RECOUNT

3.4 Membedakan fungsi sosial, struktur teks, dan unsur kebahasaan beberapa teks
recount lisan dan tulis dengan memberi dan meminta informasi terkait peristiwa
bersejarah sesuai dengan konteks penggunaannya

Rahmi Wuri Handayani, M.Pd.

 WHAT IS RECOUNT?
• Recounts are used to tell about past events.

• A recount is a piece of text that retells past events, usually in the order in
which they occurred and when it occurred

• A history is one example of recount texts

 TEXT STRUCTURES
• Information about who, what, where, and
opening when

• Retell the events in the order in which they

a series of events happened

reorientation • Conclude the text

(closing) • optional
 GRAMMAR USED IN RECOUNTS
• Past tense is used in Recount Text

• Because the recount tells the past event

 EXAMPLE

The government became

unstable …

“became” adalah past form untuk

“become”
 Verb 1 (base Verb 2 (Simple
form) Past Form)
arrive arrived
buy bought
clean cleaned
LIST OF VERB 2 cut cut
decide decided
eat ate
find found
finish finished
get got
go went
have had
hear heard
hurt hurt
phone phoned
to be (is, am, are) to be (was, were)
THANK YOU
• Title of the text : Reformation of Indonesia
• Opening paragraph : It is about an event, reformation in Indonesia
• Series of events : two
• Conclusion : Suharto was pushed and reformation was
begun in Indonesia
• Recourses : getenglishnow.org/202/08/05-examples-of
recount-text-in.html