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Exercise 1: Write the generic structure of the narrative text below!

Timun mas

Long time ago in a small village, lived an old woman who named
Mbok Rondho. She lived alone, her husband died. She wanted to have
a child. So, one day, she met Buto Ijo to ask a child. Buto Ijo gived her
cucumber seed. He said if the cucumber seed was planted, it will grow
to be a big cucumber. And in the big cucumber, there was a beautiful
baby. Buto Ijo said again, “I want to take her when she is 16 years
old!” Mbok Rondho allowed.

She planted the seed in front of her house. In the next day she found
a big cucumber in her yard, and when she opened that cucumber
there was a beautiful baby named Timun Emas. Mbok Rondho was
holding the baby and sang “I love you, you love me, we are happy
family, with a great big hug, and a kiss from me to you, won’t you say
you love me to?” Timun Emas grew to be a beautiful lady. She was 16
years old. One day her mom said, “Timun Emas, you must go. Buto Ijo
want to take you! Bring this terasi and go quickly!!” Timun Emas was
very shocked, “What happend mom? I don’t know, please tell me..”
Mbok Rondho explained her meeting with Buto Ijo, Timun Emas said
“Ok mom, don’t worry! I’ll go quickly!”

In the next day, Timun emas went to the jungle. Oh yeah, she didn’t
forget to bring terasi to conquer Buto Ijo. In the jungle, Buto Ijo
searched her. “Timun Emas, Timun Emas! Where are you?” Timun
Emas was very scared. So when Buto Ijo found her, she threw her
terasi. And suddenly Buto Ijo sank in a muddy lake. Finally Buto Ijo
died there.
Finally, Timun Emas came back to her house and lived happily with
her mother.
Exercise 2: Identify the generic structure of the narrative text below. Drop the
text into correct part!
Finally, she was driven to the palace. The king’s son was overjoyed to see her
again. They were married and live happily ever after.

Cinderella

One day, the two step sister received an invitation to the ball that the king’s son
was going to give at the palace. They were excited about this and spent so much
time choosing the dresses they would wear. At last, the day of the ball came, and
away went the sisters to it. Cinderella could not help crying after they had left.
“Why are crying, Cinderella?” a voice asked. She looked up and saw her fairy
godmother standing beside her, “because I want so much to go to the ball” said
Cinderella. “Well” said the godmother,”you’ve been such a cheerful,
hardworking, uncomplaining girl that I am going to see that you do go to the
ball”.
Magically, the fairy godmother changed a pumpkin into a fine coach and mice
into a coachman and two footmen. Her godmother tapped Cinderella’s raged
dress with her wand, and it became a beautiful ball gown. Then she gave her a
pair of pretty glass slippers. “Now, Cinderella”, she said; “You must leave before
midnight”. Then away she drove in her beautiful coach.
Cinderella was having a wonderfully good time. She danced again and again
with the king’s son. Suddenly the clock began to strike twelve, she ran toward
the door as quickly as she could. In her hurry, one of her glass slipper was left
behind.
A few days later, the king’ son proclaimed that he would marry the girl whose
feet fitted the glass slipper. Her step sisters tried on the slipper but it was too
small for them, no matter how hard they squeezed their toes into it. In the end,
the king’s page let Cinderella try on the slipper. She stuck out her foot and the
page slipped the slipper on. It fitted perfectly.

Once upon a time, there was a young girl named Cinderella. She lived with her
step mother and two step sisters.
The step mother and sisters were conceited and bad tempered. They treated
Cinderella very badly. Her step mother made Cinderella do the hardest works in
the house; such as scrubbing the floor, cleaning the pot and pan and preparing
the food for the family. The two step sisters, on the other hand, did not work
about the house. Their mother gave them many handsome dresses to wear.
Drop the text above into correct part!

Title

Orientation

Complication

Resolution
Exercise 3: Put the structure of narrative text below into the right position
based on paragraph!
Pinocchio and Geppetto escaped on a raft. The puppet helped his
father to swim in the middle of the waves: and they finally reached
the shore! But as soon as they arrived Pinocchio, for the great effort Title
fainted. Grief-stricken, Geppetto took him home. The Blue Fairy,
awoke him and, as promised, rewarded his courage and his
goodness, by transforming Pinocchio into a real boy.

Once there was a carpenter called Geppetto. He made a wooden

That night, a good fairy heard him and made his wish to become real.
“Awake, wood inanimate, now you’ve got a soul!” she made her
magic spell touching Pinocchio with her magic wand. “Pinocchio ,
be always a good , brave and a selfless boy , ” said the Fairy , ” and
one day you’ll be a real boy ! ” Then, she addressed to Jiminy
Cricket: “I appoint you guide and counsellor of Pinocchio, ” she
added, before disappearing in a thousand flashes of light. Imagine
the delight of Geppetto when he discovered that his little man of
wood could move and talk! The next morning he sent him to school
like a real boy. “Goodbye, son, come back soon!”
Pinocchio was a little naughty so he disobeying her father went to
the terrible Eater, a puppeteer who promised to make him famous.
He enjoyed a lot of singing and dancing with the other puppets. But,
when the show was over, Eater shut him in a cage. Suddenly, there
appeared the Blue Fairy: “Why did not you go to school?” she
asked. Pinocchio answered with a lie and his nose began to grow.
Only when he told the truth, the Fairy freed him and his nose was Complication
back to normal. On the way home, Pinocchio saw a coach load of
kids cheering. The coachman told him that he was directed to
Toyland, where the kids could do whatever they wanted.
“Pinocchio, come back!” Jiminy Cricket ran after him. But the puppet
would not listen to him. There Pinocchio met a new boy Candlewick:
The two ate as many sweets as they could and enjoyed themselves
very much. But he soon discovered that in Toyland the lazy and rude
kids were turned into donkeys. When it began to spring two ears and
long tail, Pinocchio ran desperately, followed by his faithful friend.
Jiminy Cricket Together, then returned to the house of Geppetto , but
they found none. “Who knows what that happened to him!” At that
moment, a dove brought them a message: while Geppetto was
looking for Pinocchio everywhere, he was swallowed by a whale and
now he was his prisoner. “I want to save him!” decided the puppet.
Arriving at the sea, he dived an dived till he found his father in the
belly of the whale. But how to get out of there? So he lit a fire and the
smoke made the whale sneeze so strong that, she opened its mouth.

Pinocchio and carpenter Resolution