Tell Me about Your Favorite Thing!!!
Title : Tell Me about Your Favorite Thing!
Level : junior High School, Grade VII Smt 2
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Here, we are going to learn descriptive text. And after you learn, I hope you will be able to respond to monologue of descriptive text, perform a monologue of a descriptive text, read aloud the descriptive text with correct pronunciation and respond to its meaning and finally I hope you will also be able to write a descriptive text.
Are you ready, guys?
Well, before we get down to the topic, let’s take a look at the following picture
- What do you think about the picture above?
- What does it look like?
Is it big room?
Is it looking good?
Does it have big space?
- What things do you find on that picture?
Those questions will guide you to describe the picture you are looking at.
Now, listen carefully to the recording below
After you listened to the recording, answer some questions below
Good job, students!
Do you learn something?
I hope you do.
Now, watch the video below. It will show you how to describe something.
So, do you know what descriptive text is?
Read the explanation below
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The text above is called a descriptive text
To describe a particular person, place, or thing.
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Learn the example of descriptive text below;
(text 1)
My Timmy
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Identification |
I have some pets. However, my favorite pet is Timmy.
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Description |
Timmy is a male tabby cat. He is very adorable with his soft stripes fur. He has innocent round eyes and feeble sweet voice. He always meows when he feels hungry. Actually, his voice is not suitable with his giant body. When I come home, he usually gives me a kiss.
Timmy is a nice playmate. I’m happy to spend my time with him. Most of the time, he’s a good boy. It’s almost impossible for me to be angry at him. In the morning, he always wakes up early. When he wakes up earlier, he waits quietly by my bedside until I wake up.
(text 2)
My New Neighbor
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Identification |
I have a new neighbor. Her name is Chloe Sullivan.
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Description |
Chloe is about fifteen years old. She has long straight hair and brown eyes. She’s the only one daughter in her family. Now, she is in the eighth grade of junior high school, she joins the Girl Scout. Besides, she also takes some courses.
Chloe is a friendly girl. Moreover, she has a very sweet smile. That’s why she has many friends.
Chloe is also smart and has broad knowledge. I often talk to her and ask her everything. She said that she broadens her knowledge through reading and browsing the internet.
Now, choose one of the texts above and retell to your friends.
Now, let’s go down to the reading part. First, check the following words and its pronunciation:
Located /lə ʊ ˈkeɪtɪd/
Constructed /kənˈstrʌktɪd/
Consist of /kənˈsɪst əv/
Surrounded /səˈraʊndɪd/
Great /greɪt/
High /haɪ/
Square /skwer/
Circular /ˈsɝː.kjʊ.lɚ/
Large /lɑːrdʒ/
Now, learn the following explanation of the tenses used in descriptive text.
Read and study the following sentences:
The man waters the plant everyday.
The sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
The sentences above use the simple present tense. The simple present tense is to express habitual activities (sentence 1) and the general truth (sentence 2).
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(+) S + V1 (-s/-es) + (O) + (Adv) Be |
For example:
- I have a new bike.
- The children play football every afternoon.
- Andi goes to school on foot.
- The mountain is high.
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(-) S + do/ does + not + V1+ (O) + (Adv) Be |
For example:
- I do not have a new bike.
- The children do not play football every afternoon.
- Andi does not go to school on foot.
- The mountain is not high.
| (?) Do/ does + S + V1 + (O) + (Adv)
Be |
For example:
- Do you have a bike?
- Do the children play football every afternoon?
- Does Andi go to school on foot?
- Is the mountain high?
| Adverbs usually used: usually, always, often, seldom, everyday, every week, every other day, every . . . . |
Now, let’s check your understanding by doing this exercise.
Now, let’s learn about adjective.
Jane is a beautiful girl. She is also clever and dilligent.
| The bold-typed word is an adjective. An adjective describes people or things. Words for people and things are nouns, so adjectives describe nouns. |
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Adjectives often come before nouns they described. |
| a red mango a polite boy a kind girl
a sharp knife a noisy classroom a coldday |
| Adjectives often come after the nouns they describe, later in the sentences. |
| The bus is crowded. Why are you angry?
Those children are polite. Sonya’s handwriting is neat. |
To check your understanding about adjective, do the exercise below.
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Now read this following text!
Borobudur Temple
Borobudur is a great Buddhist temple.
The temple is located in Magelang on the island of Java in Indonesia. It is constructed on a hill 46 (150ft) high and consists of eight step like stone terraces, one on top of the other. The first five terraces are square and surrounded by walls adorned with Buddhist sculpture in bas-relief; the upper three are circular, each with a circle of bell-shaped stupas (Buddhist shrines). The entire edifice is crowned by a large stupa at the center of the top circle. The way to the summit extends through some 4.8 km (some 3 mile) of passages and starways. The design of Borubudur, a temple mountain symbolizing the structure of the universe, influenced temples built at Angkor, Cambodia. Borobudur, was rededicated as an Indonesian national monument in 1983 following extensive reclamation, aided by the United Nations.
Now, do also the exercise below.
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Now, try to do the following exercise.
Since you have learned about simple presents tense, let’s have simple exercise how is your understanding about the tense..
You did it well, didn’t you?
Good! Now, let’s have another exercise.
You are amazing, students!
Now, let’s try to make a narrative paragraph. Don’t worry, it won’t be difficult!!!
Great!!!
Now, do this exercise to enhance your writing!
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And now, it’s your final task.
I’m sure you all have understood about descriptive text.
After you have learned all of the material above, now, make a simple descriptive text based on the topics provided.
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happy english learning 