Narrative Text

Narrative text is a kind of text to retell the story that past tense. The purpose of the text is to entertain or to amuse the readers or listeners about the story.

Narrative Text adalah teks yang menceritakan sesuatu yang imajinatif atau sesuatu yang hanya khayalan belaka dan tujuannya hanya untuk menghibur pembaca.

Jenis-jenis Narrative Text 

Narrative Text mempunyai inti cerita yang biasanya hanya berupa imajinasi penulis atau kejadian nyata yang ditangkap oleh penulis atau bahkan bisa gabungan keduanya. Dalam berbagai sumber Narrative Text dapat ditemui dalam bentuk :

fables

fairy stories

mysteries

science fiction

romances

horror stories

legends

historical narratives

personal experience

ballads

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Generic Structure Narrative Text

a. Orientation

Yaitu pengenalan yang berupa : cerita tentang apa (what is the story about), siapa pelaku dalam cerita itu (who is the participant), dimana cerita itu terjadi (where is the place setting) dan kapan cerita itu terjadi (when is the time setting).

b. Complication atau Problem

Yaitu pada paragraf ini yang menjadi inti dari narrative text. Tanpa ada permasalahan, text ini hanyalah berupa paparan peristiwa satu yang diikuti dengan peristiwa yang lain. Masalah yang timbul dapat dibedakan menjadi :

- Natural Conflict

Yaitu permasalahan yang timbul karena pelaku cerita berhadapan dengan kekuatan alam.

- Social Conflict

Yaitu permasalahan yang timbul karena para pelaku itu saling berhadapan. Mereka bertemu pada waktu yang sama dengan berbeda kepentingan.

- Psychological Conflict

Yaitu Permasalahan yang timbul ketika pelaku cerita itu berhadapan dengan dirinya sendiri. Pertentangan antara nilai baik dan buruk, antara sifat rakus dan tenggang rasa.

c.Resolution
Yaitu masalah dapat diatasi. Dalam Narrative text, setiap permasalahan yang muncul harus ada penyelesaiannya, bisa ditutup dengan akhir yang menyenangkan (happy ending) atau tidak sedikit berakhir tragis, menyedihkan (sad ending).

d.Re-Orientation 
Hanya untuk Optional .

Ciri Kebahasaan Narrative Text

Menggunakan Pola Kalimat Simple Past Tense.

Biasanya dimulai dengan kata keterangan waktu (Adverbs of Time) . Seperti : long time ago..., once, one, once upon a time.

Contoh Narrative Text

The Purse of Gold

A beggar found a leather purse that someone had dropped in a market place. Opening it, he discovered that it contained 100 pieces of gold. Then he heard a merchant shouted, "A reward! A reward to the one who find my leather purse!"

Being an honest man, the beggar came forward and handed the purse to the merchant saying, "Here is your purse. Will you keep your word to give a reward now?"

"Reward?" scoffed the merchant greedily counting the amount of gold. "The purse I dropped had 200 pieces of gold in it. You've already stolen more than the reward I'll give to you.! Go away or I'll tell you to the police."

"I'm an honest man," said the beggar defiantly. "Let's take this matter to the court!"

 In the court, the judge patiently listened to both sides of the story and said, "I believe you both. Justice is possible! Merchant, you stated that the purse you lost contained 200 pieces of gold. Well, that's a considerable cost. But the purse the beggar found had only 100 pieces of gold. Therefore, it couldn't be the one you lost."

Telaga Warna

           The king of a famous kingdom in Cipanas, West Java, is very wise man. He has a beautiful daughter. The king and queen love their daughter so much.
           But all their love is not enough for the princess. Even though they give her everything, she is not happy. All the jewelries that they have are not enough for her. She is not satisfied with her gorgeous look either.
           The princess then has an idea. She plans to put all the jewelries that they have in every single hair in her head. She wants to be the most beautiful girl in the world.So the princess goes to see her mother and father and tell them about her plan. She is very sure they will not say no.
The king is surprised to hear about his daughter plan. He tries to convince her that her plan is not proper.
          "My Daughter, the beauty of a princess is not measured by her clothes or by the jewelry she is wearing, but by her attitude. It's not that we don't love you, but what will people think if you go through with your plan?" says the king.
          The princess is shocked to hear that. So she runs to her room to get her jewelry box. Then she returns to her parents.
          She screams: "You are so miserly. Here, I am returning the every single jewelry you ever gave me." She throes her jewelry box to her father. The wise king is outraged seeing his daughter did.
"You are ungrateful daughter!"
          Suddenly, the floor of the palace erupts and water pours out from the crack. In a matter of second the palace if flooded, drowning the ungrateful princess and her jewelry. The palace then replace by a lake.
         The lake always reflects multiple colors to its surrounding. Some say the colors come from the princess's jewelry. The lake is known as Telaga Warna that means colorful lake.

Snow White

In earlier times there lived a , who named Snow White . He lived with his aunt and uncle because his parents died . One day she heard her uncle and aunt talking about leaving Snow White in the castle because they wanted to go to America and they did not have enough money to take Snow White with them . princess Snow White did not want her uncle and aunt to do this . So he decided to escape .

            The next day he ran away from home when her aunt and uncle were having breakfast , he fled into the wood . In the wood she felt very tired and hungry . Then she saw this cottage . She knocked but no one answered her so she went inside and felt asleep Meanwhile seven dwarfs came home from his work . They get into . There, they found Snow White woke up from his sleep . He saw the dwarfs . The dwarf said : " What is your name ? ' Snow White said , " My name is Snow White . " One dwarf said , " If you want , you can stay here with us . ' Snow White tells all about her story . Then daughter snow and the seven dwarves are now living happily ever after .

Recount Text

Recount Text is a text that retells about the experience in the past time.

Social Function is to retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining

Recount Text adalah salah satu jenis text dalam bahasa Inggris yang menceritakan kembali tentang kejadian-kejadian atau pengalaman-pengalaman di masa lampau. Tujuan dari Recount Text adalah untuk memberikan informasi atau untuk menghibur pembaca sehingga tidak terdapat konflik.

Macam-macam Recount Text :

a. Personal Recount

Yaitu menceritakan tentang pengalaman pribadi penulis

b. Factual Recount

Yaitu laporan peristiwa yang benar-benar terjadi, seperti laporan percobaan ilmu pengetahuan, laporan kepolisian.

c. Imaginative

Yaitu membuat cerita imaginative lalu menuliskan peristiwa atau kejadian yang telah terjadi.

Struktur  Recount Text (Generic Structure) adalah:

a. Orientation

Memberikan informasi tentang siapa, dimana dan kapan peristiwa atau kejadian itu terjadi di masa lampau.

b. Events

Peristiwa yang terjadi, biasanya disampaikan dalam urutan kronologis, seperti : "In the first day... . And in the next day... . And in the last day... ." Pada bagian ini terdapat juga komentar pribadi tentang peristiwa atau kejadian yang diceritakan.

c. Reorientation

Pengulangan pengenalan yang ada di orientation, pengulangan tentang rangkuman peristiwa atau kejadian yang diceritakan.

Ciri Kebahasaan Recount Text.

a. Menggunakan kalimat dalam bentuk  Past Tense.

   Contoh : We went to Bandung last year, I was very happy.

b. Menggunakan Action Verbs.

    Contoh : went, bought, wrote, slept, dll.

c. Menggunakan Adverbs and Adverbial Phrase untuk mengungkapkan waktu, tempat dan cara.

    Contoh : yesterday, at school, quickly, dll.

d. Menggunakan Conjunction dan Time Connectives untuk mengurutkan peristiwa atau kejadian.

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Contoh Recount Text.

Last Friday, a friend of mine asked. me to accompany him to buy a new shirt at a department store. We left home at 03.00 p.m. by motorcycle. As soon as we arrived there, we went to the clothes section. I let him choose one. An hour later,      I got bored watching him confused in choosing a shirt. So I left him and went to the cassette counter. Thirty minutes later, I went back to the clothes section but             I couldn't find him there. My cell phone was broken so I couldn't call him. I went to the parking area. I saw his motorcycle was there but I couldn't find him. I waited for him for a few moments then finally I gave up and decided to go home.

When I arrived home, my mother told me that my friend called. She said that he was in the department store looking for me. My mother asked me to come back to the department store. Reluctantly, I walked to the department store and you know what? When I arrived there his motorcycle was not in the parking area. He just went home. I was very tired. There was no other choice, 1 had to walk home again. When I arrived home, I was so tired. I was very angry but when I saw my friend's broad smile greet me in front of the door, I just could not help laughing.

Last week, Mr. Rahmat’s wife had an accident. Her youngest child, Amir, was at home when it happened. He was playing football. Suddenly Amir heard his mother calling, “ Help! Help!” He ran to the kditchen. His mother had burnt herself with some hot cooking oil. She was crying with pain and the pan was on fire. Mr. Rahmat had gone to his office . The other children had gone to school.

   

            Amir was too small to help his mother, and she was too frightened to speak sensibly to him. But he ran to the neighbour’s house and asked his neighbour to come and help his mother. The neighbour soon put out the fire and took Amir’s mother to the hospital.

   When Mr. Rahmat came home, his wife told him what had happened . He was very pr oud of his son, “When you are a man, you will be just like your father,” she said.

Last Lebaran holiday I and my family went to my grandparents’ house. It is located in a small village on the slope of Mount Lawu. The village is very quiet and the scenery is very beautiful.

One morning, I and my cousins took for a walk in the garden. Suddenly we saw a nest of bees. It was hanging on a mango tree. One of my cousins said, “Let’s throw it”. All of us agreed with his idea. We took some stones and threw it. The nest broke down into pieces and thousands of bees flew out. They were very angry. The bees chased us. We run as fast as possible. We shouted and shouted for help but there was no one helped us. Fortunately there was a river. Without thinking too long, we jumped into the river. The bees didn’t chase us anymore. They flew away.

That Sunday evening I felt very tired after hanging out the whole day with my friends at the mall. As soon as I arrived home, I hung my jacket on a hanger and got ready to take a rest. Suddenly I remembered that I had to call a friend. I looked for my cell phone everywhere but couldn’t find it. I was getting panicky. I asked everyone in the house whether they knew where my cell phone was but no one knew. Well, I lost it I thought. Then I had an idea. I asked my brother to call my cell phone. To my surprise, I heard it ringing in my jacket. My cell phone was there.

Procedure Text

A procedural text is a text which gives instructions on how to do something.

Teks Procedure yaitu jenis text dalam bahasa Inggris yang menunjukan proses dalam membuat sesuatu yang bertujuan untuk menggambarkan bahwa sesuatu dikerjakan sesuai dengan aturan melalui langkah-langkah yang jelas teratur.

Kegunaanya untuk memberikan petunjuk mengenai cara-cara melakukan sesuatu dengan  urutan yang benar.

Struktur Procedure Text (Generic Structure) adalah:

1. Aim

tujuan dalam pembuatan sesuatu

2. Materials

bahan-bahan yang digunakan, tetapi ada juga Procedure Text yang tidak memerlukan bahan-bahan. Misalnya : How to use the computer (Bagaimana menggunakan komputer).

3. Steps

langkah-langkah atau urutan yang harus dilakukan supaya tujuan tercapai.

Ciri Kebahasaan Procedure Text

Tenses yang digunakan dalam membentuk kalimat adalah Simple Present Tense.

Menggunakan kalimat perintah atau imperative.

Menggunakan kata penghubung atau connectives untuk mengurutkan langkah-langkahnya.

Menggunakan kata keterangan atau adverbials untuk menyataakan rincian waktu, tempat dan cara yang akurat.

Menggunakan action verbs.

Sunrise Salad

Ingredients:

Some apples

Some manggoes

A banana

A cup of yoghurt

Some mint leaves

Tools

A knife

A large bowl

A small bowl

Steps:

1.    Wash the fruit and let them dry.

2.    Cut the Fruits in half on two slices.

3.    Combine all the fruit in a large bowl and mix them.

4.    Take three spoonfuls of mixed fruit and put them in a small bowl.

5.    Add a bit of yoghurt on top of the fruit salad.

6.    Place a small bundle of mint leaves on the yoghurt as a garnish.

7.    Sunrise salad is ready to serve.