DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

By Siti Badriah

WHAT IS DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

Descriptive Text adalah bentuk teks yang berisi gambaran tentang suatu objek. Dalam bahasa Inggrisnya, dipahami bahwa Descriptive Text is a text that contain the description of an object, which is an animal, place, people, thing, etc

​CIRI CIRI DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

1. Menggunakan Simple Present Tens

2. ​Menggunakan banyak kata sifat (adjective)

3. ​Menggunakan kata kerja penghubung (relating verb).

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GENERIC STRUCTURE OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT​

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1. Identification

2. Description

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CONTOH DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

​University of Indonesia Urban Forest

​Located in South Jakarta and Depok wa Urban Foresthich are densely populated cities, University of Indonesia area is a source of clean air. As much as 75% of the University of Indonesia area is a green area in the form of urban forest that has six large lakes whose acronyms form each word KAMPUS, which are K(enanga), A(ghatis), M(ahoni), P(uspa), U(Lin), and S(alam).

We can find this green area around Jalan Cinta, a road that stretches from University of Indonesia Student Dormitory to the Faculty of Engineering University of Indonesia. On Sunday, various groups of people come to this area to carry out sports activities, such as jogging or just walking to enjoy the fresh air around. There are also some bicycle communities that use this forest as their bicycle tracks. Two commonly used tracks are known as Mangkuk track and Nyamuk track. All recreational activities in this urban forest are free of charge, but visitors still have to maintain cleanliness and orderliness from the campus environment. Besides it functions as absorption area, this forest is also used as germplasm conservation and biodiversity research land in one of the best public universities in Indonesia. There are a number of tree species found in this urban forest, such as Jati, Meranti, Kopi, Karet, and Matoa.