EXERCISE NARRATIVE
TEXT
A. Read the story
and write the generic structure next to the text
Why
do hawks hunt chiks?
Once upon a time, a
hawk fell in love with a hen. The hawk flew down from the sky and asked the
hen, “Will you marry me?”
The hen loved the
brave, strong hawk and wished to marry him. But she said, “I cannot fly as high
as you can. If you give me time, I may learn to fly as high as you. Then we can
fly together.”
The hawk agreed.
Before he went away, he gave the hen a ring. “This is to show that you have
promised to marry me,” said the hawk.
It so happend that
the hen had already promised to marry a rooster. So, when the rooster saw the
ring, he became very angry. “Throw that ring away at once!” shouted the
rooster. The hen was so frightened at the rooster’s anger that she threw away
the ring immediately.
When the hawk came a
few months later, the hen told the truth. The hawk was so furious that he
cursed the hen, “Why didn’t you tell me earlier? Now, you’ll always be scratching
the earth, and I’ll always be flying above to catch your children,” said the
hawk.
B. In groups, answer
these questions:
1. What is the social function of the text
above?
2. Who was involved?
3. Did the hen face any problems to marry the hawk?
4. How did the hen solve the problem?
5. Does the story end in happy or sad ending?
6. Does the story happen in the past time or
in the present time?
7. Mention the words are used to tell that the
story happened in the past?
8. What are the words used to tell the order
of events?
9. Are the verbs in the present or in the
past?
10. Write several
action verbs that you find in the text!
I. One day, a hound
dog went hunting by himself in the woods. He saw a rabbit in the bush and
chased him out into an open. The rabbit ran. The dog followed. The rabbit ran
around trees and through an open field.
When the dog began
to be tired, the rabbit, with its last energy, jumped into the bush and
disappeared.
As the dog turned
back home, a goat herder who had seen the chase smiled at him saying, “Why did
you let that rabbit go?”
“You forget,”
replied the tired dog, “I was only running for my dinner. He was running for
his life!”
1. The story tells us about how……save his
precious life.
a. the hound dog
b. the poor rabbit
c. the rabbit’s
friend
d. the goat herder
2. The story happened….
a. on an open field
b. behind the bush
c. around trees
d. in the woods
3. What can you learn from the above story?
a. People should
protect endagered rabbits
b. A big and strong
hound dog is the best man’s friend
c. We should have a
dog to chase any dangerous animals
d. One should make
any possible efforts to safe his or her life
II. Long time ago a remote village, in central
China, was inhabited mainly with farmers and hunters.
One day, a poor
farmer lost his entire livestock because of flood. He prayed to God for help or
his family would die of starvation.
Few days later, an
old man with long grey beard, passed by his house took pity on him. He gave him
a goose and said, “I don’t have any expensive thing to give you and hope this
goose will help you to ease your hardship.”
A week later to
almost surprise the farmer found an egg in his yard. This was no ordinary egg.
It was a golden egg. He was suddenly overcome with joy.
Thereafter, his
livelihood rapidly improved, but the farmer had forgotten his earlier hardship.
He became lazy, arrogant and spenthrifty.
Strangely, the goose
only laid one golden egg every six months. The greedy farmer lost his patient
and slaughtered his goose thinking there were plenty of golden eggs inside its
stomach.
Though he was very
regretted for his foolishness, it’s already too late.
4. What is the text about?
a. A farmer who was saved by a goose
b. A goose which brought farmer’s hardship
c. An old man who helped a a golden goose
d. A golden egg
which saved an old man
5. The story happened…..
a. In a remote
village
b. In all countries
c. In unknown
country
d. In the
paddy-field
6. What can you learn from the above story?
a. People often regret because of misfortune.
b. It is useless to
regret what happened.
c. We should feel
sorry for anything that
d. Regrets will help
people to overcome their problem.
III. A street sweeper was doing his job when he
came across some money lying on the ground. He decided to use it to buy a
present for his little daughter. He bought a jar of honey, rushed home and left
it on the table, so that his daughter would find it as soon as she came from
school. But, alas, it was the flies that ate the honey.
The sweeper was so
angry that he went to ask the judge to give orders for the flies to be arrested
and condemned to death.
“You are aboslutly
right,” smiled the judge, “but as you well understand, we cannot mobilize the
army against these rascals. We shall see justice done in another way. Everytime
you see a fly, strike it down. I authorize you to execute them by yourself. Furthermore,
I demand personally that you do not allow even a single one of these thieving
flies to escape.”
“Yes, your honor.
You can count on me,” the sweeper assured him.
At that very moment,
a fly decided to settle on the judge’s head and the sweeper did not hesitate;
he raised his brush and brought it crashing down on the judge’s head. The
guards were about to arrest him, when the judge recovered and intervened.
“Leave him be,” he ordered. “he has taught me not to say foolish to
simpletons.”
7. What is the text about?
a. The street
sweeter and the jungle.
b. The flies and the
rascals.
c. The guards and
their masters.
d. The court and the simpleton.
8. The text shows that the street sweeper……the
flies much.
a. liked
b. loved
c. envied
d. hated
9. “…….so that his daughter would find it as
soon as she came home from school”. What does the word “it” in the sentence
refer to?
a. The honey
b. The money
c. The fly
d. The jar
10. What is the moral value of the story?
a. There is no
justice for foolish people.
b. It is dangerous
to talk to street sweepers.
c. A Judge should be
more careful with his or her words.
d. We must be
careful with stupid persons in this life.
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