Narrative Text - Blind listening

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.

Answer these questions based on the text.

1. What is the text about?
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2. What did the father want his son do with the salt?
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3. Where did the man first go to sell his salt?
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4. How many places did the man come to sell the salt?
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5. What did the father want his son do in a house where a wedding was taking place so that he could sell his sat?
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6. Did the man finally succeed to sell his salt?
Clarify your answer!
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Re-read the text to answer the questions below.

1. What is the type of text about?
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2. What does the writer present such story?
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3. Who are the figures in the story above?
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4. Does the narrative text tell something happens in the present time?
Clarify your answer!
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5. Having read and comprehended the story, what a moral value can we get from the story?
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Narrative Text - Three Foolish Sons

Three Foolish Sons

There was a rich man who had three sons. They lived in a large house in the town of Keelung in northern Taiwan.

One day, he said to his sons, “You are no longer children. You must do something to earn your own living. When I die, I am not going to leave you very much money. I started with nothing and made a fortune by working hard. You must do the same. Now, here is two hundred dollars for each of you. You can use it to start your own business.”

The three sons went off separately. The eldest son met a hunter. He thought that hunting would be fine so he bought a gun from him for two hundred dollars.

The second son met a basket-maker. He bought a set of tools from him so that he could make baskets.

The third son met a doctor who told him that he had a medicine which could cure all diseases. He bought it from him for two hundred dollars.

When the rich man heard what his sons had done with the money he had given them, he was very angry. “What stupid sons I have!” He said.

One day, the eldest son tried to shoot a fly on his father’s forehead. Instead, he killed his father. The second son picked up his tools and tried to repair the damage to his father’s head. The third son tried to cure his father with medicine which he had bought.

Everyone said that the three sons were very foolish. They had spent all their money uselessly.

Answer the questions based on the text above.

1. What is the text about?
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2. What did the rich man do with his three sons?
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3. Why did he leave his sons money?
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4. Tell briefly and clearly what the rich man’s sons did with the money his father had left for them!
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5. Why was the rich man angry with what his son did with the money he had given to his sons?
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6. Do you think the sons had spent their money wisely?
Why/Why not?
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Re-read the text to answer the following questions

1. What is the type of the text above?
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2. What does the writer mean by present such text?
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3. What is the tense mostly used on the text above?
Give some sentences to support your answer?
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4. State the orientation of the story above?
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5. Was the story ended happily or sadly?
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