Description :Earthquake

Basic Competence :
Understanding the meaning and the generic structure of a descriptive text.
Indicators :
After studying this you are able to :
1. find the specific information from the text
2. find the main idea of the paragraph in the text
3. answer the questions about the generic structure of the text
4. identify the genre of the text
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Tsunami

How do you feel if you see these pictures?
They will remind you of the biggest natural disaster that has ever happened in Aceh and Yogyakarta. Right! It was an earthquake. What is an earthquake? How does it happen? Do you want to know?
Let`s study how to describe an earthquake by learning one of the genres or kinds of texts in English, that is a DESCRIPTIVE TEXT.
Reading Text
Read the following text carefully.

EARTHQUAKE
Source:
Taken from the Book of English for High School 2, Bumi Aksara 2002 hal. 53
Identification

The first part of a descriptive text is IDENTIFICATION. The function is to know about the subject being described. In this part, you can get the information about a thing or person, place or time of the subject being described.
Description

The second part of a descriptive text is DESCRIPTION. It gives you the description of the subject being described. It can be elaborated into general and specific description. In general description, it tells you about the description in quality and the characteristic of the subject in general. On the other hand, in specific description, it tells you about the description in detail and also the unique characteristics of the subject.
Conclusion

The last part of a descriptive text is CONCLUSION, but this is an optional. Sometimes some writers don`t write this part. In this part, it tells you about the statements of the writers. It can be a fact or an opinion.
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