JAKARTA, iNews.id - Contoh descriptive text menjadi salah satu materi yang akan diajarkan dalam mata pelajaran bahasa Inggris.
Descriptive text merupakan jenis teks bahasa Inggris yang digunakan untuk menjelaskan atau mendeskripsikan orang, tempat, hewan, maupun suatu benda.
Tujuan dari descriptive text adalah untuk menggambarkan secara detail dan jelas tentang sesuatu yang menjadi topik tulisan.
Secara umum, struktur descriptive text atau generic structure terdiri atas identification dan description.
Identification merupakan bagian pendahuluan, dimana tujuannya adalah untuk mengenalkan objek kepada para pembaca sebelum dideskripsikan lebih lanjut dan mendalam.
Sedangkan description adalah penjelasan secara detail tentang objek yang ingin diceritakan oleh penulis. Pada bagian ini kamu bisa menulis ciri-ciri, sifat, hingga kualitas dari objek.
Untuk lebih jelasnya, kamu dapat menyimak beberapa contoh descriptive text berikut ini.
(Identification)
My father bought me a present I’ve wanted for years. It’s a dog. A puppy to be exact. I called him Ross.
(Description)
Ross is a small puppy. His size is as big as the palm of my hand. Ross is so fragile. Sometimes I am afraid I will hurt him if I want to take him up. Dad said he found Ross near our house, crying looking for his mom.
But Dad can’t see her, so Dad decides to bring him home and give him some comfort. Ross is a good eater. He always finished everything we gave him. Now, it’s been a year since Ross came to our family. His small body has grown up into the size of a football. Ross is a good dog, and we love him so much.
(Identification)
This is one of the largest of the insect tribe. It is met with in different countries, and of various sizes, from two or three inches to nearly a foot in length: it somewhat resembles a lobster, and casts its skin, as the lobster does its shell.
(Description)
Scorpions are common in hot countries: they are very bold and watchful: when anything approaches, they erect their tails, and stand ready to inflict the dire sting.
In some parts of Italy and France, they are among the greatest pests that plague mankind: they are very numerous, and are most common in old houses, in dry or decayed walls, and among furniture, insomuch that it is attended with, much danger to remove the same: their sting is generally a very deadly poison, though not in all cases, owing to a difference of malignity of different animals, or some other cause.
In the time of the children of Israel, scorpions were a plague in Egypt and Canaan, as appears by the sacred writings.
(Identification)
I have a cute little bunny, named Morty. I adopted Morty when he was two months old.
(Description)
My bunny has four little cute feet and he likes to jump to my bed. His ears are long and usually his ears like to cover his chubby cheeks. His fur is brown and unlike other rabbits, Morty’s favorite food is bananas. Whenever I eat a banana, he will run and jump to me, so he can take a bite. Now, Morty is three months old and he can jump even higher than the first day I took him home.
(Identification)
This is my classroom. My classroom is big, neat and clean.
(Description)
It is about 10 x 9 meters. The wall color is white. There are four glass doors and 6 windows. There are thirty desks for students and two desks for teachers. One teacher desk is in front of the class and another one is in the back. The students’ desks are gray and light blue. While the teachers’ desks are white and brown. All desks are made of wood and iron. There are two bookshelves and two whiteboards in front of the class. I feel really comfortable studying in my classroom.