MID SEMESTER 2

Talking about mid semester test, especially for grade 8, I would like to inform you that the materials of mid semester are recount text and narrative text. For addition, I wrote some functional texts such as invitation, greeting card and personal letter.
So please study hard if you want to get good English mark. Remember that on grade 9 your passing grade will be 80. Study hard is the best answer to get good mark in your final/national examination.
Good luck.

an example of narrative text

JONAH

Once upon a time there was a village in North Israel. All the people lived peacefully there. One of them was Jonah. Jonah lived with his parents. They loved him very much. (Orientation 1)

In the north of Israel was Syria. It had powerful knights. They were very cruel and liked to invade other countries. (Orientation 2)

One night when the people of Jonah’s village were sleeping, the Syrian knights attacked his village. They burned down the houses. One of them threw a torch into Jonah’s house. Jonah’s house was on fire. (Complication)

Jonah and his parents avoided the fire burning their house. They saved themselves by climbing a ladder to the upstairs. It was too high for them to jump down to the ground from the upstairs. Jonah’s father took a rope to get down from the stairs to the ground. They escaped to another village.(Resolution)

Jonah and his parents lived in a fishermen village. They became fishermen. (Reorientation)

One day, when they were fishing in the sea, Jonah fell into the sea. Jonah was drawn into the sea. A whale came closed to him. He tried to swim avoiding the whale as fast as possible but he failed and at last the whale swallowed him. Jonah was still alive in the stomach of the whale. He prayed to God to be released from the stomach of the whale.(Complication)

Fortunately God granted his prayer. The whale came closed to an island. It opened its mouth and Jonah came out from its stomach.(Resolution)

Jonah swam to the seashore and he lived in a new island.(Reorientation)

Moral value : Don’t give up when you face the problems

Pray to God to get the miracle

NARRATIVE TEXT

NARRATIVE

1. Purpose
To tell a story, to entertain, amuse or instruct.

2. Generic Structure
Orientation
Setting the scene and introduce the characters (when-where-who)
When did the story happen?
Where did the story happen?
Who involved in the story?

Complication Sequence of events leading to a problem situation
What conflict happened in the story?
What problem did the main character(s) faced?
How did the main character(s) try to solve the problem?

Resolution Solving the problem
What had the character(s) done in solving the problem?

3. Language and Grammar Verbs in past form
Connectives and conjunctions;
when, and, as, after, because, although, then, if