Materi Bahasa Inggris Narrative Text

 2.      NARRATIVE 

 Social function : to amuse, entertain and to deal with actual or vicarious experience

     in different ways.

Generic Structure :

·         Orientation    :  sets the scene and introduces the participants (intro-

                        duces the main characters in a setting of time

   and place).

·         Complication:  a crisis/ problems arises.

·         Resolution     : the crisis is resolved, for better or for worse.

Language Features : - use of noun phrases ( a beautiful princess, huge temple)

       use of Simple Past Tenses ( He walked away from  the village)

     - use of nouns and pronouns to identify people or things involved;

     - use of conjunction and time connectives to sequence the events;

     - use of adverbs and adverbial phrases to indicate place and time;

     - use of adjectives to describe nouns.

Activity 1. Answer these following questions.

                     1. Have you ever written a story?

  2. What do you do first when you write a story?

  3. Have you ever written a fairy tale?

  4. Are there any differences between writing fairy tales and ordinary short stories?

Activity 2.Read and study the text structure of the narrative text. 

The Fortune Teller

In the great city of Taipei, there lived a man called Lin and his wife. They had no children. Because of this, they were very unhappy. One day, they found a baby boy outside their door. He was wrapped in a blanket and crying. They took the baby into their house and called him Sau Ling. They loved him very much. 

When Sau Ling was a young man, a fortune-teller came to the house. "You must send your son away," he said. "One day he will become a thief and cause you a lot of trouble."

 Mr and Mrs Lin were very sad to hear this. They believed what the fortune-teller said. They gave Sau Ling some clothes and money and sent him away. 

Several years later, Sau Ling was having a meal in an inn several miles from Taipei. He put his bag on the floor near his table. After finishing his meal, he picked up his bag. "That's strange!" he thought, "It feels so heavy."He looked inside. It was full of small gold bars. Then he realized that someone had taken his bag by mistake and left another bag, in its place.

 That evening, a young man came to the inn, "Has anyone seen my bag?" he asked. Sau Ling was very honest. He returned the bag to him. The young man thanked him. "You are really very honest," he said, "I shall ask may to say. He left the house without saying a word. Mr and Mrs Lin never believed in fortune-teller after that. Sau Ling took them to live with him and they were very happy and contented until the end of their lives.

Taken from Favorite Stories from Taiwan, 2000 

Activity 3. Punctuate and capitalize the following story. 

one day a monkey wanted to cross a river he saw a crocodile in the river so he asked the crocodile told the monkey to jump onto its back then the crocodile swam down the river

now the crocodile was very hungry so when it was in the middle of the river it stopped and said to the monkey monkey my father is very sick he must eat the heart of a monkey the he will be strong again

the monkey thought for a while then he told the crocodile to swim back to the river bankwhat for asked the crocodile because i didn't bring my heart with me said the monkey I left it under the tree near some coconuts

so the crocodile turned around and swam back to the bank of the river as soon as they reached the river bank the monkey jumped off the crocodiles back and climbed up to the top of a tree

where is your heart asked the  crocodile

you are foolish the monkey said to the crocodile now i am free and you have nothing 

the monkey told the crocodile not to try to trick him again the crocodile swam away hungry

                          Taken from www.aesopfables.com

Activity 4.Answer the following questions based on the text in Activity3Setting nts Outcome                            1. How many characters are there in the story? Mention them.

2. Where did the story probably take place?

3. What the monkey wanted in the river?

4. What the crocodile said when it was in the middle of the river?

5. Did the crocodile succeed in getting heart of a monkey?

6. What do you call a story that talks about animals which can speak?

7. What is the message of the story?

Activity 5. Read another narrative story .

The Fox and the Crow

A crow, perched in a tree with a piece of cheese in his beak, attracted the eye and nose of a fox. "If you can sing as prettily as you sit," said the fox, "then you are the prettiest singer within my scent and sight." The fox had read somewhere, and somewhere, and somewhere else, that praising the voice of a crow with a cheese in his beak would make him drop the cheese and sing. But this is not what happened to this particular crow in this particular case.

"They say you are sly and they say you are crazy," said the crow, having

carefully removed the cheese from his beak with the claws of one foot, "but you must be nearsighted as well. Warblers wear gay hats and colored jackets and bright vest, and they are a dollar a hundred. I wear black and I am unique."

I am sure you are," said the fox, who was

neither crazy nor nearsighted, but sly. "I recognize you, now that I look more closely, as the most famed and talented of all birds, and I fain would hear you tell about yourself, but I am hungry and must go." "Tarry awhile," said the crow quickly, "and share my lunch with me." Whereupon he tossed the cunning fox the lion's share of the cheese, and began to tell about himself. "A ship that sails without a crow's nest sails to doom," he said. "Bars may come and bars may go, but crow bars last forever. I am the pioneer of flight, I am the map maker. Last, but never least, my flight is known to scientists and engineers, geometricians, and scholar, as the shortest distance between two points. Any two points," he concluded arrogantly. "Oh, every two points, I am sure," said the fox. "And thank you for the lion's share of what I know you could not spare." And with this he trotted away into the woods, his appetite appeased, leaving the hungry crow perched forlornly in the tree.

          Taken from www.aesopfables.com

 Activity 6.Answer the following questions based on the text in Activity5

                          1. How many characters are there in the story?

         2. Where did the story probably take place?

         3. Why did the fox praise the voice of the crow?

                                         4. Had the crow known the fox's plan of praising him?

         5. Did the fox give up trying to persuade the crow to share his lunch?

         6. What did the fox do in order that the crow shared his lunch?

         7. Did the fox succeed in getting what he wanted?

                         8. What is the moral of the story?