I CAN DO IT 3

Joko Daryanto – E Rahayu – P. Darini

Unit 1
Would You Tell Me the Story (1)
Learning Objectives
Spoken Cycle
After studying this unit, you are expected to be able to:
• express request to others and respond to request,
• express attitudes,
• make conversations expressing request and attitudes,
• retell stories.
Written Cycle
After studying this unit, you are expected to be able to:
• read, comprehend, and respond to narrative texts,
• find the moral values in narrative texts,
• find and read other kinds of narrative texts,
• comprehend the use of reported speech,
• write good narrative texts,
• retell stories in the written form.
Spoken Cycle
Study and say the expressions below.

Expressions to make request:

• Could you tell me what happened, please?
• Can you help me?
• Will you explain it more clearly, please?
• Would you take a cup in the kitchen, please?
• I must ask you to remember it.
• I have to ask you to go on working.
• I would be glad if you could help me.
Responding to request:
• I have no objection.
• Yes, sure.
• Certainly.
• Okay.
• All right.
• Sorry, I’m busy now.
• I’m sorry, I can’t.
 Read the explanation carefully.
The ways to express attitudes
The followings are expressions to show attitudes in various situations.

When you like something, you can express your like by using the
following expressions:
• I’d like it. • I love it.
• I enjoyed it. • I’m crazy about it. When you dislike something, you
• I really like it. • I’m really fond of it. can use the following sentences to
• I’m really keen on it. express.
• I dislike it.
• I hate it.
• I didn’t enjoy it.
• I’ve never liked it.
• I really do not like it.
• I’m not keen on it.
• I don’t love it.
• I think it’s boring.
 Read the explanation carefully.

The following expressions can be used when you are

pleased with something:
• Great.
• Terrific.
• Fantastic.
• I’m very pleased with/to ….
• I’m very delighted to/with ….
• It gives me great pleasure to ….

The following expressions can be used to

express displeased with something:
• Oh no.
• Oh, hell no.
• I can’t stand …..
• I’m feed up with ….
• I’m really displeased with/to ….
 Written Cycle
Read and study the explanation below.

• The above text is an example of narrative text. Narrative is a

text which deals with the problematic events that leads to a
crisis or turning point of some problematic events which in
turn finds a resolution.
• Social function of a narrative is to amuse the reader’s or
listeners’ interest.
• Narrative texts include tales, legend, romance, horror stories,
crime, real-life fiction, historical fiction, mystery, ballads,
fables, fantasy, science fiction, diary-novels, and adventure
stories.
Generic structures of narrative are:

•Orientation.
It is the opening of the story. It introduces the setting of place, setting of
time, and the main character/s who play/s in the story.
•Complication.
It sets off a chain of events that influences what will happen in the story. It
tells the problematic events of the story.
• Resolution.
It constitutes ending of the story. It is ending of the story in which the
characters finally solve the complication and the problematic event end.
• Sometimes, a narrative text has a coda that provides a comment or
moral values based on what has been learned from the story.
• Language features of narrative are:
 It uses Past Tense.
 It uses time words that connect events to tell when they occur.
 It uses action verbs to show the actions that the characters do in the
story.
 It uses descriptive words to portray the characters and settings.
 Sometimes, it uses dialogues.
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