narrative text and simple past tense

What is the purpose of Narrative Text?

• To tell the past event

• To describe particular thing

• To entertain the reader

• To notice someone

What is included in the type of narrative text?

• Poem

• Biography

• Novel

• Legend

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.

Choose which is NOT part of the generic structure in the narrative text!

• Complication

• Event

• Orientation

• Resolution

What is complication of the text?

• Where the problems in the story developed.

• Where the problems in the story is solved.

• Where the story is began.

• Where the story is ended.

What is the orientation of narrative text?

• The end paragraph of the story.

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

• The middle paragraph of the story.

• The social function of the text.

What is the dominant structure used in the narrative text ?

• Simple Present Tense

• Simple Past Tense

• Present Continuous Tense

• Passive Voice

The Bear and the Two Friends

Once, two friends were walking through the forest. They knew that anything dangerous can happen to them at any time in the forest. So they promised each other that they would remain united in case of danger.

Suddenly, they saw a large bear approaching then. One of the friends at once climbed a nearby tree. But the other one did not know how to climb. So being led by his common sense, he lay down on the ground breathless, pretending to be a dead man.

The bear came near the man lying on the ground. It smelt his ears and slowly left the place. Because the bear did not touch him, the friend on the tree came down and asked his friend on the ground, “Friend, what did the bear tell you into your ears?”The other friend replied, “He advised me not to believe a false friend.

What can we learn from the story above?

• We have to save ourselves

• Bear will not harm a dead man

• We have to learn how to climb

• A true friend always stand by us in ups and downs

Simple past tense using ....

• verb 1

• verb 2

• verb 3

• verb 1 + ing

To be for simple past tense is ...

• was, were

• am, is, are

• do, does

• did