LKPD DESCRIBING PEOPLE

ENGLISH FOR 7th GRADERS

SMP MUHAMMADIYAH 2 GAMPING

DWI SRI LESTARI, S. Pd

MATERI AJAR : DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

KELAS/ SEMESTER : VII/ GENAP

KOMPETENSI DASAR :

3.7 membandingkan fungsi sosial, struktur teks, dan unsur kebahasaan beberapa teks deskriptif
lisan dan tulis dengan memberi dan meminta informasi terkait dengan deskripsi orang, binatang,
dan benda, sangat pendek dan sederhana, sesuai dengan konteks penggunaannya.

4.7 teks deskriptif

4.7.1 menangkap makna secara kontekstual terkait fungsi sosial, struktur teks, dan unsur
kebahasaan teks deskriptif lisan dan tulis, sangat pendek dan sederhana, terkait orang, binatang,
dan benda

4.7.2 menyusun teks deskriptif lisan dan tulis, sangat pendek dan sederhana, terkait orang,
binatang, dan benda, dengan memperhatikan fungsi sosial, struktur teks, dan unsur kebahasaan,
secara benar dan sesuai konteks

TUJUAN PEMBELAJARAN

1. Melalui kegiatan mengamati video tentang descriptive text, peserta didik dapat menunjukkan
(C2) fungsi sosial, struktur teks, dan unsur kebahasaan teks deskriptif tentang orang secara kritis.

2. Melalui kegiatan membaca teks deskriptif tentang orang, peserta didik dapat menentukan (C3)
fungsi sosial, struktur teks, dan unsur kebahasaan deskriptif tentang orang secara bertanggung
jawab.

3. Melalui kegiatan mengisi table berdasarkan deskriptif teks, peserta didik dapat
membandingkan (C4) fungsi social, struktur teks dan unsur kebahasaan teks deskriptif secara
bekerjasama.

4. Melalui kegiatan menuliskan kalimat berdasarkan informasi yang tersedia, peserta didik dapat
merumuskan (P2) penggunaan struktur teks (kata sifat dan kata kerja) teks deskripif tentang orang
secara bertanggung jawab.

5. Melalui kegiatan menulis deskriptif teks berdasarkan situasi, peserta didik dapat membuat (P4)
teks deskriptif berdasarkan situasi secara mandiri.

LEARNING MATERIAL

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT
1. Definition (Pengertian)
Descriptive text adalah salah satu jenis teks yang isinya menggambarkan sesuatu (orang/
binatang/ benda/ tempat) dengan menggunakan kata sifat yang melekat pada sesuatu yang akan
dideskripsikan.

2. Tujuan komunikatif (social function)
Tujuan komunikatif dari descriptive text adalah untuk mendeskripsikan / menggambarkan
sesuatu dengan kata-kata sifat yang mmelekat pada objek yang akan dideskripsikan agar
pembaca dapat membayangkan sesuatu itu melalui kata – kata yang ditulis dalam descriptive
text tersebut. To describe something (untuk mendeskripsikan sesuatu).

3. Generic structure
Adapun susunan paragraph descriptive text yaitu:
a. Identification
Paragraf identification yaitu paragraph/ bagian teks yang menyebutkan sesuatu yang akan
dideskripsikan.
b. Description

Paragraf description adalah paragraph/ bagian teks yang mendeskripsikan / menggambarkan
sesuatu dengan menggunakan kata sifat ang melekat pada sesuatu tersebut.

4. Language features
a. Menggunakan Simple Present Tense
Descriptive text menggunakan pola kalimat Simple Present Tense. Teks ini mendeskripsikan
fakta-fakta yang melekat pada suatu objek, dan salah fungsi dari Simple Present Tense adalah
untuk menunjukkan suatu fakta atau kebenaran.

Sentence pattern:

A. Nominal sentence

1. Positive sentence

SUBJECT + TO BE (IS/ AM/ ARE) + adjective

Subject To be Adjective Example

I am adjective I am tall

You are adjective You are tall

They are They are tall

We are We are tall

He is adjective He is tall

She is She is tall

It is It is tall

2. Negative sentence

Subject To be + not Adjective Example

I Am not adjective I am not tall

You Are not adjective You are not tall

They Are not They are not tall

We Are not We are not tall

He Is not adjective He is not tall

She Is not She is not tall

It Is not It is not tall

3. Interrogative sentence

To be Subject Adjective ? Example
? Am I tall?
Am I adjective ? Are you tall?
Are they tall?
Are You adjective

Are They

Are We adjective ? Are we tall?
Is He Is he tall?
Is She Is she tall?
Is It Is it tall?

B. Verbal sentence

1. Positive sentence

Subject Verb 1 Object Example
Long hair I have long hair
I Have Long hair You have long hair
Long hair They have long
You Have Long hair hair
We have long hair
They Have Long hair He has long hair
Long hair She has long hair
We Have Long hair It has long hair

He Has
She Has
It Has

2. Negative sentence Example
Subject Do not/ does not Verb 1 Object I don’t have long hair
I Do not (don’t) Have Long hair You don’t have long hair
You Do not (don’t) Have Long hair They don’t have long
They Do not (don’t) Have Long hair hair
We Do not (don’t) Have Long hair We don’t have long hair
He doesn’t have long
He Does not Has Long hair hair
She (doesn’t) Has Long hair She doesn’t have long
Has Long hair hair
Does not It doesn’t have long hair
It (doesn’t)

Does not
(doesn’t)

3. Interrogative sentence

Do/ Subject Verb 1 Object Example
does
Do You Have Long hair Do you have long hair?
Do They Have Long hair Do they have long hair?
Do We Have Long hair Do we have long hair?
Does He Have Long hair Does he have long hair?
Does She Have Long hair Does she have long hair?
Does It Have Long hair Does it have long hair?

b. Menggunakan banyak kata sifat (adjective)

Pada deskriptif teks terdapat banyak kata sifat (adjectives). Example:

Adjective s

Small Big

Short Long

Low High

Slim Fat

Thin Thick

Do the exercise. Complete the sentences by choosing the correct word in the brackets!
1. I (is/ am/ are) beautiful.
2. Ari (is/ am/ are) my classmate.
3. Sinta (is/ am/ are) my neighbor.
4. Yulia and yanti (is/ am/ are) twins.
5. My sister (is/ am/ are) talkative.
6. He (play/ plays) a doll with her friends.
7. She (make/ makes) a delicious cake.
8. My mother (cook/ cooks) fried rice.
9. My friends (speak/ speaks) English.
10. They (read/ reads) book in the library.

Contoh descriptive text.

Identification My Best Friend, Lizzie
Hi, I have a best friend, her name is Lizzie and her surname is Brown.
She is ten years old and she is American. She lives in 27 Lincoln Street in
New York. It is a big city in the USA.

Description She is tall and thin. She has got long brown hair, black eyes, a small
nose and a big mouth. She is wearing a yellow blouse, an orange skirt,
pink socks and blue trainers. Today she has got two nice bunches with
two yellow ribbons in her hair. She is good - temperate, polite and happy.
Her favorite food is pizza and her favorite drink is coke. She likes cats very
much. She can play tennis, but she can’t play basketball.

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LEARNING ACTIVITIES

Observing and Questioning

ACTIVITY 1. Watch the video.

https://youtu.be/ZXUFY7Ee1c8
- What does the video talk about?
- What is described in the video?
- What does his father look like?
- What does the video use for?

Experimenting

ACTIVITY 2. Listen to the text carefully.
Text 1. Listening script.
ACTIVITY 3. Answer the following questions based on the text you hear.

1. What kind of text above?
……………………………………………………….

2. What does the text tell us about?
……………………………………………………….

3. What is the writer’s intention of writing the text?
…………………………………………………………………………

4. How tall is he?
…………………………………………………………..

5. What does Mark Zuckerberg look like?
…………………………………………………………..

ACTIVITY 4. Read the text carefully.

Text 2. My Best Friend, Lizzie

Hi, I have a best friend, her name is Lizzie and her surname is Brown. She is ten years old and
she is American. She lives in 27 Lincoln Street in New York. It is a big city in the USA.

She is tall and thin. She has got long brown hair, black eyes, a small nose and a big mouth. She
is wearing a yellow blouse, an orange skirt, pink socks and blue trainers. Today she has got two
nice bunches with two yellow ribbons in her hair. She is good - temperate, polite and happy.
Her favorite food is pizza and her favorite drink is coke. She likes cats very much. She can play
tennis, but she can’t play basketball.

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descriptive-text-tentang-orang-dan-arti/

ACTIVITY 5. Identify the following statement whether True (T) or False (F) based on the text you
hear.

1. Lizzie is 17 years old. (T/ F)
2. Lizzie lives in USA. (T/F)
3. She is shot and fat. (T/F)
4. She has long brown hair, black eyes. (T/F)
5. She has a big nose and a small mouth (T/F)

ACTIVITY 6. Complete the table based on the text above.

My Name is Lizzie

Identification

Description

Material development links

Material Link

Descriptive text https://bit.ly/3472CUr

Example of descriptive text https://bit.ly/3fCXAEk

Explanation video of descriptive text https://bit.ly/3fCk5cB

Associating

ACTIVITY 7. Make a group discussion then fill in the table based on the texts above.

Text 1 Text 2

Social function

Generic structure

Grammar

Adjectives

ACTIVITY 8. Pay attention to the picture. Then, write sentences of describing people based on the
information in the picture.

Oval

Face Eyes Slanted

Nose Pointed

Hair Lip
Long Thin
Black
Body

Slim

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Face
Lip
Body
Hair
Nose
Eyes

Communicating
ACTIVITY 9. Present your discussion in front of your friends!

SUMMARY
Now it’s time for you to summarize what you have learnt so far in this lesson.

DESCRIBING PEOPLE

Definition Social function Language features
Describing people is To describe someone Simple present tense
describing someone’s Adjectives
characteristics or physical

appearances.

REFLECTION

Give a tick (√) in the appropriate column to reflect about yourself.

Statements Very Good Ok Need
Good Improvement
I can identify the social function of the text.
I can identify the parts of the text.
I can identify the use of Simple Present Tense.
I can identify the adjectives used in the text to
describe the people.

ASSIGNMENT
Make a descriptive text with your own words related to the following pictures (choose one
picture).

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EVALUATION

Choose the correct answer by choosing a, b, c or d

Text for question number 1 - 4

Today, my cousin Andri comes to visit our house. He is 13 years old. He is my closest cousin. He
studies at SMP Mutiara Kita grade 7.

He is tall enough for a 7th grader, about 170 cm. his skin is tan. His nose is sharp. His hair is black
and wavy. He is quite good looking. He’s popular at his school because he’s smart and athletic.
He always ranks first at his class. He is calm too. His teachers and his friends like him.

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1. The text is written to ...
A. persuade the readers to choose him as classmates.
B. describe Andri’s appearance and personality.
C. entertain the readers about Andi.
D. inform Andi’s life.

2. What is main idea of the first paragraph?
A. The writer
B. The writes friend
C. The writer’s cousin
D. The writer’s classmates

3. What is main idea of the second paragraph?
A. Andi’s life
B. Andi’s friend
C. Andi’s cousin
D. Andi’s physical appearance

4. “He is my closest cousin”. The underlined word refers to..
A. Andi
B. The writer
C. The writer’s friend
D. The writer’s classmates

Text for question number 5 – 7

Hi, I am Vivian. Today I want to talk about my best friend, Claudia.

Claudia is special. I like her spontaneous nature.
She is young, exuberant, and lively; she is slim and active.
She often wears colorful clothes. Do you see her picture? She wears a green shirt and her
favorite jeans.
She has a creative mind: students love her passionate outlook on life.

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5. What is the topic of the text above...?

A. Vivian.

B. Claudia.
C. Claudia’s hobbies.
D. Vivian’s appearance.

6. What does the second paragraph tell us about?
A. Vivian’s appearance.
B. Claudia’s appearance.
C. Vivian’s hobbies.
D. Claudia’s hobbies.

7. “I like her spontaneous nature”. The underlined word refers to....
A. Claudia
B. Vivian
C. Claudia’s sister
D. Vivian’s sister

Text for question number 8 – 10

Text 1 Text 2
Mrs. Aprin My Father

Mrs. Aprin is my aunt. She is my father’s My father is Mr. Marzuki. He is
sister. Her job is a nurse. Now, she works in very warm, smart, dan funny person. I
a hospital near his place. live with him in Munjungan,
Mrs. Aprin is about 30s. She has a son and a Trenggalek.
little daughter, Desta and Devi. Mrs. Aprin is
stocky and he has heart-shaped face. She has My father is quite handsome
a bit curly black hair and wears glasses. She man. Now, he is about 35 years old. He
has fair complexion. Now, she takes a lot of has well-built body because he always
exercises to make her body slimmer. does exercise every day. He is also tall.
He has short black hair and black eyes.
He has an oval face and pointed chin.

She is a good mother for her children and a He has slight moustaches and beard. He
good nurse for her patient. She always can has slight dark brown skin. We all love
manage her time to get quality time with her him so much. He is the best father in the
children although she is busy. She loves her world to me.
children more than anything in her life.
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8. What do the texts intended to?
A. Describe person.
B. Describe animal.
C. Describe things.
D. Describe place.

9. From the text we know that...
A. Mrs. Aprin and Mr. Marjuki are good parents.
B. Mrs. Aprin and Mr. Marjuki are funny persons.
C. Mrs. Aprin and Mr. Marjuki are fat and short.
D. Mrs. Aprin and Mr. Marjuki wear glasses.

10. Which of the following statement is correct based on the text?
A. Text 1 uses simple past tense and text 2 uses simple past tense
B. Text 1 uses simple past tense and text 2 uses simple present tense.
C. Text 1 uses simple present tense and text 2 uses simple past tense.
D. Text 1 uses simple present tense and text 2 uses simple present tenses

RUBRIK PENILAIAN = 10
Untuk setiap jawaban benar skor = 100
Skor maksimal = Jumlah jawaban benar x 10
Skor peserta didik

LISTENING SCRIPT

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American computer programmer & internet entrepreneur. He is a
co-founder of Facebook, a famous social media. His name was in the list of 100 wealthiest and
most influential people since 2010 by Time Magazine.

About his physical appearance, Mark’s body is 170 centimeters tall with 76 kg weight. His hair
color is red while his eyes are blue. Mark Zuckerberg was born on 14th May 1984 in New York,
USA. Therefore, he is 35 years old by 2019. Mark Zuckerberg has married to Priscilla Chan; they
have one daughter named Maxima Chan Zuckerberg.

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ANSWER KEY 6B
7A
1B 8C
2C 9A
3D 10 D
4A
5C

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