Descriptive text (Describing people)

Describing People

By: Aditya Fiqih Prayogi, S.Pd.

​What we will discuss:

• ​Social Function

• Generic Structure

• Language Feature

• Example​

What is Descriptive Text?

Descriptive text is a kind of text with a purpose to give information.

The context of this kind of text is​ description of particular thing, animal, person and others

Social Function/purpose

Social Function The social function of writing descriptive text is to describe a particular person, place, thing, or animal.

​Generic Structure

​1. Paragraph of Identification

​ identify about the thing that you are going the discribe.

​ I have a close friend

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​2. Paragraphs of Description

​ Detail Information about the thing with the characteristic

​ She is beautiful and trendy

​ She like her a new stylist shoes

​ She is really mad on her shoes

​Language Feature

​1. Focusing on a specific participant.

2. Using adjective.

3. Using noun phrase.

4. Using linking verb.

5. Using attributive and identifying process.

6. Using epithets and classifiers in nominal group.

7. Using simple present tense.

​How to Describe People

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An adjective is a describing word, the main syntactic role of which is to qualify a noun or noun phrase, giving more information about the object signified.

In this lesson, we will learn useful Adjectives to describe people in three ways:

​1. Describing someone’s appearance

2. Describing someone’s character and personality

3. Describing someone’s feelings & emotions

​​1. Describing Someone’s Appearance

Appearance is defined as the way someone or something looks.

This is list of adjectives to describe a person’s appearance:

• beautiful (My younger sister is very beautiful.)

• handsome (He’s the most handsome man I’ve ever met.)

• cute (That’s a cute little baby.)

• thin (She was looking pale and thin.)

• tall (She’s tall and thin.)

• chubby (She was eleven years old and pretty in a chubby sort of way.)

• muscular (He was tall, lean and muscular.)

• attractive (The actress is an attractive woman.) …

​ADJECTIVE

​here are some adjective that usually used when we are going to describe people or things

By Dyah Hendrastuti

What will describe about a person?​

Someone's appearance

Someone's character and ​personality

Someone Feelings and Emotional​

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​Look at the following example!

Describing Face

Round

Oval

Triangle

Square

Long

Moustache

Beard

Freckles

Describing hair

Long

Short

Shoulder- length

Straight

Wavy

Curly

Dark

Fair

Brown

Blonde​

Bald

Some text here about the topic of discussion

​He is 40 years old. He is middle aged.

How old is he?

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He is tall. He is 1.81 mts tall.

He is very skinny.

He has short, red hair.

He has​ green eyes.

He has freckles.

He is white. ​

What does he look like?​

He is very creative.

He seems nice.

He looks calm. ​

What is his personality like?​

​Example

​Look at the example beside, the try to answer the questions.

​1. Who is being describe in the text?

​2. What does Daniel look like?

​3. What does he love?

​4. When does Daniel born?

​5. Who is his parents?

Multiple Choice

THIS IS EMMA STONE.

• This is an actor.

• She is an actress.

• She is actor.

• He is an actor.

Multiple Choice

Where is she from?

She was born in Scottsdale, Arizona.

• She is chilean.

• She is USA.

• She is American.

• She is from American.

Multiple Choice

A: ____________?

B: She is thirty-three years old. She is a young adult.

• How old is she?

• How old is he?

• How old she is?

• How she is old age?

Multiple Choice

What does she look like?

• She is green eyes.

• She has green eyes.

• She eyes are green.

• She has brown eyes.

Fill in the Blank

COMPLETE:

She ____ red hair. It is shoulder lenght.

Multiple Choice

A: ________________?

She is tall and skinny.

• What is her personality like?

• What is she?

• What she looks like?

• What does she look like?

Multiple Choice

She has blue eyes.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

What is her personality like?

• She seems nice.

• She seems sad.

• She is short.

• She looks young.

Multiple Choice

To describe MEN, we use HE / HIS:

Example: He is tall. His eyes are green.

To describe WOMEN, we use SHE / HER

Example: She is skinny. Her hair is red.

• TRUE

• FALSE

By Dyah Hendrastuti

Hi...I am thirteen years old and a teenage. I am tall and healthy weight for my age. i have a round face, black eyes, a little droopy nose (not much), full lips. i have got original wavy hair, and my skin isn't very white ( I think it's light yellow). i'm a friendly, funny, and ambitious girl. i am always happy and never sad. And also I can make sad people laugh. I always smile and all of my friends love me. They sometimes call me "baby" (hehe). But they usually call me "Thun".

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