Communicating Guided writing; Oral Compositions
The structure of Narrative Text
Orientation: It is about the opening paragraph where the characters of the story are introduced.
Complication: Where the problems in the story is developed. Resolution: Where the problems in the story is solved.
Language features
The language features of a narrative text are often: Written in the past tense.
The form of simple Past Tense is:
Subject + Verb
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Adverb of time Once upon a time, one day, etc. Time conjunction when, then, suddenly, next, afterwards, just then, an hour
later etc. Specific character. The character of the story is specific, not general.
Action verbs. A verb that shows an action ate, dug, walked, etc.. Direct speech and indirect speech. It is to make the story lively. The direct
speech uses present tense.
Activities Activity 1. Read the following text carefully. And then identify things you
want to know further related to the text. Tick and write the items that you want to know further in the column “Things I want to
know further”. Mousedeer and Crocodile
One day Mousedeer saw a lot of fruits on the other side of the river.
He wanted to eat them but he could not cross the river. There were many
crocodiles there, but there was no bridge
across the
river. The
Mousedeer suddenly had an idea. He stood on the river side and called
out. “Hello. Is anybody there?”
Crocodile heard him, he swam fast to meet Mousedeer, and
answered, “Hello, Mousedeer. How are you? Please come in.” He pretended to be friendly. He had a plan. As soon as Mousedeer got near, he would snap him and
eat him for breakfast.
But Mousedeer was standing on top of a big stone. In a proud voice he said, “Crocodile, I’m here to do the King’s order. The King will give away free meat to
all crocodiles. He has sent me to count the number of all the crocodiles here.”
Crocodile was so happy that he forgot his plan to eat Mousedeer. “Really?
How will you count us?” “Please call all your family, relatives, friends, neighbors. Tell them to line up
from here t o the other side of the river,” ordered Mousedeer. Before long, all the
crocodiles were in a long line across the river. Then, Mousedeer jumped onto the back of one crocodile to another, counting
loudly “One, Two, Three, Four.” When he got to the last croco
dile he said “One hundred” and quickly jumped up to the land.
“How many are we?” asked Crocodile. “One hundred. Hahaha, I fooled you Thanks for giving me a bridge to cross
the river. Bye” Adapted from: Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan. 2014. Bahasa Inggris,
When English Rings a Bell: buku guru Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan. Jakarta: Pusat Kurikulum dan Perbukuan, Balitbang, Kemdikbud.
Things I want to know further ….
1. what the text is about 2. the social purpose of the text
3. the parts of the text of that type 4. why one of the sentences in the text is written in between
quotation marks 5. the Indonesian meaning from the difficult words
Write more things you do not know or you want to know further. 6.