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Hero
There’s a hero, if you look inside your heart. You don’t have to be afraid of what you are. There’s an answer, if you reach into your soul, And the sorrow that you know will melt away. Chorus: And then a hero comes along, with the strength to carry on, And you cast your fears aside, and you know you can survive. So when you feel like hope is gone, Look inside you and be strong, And you’ll finally see the truth, that a hero lives in you. Verse 2: It’s a long road, when you face the world alone. No one reaches out a hand for you to hold. You can find love, if you search within yourself, And the emptiness you felt will disappear. (Repeat Chorus) Lord knows, dreams are hard to follow. But don’t let anyone, tear them away- ay ay. Hold on, there will be tomorrow. In time, you’ll find the way. (Chorus) That a hero LIVES in… you That a hero LIVES in… you
Transcript
My name is Tom and I am a cat. I have ______ whose name is Felina. Felina is my owner. You see, she doesn’t understand how people should take care of _____ . She has very strange idea about the relationship between people and pets. Felina treats me like human child. She _____ about me and tells me what to do _____. She doesn’t want me to go outside and play with the other cats. She makes me sit in _____ every night while she watches television. Boring. And the program she watches! __________________! There’s more. Felina brushes and combs me twice a day. She takes me to the _______ once a week for a bath and shampoo. Really. Cats can take care of themselves. Doesn’t she know that we have tongues that we use _______ and keep clean? And the flea powder she puts on me – it _________ and I think it might give me skin cancer. Felina thinks she knows what kind of food I like. She doesn’t even ________. She feeds me _______ and she put it in __________. Really! Who cares? All I want is some day - ____________. And a little water. That’s all. Is that asking too much? One time I managed to get out of the house. Did I get good time! I ran around with some other cats in the neighborhood. We __________ and _____________. I even killed a bird and ate it. Good fun. But when I return home Felina went crazy. She has so angry. She took me right to _________ for a bath and shampoo, even though I had just been there the day before. Once I had a relationship with _________ siamans down the street, but Felina stoped it. Then Felina __________. Now I can’t be a father and have children, and I have lost all of my interest in female cats. To make ____________, she wants to have me buried next to her! I won’t be free of her even when I am dead. What a life.
This podcast show an example of narrative text. Narrative text is a kind of text to retell the story that past tense. The purpose of the text is to entertain or to amuse the readers or listeners about the story. The generic structure of Narrative text : 1.Orientation :It set the scene and introduce the participants (it answers the question : who, when, what, and where). 2.Complication : Tells the problems of the story and how the main characters solve them. 3.Resolution : The crisis is revolved, for better or worse. 4.Re-orientation : The ending of the story. Maybe, happy ending or sad ending. 5.Evaluation : The stepping back to evaluate the story or the moral message of the story
Linguistic features: 1. Use active verbs. 2. Use past tense. 3. Use conjunction (and, then, after that, next, etc) Also Temporal conjunction , like: once upon a time, one day, long time ago, …4. The first person (I or We) or the third person (He, She, or They).5. Use specific nouns.6. Use adjective and adverbs Comprehension Kind of Narrative text : 1. Legend: Sangkuriang, Malin Kundang, etc. 2. Fable: Mousedeer and crocodile. 3. Fairy tale: Cinderella, Snow white, Pinocchio, etc. 4. Folktale 5. Short story