Chapter

Famous Athletes I Know

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 A. Listening and Speaking
B. Reading and Viewing
C. Writing and Presenting
Brainstorming
1. Who are the famous athletes you know?
2. Who is the athlete that inspires you to
work hard and achieve something?
3. What do you admire about the inspiring
athlete?

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 A. Listening and Speaking
Listening to physical and personality description using adjectives
Adjectives are used to describe the physical
appearance or personality traits of a person. Adjectives
modify nouns or pronouns. It means that they add more
information about the subject being discussed.

Example:
Kayla is an ambitious woman.
Sam has dark and curly hair.

Sean Gelael is a
The adjective ‘ambitious’ gives us a clue about Kayla’s talented racecar driver.
personality, while ‘dark’ and ‘curly’ indicates Sam’s He has long hair and a
physical appearance. wide smile.

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Adjectives
Look at the table for examples of common adjectives to describe physical traits
and personalities.

Physical Trait Personality

• muscular • chatty Explore more about adjectives

• slender • talkative used to describe athletes. Do
• oval faced • professional the Activity 5 in pg. 5, Bahasa
• round faced • serious Inggris untuk SMA/MA Kelas X,
• chubby • young Grafindo.
• Large • old
• Pointed nose • friendly
• wide nose • polite
• dark-skinned • nice
• fair-skinned • successful
• generous

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Exercise
Do you know who she is? What sport does she do professionally? Describe how she
looks like, and what you know about her.

Do the Activity 6 and 7 in pg. 6,

Bahasa Inggris untuk SMA/MA
Kelas X, Grafindo.

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 B. Reading and Viewing
Descriptive Text
Descriptive text, as the term suggests, is one of the text genres that present a
description. A descriptive text usually focuses on describing a single location, object,
event, animal, person, or place. Descriptive text aims to engage all five of the reader’s
senses to evoke the sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and feel of the text’s subject.
Generally, descriptive texts are narrow
in focus. This allows for an indepth exploration
of the subject.
Descriptive essays require the writer to
go into great depth to evoke the person, Read the text in Activity 11 in
place, or thing. If the writer doesn’t care about pg. 8, Bahasa Inggris untuk
the topic, then for sure the reader won’t either. SMA/MA Kelas X, Grafindo.
Source: [Link]
descriptivetext/ (14 September 2022)

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Main Idea vs Topic
A main idea is what the author says about a topic. It presents the author’s central or
most important idea about a subject matter. For example:

 Topic : Basketball
 Main idea : Basketball is a team sport in which two
teams compete to shoot a ball into a hoop. The court is
rectangular, with a hoop on each side.
Do the Activity 12 and 13 in pg.
Main ideas can be stated directly or 10, Bahasa Inggris untuk
implied in the text. Usually, the main idea is SMA/MA Kelas X, Grafindo.
located at the beginning of a paragraph or the
end of it. On the other hand, topics can be
hinted by a repeated term in the text.

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 Language features of Descriptive Texts

Specific participants
The use of adjective
Simple present tense
Action verbs

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C. Writing and Presenting
Simple Present Tense
The simple present tense is one of the tenses In the simple present tense, most regular verbs use
in the English language. It is commonly used the root form, except in the third person singular
in descriptive texts. It is because it tells the (which ends in -s). And in some cases, it ends with -es
fact of the object described. To form instead of -s. Typically, these are verbs whose root
sentences with this tense, you can simply use form ends in o, ch, sh, th, ss, gh, or z.
the root words (Verb 1) or add -s or -es to the
root words. Verb changes depend on
whether the subject is singular or plural.

Add ‘–s’ Add ‘–es’ Change ‘–y’ to Add –es after – Irregular
‘–ies’ sh, –s, –ch, and –
x
Get → gets Live → lives Study → Push → pushes Do → does
Walk → walks Wake → studies Pass → passes Go → goes
Work → works wakes Fly → flies Reach → Have → has
Take → takes Cry → cries Reaches
Fix → fixes

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 Exercise
Look for the information of the following athletes on the internet. Then, write your
description of the athletes in your books. Write at least 3 paragraphs of each athlete.

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Do the Activity 14 in pg. 11, Bahasa

Inggris untuk SMA/MA Kelas X, Grafindo.
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Do the following task individually.
1. You are going to do a project called ‘What’s Great About Them?’.
2. Choose one athlete from any sport.
3. Research the outstanding qualities of the chosen athlete.
4. Write a summary based on the data you have collected.
5. Draw or find an attractive picture of the athlete.
6. Make an infographic highlighting the outstanding qualities of the
chosen athlete.
7. Present your work in front of the class. Share your work on your
Instagram account.

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Work in a group of four to do this project.
1. You are going to do a project ‘Overcome It!’
2. Research one Paralympic athlete.
3. Find out the general and detailed information regarding the athlete.
4. Focus on finding the limitations and obstacles that the athlete faced,
then how he or she overcame them.
5. Write a motivational script about the athlete’s journey.
6. Present your work in form of a short video and publish it on a Youtube
channel

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 Summary

1. Descriptive texts are texts which describe a person, a thing, or a

place. It presents information about what a person or a thing is like.
The description includes several features of the person or the thing,
including the physical appearance and the personality traits of the
person or the thing.
2. Decriptive texts consist of identification part and description part.
3. The linguistic features of a descriptive text include
• focusing on a specific participant:
• using simple present tense; and
• using adjectives

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 Quiz
Chapter 1
1. What is a descriptive text?
2. What are the aspect that should be included in a descriptive text?
3. Look at the following picture, and describe her appearance.

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 AKM Practice Questions
Read the following descriptive text about Anthony Ginting to Question 1
answer the questions. Tick (√) the correct statement based on Ginting’s profile.
 Ginting is a very skilled athlete.
 Ginting made it to the final of 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
 The picture was taken during the medal ceremony.
 He was considered a rival by badminton champions.

Question 2
Ginting has a … hair.

Question 3
How would you describe Anthony Ginting’s physical
appearance?
Anthony Sinisuka Ginting is an Indonesian badminton player.
At the 2018 Asian Games, he won the Bronze medal after a
winning streak against badminton champions such as Kento
Momota and Chen Long. Being a debutant in the world
stage, Ginting was then dubbed as “The Giant-killer” by
journalists. In 2020, Ginting competed at the Summer
Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. He won the bronze medal
after winning the 3rd place match against the Guatemalan
Kevin Cordon.

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 References
Asariastika, W., & Meliala, P. E. (2022). Bahasa
Inggris Untuk SMA/MA/SMK/MAK Kelas X.
Bandung: Grafindo Media Pratama.

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