Title
: Exploring Narrative Text
Skill Focus : Reading
Level :
Junior High School
Objective : By the end of the lesson, the
students are able to understand and analyze the generic structure of narrative
text.
Hello, great explorer! How are you? Are
you ready to explore all about narrative text? Let’s start.
Today, you will learn about narrative text.
Here, you will find clear explanation of narrative text and also some exercises
to check your comprehension. Enjoy it.
Pre-reading
Do you know the story about Cinderella, Beauty
and The Beast, Ali Baba and The Magic Lamp?
Do you think that they are belong to narrative
text?
Yes, you are right. Those are included on
famous narrative texts. But do you know what narrative text is? Let’s see.
How about the generic structure?
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And the language features?
Now, let’s take a
look at the example below to make the explanation above clearer. It will show you the generic structure on the
left side and also the language features on the right side.
That is all the
explanation about narrative text. It is clear, right? Now, let’s go to the next
part to have some exercises.
While-reading
In this section, you
will read a narrative text entitled Jack
and The Beanstalk. You can choose
to just read the text below or you can also click this link
to have an
interesting audio-visual while you are reading. Okay, check this out.
Jack and The Beanstalk
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
You have learned well so far all about the narrative text. Next, we will meet again with a new interesting material. Keep learning and practicing, students! :)
Jack and The Beanstalk
Once upon a time there was a boy called
Jack. He lived with his mother. They were very poor. All they had was a cow.
One morning, Jack’s mother told Jack to
take their cow to market and sell her. On the way, Jack met a man. He gave Jack
some magic beans for the cow. Jack took the beans and went back home. When
Jack’s mother saw the beans she was very angry. She threw the beans out of the
window.
The next morning, Jack looked out of the
window. There was a giant beanstalk. He went outside and started to climb the beanstalk.
He climbed up to the sky through the clouds. Jack saw a beautiful castle. He
went inside. Jack heard a voice.
“Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum!” Jack ran into a cupboard.
An enormous giant came into the room and
sat down. On the table there was a hen and a golden harp.
“Lay!”
said the giant.
The hen laid an egg. It was made of
gold.
“Sing!” said the giant.
The harp began to sing. Soon the giant was
asleep. Jack jumped out of the cupboard. He took the hen and the harp.
Suddenly, the harp sang, “Help, master!”
The giant woke up and shouted, “Fee, Fi,
Fo, Fum!”
Jack ran and started climbing down the
beanstalk. The giant came down after him.
Jack shouted, “Mother, help!”
Jack’s mother took an axe and hopped
down the beanstalk.
The giant fell and crashed to the ground. Nobody ever saw him again. With the
golden eggs and the magic harp, Jack and his mother lived happily ever after.
How is the
story? It is interesting, right?
Now, let’s
check your comprehension about the story
by doing these exercises.
Happy trying :)
Exercise 1
Happy trying :)
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Post-reading
You have read the story about “Jack and The
Beanstalk”. Now, it is time to understand the material that is about narrative
text.
In this section, you have to analyze the generic
structure of “Jack and The Beanstalk”. Determine which part is called as 'Orientation',
'Complication', and 'Resolution'.
You have learned well so far all about the narrative text. Next, we will meet again with a new interesting material. Keep learning and practicing, students! :)
