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Chapter 7

1. Comprehending and applying religious values.2. Comprehending and applying the values of honesty, discipline, responsibility, care (mutual assistance,

cooperation, tolerant), well-behaved, responsive and pro-active, and performing such attitudes in solving problems in interacting effectively with the social and natural environment as well as a manifestation of Indonesian society in the world.

3. Understanding, applying, analysing factual, conceptual, and procedural knowledge based on the interest in science, technology, arts, culture, and humanities with insights, nationality, and civilized insights in relation to the causes of phenomena and events, applying procedural knowledge in desired specific field of studies in solving problem.

4. Processing, thinking, and presenting development of the concrete and abstract domains of the learned materials, being able to apply various methods according to scientific principals.

Core Competence

1.1 Thanking God for the chance of learning English as the international Language which is realised in the learning spirit.

2.1 Performing polite and caring attitudes in interpersonal communication with teachers and friends

3.7 Analysing social function, text structure, and language features of simple descriptive texts about people, tourism destinations and famous historical buildings according to the contexts.

4.8 Understanding simple spoken and written descriptive texts about people, tourism destinations, and famous historical buildings.

Basic Competence

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Pay attention to the video that your teacher will show.

Katy PerryKatheryn Elizabeth

"Katy" Hudson or Katy Perry is an American singer-songwriter. She was born on October 25, 1984. She was born near Santa Barbara, California and primarily grew up there before moving to Los Angeles. Having had limited exposure to mainstream pop music in her childhood, she pursued a career in gospel music as a teen and released her debut studio album, Katy Hudson (2001). She later

recorded a collaborative album with The Matrix and a solo album she worked on with Glen Ballard, the latter of which was never released.

As a singer, Katy has good voice. She has also beautiful face and long hair. She is tall. Her dark black eyes make her more beautiful. Katy is a generous person. She joins philanthropy

Can you describe her?

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organization. She also supports anti-AIDS campaign. To show her generosity, she helped build and design the Boys Hope/Girls Hope foundation in Baltimore for youth shelter

After you comparing the text above and the text on the screen,

think about the following questions:

1. Is the descriptive text always about person?

2. Can we describe animal on descriptive text?

3. Can we describe things on descriptive text?

4. Can we describe place on descriptive text

5. What can we write on the second paragraph of descriptive

text?

Listen to the audio and complete the following table.

No. Name Description

1. Ms. Davis (a woman) Height :Hair:Eyes:Clothes:

2. Joshua (the co-worker) Face:Smile:Eyes:Skin:Height:

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3. Nelson Mandela Age: Height:Body:Hair:

4. Obama AgeHeightBodyHair

5. Sean Culver (football player)

HeightSkinBodyHairClothes

Study the following explanation

To describe a person’s physical appearance, you can use the following words.

Physical AppearanceHeight Body Age Hair Face Eyes

Tallshort

SlimThin

PlumpFat

SkinnyMuscular

YoungOld

Teenager

In 20s, 30s, 40s

LongShortBald

StraightCurlyWavyBlackRed

Brown

RoundOval

SquareWrinkle

PaleBeardedShaved

BigRoundBlue

BrownSlanting

To describe a person’s characters (qualities & habitual behaviour), you can use the following words.

CharactersCareful

IntelligentConfidentExtrovertGenerousDiligent

CarelessStupid

ShyIntrovertStingylazy

Can you describe her?

Exploring

Associating

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Please observe your friend, and write his/her physical

appearance.

Name Physical Appearance

Pay attention to the following explanation.

Descriptive Text

Social Function:

To describe a particular person, place or thing.

Generic Structure:

- Identification: identifies phenomenon to be described.

- Description: describes parts, qualities, and characteristics.

Language Feature:

- Focus on specific participant

- Use of adjectives

- Use of simple present tense

Example:

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Based on the data that have you collected after observing your friend, please make a simple descriptive text of her/him.

Let’s Make a Reflection

Can you describe her?

Communicating

Reflect on your learning in this unit and write down your reflection in the space below.

What I like best in this unit:___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What I feel difficult in this unit:___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Reflect on your learning in this unit and write down your reflection in the space below.

What I like best in this unit:___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What I feel difficult in this unit:___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________