3. The Tortoise And The Hare
Once upon a time a tortoise and a hare had an
argument about who was faster. (orientation)
They decided to settle the argument with a race.
They agreed on a route and started off the race.
(evaluation)
The hare shot ahead and ran briskly for some time.
Then seeing that he was far ahead of the tortoise,
he thought he'd sit under a tree for some time
and relax before continuing the race. (complication)
He sat under the tree and soon fell asleep.
(resolution)
The tortoise plodding on overtook him and soon
finished the race, emerging as the undisputed
champ. The hare woke up and realized that he'd
lost the race. (re-orientation)
4. Answer the following questions!
1. Who are the main characters on the text?
2. What is the purpose of the text?
3. From the text we learn that …
4. “The hare shot ahead and ran briskly for some time” The
word “briskly” nearly means …
5. How does the turtle win the race?
Answer
1. The main characters are the tortoise and the hare.
2. The purpose of the text is to entertain the readers by telling about the
tortoise and the hare.
3. we should not underestimate anyone because we don’t know their
capacity.
4. Quickly
5. The tortoise plodding on overtook him and soon finished the race,
emerging as the undisputed champ.
5. Why did I
lose the race?
Change the berb into past form Put a Challenge
suitable verb into the blank list! Go
Realize
The hare ..... at losing the race and he did some
soul-searching. He ..... that he'd lost the race win
only because he had been overconfident, disappoint
careless and lax. If he had not taken things for
granted, there's no way the tortoise could have
beaten him. (evaluation)
So he ..... the tortoise to another race. The
tortoise agreed. (complication)
This time, the hare ... all out and ran without
stopping from start to finish. He ..... by several
miles. (resolution)
6.
7. How can
Please underline the past form from the
I can
win the
hare?
text above!
The tortoise did some thinking this time, and realized
that there's no way he can beat the hare in a race the
way it was currently formatted. (evaluation)
He thought for a while, and then challenged the hare
Can we have
another race?
to another race, but on a slightly different route. The
This time we’ll
go through a
different route.
hare agreed. (complication)
Sure!
They started off. In keeping with his self-made
commitment to be consistently fast, the hare took off
and ran at top speed until he came to a broad river.
The finishing line was a couple of kilometers on the
other side of the river. (resolution)
The hare sat there wondering what to do. In the
meantime the tortoise trundled along, got into the
river, swam to the opposite bank, continued walking
and finished the race. (complication)
?
What should I do
9. To emuse, entertain and to deal with actial or vicarioous
experience in different way; nnarrative deal with
problematics event which lead to a crisis or turning
point of some kind, which in turn fine a resolution.
10. Snow White
Once upon a time, there lived a little girl named snow white.
She live with his Aunt and Uncle because her parents were died.
(Orientation)
One day she heard her uncle and aunt talking about leaving
snow white in the castle because they both wanted to go to america
and they didn’t have enough money to take Snnow White. (Major
Complication)
Snow White did not want her uncle and aunt to do this, so she
decided it would be best if she ran away. The next mornng she ran
away from home when her aunt and uncle were having breackfast.
She ran away into the woods. (Resolution)
11. She was very tired and hungry. (Complication)
Then she saw this little cottage. She knocked, but no one answer
so she went inside and fell asleep. (Resolution)
Meanwhile, the seven dwarfs were coming home from work.
There went inside. There they found snow white sleeping. Then
snow white woke up. She saw the dwarfs. The dwarfs said, what
is your name? Snow white said, : my name is Snow White”.
(complication)
Doc said, “if you wish, you may live here with us”. Snow White
said, “ oh could (I)?. Thankyou”. Then Snow white told the
dwarfs the whole story and she and seven dwarfs lived happily
ever after. (Major Complication)