Read the narrative below and answer the questions that follow.

      

Read the narrative below and answer the questions that follow.

Once upon a time, a tribe of monkeys made their home in the pleasure garden of the king. In 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 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 keep 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 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 root. For when this water is finished, we shall have hard work to get any more.
"To be sure," said the other monkeys," 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.

QUESTIONS

a) What would you do to prepare your audience to listen to the above story?

b) What two oral devices would you use in narrating this story effectively?

c) What two things would indicate that your audience is following the story?

d) You are one of the students chosen to negotiate in a dispute involving members of your class and another class. What negotiation skills will you employ to ensure an amicable resolution is reached.

e) Put the words below in correct column according to pronunciation of the vowel sounds.
school, floor, you, write, oar, night

  

Answers


Martin
a) I would introduce the story by conventional formula understood by my audience e.g
-I am going to tell you
-Take a story
-Story is coming

b) i) Voice/Tonal variation – I would try to differentiate the portions where the narrator speaks from the portions where the characters speak.

ii) Mimicry: I would use facial expression of the head monkey as he instructs them –“he feels wise,” and also use it to show agreement on the part of the other monkeys.

iv) Gestures: I would show the way the monkeys pulled the trees before watering them.

v) Body movement: Imitating the way a monkey jumps about


c) Indicators of attention in the audience:
- Eye contact with the narrator
Body language e.g nodding, smiling, sitting posture that shows alertness.
- Appropriate emotional responses that shows alertness
- The general response at the end of the story


d) Paying close attention (listening carefully)
- Taking turns to allow one to make a point
- Interrupting and disagreeing politely
- Presenting facts and opinions precisely
- Asking for clarification politely#
- Making compromise work/ceiling/accommodating others views
- patience
- Firmness

e) /ai/ /u:/ /?:/
Night, write school, you oar, floor

marto answered the question on August 6, 2019 at 12:33


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