Expository Text Structures Descriptive Text

1. Expository Text StructuresDescriptive Text Objective: You will be able to identify descriptive text by using Toolkit Clues and Titles

2. Purpose of Descriptive Text • Descriptive text is a text which says what a person or a thing is like. Its purpose is to describe and reveal a particular person, place, thing or idea.

3. Toolkit Clues • Words and phrases which are: • Descriptive in language • Vivid language • Adjectives • Titles: The Red Balloon

4. Descriptive Text – Hunt for text which is rich in description • Jakarta is located on the northwest coast of Java Island, at the mouth of the Ciliwung river. It dominates Indonesian’s administrative, economy, cultural activities, and is a major commercial and transportation hub within Asia.The climate is hot and humid. Rainfall occurs throughout the year. The heaviest rainfall is from November to May. The city lies on a flat, low plain and is likely to be affected by flood during period of heavy rainfall.

5. Your Turn • Moon is the earth's satellite which we often see in the night. The Moon is the one place in our solar system where humans have visited. For the firs time on July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin landed the Lunar Module of Apollo 11 on the surface of the Moon. Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the Moon. However do you know what descriptive facts about the Moon are?The moon rises in the east and sets in the west. It moves toward the east in our sky by about 12 degrees each day. The Moon is about 384,400 kilometers from Earth. The Moon has a diameter of 2,000 miles which is like to 3,476 kilometers.The surface of the Moon has many things, such as craters, lava plains, mountains, and valleys. Scientists believe the craters were formed around 3.5 to 4.5 billion years ago by meteors hitting the moon's surface. The Moon does not have atmosphere, wind and weather that is why the footprints left there on the Moon by the Apollo astronauts will remain there for millions of years.The Moon is not a light source. It mean that Moon does not make its own light. It reflects light from the sun. All of us can can see the Moon especially in the night because light from the Sun bounces off it back to the Earth. If the Sun wasn't there, we can not see the Moon.The moon influences many of the tides in the oceans. This is because of the gravity force between the Earth and Moon. At full Moon and new Moon, the Sun, Earth and Moon are lined up, producing the higher than normal tides. When the Moon is at first or last quarter, it forms smaller neap tides.

6. Organizational Text Structure • Sequence • Purpose: Describe how to do something, give directions, explain a process

7. Toolkit Clues • Words such as: first, then, after, finally, later, next, until, before, on June 25, 2011, at 7:00 AM • Titles like: How to make Delayed Action Mouse Maker

8. Sequential Text • 1 telescope, boil until soft (about 21 hours) • 45 brown mice, chop off tails and fry until crisp; • simmer mice in frog juice for one hour • 1 alarm clock (makes enough for 1,000 children), roast in oven until crisp • Mix together, at full speed: boiled telescope, fried mouse tails, cooked mice and roasted alarm clock • With mixer running, add: • 1 gruntle’s egg yolk • claw of crabcruncher • beak of blabbersnitch • snout of grobblesquirt • tongue of catspringer • Add 1 drop to chocolate or sweet • Adapted from: The Witches by Roald Dahl, (p. 88 – 96)

9. Your Turn – How to Write a Check • Start by writing in the date using any format, as long as it's legible. Use either the current date or a future date for a post-dated check. • 2Write the name of the person or company receiving your check on the line that starts with "Pay to the Order of" or "Payable to." • 3Write the numerical dollar amount of the check in the small space that starts with a dollar sign ($) so that it reads like this: $25.63. • 4Write the same amount using words for whole dollar amounts, a fractional figure for amounts less than a dollar, and a straight line to fill up the remaining space on the line ending with the word "Dollars," like this: Twenty-five and 63/100 ------------- Dollars. • 5Sign the signature line at the lower right. • 6Note the check number, date, payee and amount on the check stub or in the check ledger at the front of your checkbook. • 7Subtract the amount of the check so that you will know how much you have left in your account.