The Mouse Deer and The Crocodile

Tugas Softskill (Bahasa Inggris Bisnis 2) berupa voiceover recording dari sebuah cerita narasi berjudul “The Mouse Deer and the Crocodile”.

One hot sunny day in a jungle, a small mouse deer was walking around for food. When he reached the river, he saw plenty of fruits on the other side of the river. However, he knew that the river was full of hungry crocodiles that might be waiting underwater to eat him. An idea came to his mind when he saw a floating log on the river.

“Hey, crocodile!” called out the mouse deer loudly. A crocodile surfaced from underwater. “Hello, mouse deer. Do you come here to be my lunch?” asked the crocodile. “I’m ready to be your lunch on one condition,” said the mouse deer. “Tell me, what is it?” asked the crocodile. “You have to share my flesh evenly with all of your friends here, crocodile. I need you to gather them so I can count them all,” replied the mouse deer. Then the crocodile called all of his friends to gather.

After the crocodile got all of his friends gathered, the mouse deer ordered them to do what he said, “Attention all crocodiles! I need you all to float in a row from here to the other side of the river.” In a moment, the crocodiles arranged themselves to float in a row across the river.

The mouse deer then jumped onto the crocodile’s back. “One,” he counted. He jumped onto the next crocodile’s back and yelled, “Two.” He kept jumping and counting until he reached the other river’s side.

“How many of us are there, mouse deer?” asked the crocodile. “Well, I don’t think that my flesh will be enough for you all so I wish you get a larger prey next time. But thank for helping me to cross the river. Bye!” said the mouse deer as he run quickly to the jungle. 

The End

Simple Past Tenses

Active : S + V2 + O

Passive : O + tobe + V3

1. The Crocodiles arranged themselves to float. 

    Themselves were arranged by the crocodile. 

2. He reached the river. 

    The river by him. 

3. He saw plenty of fruit on the other side of the river.

    Plenty of fruit was saw by him on the side of the river. 

4. The crocodile called all of his friend. 

    All of his friend was called by the crocodile.