Materi Narrative Text


Materi Bimbel hari ini adalah Narrative Text, yuk simak materinya dan selamat belajar!

1. Definition:
Narrative is a piece of text which tells a story and entertain the readers or listener.

2. Purpose:
to amuse or entertain the readers with actual or imaginary experiences in difference ways.

3. Text Organization:
-  Orientation (who were involved in the story, when and where)
-  Complication (a problem arises followed by other problem)
-  Resolution (solution to the problem)

4. Language Features:
-  Focus on specific and individualized participants
-  Using noun phrases (e.g. a beautiful princess, a huge temple
-  Using connectives (e. g. first, before that, then, finally
-  Using adverbial phrases of time and place (e. g. in the garden, two days ago
-  Using simple past tense (e. g. he walked away from the village
-  Using action verbs (e. g. walk, sleep, wake up
-  Using saying verbs (e. g. say, tell, ask
-  Using thinking, feeling, and sense verbs (e. g. felt, thought, smelt

5. Narrative Text:

The Fly and The Bull 
Orientation:
There was once a little fly who thought he was very important. He felt proud of himself. One sunny morning, he flew around looking for someone to talk to. He saw a bull grazing in a field. He decided to fly down to talk to him.

Complication:
The little fly flew down and buzzed around the bull's head. The bull did not bother him. He went on chewing grass.
The fly then buzzed right inside the bull's ear. The bull continued chewing grass. The fly thought, "what a stupid animal"
Now the fly decided to land on one of the bull's horns to make the bull notice him. He waited for the bull to say something, but the bull kept quiet.
The fly then shouted angrily, "oh, Bull, if you find that I am too heavy for you, let me know and I'll fly away!"

Resolution:
The bull laughed and said, "Little fly, I don't care if you stay or leave. You are so tiny that your weight does not make any difference to me, so please be quiet and leave me alone".

 6. Find out:
1)  Where and when did the story happen?
2)  Who were involved in the story?
3)  What problem did the fly have? 
4)  How did he overcome his problem?
5)  Then what happened to the bull?
6)  What is the message of the story?
7)  What do you call a story that talks about animals which can speak like humans?

Please All and You Will Please None

A man and his son wee once going with their donkey to a market. As they were walking along, a countryman passed them and said: "you fools, what is a donkey for but to ride upon?"

So the man put the boy on the donkey and they went on their way. But soon they passed a group of men, one of whom said: "see that lazy youngster, he lets his father walk while he rides"

So the man had his boy get off, and got on himself. But they hadn't gone far when they passed two women, one of whom said to the other: "shame on that lazy lout to make his poor little son trudge along"

The man didn't know what to do, but at last he took his boy up before him on the donkey. By this time they had come to the town and the passers-by began to jeer and point at them. The man stopped and asked what they were scoffing at. The men said: "aren't you ashamed of yourself for overloading that poor donkey of yours-you and your hulking son?"

The man and the boy got off and tried to think what to do. They thought and they thought, till at last they cut down a pole, tied they donkey's feet to it, and raised the pole and the donkey to their shoulders. They went along amid the laughter of all who met them till they came to market bridge, when the donkey, getting one of his feet loose, kicked out and caused the boy to drop his end of the pole. In the struggle the donkey fell over the bridge and so did the man and the boy.

Finally, an old man who had followed them said, "that will teach you: please all, and you will please none"  

7. Find out:
1)  What is a more suitable title for the previous story?
2)  Who were involved in the story?
3)  Why did the countryman consider the man and his son fools?
4)  Why did the man ask the boy to ride on the donkey?
5)  Is it true that the boy let his father walk while he rode?
6)  What is the main purpose of the story?

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