Descriptive Text Great Athletes

Descriptive Text

English with Mrs. Vika

Who are they?

Great Athletes

What kind of sports they best at?

What makes them great at sport? Why do you think so?

Make a group consist of 4 students, think about a famous athlete. He/She could be Indonesian or an athlete from other countries.

Use this kind of questions:

● Is he a football player?
● Is he tall?
● Is she a good lifter?
● Does she have curly hair?
● Does he have a beard?
etc

(you can substitute the bolded yellow words with another word according to your need, such as noun, adjective, etc.
● Look at the example given: a. Is he a football player?
→ is he a swimmer? b. Is he tall? → is he short?)

​Vocabulary Box

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• Choose 5 words from the vocabulary box, and write a sentence using that word.

​Listen to this voice carefully and answer the questions

• ●      What was the audio you just listened to about?

  ●      What sport does the athlete play?

  ●      What makes him become a world champion?

​After all things that we've acknowledged, so here's the Definition of Descriptive Text. Descriptive text is a text that explains what a person, place, or thing is like.

​Descriptive Text Definition & Purpose

​Purpose

The purpose of descriptive text is to describe an object in detail. / Its purpose is to describe and reveal a particular person, place, or thing.

• Identification (contains about the introduction of a person, place, animal or object will be described.)

• Description: contains a description of something such as animal, things, place or person by decribing its features, forms, colors, or anything related to what the writer describe.

THE STRUCTURE OF THE TEXT

•Specific participant : has a certain object, is not common and unique (only one). for example: Bandengan beach, my house, Borobudur temple, uncle Jim.

• The use of the adjective (an adjective) to clarify the noun, for example: a beautiful beach, a handsome man, the famous place in jepara, etc.

•The use of simple present tense: The sentence pattern used is simple present because it tells the fact of the object described.

•Action verb: verbs that show an activity (for example, run, sleep, walk, cut etc….

Language Feature of Descriptive

Cristiano Ronaldo has very strong determination. He used to train very hard since his childhood. He knew that a footballer requires good stamina because a football match requires a player to run at least 10 kilometers in a single match. Sometimes, he even trained himself continuously from morning until evening. He also challenged himself by playing along with O older players.

He becomes so skillful and confident that his opponents cannot figure out how to stop Ronaldo from making a goal. Normal football players will use their single leg of their dominant side body, i.e. players of right-handed or left-handed use their respective legs to score goals but Ronaldo can easily use both of his legs efficiently to make goals. In addition to that, he can use his head to score goals as well.

Christiano Ronaldo

(Example Descriptive Text)

He is also one of the fastest football players in football history. Ronaldo can run very fast, he can run with a speed of 33.6 kilometers per hour. That is why he is also known as a rocket man. This helps Ronaldo to do his famous free-kick. Ronaldo's free-kick speed is approximately 130 kilometers per hour.

While jumping, Ronaldo's G-force is five times higher than that of a cheetah. He can jump up to 78 cm in the air; this jumping height is much more compared to any basketball player. All of these have helped him achieve his success. In his young age, he has won many trophies and broken records including winning the prestigious FIFA Ballon d'Or award five times and created a world record by scoring the most goals in international football in September 2021. Currently his net worth is around $500 million and this

makes him one of the richest athletes.

Adopted from: https://youthmotivator4life.com/cristiano-ronaldo-biography

Christiano Ronaldo

(Example Descriptive Text)

Multiple Choice

Who is Christiano Ronaldo?

• The great swimmer

• The fastest runner

• The fastest football players

• The best basketball player

• The faster wall climber

Multiple Choice

What is the purpose of the text?

• To describe about Christiano Ronaldo

• To tell about the great runner

• To make readers inspired by the runner athletes

• To give an opportunity for other players

• To entertain the reader about the football athletes

Multiple Choice

What is the main idea of the text?

• Cristiano Ronaldo has very strong determination.

• Cristiano Ronaldo has very weak determination.

• Cristiano Ronaldo has very small determination.

• He becomes so skillful and confident that his opponents cannot figure out how to stop Ronaldo from making a goal

• He becomes so skillful and confident that his opponents cannot figure out how to stop Ronaldo from making a mistake

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