TEXT 1

A. Read the texts then solve the quizzes.

Rapunzel

Once upon a time, there was a man and a woman who wished for a child. Finally
the woman came to believe that the good Lord would fulfill her wish. Through the small
rear window of their house they could see into an amazing garden that was filled with the
most beautiful flowers and herbs. The garden was surrounded by a high wall. There was
no one dared to enter because it belonged to a sorceress who possessed great power and
was feared by everyone.
One day, the woman was standing at this window, and she saw a bed planted with
the most beautiful rapunzel. It looked so fresh and green that she longed for some. She
wanted to eat some of the rapunzel. This desire increased with every day, and not
knowing how to get any, she became miserably ill.
Her husband was frightened, and asked her, "What ails you, dear wife?"
She answered, "I want to eat some rapunzel. If I do not get the rapunzel from the
garden behind our house, I shall die."
The man, who loved her dearly, thought, "Before you let your wife die, you must
get her some of the rapunzel, whatever the cost.
So just as it was getting dark the man climbed over the high wall into the
sorceress's garden. He hastily dug up a handful of rapunzel, and took it to his wife. She
immediately made a salad from it, and then devoured eagerly. For her, it tasted so very
good that by the next day her desire for more had grown threefold, Then, the man would
have to climb into the garden once again. Thus he decided to go to the garden once again
just as it was getting dark. But no sooner than he had climbed over the wall, he saw the
sorceress standing there before him.
"How can you dare," she asked with an angry look, "to climb into my garden and
like a
thief to steal my rapunzel? You will pay for this."
"Forgive me. I came to do this out of necessity. My wife saw your rapunzel from
our window, and such a longing came over her. If she did not get some to eat, she would
die," he answered.
The sorceress's anger abated somewhat, and then she said, "If things are as you
say, I will allow you to take as much rapunzel as you want. But under one condition: You
must give me the child that your wife will bring to the world. It will do well, and I will
take care of it like a mother." In"In his fear the man agreed to everything.
When t the woman gave birth, the sorceress appeared and named the little girl
Rapunzel, and then she took her away. Rapunzel became the most beautiful child under
the sun. When she was twelve years old, the sorceress locked her in a tower that stood in
a forest and that had neither a door nor a stairway, but only a tiny little window at the
very top.
When the sorceress wanted to enter, she stood below and called out, "Rapunzel.
Rapunzel. Let down your hair to me."
 Rapunzel had splendid long hair, as fine as spun gold. When she heard the
sorceress's voice, she untied her braids, wound them around a window hook, and let her
hair fall twenty yards to the ground. Then the sorceress climbed up it.
A few years later a king's son was riding through the forest. As he approached the
tower he heard a song. It was so beautiful that he stopped to listen. It was Rapunzel, who
was passing the time by singing with her sweet voice. The prince wanted to climb up to
her, and looked for a door in the tower, but none was to be found.
With disappointment, he rode home. However, the song had so touched his heart
that he returned to the forest every day and listened to it. One time, as he was thus
standing behind a tree,

he saw the sorceress approach, and heard her say, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel. Let down your
hair."
Then Rapunzel let down her strands of hair, and the sorceress climbed up them to
her.
"If that is the ladder into the tower, then sometime will try my luck," the prince
told to himself.
And the next day, just as it was beginning to get dark, he went to the tower and
calledout, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel. Let down your hair."
The hair fell down, and the prince climbed up.
At first Rapunzel was terribly frightened when a man whom she had never seen
before came in to her. However, the prince began talking to her in a very friendly
manner. He told her that his heart had been so touched by her singing that he could have
no peace until he had seen her in person. Then Rapunzel lost her fear, and when he asked
her if she would take him as her husband, she thought for a while. Then she said yes.
She said, "I would go with you gladly, but do not know how to get down. Every
time that you come, bring a strand of silk, from which will weave a ladder. When it is
finished will climb down, and you can take me away on your horse." They arranged that
he would come to her every evening, for the old woman came by day.
The sorceress did not notice what was happening until one day Rapunzel "Frau
Gothel, tell me why it is that you are more difficult to pull up than is the young prince,
who said to her, will be arriving any moment now?"
"You!" cried the sorceress. "What am hearing from you? thought had removed
you from the whole world, but you have deceived me nonetheless."
In her anger she grabbed Rapunzel's beautiful hair, wrapped it a few times around
her left hand, grasped a pair of scissors with her right hand, and snip snap, cut it off. And
she was so unmerciful that she took Rapunzel into a wilderness.
On the evening of the same day that she sent Rapunzel away, the sorceress tied
the cut off hair to the hook at the top of the tower, and when the prince called out,
"Rapunzel, Rapunzel. Let down your hair, she let down the hair. The prince climbed up.
However, instead of his beloved Rapunzel, he found the sorceress, who peered at him
with poisonous and evil looks. bird is no
"Ahal" she cried scomfully. "You have come for your darling, but that beautiful
longer sitting in her nest, nor la she singing any more. The cat got her, and will scratch
your eyes out as well. You have lost Rapunzel. You will never see her again."
 The prince was overcome with grief, and in his despair he fell from the tower. But
the thoms into which he tell poked out his eyes. Blind, he wandered about in the forest,
eating nothing but grass and roots, and doing nothing but weeping and wailing over the
loss of Rapunzel. Thus he wandered about miserably for some years.
Finally he went into the wildemes where Rapunzel lived miserably. He heard a
voice and thought it was familiar. He advanced toward it, and as he approached.
Rapunzel recognized him, and crying, hugged her. Two of Rapunzel's tears fell into his
eyes, and they became clear once again, and he could see as well as before. He led her
into his kingdom, where he was received with joy, and for a long time they lived happily
and satisfied.
Source: Jacob and Witheim Grimm: "Rapunzel, https des pitt.edu-dash-gamm012.html
accessed 3 Julil 2022

Quizzes

1. A story has some elements, such as theme, settings and characters. What are they for?
2. Read the “Rapunzel” , then find the following elments found in th story!

a. Theme

b. Setting

c. Characters

3. Identify the language features of the story!

 No. Language Features Details

1. Specific Participant

2. Tenses

3. Action Verb

4. Thinking Verb

5. Conjunction

6. Adverb

7. Time Sequnces

8. Direct Speech

9. Indirect Speech

4. Read the scrambled text carefully then rearrange correctly.

A
A couple of days later while Taro was fishing in his boat as
usual, a large turtle told him that the small turtle he had saved
was the princess of the sea named Otohime. As a gratitude, the
turtle took Taro to the deep sea to the underwater dragon
palace, where he could meet Emperor Ryujin and Princess
Otohime.
 B
When reaching the shore, Taro found that things had changed
so much. Even his house, his parents, and all the people he
knew were gone. When Taro was asking around, people said
that Urashima Taro had vanished a long time ago. In
confusion, Taro opened the box which turned him into an old
man. Three hundred years had passed on land even though he
only spent three days in the deep sea.

C
Long long time ago, there lived young skilled fisherman
named Urashima Taro in a little fishing village. He had kind
heart. In his whole life, he had never hurt anything. One
day, Taro saw three boys teasing and hitting a turtle with
sticks. Then Taro saved the turtle and released it back into
the sea.

D
After staying there for three days with the princess, Taro got
homesick and wished to return home to see his parents. The
princess tried to stop him, but Taro insisted. Then the princess
gave him a mysterious box. She warned Taro not to open it no
matter what.

B.
 1. Work individually!
2. Continue the story below based on the picture series!

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3. 4.

5. 6.

1. There was lived a poor woodcutter and his wife with two children, Hansel and Gretel.
They decided to leave them in the middle of the
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C. .
Read the text carefully then answer the following questions!

The Legend of Lake Toba

 Long long time ago, in North Sumatra, there lived a poor farmer in a valley. He
was diligent. Anything he planted grew well. He lived by farming and fishing in the river.
He ate the fish or sold them in the market.
One afternoon, he went fishing in the river. After hours of waiting, he hadn't
caught a single fish. This had never happened before. Disappointed, he pulled his rod out
of the water. But just as his rod was living the water, a fish bit it. He pulled it out. How
happy he was! It was a beautiful big goldfish. Suddenly, the fish spoke.
"Please, put me back in the water. I still want to live." The farmer was surprised.
The farmer agreed to set it free. However, the fish suddenly turned into a beautiful lady.
"I was the incarnation of the fish you caught. Thank you for your kindness. As return, I
am willing to be your wife," she said. The farmer was happy and agreed to marry the
lady.
"However, there is a condition that you can't break. If we have a child, you must
never tell anyone that I was a fish." "Yes, I promise not to break this condition," said the
farmer.
Finally, they got married. Soon, they had a son named Samosir. Samosir liked
eating. In
a day, he could eat many times. Sometimes, he ate his parents' meals.
One day, her mother asked Samosir to take a box of meals to his father who was
working at the field. It was a long walk through the field. However, on the way he started
to feel hungry. He decided to eat the meals. He had eaten all the meals.
When he found his father, he handed him the box. Looking at the empty box, his
father was really angry. "Have you eaten all the meals? Don't you know that your father
is really hungry?" shouted the farmer. "I'm sorry, Father. I can't stand to see the food. So,
I ate them all," answered Samosir. "Samosir! Darn you! Son of a fish!" shouted his father.
Samosir was surprised. "Father, what do you mean? I'm not a son of fish," said Samosir.
The farmer was surprised. He just realized that he broke his promise to his wife.
Samosir ran all the way home to meet his mother. "Mother, am I son of a fish?"
His mother was surprised. She was sad and did not expect that her husband would break
his promise. It started to rain. The lightning struck, the mother and Samosir disappeared.
In the place where they disappeared, a spring emerged. The farmer ran towards the house.
He ran inside and looked all through the house, but they had gone. He regretted what he
had done. Longer, thewater became a big puddle of water like a large lake. This lake is
now called Lake Toba.
In the middle of the lake, there is an island named Samosir.

Adapted from: Nunik Utami, 63 Legenda, Cerita, Mitos, Fabel Nusantara, Jakarta, Anak
Kita, 2013

1. Work Individually!
2. From the title, have you ever heard the story? What is the story about?

3. Answer the following question!

a. What is the purpose of the text?

b. What promise did the farmer break?

c. According to the story, what was the lake from?

4. A conflict of a story is a struggle between opposing forces. There are two kinds of
conflicts: internal conflict and external conflict. An internal conflict is a character's
struggle with themselves. An external conflict is a character's struggle with another
character or situation. What conflict might emerge in this story?
5. Read th fairy tale “The Legend of Lake Toba” in the previous part!
6. Identify the structure of the story!
 Structure Details

ACTIVITY 2

1. Work in a group
2. Plot structure shows th causal arrangement of events and actions within a story, Is the
plot of the story “The Legend of Lake Toba” understandable? give the reason?
3. Read the fairy tale “The Legend of Lake Toba” in the previous part!
4. Discuss with your group to identify the structure of the story!

Plot Structure Details

Exposition

Rising Action

Climax

Falling Action

Resolution