Narrative Text

Narrative Text

What is narrative text? Narrative is basically story. A text that purpose to amuse or to entertain the reader or the listener and deal with actual or vicanous experience in different ways to the reader or listener.

The General Structure of narrative text :
- Orientation : Sets the scene and introduces the participans
- Complication : The problem happened in the story
- Resolution : The crisis is resolved, for better or worse
- Re-orientation : The ending of the story
- Evaluation : A stepping back to evaluate the story or the moral message of the story.

The narrative text uses of temporal conjuction (ex : once upon a time, before, after, etc.). The narrative text also uses the simple past tense.

Roro Jonggrang

Example narrative text are :

Fable : Mousedeer, Crocodile and Kancil, and etc

Legend : Sangkuriang, Malinkundang, Roro Jonggrang, and etc

Fairy tale : Cinderella, Snow White, Pinocchio, and etc

Now listen the following story and do the excercise!

taken from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lapDmCnZN3A (with some editing)

Do the exercise !

After complete the exercise, read the following text and fill up the missing words.

NOTE : we will discuss it on the next meeting

The Ugly Duckling

    Once upon a time there lived a (1) ... . She was excited. Her (2) ... eggs were finally going to hatch. She watched and accounted as one by one the eggs hatched. One duckling, two ducklings, three, four, five ducklings, she said (3) ... happily. Suddenly she noticed that was one more egg. It was bigger and (4) ... than the rest. “This cannot be my egg” she told. Slowly the big egg began to (5) ... and the strange looking duckling came out.


      Mother duck was surprised, the youngest duckling was grey and bigger than the rest. “How ugly this little one is” she told. As the days went by, the ducklings began to grow. But the youngest duckling looked (6) ... of the rest. Everybody looked at him and said “there goes the ugly duckling” his brothers and sisters teased him all the time. The ugly duckling (7) ... very bad when every people laughed at him. He run away and (8) ... behind the rifts on the other lake. “Nobody loves me” he said. One day the duckling decided to run away from (9)... . He swam and swam and on the way he had many (10) ... .

Finally during (11) ... he reached the shimmering lake. There he saw two beautiful white birds with long neck swimming gracefully on the water. Just then he looked in the (12) ... his reflection. To be surprised he saw it looked just like the other two elegant birds. The birds came up to him and said "Welcome young (13) ..., you must be the most beautiful (14) ... in this whole lake." In this time he realized who he really was. The ugly duckling had become a (15) ... swan.