The Story of

Toba Lake
Marcell Aldo Kirani Pungky
 1 Social function

Narrative 2 Narrative text

text 3 General Structure

Topik Bahasan

4 Language Features
Social function

to tell stories or past events and entertain the

readers.
 Orientation
There once lived a poor farmer named Toba in one village of
North Sumatera. One day, he went fishing. Luckily, he got a
beautiful goldfish. He carried it home then planned to cook it.
When he got home, the fish turned into a beautiful woman.

The woman told him that she was cursed and asked Toba to keep
it as a secret. Toba agreed only with one condition that she would
marry him. Then they got married had one child named Samosir.
This boy liked to eat much food.

 Complication
One day, the mother asked Samosir to bring lunch to his father who
worked in the rice field. On the way to rice field, he stopped and ate
most of his father's lunch.

Toba was very angry and shouted at Samosir “You, a child of a fish!
You are so greedy!” Samosir cried and ran toward his mother. He
asked mother why father called him a child of a fish.

 Resolution

The woman was really upset that Toba broke his

promise. The mother's anger causing springs
appeared and soon made a vast lake. The lake is
called Toba Lake. A island in the middle of Toba Lake
is called Samosir Island
Language
Features
Temporal conjunctions Specific participant Adverb of time/place Simple past tense

When Toba One day he went fishing

He carried it home then planned

Then Wife / mother Once
to cook it

the fish turned into a beautiful

Samosir There
woman

he stopped and ate most of his

father's lunch
Thanks