This document provides an overview of narrative text structure and features. It discusses how a narrative text tells a story through an orientation, complication, and resolution. It also notes that narratives typically use simple past tense and common types of narratives include legends, fables, fairy tales, and science fiction. The document includes an example narrative text about a Queen of Arabia choosing between three suitors. It analyzes the example based on the generic structure and language features of narratives. Finally, it assigns a task for the reader to analyze another narrative text.

1. Reading I

2. Do You Know What The Picture Is?

6. • Are they fairy tale?
• Does the fairy tale include to narrative
text?
• So, our lesson is …

7. Narrative Text

8. Narrative is a text which contains about
story (fiction/ non fiction) and its plot
consists of climax of the story
(complication) then followed by the
resolution. Its social function is to tell
stories or past events and entertain the
readers.

9. Generic Structure
Orientation: Introducing the participants
and informing the time and the place
Complication: Describing the rising crises
which the participants have to do with
Resolution: Showing the way of participant
to solve the crises, better or worse

10. Language Features of Narrative
Using Simple Past Tense
The formula:
S + V2 + O
Ex : I threw the ball

11. Kind of narrative text
1. Legend : Sangkuriang, Malin
Kundang,etc
2. Fabel : Mousedeer and
Crocodile
3. Fairy tale : Cinderella, Snow White.
4. Science Fiction

12. Queen of Arabia and Three Sheiks
Maura, who like to be thought of as the most beautiful
and powerful queen of Arabia, had many suitors. One by one
she discarded them, until her list was reduced to just three
sheiks. The three sheiks were all equally young and
handsome. They were also rich and strong. It was very hard
to decide who would be the best of them.
One evening, Maura disguised herself and went to the
camp of the three sheiks. As they were about to have
dinner, Maura asked them for something to eat. The first gave
her some left over food. The second Sheik gave her some
unappetizing camel’s tail. The third sheik, who was called
Hakim, offered her some of the most tender and tasty meat.
After dinner, the disguised queen left the sheik’s camp.

13. The following day, the queen invited the
three sheiks to dinner at her palace.
She ordered her servant to give each one exactly what
they had given her the evening before. Hakim, who
received a plate of delicious meat, refused to eat it if
the other two sheiks could not share it with him.
This Sheik Hakim’s act finally convinced
Queen Maura that he was the man for her. “Without
question, Hakim is the most generous of you” she
announced her choice to the sheiks. “So it is Hakim I
will marry”.

14. Analysis
• Orientation: The text introduces the
Queen Maura and three sheiks in Arabia once
time.
• Complication: Queen Maura find out that it was
very difficult to choose one as the best among
them.
• Resolution: Finally Queen Maura has a
convincing way to choose one and he is Sheik
Hakim
• Using simple past: “Maura disguised herself
and went to the camp of the three sheiks.”

15. TASK!!
Read the text titled “The Ugly
Duckling” and do the exercise!
Deadline on November 20, 2012

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