Contoh Soal Understanding Descriptive Text , Historical Places

Contoh Soal Understanding Descriptive Text , Historical Places - In this lesson you will learn about understanding descriptive text in describing historical places.

Look at the picture above. Have you ever visited that place? What’s its name? Why do people like visit this temple? Most Indonesian people know this place because it is one of historical places in Indonesia. 
In the previous lesson, you have learned about describing people and thing. Now, in this lesson, you will focus on how to understand descriptive text in describing historical places.

There are a lot of historical places that have stunningly beautiful buildings. Many visitors around the world are interested in visiting historical places to see the buildings and know its history. When you want to visit one of the historical buildings, you may look for some information by reading some articles.

But, how to understand a descriptive text in capturing its meaning? Let’s take a look to the definition, social function, and generic structures of descriptive text below to remind you from the previous lesson.

Definition of descriptive Text

Descriptive text is a text which describes a particular thing, person, or place.

Social Function of Descriptive Text
Descriptive text aims to inform the readers about a particular thing, person, or place.

Generic Structures of Descriptive Text
There are two generic structures of descriptive text as follows:

1. Identification
   Identification is a part which identifies the phenomenon. In this part, you can tell about the general information such as the location of the place, where did you find the place and the reason why it can be a historical place by telling the history briefly. You can add your opinion or view about the place by using adjective to get the readers’ attention.
2. Description
   Description commonly tells about the characteristic of the place. It contains things that the writer wants to tell about the place specifically.

Language Features of Descriptive Text
There are several language features that should be noticed as follows:

• Use adjectives to describe how important or interesting the place is.
• Use linking verbs to make the text easy to understand
• Use of Simple Present Tense to tells the facts about the places.Now, read an example of descriptive text below.

• Prambanan Temple

  Prambanan temple is a wonderful Hindhu temple built in the 10th century under Rakai Pikatan and Rakai Balitung, king of the second Mataram dynasty. It is located in Yogyakarta, Central Java, Indonesia.
  Prambanan temple has three zones; The outer zone, The middle zone, and The inner zone. But, most people only know that Prambanan temple has three main temples which relate to God namely Vishnu, Brahma and Shiva temples. Shiva temple as the highest temple is located in the middle. Different with others temples, it has three main rooms and in the main room stands the states of Durga (Shiva’s wife), Agastya (Shiva’s teacher), and Ganesha (Shiva’s Son). Related to a Javanese legend, Durga statue is identified as the statue of Roro Jonggrang. Visitors can discover many things in Prambanan, but they should be careful while entering a temple which was damaged because of earthquake.
  Each paragraph of the text above represents the generic structures of descriptive text. Here is the explanation:
  • In the first paragraph, the writer describes Prambanan temple by giving general information such as its location and its history. It is called as identification.
  • In the second paragraph, the writer describes characteristics of Prambanan temple by mention parts of Prambanan temple such as main temples and statues. It is called as description.
  So, when you want to make a descriptive text, you should categorize the information into proper paragraph based on its generic structures. Now, how to understand a descriptive text? To help you in understanding a descriptive text especially in describing a historical place, you can follow these steps as your guidance:
1. Find the social function of the text. It means that you should focus on what do you want to describe. For example: to describe Prambanan temple to the readers.
2. Tell when the historical place was built and its location. For example: It was built in the 10th century and located in Yogyakarta, Central Java, Indonesia.
3. Classify the specific things the historical building have. For example: most people only know that Prambanan temple has three main temples which relate to God namely Vishnu, Brahma and Shiva temples.
4. Identify how many parts the historical building have.
5. Complete the sentences by using Simple Present Tense and proper adjectives. For example: Prambanan temple is a wonderful Hindhu temple.

S1

Identify the social function of descriptive text in describing a historical place.

S2

Find the correct sentence which mention the location of a historical place.

S3

Complete the sentence below by using the proper adjective.

Visitors are …. by the beauty and luxury of the palace decoration.

S4

Listen the audio to identify the year when Monas was opened for public.

S5

Listen the audio again to analyze which place the public visitors can enter it.

S6

Identify the sentence below which included description.

S7

Choose the proper word to replace the underlined word in the sentence below.

Gedung Merdeka becomes more renowned after Asian African Conference (KAA) in 2015.

S8

Read the text below to determine what part of the short paragraph below
Borobudur temple has many Buddhist sculptures. A large ‘stupa’ will be found in the center of the top circle for each edifice.

S9

Read the text below to analyze the main idea of the text.

Buckingham Palace which is located in the City of Westminster is known as the London residence. It was subsequently acquired by King George III in 1761 as a private residence for Queen Charlotte. It is called as "The Queen's House".

S10

Construct the following sentences into a good paragraph.

1. The Colosseum stands in Rome, Italy.
2. The Colosseum is very big and can accommodate spectators around 50,000 people.
3. It was stunningly built in Flavian dynasty in 72 AD.
4. To protect spectators from the rain and heat of the sun by sails called the “Velarium”.
5. Its construction is very beautiful and awesome.
6. It is the largest and most famous amphitheater in the Roman world.
7. It has also no less than 80 entrances.

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