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Activity 3

Aplikasi Dunia Nyata
Pada kehidupan nyata, teks deskriptif tentang bangunan bersejarah lazim
ditemukan pada brosur yang tersedia di bagian informasi dari tempat

tersebut. Untuk teks deskriptif yang lisan biasanya kita dengarkan ketika kita
mengunjungi bangunan bersejarah tersebut dengan didampingi oleh tour
guide.

Di bawah ini adalah contoh teks deskriptif tentang bangunan bersejarah:
Collosseum

Colosseum is the remains of the Flavian Amphitheatre. It is located in the
center of Rome, Italy. The construction process began under the Flavian
dynasty. It is the biggest amphitheatre in the world and it is considered to be
the greatest work of the Roman architect. Nowadays it is the most visited

tourism object in Rome.
Colloseum was an eliptical construction of wall surrounding an eliptical arena

where various of shows were held as an entertainment for the citizen of
Rome. But now what we can see from the building is the remains of the ruin,
most of the wall is no longer intact. The building is made of concrete and
sand. The size of the building is 29.484 square meters and the size of the

arena is 24.000 square meters. The outer wall’s height is 545 meters, and the
height of the inner wall is 48 meters. There are 80 entrances that we can use
to enter the building, 4 of this entrance, located on each axis of the ellipse

shape of the building, was used for noble and elite only.
The arena is in the center of the building and it is lower than the seat of the
audience. The Colloseum could hold up to 50.000 spectators which will

occupy a descending level style of seats. The first level of the seats, which is
the closest one to the arena, is used by the Emperor and high rank official of
Rome. The higher the seat gets the lower the level of the audience became.

The arena’s floor that used to made of wood and covered by sand has
broken, showing the underground structure consist of secret passage, rooms
and animal’s cages where The Gladiator and the beast stayed before the
competition. This underground structure is called hypogeum.

(taken from www.wordcliff.com)

MATERI
Descriptive Text is a kind of text with a purpose to give information. The
context of this kind of text is the description of particular thing, animal, person,

or others, for instance: our pets or a person we know well. It differs from
Report which describes things, animals, persons, or others in general.