Narrative Text : The Caliph and the Clown

Education English | Narrative Text : The Caliph and the Clown | The Caliph of Baghdad hired an intelligent and high spirited man as his court jester, and was much amused by his clever, witty comments. The clown was so well loved by his master that everyone at court showed him great respect. And so the Caliph was much surprised one day when he heard his beloved clown crying out in distress from the throne room. The Caliph hurried there and was astonished to find the guards beating the clown badly.
“Leave him alone at once!” he ordered. “Why are you beating him?”
“We found him sitting on your throne, O majesty!” the captain of the guards explained.
“out of my sight!” commanded the Caliph. “For sure the jester did not do it with the intention of offending me.”
The clown, however, continued to weep and wail even after the guards had left. “Stop it! Said the irritated Caliph.
“You’re still in one piece, aren’t you?
“I’m not crying for myself, my lord, I weep for you,” the clown explained.
“For me?” exclaimed the Caliph in surprise.
“Certainly! If I get beaten so badly for having been only a few minutes on the throne, how many beatings must you have suffered in all the years that you have been there?”
Taken from 366 and More Fairy Tales, 1990
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Narrative Text : The Prince and His Best Friends

Education English | Narrative Text : The Prince and His Best Friends | Once upon a time, there lived a kind young prince named Jonathan. He was loved, and adored by his people. His two close friends were Peter Piper, the servant of the palace and Franklin Greedy, the son of an Aristocrat.
One day, The Prince, Peter Piper, and Franklin Greedy were walking through the forest. Suddenly a group of bandits attacked the three boys near an old house. They entered the old house and blockaded the gate and doors. The three boys were trapped inside the house. Franklin was very terrified and asked the Prince to surrender immediately, but Peter was not afraid. He urged and supported the Prince not to give up. The Prince decided not to surrender because he realised that he would become a hostage for the bandits to ask for ransom to his father, but Franklin was scared and wanted to make a deal, it made Peter suspicious about Franklin’s behaviour. So he quietly made up a plan for him and the Prince to escape.
Early at dawn, Franklin opened the front gate and unlocked the doors. The bandits entered the house in search of the Prince. When they came to the room where the Prince was supposed to be sleeping, no one was there. Suddenly they heard a horse running outside the house and saw over the window that Peter Piper and the Prince were riding away on one of the bandit’s horses.
It turns out, Peter Piper sneaked out of the house and waited in the yard, while the Prince was hiding behind the house. The bandits were very angry at Franklin and took him with them while the Prince and Peter went safely going back to the Capital.
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Narrative Tect : Little Brother, Little Sister

Education English | Narrative Tect : Little Brother, Little Sister | Maltreated by their stepmother, who was a witch, a little brother and sister fled into the woods. After running for a while, the brother said: 'I'm so thirsty. Let's find a spring and have a drink.'
However, as the young boy bent down to drink, his sister heard a voice which said: 'Who drinks from
me will turn into a fawn.' it was the witch! Too late, the sister tried to prevent her brother from drinking.
The young boy changed at once into a fawn. In tears, the little girl made a lead and collar out of her belt, and led the fawn off into the woods. There they found an abandoned cottage and lived together, far from any danger.
One day, however, the king was hunting in the woods, and he spied the fawn, which could not resist the urge to wander away from the cottage. The king and his hunters chased the fawn all the way back home. There, the king followed it into the cottage, where he found a young girl stroking the frightened animal.
She was so beautiful and gentle that the king fell in love with her at once. He asked her to be his wife, and his words caused the maiden to cry for joy. When one of her tears fell on the fawn, it changed back to her brother once more. Their goodness and love had overcome the witch's evil spell, and they lived safely and happily with the king for ever after.
Taken from 366 and More Fairy Tales, 1990
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Narrative Text : The Flowers from the Moon

Education English | Narrative Text : The Flowers from the Moon | High in the mountains live a prince whose great wish was to journey to the moon, because he love its gentle glow. His dream finally come true. When he reach the moon he discovered its light came from the moon king’s beautiful daughter. The two young people soon fall in love, but the worlds they come was just too different and soon they had to part. As a sign of her great love, the moon king’s daughter give the prince one of the smooth and lovely flowers that covered the moon like snow and this was how the first alpine flower was bring to earth.

Taken from 366 and More Fairy Tales, 1990
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Narrative Text : Goldilocks And The Three Bears

Education English | Narrative Text : Goldilocks And The Three Bears | Once there were three bears that lived in a house in the woods: a papa bear, a mama bear, and a baby bear. One morning they decided to take a walk before breakfast to let their porridge cool.

A little girl named Goldilocks lived with her mother nearby. Goldilocks took a walk through the woods and found the bear’s house. She smelled the porridge in the kitchen and went inside. Goldilocks tasted the porridge in each bowl and finally ate up the porridge in the small bowl. Then she sat on a big chair, but she didn’t like it, because it was hard. Afterwards she sat on the small chair, and it was just right. But while she was sitting on it she broke it. After eating the porridge, Goldilocks felt full and sleepy, and then she went upstairs. There she found a small bed. She lay down on it and fell asleep.

While she was sleeping, the three bears came home. When they went into the kitchen, they got very surprised. Someone had tasted their porridge, even eaten up baby bear’s porridge, while they were taking a walk. Moreover the poor baby bear was upset when he found that his little chair broke into pieces. When they went upstairs, they found out that Goldilocks was sleeping. Baby bear cried out,

“Someone has been sleeping in my bed and here she is!” Goldilocks woke up when she saw the three bears; she jumped out of bed and ran out of the house to her home. Never again did she make herself at home in anyone else’s house.
(Source: Dit. PSMP, 2006)

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Narrative Text : Buggy Races

Education English | Narrative Text : Buggy Races | Once upon a time there lived two best friends, the hare and the tortoise. They liked to race against each other, but the hare always won.
One day, the hare asked the tortoise to race down to the beach. The tortoise refused, he said that he will loose anyway. The hare replied in a kind voice that he felt sorry about it.
But the next day, the hare found a way to race the tortoise that would be fair and lots of fun too. He asked the tortoise to come with him. The tortoise was slowly plodding over the sandhill towards the beach. Now the two friends can race against each other all day and something tells me that the tortoise might win this time.
Adapted from 50 Bedtime Stories 2002
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Narrative Text : The Lost Caterpillar

Education English | Narrative Text : The Lost Caterpillar | Seven worms are walking happily. Their mother is leading them. They have just had their breakfast on a big tree near a river.

“Come on, children. Let’s go home,” Mama Worm says. Suddenly, a cricket says, “Your last child is ugly!” “Ugly?” asks Mama Worm. Then she looks at the child. He is not the same as her other children.

“Hey, ugly!” she says, “You are not my child. Go away!” The little brown worm walks away. He is very sad. When he is near a lake, he looks into the water.

“Oh, how ugly I am,” he cries.

“You are not ugly,” says a voice. “Oh, I find you, my child.” The worm looks around. There is a beautiful big butterfly and her children. They all look the same as he.

“They may call you ugly,” says Butterfly.
“But you are the most beautiful child in the world. One day, you will turn into a beautiful butterfly.”

(Source: Fun Plus 01)

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Narrative Text : Babu and the Lion

Education English | Narrative Text : Babu and the Lion | One day, there was a slave whose name was Babu. His master was very, very bad. You know, he often punched Babu and did not offer him food for days. Poor Babu! So he escaped into a forest and slept in a cave.

Next morning, he heard a loud roar. In front of him...., at the mouth of the cave..., was a very big lion. You see, Babu was scared to death! Kind of scary, isn’t it? But he could not escape. But the lion didn’t attack him. It was tame. There was a large thorn in its right front foot. The lion looked at Babu. It seemed to say something like:”Please help me. It’s very painful.” Babu walked bravely to the lion and pulled out the thorn. Babu and the lion turned out to be friends.
(Adapted from GB Shaw’s play: Androcles and The lion )

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Narrative text : Two Brothers

Education English | Narrative text : Two Brothers | Long ago, there were two brothers called Akomi and Ombah. They were ambitious and winning. Akomi, the elder brother, said, "If we become the King's employees, we can make laws to collect more money from the people. We will become very rich."

They went to see King Aruya. Akomi said, "Your Majesty, let us be your ministers. We will make good laws. All your subjects will be happy. I am wise and clever. I know everything."

King Aruya said angrily, "That is not true! No body knows everything. For example, do you know how many stars there are in the sky? Guards! Throw this liar into the river of crocodiles!"

Ombah's hands trembled. Then he thought to himself, "King Aruya will also punish me if I say the wrong thing.

My brother said he knew everything and his answer was wrong. So if I say the opposite, my answer will be right." Ombah then said, to King Aruya, "Your majesty, I know nothing." King Aruya said, "That is also a lie. Nobody knows nothing, truly!

Everybody knows at least something. For example, you know your father's name, don't you? Guards! Throw him into the river of crocodiles, too!"
Taken from UPSR, 2000

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Narrative Text : Mantu’s Little Elephant

Education English | Narrative Text : Mantu’s Little Elephant | Little Mantu lived in a village deep in the jungle where elephants helped the men with their work. These elephants were so big and strong. They could lift up the heaviest logs with their trunks and toss them high in the air.
Now, Mantu had an elephant of his very own. His name was Opie. He was just a baby and Mantu loved him very much. Mantu whispered to Opie’s ear that someday he would become the biggest, strongest and bravest elephant in the jungle. The other elephants heard this. They began to laugh and made rude noises with their trunks. “We’re so big and tall, but you’re so small. You’re nothing at all,” said one of the big elephants.
Mantu looked up at the huge elephant with a mishievous glint in his eye. “You’re so tall and can see far away. We can see what is happening down here in the jungle. In fact, we would be the first to see
any slithering snakes that may be a danger. “After hearing the word snakes, the elephants screeched and off they gwents thundering in fright.
“Did I say there were snakes?” giggled Mantu. “No, I don’t think so,” smiled Opie. Mantu then climbed upon his little friend’s back and went home to the village to tell everyone about the foolish elephants.
Adapted from: 50 Bedtime Stories, 2002
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Recount Text : A Tour to the Botanic Gardens by Nida

Education English | Recount Text : A Tour to the Botanic Gardens by Nida | On Thursday 24 April, Year Eight students went to the Botanic Gardens. We walked down and got into the bus. After we arrived at the gardens, we walked down to the Education Centre. We went to have a look around. First we went to the Orchid Farm and Mrs. Rita read us some of the information. Then we looked at all the lovely plants. After that we went down to a little spot in the Botanic Gardens and had morning tea.

Next we took some pictures and then we went back to the Education Centre to have lunch. After that we went for a walk. A lady took us around and introduced herself, then she explained what we were going to do. Next she took us in to the green house. It was most interesting. Soon after we had finished we went back outside. Finally we got into the bus and returned to school. We were tired but happy.

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Narrative Text : The Smartest Animal

Education English | Narrative Text : 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.
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Narrative Text : The Chipmunk That Ran Away

Education English | Narrative Text : The Chipmunk That Ran Away | Once upon a time, there was a nervous little chipmunk. She was always afraid that something bad happened to her. One day, she heard a little noise. It was really only an apple that fell to the ground.

But the little Chipmunk was afraid and said “The sky is falling in.” Then she ran away as fast as she could go. Soon she met an old brother Chipmunk, who asked, “Where are you running to, little Chipmunk?” And the little Chipmunk answered, “The sky is falling in, and I am running away.”

“The sky is falling in?” said the old brother Chipmunk. And he told the story to his brother chipmunk, until at last there were a hundred brother Chipmunks shouting, ”The sky is falling in.”

Soon the larger animals heard what the Chipmunks were saying the deer the Sheep, the Pig, the Camel, the Tiger, and the Elephant began to say, “The sky is falling in.” Then the wise Lion heard all the noise and wanted to know what was happening. He stopped all the animals and asked, “What are you saying?” The brother Chipmunks said, “Oh we heard it from that little Chipmunk!” And the Lion said, “Little Chipmunk, what made you say that the sky was falling in?” And the little Chipmunk said, “I saw it there near the tree.”

“Well,” said the Lion, “Come with me and I will show you how something”.

“Now get on my back.” The Lion took her on his back, and asked the animals to stay where they were until they returned. Then he showed the little Chipmunk that the apple had fallen to the ground. This made the noise that had made her afraid. The little Chipmunk said, “Oh, I see. The sky is not falling in.”

The Lion said, “Let’s go back and tell the other animals.” So they went back. At last all the animals knew that the sky was not falling in.

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Narrative Text : The Owl and the Nightingale

Education English | Narrative Text : The Owl and the Nightingale | There was once a nightingale in a cage by a window, that was his habit to sing only at night. An owl was puzzled by this and went to ask the nightingale what the reason was. “When I was captured, “ explained the nightingale, “it was day and I was singing. In this way I learnt to be more carefully and to sing only at night.”
“Are you afraid you might be captured a second time?” asked the owl. “Oh, it would have been better if you had been more careful the first time when your freedom was at risk. Now it doesn’t really matter any more, right?”
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