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Read the oral narrative below and answer the questions that follow.

      

Read the oral narrative below and answer the questions that follow.

The Stupid Monkey

Once upon a time, a tribe of monkeys made their home in their pleasure garden of the king. On a certain holiday when the drum was beaten to call the people together, the King’s gardener, hearing the drum, said to himself, 'Even though it is a holiday, the garden must be watered. Accordingly I will ask the Monkeys to water the garden for me, so that I can be off to enjoy myself and the holiday with the rest.' So he called the Monkeys and asked them to water the garden. When the monkeys had promised to water all the young trees faithfully, the gardener gave them the water skins and the wooden pot with which to perform the task.

After the gardener had gone, the Monkeys took up the water skins and the watering pot and began to water the young trees. But the leader of the monkeys stopped them. 'Wait,' he said, we must be careful not to waste water. Before you water them, you must first pull up each tree and look at the size of the roots. Then you must give plenty of water to those which have long, deep roots, but less to those with short roots. For when this water is finished, we shall have to work to get any more.

'To be sure,' said the other monkey, 'that is what we must do.' So they pulled up all the trees just as their leader had told them to do and all the young trees died.

Question
i. What feature of oral narratives would you use to prepare your audience to listen to the above story?

ii. What two devices of performance would you use in narrating this story effectively?

iii. Which three things would indicate to you that the audience is following the narration?

(b)Underline the silent letters in the following words:
i) Rapport
ii) Rendezvous
iii) Poignant

c) Your friend attended an interview but was not successful. Mention four things that he/she may have
failed to do before and during the interview.
Before
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………During
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

  

Answers


Martin
(i)
-Conventional opening formula e.g.

-I am going tell you a story
-Take a story
-Relevant riddling
-Singing a relevant song

(ii)

-Voice/tonal variation
-Mimicry
-Appropriate facial expressions
-Appropriate gestures
(Let students give specific examples e.g. in gestures, demonstrate the pulling of the trees. A commanding voice from the king and the leader of the monkeys)
(Any two well illustrated point.

(iii)

-Eye contact
-Nodding
-Appropriate facial expression
-Upright/forward leaning sitting posture
-Responding at the end of the story



(b) (i)Rapport
(ii) Rendezvous
(iii) Poignat

(c) Before
-Failed to do some research about the company/firm that invited him
-Failed to rehearse
-Failed to keep time
-Grooming
-Failed to carry the required documents



(c) Before
-Failed to do some research about the company/firm that invited him
-Failed to rehearse
-Failed to keep time
-Grooming
-Failed to carry the required documents

During
-Failed to treat all interviewers with respect
- Failed to be confident
-Failed to take time to understand questions
- Failed to be honest




marto answered the question on August 6, 2019 at 06:43


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