A Legend (Narrative Text)

From these Narrative Stories, which one IS NOT a legend?

• Rapunzel

• Robin hood

• Bloody Mary

• Batu Menangis

• Tangkuban Perahu

What is the picture telling about?

• It is a legend story

• It is a romantic story

• It is a myth story

• It is a fairy tale story

• It is a fable story

What is the social function of the narrative text?

• to tell stories or past events and entertain the readers.

• to tell stories or future events and share to the readers.

• to tell stories or past events and inform the readers.

• to tell stories or present events and inform the readers.

• to tell stories or present events and entertain the readers.

What is A LEGEND text?

• A story from the past which cannot be proven but many people believe.

• A real-life story to entertain readers or listeners.

• A story which tells about animals and their life in order to give a lesson.

• A story tells about past experience in order to inform people.

• An imaginative story to entertain people.

What is the orientation of narrative text?

• The opening paragraph where the characters of the story are introduced.

• The social function of the text.

• The title of the text which represent the whole text.

• The middle paragraph of the story which is the core of the text.

• The end paragraph of the story which contains of moral value.

Why was it hard for the princess to choose one of the princes?

• She was afraid of the dangerous risk.

• All the princes were kind and handsome.

• Her father permitted her to marry.

• All the princes were powerful.

• She loved all the princes.

“Six of them came to Teberu and ask for her hand of marriage.”

The underlined phrase can be replaced by ….

• Propose

• accompany

• Promise

• Admit

• Intend

An Algerian king named Bauakas wanted to find out whether or not it was true, as he had been told, that in one of his cities lived a just judge who could instantly discern the truth, and from whom no rogue was ever able to conceal himself. Bauakas exchanged clothes with a merchant and went on horseback to the city where the judge lived. At the entrance to the city a cripple approached the king and begged alms of him. Bauakas gave him money and was about to continue on his way, but the cripple clung to his clothing. “What do you wish?” asked the king. “Haven’t I given you money?” “You gave me alms,” said the cripple, “now grant me one favour. Let me ride with you as far as the city square, otherwise the horses and camels may trample me.” Bauakas sat the cripple behind him on the horse and took him as far as the city square.

Why didn't Bauakas want to be recognized?

• He wanted to see the judge at work in his usual way, uninfluenced by the presence of the king.

• He wanted to be a merchant in order to release his boredom days as a king.

• He wanted to see if he would still be obeyed when he was an “ordinary” person.

• He planned to appear in a case before the judge, disguised as a merchant.

• He enjoyed disguising himself so he could move about freely and play tricks on his subjects.

The following day many people gathered in court to hear the judge’s decisions. First came the scholar and the peasant. “Take your wife,” the judge said to the scholar, “and the peasant shall be given fifty strokes of the lash.” The scholar took his wife, and the peasant was given his punishment. Then the judge called the butcher. “The money is yours,” he said to him. And pointing to the oil merchant he said: “Give him fifty strokes of the lash.”

When the judge left the court and went home, Bauakas followed him. “What do you want?” asked the judge. “Are you not satisfied with my decision?” “I am satisfied,” said Bauakas. “But I should like to learn how you knew that the woman was the wife of the scholar, that the money belonged to the butcher, and that the horse was mine and not the beggar’s.” “This is how I knew about the woman: in the morning I sent for her and said: ‘Please fill my inkwell.’ She took the inkwell, washed it quickly and deftly, and filled it with ink; therefore, it was work she was accustomed to. If she had been the wife of the peasant she would not have known how to do it. This showed me that the scholar was telling the truth. “And this is how I knew about the money: I put it into a cup full of water, and in the morning I looked to see if any oil had risen to the surface. If the money had belonged to the oil merchant, it would have been soiled by his oily hands. There was no oil on the water; therefore, the butcher was telling the truth.

How did the judge know that the woman was the wife of the scholar?

• By testing her skill in work that she needed to perform for her husband.

• By asking her who was actually her husband.

• By observing her appearance and seeing that she did not look like a peasant’s wife.

• By the way the scholar and the peasant told their stories in court.

• By the way she reacted to the peasant and the scholar in court.

1. After coming back to life, Xu Xian still maintains his love for Bai Suzhen despite knowing her true nature. Fahai tries to separate them again by capturing Xu Xian and imprisoning him in Jinshan Temple. Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing fight with Fahai to rescue Xu Xian. During the battle, Bai Suzhen uses her powers to flood the temple, causing collateral damage and drowning many innocent people in the process. However, her powers are limited because she is already pregnant with Xu Xian's child, so she fails to save her husband. Xu Xian later manages to escape from Jinshan Temple and reunite with his wife in Hangzhou, where Bai Suzhen gives birth to their son, Xu Mengjiao (許夢蛟). Fahai tracks them down, defeats Bai Suzhen and imprisons her in Leifeng Pagoda. Xiaoqing flees, vowing vengeance.

2. In the meantime, the terrapin spirit has accumulated enough powers to take human form, so he transforms into a Buddhist monk called Fahai (法海). Still angry with Bai Suzhen, Fahai plots to break up her relationship with Xu Xian. He approaches Xu Xian and tells him that during the Duanwu Festival his wife should drink realgar wine, an alcoholic drink commonly consumed during that festival. Bai Suzhen unsuspectingly drinks the wine and reveals her true form as a large white snake. Xu Xian dies of shock after seeing that his wife is not human. Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing travel to Mount Emei, where they brave danger to steal a magical herb that restores Xu Xian to life.

3. Twenty years later, Xu Mengjiao earns the position of zhuangyuan (top scholar) in the imperial examination and returns home in glory to visit his parents. At the same time, Xiaoqing, who had spent the intervening years refining her powers, goes to Jinshan Temple to confront Fahai and defeats him. Bai Suzhen is freed from Leifeng Pagoda and reunited with her husband and son, while Fahai flees and hides inside the stomach of a crab. There is a saying that a crab's internal fat is orange because it resembles the colour of Fahai's kasaya.

4. Eighteen years later, during the Qingming Festival, the white and green snakes transform themselves into two young women called Bai Suzhen (白素貞) and Xiaoqing (小青), respectively. They meet Xu Xian at the Broken Bridge in Hangzhou. Xu Xian lends them his umbrella because it is raining. Xu Xian and Bai Suzhen gradually fall in love and are eventually married. They move to Zhenjiang, where they open a medicine shop.

5. Lü Dongbin, one of the Eight Immortals, disguises himself as a tangyuan vendor at the Broken Bridge near the West Lake in Hangzhou. A boy called Xu Xian (許仙) buys some tangyuan from Lü Dongbin without knowing that they are actually immortality pills. After eating them, he does not feel hungry for the next three days so he goes back to ask the vendor why. Lü Dongbin laughs and carries Xu Xian to the bridge, where he flips him upside-down and causes him to vomit the tangyuan into the lake.

6. In the lake, there is a white snake spirit who has been practising Taoist magical arts. She eats the pills and gains 500 years' worth of magical powers. She, therefore, feels grateful to Xu Xian and their fates become intertwined. There is another terrapin (or tortoise) spirit also training in the lake who did not manage to consume any of the pills; he is very jealous of the white snake. One day, the white snake sees a beggar on the bridge who has caught a green snake and wants to dig out the snake's gall and sell it. The white snake transforms into a woman and buys the green snake from the beggar, thus saving the green snake's life. The green snake is grateful to the white snake and she regards the white snake as an elder sister

The best arrangement of the text above is …

• 5 – 6 – 4 – 2 – 1 – 3

• 6 – 5 – 2 – 1 – 4 – 3

• 5 – 6 – 1 – 4 – 2 – 3

• 6 – 5 – 2 – 4 – 1 – 3

• 5 – 1 – 4 – 2 – 3 – 1