Narrative text?

Narrative is a text that tells a story. It can

be imaginary.
The purpose of the text is to entertain or
amuse the readers

Fairytales

Fairy tales
A fairy tale is a magical story for children, like "Cinderella" or
"Rapunzel”
 A narrative text should answer some
questions as follows:

Who, where, when?

What happened with the characters?

How did the characters overcome the problems?

What are good values of the story?

Generic Structure
Orientation : It is about the opening paragraph where the
characters of the story are introduced.(berisi pengenalan
tokoh, tempat dan waktu terjadinya cerita (siapa atau apa,
kapan dan dimana)

Complication : Where the problems in the story developed.

(Permasalahan muncul / mulai terjadi dan berkembang)

Resolution : Where the problems in the story is solved.

Masalah selesai, --- secara baik "happy ending" ataupun
buruk "bad ending".
Unsur Kebahasaan
1. Menggunakan Adjective Phrases
a wonderful, beautiful castle long black hair, bad time,
dan small hole
.
2. Menggunakan Adverbial of Time and Place
once upon a time, long time ago, last year, two days
ago, in the castle, atau in a jungle.

3. Menggunakan Action Verbs

stood, slept, called, walked, slept, dan ran.

4. Menggunakan simple past tense

 Why the Bat Flies at Night
Once upon a time, in the distant past, there was a great war between the animals who
live in the sky and those that live on the ground. Nobody now remembers how the war started or
what it was about, but it was a terrible time. Many animals on both sides were wounded or killed,
and eventually, somebody said that if they carried on like this, there would be no animals left on the
earth. So some of the sky animals and some of the ground animals had a meeting, and as nobody
could recall what they were fighting each other for, it was agreed that a truce should be called, and
peace declared.
For the sky dwellers, the heron was appointed to make the announcements, and for the
ground animals, the hare would do this job, as he was able to get around the area very quickly. This
was done the next morning, but as all the animals settled down, realizing they could now live in
peace and rebuild their lives, somebody found the body of Mr. Bat. He was the last victim of the war
and must have been killed late the previous day. All the flying animals were very upset, and the
decision to organize a big burial for their friend. But as they were preparing his body for the funeral,
one of the birds noticed that Mr. Bat had teeth in his mouth.
How was that possible? Flying animals don’t have teeth. They called a meeting, and
they agreed that Bat can’t be one of them, as no other bird has teeth in his mouth. So they took bat’s
body to the ground animals and told them that as Mr. Bat was not a bird, it was their responsibility
to give him a decent burial.
The ground animals agreed to accept the body, but then, as they were preparing for the
burial, one of them shouted: “Wait a minute, this bat may have teeth, but he definitely also has
wings! How can he be one of us if he has wings?”
So now the ground animals had a meeting to consider the problem, and they decided
that no ground animal can have wings, so, therefore, Mr. Bat can’t be regarded as one of them. So
they too refused to bury Mr. Bat.
Poor Mr. Bat, the flying animals refused to accept him because he has teeth, and the
ground animals refused to accept him because he has wings. And that is why the bat is still flying
around every night.
 Princes Merida
King Fergus and Queen Elinor ruled the kingdom of
DunBroch in Scotland. They had three sons and one daughter,
the beautiful Princess Merida. All four children were
mischievous!
Queen Elinor tried to teach Merida how to behave like a
perfect princess. But Merida liked to slip away from the palace to
practice with her bow and arrow. She was a skilled archer.
One night, the queen announced that three clans were
coming to visit. Each would present a suitor to compete for
Merida’s hand in marriage. Merida was horrified. “I won’t go
through with it!” she shouted. To Merida’s dismay, the suitors
arrived as planned. Merida sat waiting on her throne for the
archery contest to begin. She knew she could handle a bow and
arrow far better than the suitors could!
Once the suitors had taken their shots, Merida marched
onto the field. The queen yelled for her to stop, but Merida didn’t
listen. She fired her arrows and hit each target dead center. She
had won! Now she wouldn’t have to marry anyone!