- Orientation, memberikan informasi tentang latar cerita yaitu siapa saja yang terlibat dalam cerita, kapan peristiwa terjadi, di mana peristiwa terjadi, dan apa yang terjadi pada waktu itu.
- Events, rangkaian urutan peristiwa yang terjadi secara kronologis (sesuai urutan waktu).
- Reorientation, penutup cerita atau akhir cerita. Penutup cerita dapat berupa komentar pribadi tentang kejadian yang diceritakan.
- Bentuk past tense karena peristiwa cerita terjadi di waktu lampau;
- Personal participant, seperti I, my group, etc;
- Action verbs (material processes), seperti look, go, change, etc.;
- Linking verb, seperti was, were, saw, heard, etc.
- Kata sifat atau keterangan untuk merinci orang, binatang, tempat
- atau tindakan (action); dan
- Conjunction dan time connectives yang berkenaan dengan waktu, seperti then, first, etc.
Text 1
Last year, I … (1) to a dance party. In the middle of the party, I … (2) a guy that I had a crush on. To … (3) his attention, I went to the stage and started to dance with my friends. It … (4) my first dance and I was so busy dancing that I … (5) attention to anything else. I didn’t realize that I got too close to the rim of the stage. Suddenly, I … (6) and fell of the stage. The music … (7) for a while and everyone … (8), including the guy that I had a crush on. I felt so stupid. It was a dance party that I would never forget.
1.
went
visited
2.
had
saw
3.
get
got
4.
was not
was
5.
paid
didn’t pay
6.
walked
tripped
7.
continued
stopped
8.
laughed
kept dancing
Text 2
Steven Paul Jobs … (9) on 24 February 1955 in San Francisco, California. He … (10) Homestead High School in Cupertino California and went to Reed College in Portland Oregon in 1972 but … (11) after only one semester, staying on to “drop in” on courses that interested him.
He … (12) a job with video game manufacturer Atari to raise enough money for a trip to India. Then he … (13) back in Cupertino and … (14) his old friend Steve Wozniak. Wozniak was building his own computer and in 1976 Jobs … (15) 50 of the as-yet unmade computers to a local store and managed to buy the components on credit solely on the strength of the order, enabling them to build the Apple I without any funding at all.
9.
was born
was grown
10.
attended
chose
11.
stayed in
dropped out
12.
took
got
13.
brought
returned
14.
saw
met
15.
bought
sold
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