F.DESRIPTION / DESCRIPTIVE

F.DESRIPTION / DESCRIPTIVE

Purpose:

• is used to describe a particular thing/object, place, or person.

• For example: My cat, My bike, My favorite room in the house, The Wildest Amazon River, My favorite actor.

Generic Structure:

1. Identification

• identifies phenomenon to be described

2. Description

• describes parts (Ciri-ciri subject, physical appearance), qualities, general attitude, characteristics

Language Features:

• Use certain noun: teacher, house, my cat.
• Use of simple present tense
• Use of attributive and epithets (e.g. adjectives)
• Detail noun phrase to give information about subject, for example: it was a large open rowboat, a sweet young lady, etc.

• Vary of adjectives to describe, number, classify for example: two strong legs, sharp white fang, etc.

• Relating verb to give information about subject such as: my mom is really cool, it has very thick fur, etc.

• Thinking verb and feeling verbs to express writer’s view about subject, such as: Police believe that suspect is armed, I think it is a clever animal, etc.

• Action verbs, like: Our new puppy bites our shoes, etc.

• Adverbial to give additional information about behavior, for example: fast.

• Figurative language, for example simile, metaphor; John is white as chalk.

SAMPLE OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT:

1. Macquarie University
Subject:

Macquarie University is one of the largest Universities in Australia. This year, in 2004, it celebrates its 40th anniversary.

Description:

The university is located at the north Ryde Greenbelt, Sydney, where the New South Wales government sets aside 135 hectares for the institution. In 1964, Macquarie area was a surrounding have evolved beyond recognition. The North Ryde District has grown in a district of intensive occupation anchored by a vibrant and growing university.

Blessed with a fortune location and room to breath, Macquire can be proud of that careful planning that retains and enrich the university’s most attractive natural features. A pleasing balance between buildings and plating is evident across the campus.

This emphasis on the importance of landscape has created images of Macquire as a place that members of the University are most likely to pleasurably recollect.

One of the highlights of the ;andscape is the Mars Creek Zone. It emprises landscaped creek sides and valley floor, a grass amphitheatre, and artificial lake … surrounded by rocks and pebbles, native plants and eucalypts.

Today, a railway station is under construction. In three years 1 time, Macquirie will be the only university in Australia with a railway station on site. Macquirie is polsed to be the most readily accessible in Sydney region by rail and motorway, yet retaining its beautiful.site.