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The Ant and the Dove

One hot day, an ant was seeking for some water. After walking around for a
moment, she came to a spring. To reach the spring, she had to climb up a
blade of grass. While making her way up, she slipped and fell unintentionally
into the water.
She could have sunk if a dove up a nearby tree had not seen her. Seeing
that the ant was in trouble, the dove quickly put off a leaf from a tree and
dropped it immediately into the water near the struggling ant. Then the ant
moved towards the leaf and climbed up there. Soon it carried her safely to dry
ground.
Not long after at that, there was a hunter nearby who was throwing out his
net towards the dove, hoping to trap it in this way. Guessing what he should
do, the ant quickly bit him on the heel. Feeling the pain, the hunter dropped
his net and the dove flew away quickly from this net.
The morality: One good turn deserves another.
Narrative Text
Description of Narrative text

A narrative text is an imaginative story to entertain


people (teks narasi adalah cerita imaginatif yang
bertujuan menghibur orang).
For example : folklore, folktale, and fable.
Purpose of The Text

To amuse the readers


To teach a lesson or moral
Generic Structure

Orientation
 It is about the opening paragraph where the characters of the story are
introduced, what is happening, when it is happening and where it is happening.
Complication
Where the problems in the story developed.
• Resolution
Where the problems in the story is solved.
• Coda
If a narrative text contains a moral message, it is told in the coda
Language Features

• Past tense (killed, drunk, etc)

• Adverb of time (Once upon a time, one day, etc)

• Action verbs. A verb that shows an action. (killed,


dug, walked, etc)

• Direct speech. It is to make the story lively. (Snow


White said,”My name is Snow White”). The direct
speech uses present tense.
1. THE SHEEP 2. The Fox and the Grapes

The Sheep is found in every quarter of the globe,


and is one of the most profitable animals that One afternoon there was a fox that was
mankind possesses. walking through the forest and spotted a
His flesh is eaten by the inhabitants of all nations, bunch of grapes hanging from over a lofty
and, as you know, is called mutton. branch. “Just the thing to quench my thirst,”
quoted the fox. Taking a few steps
The wool of the Sheep is very valuable, and most
backward, the fox jumped but unfortunately
of our clothing is made from it: that produced by
he missed the hanging grapes. Again the fox
the breed called Merino sheep is particularly fine, took a few paces backward, ran, and tried to
and fetches a high price. reach them but he still failed.
The skin is also of service, and forms covers for
many of your school-books. Sheep-washing and
shearing are busy times for the farmer, and are Finally, giving up, the fox turned up his nose
very interesting sights. and said, “They’re probably sour anyway,”
Young sheep are called lambs—you have often and proceeded to walk away.
seen the gentle little things skipping about in the
meadows.
TASK

Analisa generic structure dari text yang berjudul


Snow White !

Berikan contoh language feature past tense dan


direct speech dari text yang berjudul Snow White !
 
Apa moral value (nilai moral) yang dapat diambil
dari teks tersebut ?

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