya.
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Ciri kebahasaan:
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Menggunakan Simple Present tense
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Mejelaskan sesuatu secara
spesifik/khusus (particular)
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Menggunakan attributive: has/have
dan identifying: is, are.
Contoh Teks Deskriptif sederhana:
Contoh 1 (person)
Aunt Dina is very healthy. She is rarely sick. She is
married and has two children. She is more than 40 years old, but her skin is
smooth and her face always looks young and beautiful. Oh ya, she exercises
almost everyday. She works at a bank. It is almost 2 kms from her home. She has
a motorcycle, but she goes to work on foot.
(Tante Dina adalah orang yang sangat sehat.
Dia jarang sakit. Dia sudah menikah dan memiliki dua anak. Dia berumur lebih
dari 40 tahun, tetapi kulitnya halus dan wajahnya selalu terlihat muda dan cantik.
Dia hampir selalu berolahraga setiap hari. Dia bekerja di sebuah bank. Tempat
kerjanya jaraknya hampir 2 km dari rumahnya. Dia memiliki sepeda motor tetapi
dia lebih suka berangkat kerja jalan kaki.)
Contoh 2 (Animal)
I love my cat, Manis. She makes me happy. When I tickle her,
she rolls around and taps her paws on my hand. I like the feeling. She has three colors,
white, yellow, and black. She often lies
on my feet when I study or watch TV. Sometimes she sleeps in my bed with me, on
my feet. It feels warm.
(Saya menyayangi kucing saya, Si Manis. Dia
membuat saya senang. Ketika saya menggelitikinya, dia berguling-guling dan
menempelkan kakinya pada tangan saya. Saya suka rasanya. Dia memiliki tiga
warna, yaitu putih, kuning, dan hitam. Dia selalu berbaring pada kaki saya
ketika saya sedang belajar atau menonton televisi. Kadang-kadang dia tidur di
tempat tidur saya, pada kaki saya. Rasanya hangat.)
Contoh 3 (Place)
There is a lake near my hometown. It’s very large and panoramic. The forest around the lake is very
green and cool. But, I want to say some
sad things about it. It is very dirty and the foods and drinks are very
expensive. People litter everywhere because there are not many garbage bins
there. The vendors leave their waste everywhere. Some wooden benches are
broken, so we cannot sit on them.
(Ada sebuah danau dekat dengan kota
saya. Danaunya luas dan indah. Hutan di sekitar danau sangat hijau dan sejuk.
Tetapi saya ingin bilang sesuatu yang menyedihkan tentang danau itu. Sekarang danau
itu kotor. Makanan dan minuman harganya sangat mahal. Banyak orang yang
membuang sampah sembarangan karena tidak ada banyak tempat sampah di sana. Para
pedagang meninggalkan sampah dimana-mana. Beberapa bangku rusak sehingga kita
tidak dapat duduk di sana.)
Contoh
4 (Thing)
I’m proud of Indonesia
Indonesia is a big country. It is between two continents,
Asia and Australia, and between two oceans, the Pacific ocean and the Indian
Ocean. It is the largest archipelago in the world. There are more than 17
thousand islands in Indonesia.
There are many seas in Indonesia, the Java Sea, the Bali
Sea, the Arafuru Sea, the Banda Sea, the Timor Sea, and many others. We also
have many straits, like the Sunda Strait, between Java and Sumatra, the Bali Strait
between Bali and Lombok, and many others.
We have a lot of islands. The big ones are Papua,
Kalimantan, Sumatera, Sulawesi, and Java. Of the five islands, Java is the
smallest, but it is the most populated one. We can find people from around
Indonesia.
Indonesia also has many mountains. Many of them are still
active and can erupt any time. We call them volcanoes, like Sinabung and Marapi
in Sumatra, Merapi in Java, and Lokon in South Sulawesi. When they erupt they
bring out very hot lava from inside the earth.
Indonesia is on the equator.
It is a tropical country. The sun shines brightly everyday, so it is
mostly hot. It has two seasons, the rainy season, and the dry season. The land
is very fertile. Farmers grow many kinds of vegetables and fruits. They also
grow coconuts.Indonesian people eat a lot of vegetables like spinach, carrots,
long beans, egg plants, cabbages, cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, garlic,
chillies, , kangkung and many others.
We also grow many kinds of fruit. We call them local fruits,
like guavas, bananas, rambutans, durians, mangosteens, soursops, papayas,
pineapples, and salak. Some people call it a snake fruit. They are all very
nice, sweet, and juicy. We eat them fresh. We also make delicious juice of
them. We also dry many kinds of fruit to make crackers. Indonesia is also rich
with spices, like pepper, corriander, ginger, clove, cinnamon, tumeric, galanga,
lemon grass, bay leave, and so on. We use them to cook very spicy Indonesian
foods. People also make nice healthy drinks from them. They are useful for our
health.
Many
kinds of fish, big and small, live in the Indonesian seas. Most of us eat fish
with our meals. We also eat shrimp and different kinds of shellfish. But we
don’t eat big fish, like dolphins and sharks. We protect them.We also protect
our turtles.
Indonesia
also raise different kinds of animals for their meat, like cows, goats, pigs.
We get beef from the cow, mutton from the goat, and pork from the pig. Some
ethnic groups even eat horse meat. Our milk is usually from cows. Of course we
also have chickens. They give us meat and eggs.
