Legend

Bahasa Inggris Tingkat Lanjut

Nur Maria Ulfah,

S.Pd.,Gr.
After learning this unit, you are expected to able
to :
1. Identify the different characteristics of a legend, including
social functions and text structures.
2. Identify some of linguistics features of a legend, namely:
action verbs, past tense and sequence words
3. Understand implicit and explicit information (main ideas and
detailed information) from the texts.
4. Rewrite a legend with an appropriate schematic structure
and linguistic features.
5. Present or retell the story in focus.
After learning this unit, you are expected to :
1. (more) have faith, fear God Almighty, and have
noble character, independent, reasoned,
creative, work together and have global
diversity.
2. Critical thinking to solve problems (21st
century skill)
3. Analyze, evaluate and compiling oral and
written text smoothly and spontaneously on a
regular basis without any obstacles in
interacting and communicating in the type of
narrative text
4. Transferring verbal information into visual
information (literacy skills)
 Meaningful
Understanding
Legend is semi-true story which has
been passed on from on person to
person and has important meaning or
symbolism for the culture in which it
originates.
 In this Unit, you will learn:

01 Reading
Legends which include issue
02 Listening
Legends in the topics of
arround environmental awareness sacrifice, trust and honesty.

03 Writing
Drafting, writing a story lay out and
04 Speaking
Story presentation and
story planner, proofreading, writing, story analisis
revising, furnishing and publishing
A. My Initial Understanding
Let’s
discuss! 1. What Island of Indonesia is
shown in the picture?
2. What do you know about the
area?
3. Do you know any legend
from that area?

There are different types of

narrative texts, for instance:
legend, fairy tales, fantasy, myth,
or romance. Narrative texts are
generally imaginative and aimed to
enteftain or amuse the readers.
In this unit, you are going to learn
about narrative text in the form of
a legend.
B. Reading
Activity 1

Last meeting we have read a

legend? What is it about? Can
you identify the elements of the
legend? In order to help you
understand a legend, let’s learn
some of the literary words below.
 Narrative Text
As a type of the narrative text, a legend also has elements
such as characters, characterization, setting, plot, and
moral value. The plots or structures of a narrative text
include orientation, complication, climax as well as
resolution, and sometimes explicitly contains moral values
called coda.
B. Reading
Activity 2

Before reading a legend,

let’s learn some vocabulary from
the story. Study the bold typed
words and their meanings.
B. Reading
Activity 3
Now, read a legend entitled ’The Legend of the Holy Stone’. While reading, pay attention to
the characters and the events told in the story.

Open your book page 5-7.