Saturday, 25 May 2013

Narrative text



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Pre-reading activity

Hello my lovely students, how are you today?
Are you ready for the lesson ? I have a picture. Please look at the picture.


What do you think about this picture?

Do you know who is she?

She is cinderella. Have you ever heard about the story of cinderella?

Today we will learn about narrative text. Do you know what is narrative text?

Can you mention the examples of narrative text?

The examples of narrative text are snow white, Cinderella,and so on.
There are 4 common generic structure of narrative text, they are:
• Orientation: sees the scene and introduces the participants.
• Complication: a crisis arises.
• Resolution: the crisis is resolved, for better or for worse.

Some text also have the others, such as:
• Re-orientation: (optional)

• Coda: (optional) 





Whilst Reading
Students, I have the example of narrative text. Please read the text carefully.

 
 











    Let Me Love You

Once upon a time, there was once a guy named Romney who was very much in love with this girl, Julia. This romantic guy folded 1,000 pieces of paper cranes as a gift to his girl. Although, at that time he was just a small executive in his company, his future doesn't seem too bright,they were very happy together. Until one day, his girl told him she was going to Paris and will never come back. She also told him that she cannot visualise any future for the both of them, so let's go their own ways there and then heartbroken, the guy agreed.
When he regained his confidence, he worked hard day and night, just to make something out of himself. Finally with all these hard work and with the help of friends, this guy had set up his own company.
"You never fail until you stop trying." he always told himself. "I must make it in life!"One rainy day, while this guy was driving, he saw an elderly couple sharing an umbrella in the rain walking to some destination. Even with the umbrella, they were still drenched. It didn't take him long to realise those were his ex-girlfriend's parents. With a heart in getting back at them, he drove slowly beside the couple, wanting them to spot him in his luxury saloon. He wanted them to know that he wasn't the same anymore, he had his own company, car, condo, etc. He had made it in life!
Before the guy can realise, the couple was walking towards a cemetery, and he got out of his car and followed them and he saw his exgirlfriend, a photograph of her smiling sweetly as ever at him from her tombstone and he saw his precious paper cranes in a bottle placed beside her tomb. Her parents saw him. He walked over and asked them why this had happened. They explained that she did not leave for France at all. She was stricken ill with cancer. In her heart, she had believed that he will make it someday, but she did not want her illness to be his obstacle therefore she had chosen to leave him.
She had wanted her parents to put his paper cranes beside her, because, if the day comes when fate brings him to her again he can take some of those back with him. The guy just wept. 



Now, try to do this exercise. . . :-)





Fill in the blank » Test maker


Okay this is the end of our lesson. I hope it can be useful for you!

Any comment will be useful for me. So, please give me your comment. . .

 

 

3 comments:

TAUFIK ENGLISH said...

Hello Imaniar. .I'd like to give my view on your site.
Strength: The color of this website is so cute that makes visitors enjoy your site. The order of the lesson you made is easy to follow. There is also some additional touches that are very important in making it more interesting and eye-catching.
Weakness: Maybe, There is no audio.
Suggestion: It will be much better if you include some more exercises, a recording and give clearer introduction to your lesson.

Sakinatuzzahra said...

Hi maam, I am not really familiar with some words in the text. Can you help me? By giving some vocabulary drill? And why you made a sad ending story? Poor her.

Hi Tiwi! As a fellow teacher I think you forgot the essential part of your lesson which is generic structure of narrative text. And you should really consider your choice of story. If you were gonna use it for children then love theme wasn't really the best idea for them.

Hi Imaniar, as a reader I think you have an eye catching background. Considering that you took narative as your lesson, shouldn't you explain clearer what is narrative to your students?

Bowo Hafiedz Soffan said...

Right, we need vocabulary to ease our reading understanding. I would like suggest you also to make some materials in some pages to variate the blog content.