AN ENGLISH DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AND ITS GENERIC STRUCTURE PART 1

Hello, What’s up? My Name is Choirotun Nisa

Some weeks ago, in a school recreation I accompanied my students to go to Bali, we visited some beautiful places and one of them was Pandawa Beach. That’s the first time for me to visit Pandawa Beach and then I got an idea to make a simple descriptive text about that beach:

We use descriptive text in order to describe a particular thing, person or place. We use the simple present tense and many adjectives in a descriptive text. A descriptive text consists of three elements:

- Title (Judul), which shows the title of the text.

- Identification (Pengenalan), which identifies the thing, person, or place described.

- Description (Penggambaran), describes parts, qualities and characteristics of the thing, person, or place.

Here is an example of English descriptive text:

- Title

Pandawa Beach

- Identification

Pandawa Beach is located in Kutuh Village, Badung, South Bali. At the entrance of the beach, there are five sculptures of Mahabharata Mythology ‘Panca Pandawa’ (Yudhistira, Bima, Arjuna, Nakula and Sadewa) and one sculpture of ‘Dewi Kunthi’ which stand in a row that is why it is called Pandawa Beach. The sculptures are very big and look great, many people take pictures of them. Pandawa Beach is also known as ‘Kutuh Beach’ and ‘Secret Beach’ because the beach is hidden behind the limestone steeply sloping riverbank.

- Description

Domestic and foreign people visit Pandawa Beach to enjoy the beauty of the beach. In the morning, they can see the sunrise because the beach faces to east. After that, they usually enjoy the white sand and the blue water by sunbathing, swimming, and water sports like canoeing and parasailing. In the afternoon, the local seaweed cultivators start taking seaweeds that are brought to the edge by wave.

There are many restaurants and souvenir shops around the beach. The restaurants serve coconut water, roasted corn and other foods. The wave in Pandawa Beach is quiet so many visitors come with their family.

Well, thank you very much for reading this article. So what’s your favorite place that you want to describe? Let me know it by giving your comments

Also read my previous article at: http://nisarizona.blogspot.com/2015/05/contoh-surat-lamaran-pekerjaan-cv-dalam_81.html

See you at the next “Favorable Friday” article. Happy Friday!