Contoh Soal Understanding Descriptive Text , People

Contoh Soal Understanding Descriptive Text , People - Who is the most inspiring person in your life? Some might say that their parents are the most influential thing to their life. Some other adore football players, singers, or actors. What makes those people worth our admiration? Is it because of their look, or is it because of what they do/did? How do you describe your favorite idol?

In this chapter You are going to learn about describing people. What is the difference of description text about people with other description such places, or things? The most highlighted point in describing people is in the use of tense. Sometimes we need to use past tense to describe people from the past (who had passed away) in our writing. Unlike describing places or other timeless object, we use simple present tense.

Do you still remember the generic structure of descriptive texts? Doesn't matter what you are describing, the text consist of two parts which are identification and description.

Now, look at the following figure.

If you are asked to make a descriptive text about the person, what would you tell? Could you tell what the person looks like? Is the person fat or tall? How many words can you mention to describe him?

To recall, descriptive text functions to tell the characteristics of things. In a descriptive text, you could tell about the nature of the object, such as their shape, color, condition, and so on. When describing people, you tell about what they look like as well as their personalities. Read carefully the following description about the person in the picture.

Is the description exactly the same with what you see? Are what being told in the text representing the figure in the picture? Match each statement with the picture and you will find similar description. If you have any other emphasis to add, just spill out; he has a weird mustache for example.

Describing people is not really difficult if you know the appropriate adjectives to represent the characteristics of the people. In the short description about the figure in the picture above, there are some adjectives that are used such as not fat, thin, gaunt, wavy, black, slanted, pointed, wide, fair, and wrinkled.

Could you tell one by one what characters the adjectives represent? Literally, not fat and thin are for his build. Gaunt is to characterize his cheeks. Wavy and black are referring to his hair. Slanted are his eyes, pointed for his nose and wide is for his mouth. Last, fair and wrinkled are for his skin. In addition, there are three adverbs in the text which function to give the evidence on the adjectives: enough, rather, and pretty. The three adverbs give emphasis of how much the adjectives could represent the characters said.
Here you are provided with some adjectives and adverbs to use when describing people.

Some easy ways to make a description about people is by first deciding the ones to describe. Focus on their explicit characteristics such as what they look like, and what they seem like. Should you make an affirmative text, better you state about the one you are going to describe at the beginning, and then followed by mentioning his or her characters and personality. Differently in case, you tell the characteristics first, and then at the end you ask the listener or the reader to guess who you are describing about. And last but not least, do not forget to use simple present tense in your descriptive text.