Narrative Text Kelas 12

 The Story of a Friendly Future

Second Meeting

Listening

Aim of the Study

identify specific information from the listening text.

identify the generic structure (Orientation, Complication, Resolution, Reorientation).

infer the moral value of the story.   

Listening Worksheet 🔊

12^th Grade

 

Activity 1

Fill the blanks!

The Story of a Friendly Future

In the year (1) ________, people lived peacefully with intelligent robots in (2) ________. Among them was a special robot named Laurel. She was (3) ________, caring, and always helped people.

One day, (4) ________ introduced new robots. They were faster and (5) ________ than Laurel. Soon, the government decided to (6) ________ all the old robots.

At first, everyone was (7) ________. However, after a few weeks, people realized something was (8) ________. The new robots could complete every task, but they did not smile, comfort others, or understand human (9) ________.

Laurel knew she would soon (10) ________. Instead of feeling sad, she spent her last days (11) ________ everyone. She visited hospitals, repaired houses, cleaned parks, and planted hundreds of (12) ________.

On Laurel 's final day, thousands of people (13) ________ to thank her. The mayor realized that intelligence without (14) ________ could never create a better future. The scientists redesigned the new robots using Laurel 's (15) ________ programming.

From then on, every robot learned to (16) ________ for people. Green City became the (17) ________ city in the world.

 

Activity 2

Put the Events in Order from 1–6.

Events	Order
Laurel helped people during her last days.	_____
Scientists introduced new robots.	_____
The mayor realized kindness was important.	_____
The government replaced the old robots.	_____
People gathered to thank Laurel.	_____
The new robots learned to care for people.	_____

 

Activity 3

Listen to the story carefully. Answer the following questions in complete sentences.

1. What is the main idea of the story?

2. Why is Laurel an important character in the story?

3. How does the story show that kindness is as important as intelligence?

4. Write the main message of the story in one sentence.

2150	2510	2105	2550	Clean city
Smart city	Green city	Grey City	fine	find
Kind	kite	scientists	assistants	students
residents	smaller	stronger	smarter	slower
Repair	replace	prepare	surprise	excited
accepted	expected	exhausted	fixing	mixing
missing	messing	feelings	fillings	dealings
ceilings	prepare	disappear	appear	repair
helping	holding	hoping	healing	trees
threes	streets	frees	guided	greeted
guarded	gathered	kindnesses	kids	kindly
kindness	emotional	educational	electrical	exceptional
chair	share	cheer	care	fair
happiest	heaviest	hardest	healthiest	hungriest