NARRATIVE

TASK
A. Overview D. Language
Features

Narrative Task

B. Social C. Generic
Function Structure
Narrative task is an imaginary
story based on the writer’s
imagination

Kind of narrative task:

• Legend: berhubungan dengan tempat,
A.
orang (sangkuriang) OVERVIEW
• Fairytale: berhuungan dengan peri,
kurcaci/dongeng
• Folktale: berhubungan dengan budaya
suatu tempat
• Fable: berhubungan dengan hewan
• Myth: berhubungan dengan dewa-
dewa/mitos
 To entertain the
readers
B. SOCIAL
FUNCTIONS To give moral value
C. GENERIC STRUCTURE
1. Orientation 3. Resolution

This is the end of the story where

It introduces the main characters
the problem are solved.
of the story, place and time where
the story happened. (who,when,
where)
2. Complication 4. Re-Orientation/Coda

It shows the comment of the writer

It shows the problem, that occur or it present the moral value of the
in the story. story.
Simple past tense

Noun/noun phrase

Time conjunctions: then, when

D.
Adverb/adverbial phrase: there, one day LANGUAGE
FEATURES
Saying verbs: said, called

Direct and indirect speech

Action and thinking verbs

SIMPLE PAST TENSE

Started and finished in the past

Using verb 2/past tense (irregular verb and regular
verb)
• Irregular verb adalah kata kerja tidak beraturan (slept, hit, flew,
dll)
• Regular verb adalah kata kerja beraturan(watched, walked,
Nominal sentences, verbal sentences
cooked,dll)
 NOMINAL SENTENCES
Kalimat yang tidak menggunakan kata kerja.
Positif
S+tobe (was/were)+adverb/adjective/noun

Negatif WERE
(You, they, we)
S+tobe (was/were)+not+adverb/adjective/noun
WAS
(I, She, he ,it)
Interogatif

Tobe(was/were)+S+ adverb/adjective/noun+?
VERBAL SENTENCES
Kalimat yang menggunakan kata kerja
Positif
S+V2+O

Negatif
S+did not+V1+O

Introgatif
Did+S+V1+O+?
  Direct speech
Saying exactly what a person has said is called
direct speech. We write direct speech within
quotation marks (“….”).
He said “father, I really want to eat
DIRECT
a.
mangoes”
b. Udak replied “it is very difficult to find

AND mangoes”
 Indirect speech

INDIRECT A person reports what a person says to another

person. We do not write indirect speech within
quotation marks.

SPEECHES a. He said to his father that he really wanted

to eat mangoes.
b. Udak replied that it was very difficult to find
manggoes
 ACTION AND THINKING
VERBS
1. We will call this child
“issumboshi” they said.
2. They raised issumboshi with
much care.
The verbs in bold are action
verbs. Action verbs express
what a person, animal, object or
force of nature can do. Action
verbs refer to the verbs of doing
and happening. Here are
examples of action: eat, put,
read, jump, etc
1. I wonder if your small body can
do anything.
The verbs in bold is a thinking
verb. Thinking verbs tell readers
about what the characters are
thinking about the events or what
they were thinking at the time.
Examples of thinking verbs:
believe, decide, forget, imagine,
etc.
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