NARRATIVE

TEXT II
FAIRY TALES
M. Ibnu Syamwardana, S.Pd
LEARNING OBJECTIVE
 Identify the Structure and language features from narrative
texts
 Our activities today.
1. Activity 2
1. Still in your previous group
2. Watch the video again carefully.
3. Complete the table in the worksheet using the information from the story.
Definition
 Narrative Text is a type of text that tells a fictional story with the aim of
entertaining in a chronologically interrelated manner.
Generic Structure
• Orientation is the opening paragraph of the text which introduces who the characters are
involved in the incident (who) and the background time (when) and the background of
Orientation the incident (where). This orientation is located in the first paragraph of narrative text.

• Complication consists of a paragraph explaining the beginning of the problem. The

beginning of this problem also begins a series of plot (story line) which will then continue
Complication to conflict, climax, and anti-climax stories.

• Resolution is the paragraph that becomes the end of the story. In this section, there is a
settlement that makes the storyline end. Every problem that arises must have a solution,
Resolution it can be closed with a happy ending or a tragic or sad ending.

• Reorientation is the closing sentence which tells the final condition of the character in
the story or the moral message of the story. By the way, this section is not mandatory
Reorientation for narrative text
Language Features
Past tense • (Killed, drunk, went, won, sent, etc)

Adverb of time • (Once upon a time, today, one day, will, yesterday, later, etc)

Time conjunction • (When, then, suddenly, before, after, until, a soon as, etc)

Specific character • (Cinderella, Alibaba, Putri Salju, Tangled, Ariel, dll)

Action verbs • (Killed, walked, wrote, stayed, dug, etc)

Direct speech • (Princess said, "My name is Princess) (Present tense)

Saying and thinking verb • (Said, told, thought, etc)

The Bear and The Two Friends
 Once two friends were walking through the forest. They knew that
anything dangerous can happen to them at any time in the forest. So
they promised each other that they would remain united in any case of
danger.

 Suddenly, they saw a large bear approaching them. One of the friends at
once climbed a nearby tree. But the other one did not know how to
climb. So being led by his common sense, he lay down on the ground
breathless, pretending to be a dead man.

 The bear came near the man lying on the ground. It smelt in his ears,
and slowly left the place. Because the bears do not touch the dead
creatures.Now the friend on the tree came down and asked his friend on
the ground, “Friend, what did the bear tell you into your ears?” The
other friend replied, “The bear advised me not to believe a false friend.”
 Title Generic Structure Language Features

Past tense (….)

Adverb of time (…)
1. Orientation (……) Time conjunction (…)
2. Complication Specific character (…)
The bear and two friends
3. Resolution Action verbs (…)
4. Reorientation Direct speech (…)
Saying and thinking verb (…)
Thank you!