The document provides information about the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. It describes the bridge's hybrid cable-stayed/suspension design and key features. The Brooklyn Bridge was completed in 1883 and connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River. It has limestone and granite towers built to support the enormous weight of the roadway and cables. The suspension cables and suspenders receive and distribute the bridge's tension forces.

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Virgiawan Adi Kristianto, M.Ed

2. Instructional purposes:
◦ Students are able to:
◦ Identify the generic structure of the descriptive text
◦ Answer questions related to the descriptive text
◦ Create a descriptive text independently

3. Descriptive text
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particular thing, place or people

4. Generic Structure
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description of one topic
2. Description contains detailed
characteristics of a thing, a place or
people being described

5. The Brooklyn Bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City and is one of the
oldest bridges of either type in the United States. Completed in 1883, it connects the boroughs of
Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River.
◦ It has a main span of 1,595.5 feet (486.3 m), and was the first steel-wire suspension bridge
constructed. It uses a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge design. The towers are built of limestone,
granite, and Rosendale cement. The two towers are designed to be high and bulk enough to serve
fundamental purposes. They supported the enormous weight of the roadway and cables. The deck and
the towers are high enough so that the traffic on the river would not be interfered. Suspension bridges
can easily cross distances between 2,000 and 7,000 feet (610 and 2,134 meters), enabling them to
span distances beyond the scope of other bridge designs. The supporting cables and the suspenders,
on the other hand, receive the bridge's tension forces. The supporting cables run horizontally between
the two far-flung anchorages. However, the suspenders run vertically. At the end of the suspension
cables, they are secured by anchorages, which are solid cubical structures of stone masonry. They are
42.8 by 47.5 meters at the base and rising 32.4 meters above high-water mark. To resist the great
tension from the suspension cables, their weight has to be at least 60,000 tons each. These massive
stone masonry structures are situated 334.8 meters back from the towers on each side
Identification
Description

6. Complete the diagram based on the text

7. Answers
1. The foundation
2. The Deck
3. The Anchorages
4. The Tower
5. Suspenders
6. Supporting Cables

8. Match each part of the bridge with its function
based on the text
1. Two towers
2. The deck
3. The supporting cables
4. the suspenders
5. Anchorages
6. The foundation
A. To resist the great tension from the suspension cables
B. receive the bridge's tension forces
C. To become a road for vehicle to travel on
D. supported the enormous weight of the roadway and
cables
E. To secure the top structure of the bridge
F. To support the whole structure of the bridge
G. receive the bridge’s reaction forces

9. Answer these following questions based on the
Brooklyn bridge passage!
1. Which regions are connected by the Brooklyn Bridge?
2. When was the Brooklyn Bridge completed?
3. Why The two towers are designed to be high and bulk enough?
4. What is the difference between The supporting cables and the
suspenders?
5. What is the minimum weight of for the anchorage to resist the
great tension?

10. Write down T if the statement is True and F if the
statement is false.
16.The Brooklyn Bridge spans in East and West River. ( )
17. The Brooklyn Bridge was the first steel-wire suspension bridge in USA. ( )
18.The towers are built of limestone, granite, and Rosendale cement. ( )
19.Anchorages are situated on one end of the bridge. ( )
20.The anchorages rise 32.4 meters above high-water mark. ( )

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