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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.
The Social Function of Descriptive Text is to describe a
particular person, place, or thing. (Linda Gerot, Peter Wignell,
'Making Sense of Functional Grammar',1994)
The Generic Structure of Descriptive Text consists of
Identification and Description. Identification: Identifies

phenomenon to be described.
Description: Describes parts, qualities, characteristics, etc.
(Jenny Hammond 'English for Special Purposes', 1992)

The language features of Descriptive Texts often uses 'be' and

'have'.
Tense which is often used is Simple Present Tense. However,
sometimes it uses Past tense if the thing to be described
doesn't exist anymore.