Recount

Japanese Occupation (1942-1945)

Japanese occupation in Indonesia happened within year 1942 until
1945, during the World War II. Japanese invasion in Indonesia started
in December 1941 but Japan was defeated the Dutch completely in
March 1942.
During Japanese occupation, many Indonesian people were tortured
and experienced slavery, arbitrary arrest, execution, and many other
war crimes. Many people were forced to be labors that called
romusha. Most romusha suffered for starvation and illness that
leaded them to death.
Japan organized a committee for Indonesia independence in March
1945 and promised to give independence to Indonesia at August in
the same year. Nevertheless, before Japan could fulfill the promise,
Japan surrendered to US after the bombing of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. To take the momentum of no one ruling the country,
Indonesia proclaimed the independence on 17th of August 1945.
That was the ending of Japanese occupation, which reported to have
killed four million Indonesian people during the period.
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 So, What is ?
Recount Text?

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Tell the reader about a
series of events that
happened in the past

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Types of Recount text?

Recount Text Types :

Personal Experience Factual Events

01 Tell about the writer 02 Events that really
personal experience happened in the past

Imaginative
03 Made up events
Recount Text :

✗Purpose
✗Generic structure
✗Language features

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 1.
Purpose
Why we write it?
Purpose
✗ To retell past events
✗ To retell past achievements
✗To retell person’s past life
✗To inform about past events

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 2.
Generic Structure
What are Recount text consists
of?
 Generic Structure of Recount

ORIENTATION EVENTS REORIENTATION

•Who •First •Comment
• What •Second •Conclussion
• How •Third
• Where •So on
• Why
•When

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 Generic Structure
ORIENTATION SERIES/EVENTS REORIENTATION
Introducing : •Describing Writer’s personal
•Main figure/ series of events, coment or
event usually told in conclussion with a
• Participants chronological comment ,summary
• Background order and achievement
information; time, evaluiation
place
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Japanese Occupation (1942-1945)
Japanese occupation in Indonesia happened within year 1942 until
1945, during the World War II. Japanese invasion in Indonesia started
in December 1941 but Japan was defeated the Dutch completely in
March 1942. (ORIENTATION)
During Japanese occupation, many Indonesian people were tortured
and experienced slavery, arbitrary arrest, execution, and many other
war crimes. Many people were forced to be labors that called
romusha. Most romusha suffered for starvation and illness that
leaded them to death.
Japan organized a committee for Indonesia independence in March
1945 and promised to give independence to Indonesia at August in
the same year. Nevertheless, before Japan could fulfill the promise,
Japan surrendered to US after the bombing of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. To take the momentum of no one ruling the country,
Indonesia proclaimed the independence on 17th of August 1945.
(EVENTS)
That was the ending of Japanese occupation, which reported to have
killed four million Indonesian people during the period. 12
 3.
Language Features
What kind of language we use in
writing Recount text?
 Recount text commonly use:
✗Spesific participant, focus on a spesific event in the past
✗Mainly Written in past tense(Simple, continuous, perfect, etc.)
✗Using linking verbs; heard, saw, was, were, seem, sound and
saw.
✗Using action verbs to express action
✗Using chronological connection/conjuntion ;
First, then, next, After, after, during et c.

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 Japanese Occupation (1942-1945)
Japanese occupation in Indonesia happened within year 1942 until 1945, during the World
War II. Japanese invasion in Indonesia started in December 1941 but Japan was defeated
the Dutch completely in March 1942.
During Japanese occupation, many Indonesian people were tortured and experienced
slavery, arbitrary arrest, execution, and many other war crimes. Many people were forced to
be labors that called romusha. Most romusha suffered for starvation and illness that
leaded them to death.
Japan organized a committee for Indonesia independence in March 1945 and promised to
give independence to Indonesia at August in the same year. Nevertheless, before Japan
could fulfill the promise, Japan surrendered to US after the bombing of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. To take the momentum of no one ruling the country, Indonesia proclaimed the
independence on 17th of August 1945.
That was the ending of Japanese occupation, which reported to have killed four million
Indonesian people during the period.

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 Connective/
Conjuntion of time
To express events in
chronological order
Time Conjunctions:
✗Finally (Akhirnya), ex. : Finally we arrived in Bali.
✗First, second, third,….(Pertama, kedua, ketiga,..), ex. : First I went to my aunt’s house.
✗in the end (pada akhirnya), ex. : In the end, we only visited Rome.
✗lastly( yg terakhir), lastly he went to Bogor to meet his informant.
✗after(setelah), After finishing his master degree, he was the manager
✗Before (sebelum), ex. : I prepared all the luggage before departing to Vietnam
✗During (selama), ex. : During WW II many countries suffered and became victims of
war
✗Now that(sekarang), ex.: Now that everything is clear we can continue
✗Since (Sejak), ex. : I have lived here since 1995
✗Then (kemudian), ex. : Then most of the people chose to run away
✗While (saat), ex. : While the conflict was still occurring,
✗Etc.

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Past Tense
What did you do?
 Past tenses
Simple Past Past Continuous Past Perfect
I did I was doing I had done

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Simple Past

Something that happened in the past.

Including past personalities and past
habits.

For example :
John and Marry went shopping
yesterday.

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Past continuous

Activity in progress when something

else happen in the past.

Example :
I saw you yesterday. You were talking
with Jack on the park bench.

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Past perfect

Something finished in the past, when

something else happen.

Example :
She had baked the cakes when I
arrived.

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 Simple Past
•Very often verbs in simple past ended with “-ed”
Example : I work in a department store now. Before that I worked in a Café.
• But many verbs are irregular
Example : write  wrote Mozart wrote more than 600 pieces of music.
shut  shut it was cold, so I shut the window
• The past of be “is/am/are” are “was/were” (Is & am  was , are  were)
Example : I was angry because they were late.
Was the weather good when you were on holiday?
• In question and negative we use “did/didn’t” followed by V1 (infinitive)
Example : (-) I didn’t write this letter.
(?) Did I scare you?

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 Past
Continuous
Past Continuous is when we are in the middle of doing something at
certain time. The action and situation had already started before this time,
but had not finished.
Example : This time last year I was living in Argentina.
What were you doing at 9 pm last night?
•We often use simple past and past continuous together to say that
something happened in the middle of something else.
Example: It was raining when I got up.
I hurt my back while I was fixing the roof yesterday.
•Some verbs are not normally used in continuous
Example : (verb “know” ) We were good friends. We knew each other well.

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Compare Simple Past and Past Continuous
Simple Past Past Continuous

When Karina Arrived, we watched When Karina arrived, we were

the film. watching the film.

its mean: Karina arrived, and then Its mean : we had already started
we watched the film. watching the film before Karina
arrived.

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Past Perfect
We talk about something in the past :
Sarah arrived at Susan’s house at 9 am.
This is the starting point of the story. Then, if we want to talk about things
that happened before this time (in this case at 9 am) we use past perfect.
When Sarah arrived at Susan’s house, Sheryl had already gone home.
•In Past Perfect we use “Had + V3”
Example: I had watched the video when Eugene showed me yesterday.
When I arrived at home, somebody had broken in the house.

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Compare Simple Past and Past Perfect
Simple Past Past Perfect

A : Was Teddy there when you A : Was Teddy there when you arrived?
arrived? B : No, he had left.
B : Yes, but he left soon afterwards.
Its mean : Teddy had gone before you
its mean: Teddy was there when arrived there. You did not see him.
you arrived, and after you saw him
he left.

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