LK 1: Lembar Kerja Belajar Mandiri – Modul 4

Judul Modul English For Entertainment

Judul Kegiatan Belajar 1.Biography
(KB) 2.Historical Recount
3.Fables
4.Legends

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(istilah dan definisi) Biography is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves
di modul ini more than just the basic facts like education, work, relationships,
and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events.
and may include an analysis of the subject's personality.

Generic Structure of Biography:

1. Orientation (Introduction),
2. Events,
3. Re-orientation (closing)

Social Function of Biography

To know a person’s story about his / her life outside of any
accomplishments this person may be known for and to give lots
of information easily and to educate the readers.

Grammar and Language Features:

1. Use of simple past tense,
2. focus on specific participant,
3. use of action verb,
4. use temporal sequence and temporal conjunction.
Some unknown vocabularies in the learning activity 1 :
1. (Hybrid)
2. (Graphia)

Learning Activity 2
Historical Recount is closely related to the history of a place
or an object which is very memorable and considered important
throughout life.

Social Function
The story of historical events in order to inform or entertain the
reader.
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Characteristic
 Retelling the past historical events
 Upholding the history of a place or an object
 Written scientifically or imaginatively
 Purposing to informing or entertaining (can be both)

Generic Structure
Orientation
introducing the place or an object, setting of time and place
Events
It contains the series of chronological events
Re-orientation
It is optional. In this part, it contains about the writer’s point of
view as the evaluation about the story

Grammar and Language Feature

1. Using specific participant (person, place, or thing),
2. Pronouns,
3. Actions verbs,
4. Adverb phrased,
5. Past tense,
6. Adjectives,
7. Evaluative words,
8. Sequence connectors

Learning Activity 3
Fable is a fictional story which using animals as characters and
intended to give a moral value as a lesson for the readers.
Fables are stories intended to teach a lesson, and animals often
speak and act like human beings. While the characters of
narrative are human beings.

Functions
 To entertain or to amuse the readers about the interesting
story
 to convey moral messages or lessons to the readers, especially
for children to behave morally in the world to understand the
values of the culture in which they are written.

Characteristics
 Using at least one character makes a bad decision  Using
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 Involving a character who is sly or clever
 Using animals or elements of nature (non-human characters)
as the main characters who act and talk just like people while
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keeping their animal traits. In simple terms, its making animals
or objects seem like real people, with real feelings and emotions.
 Containing a moral or lesson which can be found in the end of
the story
 Using personification (aanthropomorphized) where
Nonhuman characters can talk or show human characters
 Containing a funny and amusing story
 Reflecting cultural beliefs

GENERIC STRUCTURE
Orientation
Introduction who are the characters, Where and When is the
setting of the story
Complication
The conflict arises among the characters
Resolution
How the conflict/problem among the characters is solved

GRAMMAR AND LANGUAGE FEATURES

Using animals given human qualities (anthropomorphized),
simple plot and characters, using moral values, using non
specific setting, using past tense, using past action verbs, noun
and pronoun, time connective and conjunction, adverb and
adverbial phrase.

Moral values of the fable

A fable is indeed identical with moral values, below are some
examples of moral value of the fables:
1) Persuasion is better than force
2) Liars may give themselves away
3) Make hay while the sun shines
4) Don’t just follow the crowd
5) Pride can be costly

Learning Activity 4
Definition
a Legend is “a story or narrative that lies somewhere between
myth and historical fact and which, as a rule, is about a
particular figure or person.”
that focuses on a historically or geographically specific figure,
and describes his exploits.

A legend is a story about human events or actions that has not

been proved nor documented in real history. Legends are retold
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as if they are real events and were believed to be historical
accounts.

The Function of Legend :

1. To present the story of human actions in such a way that
they are perceived by the the listeners or readers to be
true (in literature).
2. To entertain or to amuse the readers about the interesting
story (in general)

The Characteristics of Legend :

1. A legend is a set in specific place or time
2. The main character is often heroic
3. The main character is a human, not a God
4. A legend is a fictional story
5. Usually there is some historical truth at the heart of
every legend
6. Heroes perform great deeds with their strength and their
intelligence. Exaggeration is usually involved in retelling
deeds.
7. Heroes often give up dreams of happiness to help others
8. The hero is real but some parts of the story are not
completely true. They have been stretched or expanded
upon.
9. Handed down through generation
10. The story was told orally and turned into literary
masterpieces

The Generic Structure :

1. ORIENTATION (INTRODUCTION)
This is the introduction of what is inside the text. It tells
about the text talks in general, who involves in the text,
when and where it happens. It should include the
characters of the story.
2. COMPLICATION
It tells what happens with the participants. It explores the
conflict among the participants.
3. RESOLUTION
This phase tells how the participants solve the problems
aroused by the conflict. It is not matter whether the
participants succeed or fail. The point is the conflict
becomes ended. The problem must be resolved.
4. RE-ORIENTATION
It tells the conclusion of the story. It usually include the
lesson from the story
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Grammar and language features

1. The use of Adjective that form the noun phrase.
Example: the strong crocodile
2. Time connectives and conjunction. Example: A long
time ago
3. The use of adverb and adverbial phrases to indicate the
location of the incident or events. Example: In the river
4. The use of action verbs in the past tense. Example: They
curved her. People then always talked
5. The used of saying verbs that mark remarks. Example :
He said angrily
6. The use of thinking verbs that mark the thoughts,
perceptions or feelings of the characters in the story.
Example: The man then looked so curious.
7. The use of dialogue to elicit an emotional response from
the reader

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Learning Activity 2
How to determine the differences between historical recount and
the other kinds of recount text in writing the text.

Learning Activity 3
How to compose a well-organised fable writing

Learning Activity 4
How to determine the differences between legend and myth.

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