Contoh Narrative Text : The Tree Little Pigs + Terjemahan

Contoh Narrative Text : The Tree Little Pigs + Terjemahan - Pasti anda sekalian sudah begitu akrab dengan Contoh Narrative Text tentang The Tree Little Pigs. Kisah tentang tiga babi kecil yang harus bertahan dari serangan serigala jahat ini sudah sering di ceritakan bahkan pernah difilemkan. Bagi para pengunjung yang ingin memahami artikel sebelumnya yang membahas tentang Narrative Text, penulis hadirkan Contoh Narrative Text berikut ini. Untuk membuatnya beda dengan web sebelah, penulis cantumkan juga terjemahannya. Semoga bermanfaat.

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The Tree Little Pigs

Once upon a time there were three little pigs, who left their mummy and daddy to see the world.

All summer long, they roamed through the woods and over the plains, playing games and having fun. None were happier than the three little pigs, and they easily made friends with everyone. Wherever they went, they were given a warm welcome, but as summer drew to a close, they realized that folk were drifting back to their usual jobs, and preparing for winter. Autumn came and it began to rain. The three little pigs started to feel they needed a real home. Sadly they knew that the fun was over now and they must set to work like the others, or they'd be left in the cold and rain, with no roof over their heads. They talked about what to do, but each decided for himself. The laziest little pig said he'd build a straw hut.

"It will only take a day,' he said. The others disagreed.
 

"It's too fragile," they said disapprovingly, but he refused to listen. Not quite so lazy, the second little pig went in search of planks of seasoned wood.

"Clunk! Clunk! Clunk!" It took him two days to nail them together. But the third little pig did not like the wooden house.

"That's not the way to build a house!" he said. "It takes time, patience and hard work to build a house that is strong enough to stand up to wind, rain, and snow, and most of all, protect us from the wolf!"

The days went by, and the wisest little pig's house took shape, brick by brick. From time to time, his brothers visited him, saying with a chuckle.

"Why are you working so hard? Why don't you come and play?" But the stubborn bricklayer pig just said "no".

"I shall finish my house first. It must be solid and sturdy. And then I'll come and play!" he said. "I shall not be foolish like you! For he who laughs last, laughs longest!"

It was the wisest little pig that found the tracks of a big wolf in the neighborhood.

The little pigs rushed home in alarm. Along came the wolf, scowling fiercely at the laziest pig's straw hut.

"Come out!" ordered the wolf, his mouth watering. "I want to speak to you!"

"I'd rather stay where I am!" replied the little pig in a tiny voice.

"I'll make you come out!" growled the wolf angrily, and puffing out his chest, he took a very deep breath. Then he blew with all his might, right onto the house. And all the straw the silly pig had heaped against some thin poles, fell down in the great blast. Excited by his own cleverness, the wolf did not notice that the little pig had slithered out from underneath the heap of straw, and was dashing towards his brother's wooden house. When he realized that the little pig was escaping, the wolf grew wild with rage.

"Come back!" he roared, trying to catch the pig as he ran into the wooden house. The other little pig greeted his brother, shaking like a leaf.

"I hope this house won't fall down! Let's lean against the door so he can't break in!"

Outside, the wolf could hear the little pigs' words. Starving as he was, at the idea of a two course meal, he rained blows on the door.

"Open up! Open up! I only want to speak to you!"

Inside, the two brothers wept in fear and did their best to hold the door fast against the blows. Then the furious wolf braced himself a new effort: he drew in a really enormous breath, and went ... WHOOOOO! The wooden house collapsed like a pack of cards.

Luckily, the wisest little pig had been watching the scene from the window of his own brick house, and he rapidly opened the door to his fleeing brothers. And not a moment too soon, for the wolf was already hammering furiously on the door. This time, the wolf had grave doubts. This house had a much more solid air than the others. He blew once, he blew again and then for a third time. But all was in vain. For the house did not budge an inch. The three little pigs watched him and their fear began to fade. Quite exhausted by his efforts, the wolf decided to try one of his tricks. He scrambled up a nearby ladder, on to the roof to have a look at the chimney. However, the wisest little pig had seen this ploy, and he quickly said.

"Quick! Light the fire!" With his long legs thrust down the chimney, the wolf was not sure if he should slide down the black hole. It wouldn't be easy to get in, but the sound of the little pigs' voices below only made him feel hungrier.

"I'm dying of hunger! I'm going to try and get down." And he let himself drop. But landing was rather hot, too hot! The wolf landed in the fire, stunned by his fall.

The flames licked his hairy coat and his tail became a flaring torch.

"Never again! Never again will I go down a chimney" he squealed, as he tried to put out the flames in his tail. Then he ran away as fast as he could.

The three happy little pigs, dancing round and round the yard, began to sing. "Tra-la-la! Tra-la-la! The wicked black wolf will never come back...!"

From that terrible day on, the wisest little pig's brothers set to work with a will. In less than no time, up went the two new brick houses. The wolf did return once to roam in the neighborhood, but when he caught sight of three chimneys, he remembered the terrible pain of a burnt tail, and he left for good.

Now safe and happy, the wisest little pig called to his brothers. "No more work! Come on, let's go and play!"

Terjemahan Contoh Narrative Text : The Tree Little Pigs

Suatu ketika tersebutlah tiga babi kecil, yang ditinggalkan ayah dan ibu mereka untuk melihat dunia.

Sepanjang musim panas, mereka menjelajahi hutan dan seluruh daratan, bermain permainan dan bersenang-senang. Tidak ada sebahagia dari pada ketiga babi kecil tersebut, dan mereka mudah bergaul dengan siapa saja. Kemanapun mereka pergi, mereka disambut dengan hangat, tetapi ketika musim panas hampir selesai, mereka menyadari bahwa orang-orang kembali ke pekerjaan mereka, dan menyiapkan untuk musim dingin. Musim gugur datang dan mulai hujan. Ketiga babi kecil tersebut mulai merasa mereka membutuhkan sebuah rumah. Sayangnya mereka tahu bahwa kesenangan telah berakhir sekarang dan mereka harus berkeja seperti yang lainnya, atau mereka akan di tinggalkan dalam kedinginan dan kehujanan, dengan tidak adanya atap di atas kepala-kepala mereka. Merka berbincang-bincang mengenai apa yang akan dilakukan, tapi mereka memutuskan diri sendiri. Babi kecil yang paling malas mengatakan bahwa dia akan membangun sebuah pondok dari jerami.

"Ini hanya akan membutuhkan satu hari," dia berkata. Yang lain tidak setuju.

"Itu sangat rapuh," mereka berkata dengan tidak setuju, tetapi dia tidak mendengarkannya. Tidak begitu malas, Babi kecil yang kedua ingin mencari papan dari kayu musiman.

 
"Clunk! Clunk! Clunk!" Ini membutuhkan dua hari untuk memakunya. Tetapi babi kecil yang ketiga tidak menyukai rumah dari kayu.

"Itu bukanlah cara membuat sebuah rumah!" dia berkata. "Membutuhkan waktu, kesabaran dan kerja keras utnuk membangun sebuah rumah yang cukup kuat berdiri dari angin, hujan, dan salju, dan yang terpenting melindungi kita dari srigala!"
 

Hari telah berganti, dan rumah babi kecil yang bicak mulai tampak bentuknya, bata demi bata. Dari waktu ke waktu, sodara-sodaranya mengunjunginya, menertawainya.
 

"Mengapa kamu bekeja begitu keras? Mengapa kamu tidak datang dan bermain?" Tetapi babi tukang bangunan yang keras kepala hanya berkata "tidak"

"Saya harus menyelesaikan rumah ku ini dulu. Ini harus kuat dan kokoh. Dan kemudian saya akan datang dan bermain!" dia berkata. "Saya tidak sebodoh kamu! Untuk dia yang tertawa terakhir adalah tertawa yang paling lama!"
 

Babi kecil yang paling bijaklah yang menemukan jejak kaki dari seekor srigala besar di pekarangannya.
 

"Babi-babi kecil tersebut pun bergegas ke rumah. Datanglah srigala, melihat tajak ke pondok jerami milik babi yang paling malas.
 

"Keluarlah!" perintah srigala, mulutnya mengeluarkan air. "Saya ingin berbicara dengan mu!"
 

"Saya akan tetap di sini!" jawab babi kecil dengan suara yang kecil.
 

"Saya akan membuat mu keluar!" Geram srigala dengan marah, dan menggembungkan dadanya, dia mengambil napas sangat dalam. Kemudian dia meniupnya dengan segala kekuatannya, tepat ke dalam rumah tersebut. Dan semua jerami milik babi bodoh tersebut pun terlempar, jatuh dalam ledakan yang besar. 

Terpana dengan kecerdikannya, srigala tersebut tidak menyadari bahwa babi kecil tersebut telah merayap di bawah tumpukan jerami, dan berlari ke rumah kayu milik sodaranya. Ketiak dia menyadari bahwa babi kecil tersebut telah melarikan diri, srigala tersebut bertambah buas.
 

 "Kembalilah!" dia mengaung, mencoba untuk menangkap babi tersebut saat dia lari ke dalam rumah kayu tersebut. Babi kecil yang lain menyambut sodaranya dengan gemetar seperti selembar daun.

"Saya harap rumah ini tidak akan runtuh! Mari kita menahan pintu tersebut jadi dia tidak akan bisa menjebolnya!"
 

Di luar, srigala tersebut dapat mendengar kata-kata yang diucapkan babi-babi kecil tersebut. Dengan buasnya, pada ke dua calon makananya tersebut, dia menghujani tiupan pada pintu tersebut.
 

"Buka! Buka! Saya hanya ingin berbicara kepada mu!"
 

Di dalam, ke dua sodara tersebut menagin dalam ketakutan dan melakukan yang terbaik untuk menahan pintu tersebut dari tiupan-tiupan. Kemudian srigala yang marah tersebut memperkuat dirinya dengan sebuah usaha: 

Dia mengambil nafas yang sangat kuat, dan kemudian ... WHOOOOO! Rumah kayu tersebut pun runtuk seperti tumpukan kartu-kartu.

Untungnya, babi kecil yang paling bijak telah melihatnya dari jendela pada rumah batu-batanya, dan dia dengan cepatnya membuka pintu untuk sodara-sodranya yang sedang melarikan diri. Dan dengan waktu yang sangat singkat, serigala tersebut langsung menggedor dengan marah pintu rumah tersebut. Kali ini, serigala tersebut ragu. Rumah ini mempunyai suasana yang lebih kuat dari pada yang lain. Dia meniupnya sekali, dia meniupnya lagi dan untuk ketiga kalinya. Tetapi semuanya sia-sia. Rumah tersebut tidak bergeser se-inci pun. Ketiga babi kecil tersebut melihatnya dan ketakutan mereka mulai memudar. Cukup lelah dengan usahanya, serigala tersebut memutuskan untuk mencoba satu dari trik-triknya. Dia memanjat tangga yang di dekatnya, ke atap untuk melihat cerobong asap. Tetapi, babi kecil yang paling bijak telah melihat cara ini, dan dia langsung berkata.

"Cepat! Nyalakan apinya!" Dengan kaki-kaki panjangnya merangkak ke bawah cerobong asap tersebut, srigala tersebut tidak yakin jika dia harus melucur jatuh ke dalam lubang hitam tersebut. Ini tiak akan mudah untuk masuk, tetapi suaru babi-babi kecil tersebut membuat dia merasa lebih lapar.
 

"Saya aka mati kelaparan! Saya akan mencoba turu." Dan dia membiarkan dirinya jatuh. Tetapi mendarat ternyata lebih panas, sangat panas! Serigala tersebut mendarat di api, termenung  karena jatuhnya.

Api tersebut menjilat mantel berbulunya dan ekornya menjadi suluh obor.

"Tak akan pernah lagi! Tak akan pernah lagi saya akan pergi ke corobong asap" dia menjerit, ketika dia mencoba untuk memadamkan api di ekornya. Kemudian dia lari secepat yang dia bisa.
 

Ketiga babi kecil tersebut senag, menari mengelilingi halaman, dan mulai bernyanyi. "Tra-la-la! Tra-la-la! srigala hitam yang jahat itu tiak akan pernha kembali...!"
 

Dari hari yang mengerikan itu, saudara-saudara babi kecil yang bijak tersebut bekerja dengan sebuah harapan. Dalam waktu yang relatif, mereka telah mendirikan dua rumah batu bata yang baru. Serigala tersebut sesekali kembali untuk menjelajahi pekarangan mereka, tetapi ketika dia melihat tiga cerobong asap, dia teringat dengan rasa sakit dari ekor yang terbakar, dan dia pergi untuk kebaikan.
 

Sekarang aman dan bahagia, babi kecil yang palin bijak mengatakan ke pada sodara-sodaranya. "Tidak ada lagi kerja! Ayo, datan dan mainlah!"

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5 Contoh Narrative Text : Fabel (Cerita Binatang)

5 Contoh Narrative Text : Fabel (Cerita Binatang) - Pernahkah anda mendengarkan cerita fabel? Tentunya pernah dong. Ya cerita fabel adalah cerita yang biasa kita dengar biasanya pada waktu kita masih kecil.  Fabel adalah cerita yang menceritakan kehidupan hewan yang berperilaku menyerupai manusia. Cerita tersebut tidak mungkin kisah nyata. Fabel adalah cerita fiksi, maksudnya khayalan belaka (fantasi). Kadang fabel memasukkan karakter minoritas berupa manusia. Berikut ini adalah 5 Contoh Narrative Text : Fabel (Cerita Binatang) untuk melengkapi pemahaman anda mengenai artikel sebelumnya tentang Penjelasan + Contoh Narrative Text Terlengkap. Semoga bermanfaat.

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1. The Tiger Who Would Be King

One morning the tiger woke up in the jungle and told his mate that he was king of beasts.

"Leo, the lion, is king of beasts," she said.

"We need a change," said the tiger. "The creatures are crying for a change."

The tigress listened but she could hear no crying, except that of her cubs.

"I'll be king of beasts by the time the moon rises," said the tiger. "It will be a yellow moon with black stripes, in my honour."

"Oh sure," said the tigress as she went to look after her young, one of whom, a male, very like his father, had got an imaginary thorn in his paw.

The tiger prowled through the jungle till he came to the lion's den. "Come out," he roared," and greet the king of beasts! The king is dead, long live the king!"

Inside the den, the lioness woke her mate. "The king is here to see you," she said.

"What king?" he inquired, sleepily.

"The king of beasts," she said.

"I am the king of beasts," roared Leo and he charged out of the den to defend his crown against the pretender.

It was a terrible fight and it lasted until the setting of the sun. All the animals of the jungle joined in, some taking the side of the tiger and others the side of the lion. Every creature from the aardvark to the zebra took part in the struggle to overthrow the lion or to repulse the tiger, and some did not knot know which they were fighting for, and some fought for both, and some fought whoever was nearest and some fought for the sake of fighting.

"What are we fighting for?" someone asked the aardvark.

"The old order," said the aardvark.

"What are we dying for?" someone asked the zebra.

"The new order," said the zebra.

When the moon rose, fevered and gibbous, it shone upon a jungle in which nothing stirred except a macaw and a cockatoo, screaming in horror. All the beasts were dead except the tiger, and his days were numbered and his time was ticking away. He was monarch of all he surveyed, but it didn't seem to mean anything.

2. The Fox and the Crow

A crow, perched in a tree with a piece of cheese in his beak, attracted the eye and nose of a fox. "If you can sing as prettily as you sit," said the fox, "then you are the prettiest singer within my scent and sight." The fox had read somewhere, and somewhere, and somewhere else, that praising the voice of a crow with a cheese in his beak would make him drop the cheese and sing. But this is not what happened to this particular crow in this particular case.

"They say you are sly and they say you are crazy," said the crow, having carefully removed the cheese from his beak with the claws of one foot, "but you must be nearsighted as well. Warblers wear gay hats and colored jackets and bright vest, and they are a dollar a hundred. I wear black and I am unique.

"I am sure you are," said the fox, who was neither crazy nor nearsighted, but sly. "I recognize you, now that I look more closely, as the most famed and talented of all birds, and I fain would hear you tell about yourself, but I am hungry and must go."

"Tarry awhile," said the crow quickly, "and share my lunch with me." Whereupon he tossed the cunning fox the lion's share of the cheese, and began to tell about himself. "A ship that sails without a crow's nest sails to doom," he said. "Bars may come and bars may go, but crow bars last forever. I am the pioneer of flight, I am the map maker. Last, but never least, my flight is known to scientists and engineers, geometricians, and scholar, as the shortest distance between two points. Any two points," he concluded arrogantly.

"Oh, every two points, I am sure," said the fox. "And thank you for the lion's share of what I know you could not spare." And with this he trotted away into the woods, his appetite appeased, leaving the hungry crow perched forlornly in the tree.

3. The Wolf and the Dog

Once there was a wolf who was nearly dead with hunger. He was very thin, so that the outline of his bones could be seen clearly beneath his thinning coat of hair. With hardly enough energy to walk, the wolf had little hope of finding food. As he lay beneath a large tree, a dog out for a walk noticed him. Seeing how thin and hungry-looking the wolf was, the dog felt sorry for him and said, "You are in terrible shape! You look as if you haven't eaten for many days."

"You're right," said the wolf. "I haven't eaten because you and your friends are doing such a good job of guarding the sheep. Now I am so weak that I have little hope of finding food. I think I will surely die."

Then why not join us? Asked the dog. "I work regularly and I eat regularly. You could do the same. I will arrange it. You can help me and the other dogs guard the sheep. In that way, we won't have to worry about your stealing the sheep any more and you won't have to worry about going hungry any more. It's a good deal for both of us."

The wolf thought it over for a few minutes and then decided that the dog was right. So they went off together toward the ranch house where the dog lived. But, as they were walking, the wolf noticed that the hair on a certain part of the dog's neck was very thin. He was curious about this, for the dog had such a beautiful coat every where else. Finally, he asked the dog about it.

"Oh, don't worry about that," said the dog. "It's the place where the collar rubs on my neck when my master chains me up at night."

"Chained up!" cried the wolf, "Do you mean that you are chained up at night? If I come to live with you, will I be chained up at night too?"

That's right," answered the dog. "But, You'll get used to it soon enough. I hardly think about it anymore."

"But, if I am chained up, then I won't be able to walk when I want to take a walk or to run where I want to run," the wolf said. "If I come to live with you, I won't be free anymore." After saying this, the wolf turned and ran away.

"The dog called after the wolf, saying, "Wait! Come back! I may not be able to do everything I want to do, but I'm healthy, well-fed, and I have a warm place to sleep. You are too worried about keeping alive to enjoy life. I'm more free than you are."

4. The Fox and The Cat

One day a cat and a fox were having a conversation. The fox, who was a conceited creature, boasted how clever she was. 'Why, I know at least a hundred tricks to get away from our mutual enemies, the dogs,' she said.

'I know only one trick to get away from dogs,' said the cat. 'You should teach me some of yours!'

'Well, maybe some day, when I have the time, I may teach you a few of the simpler ones,' replied the fox airily.

Just then they heard the barking of a pack of dogs in the distance. The barking grew louder and louder - the dogs were coming in their direction! At once the cat ran to the nearest tree and climbed into its branches, well out of reach of any dog. 'This is the trick I told you about, the only one I know,' she called down to the fox. 'Which one of your hundred tricks are you going to use?'

The fox sat silently under the tree, wondering which trick she should use. Before she could make up her mind, the dogs arrived. They fell upon the fox and tore her to pieces.

A single plan that works is better than a hundred doubtful plans.

5. The Lion and The Mouse

Once, as a lion lay sleeping in his den, a naughty little mouse ran up his tail, and onto his back and up his mane and danced and jumped on his head, so that the lion woke up.

lion angry and mouseThe lion grabbed the mouse and, holding him in his large claws, roared in anger. 'How dare you wake me up! Don't you know that I am King of the Beasts? Anyone who disturbs my rest deserves to die! I shall kill you and eat you!'

The terrified mouse, shaking and trembling, begged the lion to let him go. 'Please don't eat me Your Majesty! I did not mean to wake you, it was a mistake. I was only playing. Please let me go - and I promise I will be your friend forever. Who knows but one day I could save your life?'

The lion looked at the tiny mouse and laughed. 'You save my life? What an absurd idea!' he said scornfully. 'But you have made me laugh, and put me into a good mood again, so I shall let you go.' And the lion opened his claws and let the mouse go free.

'Oh thank you, your majesty,' squeaked the mouse, and scurried away as fast as he could.

A few days later the lion was caught in a hunter's snare. Struggle as he might, he couldn't break free and became even more entangled in the net of ropes. He let out a roar of anger that shook the forest. Every animal heard it, including the tiny mouse.

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Contoh Narrative Text : Ali Baba and the Fourty Theives

Contoh Narrative Text : Ali Baba and the Fourty Theives - Setelah memahami apa itu Narrative Text pada artikel sebelumnya yang berjudul Penjelasan + Contoh Narrative Text Terlengkap, kini penulis lengkapi penjelasan tersebut dengan Contoh Narrative Text : Ali Baba and  the Fourty Thieves.

Pernah mendengar kisah tentang Ali Baba. Ya, Ali Baba adalah sebuah tokoh dalam salah satu kisah dari literatur arab zaman pertengahan dengan salah satu kisahnya tentang petualangan Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (Ali Baba dan 40 Pencuri). Sebenarnya terdapat banyak versi dalam kisah Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves yang telah beredar, untuk itu penulis hadirkan salah satu versi dari cerita tersebut beserta terjemahannya. Semoga bermanfaat.

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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Ali Baba was such a poor man that he had only one shoe for his two feet. Even the mice in his house were hungry.

One day, his wife said, "We have no food in the house. No rice. No potatoes. Go and collect leaves in the forest so that I can make a soup."

Ali was a lazy man. He looked for leaves for about ten minutes and then he climbed a tree to sleep. He was afraid of wolves. When he woke up, he was surprised to see forty thieves on forty horses. They stopped in front of a big rock.

"Open Sesame!" shouted the leader. A door on the rock opened. The thieves carried sacks full of gold into the cave. When they had finished, the leader shouted.

"Close Sesame!" and the door closed. As soon as the thieves had disappeared Ali Baba jumped down from the tree, said, "Open Sesame" and went into the cave.

There were shelves all around the walls. The shelves were full of sacks. And the sacks were full of gold. Ali took a sack home with him.

Unfortunately, one of the thieves saw Ali's footprints on the sand. He followed them to Ali's home. He took out his knife and made a cross on the door.

"Now I shall know which house it is," he said.

 

He rode off to get the other thieves. But Ali had seen the thief.

 

He and his wife took brooms and swept away the footprints. Then he made crosses on every door at the street. When the forty thieves arrived they had their knives between their teeth. But they couldn't find either Ali – or the gold. And Ali and his wife lived happily ever after.

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Ali Baba dan 40 Pencuri

Ali Baba adalah seorang pria miskin yang hanya memiliki sebuah sepatu di kedua kakinya. Bahkan tikus-tikus di rumahnya juga kelaparan.

Suatu hari, istrinya berkata, "Kita tidak mempunyai makanan di rumah. Tidak ada beras. Tidak ada kentang. Pergi dan kumpulkan daun-daunan di hutan sehingga saya bisa membuat sup."

Ali adalah seorang pria yang malas. Dia mencari daun-daunan sekitar 10 menit dan kemudian dia memanjat pohon untuk tidur. Dia takut dengan serigala. Ketika dia bangun, dia terkejut melihat 40 pencuri menunggang 40 kuda. Mereka berhenti di depan sebuah batu besar.

"Buka Sesame!" teriak sang pemimpin. Sebuah pintu pada batu tersebut pun terbuka. Pencuri-pencuri tersebut membawa kantong-kantong yang penuh dengan emas ke dalam gua. Ketika mereka telah menyelesaikannya, sang pemimpin berteriak.

 "Tutup Sesame!" dan pintu tersebut menutup. Segera setelah pencuri-pencuri tersebut telah pergi Ali Baba loncat turun dari pohon, berkata, "Buka Sesame" dan pergi ke dalam gua tersebut.

Terdapat rak-rak di seluruh sekeliling dinding tersebut. Rak-rak tersebut penuh dengan kantong-kantong. Dan kantong-kantong tersebut penuh dengan emas. Ali mengambilnya satu kantong dengannya ke rumah.

Sayangnya, salah satu dari pencuri-pencuri tersebut melihat jejak kaki Ali di pasir. Dia mengikutinya sampai ke rumahnya Ali. Dia mengeluarkan pedangnya dan membuat tanda silang di pintunya.

"Sekarang saya sudah tahu rumah yang mana ini," dia berkata.

Dia berkendara pergi untuk memberitahu pencuri yang lain. Tetapi Ali telah melihat pencuri tersebut.

Dia dan istrinya mengambil sapu dan menyapu jejak-jejak kaki. Kemudian dia membuat tanda silang di semua pintu di jalan. Ketika 40 pencuri tersebut datang dengan pisau-pisaunya diantara gigi-gigi mereka. Tetapi mereka tidak dapat menemukan Ali atau emas tersebut. Dan Ali dan istrinya hidup senang selamanya.

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5 Contoh Singkat Narrative Text

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1. Queen of Arabia and Three Sheiks

Maura, who like to be thought of as the most beautiful and powerful queen of Arabia, had many suitors. One by one she discarded them, until her list was reduced to just three sheiks. The three sheiks were all equally young and handsome. They were also rich and strong. It was very hard to decide who would be the best of them.

One evening, Maura disguised herself and went to the camp of the three sheiks. As they were about to have dinner, Maura asked them for something to eat. The first gave her some left over food. The second Sheik gave her some unappetizing camel’s tail. The third sheik, who was called Hakim, offered her some of the most tender and tasty meat. After dinner, the disguised queen left the sheik’s camp.

The following day, the queen invited the three sheiks to dinner at her palace. She ordered her servant to give each one exactly what they had given her the evening before. Hakim, who received a plate of delicious meat, refused to eat it if the other two sheiks could not share it with him.

This Sheik Hakim’s act finally convinced Queen Maura that he was the man for her. “Without question, Hakim is the most generous of you” she announced her choice to the sheiks. “So it is Hakim I will marry”.

2. The Smartest Animal

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”, said the buffalo; “but you can ask him”

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” said the man; “but I am afraid you will kill my buffalo when I am gone. Can I tie you to a tree?”

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.

3. Blind Listening

A stupid man was sent by his father to sell salt. He first went to a mining area but nobody there wanted his salt. When he returned home, his father told him that if he had helped the miners to dig, they would have bought his salt.

The man next went to a house where a wedding was taking place. There he dug a huge hole. This made the people angry and they chased him away. When he returned home, his father told him that if he had beaten a drum and danced instead, the people there would have bought salt from him.

Then, he went to a village where there happened to be a fire. Rushing to the place, he started drumming and dancing, only to be thrown out by the people. His father told him that he should have poured water on the fire instead, if he wanted to sell salt there.

In the next place he went to, a couple were fighting with each other. The foolish man poured a bucketful of water on them, again to be chased away. His father later told him that he should have tried to settle the quarrel, in which case they would have bought salt from him.

In the final event, the man saw two bulls fighting with each other. He stepped in to stop the fight and was gored to death by angry bulls.

4. Money Isn′t Everything

Donald, Daisy, Huey, Louie and Dewey all went to visit Uncle Scrooge one cold autumn day. They knocked at the door and had to wait a long time before all the bolts were undone. Even then Uncle Scrooge looked very suspicious, as if they were Beagle Boys in disguise. The old miser was very surprised to see them all.

"Well, well. I suppose you'd better come in," he croaked at the door.

"Have you got a sore throat, Great- Uncle Scrooge?" chirped Louie.

"Don't be cheeky, Louie!" scolded Daisy.

"Stuff and nonsense!" croaked

Uncle Scrooge. "I have got a sore throat! The young lad's right."

"Sorry to hear that, Uncle," said Donald sympathetically. "Should I send Dewey out to get you some cough

drops?"

"No. They cost too much money nowadays," complained the old miser. "I'd rather suffer the tickle in my throat."

"You don't seem very happy, Uncle Scrooge," soothed Daisy.

"Mind your own business!" snapped Uncle Scrooge.

"Poor old Great-Uncle Scrooge," chirped Dewey, who had jumped up to sit on his Great-Uncle's knee.

"What do you mean—poor Great- Uncle Scrooge!" chuckled Uncle Scrooge. "I've got more money than Fort Knox."

"What I meant," explained Dewey, "was that I had a sore throat too, and I hardly have any money. But I bought some cough drops." With that Dewey pulled out his box of cough drops and gave them to Uncle Scrooge.

"You can have my cough drops, Uncle," smiled Dewey, "because they cured my sore throat."

Uncle Scrooge didn't know what to say. But one great big tear rolled down his face.

"Poor Great-Uncle Scrooge," echoed the triplets.

5. The Smartest Parrot

Once upon time, a man had a wonderful parrot. There was no other parrot like it. The parrot could say every word, except one word. The parrot would not say the name of the place where it was born. The name of the place was Catano.

The man felt excited having the smartest parrot but he could not understand why the parrot would not say Catano. The man tried to teach the bird to say Catano however the bird kept not saying the word.

At the first, the man was very nice to the bird but then he got very angry. “You stupid bird!” pointed the man to the parrot. “Why can’t you say the word? Say Catano! Or I will kill you” the man said angrily. Although he tried hard to teach, the parrot would not say it. Then the man got so angry and shouted to the bird over and over; “Say Catano or I’ll kill you”. The bird kept not to say the word of Catano.

One day after he had been trying so many times to make the bird say Catano, the man really got very angry. He could not bear it. He picked the parrot and threw it into the chicken house. There were four old chickens for next dinner “You are as stupid as the chickens. Just stay with them” Said the man angrily. Then he continued to humble; “You know, I will cut the chicken for my meal. Next it will be your turn, I will eat you too, stupid parrot”. After that he left the chicken house.

The next day, the man came back to the chicken house. He opened the door and was very surprised. He could not believe what he saw at the chicken house. There were three death chickens on the floor. At the moment, the parrot was standing proudly and screaming at the last old chicken; “Say Catano or I’ll kill you”. 

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Penjelasan Abbreviation Dan Acronyms

Penjelasan Abbreviation Dan Acronyms - Serupa tapi tak sama, itulah ungkapan jika kita mendengar kata Abbreviation dan Acronyms. Kedua kata tersebut memang sudah tidak asing lagi terdengar di telinga masyarkat, baik kalangan pelajar, guru, jurnalis dan sebagainya. Tapi tidak ada salahnya jika penulis pada kesempatan kali ini menghadirkan penjelasan mengenai Abbreviaton dan Acronyms.

Sebelum menjelaskan apa itu Abbreviation dan Acronyms, penulis ingin menanyakan sesuatu untuk pembaca sekalian. Mana dari kata-kata berikut ini yang termasuk Abbreviation dan Acronyms?

• DIKNAS (Departemen Pendidikan Nasional)
• BBC (the British Boardcasting Corporaion)
• UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation)
• UN (United Nations)
• IPS (Ilmu Pengetahuan Sosial)
• USA (United State of Amerca)
• UK (United Kingdom)
• MURI (Musium Rekor Indonesia)

Penjelasan

Abbreviation adalah kata singkatan dalam bahasa Inggris yang diucapkan huruf demi huruf (pronunced letter by letter). Sedangkan yang namanya Acronyms adalah kata singkatan dalam bahasa Inggris yang dicuapkan seperti layaknya kata biasa, bukan huruf demi huruf.

Setelah melihat penjelasan di atas, Anda bisa menentukan Mana dari kata singkatan-singkatan di atas yang termasuk Abbreviation dan Acronyms.

Yang termasuk Abbreviation adalah :

• BBC (the British Boardcasting Corporaion)
• UN (United Nations)
• IPS (Ilmu Pengetahuan Sosial)
• USA (United State of Amerca)
• UK (United Kingdom)

Sedangkan yang termasuk Acronyms adalah :

• DIKNAS (Departemen Pendidikan Nasional)
• UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation)
• MURI (Musium Rekor Indonesia)

Kita biasanya menulis Abbreviations tanpa diakhiri dengan titik ( . ) untuk Modern English British. Tapi untuk yang bergaya American, Abbreviations diakhiri dengan titik ( . ) sudah biasa.

• Mr (British) sedangkan Mr. (American) = Mr (Mister tidak biasanya ditulis penuh)
• Ltd (British) sedangkan Ltd. (American) = Ltd (Limited)
• kg (Biritish) sedangkan kg. (American) = kg (kilgram)

Seperti kata-kata inggris yang lain, Abbreviations dan Acronyms tidak menuntut kemungkinan juga membutuhkan yang namanya article (a/ an atau the). Untuk penggunaan a/ an atau the tergantung pengucapan huruf awal dari Abbreviation tersebut. Bandingkanlah :

• an IRA (/i/r/a/) attack
• a USA (/yu/es/ei/) diplomat
• a BA (/bi/ei/) degree
• an MP (/em/pi/)
• the USA (/de/-/yu/esi/ei)
• the RSPCA (/di/ - /ar/es/pi/ci/ei/)

Untuk pembentukan Abbreviations dan Acronyms jamak (plural) dapat dilakukan dengan menambahkan sebuah apostophe ( ' ) setelahnya.

• I have a lot of CD's in my room

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Belajar Grammar Bahasa Inggris

Belajar Grammar Bahasa Inggris - Haduhhhh.... Grammar lagi grammar lagi.... Pusing.... Pasti kebanyakan orang melontarkan kalimat yang sama ketika mendengar kata grammar. Tapi memang benar, grammar merupakan materi pelajaran bahasa Inggris yang lumayan susah dipelajari jika tanpa usaha dan latihan yang konsisten.

Secara garis besar grammar adalah ilmu tata bahasa yang harus dipelajari guna menguasai ke-4 keterampilan berbahasa Inggris, speaking, writing, reading, ataupun listening dengan benar. Jika ada orang bertanya apakah mempelajari grammar itu penting, tentunya anda tahu sendiri bahwa pengaruh grammar mencakup ke-4 keterampilan berbahasa Inggris.

Menurut Bang Wiki, grammar adalah "a formal grammar (sometimes simply called a grammar) is a set of formation rules for strings in a formal language. The rules describe how to form strings from the language's alphabet that are valid according to the language's syntax." Atau bisa diartikan sebagai berikut "Sebuah grammar formal (yang biasa disebut grammar) adalah kumpulan kaidah formasi untuk dalam bahasa resmi. Kaidah-kaidah tersebut menjelaskan bagaimana membentuk susunan dari huruf alphabet yang valid sesuai dengan ilmu bahasa sintaksis".

Menurut Michael Swan (2005:xix) dalam bukunya Practical English Usage, melontarkan pendapatnya mengenai definisi grammar. Menurutnya grammar adalah “The rules that show how words are combined, arranged or changed to show certain kinds of meaning." Atau bisa diartikan sebagai berikut "Grammar adalah aturan yang menerangkan bagaimana kata digabungkan, disusun atau diubah untuk menunjukkan beberapa jenis makna.”

Cakupan materi untuk grammar bahasa Inggris cukuplah luas, untuk itu bersama keinginan penulis untuk menulis artikel-artikel mengenai grammar, penulis hadirkan beberapa artikel tentang grammar bahasa Inggris dengan penjelasan dan contohnya.

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Penjelasan Expletive It & There

Penjelasan Expletive It & There - Pernahkah anda menjumpai masalah ketika mencoba mencari arti It dan There di kalimat bahasa inggris. Contohnya: 

• It was cold right here.
• There is a lady behind him.

Pasti anda mengartikan it pada kalimat pertama sebagai "itu" dan there pada kalimat ke dua sebagai "ada". Sebenarnya kata it dan there di kedua kalimat tersebut tidak mempunyai arti atau bisa disebut meaningless word. Kata yang tidak mempunyai arti tersebutlah yang dinamakan Expletive.

Expletive mungkin merupakan kata yang baru didengar oleh banyak pemula dalam belajar English grammar. Expletive atau juga bisa disebut impersonal, yang bisa diartikan kata yang tidak ada artinya, dikalisifikasikan sebagai pronouns dalam banyak kamus dan buku-buku grammar konservative.

Fungsi Expletive

Fungsi dari expletive hanya ada dua yaitu untuk menyediakan sebuah subject formal untuk sebuah kalimat dan untuk mengantisipasi subject sebenarnya yang mucul dalam predicate. Karena expletive hanya digunakan untuk tujuan grammar, moderen grammarians sering mengklasifikasikan expletive diantara structure words yang bukan milik dari part of speech manapun.

Expletive it

Seperti halnya pronoun yang laing, Expletive it juga memiliki peran yang sama dalam menggantikan atau menyembunyikan subjek dari suatu kalimat. Expletive atau impersonal it digunakan sebagai subject dari adjective (terkadang juga predicate noun) yang diikuti oleh adverbs. 

• It’s gloomy here. 
• It’s pleasent in the garden. 
• It’s would be wise if you went there now.

Expletive it banyak digunakan untuk menggantikan fungsi subjek tertentu dari suatu kalimat. Dibawah ini adalah penggunaan expletive it sebagai sebuah subject yang memiliki arti tersendiri seperti:
 

1. Identification (identifikasi)

• Who is it? It is Mary. 
• It’s a lawn mower.

2. Weather (Cuaca)

• It’s cold outside. 
• It was raining.

3. Time (Waktu)

• It’s Wednesday. 
• It’s January 25.

4. Distance (Jarak)

• It is five miles from the library to my house. 
• It is a five-minute walk to my house.

5. Temperature (Suhu)

• It‘s thirty degrees celcius. 
• It’s fourty degrees celcius.

Dari contoh di atas sudah jelas bahwa it digunakan sebagai sebuah subject dari identification, weather, time, distance dan temperature. It disini tidak bisa diartikan dengan kata manapun, karena it disini tidak mempunyai arti. Misalkan:

• It’s cold outside. diartikan Dingin diluar (bukan itu dingin diluar).
• It’s rining. diartikan Sedang hujan (bukan ini sedang hujan).

Hal ini terjadi karena peraturan dalam pembentukan sebuah kalimat dalam bahasa Inggris harus terdapat subject di dalamnya. Dalam contoh di atas it sebagai pengganti dari cuaca (weather) itu sendiri, hal ini juga sama dengan identification, time, distance dan temperature.

Bukan hanya hal itu saja di atas, it juga bias digunakan sebagai expletive dalam kasus yang berbeda. It juga bisa mengisi posisi subject di mana subject yang asli adalah noun stuctuaral  (kata benda sturktural) dari suatu kata kerja (a noun structure in the predicate). Misalnya:

• It is important to be there on time. 
• It is unbeliveable what doctors can do these days. 
• It’s hard to belive you.

Noun structural dari suatu kata kerja diatas juga biasa mucul sebagai subject. 

• To be there on time is important. 
• What doctors can do these days is unbelivable. 
• To belive you is hard.

Expletive there 

Selain it, terdapat juga expleteive yang lain yaitu there. Sebagaimana kita ketahui bahwa there sebagai expletive tidak diartikan “disana” dalam bahasa Indonesia, melainkan tidak memiliki arti sepertihalnya it. Expeltive there disini merujuk pada noun atau pronoun yang dibcarakan, misalnya:

• There is a book on the desk (= A book is on the desk). 
• There are some books on the desk (= Some books are on the desk).

Terdapat tiga jenis kalimat yang menggunakan expletive there, yaitu:
 

1. There + be + (pro)noun + expression of place

• There is nobody here (= Nobody here). 
• There is a piano in the room (= A piano is in the room). 
• There is a big sale now at Matahari (= A big sale now is at Matahari).

2. There + be + noun with adjective modifier(s)
Dalam banyak kalimat dengan jenis expeltive there seperti ini, kata kerja be mempunyai arti “ada” (exsist).

• There are three kinds of TV programs that she likes to watch.
• There are different ways to do it. 
• There are two blankets for each bed. 
• There are many doctores who can help you. 
• There are some people who like him.

3. There + be + noun + -ing participle
Penggunaan jenis expletive there seperti ini dengan pemakaian V-ing ditujuakn untuk memberikan penekanan terhadap sesuatu yang sedang hangat-hangatnya terjadi.

• There is a strom approaching. (= A strom is approaching.) 
• There is a sale going on at Matahari. (= A sale is going on at Matahari.) 
• There is a strong wind coming up from the west. (= a string wind is coming up from the west.)

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