DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

By Ambyang Suwarni

Descriptive Text is a text that contain the description of an object, which is an animal, place, people, thing,​

​​What is decriptive text?

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

By Ambyang Suwarni

• Identification

• Description

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Identification berisi tentang topik objek apa yang akan dibahas.

Desription berisi tentang gambaran suatu objek mengenai detail objek tersebut seperti keadaan fisik objek, asal-usul hingga fakta-fakta unik lainnya.​

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​Generic Structure

• Menggunakan Simple Present Tense.

​Language Feature

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​Elephant

The elephants are herbivores and eat all types of vegetation such as grasses, leaves, and fruits. They have almost hairless skin, four legs, and a distinctive long, flexible, prehensile trunk. The elephants which is also known as the largest of all land mammals usually live in groups consisting of adult female elephant as the leader of the group, their children and their relative female elephants.

The elephants also have very sharp auditory because they have big and wide ears. By these ears, they can hear sounds from a distance about tens kilometer. At the back of the ears, they have one of the softest parts of their body which is called the knuckle. In a zoo, Mahouts (elephant trainers) use their feet to steer or give commands to the animal via tha knuckle. Now, they are a kind of protected animals because their population remains little in their habitat. Their population began to decline year by year