The Smartest Animal

The Smartest Animal

Tiger & Buffalo

Once there was a farmer from Laos. Every morning and every evening, he ploughed his field with his buffalo.

One day, a tiger saw the farmer and his buffalo working in the field. The tiger was very surprised to see a big animal listening to a small animal. The tiger wanted to know more about the big animal and the small animal.

After the man went home, the tiger spoke to the buffalo; “You are so big and strong, why do you do everything the man tells you?” The buffalo answered; “Oh, the man is very intelligent”.

The tiger asked; “Can you tell me how intelligent he is?”. “No, I can’t tell you but you can ask him”, said the buffalo.

So the next day the tiger asked to the man; “Can I see your intelligence?”. But the man answered; “It at home”. “Can you go and get it?” asked the tiger. “Yes but I am afraid you will kill my buffalo when I am gone. Can I tie you to a tree?” said the man.

After the man tied the tiger to the tree, he didn’t go home to get his intelligence. He took his plough and hit the tiger. Then he said, “Now you know about my intelligence even you haven’t seen it.”

Source: http://www.belajarbahasainggris.us/2012/03/5-contoh-singkat-narrative-text.html

VOCABULARIES

1.       Farmer : petani

2.       Ploughed : membajak

3.       Tiger : macan

4.       Buffalo : kerbau

5.       Field : ladang

6.       Suprised : terkejut

7.       Intelligent : cerdas

8.       Tie : mengikat

9.       Took : mengambil

10.     Hit : memukul

GRAMMAR FLASH !

Narrative Text

-Using narrative text is an imaginative story to entertain the reader.

-The characteristic of this text are:

• Use nouns and pronouns as a personal pronoun
• Use adjectives to describe nouns
• Use conjunction and time connectives to sort the events
• Use simple past tense

-The structure of this text are:

·      Orientation : the opening paragraph where the characters of the story are introduced

·      Complication : the problems in the story developed

·      Resolution : the problems in the story is solved

WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO DO?

• List the new words that you find in the text, then write the meaning!
• Specify the structure (orientation, complication, and resolution) of the text above!
• Answer the question based on the text!

     1.   The story above comes from...

     2.   How many characters at the story?

     3.   What is the tiger felt when seeing the farmer and his buffalo working in the field?

     4.   What did the tiger do after seeing the farmer and his buffalo worked in the field?

     5.   What did the farmer do when the tiger asked him about his intelligent?

     6.   What is the moral value based on the text?

     7.   What is the main idea of the third paragraph?

     8.   It (underline word) at the fifth paragraph means..

     9.   What is the synonym of answer?

   10.   What is the antonym of strong?