DESCRIPTIVE TEXT PART 1, 2, 3

Part 1

What is descriptive text? 

Descriptive text is a text that explains or describes people, animals or an object in terms of its shape, characteristics, number and so on. The purpose of descriptive text is to explain, describe, or reveal a person or thing.

Generic Structure

Identification is an introduction, in the form of a general description of a topic.

Description contains special characteristics possessed by the object, place, or person being described. For example, characteristics, physical appearance, and other things that are written specifically.

Lawang Sewu, Semarang

Indonesia, a country with a hundreds cultures, races, and also languages. However, beside all of that, Indonesia also rich with histories. The history is important thing in human life, even though we can’t see it again, but we can feel the momentum when visiting the historic places. read all over Indonesia. From the east, to the west, you can them all. So before further do, lets jump to know more about historical place in Indonesia. 

Lawang Sewu (One Thousand Doors) is a building in Semarang which is also known as one of the icons of this city. For your information, this building may be, or surely, older than you since its construction in 1904 and has been standing since 1907.

It is located on Jalan Pemuda, Semarang, right facing the Tugu Muda. At its early age, Lawang Sewu functioned as the Nederlands-Indische Spoorweg Maatschappij or NIS Administrative Headquarters. It is said that, apart from being an office, the basement in this building was used as a prison.

However, nowadays, this old building has become one of the most famous tourist spots in Semarang. Regardless of being called “a thousand doors”, this historical place actually only has 429 doors. However, in this building, there are so many door-sized windows that somehow add the numbers of the accumulated doors in this building.

Part 2

The Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower is an iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris. Built in 1889, it has become both a global icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world. The tower is the tallest building in Paris and the most-visited paid monument in the world; millions of people ascend it every year.

Named for its designer, engineer Gustave Eiffel, the tower was built as the entrance arch to the 1889 World's Fair.The tower stands 324 metres (1,063 ft) tall, about the same height as an 81-story building. Upon its completion, it surpassed the Washington Monument to assume the title of tallest man-made structure in the world, a title it held for 41 years, until the Chrysler Building in New York City was built in 1930; however, due to the addition in 1957 of the antenna, the tower is now taller than the Chrysler Building. Not including broadcast antennas, it is the second-tallest structure in France after the 2004 Millau Viaduct.

The tower has three levels for visitors. Tickets can be purchased to ascend, by stairs or lift, to the first and second levels. The walk to the first level is over 300 steps, as is the walk from the first to the second level. The third and highest level is accessible only by elevator. Both the first and second levels feature restaurants.

The tower has become the most prominent symbol of both Paris and France, often in the establishing shot of films set in the city.

Part 3