Recording

Exercise of Narrative Text

SNOW WHITE

A long time ago, a child was born to a queen and ....... and she was called Snow White.  When the queen died, the king married again.  This new queen ....... wicked and hated Snow white.  The queen gave orders that Snow ........ was to be treated as a servant.

Snow White grew very beautiful and one day a Prince riding by, saw her at work and fell in love with her.

The queen was beautiful too, and every day she asked her Magic Mirror, “Who is the fairest in the land?” and the mirror always answered, “You are the fairest one of all”.

But one day the mirror answered Snow White was the fairest in the ........, and in a rage the queen gave orders to one of her Huntsmen to take Snow White into the woods and kill her.

The Huntsman had a kind heart and couldn’t do the deed so .......  her to run away.  She fled into the woods where Seven little dwarfs lived.  Their house was small and strange.

Snow White entered the little house and finding it very untidy, started to clean up.  Upstairs she ......... seven little beds.  She was very tired and stretching out on one of the beds, was soon asleep.

When the Dwarfs came home they were surprised to find Snow White and after some argument, decided to let her stay.  She promised to ....... and look after them.

The Queen discovered where Snow White was living and disguising herself as a witch, took a poisoned ....... and set out for the Dwarfs cottage.  

Definition of Narrative Text

NARRATIVE TEXT

Definition of Narrative Text

A narrative text is an imaginative story to entertain people (teks narasi adalah cerita imaginatif yang bertujuan menghibur orang).

Generic Structure of Narrative Text

• # Orientation : It is about the opening paragraph where the characters of the story are introduced.(berisi pengenalan tokoh, tempat dan waktu terjadinya cerita (siapa atau apa, kapan dan dimana)
• # Complication : Where the problems in the story developed. (Permasalahan muncul / mulai terjadi dan berkembang)
• # Resolution : Where the problems in the story is solved. Masalah selesai, secara baik “happy ending” ataupun buruk “bad ending”.
• # Coda / reorientation (optional) – lesson from the story.

The Characteristics/ language Feature of Narrative Text:

1.           Past Tense (Killed,drunk, etc)
2.           Adverb of Time (Once upon a time, one day, etc)
3.           Time Conjunction (when, then, suddenly,etc)
4.           Specific Character. The character of the story is specific, not general. (Cinderella, Snow White, Alibaba, etc)
5.           Action Verbs. A verb that shows am action, (killed, dug, walked, etc)
6.           Direct Speech. It is to make the story lively. The direct speech uses present tense.