TEACHING MATERIALS

Narrative Text
A. DEFINITION OF NARRATIVE TEXT
Narrative text is an imaginative story to entertain or amuse the readers or listeners. It also can be
based from real story but with additional seasoning to the story to make it more interesting.

(Source: Otong Setiawan Dj., 2013)

B. TYPES OF NARRATIVE TEXT
Common forms of narrative text which are studied in high school are:
(1) Legend
A legend is a narrative of human actions that are perceived both by teller and listeners to
take place within human history. Typically, a legend is a short, traditional and historicized
narrative performed in a conversational mode. Some define legend as folktale.
Example:
- Sangkuriang
- Malin Kundang
- The Legend of Tangkuban Perahu

(2) Fable
Fable is a short allegorical narrative making a moral point, traditionally by means of animal
characters who speak and act like human beings.
Example:
- Mousedeer and crocodile
- A fox and a cat
- The story of monkey and crocodile

(3) Fairy tale

Fairy tale is an English language term for a type of short narrative corresponding to the
French phrase “conte de fee”. A fairy tale typically features such folkloric characters as
fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments.
Example:
- Cinderella
- Snow White
- Beauty and the Beast
(Source: Rahmat Wijaya, 2011)
C. SOCIAL FUNCTION OF NARRATIVE TEXT
The purpose of narrative text is to entertain or amuse the readers or listeners.
(Source: Otong Setiawan Dj., 2013)

D. GENERIC STRUCTURE OF NARRATIVE TEXT

Narrative text is commonly constituted by a number of events in which it is found that something
goes wrong. The wrong side of the event leads to a stage, which is one with great suspense called
a crisis or climax in the story. The story then stages a solution to the problem in the climax. A
narrative ends with a solution, either with a happy or sad ending.
The generic structure of narrative is as follows:
1. Orientation
The stage of orientation tells ‘who is who and where’. This is to say that the stage specifies
who takes part in the story. The participants may be human or nonhuman beings, such as
animals and things. The stage also indicates the location, namely the place where the story
takes place and the time when the story happens. In brief, orientation is an opening
paragraph where the characters of the story are introduced.
 2. Complication/crisis
The stage of complication treats the crisis or climax in the story. This is the part of the story
where something goes wrong and becomes a serious problem. The crisis is of great interest
and suspense. This stage is where the problems in the story developed.
3. Resolution
The resolution stage explains efforts taken to solve the problem.
4. Reorientation
This stage is optional. It is the conclusion of the story.
5. Coda
Coda is also optional in narrative text. The stage of coda closes the story by additional
remarks. It is where the lesson from the story is stated.

(Source: Ahmad Husein & Anni Holila Pulungan, 2017 & Otong Setiawan
Dj., 2013)

E. LANGUAGE FEATURES OF NARRATIVE TEXT

The language features in narrative text include the following indicators:
1. Certain nouns, pronouns, animals, and certain things in the story, such as maid, stepsisters,
housework, etc.
2. Adjectives extending noun phrases, such as long black hair, two red apples, etc.
3. Time connectives and conjunctions to make events sequence, such as then, before, that, soon,
next, etc.
Adverb of time tell us when an action happened, and also for how long and how often.

When How long How often

Adverbs that tell us when
are usually placed at the
end of the sentence.
**
Example: yesterday, today,
tomorrow
Adverbs that tell us for
how long are also usually
placed at the end of the
sentence.
**
Example: all day, for a
year, since 1996
Adverbs that tell us how often
express the frequency of an
action. They are usually placed
before the main verb but after
auxiliary verbs (such as be, have,
may, and must).
**
Example: often, never, seldom

4. Adverbs and adverbial phrases to show location and time of events, such as here, in the
mountain, happily ever after, etc.
5. Action verbs in past tense: stayed, climbed, jumped, etc.
6. Saying verbs indicating utterance such as said, told, promised, etc.
7. Thinking verbs identifying the thought, perception or feeling of the characters in the story,
such as thought, understood, felt, seemed, etc.
8. The use of Past Tense
 Learning activities individually!
a. Click the video link below!
https://youtu.be/f3GO2ZQG4uI

b. Watch the video!

c. Make notes of important information on the video!
 Learning activities in a group!
1. Read several types of narrative text below!
2. Analyze the past tense verbs and implied meaning in each text!
3. Analyze the generic Structure of narrative text!

The Lion and The Mouse

By Aesop
One day a lion was sleeping in the jungle. While the lion was sleeping, a tiny mouse was playing in the
grass nearby. The Mouse run over the Lion's head and down his nose.

The Lion awoke with a loud roar and caught the mouse in his was paw. He was opening his huge jaws to
eat the tiny creature When the Mouse squeaked, "Oh king, I beg your pardon. If you forgive me. I will
never forget it, and maybe I could do something for you too."

The Lion began to laugh “you are too small! HOW could you ever help me? “Oh well. you're not a good
meal anyway", he said, and set the little prisoner free.

Sometime later, When the Lion was hunting for food, he fell into a trap.

The Lion thought he would never escape, and he roared sadly. The mouse heard The Lion's roar and ran
to see if he could help.

When the mouse got to trap. Lion was still roaring sadly. The said “Stop. stop! Don't roar. If you make
noise, the hunters will come and capture you"

The Mouse bit through the ropes and broke them. When the Lion was free, the Mouse said Wasn’t I
right?"

“Thank you, Mouse." said the Lion gently. I was foolish to ridicule you for being small. you saved my life
after all."
 Pinokio
Once there was a carpenter called Geppetto. He made a wooden puppet and called him
Pinocchio. “How nice it would be if it were a real baby!”.

That night, a good fairy heard him and made his wish to become real. “Awake, wood inanimate,
now you’ve got a soul!” she made her magic spell touching Pinocchio with her magic wand.
“Pinocchio , be always a good , brave and a selfless boy , ” said the Fairy , ” and one day you’ll
be a real boy ! ” Then, she addressed to Jiminy Cricket: “I appoint you guide and counsellor of
Pinocchio, ” she added, before disappearing in a thousand flashes of light. Imagine the delight of
Geppetto when he discovered that his little man of wood could move and talk! The next morning
he sent him to school like a real boy. “Goodbye, son, come back soon!”

Pinocchio was a little naughty so he disobeying her father went to the terrible Eater, a puppeteer
who promised to make him famous. He enjoyed a lot of singing and dancing with the other
puppets. But, when the show was over, Eater shut him in a cage. Suddenly, there appeared the
Blue Fairy: “Why did not you go to school?” she asked. Pinocchio answered with a lie and his
nose began to grow. Only when he told the truth, the Fairy freed him and his nose was back to
normal. On the way home, Pinocchio saw a coach load of kids cheering. The coachman told him
that he was directed to Toyland, where the kids could do whatever they wanted.

“Pinocchio, come back!” Jiminy Cricket ran after him. But the puppet would not listen to him.
There Pinocchio met a new boy Candlewick: The two ate as many sweets as they could and
enjoyed themselves very much. But he soon discovered that in Toyland the lazy and rude kids
were turned into donkeys. When it began to spring two ears and long tail, Pinocchio ran
desperately, followed by his faithful friend. Jiminy Cricket Together, then returned to the house of
Geppetto , but they found none. “Who knows what that happened to him!” At that moment, a
dove brought them a message: while Geppetto was looking for Pinocchio everywhere, he was
swallowed by a whale and now he was his prisoner. “I want to save him!” decided the puppet.
Arriving at the sea, he dived an dived till he found his father in the belly of the whale. But how to
get out of there? So he lit a fire and the smoke made the whale sneeze so strong that, she
opened its mouth.

Pinocchio and Geppetto escaped on a raft. The puppet helped his father to swim in the middle of
the waves: and they finally reached the shore! But as soon as they arrived Pinocchio, for the
great effort fainted. Grief-stricken, Geppetto took him home. The Blue Fairy, awoke him and, as
promised, rewarded his courage and his goodness, by transforming Pinocchio into a real boy.

Source: http://www.comenius-ourstory.com/stories/italy/pinochio-summary
 The legend of Telaga Warna
Long time ago, there was a kingdom in West Java. The kingdom was ruled by a king
named His Majesty Prabu.

Prabu was a kind and wise king. But it was a pity that Prabu and his queen hadn’t got
any children. The queen often cried. That was why Prabu went to the jungle. There he
prayed to God every day, begging for a child.

A few months later, the queen got pregnant. Nine months later, a princess was born.
Prabu and Queen loved their beautiful daughter so much. They gave whatever she
wanted. It made Princess turn into a very spoiled girl.

One day, the princess celebrated her 17th birthday party. Many people gathered in the
palace. Then, Prabu took out a necklace which was made from gold and jewel.

“My beloved daughter, today I give you this necklace. Please, wear this necklace,” said
Prabu.

“I don’t want to wear it! It’s ugly!” shouted the princess. Then she threw the necklace.
The beautiful necklace was broken. The gold and jewels were spread out on the floor.
Everybody couldn’t say anything. They never thought that their beloved princess would
do that cruel thing. In their silence, people heard the queen crying. Every woman felt
sad and began crying, too. Then, everybody was crying. Then, there was a miracle.
Earth was crying.

Nowadays, people called the lake “Telaga Warna”. It means “Lake of Color”. On a
bright day, the lake is full of color. These colors come from shadows of forest, plants,
flowers, and sky around the lake. But some people said that the colors are from the
princess’s necklace, which spreads at the bottom of the lake.
Source: http://englishadmin.com/
 Work Individually!
LKPD Name:
Class:

Once upon a time in west java, lived a writer king who had a beautiful daughter.  Her
name was Dayang Sumbi.  She liked weaving very much.  Once she was weaving a
cloth when one of her tools fell to the ground.  She was very tired, at the same time
she was too lazy to take it.  Then she just shouted out loudly.

Anybody there! Bring me my tool.  I will give you special present.  If you are female.  I
will consider you as my sister if you are male, I will marry you sunddenly a male dog,
its name was Tumang came.  He brought her the falling tool.  Dayang Sumbi was very
surprised.  She regretted her words but she could not deny it.  So she had marry
Tumang and leave her father.  Then they lived in a small village.  Several months later
they had a son.  His name was Sangkuriang.  He was a handsome and healthy boy.

Sangkuriang liked hunting very much, especially deer.  He often hunted to the wood
usying his arrow.  When he went hunting , Tumang was always with him.

One day Dayang Sumbi wanted to have deer’s  heart so she asked Sangkuriang to
hunt for a deer.  Then Sangkuriang when to the wood with his arrow and his faithful
dog.  Tumang, but afher several days in the wood Sangkuriang could not find any
deer.  Then where all disappeared.  Sangkuriang was exhausted and desperate.  He
did not want to disappoint her mother so he killed Tumang.  He did not know that
Tumang was his father.  Tumang’s  heart to her mother.  But Dayang Sumbi knew
that it was Tumang’s heart.  She was so angry that she could not control her
emotion.  She hit Sangkuriang at his head Sangkuriang was wounded.  There was a
scar in his head.  She also repelled her son.  Sangkuriang left her mother in sadness.

Many years passed and Sangkuriang became a strong young man.  He wandered
everywhere.  One day he arrived.  at his own village but he did not realize it.  There he
met Dayang Sumbi.  At the time Dayang Sumbi was given an eternal beauty by God
so she stayed young forever.  Both of them did know each other.  So they fall in love
and then they decided to marry.  But then Dayang Sumbi recognized a scar on
Sangkuriang’s head.  She knew that Sangkuriang was his son.  It was impossible for
them to marry.  She told him but he did not beliave her.  He wished that they marry
soon.  So Dayang Sumbi gave very difficult condition.  She asked Sangkuriang  to
build a lake and a boat in one night! She said she needed that for honeymoon.
Sangkuriang agreed.  With the help of genie and spiritis, Sangkuriang tried to build
them.  By midnight he had completed the lake by building a dam in Citarum river. 
Then he started making the boat.  It was almost dawn when he almost finished it. 
Meanwhile Dayang Sumbi kept watching on him.  She was very worried when she
knew this.  So she made lights in the east.  Then the spiritis thought that was already
dawn.  It was time for them to leave.  They left Sangkuriang alone.  Without their help
he could not finish the boat.
Sangkuriang was angry.  He kicked the boat.  Then the boat turned upside down.  It,
leter, became Mounth Tangkuban Perahu.  Which means an upside-down boat.  From
a distant the mount really looks like an upside down boat.

Work individually! Answer the questions below based on the story!

1. What is the purpose of narrative text above?

2. Who is the main characters of the story?
3. “He kicked the boat”. (last paragraph)
The underlined word means…..
4. “Once upon a time in west Java, lived a writer king who had a beautiful daughter”. (paragraph 1)
What is the function of the above sentence?
5. What moral values can we learn from the story of Tangkuban Perahu?
 Answer Key

1.To inform and entertain readers or listeners about the legend of Tangkuban Perahu

2. Dayang sumbi and Sangkuriang

3. Dayang Sumbi asked Sangkuriang to build a lake and a boat in one night

4. An Orientation

5. Be honest because honesty will bring goodness and happiness in the future
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Work In Groups!

Arrange the jumbled paragraph into a good story with the given title, then determine
according the text structure! Remember that your story should be cronological!

BATU RADEN
Suta is afraid, but he is worried about the princess, so he takes a big stick and hit the snake on
its head. The snake hisses in pain and finally dies.

The princess is sad to hear her father’s answer, especially after her father throws Suta in jail for
having the nerve to ask her to marry him.

In jail, Suta is not given anything to eat or drink. Hearing that, the princess makes a plan to
break her lover out of jail. They succeed and they run far away. They stop near a river. There,
they get married and start a new family.

“Thank you, Suta. You’ve saved my life,” says the princess.

The place where Suta and the princess raise their family is called Baturaden. Batur means
servant, while raden means noble. Nowadays, Baturaden is a very interesting tourism spot. It’s
located at the foothill of Mount Slamet in Purwokerto, Central Java.

“No need for that, princess. It’s my duty as your father’s servant to help you.”

Since that day, Suta and the princess become good friends. They even fall in love with each
other, so the princess tells Suta to go to her father and ask his permission to merry her. The king
is furious to hear about their plans.

Suta is a servant in a kingdom in Central Java. His duty is to look after the king’s horses. Suta
liked to take a walk after doing his chores.

One day, when Suta is walking near a lake, he hears a woman screaming, so Suta hurries to find
the source of the scream. Finally, he arrives near a big tree. He sees the king’s daughter
screaming. Above her there’s a giant snake about to strike.

“Suta is just a servant while you are my daughter, the princess. It is unacceptable for you to
marry a servant.”
 Answer Key

Suta is a servant in a kingdom in Central Java. His duty is to look after the king’s horses.
Orientation
Suta liked to take a walk after doing his chores.

One day, when Suta is walking near a lake, he hears a woman screaming, so Suta hurries to
find the source of the scream. Finally, he arrives near a big tree. He sees the king’s daughter
screaming. Above her there’s a giant snake about to strike.

Suta is afraid, but he is worried about the princess, so he takes a big stick and hit the snake on
its head. The snake hisses in pain and finally dies.

“Thank you, Suta. You’ve saved my life,” says the princess.

“No need for that, princess. It’s my duty as your father’s servant to help you.”
Complication

Since that day, Suta and the princess become good friends. They even fall in love with each
other, so the princess tells Suta to go to her father and ask his permission to merry her. The
king is furious to hear about their plans.

“Suta is just a servant while you are my daughter, the princess. It is unacceptable for you to
marry a servant.”

The princess is sad to hear her father’s answer, especially after her father throws Suta in jail
for having the nerve to ask her to marry him.

In jail, Suta is not given anything to eat or drink. Hearing that, the princess makes a plan to
Resolution break her lover out of jail. They succeed and they run far away. They stop near a river. There,
they get married and start a new family.

The place where Suta and the princess raise their family is called Baturaden. Batur means
Reorientation servant, while raden means noble. Nowadays, Baturaden is a very interesting tourism spot.
It’s located at the foothill of Mount Slamet in Purwokerto, Central Java.

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