RECOUNT TEXT

recount text is a text that telling the reader about one story, action or activity. Its goal is to entertaining or informing the reader.

Recount is a text which retells events or experiences in the past. Its purpose is either to inform or to entertain the audience. There is no complication among the participants and that differentiates from narrative. A recount text has an orientation, a series of events in chronological order, personal remarks on the events, and a reorientation that “rounds off” the sequence of events. 

Social function

to retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining

When writing recounts you should:

1. Focus on individual people i.e. use the words, I or we 
2. Use words which indicate when (e.g. after lunch) and where the events took place (e.g. in the shed) 
3. Write in the past tense e.g. had, visited 
4. Use action words e.g. helped, crutched. 

Generic Structure of Recount Text

• Orientation tells who was involved, what happened, where the events took place, and when it happened. ("Orientation" menceritakan siapa saja yang terlibat dalam cerita, apa yang terjadi, di mana tempat peristiwa terjadi, dan kapan terjadi peristiwanya)

• Events tell what happened and in what sequence. ("Event" menceritakan apa yang terjadi (lagi) dan menceritakan urutan ceritanya)

• Reorientation consists of optional-closure of events/ending. ("Reorientation" berisi penutup cerita / akhir cerita)

Language Feature of Recount

      • Introducing personal participant; I, my group, etc

      • Using chronological connection; then, first, etc

      • Using linking verb; was, were, saw, heard, etc

      • Using action verb; look, go, change, etc

      • Using simple past tense

Examples of recount texts

Next, I ran out of the house trying to get the 9:30 bus, but of course I missed it. I wanted to take a taxi, but I didn't have enough money.

Multiple choice

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

sample essay about the recount text

1. why the writer sleepover at her bestfriend's house ?
2.who's the first person came to the party?
3. what does the writer wearing to the party ?
4. why the writer's mom had to go to out of town?
5.what does the writer and her bestfriend do before they went sleep?
6.when the writer and her bestfriend went sleep ?
7.how can the writer go to the party ?
8.when was the party ?

Answer

1.    A
2.    A
3.    A
4.    C
5.    B

Answer

1.because her mother went out of town
2.the writer
3.baby pink shoes and dress
4.because business
5. they were opened the presents
6. when it almost midnight
7. her mother drove her to the party
8.last week