To start our lesson, please watch the video. In this video you will see and listen to a story of The Legend of Mount Tangkuban Perahu. The video is available in audio and subtitle. I hope you will enjoy it. While watching, you can also imagine how each characters feels to go through their experience.
If you need the script of the story, you can read it below.
Or, if you prefer a foreign legend, you may watch this one. It's the Cinderella Story.
While watching, you can also imagine how each characters feels to go through their experience.
So, Sahabat Belajar, what is the text type of the text in the video?
To learn more about the the type of the text in the first and the second video, please watch the following one.
If you are unable to play the video, you can also learn through the script below.
According to Cambridge Dictionary, narrative is a story or description of series of events. So, sahabat belajar, narrative text is a text containing a story or description of series of events. Teks naratif (narrative text) adalah teks yang berisi cerita atau deskripsi dari rentetan peristiwa atau kejadian.
Secara harfiah, narrative text adalah jenis teks cerita yang bersifat imajinatif dan juga menggambarkan rangkaian peristiwa dari waktu ke waktu dijabarkan dari awal, tengah, dan akhir. Narrative text merupakan teks yang bersifat kronologis, yaitu teks yang menceritakan suatu kejadian secara runtut.
Menurut sahabat, kita mendengar atau membaca cerita untuk apa ya? That’s right. Untuk menghibur kita. Narrative text bertujuan untuk menghibur dan menarik minat pembaca.
Narrative text menyajikan cerita atau peristiwa yang memiliki masalah. Masalah tersebut dapat menimbulkan konflik dan pada akhir cerita ada resolusinya dan memiliki akhir yang menyedihkan maupun bahagia. So, sahabat belajar, the social function of narrative text is to entertain the listeners or the readers.
Setiap jenis teks bahasa Inggris (genre) memiliki struktur teksnya sendiri-sendiri. Struktur narrative text terdiri dari tiga bagian atau generic structure yaitu sebagai berikut:
The generic structure of narrative text:
Orientation or commonly called the introduction, contains about who, when, where a story is set. Orientation disebut juga sebagai pengenalan. Pada bagian ini berisi tentang pengenalan tokoh dalam cerita serta waktu dan tempat kejadiannya.
Complication tells the story of the beginning of the problem that causes the peak of the problem or what is commonly called the climax. This section usually involves the main character of the story. Complication atau komplikasi merupakan gambaran munculnya krisis atau masalah yang dialami oleh para tokoh pada cerita. Krisis tersebut harus dipecahkan oleh para tokoh.
Resolution contains the end of the story or a solution to the problem that occurs. Problems can be solved for better or worse which will make the story have a happy ending or vice versa. Resolution atau resolusi merupakan bagian yang berisi bagaimana tokoh dari cerita tersebut memecahkan masalah. Biasanya terdapat lebih dari satu resolution untuk satu complication.
Language features of narrative text:
Simple Past: Simple past tense is used to talk about an event that happened in the past and ended in the past in a specific time.
e.g. Then Sangkuriang went to the wood with his arrow and his faithful dog, Tumang.
Adverbs of Time: Adverbs of time tell us when something happened.
e.g. Once upon a time, in West Java, there lived a wise king who had a beautiful daughter.
Direct and indirect speech
Direct speech is used to repeat what someone said
e.g. “Sangkuriang, why was there a scar on your head?” asked Dayang Sumbi.
Indirect speech is used to report what someone said.
e.g. Sangkuriang asked Dayang Sumbi to marry with him.
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