Hallo English Learners!!! Kamu tentu sudah mengenal istilah “buku adalah jendela dunia” bukan? Gemar membaca buku bisa membuat kita mengetahui banyak hal. Begitu juga ketika belajar bahasa inggris. Membaca buku berbahasa inggris bukan hanya meningkatkan skill reading saja, tapi juga dapat meningkatkan skill speaking. Salah satu bagian membaca menyenangkan yang bisa kita lakukan adalah belajar bahasa inggris cerita.
Iya, belajar dengan membaca berbagai jenis cerita. Melalui cerita kita bisa menemukan banyak kosakata, frasa, ungkapan, idiom dan banyak hal menarik lainnya yang tentunya bisa meningkatkan skill bahasa inggris kita.
Untuk pemula sangat disarankan memulainya dengan membaca cerita pendek atau biasa kita kenal dengan cerpen. Bahkan cerita pendek menjadi salah satu yang paling baik untuk belajar bahasa inggris. Mengapa demikian?
a. Kamu bisa membacanya dengan tuntas dalam waktu singkat
Cerita pendek tidak memiliki banyak bagian apalagi hingga beratus-ratus halaman. Kita bisa menuntaskan cerita sekaligus dalam satu waktu. Hal ini bisa membantu kita untuk lebih mudah memahami isi cerita.
b. Jadi bisa lebih konsisten latihan Reading
Hal penting dari belajar bahasa inggris cerita adalah kamu harus melakukannya dengan rutin dan konsisten. Cerpen bisa bantu kamu untuk melakukannya. Kamu bisa rutin membaca satu cerita setiap harinya untuk berlatih reading sekaligus menemukan banyak kosakata, frasa, idiom dan serupa lainnya yang bisa bantu meningkatkan skill speaking.
c. Mudah untuk diceritakan kembali
Bagaimana cerpen juga bisa bantu meningkatkan skill speaking? Dengan ceritanya yang singkat kamu bisa lebih mudah untuk retelling atau menceritakan kembali kepada teman atau keluarga. Nah, ketika bercerita inilah skill speaking juga ikut terlatih.
Cerita pendek berbahasa inggris bisa kamu temukan dengan mudah, terlebih saat ini kamu bisa membacanya secara online melalui mesin pencarian atau pun berbagai aplikasi. Untuk pemula anak sangat disarankan gunakan buku fisik ya agar proses membacanya lebih seru. Anak jadi lebih terbangun juga imajinasinya.
Oh iya, pilih cerita pendek yang tepat sesuai usia dan juga kemampuan bahasa inggrismu. Jangan memilih buku yang terlalu mudah atau pun terlalu sulit ya.
Berikut adalah empat contoh cerita pendek bahasa inggris yang bisa kamu jadikan rekomendasi bertalih. Ada apa saja? Let’s read!
1. Contoh Cerita Pendek “The Ant and The Dove”
The Ant and The Dove
One hot day, an ant was searching for some water. After walking around for some time, she came to a spring. To reach the spring, she had to climb up a blade of grass. While making her way up, she slipped and fell into the water.
She could have drowned if a dove up a nearby tree had not seen her. Seeing that the ant was in trouble, the dove quickly plucked off a leaf and dropped it into the water near the struggling ant. The ant moved towards the leaf and climbed up there. Soon it carried her safely to dry ground. Just at that time, a hunter nearby was throwing out his net toward the dove, hoping to trap it.
Guessing what he was about to do, the ant quickly bit him on the heel. Feeling the pain, the hunter dropped his net. The dove was quick to fly away to safety.
2. Contoh Cerpen Bahasa Inggris “Two Best Friends”
Two Best Friends
A story tells that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey, they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face.
The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand; Today my best friend slapped me in the face. They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath. The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After he recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone; Today my best friend saved my life.
The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him; “After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?”
The other friend replied; “When someone hurts us we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.”
3. Contoh Cerita Untuk Belajar Bahasa Inggris “The Golden Touch”
The Golden Touch
Once there lived a greedy man in a small town. He was very rich, and he loved gold and all things fancy. But he loved his daughter more than anything.
One day, he chanced upon a fairy. The fairy’s hair was caught in a few tree branches. He helped her out, but as his greediness took over, he realized that he had an opportunity to become richer by asking for a wish in return for his help.
The fairy granted him a wish. He said, “All that I touch should turn to gold.” And his wish was granted by the grateful fairy. The greedy man rushed home to tell his wife and daughter about his wish, all the while touching stones and pebbles and watching them convert into gold.
Once he got home, his daughter rushed to greet him. As soon as he bent down to scoop her up in his arms, she turned into a gold statue. He was devastated and started crying and trying to bring his daughter back to life. He realized his folly and spent the rest of his days searching for the fairy to take away his wish.
4. Contoh Cerita Bahasa Inggris Singkat Pendek “A Wise Old Owl”
A Wise Old Owl
There was an old owl that lived in an oak tree. Every day, he saw incidents happening around him. Yesterday, he saw a boy helping an old man to carry a heavy basket. Today he saw a girl shouting at her mother. The more he saw, the less he spoke.
As he spoke less, he heard more. He heard people talking and telling stories. He heard a woman saying that an elephant jumped over a fence. He also heard a man saying that he had never made a mistake.
The old owl had seen and heard about what happened to people. Some became better and some became worse. But the old owl had become wiser each and every day.
Sekarang sudah siap deh untuk belajar bahasa inggris cerita. Semakin banyak yang kamu baca semakin banyak juga pengetahuan bahasa inggris yang kamu dapat. Semangat ya!
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