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Writing 3
Lesson Objective
In this unit, you will learn how to write a descriptive paragraph. In the descriptive paragraph, you will mainly focus on learning how to describe people and places by using your five senses and applying them to writing. Some grammatical aspects will also be presented to support improving your skill. After learning this unit you are expected to be able to: 1. describe peoples character and appearances. 2. write assumption about people. 3. describe things and places.
Descriptive Paragraph
The aim of descriptive text is basically to give information. The social context of descriptive text is to describe a specific thing, person, animal, or place. The function of descriptive text is to describe a particular person, place or thing. It focuses on specific participants. The description includes parts, qualities and characteristics.
Vocabularies
The vocabularies often used in a descriptive text are the words, which are related to: Person: characteristics, appearances, experiences (adjectives, nouns, verb) Places : locations, destinations, the functions, the appearances and the evidences (prepositions, adjective, verb, noun) Things/animals: the physical appearances, habitats, behavior, life cycles, and the function. The language is neutral or objective.
Grammar
Descriptive text often uses the form of tenses : Present, Past and have form. The present tense is often used in this kind of text, but sometimes we can also use the past tense to describe a certain thing which is extinct or not available nowadays. The have and passive form is also often used here.
I love my dad. His name is Andrew. He is the breadwinner in my family. He has been a journalist since I was born. He likes reporting the news; therefore, he was chosen to be a reporter in a war scene like Palestine. He is the bravest man I have ever known. When he reported the massacre in Palestine, the soldiers were shooting the bullets one another. Even though he was exhausted due to his demanding duty, he had always wanted to accompany me doing my homework.
Think about your hand phone! What is its brand? (Samsung, Nokia, etc) How big/slim/small is it? What is its color? What features does it have? (camera, games, etc) What makes your hand phone so special?
1.Simple Present is used to express repeated or permanent events: present, past and future. examples: It rains almost everyday in Bogor. They live in Jakarta, but they are staying in Bali at the moment.
2. Present Progressive is used to express temporary events just now or just around now. examples: It is raining again. They are watching Popeye the Sailorman. Present progressive is also used to express something that has already arranged to do. examples: I am leaving tomorrow at 9 by train. What time is Ben arriving tomorrow?
3. Present Perfect is used to express events repeated up to now. examples: I have always thought of going abroad. This tense is also used to express past events that are still news. Do you know that Samantha has been promoted?
4. Present Perfect Progressive is used to express events repeated or continuing up to now, up to a few moments ago. examples: Where were you? I have been waiting for you for hours. We have been reading comics since we were in elementary school. Mr. Mike has been teaching Physics for years.
5. Simple Past is used to express events that happened one or more times in the past, no connection with now. examples: She gave me some money yesterday. When I was a child, I climbed trees.
6. Past Progressive is used to express events continuing around a particular time in the past. examples: When he was riding his bike, he saw a cat chased by a dog. I was watching movies while my mom was cooking the meal. The babies were crying when you played the song so loudly.
7. Past Perfect is used to express events repeated up to then (past). It is the past form of present perfect. examples: Last night, when I left the house, I had locked the door. She had never imagined that he would dump her. The costumer had sued the company when it did not serve him well. He had eaten since I arrived home.
8. Past Perfect Progressive is used to express events repeated or continuing up to then. examples: Bree was so tired since she had been travelling all day. The employees had been working late when I printed the files. My brother had been playing soccer all day, so that he missed the private lesson.
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