Descriptive text

1. A Popular Football Player
Presented by: Iin Hermiyanto
An English Language teacher of SMP An-Nisaa’
Bintaro, Tangerang-Selatan, Banten
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2. Factual Description
A factual description describes a
particular person, place or things. Its
purpose is to tell about the subject by
describing its features without
including personal opinion. It
describes a specific subject rather
than a general group
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3. FEATURES OF TEXT
• Identification
This introduces who or what is
being described
• Description
This is the main body, which
explores the features of the person
or the object, for example the
appearance, behavior, habits,
qualities, uses, etc.
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4. FEATURES OF TEXT
• Special features
The description also includes special
or unique features of the person or
the object
• Conclusion
This is a concluding statement which
may be a fact or an opinion
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5. Descriptive Text
• Describing a person
• Describing a place
• Describing an object
(animal, pets, buildings etc)
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7. RONALDINHO
Ronaldo de Assis Moreira was
born 21 March 1980 in Porto Alegre,
he was known as Ronaldinho. He is a
Brazilian footballer who plays for Milan
and the Brazilian national team. He is
widely regarded as one of the most
gifted footballers of his generation.
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8. Before he moved to Milan, he
played for Paris Saint-Germain,
and FC Barcelona, with whom he
won his first Champions League
in 2006. He became a Spanish
citizen in January 2007.
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9. His mother is a former salesperson
who studied to become a nurse and
his father was a shipyard worker and
a footballer for a local football club.
He suffered a fatal heart attack in the
family swimming pool when
Ronaldinho was eight.
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10. After Ronaldinho's older brother,
Roberto, signed with Grêmio, the
family moved to a home in the more
affluent Guarujá section of Porto
Alegre, which was a gift from Grêmio
to convince Roberto to stay at the
club. Roberto's career was ultimately
cut short by injury.
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11. Ronaldinho's football skills began
to blossom at an early age, and he
was first given the nickname
Ronaldinho because he was the
youngest and the smallest player in
youth club matches. He developed an
interest in futsal and beach football,
which later expanded to an organized
football.
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12. His first experience with the media
came at the age of thirteen when he
scored all 23 goals in a 23-0 victory
against a local team. Ronaldinho was
identified as a rising star at the 1997
U-17 World Championship in Egypt,
in which he scored two goals on
penalty kicks.
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13. Vocabulary
• skill
• team
• league
• victory
• gifted
• score
• blossom
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14. Vocabulary
 Ronaldinho's football skills began to
blossom at an early age
skills (n) = the ability to do a job or an
activity well because you have
practised it
blossom (v) = to develop and
become successful
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15. Vocabulary
 He scored all 23 goals in a 23-0
victory against a local team.
victory (n) = winning a competition
team (n) = in SPORT, a group of people
who play a sport or game together
against another group of players
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16. Vocabulary
 He is one of the most gifted
footballers of his generation.
gifted (adj.) = having a natural ability or
very intelligent
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17. be in league with sb
not be in the same league as sb/sth
Vocabulary
 He won his first Champions League in
2006
league (n) = a group of teams which
compete against each other in a
sport.
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18. Vocabulary
 He scored all 23 goals
score (v) = to get points in a game or
test
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19. EXERCISE 1:
Choose the correct answer!
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20. Finding main idea (menemukan gagasan utama)
1. What does the text tell us about?
A. Ronaldo de Assis Moreira
B. A Brazilian footballer
A.Ronaldo de Assis Moreira
C. A popular footballer
D. Ronaldinho’s career as a footballer
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21. Rujukan kata ganti
2. “He suffered a fatal heart attack in the
family…”.
The underlined word refers to Ronaldihno’s…
A. brother
B. father
C. fan B. father
D. friend
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22. Menemukan informasi yang tersurat
3. Ronaldihno got his popularity…
A. At the age of thirteen
B. At his early age
C. A. At the age of thirteen
When he joined Milan
D. When he joined the Brazilian national team
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23. Menemukan makna kata
4. “Ronaldinho is the most gifted footballers of
his generation.”
The underlined word means…
A. excited
B. talented
C. amazed B. talented
D. skilled
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24. Tujuan teks
5. What is the purpose of the text above?
A. To describe Ronaldinho as a popular
footballer
A. To describe Ronaldinho
B. To retell Ronaldihno’s past experience
as a popular footballer
C. To entertain the readers with the story of
Ronaldinho
D. To inform Ronaldinho’s goals
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25. EXERCISE 2:
mengisi rumpang
Fill in the gap with a correct word!
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26. Aluna Sagita Gautawa
or better known as
•daughter
daughter Gita Gautawa is an
• son
Indonesian singer. She
was born in Jakarta, 11
• father August 1993. Gita is
• sister the (1)… of Lutfi
Andriani and Erwin
Gautawa.
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27. She learned music since
grade 2 elementary school.
• vocal Before launching the self-
• vocalization titled album, Gita Gautawa
• vocalizes known as a (2)… in a
teenager band called “ANY
• vocalist
vocalist Band” which is popular
with the popular song "For
The Best (Do not Forget
Father)".
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28. This song became hits in
• nominatives the album entitled
• nominates ”Heaven of Love“ and
successfully sold more
• nominees
nominees than 850 thousand copies
• nominations and brought Donny and
Gita as the (3)…for Best
Duet Category AMI Pop
Awards.
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29. This album achieved Platinum
Awards with the sale more
than 150 thousand copies in
just 4 months.
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30. Exercise 4: QUIZ
Match the description
with the name of the
animal!

31. • BELUGA WHALES MOUNTAIN GORILLAS
• SNOW LEOPARDS GIANT PANDAS
• AFRICAN ELEPHANTS
• They live in the high mountains of
1 Central Africa. They eat leaves and
MOUNTAIN
fruits
• Physical description: They have fur in
all parts of the body except the chest,
GORILLAS
palm and face.
• They are in danger because people
hunt them for their skins.

32. • BELUGA WHALES MOUNTAIN GORILLAS
• SNOW LEOPARDS GIANT PANDAS
• AFRICAN ELEPHANTS
• They live in the Arctic Ocean around
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BELUGA
Canada, Alaska and Russia. They eat
octopus
• Physical description: Their turn white
when they get older.
WHALES
• They are in danger because in the past
people who lived near the ocean ate
them.

33. • BELUGA WHALES MOUNTAIN GORILLAS
• SNOW LEOPARDS GIANT PANDAS
• AFRICAN ELEPHANTS
• They live in Africa. They eat fruits like
bananas, grass and vegetables.
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AFRICAN
• Physical description: They have small
eyes, small tail, big ears and they have
ivory tusks. They have 25 feet tall and 13
ELEPHANTS
feet long.
• They are in danger because people hunt
them for the ivory tusks to make piano
keys, jewellery and statues.

34. • BELUGA WHALES MOUNTAIN GORILLAS
• SNOW LEOPARDS GIANT PANDAS
• AFRICAN ELEPHANTS
• They live in the forest of China.
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GIANT
They only eat bamboo shoots
• Physical description: Their hair is
black in all their body except in the
PANDAS
face, chest and around their ears.
• They are in danger because people
hunt them.

35. • BELUGA WHALES MOUNTAIN GORILLAS
• SNOW LEOPARDS GIANT PANDAS
• AFRICAN ELEPHANTS
• They live in the mountains of China.
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SNOW
• They eat smaller mammals like
hyenas.
• Physical description: they have black
LEOPARDS
and brown spots.
• They are in danger because people
hunt them for their skin.

36. THANK YOU
Designed and Presented by:
Iin Hermiyanto, S.Pd
(The English Language Teacher for SMP An-
Nisaa, Bintaro, South Tangerang – Banten)
Blog:
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