Exercise

Recount Text Comprehension

Answer the following questions with the correct answers.
1. What is recount text?
2. What do we tell people in the recount text?
3. Can you mention the characteristic of each type of recount text?
4. What are the components or structures of recount text?

Text for Number 5 and 6

I was dreaming of being super hero when I was a teenager. I imagined myself as
Spiderman.
One day, when I was fishing at the river I was bitten by a spider and luckily I was not dying.
At first I felt cold for 24 hours and I was alone in my room. Nobody knew about it. I didn’t
tell my family because I was afraid they would angry with me.
After that, something had happened in my body and I still did not recognize it. I lived
as I did usually, went to school, go home, eating, doing some activities and so on.
I realized at the first time that I had a superpower was when I was getting an accident.
I rode a motor cycle and suddenly there was a bus crashed me. I bounced out of the road and
my motor cycle was totally broken.
But at that case, I did not feel any hurt. There was no blood out of my body.
I was angry at that time because the bus did not stop and escaped. I run after it and I didn’t
know why I could run so fast and jump so high. I jumped to the back of the bus and climbed
it like a spider. I went to the front, stooped the bus and took the driver out of the bus door.
I knew that I was no more normal human being. I did nothing more to the bus driver. I
went back home and decided the next action to do after that. I did nothing like the Spiderman
at the movie that help people to catch the criminals.
I was an opportunist super hero. I was afraid of killing people so that I hide my power
from anybody else. I used my power only when I or my family and friends got into
dangerous.

5. What type of recount text is it?

6. What is this recount text about?

Text for Number 7 and 8

I woke up at about five o’clock yesterday. It wasn’t a regular day, because I was about to
propose a girl.
After praying and taking a bath, I had my early breakfast. At about nine o’clock I was in
my office but my soul wasn’t there. I was thinking about the lines that I had to say to her.
At one o’clock, I had my lunch but I wasn’t enjoying it either. So, I practiced the lines to
almost all girls I met at my lunch. Yes, I was a little bit crazy. Finally, it was three o’clock. I
remembered all my lines. I wrapped my works and got ready to pick her up and of course
proposed her.
I met her at four o’clock, took a little walk and went to a movie. At seven, we had a
romantic dinner. I thought it was the perfect time to ask her to be my wife. Then I said the
lines that I practiced the whole afternoon.
She smiled. I reached my pocket to get a ring and put it around her finger. Then she said
“Yes.” After driven her home I went back to my house.

7. What type of recount text is it?

8. What is this recount text about?

Text for Number 9 and 10

Singapore – The man who pushed an old woman down a bus along Upper Thomson
Road has been charged in court. Twenty-five-year-old Ong Kok Hao is accused of hurting
76-year-old Hwang Li Lian Nee Lye on bus service number 167 at about 3pm on June 5 this
year.
Ong is said to have used his right hand to push the old woman on her back, causing
her to fall on the steps of the bus. The incident was captured in a two-minute video and
uploaded on YouTube. The video shows Ong suddenly flying into a rage at Madam Hwang
for pressing the bell at the last-minute along Upper Thomson Road.
A shouting match then ensued and during the heated spat, Ong threatened to slap the
woman, before pushing her down the bus. Ong’s lawyer Eddie Koh will be making
representations to the court. The case will next be mentioned in December.

9. What type of recount text is it?

10. What is this recount text about?