CHAPTER 16

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT ABOUT TOURIST PLACES

Skill Focus

: Writing

By

: Riris Aldila Hapsari Ningtyas

Please be active students ya

Activity 1
Komodo Island

Question

: Please describe what you see from the picture!

(Siapapun bisa menjawab. Silahkan mengacungkan tangan dan pilih salah satu jawaban
yang telah saya siapkan dibawah ini. Jika anda bisa menjawab dengan jawaban anda
sendiri, silahkan. Sangat diperbolehkan )
Answer

: - The blue sky

- Komodo animal

The beautiful view

- The wide green land

The map of komodo island

- The wonderful beach

Thank you very much class. Yes, your all answer is correct. This activity is about describing
picture. The picture is show about one of tourist place in Indonesia. So, today we are going to
learn about describing tourist places.

Materi pembelajaran
Definition:
Descriptive text is a text which presents information about something specifically. A
text which says what a person or a thing is like.
The communicative purpose
To describe and reveal a specific/particular person, animal, or thing to help readers
visualize what a person, an animal, a park, or a thing is like.
Generic Structure
1. Identification: introduce a particular person or thing or place.
2. Description: describing physical appearance, quality, behavior, parts, characteristic,
etc.
The Language Feature of Descriptive Text
Language Features
1.
Focus on specific participants
2.
Use of simple present tense
3.
Use of adjective

Activity 2
Toba Lake

Danau Toba or Toba Lake is one of the most popular destinations in

Indonesia, especially in Medan, North Sumatra. Danau Toba is the largest
volcanic lake in Indonesia, even in the Southeast Asia. Which make it more
special is taken from the Samosir Island, an Island that settled in the middle of the
lake.

Identifica
tion

Lake Toba is an area of 1,707 km, we can say that this is 1,000 km bigger
than Singapore. It formed by a gigantic volcanic eruption some 70,000 years ago,
it is probably the largest resurgent caldera on Earth. Pulau Samosir or Samosir
Island, The island in the middle, was joined to the caldera wall by a narrow
isthmus, which was cut through to enable boats to pass; a road bridge crosses the
cutting. Samosir island is the cultural centre of the Batak tribe, the indigenous
from North Sumatra.
By the eruption of a super volcano (Mount Toba) was estimated to have
caused mass death and extinction of several species of living creatures. The
eruption of Mount Toba has led to changes in the earths weather and the start
into the ice age that affects the world civilization.

Descript
ion

Lake Toba is actually more like a sea than a lake considering its size.
Therefore, the Lake placed as the largest lake in Southeast Asia and the second
largest in the world after Lake Victoria in Africa. Lake Toba is also includes the
deepest lake in the world, which is approximately 450 meters.
Question

: Please identify the generic structure of this text. (Toba Lake text)

(Saya akan memilih salah satu siswa untuk maju kedepan, menunjukkan generic structure
dari teks diatas. Jawaban sudah ada dibawah. Siswa dapat mengacungkan tangan, kemudian
siswa yang saya pilih silahkan maju kedepan)
Answer

: 1st paragraph

: Identification

2nd, 3rd, 44h paragraph : Description

Activity 3
GAMES
Question: Please describe these places J
Rule (Peraturan / aturan main):
I will make 2 groups. Group A and Group B. Group A describe picture 1 and group B
describe picture 2. Every group can describe the picture with 3 sentences. Every sentence is
being done by one student. So, 3 students of every group take turns to write in front of the
class. I will give you 1 minute to discuss with your group
Saya akan membuat 2 kelompok. Grup A dan Grup B. Grup A mendeskripsiskan gambar 1
dan grup B mendeskripsikan gambar 2. Setiap kelompok dapat mendeskripsikan sebuah
gambar dengan 3 kalimat. Setiap kalimat dikerjakan oleh satu siswa. Jadi, setiap kelompok
mempunyai 3 perwakilan untuk secara bergantian menulis di depan kelas. Saya akan
memberikan waktu 1 menit untuk mendeskripsikan dengan kelompokmu
Picture 1

Picture 2

Clues (Petunjuk-petunjuk)
Picture 1

Jawaban ada di halaman selanjutnya..

Picture 2

(Tolong setiap kelompok menunujuk anggota 3 orang untuk menuliskan jawaban di papan
tulis. Setiap 1 orang 1 kalimat. Jadi, bergiliran. Lakukan dengan cepat karena ketebatasan
waktu O.K )
Answer:
Picture 1:
Museum Angkut is one of museum in Indonesia; it is located in Batu, Malang, East
Java. It is very unique museum, because the museum shows about all of old car and
historic vehicle in the world. You can see trucks, the old car, the unique car, or the historic
vehicle in there.
Picture 2:
Surabaya Carnival is located in Waru, Sidoarjo, East Java. This place is opened in
afternoon until midnight. This place is very interesting tourist place because there has
many game vehicles such as, roller coaster, rainbow (bianglala), go cart, etc.
Activity 4
Final Task on Today
Question:
Please make a descriptive text about tourism place which you have known! After that, please
show to your friend with writes it in the whiteboard.
........

(Salah satu siswa mengacungkan tangan, kemudian saya tunjuk untuk maju kedepan
menuliskan jawaban di papan tulis. Lakukan dengan cepat ya )
Answer:
Bali Island
Bali Island is one of the most beautiful island in the world, it is located in Indonesia. Bali
has many the beautiful places start from beaches, mountain, lake and etc. Every year,
many international visitors come to this island to spend their holiday. The place which
often visit by visitors such as, Kuta beach, Jimbaran beach, Tanah Lot, Bedugul Lake,
Garuda Wisnu Kencana, etc.

(Sepertinya abaikan saja halaman ini. Hanya untuk jaga-jaga)

Assessment
Make a descriptive text based on this picture! At least consists of 4 sentences.
Kuta Beach

Answer:
Kuta beach is one of the beautiful beach in Bali island. There are has the beauiful sky and
view. It has a white sand. Many visitor comes to this place to sunbuthe, surving, swimming
and playing. This beach has beautiful sunset also.

Homework
Please make a descriptive text and give the picture also. Type it and submit it on next week.

Thank You for your participation

Keep spirit and dont sleepy O.K. :D
Have a nice day