Contoh Soal Listening , Complex Dialogues (Detective Story) - In this lesson, you will learn about a functional reading text that contains an interesting detective story, and the focus of this lesson will be on the listening skill.

COMPLEX DIALOGUE: DETECTIVE STORY

A fictional story makes people do read. It is interesting, engaging, and meaningful in a way. Thus, this kind of text can be a good way to teach and learn English.

There are many things that we can learn from this kind of text, from the basic such as vocabulary enrichment to the understanding of the meanings of the text itself.

One of the things that some people find it difficult in dealing with English—and learning other languages as well is vocabulary enrichment. In a fictional story, here a detective story in particular, it can be used as a way of enriching vocabulary; you can find many vocabularies related to this kind of topics. Here, we are going to focus on the listening. Below are some basic vocabularies that you will find in the material:

Let's Listen

In stories, besides vocabulary, you can learn a great deal of other things such as the story itself, the moral values, the characters’ development, etc. In order to do that, you have to be able to understand the story itself. Here, we are going to discuss about a detective story below:

The text above is an introduction. Regardless of the different style of every writer, you can find a part where one of the character, narrator, or point-of-view, tell and describe about the story and the condition.

In the middle of the story, there will be some events which seem ordinary but have significant outcome in the story. It will come clear near the end of the story.

To sum up, this kind of text triggers readers’ curiosity to read, think, and then try to guess the end of the story and make inferences. In order to do that, you have to pay attention to the use of vocabularies, clues, and also the style of the story itself.