Descriptive Text

a. building knowledge of the text

​Discuss these questions with your partner.

1. What is the name of the job?

2. What kind of things a tour guide do?

3. In your opinion, what are the important skills a tour guide should have?

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​ Descriptive text is a text that aims to explain, describe, or describe something. This thing can take the form of anything, be it animals, objects, locations, and so on.

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Usually, descriptive text is written in the present tense and focuses on a single object.

​Generic Structure of Descriptive Texts

1. Identification

This section, located in the first paragraph, aims to identify an object to be described. Identification serves to introduce the reader to the object that we are going to explain, before we tell about the object in more detail in the next paragraph.

2. Description

This section, located in the second paragraph and so on, contains the characteristics inherent in something that you have introduced to the reader in the first paragraph.

The language feature of descriptive texts:

1. Using simple present tense

Descriptive uses the simple present tense to

explain a fact or truth contained in a thing or person.

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2. Using verb

Verb is a type of verb that tries to connect to the

explanation of the noun that is the subject, such as

be, have, seem.

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3. Using adjective

Adjectives are known by adjectives, such as good-bad, big-small. Adjectives are used because descriptive text will explain the properties of an object, human, or animal.

​ TOUR GUIDE

Tour guide is one of the professions in the tourism sector. A tour guide is responsible for giving instructions, accompanying and guiding tourists both at home and abroad. Currently traveling has become a separate culture for millennials. Tour guides themselves play an important role in introducing tourist attractions to many visitors. This profession itself is needed especially for foreign tourists visiting Indonesia.

​Please read the text carefully, identify the synonym word in bold in the text. Work together with your partner.

The duties of a Tour Guide include protecting and guaranteeing safety to tourists, service providers, such as travel agents or tour operators are also tasked with providing the best possible explanation of a tourist attraction to tourists. The tour guide itself is further divided into general guides or tour guides with general knowledge about a tourist place, he is also required to have permission to guide using one or several certain languages. In addition, there are also special guides or tour guides who have special knowledge about a particular tourist attraction or place. In addition, there is also a tour conductor or senior tour guide, he has a tour guide sign and can lead as well as provide information to groups of tourists who are traveling to an object or even to several tourist locations.

Source : https://www.gramedia.com/pendidikan/profesi-tour-guide/

Please choose of this picture then described it from your words. makes the paragraph into 2 paragraph then share your work in front of class.

D. INDEPENDENT CONSTRUCTION OF THE TEXT

Seoul Tower N (Hangul: N서울타워), officially known as Seoul Tower YTN (Seoul Tower N), The Seoul Tower, commonly referred to as Namsan Tower or Seoul Tower, is an observation and communications tower located on Namsan Mountain in Seoul, South Korea. The 236 meter (774 ft) tall tower is the second highest point in Seoul. Built in 1971, the N Seoul Tower was the first public radio wave tower in South Korea built to accommodate TV and radio broadcasting in Seoul. This tower broadcasts signals from a number of Korean mass media outlets, such as KBS, MBC, and SBS.

​​Namsan Tower

​ The tower, which was completed on December 3 1971, was designed by architects in Jangjongryul, but at that time the interior was not built. Only in August 1975, the third floor for the observation deck, museum, open hall, gift shop began to open. Other facilities continued to be added until October 15, 1980. Since then, this tower has become one of Seoul's icons. The elevation of the tower varies from 2,367 m (7,766 ft) at the base to 4,797 m (15,738 ft) above sea level. Seoul Tower was renamed N Seoul Tower in 2005, where the "N" stands for 'new', 'Namsan', and 'nature.' Around 15 billion KRW was spent on renovating and changing the model of this tower. The tower attracts thousands of tourists and locals every year, especially at night when the tower is illuminated. Photographers also take advantage of the panoramic views offered by this tower. Every year, around 8.4 million people visit the tower, which is also surrounded by a number of other tourist attractions, including Namsan Park and Mount Nam Hanok Village. The ticket price to go up to the tower is differentiated based on the age group, namely children, teenagers, and adults. Ticket prices are also different for each package and the number of groups. In 2012, a survey conducted by the City of Seoul revealed that foreign tourists cited the N Seoul Tower as the number one tourist attraction in Seoul.

Source : https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menara_Seoul_N

This text for question number 7-10

​ Venice is a city in northern Italy. It has been known as the “Queen of the Adriatic”, “City of Bridges”, and “The City of Light”. The city stretches across 117 small 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 centre, 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 weddings, funerals, or other ceremonies. Now, most Venetians travel by motorised waterbuses which ply regular routes along the major canals and between the city’s islands. The city 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.

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