Competence Standard : 8.

Merespon makna dalam teks lisan fungsional monolog pendek sederhana

yang berbentuk descriptive dan procedure untuk berinteraksi dengan
lingkungan terdekat.

Basic Competence : 8.2 Merespon makna dalam teks lisan fungsional monolog pendek sederhana
dengan menggunakan ragam bahasa lisan secara akurat, lancar, dan
berterima untuk berinteraksi dengan lingkungan sekitar dalam
teks berbentuk descriptive dan procedure.

Sub Competence :8.2.1Merespon makna dalam teks deskriptif.

Theme : Describing People
Aspect / Skill : Reading

 Description is about sensory experience how something looks, sounds, and tastes. Mostly it is about
visual experience, but description also deals with other kinds of perception. Descriptive text is a text
which says what a person or a thing is like. Its purpose is to describe and reveal a particular person,
place, or thing ( Kane, 2000: 352).
 The generic structure of a descriptive text:
1. Identification : someone or other objects that will be described.
2. Description : explanation/ description of someone or objects with mention the characters.
 Language features of descriptive text:
1. Tenses: Simple Present Tense, Present Continous Tense,etc.
2. Vocabulary that related to the topic (Noun, Adjective, Verb, Personal Pronoun, and Possessive
Pronoun, etc).
 Example:
I have a sister. Her name is Anita. She is a beautiful person. She is not tall
but short, and she has brown curly hair. The color of her eyes is like honey and
her skin is light brown. She has a beautiful smile.
My sister married a soldier. He is Ali. They have two chidren. They
live happily.
My sister is a nurse. She goes to hospital everyday. She is very
diligent and intelligent. She always goes to hospital by motorcycle. Her
friends at hospital like her because she is very kind person.
My sister’s hobbies are singing and dancing. She goes to a gallery
every week. She always sings a song in her bedroom.
She always teaches me some songs . I love her, because she is a good
model for me.

1. The generic structure of the text above:

Identification I have a sister. Her name is Anita.

Description She is a beautiful person. She is not tall but short, and she has brown curly hair.
The color of her eyes is like honey and her skin is light brown. She has a beautiful
smile. My sister married a soldier. He is Ali. They have two chidren. They live
happily. My sister is a nurse. She goes to hospital everyday. She is very diligent
and intelligent. She always goes to hospital by motorcycle. Her friends at hospital
like her because she is very kind person. My sister’s hobbies are singing and
dancing. She goes to a gallery every week. She always sings a song in her bedroom.
She always teaches me some songs . I love her, because she is a good model for me.
 2. The language features of the text above:
 Simple Present Tense: go, sing, teach,
 Pattern: Subject + V1 + Object + Adverb
 Ex. She goes to a gallery every week.
 Present continous Tense: Her hobbies are singing and dancing
 Vocabulary that related to the text above:
 Personal pronoun (I, she);
 Possessive Pronoun (my, her);
 Noun(sister, person, singing, dancing, hair, eyes, skin, smile, hobby, model, gallery, song,
bedroom);
 Verbs (go, sing, love, teach); and
 Adjectives: beautiful, tall, short, kind, diligent, intelligent.
- We can write those adjectives into word web below:

beautiful

tall My Sister shy

short diligent intelligent

- The synonym of the adjectives above:

NO. ADJECTIVES SYNONYM
1. beautiful good looking
2. tall high
3. shy introvert
4. short small
5. diligent hardworking
6. intelligent clever

- The antonyms of the adjectives above:

NO ADJECTIVES ANTONYMS
.
1. beautiful bad
2. tall short
3. shy outgoing
4. short small
5. diligent lazy
6. intelligent stupid
 Exercise 1:
1. Read aloud the descriptive text below with correct pronunciation and intonation.
My brother’s name is Jack. He was born on May, 5 1999. He is still young. He is
handsome. He is tall and skinny. He has wavy hair and big eyes.
My brother is still single. He hasn’t plan to marry because he doesn’t prepare his
self. He lives in a cost. He is very independet.
He is a civil servant. He works at a government office. He is a doordie. He works
every day. He is very diligent and smart. He is a humorist, so many people like him
especially his friends.
His hobbies are playing football and swimming. He plays football every Friday
afternoon and swims every Sunday morning. I proud of him because he never tired in
finishing his activity.
2. Read the text above again by heart and understand, then answer the following questions.
a. Put tick [√ ] for correct statements and cross check [X] for wrong statements.
1) [ ... ] I haven’t a brother.
2) [ ... ] He is twelve years old.
3) [ ... ] My brother has plan to marry someone.
4) [ ... ] He like playing football.
5) [ ... ] Many people like my brother because he is humorist.

b. Complete the word web below by adjectives.

....

.... My Brother ....

.... ...

c. Rewrite the adjectives above in the table, then identify the synonym:
NO. ADJECTIVES SYNONYM
1. ... ...
2. ... ...
3. ... ...
4. ... ...
5. ... ...
d. Rewrite the adjectives above in the table, then identify the antonyms:
NO. ADJECTIVES ANTONYMS
1. ... ...
2. ... ...
3. ... ...
4. ... ...
5. ... ...

Read the following text by heart and understand, then answer the following questions.
My nephew's name is Andre. He was born on June, 13 1986 years ago. He
is tall and fat. He has got short curly hair. He has got black skin. He has got small
eyes. He is handsome.
My nephew married with a teacher. Her name is Susan. They have a
daughter. They live happily.
He is a businessman. He is very dilligent and clever. His friends like him
because he is very polite and kind person.
His hobby is fishing. He always visits some rivers with me. I proud of him
because he always cares with me.
a. Put tick [√ ] for correct statements and cross check [X] for wrong statements!
1) [ ... ] Andre is my nephew.
2) [ ... ] He is twenty seven years old.
3) [ ... ] My nephew is good looking.
4) [ ... ] He married with Susan.
5) [ ... ] His friends don’t like him.
b. Complete the word web below by adjectives.
....

... ...

My Nephew

... ...

c. Rewrite the adjectives above in the table, then identify the synonym.
NO. ADJECTIVES SYNONYM
1. ... ...
2. ... ...
3. ... ...
4. ... ...
5. ... ...

d. Rewrite the adjectives above in the table, then identify the antonyms.
NO. ADJECTIVES ANTONYMS
1. ... ...
2. ... ...
3. ... ...
4. ... ...
5. ... ...