INTENSIVE READING

Answer :

The purpose is to give the information about Sewu temple's history.

Explanation

Descriptive text is a text which describes person/place/animal and other things specifically.

SOCIAL FUNCTION/COMMUNICATIVE PURPOSE

▶to describe people/place/things specifically

GENERIC STRUCTURE

1. Identification

• Identification is the very beginning part of paragraph. It tells about the background, the introduction of who, what, which will be described in the text.

2. Description

• Description contains the quality or specific character which belongs to the things you are talking about.

LANGUAGE FEATURE

1. It refers to the specific participants to identify which the thing/the person is.

Exp => Borobudur temple, Sewu temple

2. It often uses the adjective to explain the noun in detail.

Exp => largest, old, popular

3. It uses the simple present tense because it tells the fact or general truth

Exp => The main temple has 1 main room.

4. It uses the action verbs to reveal the activity

Exp => serve, face

5. Sometimes, it uses the simple past tenseto tell the pasthistory

Exp => Sewu temple wasprobablybuilt in the 8th century

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Level : Jhs (7)

Subject : English

Category : Reading text

Categorization : 7.5.7

Keywords : Descriptive text ; Sewu temple

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