DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

Descriptive text is a text tells about parts of thing, human, and place or give description and information with detail about characteristic, part, etc. of something.

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

Descriptive text uses Simple Present Tense and noun conjunction.

General Structure:

Identification

(mention the name, occupation, profession, career, and special participant)

Description

(mention the phenomenon in part, quality, and characteristics of the subject being described)

Language Feature:

Focus on specific participant

e.g.: _ Borobudur is a great Buddhist temple.

_ Liu Ching Hai is a executive Chinese chef of Shang Palace restaurant.

The use of adjectives and compound adjectives

e.g.: _ Hero looks attractive and handsome.

_ A beautiful ancient Roman opera house.

The use of linking verbs/relating verbs

e.g.: _ Netty is a model from Palangka Raya.

_ The temple consist of five terraces.

The use of Simple Present Tense

e.g.: _ Usually, Tetsu comes to my house once in week.

_ The hotel provides 450 rooms and large swimming pool.

The use of degree of comparison

e.g.: _ Aricaa has the same bag as Erika.

_ The weather in Jakarta is hotter than Bandung.

Borobudur Temple

Borobudur is a great Buddhist temple.

The temple is located in Magelang on the island of Java Indonesia. Built in the 9^th century under the Syailendra dynasty of Java, it was abandoned in the 11^th century and partially excavated by archeologists in the early 20^th century.

Influenced by the Gupta architecture of India, the temple is constructed on a hill 46 m (150 ft) high and consists of eight steplike stone terraces, one on top of the other. The first five terraces are square and surrounded by walls adorned with Buddhist sculpture in bas-relief; the upper three are circular, each with a circle of bell-shaped stupas (Buddhist 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 (some 3 mil) of passages and stairways. The design of Borobudur, a temple-mountain symbolizing the structure of the universe, influenced temples built at Angkor, Cambodia. Borobudur was rededicated as an Indonesian national monument in 1983 following extensive reclamayion, aided by United Nations.