Hallo English learners… selamat datang di dunia bahasa inggris yang pastinya seru dan menarik untuk dibahas. Membahas tentang bahasa inggris tentunya tidak aka nada habisnya, karena bahasa akan diperbaharui setiap harinya.

Terlebih lagi bahasa inggris, karena bahasa inggris adalah bahasa internasional. Untuk itu kita perlu mempelajari bahasa inggris sejak dini ya English learners! Ayo belajar bahasa inggris!

Mengemukakan pendapat atau gagasan pastinya perlu sebuah bahasa, entah itu dalam bentuk ucapan atau tulisan.

Jika dalam ucapan hal yang diperlukan adalah pelafalan, dalam tulisan hal yang diperlukan adalah tenses yang sesuai serta ejaan kata yang benar. Nah kali ini kita akan membahas lebih detail cara mengemukakan gagasan dalam tulisan.

Salah satu jenis teks dalam bahasa inggris ialah narrative text, apa itu narrative text? Yuk kita bahas mengenai narrative teks dan contohnya!

Narrative text dibuat untuk menghibur pembaca dengan sebuah cerita atau dongeng. Strukturnya adalah sebagai berikut:

• Orientation (pengenalan)
  Mengenalkan latar belakang, siapa, kapan, dimana cerita tersebut terjadi
• Complication (konflik)
  Mengangkat awal terjadinya masalah hingga adanya puncak masalah
• Resolution (pemecahan masalah)
  Menceritakan bagaimana masalah tersebut diselesaikan
• Reorientation (kesimpulan)
  Memberikan kesimpulan dari cerita tersebut serta boleh ditambahkan nasehat.
• Tenses yang digunakan di dalam narrative text adalah past tense meliputi past tenses.

Berikut adalah Narrative text dan contohnya dalam bahasa inggris:

CINDERELLA

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful girl named Cinderella. She lived with her wicked stepmother and two stepsisters. They treated Cinderella very badly. One day, they were invited for a grand ball in the king’s palace. But Cinderella’s stepmother would not let her go.

Cinderella was made to sew new party gowns for her stepmother and stepsisters, and curl their hair. They then went to the ball, leaving Cinderella alone at home.

Cinderella felt very sad and began to cry. Suddenly, a fairy godmother appeared. Shewaved her magic wand and changed Cinderella’s old clothes into a beautiful new gown! The fairy godmother then touched Cinderella’s feet with the magic wand.

The fairy godmother found six mice playing near a pumpkin and she touched them with her magic wand and the mice became four shiny black horses and two coachmen and the pumpkin turned into a golden coach.

Cinderella was overjoyed and set off for the ball in the coach drawn by the six black horses. Before leaving. the fairy godmother said, “Cinderella, this magic will only last until midnight! You must reach home by then!”

When Cinderella entered the palace, everybody was struck by her beauty. Nobody, not even Cinderella’s stepmother or stepsisters, knew who she really was in her pretty clothes and shoes.

The handsome prince also saw her and fell in love with Cinderella. The prince danced with her all night and nobody recognized the beautiful dancer. Cinderella was so happy dancing with the prince that she almost forgot what the fairy godmother had said. At the last moment, Cinderella remembered her fairy godmother’s words and she rushed to go home.

She cried and ran out of the palace. One of her glass slippers came off but Cinderella did not turn back for it. She reached home just as the clock struck twelve. Her coach turned back into a pumpkin, the horses into mice and her fine ball gown into rags.

The prince had fallen in love with Cinderella and wanted to find out who the beautiful girl was, but he did not even know her name. He found the glass slipper that had come off Cinderella’s foot as she ran home.

The next day, the prince and his servants took the glass slipper and went to all the houses in the kingdom. They wanted to find the lady whose feet would fit in the slipper. All the women in the kingdom tried the slipper but it would not fit any of them.

Cinderella’s stepsisters also tried on the little glass slipper. They tried to squeeze their feet and push hard into the slipper, but the servant was afraid the slipper would break.

Cinderella’s stepmother would not let her try the slipper on, but the prince saw her and said, “Let her also try on the slipper!” The slipper fit her perfectly. The prince recognized her from the ball. He married Cinderella and together they lived happily ever after.

Coba kalian praktekkan dengan membuat sebuah narrative text dan contohnya sesuai dengan struktur yang benar ya. Semoga bermanfaat and see yaa taa taaa!