Descriptive Text

What is a descriptive text? This might be the question that come into people's mind when talking about descriptive text. Since I teach this kind of text to the sixth grade. I try to make the explanation simple. I sum up this from various resources.

Descriptive text is a text written to describe something. The purpose of descriptive text is to describe an object, a person or a place. It is expected that the readers can form a picture in their minds.

To write a description, we can use 5 senses. Those are:

• Sight
• Smell
• Touch
• Taste
• Hearing

A descriptive text mostly uses simple present. The structure of the text are:

• Statement (introduction)
• Sequence of descriptive fact 

Below are the example of descriptive text. Click on the title.

My Big Apple Tree

My Bedroom

The Magnificent Opera House

The Four Seasons

Sugar Maple Tree 
Kangaroo

Sugar Maple Tree

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Maple sugar tree, acer saccharum, is known as the national tree of Canada. The shape of maple leaf can be found in its flag. Sugar maple tree is large. It can grow up to 35 meters tall. It has 2 or more feet in diameter. The young bark is smooth. It is light gray in colour. As it gets older, it becomes dark brown. Older tree bark is also ridged and sometimes scaly.

 

The leaves of sugar maple tree are unique. It has 3 to 5 lobes, but they usually have 5 lobes. The leaves are 8 to 20 centimeters long. They grow in the opposite arrangement of the twig. In the fall, the leaves turn yellow, brilliant orange, crimson, or red. 

The Four Seasons

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Everybody knows the seasons in most of North America? Yes, there are four season there. You know, they are spring, summer, fall and winter. Now let me tell you about the time of each season. You know, each season lasts about three months. The months of spring are March, April and May. Officially, spring begins about March 22. The weather is usually cold and windy in March, but there are some warm days. There is a lot of rain in April, but May is usually sunny and beautiful. In May, the plants and trees become green and there are flowers of many colors.

Spring

The Magnificent Opera House

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Have you ever been to Sydney? Have you ever visited the busiest performing art centre in the world, the Sydney Opera House? If not, continue reading then.

The Sydney Opera House is the busiest performing arts centre in the world. Since its opening in 1973, it has brought countless hours of entertainment to millions of people and has continued to attract the best in the world class talent year after year.

My Bedroom

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My bedroom is a special place. Like most rooms, it is a rectangle. When you walk in the door, the first thing you notice is the large window on the back wall. It has beautiful view of the garden. My antique wooden bed is under the window. The left wall is lined with bookcases where I keep my books and pictures. My dresser is on the wall above the dresser. In the middle of the room, there is a handmade rug I bought in Mexico.

My Big Apple Tree

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The big apple tree in my backyard is my special place. I love to stretch out under its strong, thick branches, listening to the leaves fluttering happily in the breeze. The sweet smell of ripe apples always makes me hungry. If I close my eyes, I feel like I am surrounded by a huge bowl of apple sauce. Nothing can spoil the quiet feeling except, of course, an apple falling off the tree and hitting me on the head.