Toba Lake

Toba Lake

 

Sahala

               Once upon the time in Batak land lived a fisherman named Bhatara Guru Sahala. As a tough fisherman, he went out fishing every morning. One day, he caught an unusual fish in his old fishing net. It was unusual fish as the fish could talk. He was very suprised to find out that the fish could talk like human. To his more suprise, the fish asked him to set it free back to river. He could do nothing except to agree, and soon he set it free back to river.

                To his another surprising as soon as he set the fish free back to the river, it changed into a beatiful woman. She was with long black hair and big round eyes. He finally feel in love with her, and asked her to marry him. He promised to be faithful and would take care of her day and night. The woman agreed to marry him but Sahala could keep a promise not to let anyone know that she was once a fish. Sahala agreed and promised to do that. Then, they got married, lived happily and had a daughter.

     Few years later, this daughter would help bringing lunch to her father out in the fields. One day, his daughter was so hungry and she ate his father’s lunch. Unfortunately, he found out and got furious, and shouted; “You damned daughter of a fish”. The daughter ran home and asked her mother. The mother started crying, felt sad that her husband had broke his promise.
Then she told her daughter to run up the hills because a huge disaster was about to come. When her daughter left, she prayed. Soon there was a big earthquake followed by non-stop pouring rain. The whole area got flooded and became Toba Lake. She turned into a fish again and the man became the island of Samosir.

Re-written from: http://understandingtext.blogspot.com/2011/03/contoh-example-of-narrative-text-story.html

VOCABULARIES

1.      Fisherman: nelayan

2.      Fishing: memancing

3.      Unusual: tidak biasa

4.      Agree: setuju

5.      Change: berubah

6.      Ask: meminta

7.      Promise: janji

8.      Daughter: putri

9.      Disaster: bencana

10.    Lake: danau

GRAMMAR FLASH !

 Regular and Irregular Verb

Regular verb is a verb that we have to add ‘d’ or ‘ed’ when turned into Verb-2 and Verb-3.

Example:

Verb-1	Verb-2	Verb-3
help	helped	helped
open	opened	opened

Irregular verb is verb that we change all of the verb when turned into Verb-2 and Verb-3.

            Example:

Verb-1	Verb-2	Verb-3
take	took	taken
give	gave	given

WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO DO?

• List the new words that you find in the text, then write the meaning!
• With your friends,  make a drama about the story above!
• Find the regular and irregular verbs on the text above!
• Answer the question based on the text!

1.      Where is the story come from?

2.      How many characters at the story?

3.      What did Batara Guru Sahala get when fishing?

4.      Why Batara Guru Sahala was suprised?

5.      When did the fish change to be beautiful woman?

6.      What did the woman agree to marry with Batara Guru Sahala?

7.      What is happen to Batara Guru Sahala in the end of story?

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

9.      What is kind of the story?

10.    What is the purpose of the story?