Example of Descriptive Text : My Bedroom

My Bedroom

I have my own bedroom.

My bedroom is not big but very clean and comfortable for me. I always make my bed and room before going to school.

On the bed, there are two pillows and a bolster and blanket.

There is a fan above my study table, my father put it on so the room doesn't get hot.

I really like my bedroom. I spend a lot of time in my bedroom from studying, playing games, to resting.

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Understanding Descriptive Text

Definition 

Descriptive Text is a kind of genre or text type which describe a particular things, person or place. 

Social function 

1. To give information about a particular entity by describing its features, history, and special characteristics. 
2. To give information about things by describing physical attributes, behaviors, uses, etc.

Generic Structure

1. Identification or general statement : identifies phenomenon to be described
2. Description : describes parts, qualities, characteristics, behaviors, attributes, special features

Language Feature:

1. Focus on Specific participant

It has a certain object. It is not common and unique (only one), for example: Bandengan beach, my house, Borobudur temple, my bedroom, Rina’s Bedroom, My Living room. 

2. The use of the adjective

It use adjective to clarify the noun, for example a beautiful beach, the famous place in Jepara, large and clean

3. The use of simple present tense

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

4. The use of Action verb

Verbs that show an activity. For example run, sleep, walk, cut, keep, study, etc.

You can browse some examples of descriptive text in this blog. Here is an example of descriptive text : Winda's Garden.

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Analysis of Structure and Language Feature of Narrative Text : The Fairy and the Soap Bubble

Hello readers! Nice to see you again. In this occasion, we give you another example of Narrative text to make you understand genre you learned and the analysis of the Structure and Language Feature of Narrative Text entitled The Fairy and the Soap Bubble. 

As we know that narrative text has social function to amuse, entertain and to deal with a actual or vicarious experience in different ways narratives deal with problematic events which lead to a crisis or turning point of some kind, which in turn finds a resolution. 

Discussing the structure, Narrative Text consist of three generic structure, namely orientation, complication and resolution. Orientation sets the scene and introduces the participants

Complication tell us the crisis arises. And then, resolution show us the crisis is resolved, for better or for worse. 

Meanwhile, the language features of Narrative text are explained below. 

1. Use simple past tense
2. Use time conjugation or linking word (then, before that, when, after that, finally)
3. Use adverb of time (once upon a time, one day, thousand years ago)
4. Use action verb (walked, sat, landed)
5. Use mental process (think, understand, believe, see, smell, listen, love, like, dislike)
6. Use some dialogue
7. Use direct and indirect speeches

Here is one of the example of narrative text and it's analysis based on the generic structure and the language features.

Structure	Text	Language Feature
Title	The Fairy and the Soap Bubble
Orientation	Once upon a time there was a tiny little fairy. She was flying around in search of something to do when she spied an open window	Adverb of Time Who
Complication	She landed gently on a window and peeped inside and found that it was a little boy’s playroom. Inside she saw all the lovely toys, soldiers trains, bricks. She crept inside, she looked at them all, and suddenly she felt very weary, she was so tired she decided to have little rest. She looked for place to sleep and she found the bowl of the boy’s bubble pipe. She slept inside the boy’s bubble pipe.   Then while the tiny fairy was a sleep, the little boy decided to blow some soap bubbles. When the bubble was big enough he suddenly noticed that it was different from the ordinary soap bubbles. For there inside the bubble was a beautiful tiny fairy. The little boy watched it float away. He was sad because he did not want her to go away. It floated over the tress and the right a cross the countryside.   The fairy was frightened at being locked up in the soap bubble. She began to wonder how she would be released from the bubble. Then suddenly the breeze dropped the soap bubble downwards to earth.	Action Verb Where    Past Tense Linking Verb Material Process Specific Participants Mental Process    Mental Process
Resolution	It landed gently right by the river bank, almost touching the water. She saw a tiny little fish. He was watching her too. “ Help me!’ the fairy said.. “ I’m locked in this bubble and I can’t get out” But the little fish did not know what he could do.   The little fish thought, “I can’t leave the fairy locked up like that.” Then he leaped up out of the water and with his nose he popped the bubble. Ping! The fairy was free at last.	Noun Phrase (Specific Participant)   Mental Process    Linking Verb

 

In summary, narrative text can be defined as a piece of text that tells a story and entertains the reader or listener. It is started with orientation, then followed by complication and ended with resolution. But, sometimes is use coda.

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Example of Report Text : Bee

Report is a text which presents information about something, as it is. It is as a result of systematic observation and analyses.

Report text which is also known as Report Genre is a kind of factual genre. It is describes the way things are, with references to a whole range of phenomena, natural, synthetic and social in our environment.  Report genre has a specific schematic structure. It is consist of general classification and description.

Report genre is focus on generic participants or a group of things such as the heart, the body, the lung, the computer, the printer, etc. Report text mainly use of simple present tense (unless extinct). There is no temporal sequence in report text. The writer usually use of “being” and “having” clauses.

Some of example of report genre is information about living things (reptile, mammals, etc), information about cultural phenomena, information about technology, information about health service, and so on. Here is one of the examples of report text about animal.

Bee

Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants, and are known for their role in pollination and for producing honey and beeswax. There are nearly 20,000 known species of bees in nine recognized families though many are undescribed and the actual number is probably higher. They are found on every continent except Antarctica, in every habitat on the planet that contains insect-pollinated flowering plants.

Bees have a long proboscis (a complex "tongue") that enables them to obtain the nectar from flowers. They have antennae almost universally made up of 13 segments in males and 12 in females, as is typical for the super family. Bees all have two pairs of wings, the hind pair being the two; in a very few species, one sex or caste has relatively short wings that make flight difficult or impossible, but none are wingless.

The bee is Trigona minima, a stingless bee whose workers are about 2.1 mm (5/64") long. The largest bee in the world is Megachile pluto, a leafcutter bee whose females can attain a length of 39 mm (1.5"). Members of the family Halictidae, or sweat bees, are the most common type of bee in the Northern Hemisphere, though they are  and often mistaken for wasps or flies.

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Example of Report Text : Venice, a City of Water

Report is a text which presents information about something, as it is. It is as a result of systematic observation and analyses.

Report text which is also known as Report Genre is a kind of factual genre. It is describes the way things are, with references to a whole range of phenomena, natural, synthetic and social in our environment.  Report genre has a specific schematic structure. It is consist of general classification and description.

Report genre is focus on generic participants or a group of things such as the heart, the body, the lung, the computer, the printer, etc. Report text mainly use of simple present tense (unless extinct). There is no temporal sequence in report text. The writer usually use of “being” and “having” clauses.

Some of example of report genre is information about living things (reptile, mammals, etc), information about cultural phenomena, information about technology, information about health service, and so on. Here is one of the examples of report text about city.

Venice, a City of Water

Venice is a city in northern Italy. It is the capital of region Veneto. Together with Padua, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area. Venice has been known as the “Queen of the Adriatic”, “City of Water”, “City of Bridges”, and “The City of Light”. The city stretches across 117 islands in the marshy Venetian Lagoon along the Adriatic Sea in northeast Italy.

Venice is world-famous for its canals. It is built on an archipelago of 117 islands formed by about 150 canals in a shallow lagoon. The islands on which the city is built are connected by about 400 bridges. In the old center, the canals serve the function of roads, and every form of transport is on water or on foot.

You can ride gondola there. It is the classical Venetian boat which nowadays is mostly used for tourists, or for weddings, funerals, or ceremonies. Now, most Venetians travel by motorized waterbuses (“vaporetti”) which ply regular routes along the major canals and between the city‟s islands. The city also has many private boats. The only gondolas still in common use by Venetians are the traghetti, foot passenger ferries crossing the Grand Canal at certain points without bridges.

You can see the amusing city‟s landmarks such as Piazza San Marco, Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo, Saint Mark‟s Cathedral or villas of the Veneto. The villas of the Veneto, rural residences for nobles during the Republic, are one of the most interesting aspects of Venetian countryside. They are surrounded by elegant gardens, suitable for fashionable parties of high society. The city is also well known for its beautiful and romantic view, especially at night.

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