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Descriptive Text

The Definition of Descriptive Text
Descriptive text is a text which is telling about the characteristics of a particular thing, such as place, animal or person’s characteristics or description.  A descriptive text focuses on the characteristic features of a person, an animal, or a particular thing. The aim of a descriptive text is to give information to the readers by making them see, hear, feel, etc. what is described in the text.
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Language Features
Descriptive texts often use neutral and objective language. The present tense is mostly used in descriptive texts. The past tense is also used to describe an object that does not exist anymore.
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The Differences Between Report Text and Descriptive Text
What make different, between report and descriptive text, is the scope of the written object. If we talk about, ex: bicycle, it belongs to report text. It will talk about bicycle in general; its parts, physical strengh, function for certain people or other general characters of bike. In the other hand, descriptive text will convey more focus, for example "my bicycle" with its specific characters; colour, lengh, wheel style, etc. In short, report text describes the way of certain things and frequently refer to phenomenon of nature, animal and scientific object. Mostly, report is written after getting careful observation. This scientific and technical sense make clearer difference from descriptive text. The way of descriptive text in showing thing is based on the objective fact of the thing. It describe the specific thing simply as the thing is.
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Tips How To Write Descriptive Text
1. Choose the topic thet you want to describe. It can be person, animal, or place.
2. Find the information about the topic.
3. Make the draft.
4. Use the adjective. You can compare your topic with the other one to make your topic more interesting.
5. Use the simple sentences.
6. Write it into a good paragraph.
7. Add some pictures. That’s can make you descriptive text more interesting.

The Example of Descriptive Text

Jeju Island



Do you know Jeju Island? I really want to visit Jeju Island. Jeju Island is one of sevent natural wonders of the world. Jeju Island in Korea language is called Jeju-do. It is the largest of all island in Korea. Jeju town is the capital of Jeju Island.
          Jeju Island is the most famous tour destination in Korea because it has beautiful nature and unique culture. Jeju Island can be called as Botanic Island because it grows with more than 1700 kinds of plants. The tour destination on Jeju Island are Seongsan Ilchulbong, Halla Arboretum, Manjanggul, Cheonjeyeon Waterfall, Jeongbang Waterfall, Sanbang Mount, and Yeojimi Botanical Garden. Yeojimi Botanical Garden is the largest of all botanical garden in Asia. It has tropic orchid plants, observatorium, and institute of ecology.
          Jeju Island has so many beautiful beaches. I really want to visit them. It has four season, there are winter, spring, autumn, and summer. The temperature of Jeju Island lies between 14,6oC – 4,7oC. Local people in Jeju Island are called yukgoyeok. Most of them, work at the beach. They collect fish, algae, and abalone. The famous food in Jeju Island is jeonbokjuk.
          Jeju Isalnd has twin island in the world like Hainan in China, Hawaii in America, Sakhalin in Russia, and Bali in Indonesia.

5Problems Based on the Poster
1.What is the capital city of Jeju Island?
2.Why can Jeju Island be called as Botanic Island?
3.What does Yeojimi Botanical Garden have?
4.What is the famous food in Jeju Island?
5.What do the Yukgoyeok collect?

You can answer the questions by put your answer in the comment box. Thanks! ^^


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1 comments:

Unknown said...

Good job guys... you did it :)

I think you just need to revise the difference between descriptive and report text and your blog will just perfect :)

Visit my blog: think-act-reflect-english.blogspot.com to get better understanding about the difference.

Happy revising it guys

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