LKPD 1 NARRATIVE TEXT

1. Activity 1
Check your knowledge about the following famous Indonesian writers. Mention some
writers that you know well by completing the table.
No Name Phenomenal Work
1 Radithya Dika
2 Dewi Lestari Perahu Kertas
3 Andrea Hirata
4 Mira Wiaya
5 Asma Nadia
6 Sutan Takdir Alisyahbana
Marga T. Disini Cinta
7 Pertama Kali
Bersemi
Habiburrahman El
8
Shirazy
9 W.S. Rendra
10 Ayu Utami

2. Activity 2
What makes or make you like their works?
a. The characters
b. The theme
c. The conflict
d. The plot
e. The message

3. Activity 3
Match the pictures with the correct short story summaries. What clues did you get
from the summaries? Underline the clues!
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3) 4)

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Topic : _________________________ Topic : _______________________

a) A man came to speak with Simon Wheeler. The man was looking for a man named
Leonidas W. Smiley. Instead of giving information about Leonidas, Wheeler told a
story about a man named Jim Smiley. Jim Smiley was a man who loved betting on
anything. One day he made a frog his pet and named it Dan’I Webster. One ocassion,
Jim bet a stranger that his frog jumped the furthest. Befire the competition the stranger
made Dan’I drink something so that he lost the competition. After the stranger ran
away with $40, Jim figured out that he was cheated. At last the man visiting Wheeler
left him to escape from his long story.
b) A poor woodcutter had two children named Hansel and Gretel. Their mother died
when they were young. Soon their father remarried to a cruel stepmother. She left
them in the middle of a thick forest. Finally, these two kids found a house in the forest.
Unfortunately, they were tricked by a witch who later on caught and tortured them.
c) Shylock is a wealthy man. When Antonio and Bassanio went to ask him for help, he
enjoyed the moment to have Antonio in his hands. However, Antonio had ridiculed
and spat on his face once on the street, and Shylock would never forget it. He would
help them under a terrible condition. If Antonio could not double the money in three
months he would have to pay with a pound of his own flesh. Antonio accepted the
treatment because he was convinced that his ships would arrive at the port of Venice
with many riches in time. Unfortunately, he was wrong and he wasn’t able to repay
the loan.
d) Though Mathilde did not belong to the upper class and was only married to a low-paid
clerk she pretended to be one of them. She was in a sulk because she wanted her
husband to get two invitations to the Ministry of education party. Her husband
somehow got a couple of invitations for them, but Mathilde refused to go for she did
not have a dress. At last, her husband reluctantly gave his savings for his wife to buy
the dress she wanted. Still, she was not happy with only a new dress. She wanted to
wear jewellry to the party. Unfortunately, they could only afford a rose for an
 accessory but Mathilde, with her pride, didn’t want to wear it. The husband
despairingly suggested borrowing some jewellry from Madame Jeanne Forestier.
Mathilde went to her and borrowed a diamond necklace, which she lost after the party.
Mathilde and her husband were shocked to know the price of the original necklace
and desperately managed to get 36,000 francs to replace the lost one. After the
incident, Mathilde lived pitifully to repay her debt for buying the necklace. Ten years
later, she met Madame Forestier who barely recognised her. They talked about what
happened to Mathilde and Madame Forestier did not expect that Mathilde would
replace her necklace with the original one since hers was only a cheap imitation.

4. Activity 4
Listen to the short story and choose the correct words that you have heard.
A Little Hero
“Oh dear! I 1) was/wish I could be one of them,” said Tom to himself. He had been reading
a book about 2) knights/nights and heroes, who rode through the woods slaying dragons
and setting beautiful princesses free. “Wouldn’t it have been so much fun to wear a helmet
and armour, 3) carrying/carried a long lance, and riding a splendid horse? But there are no
dragons nowadays, and knights wear black coats like other men. I wish I had lived long
ago!”
Tom was just an everyday boy, rather short for his age and somewhat stout. His hair was
red and stiff, and his frank, jolly face was freckled all over. The sun was shining brightly
into the room, and the 4) lives/leaves were peeping shyly and whispering softly, as if to
say, “Never mind about old heroes or wicked dragons! Come out and play.”
Tom jumped from his 5) sit/seat, put on his cap and set off down the road towards the
village, as fast as he could spin the wheels of his bicycle. In the village it was the quietest
hour of the day. Shopkeepers were talking their early tea, and school children had gone off
to play in the fields. There was not a living thing to be seen except, at the far 6) and/end
of the street, a nursemaid with a pram and a small child trotting by her side.
All at once, away in the distance, along the white road, Tom caught sight of a horse
galloping toward him, as if it was running a race with the wind. There was no 7)
reader/rider on its back. Its eyes were staring, its side was panting, the bit had fallen from
its mouth, and the reins were loose upon its hot neck. Just then the child stepped off the
pavement to cross the street, right in the 8) path/pad of the horse. The nursemaid was
looking in at a shop window, and so didn’t miss the little girl from her side.
The horse was coming closer. If it were not stopped, it 9) wood/would knock down the
little girl. There was nobody to help her, except Tom. Without waiting a moment, the brave
lad 10) road/rode on at full speed on his bicycle. It was a race now between the run-away
horse and the brave boy; and the boy 11) win/won. For, just as the horse’s hoofs were
coming down upon the little girl, Tom leaped off his bicycle, and pushed himself in front
of her.
The horse turned aside for an instant, then reared and plunged. It knocked Tom down, and
trampled his bicycle as it set off again on its wild race. The nursemaid, who was 12)
no/now in a 13) great/greet fright, first scolded and then petted the child until she sobbed,
but there was no one to notice the brave boy, who limped home slowly and in 14) pen/pain.
 His face was hurt, his clothes were torn, and he dragged his broken bicycle—the bicycle
that only a few weeks before had been new and the 15) price/pride of his heart.
“It was nothing at all, Mother,” said Tom, when he reached home. “I couldn’t let the girl
be trampled by a run-away horse, could I? Besides, there was nobody else.” This was all
that Tom told his mother. But mothers know many things about their little boys and girls
that the boys and girls do not always care to tell.
Tom did not get a 16) pedal/medal for his brave action and there was not a word about it
in the newspaper. That very evening, however, his father took the bicycle to the village to
be mended. As Tom’s mother 17) robbed/rubbed his stiff shoulder, and smeared some
ointment on his scratched cheeks, she looked at him with wet eyes. But Tom thought there
was a smile not far behind the tears. Then she smoothed his rough hair with her soft hand,
kissed him, and called him her own dear little hero.

5. Activity 5
Answer the following questions based on the previous text.
a. Who is the main character of the story?
b. What do you think of Tom?
c. What can you learn from the story?