recount text



A. the meaning of recount text

 Recount Text in English. ... Recount text is one type of text in learning English that has a function to retell events or experiences that have occurred in the past. This text aims to provide information and or entertain readers who read this article.

B. What can it Be?

 -Factual, such as a news story

 -procedural, such as telling someone how you built something

 -personal, such as a familly holiday or your opinion on a subject

C. Example

 -Biographies and Autobiographies

 -Newspapers or the television news

 -Letter and Postcards

 -Textbooks

 -Conversations with friends

D. WHAT IS LIKE?

 The details in a recount can include:

 -what happened,

 -who was involved

 -where it look place

 -when it happened and

 -why it occurred

E. GENERIC STRUCTURE OF RECOUNT TEXT

# Orientation : It gives the readers the background information needed to understand the text, such as who was involved, where it happened, and when it happened.

# Events : A series of events, ordered in a chronological sequence.

# Re-orientation :A personal comment about the event or what happened in the end

F. Example of a recount text

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Family Holiday In Padang (Liburan Keluarga Di Padang)

Last year, my big family and I went to my uncle’s hometown in Padang. My uncle’s house was in Bukit Tinggi. We departed from Bengkulu on Saturday afternoon and arrived at Kota Padang on Sunday at 1 p.m. The first thing that we did when we arrived in Kota Padang was visiting Masjid Raya Sumatera Barat. We took a pray in that huge mosque and after that we took some picture in that place with the mosque as the background. We finished our sightseeing in the mosque area at 2 p.m and after that we headed to the center of Kota Padang to look for lunch. After several minutes, we decided to stop at a Warung Bakso Urat. After finishing our lunch, we continued our trip to Bukit Tinggi.

We arrived at my uncle house in Baso subdistrict at 10 in the evening. It was away too late from our schedule because there was an extreme traffic jam on our way to Baso. Our grandmother was waiting in front of the house when we arrived. We parked the car in front of the house and I brought all of our belongings down from the car and took them to our room. After that we all had dinner together because our grandmother had prepared so many kinds of delicious food in the kitchen. After finishing our dinner, we went to bed because we were all very tired.

In the morning, I and all of my cousins went out for jogging. We walked around the neighborhood. We saw an empty mosque in the neighborhood and also some empty houses. None of us was brave enough to get close to those buildings because they seemed creepy. We kept on walking until we reached the main road. We took some pictures in front of the street portal. After that we went back to my uncle’s house.

When we arrived at my uncle’s house, we had breakfast together and after that one by one of us took a bath because there were only three bathrooms in the house. When we were all ready, we went to a tourism place close to my uncle’s house named Sungai Janiah. The place was 5 minutes away from my uncle’s house. We had to buy a ticket to enter the place. Inside the place, there was a very large pond. We saw so many giant fish in the pond. We bought some fish food from a merchant inside the location and threw it into the pond so that the giant fish would get closer to us. We took some picture in the location with the pond and the giant fish as the background. There were also so many monkeys in that place.

G.problems example

Text 1

On Wednesday, my students and I went to Yogyakarta. We stayed at Dirgahayu Hotel which is not far from Malioboro.

On Thursday, we visited the temples in Prambanan. There are three big temples, the Brahmana, Syiwa and Wisnu temples. They are really amazing. We visited only Brahmana and Syiwa temples, because Wisnu temple is being renovated.

On Friday morning we went to Yogya Kraton. We spent about two hours there. We were lucky because we were led by a smart and friendly guide. Then we continued our journey to Borobudur. We arrived there at four p.m. At 5 p.m. we heard the announcement that Borobudur gate would be closed.

In the evening we left for Jakarta by wisata bus.

1. The text above mainly discusses about……..

a. the writer’s trip to Yogyakarta

b. the writer’s first visit to Prambanan

c. the writer’s impression about the guide

d. the writer’s experience at Yogya Kraton

e. the writer’s impression about Borobudur

2. The text is written in the form of a/an………

a. recount

b. narrative

c. report

d. anecdote

e. spoof

3. The purpose of the text is to……….

a. tell past events

b. entertain readers

c. describe the smugglers

d. report an event to the police

e. inform readers about events of the day

4. What are the big temples in Prambanan?

a. angkor wat, syiwa, and sudra temples

b. paria, brahmana, and temples

c. brahmana, syiwa, and wisnu temples

d. wisnu, syiwa, and borobudur temples

e. borobudur, syiwa, and brahmana temples

5. When did they go home?

a. On Saturday morning

b. On Friday evening

c. On Thursday evening

d. On Friday afternoon

e. On Saturday evening

6. Why did they only visit Brahmana and Syiwa temples?

a. because there was no wisnu temple

b. because wisnu temple was amazing

c. because wisnu temple was too small

d. because wisnu temple was being repaired

e. because wisnu temple was being destroyed

Text 2

The police thought that two burglars started the robbery at 151 Pattimura street on Sunday afternoon. The burglars broke into the students’ room while they were going to a football game. They never thought that while they were away, burglars would break into their boarding house.

7. The communicative purpose of this text is………

a. to retell events for the purpose of informing

b. to present perspective points about an issue

c. to describe the way they are

d. to acknowledge readers about informative events

e. to share an amusing incident

8. The text is in form of a/an………

a. description

b. report

c. anecdote

d. recount

e. news item

9. Where did the robbery take place?

a. at 151 Pattimura street

b. at 151 Gajahmada street

c. at 161 Pattimura street

d. at 212 Sisingamangaraja street

e. at 161 Sisingamangaraja street

10. When did the robbery happen?

a. Sunday morning

b. Sunday afternoon

c. Saturday morning

d. Saturday afternoon

e. Monday evening

11. The lexico grammatical features are mostly written in………..

a. passive voice

b. direct speech

c. reported speech

d. simple past tense

e. simple present tense

Answer key

1.    A

2.    A

3.    A

4.    C

5.    B

6.    D

7.    A

8.    B

9.    D

10.    B

11.    B

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