Narrative

Bentuk teks yang menghibur, biasanya berbentuk cerita atau pengalaman yang dialami seseorang dalam berbagai bentuk.

(To amuse, entertain and to deal with actual or vicarious experience in different ways)

BAGIAN-BAGIAN TEKS:

1. Orientation: Setting tempat dan pengenalan tokoh
2. Evaluation: Flashback dalam menilai kejadian buruk yang terjadi
3. Complication: masalah/problem yang timbul dalam cerita
4. Resolution: Pemecahan maslah (bisa lebih baik/lebih buruk)
5. Re-orienatation: Akhir cerita

CIRI-CIRI TEKS:

1. Fokus pada kejadian tertentu atau tokoh tertentu dalam cerita
2. Menggunakan proses verbal/ behavioural.
3. Menggunakan proses relational dan mental
4. Menggunakan kata penghunung waktu, tempat
5. Menggunakan Past tense (waktu lampau)

CONTOH TEKS:

Cerita binatang (fabel), Cerita peri (Fairy tale), Legenda (legend), Kejadian berbetuk cerita, dll.

Snow White

Once upon a time there lived a little girl named Snow White. She lived with her Aunt and Uncle because her parents were dead.

One day she heard her Uncle and Aunt talking about leaving Snow White in the castle because they both wanted to go to America and they didn’t have enough money to take Snow White.

Snow White did not want her Uncle and Aunt to do this so she decided it would be best if she ran away. The next morning she ran away from home when her Aunt and Uncle were having breakfast. She ran away into the woods.

She was very tired and hungry.

Then she saw this little cottage. She knocked but no one answered so she went inside and fell asleep.

Meanwhile, the seven dwarfs were coming home from work. They went inside. There they found Snow White sleeping. Then Snow White woke up. She saw the dwarfs. The dwarfs said, what is your name? Snow White said, ’My name is Snow White’.

Doc said, ‘If you wish, you may live here with us”. Snow White said, ‘Oh                            could(I) ?.Thank you’. Then Snow White told the dwarfs the whole story and Snow White and the 7 dwarfs lived happily ever after.

Snow Maiden

Once upon a time there lived a couple in a village. They had got married for a long time, but so far they did not have a baby yet. Every single minute they prayed to God, begged for a baby, but it never came true.

Oneday, they went to snow mountain. They made a girl from snow and they dressed her beautifully. When it got dark, they decided to go home and left the snow girl alone. The following morning, someone knocked the door. "Any body home?", she said. The old women inside opened the door and asked, "Who are you?" The girl said "I'm Snow Maiden, your daughter". The old woman was surprised and happy. "Oh really? Thanks God! Come in, please!" Since that meeting, they lived happily. Snow Maiden was beautiful, kind, diligent and helpful. Her parents and all of her friends loved her very much.

One day, Snow Maiden played with her friends. They played fire. At first, Snow Maiden just looked at their play. Suddenly, her friends asked her to jump on the fire. Of course she refused it because one thing that made her afraid was the fire. It's because Snow Maiden was made of snow, so she should avoid the fire. But her friends kept on forcing her to jump on. Finally, she could not do anything then she did it. She jumped on the fire and she melted.

Her friends was so sorry about this, they cried and cried hoping Snow Maiden could live again, but it was useless. Snow Maiden would not be back anymore Her mother tried to entertain Snow Maiden's friends and asked them to make a new Snow Maiden. They went to a snow mountain and started making it. They expected to have the new Snow Maiden. Days passed but their dreams never came true. Poor them.

“Lot the prophet of God”

A long time before the Holy Prophet Muhammad was born, there lived a man called Lot. Lot was a good man and a prophet of God.

The people on the town where Lot lived were not good people. Their lives were very bad. They gambled and drunk wine. They worshipped idols. They did many bad things.

Lot spoke to the people, ”Do not do these bad things, God does not love people who do this things. Listen to me. Believe in God!”

The people of the town did not want to listen to Lot. They liked to do bad things. They liked to gamble and drink wine.

One day some people came to Lot’s house. They were messengers from God. They said to Lot, “We have a message for you from God. He tells you to take your family and leave this town. Leave quietly at night. Go quickly.” The angels then left.

Lot and his family left the town quietly one night. They went on foot. One woman, however, did not want to leave the town. This was Lot’s wife. After Lot and his family left the town, stones and fire came from sky. They fell on the town and destroyed all the houses and buildings. They killed all the people in the town. They killed Lot’s wife also. Allah saved the lives of Lot and his family because he was a good man. God loved him.

The Foolish Dog

A dog once took a large piece of meat from a butcher shop. The butcher did not give it to him. He took it himself. He stole it.

The bad dog ran away with the meat between his teeth. He ran quickly, because he did not want the butcher to catch him and take the meat way from him.

On his way, he came to a river. He went near it and looked into the water. Of course, he saw himself there with the piece of meat on his mouth.

But he did not say,” That is my self in the water. ”Oh no! He said to himself, that is another dog with a nice piece of meat. I want that meat I will have it too.”

He opened his mouth to take the other piece of meat. Of course, when he did so, the piece of meat fell into the river; and so, instead of two pieces, the foolish dog got none.

The Fox and the Vineyard

A hungry fox went out to look for food. He walked along the country roads and came to a vineyard. Of course he wanted to get inside, but he could not do so because there was a high wall all round the place. He tried to climb over the wall but it was too high.

He walked round the wall and at one part saw a hole. “Ah!” he thought. “Now I can get inside.” He began to push himself through the hole, but he could not get through, because his body was too fat.

“There is only one thing for me to do,” he said at last. “I must become thinner.” For a whole day he did not eat anything and then he tried to get through the hole, but he was still too fat. He ate nothing for another day and still he did not become thin enough. At the end of the third day, he found that he could get through it.

At last he was inside the vineyard and could eat the fruit. The grapes were sweet and he ate as many as he could. He ate and he ate till he could eat no more. Then he went back to the hole and tried to get through. But alas! He could not do so. He was now too fat.

Poor fox! There was only one thing for him to do now. He had to stay in the vineyard with the fine fruits all around him and be hungry for thee whole days. At the end of that time, he became thin enough to get through the hole.

When finally he was walking away from the vineyard, he looked back and said, “O Vineyard! Vineyard! How fine you are and how sweet is your fruit! But of what use are you? I went in hungry and I came out hungry.”