DESCRIPTIVE TEXT / DEWI WAHYUNI/ A1B208084

 Basic competence: 12.2 Mengungkapkan makna dan langkah retorika dalam esai pendek sangat sederhana dengan menggunakan ragam bahasa tulis secara akurat, lancar dan berterima untuk berinteraksi dengan lingkungan terdekat dalam teks bernbentuk descriptive dan procedure

Objective: In the end of study, students will be able to:

-          Analyze the generic structure in a text.

-          Make a descriptive text about rubber trees.

A plantation around us

                                                        

Cassava

Cassavas is one of the plantation that we can see around us. Many peoples plant cassavas in the yard of their home. It is a useful plan for people. The leaves can be cooked. It is kind of vegetables. The leaves just like a human fingers. The colour is green but when it is wilted, the colour is yellow then brown. It is a small tree and it has small branches.

The tubers can be eaten too. It can be made to be crispy chips of cassava, tapai and many more. There are many peoples like food from this plantation. The tuber’s bark is brown and the tubers itself is white. In a plant, there are many tubers. The size of tubers is different according to the size of plantation. There are big tubers and small tubers.

Exercise 1.1

 Answer the question from the text above

1. What does the text talk about?

2. What is the part of the cassava that can be eaten?

3. What kind of foods that can be made by cassava?

4. Is it a useful plan for people? Why?

5. Where do we can see the cassava plantation?

The knowledge

The generic structure of descriptive text:

·         Introducing (general statement)

Introducing is a general statement about what the thing that we want to explain. It is usually in the first line of paragraph.

·         Explanation

This is explanations about something that we want to explain. It usually use adjective phrase. In these explanation, it usually explain about characteristic, shape, size and another thing that we can be found in something thatwe want to explain.

Language features that is usually used in descriptive text:

·         Simple present tense

·         Passive voice

Simple present tense

Simple present tense is used to tell daily activities.

Form for verb:

 (+) S (I, you, they, we) + V I + O

(+) S (he, she, it) + V I + s/es + O

            (+) S + to be (do / does) + not + V I + O

            (?) do / does + S + V I + O

                 WH+ do / does + S + V I + O

Adverb of time:

·         Everyday                                                   - Seldom

·         Usually                                                      - Rarely

·         Often                                                         - Sometimes

Examples: (+) I go to school everyday

                  (-) I don’t go to school by bus

                  (?) Do you go to school everyday?

                       How do you go to school everyday?

Note:

·         “Do” is used for subject “I, you, they, and we”.

·         “Does” is used for subject “he, she, and it”.

·         The verb which end by “ch, sh, x, y, o” is added by “es”

·         There is an exception for the verb which ended by “y”. if the alphabet before last alphabet is vocal alphabet, it is added by “s” (eg. Play~plays), but if the alphabet before last alphabet is consonant, it is added by “es”, (eg: cry~cries).

Form for the non verb:

            (+) S + to be (is, am, are) + non-verb

            (-) S + to be (is, am, are) + not + non verb

            (?) to be (is, am, are) + S + non verb

Examples:

·         She is lazy

·         My parents are farmer

·         She is not diligent

·         My parents are not civil servant

·         Is she diligent?

No, she is not.

·         Are my parents farmers?

Yes, they are.

Note:

·         Subject “I” use to be “am”.

·         Subject “they, we, you” use to be “are”.

·         Subjects “he, she, it” use to be “is”.

Exercise 1.2

Change these sentences into negative sentence and interrogative sentence

·         I play football every afternoon

·         They watch TV every night

·         She buys fresh fruits in the market

·         He usually drinks a glass of milks.

·         Teacher teaches students everyday

·         Rina rarely comes to school

·         We are students

·         You sweep the floor every morning

·         They are diligent students.

·         I drink a cup of coffee every morning

Exercises 1.3

Choose the appropriate words in these sentence below

·         They (watch/watchs/watches) in the living room

·         She (wash/washs/washes) the dishes

·         He (walk/walks/walkes) on the moon

·         We (make/makes/makees) a cake

·         You (eat/eats/eates) meatball every day

·         I don’t (study/studys/studies) English everyday

·         Do we (cook/cooks/cookes) a fried rice?

·         Does sandy (swim/swims/swims) every afternoon?

·         He doesn’t (do/dos/does) his homework

·         I (drink/drinks/drinkes) eight glass of water everyday

·         They (is/am/are) students

·         She (is/am/are) beautiful

·         I(is/am/are) not a clever students

Passive Voice

Form:

(+) S + to be (is, am, are) + V III+ by + O

(-) S + to be (is, am, are) + not + V III + by + O

(?) to be + S + V III + by + O

Examples:

·         The dishes is washed by sarah

·         A novel is read by me

·         The floor is sweep by her

·         Tv is not watched by my father

·         Is motorcycle washed by you?

Exercise 1.3

Change the active voice into passive voice

·         They read a novel in the library

·         Teacher gives an narrative text to the students

·         I sweep the yard

·         She buys fresh fruits in the market

·         You watch the horror movie

Look at the picture below

                                                                                   

Can you describe the picture?

Please tell me what you know about the picture!