MATERI BAHASA INGGRIS KELAS IX

NARRATIVE TEXT
A. Description of Narrative Text
Narrative text merupakan salah satu jenis teks yang bercerita mengenai rangkaian peristiwa
secara kronologis serta saling terhubung. Sifat narrative text adalah imajinatif atau berupa cerita
fiktif (karangan) yang memiliki tujuan untuk menghibur pembaca.
B. Generic Structure of Narrative Text
Narrative text memiliki tiga unsur utama yang harus ada dalam sebuah cerita narrative text,
berikut penjelasannya.

 Orientation, merupakan paragraf awal yang berisi mengenai perkenalan tokoh yang terlibat
dalam suatu kejadian dalam cerita. Selain itu orientation berisi tempat kejadian serta waktu
cerita.
 Complication, terdiri atas paragraf yang menjelaskan mengenai awal mula peristiwa atau
kejadian. Awal mula peristiwa tersebut menjadi rentetan alur cerita yang kemudian berlanjut
pada konflik, klimaks serta anti klimaks.
 Resolution, merupakan bagian akhir cerita. Sesuai namanya, pada struktur ketiga dari
narrative text ini berisi penyelesaian.

C. Language Features fo Narrative Text

Narrative text juga memiliki unsur kebahasaan atau language feature yang terdiri atas 7 unsur
sebagai berikut.

1. Menggunakan past tense, contohnya dengan menggunakan verb 3 seperti killed, drunk, won,
sent dan lainnya.
2. Menggunakan keterangan waktu atau adverb of time, contohnya when, suddenly, before,
until, soon.
3. Menggunakan konjungsi waktu atau time conjunction, contohnya after, as soon as, then.
4. Menggunakan karakter spesifik atau specific character, contohnya Aladin, Rapunzel,
Cinderella.
5. Kata kerja aksi atau action verbs, contohnya walked, wrote, bought, talked.
6. Menggunakan direct speech atau kalimat langsung yang menggunakan present tense,
contohnya Aladin say, “she is the one”
7. Menggunakan saying and thinking verb atau kata kerja yang menunjukan ujaran, contohnya
told, said, thought.
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NARRATIVE TEXT (SANGKURIANG)

Orientation
Long time ago in West Java, lived a beautiful girl named Dayang Sumbi. She was also smart and
clever. Her beauty and intelligence made a prince from the heavenly kingdom of Kahyangan
desire her as his wife. The prince asked permission from his father to marry Dayang Sumbi.
People from Kahyangan could never live side by side with humans, but his father approved on
one condition, when they had a child, the prince would transform into a dog. The prince accepted
the condition.

Complication
They get married and lived happily in the woods until Dayang Sumbi gave birth to a baby boy.
The prince then changed into a dog named Tumang. Their son is named Sangkuriang. He was
very smart and handsome like his father. Everyday, he hunted animals and looked for fruits to
eat. One day, when he was hunting, Sangkuriang accidentally killed Tumang. His arrow missed
the deer he was targeting and hit Tumang instead. He went home and tells her mother about the
dog. “What?” Dayang Sumbi was appalled. Driven by sadness and anger, she grabbed a weaving
tool and hit Sangkuriang’s head with it. Dayang Sumbi was so sad; she didn’t pay any attention
to Sangkuriang and started to cry.
Sangkuriang feel sad and also confused. How can his mother love a dog more than him?
Sangkuriang then decided to go away from their home and went on a journey. In the morning,
Dayang Sumbi finally stopped crying. She started to feel better, so she went to find Sangkuriang.
But her son was no where to be found. She looked everywhere but still couldn’t find him.
Finally, she went home with nothing. She was exhausted. She fell asleep, and in her dream, she
meets her husband. “Dayang Sumbi, don’t be sad. Go look for my body in the woods and get the
heart. Soak it with water, and use the water to bathe, and you will look young forever,” said the
prince in her dream. After bathing with the water used to soak the dog’s heart, Dayang Sumbi
looked more beautiful and even younger.
And time passed by. Sangkuriang on his journey stopped at a village and met and fell in love
with a beautiful girl.He didn’t realize that the village was his homeland and the beautiful girl was
his own mother, Dayang Sumbi. Their love grew naturally and he asked the girl to marry him.
One day, Sangkuriang was going on a hunt. He asked Dayang Sumbi to fix the turban on his
head. Dayang Sumbi was startled when she saw a scar on his head at the same place where she,
years ago, hit Sangkuriang on the head.
After the young man left, Dayang Sumbi prayed for guidance. After praying, she became
convinced that the young man was indeed her missing son. She realized that she had to do
something to prevent Sangkuriang from marrying her. But she did not wish to disappoint him by
cancelling the wedding. So, although she agreed to marry Sangkuriang, she would do so only on
the condition that he provides her with a lake and built a beautiful boat, all in one night.
Sangkuriang accepted this condition without a doubt. He had spent his youth studying magical
arts. After the sun went down, Sangkuriang went to the hill. Then he called a group of genie to
build a dam around Citarum River. Then, he commands the genies to cut down trees and build a
boat. A few moments before dawn, Sangkuriang and his genie servants almost finished the boat.

Resolution
Dayang Sumbi, who had been spying on him, realised that Sangkuriang would fulfill the
condition she had set. Dayang Sumbi immediately woke all the women in the village and asked
them to wave a long red scarf. All the women in the village were waving red scarf, making it
look as if dawn was breaking. Deceived by false dawn, the cock crowed and farmers rose for the
new day.

Re-Orientation
Sangkuriang’s genie servants immediately dropped their work and ran for cover from the sun,
which they feared. Sangkuriang grew furious. With all his anger, he kicked the unfinished boat.
The boat flew and landed on a valley. The boat then became a mountain, called Mount
Tangkuban Perahu (Tangkuban means upturned or upside down, and Perahu means boat). With
his power, he destroyed the dam. The water drained from the lake becoming a wide plain and
nowadays became a city called Bandung (from the word Bendung, which means Dam).

QUESTIONS:
1. Who are the main characters of the story?
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2. What is the conflict of the story?
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3. How did the main characters solve the conflict?
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4. What kind of tense is used in the story?
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5. Mention 10 adjectives in the story and write down their Indonesian meanings!
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NARRATIVE TEXT 2 (THE GOLDEN STAR-FRUIT TREE)

A long time ago,there was a rich old man living in Vietnam. He had two sons. They had very
different attitudes. The older brother was very greedy, but the younger brother was very kind.
When the old man died, the brothers divided his father's wealth into two parts. The big brother
took almost everything. He gave his younger brother only a small piece of land, with a star-fruit
tree in front of it. The younger brother did not mind. From the on he lived there and made his
living only by selling star fruits from the tree.

Unfortunately, a very big raven often came and ate all the ripe fruits. At first, he was too afraid
of the raven, and did not know what to do. But one day he dared to approach the raven. He
begged to it not eat the fruits. "If you eat the fruit,I will have nothing to sell to the market, and
my family will starve."

Surprisingly the raven was not angry. He replied, "I need the fruits too. Can I have them and I'll
pay to you with gold. Bring a 1-meter long bag, and I'll bring to place full of gold and you can
fill the bag full with gold." The younger brother then told his wife to make 1-meter long bag.
When the bag was done, he climbed on the raven's back and they flew to a place full of gold. He
filled the bag full with gold, and then flew back home on the raven's back. From the on, the
younger brother and his family could live happily in luxury

On the commemoration of his father's death, he invited his older brother to come to his house.
Thinking that his brother had a poor house, the big brother refused to come. But because his
younger brother insisted, he and his wife finally decided to come. When they got to the younger
brother's house, they were surprised to see that he was now very rich.

He asked his younger brother how he had got all his wealth, and the younger brother was happy
to tell him the truth. Then,the greedy brother and his wife offered the younger brother to trade all
their fortune for the star-fruit tree. The younger brother gladly accepted the offer. Soon the older
brother and his family moved to the house with the star-fruit tree. When the raven came for the
star fruits,the older brother made the same plea. As expected, the raven told him to bring a 1-
meter long a bag.

Because he's was greedy, he asked his wife to make a much longer bag. When the bag was the
bag done, he climbed on the raven's back and then they flew to the place full of gold. He filled
the big bag with gold. He also brought some gold in his pockets. On the way home, the load soon
became too heavy for the raven. Unable to hang on,the raven swayed, and the greedy brother fell
straight down the to the sea with his bag and pockets full of gold. He sank very fast down the
sea. The older died because of his greediness.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Identify the generic structure of the text!

2. Find 5 sentences that use Simple Past Tense in the text!
3. Compare the generic structure of this text with Sangkuriang text!
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Narrative text : Jumbled test

Rearrange these sentences to make a good narrative text!

No 1.
1.One upon a time, there reigned in East Java a king named Sindureja.
2. Sidupaksa had a very beautiful wife.
3.He had a prime minister named Sidupaksa.
4.They lived in complete happiness.
5.Each day she tried to think a way to separate Sidupaksa from his wife.
6.Sidupaksa loved his wife deeply.
7.However, Sidupaksa’s mother didn’t like her daughter-in-law.
The best arrangement is …

No.2. The Pigeon and the Ant

1. The pigeon saw this and wanted to help her.
2. The ant climbed on to the grass and saved to the dry land.
3. Once upon a time there was once a very happy pigeon.
4. He picked up a blade of grass and dropped it quite close to the ant.
5. He liked to splash in the water of the stream.
6. One day an ant fell into the stream accidentally.
The correct arrangement of the sentences above is ….

No.3
1. The crow did over and over
2. Then it carried a stone and put it into the jar
3. Finally, it succeeded to drink and felt happily
4. Once upon a time, there was a crow. It wanted to drink water.
5. It did until the water is high enough to drink
6. However, the crow couldn’t reach the water
The best arrangement is…