Narrative text

1.What is the most suitable definition for narrative text?

•      a text that explains how something happens or how something looks, often by using pictures or illustrations

• text that provides information about facts, data or knowledge presented in an objective manner.

• a text that tells a story or series of events with the aim of entertaining or providing an experience to the reader.

•        texts that aim to convince or influence readers of a particular argument or view.

2. Which is the correct order of narrative text structure?

•    Orientation-complication-reorientation-resolution

•    Complication-orientation-resolution-reorientation

•   Orientation-complication-resolution-reorientation

•   Reorientation-resolution-complication-orientation

Read the following text to answer questions  3-6

The Legend of Toba Lake

 

Once upon a time, in North Sumatra, there lived a young farmer named Toba. One day, while fishing in the river, he caught a giant fish. To his surprise, the fish could talk and asked Toba to let it go. In return, the fish promised to transform into a beautiful woman named Samosir, and they eventually got married.

 

Samosir agreed to marry Toba under one condition: he should never tell anyone that she had been a fish. They lived happily and had a son named Samosir, like his mother. One day, Toba got angry with his son and, forgetting his promise, shouted that Samosir was the son of a fish. Hearing this, Samosir was deeply hurt. She took her son and returned to the river. Suddenly, the sky turned dark, and it started raining heavily. The valley where Toba lived became filled with water, forming a lake which is now known as Lake Toba. The island in the middle of the lake is named Samosir Island

3.What is the main setting of this story?

• A forest in Java

    

   

•   A valley in Sumatra

    

•   A mountain in Bali

        

•        A beach in Borneo

   

4.Who is Samosir?

  

•    Toba's sister

    

    

• Toba's wife

    

•  Toba's mother

• Toba daughter

5.What was the name of their son?

• Toba

• Samosir

• Toba Jr.

• Sumatran

6.What moral lesson can we learn from this story?

• Always keep your promises

     

• Never catch giant fish

    

•  Always listen to your parents

•   Be careful when fishing

7. 7.What is the climax of the story?

• Toba catching the fish

• Toba and Samosir getting married

• Toba breaking his promise and Samosir returning to the river

• The formation of Lake Toba

Read the following text to answer questions  8-10

The Two Horses and the Robbers

Two horses were on the same path. The first, who worked for a miller, was loaded with oats. 

The other was owned by a banker and carried a chest full of golden coins. Because of this, it trotted along the way proudly, full of itself.

Hearing the clinking, some robbers realized that it was carrying treasure. 

As they stole it, they beat the horse badly with sticks. “You see,” explained the first horse. “Being rich and important has its drawn backs.”

8.Why did the second horse trot along the way proudly?

• Because it was strong

• Because it carried oats

• Because it carried golden coins

• Because it was courageous

9.Whom did the first horse work for?

• A robber

• A banker

• A miller

• A thief

10. "... that it was carrying treasure." The word 'it' refers to...

• The robber

• The banker

• The first horse

• The second horse