NARRATIVE TEXT

Narrative text from Fuzi Ha

Once upon a time there lived a good king and his queen. They had no children for many years and were very sad.

Then one day, the queen gave birth to a lovely baby girl and the whole kingdom was happy. There was a grand celebration and all the fairies in the kingdom were invited. But the king forgot to invite an old fairy. She came to the celebrations but was very angry. Soon it was time to gift the baby with special wishes. The good fairies wished her well and said, “May she grow to be the most beautiful girl in the world! She will sing sweetly and dance so well! She will live happily!” All the fairies blessed the baby and gave her beautiful gifts.

When it was the old fairy’s turn, she said, “When the baby is sixteen she will touch a spindle, and die!” The king and queen were shocked and begged the fairy to forgive them and take her words back but the fairy refused to do so. When the other fairies saw the king and queen crying, they said, “We cannot undo what the old fairy has spoken. But we certainly can make it different. Your child shall not die when she touches the spindle. But she will fall into a deep sleep for a hundred years. Then, a prince will come along and wake her up.” Hearing this, the king and the queen were relieved. The king forbade everyone from spinning so that the princess would never touch a spindle.

The princess grew up to be a kind girl and helped people in need. Everybody loved her. Years passed. When the princess was sixteen years old, she was walking in the woods when she saw an old lady spinning. “What is this? May I try?” she asked The old lady said, “Of course, my pretty little child!” And the princess sat down to spin. But the moment she touched the spindle, she fell to the floor in a deep slumber. The old lady took her back to the palace and the king and queen laid her on her bed and tucked her in. They were very sad and called the good fairies. The fairies felt sorry for them and cast a spell over the whole kingdom so that when the princess woke up after a hundred years, she would not be alone in the palace. Everyone, including the guards and the servants and the animals were now fast asleep. For a hundred years, they all slept soundly.

A hundred years passed. There came a prince from a far off land. He, along with his servants, went deep into the forest and crossed many rivers. Once the prince lost his way and was separated from the rest of the travelers. He came to the sleeping kingdom and was amazed. The guards, the servants, the cats and the cows were all fast asleep and snoring.

The prince reached the palace and entered it. No one moved. The prince then found the sleeping princess. She was such a beautiful girl that the prince kissed her. By that time, a hundred years had passed by and everyone was waking up, one by one. The princess yawned and opened her eyes. She saw the prince and smiled. She asked him “Are you my prince?” He was happy to hear her speak. The prince and the princess fell in love with each other. The prince wanted to marry the princess so they went to ask for permission from their parents.

The king and the queen arranged for a royal wedding. All the clothes the bride wore were a hundred years old, but she looked beautiful. Soon, they were married and then they rode away to the prince’s kingdom far, far away.

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Narrative Text

Narrative Text is a story with complication or problematic events and it tries to find the resolutions to solve the problems. An important part of narrative text is the narrative mode, the set of methods used to communicate the narrative through a process of narration.

The Purpose of Narrative Text is to amuse or to entertain the reader with the story.

Generic Structures of Narrative Text

1) Orientation

Sets the scene: where and when the story happened and introduces the participants of the story: who and what is involved in the story.

2) Complication

Tells the beginning of the problems which leads to the crisis (climax) of the main participants.

3) Resolution

The problem (the crisis) is resolved, either in a happy ending or in a sad (tragic) ending.

4) Re-orientation/Coda

This is a closing remark to the story and it is optional. It consists  of  a  moral  lesson or  advice from  the writer.

Source: http://guruberbagirasa.blogspot.com/2013/06/narrative-text-definition-purposes.html

 

Speaking Test

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TEST!
 
Retell the Story that You Have Already Made !

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Writing Narrative Text

TASK : Create a narrative story (fairy tales) based on your own words!

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Trailer of Cinderella

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Beauty and the Beast Trailer
Sleeping Beauty Trailer
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Snow White Trailer
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Narrative Text

Cinderella

Once upon a time, there was a girl called Cinderella. Cinderella was lived happily with her mother and father until her mother died. Felt that Cinderella needed a mother figure in her life, Cinderella’s father remarried to a woman who has two daughters of her own.








Unfortunately, Cinderella's father died and she lived only with her stepmother and stepsisters. They were very bossy, she had to do all the housework.
One day, an invitation to the hall came to the family. The King invited for all the eligible ladies in the kingdom as to find Prince a wife. Her stepsisters would no let her go. Cinderella was so sad. The stepsisters went to the hall without her.






Fortunately, the fairy Godmother came and helped her to get to the hall with the wave of magic wand, helped prepared Cinderella for the hall. The fairy warned her that the magic would end at a stroke of midnight, so she must leaved the hall before that.
At the hall all people surprised when Cinderella arrived.

And then the Prince invited Cinderella to danced. He fell in love with her.
All of a sudden, the clock started to chime that is a midnight. Cinderella hastily ran away, dropped a glass shoes as she did so. Cinderella escaped, with nothing from the night left, except from the other glass shoes, which had not changed back.






Prince Charming ordered his love to be found by means of the odd shoe, and the Grand Duke was sent around the land getting every girl in the land to try on the glass shoe to see if it fits.
Eventually the Grand Duke reached the residence of Cinderella, but she was nowhere to be seen. The stepsisters frantically tried to get the glass shoe to fit so as to wed into royalty, but compatible nothing that. The Grand Duke was about to leave as Cinderella finally appeared.

He ordered the messenger to brought forth the glass shoe, yet the stepmother in a last minute attempted to prevent her stepdaughter from better things, caused the messenger to trip, thus broken the fragile shoe into pieces. Yet the arrogant woman hadn't bet on Cinderella produced the other glass shoe, which fits onto Cinderella's foot perfectly.






Very soon, wedding bells rang, and Cinderella married her prince, and they lived happily ever after.

Source of the story: http://chillachindiza.blogspot.com/2010/03/narrative-cinderella-story-english.html