Narrative Text�What is narrative?

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Is a text which tells us about a story

Communicative purpose

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• purposing to entertain the reader or amuse the reader

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generic structures

1. Title : What does this text tell us about.

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• Orientation : Tells us about characters, setting place, and time

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• Complication : Problems of the story

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• Resolution : Solving problems

• Characteristics of this story:

- Type of tense is “Simple Past Tense”

- First of the story with:

- Once upon a time, . . . .

- Long, long ago, . . . .

- Once there was, . . . .

- At the end of story: Finally

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MORAL VALUE�The story consists of important message we can learn in life

Examples:

1. Don’t be stingy!
2. Don’t underestimate other people!
3. We should obey and honour our parents.

EXAMPLE OF NARRATIVE TEXT�

• Long-long time ago there lived two brothers. They had completely different characters. The big brother was very stingy and greedy. He never shared his wealth with poor people. The little brother was exactly the opposite. He was generous and kind to poor people. He even had no money left because he had shared it with the poor.

One day the generous brother was sitting in his garden when suddenly a little bird fell on his lap. It was wounded. He took care of it, fed it and put it in a nice cage. After the bird was healthy, the generous brother let it fly. After some time the bird returned to him and gave him a watermelon seed.

The generous brother, then, planted the 7 seed and watered it until it grew into a good watermelon plant. Yet, the plant was very strange. It had only one fruit; a big and heavy one. When the watermelon was ripe enough, the generous brother picked it and cut into two. How surprised he was. The watermelon was full of gold.

• The generous brother sold the gold and became very rich. He built a big house and bought a very large field. Still, he never forgot to share his wealth with the poor.

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PLOT OF THE STORY

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COMPLICATION

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Falling Action

Resolution

TOP OF PROBLEM

ORIENTATION

Conflict

QUESTIONS�

• What is the title of the text?
• How many characters are there in the text?
• Who is stingy?
• Why does the first brother become poor?
• What moral value can we learn by this story?

“GOOD LUCK”